My neighbors have an extremely noisy HVAC condenser
I like my neighbors for the most part, but I have to admit that often their kids are really loud.
I don’t blame the kids because they’re usually just outside having fun, but I’d be lying if I said it never affected my ability to focus while working in my home office.
Sometimes it breaks my attention and I have to put on music in the background to drown out their voices. I wonder if I’m going to struggle to this degree if I have kids of my own someday soon. I hope that I will grow to have more patience in the future, especially if children of my own are actually on the horizon. I don’t even have a partner right now, so that would have to come first of course. Honestly, I have issues with loud noises in general. I had a job for a long time where the a/c vent would make a ton of noise while the system was running. It drove me insane for the entire time I worked in that office, so much so that I was forced to use ear plugs at the end. Right now my neighbors have a similar problem with their HVAC condenser unit outside. It’s constantly making noise while it runs and it’s also affecting my sense of concentration while I work at my desk in my home office. Thankfully I saw a heating and cooling truck at his house the other day and it appeared that he was getting a quote on a new HVAC system to replace the old one. That might mean a brand new HVAC condenser that doesn’t make a ton of noise like the current one while it runs.