How the lockdown(s) helped improving my life

I went from living in a tiny studio with a bad job to living in a super nice flat with a pretty decent job!

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It’s painful to say, but one year ago, the first lockdown hit the major part of the world. Back then, I was working in a company where every day was a pure nightmare. The software team was understaffed, the clients asking always for more and more and the pressure impossible to deal with (and I’m pretty okay under pressure).
Every day, I was going to work with almost of a pain in the chest. The job was also quite far from my place (and the train was costing an outrageous £240 a month), about one hour to go and the same back. So no time for any outside activity. I was going back home, in a ridiculously small studio, exhausted and couldn’t find the courage to do some side projects.

Here I come, I’m the lockdown

But then, the virus followed by the lockdown appear. We are all asked to stay home and work fully from home. No more train tickets, no more 2 hours commuting per day and way less pressure as most of the clients are in furlough. As most of companies at this time, we started focusing on improving the application, make it more stable, migrating it from AngularJS (1.5) to React. A glimmer of hope…