Last Man in the Downtown Office
Keeping the home fires burning while everyone else is working remotely
5 min readMay 26, 2020
It’s about an hour’s commute on the Metra train from my Northwest suburban home to downtown Chicago. I feel like The Omega Man. I’m an “Essential”. I’m not one of the brave heroes risking their lives on the frontlines — I’m not essential like that. But to my company of about one-hundred office…