Over the past few months, I’ve had some stirring to create some sort of community. What I realized, in looking deeper at the word ‘community’, is that I wanted to bring some like-minded folks together from my neighborhood.
The problem? I wasn’t all that involved in my neighborhood. I played soccer during the week and weekend but that wasn’t always in my neighborhood (depending on how you define ‘Upper West Side’).
So, I thought about what it was that I did and the experience I could bring to a community meeting. From that, I started the Upper West Side Work from Home meeting. In a city as big as New York, I thought there might be a handful of folks that shared the same experience / challenges / opportunities I do – working from home and slightly missing some of the commradarie found when working in an office.