• Skullgrid@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      I was happily in the bottom 2, now I just need to get back on the career grind…
      please help, the software industry is in a rut and my child needs food.

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        Not really though. I haven’t been on the big social media platforms in forever, even during my 20s I was already gone. That doesn’t withhold you from visiting parties, chilling with friends, going places, etc. The only big platform that I’m still on is WhatsApp, because it’s the main way to message people here, and that’s how you can go places. But I haven’t go Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook, TikTok, and whatever the fuck people use to consume ads nowadays

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    I’m certain I fall into bottom right as the category but I can’t tell where in the quadrant I’d put the dot that indicates that I’m actively still on the internet and available to be found but I’ve dedicated an unreasonable amount of time to avoiding the modern digital culture in lieu of a mock attempt to recapture the late 2000s digital experience. Hit me up in that chatroom or text me on my flip phone, you’ll find me by my handle it’s the same on every platform.

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    Aww man, I got

    Constantly working (not into it)

    Be gay

    Always playing map painting games

    And

    Declared a terrorist by UK government

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        Yeah, not to disparage his hard work organising beforehand and 2 years in prison (so far), but ultimately all he did was park really badly. At most he should be getting a few points on his license.

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    2 months ago

    Where’s

    Work

    Come home too exhausted to do anything worthwhile

    Sleep

    Work

    I don’t think it falls into the first category because I really don’t give a shit about my job. I just have no energy.

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      I don’t mean to be snide or clever, but it sounds like you care about your job a lot. At the very least what would happen if you did not have that job. I feel for that and it sounds like you might need to talk to someone. Could be over analyzing a small comment on the internet but your short lines of text felt… raw.

      Good luck buck.

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        I think a lot of it is Long Covid, to be honest. After I had Covid I started sleeping really poorly, and I still do. I also really need to lose weight.

        As far as my job goes it’s actually pretty cushy. Of course, if I could find a way to survive without it, I’d quit in a heartbeat - as I imagine many people would.

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    I know a guy who is three of these things. Goes to the gym 6 days a week, works in a hospital, starting a business, has a wife and a kid, and he still manages to have time to hang out once or twice a week. Man is as successful as I am not

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      As someone who is some of those things as well, I would love to know what the wife and/or child are doing during all those activities. Because something has to give when you’re doing that much.

      In my experience, that balance is really hard, and even in the most hospitable, high-quality-of-life places, that balance is not exactly always something that is nurtured and valued by the systems in place.

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        I think he really is just built different. I’m good friends with both parents, and knew his wife long before he did. Both of them are working on higher education, kid goes to daycare most days every week. It’s not like he never sees his son either. Usually when I hang out, we’re watching his boy while we play BG3, which is nice because he can just walk away for a minute whenever a diaper needs changed

        Having recieved a large sum of life insurance money after his father passed away certainly helped with the house buying and the car maintaining and the education pursuing, but his time management is pure skill

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          I wonder if your friend can sleep only five hours and still function to the maximum. Apparently it is genetics. Napoleon and Thatcher could sleep less than 7 hours and could still think sharp and be fresh as a daisy.

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            Welp, don’t know about Napoleon, but Thatcher pulled some stupid and evil shit.

            Maybe if she had slept more, we could have had a better world ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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    I’ve been a combination of all 3 my entire 30’s. Was obsessed with work, had kids. Got fat because of having said kids, got back into lifting weights, and I have almost 0 social media presence.

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    I’m top-left (my job pays well, it’s engaging, and it has a positive impact on the world).

    I have some friends in a 5th category that are hyper-busy with traveling, social engagements, etc. I feel like I have to book time with them weeks in advance.

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    Possibly because, in your case, they moved to a geographical region less actively hostile to their non-binary personality, but people continuïng their outgoing Renaissance Fair / Swordfighting / Theater / Convention polycule life is a category for me.

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    I tell people that I told my ROTC cadre that my nonexistent sister got me pregnant and that’s why I stare at goats now, which is a fancy way to say I do counterintelligence, and everyone disappears from my perspective.