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title: "Comment by Juni Brosas on \"Dev Diary #1: About Me - A Lone Programmer\" | Hashnode"
description: "Hi Eric, I am also a developer from Philippines and I have been into that situation because I worked remotely for almost 5 years. I agree, having no one to talk"
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Comment [Dev Diary #1: About Me - A Lone Programmer](https://hashnode.com/posts/dev-diary-1-about-me-a-lone-programmer/5d359977a068f6a76a2e6929)

[Juni Brosas](https://hashnode.com/@junibrosas)

[Jul 23, 2019](https://hashnode.com/posts/dev-diary-1-about-me-a-lone-programmer/5d359977a068f6a76a2e6929/comment/5d36c15429721fec4c66e6ab)

Hi Eric,

I am also a developer from Philippines and I have been into that situation because I worked remotely for almost 5 years.

I agree, having no one to talk to, constantly battling with procrastination, poor stress management, keeping up with the motivation are some of the struggles I've been through. It was last 2017 when I decided I had enough, so I took a huge leap of faith and moved to Cebu and everything turned out great!

If working remotely works for you, that is fine. I'd like to suggest to look for activities (make sure that does not involve with a keyboard and monitor :D) that could "reset negativity back to zero". That includes stress, feeling lonely, wrong perceptions and other things that you could be feeling.

[John Eric](https://hashnode.com/@stnight99)

[Jul 24, 2019](https://hashnode.com/posts/dev-diary-1-about-me-a-lone-programmer/5d359977a068f6a76a2e6929/comment/5d36c15429721fec4c66e6ab#reply-5d37ece9abfa5b994643b432)

hello [Juni Brosas](https://hashnode.com/@junibrosas), it's really admiring that some dev / employee like you that reconsidered of making some big changes - like you gone to a new place to work with. Well, I hope I could make the same thing in the future.

About the workspace, yeah it helps me to stay focused and keeping the sanity of not having someone to talk to is a real challenge, but in the end of the day getting the tasks done is that really matters.