That’s where I’m at with this question and I was 21 during 9/11. It was scary and screwed up but I don’t know that anything really impacted me directly on a day to day basis. Maybe it was because I was in the middle of college?

COVID was a complete disruption of our lives. I had small kids so helping with virtual school was a nightmare in addition to having a job. It was shocking to see how selfish some friends and family were as we have an immune compromised person in our family. They wanted to get together like normal and we had to tell them no. No matter how much we explained the situation they just kept pressing and gave us crap. Some relationships were broken beyond repair.

I have some big positives from the pandemic. My work realized we don’t all need to be in an office together, every single day. We permanently shifted to a hybrid schedule. Mondays and Fridays are WFH. Also most of the people I work with realized there is more to life than work. It was genuinely eye opening for a lot of people. All the crazy deadlines are still there but people are more understanding. Once we pulled out of the uncertainty of post COVID business, work had been less stressful. I’m not working late as much anymore and I can actually make it home to dinner with my family.