Opening up a space for everyone to talk about how they’re doing! Got some cool stuff going on? Feeling kinda down? Let’s talk about it!
Remember you are loved
Started “working” with Outlier, basically training AI responses. Minimum wage, boring ass work, but i put in 70 hours this past week (most of it time thievery). Behind on rent and bills, but if I can push myself for 2 more weeks of this I can maybe catch up! Had a few “serious” job interviews this week, so we’ll see where they go. The one I’m looking forward to most is a pet care company, but no response after a phone call like 10 days ago. Partner just got a job today so that’s cool!
Beyond that…I dunno. Just feeling kinda blah and not very great. Both tummy and brain troubles today.
How have you been?
I took a bunch of acid freaked out, yelled at a bunch of random strangers that I want to drop nuclear bombs on Europe.
Then I went home felt better did even more acid and went for a walk in the woods
Hell yeah
Was fun when I got home not so fun before hand
I remember one time I got dosed in NYC and wandered through central park. It was fun until we got pizza, the building we were in seemed to me like it was wobbling like a ship in a storm
I just got seriously creepy vibes from people
I was crying a lot last week from various things, but I’m doing okay right this moment. Making that book club thread lifted a huge burden of irrational guilt from my shoulders and I’m talking to multiple women on the apps right now, so there is potential for things that aren’t pain in my life. Might actually get some sleep tonight, too.
You rock for setting up the bookclub. I’ve also felt guilt not participating as frequently but your work is appreciated
I fucking hate Israel. My fucking job (that keeps cutting my hours) gets product from them. My boss came up with a “fun challenge” today where we’re given little beads if we talk to customers, just the most asinine, baby-brained stuff. They keep erasing my “FREE PALESTINE” graffiti in the toilet, so I’m slowly, day by day, carving it into the stall so that they can’t take it off.
I can’t avenge them, I can’t avenge the Palestinians, I’m a coward, but at least carved in plastic will be my way of coping with the suffering.
Lmao hell yeah I’m glad you carved the plastic. It would be funny if you got your own beads and started giving them to your coworkers for fulfilling random mundane objectives, really throw a wrench into the work beadconomy.
People were joking that they could start faking beads or finding out where the beads were being bought. This retail job really puts the “wooden” in wooden medal. Did I mention that there are cash rewards and that you can get beads taken away too?
Did I mention that there are cash rewards and that you can get beads taken away too?
Brb getting a law degree so i can articulate what labor laws this simply must be somehow violating
I’m glad the AI thing is working out for you, and that you’ve got leads on jobs! Is your partner excited about their new job?
I’m having a hard time with my kid and my extended family, separate problems.
My family is pressuring me to use my medical marijuana card to buy them gummies etc, but I don’t want to because I don’t want to risk getting caught and then losing my ability to get my Adderall prescription, and also, they all qualify for their own medical cards anyway. Why it’s a better solution for me to endanger my ability to get the medicine that’s keeping me sane than for them to do some paperwork, idfk.
My kid just really seems to be going through a time of particularly disliking me, which I know is just a teenager thing, but it is hard. We were having a silly conversation last week about what kind of plants we would be, and I said I would be moss because I just want to take care of things and be a soft blanket that keeps the ground moist so other things can sprout. He said I’m a cactus, because I don’t need much care, I’m prickly, but I’m pretty to look at. 😭 It’s been a week, and I’m still not over it, especially since he keeps getting pissy with me about stuff, and I’m trying so hard to just be chill and understanding while he’s snapping at me, and all I can think is, “I’m a cactus. I’m a fucking cactus.”
💔 probably shouldn’t have typed this up, because now I’m crying, which is no way to start the day! 🤦
Anyway, if I think I’m moss but everyone sees me as a cactus, it would explain a lot about my dealings with other people and why I have such a hard time with friends etc. The possibility has really done my head in.
I’ll get over it eventually.
I feel like I can really understand the Cactus thing. Here’s to hoping yall two figure things out and become closer. With the family, well, stand your ground.
Hope youre feeling better now
I’m too tired to really talk about anything rn but just wanted to say hi, hoping you can find something better to do then AI-sludge sorting work
Just
to some music rnThanks homie!
the grueling job search continues, but my depressed mood seems to be on the upswing
Glad to hear it!
I’m vacilating between doomlike anxiety and feeling just fine and kind of cool. On one hand i really need a real job because my costs of living outpace the sidework I’ve been doing and my savings will only last so long and also all my friends are getting married and/or becoming increasingly unrelatable treatlords… but on the other hand I found a lot of cool mushrooms on my last hike and I’ve lost ten pounds over the last month basically by binge drinking marginally less.
Congrats on the job dawg, can’t wait for you to catch up so you can take it at least a little easier. Good luck with the interviews too.
Thanks, appreciate it!
Congrats on the weight loss! Know how drinking is, so proud of ya. What sort of work do you want to be doing?
Ayyy thanks! Something with the city parks would be pretty tight, also considering the post office. I’d definitely take any sort of remote work bookkeeping style computer job regardless of how boring/mind-numbingly pointless it was though. I hear electric companies have remote entry-level positions sometimes but I’ve yet to happen across one.
Good luck! I’ve been looking into nonprofits and animal care stuff. I dropped a link to that AI thing im doing elsewhere in the thread if you want. Not really good work but it’s work.
Hope something works out for ya!
Ayyyy thanks for mentioning that outlier link, really really appreciate it. I’ve been doing the training stuff the last few days. I did a few of the training tasks the first day i was accepted but since then it’s been a single (training) task per day, as if it only refreshes once every 24 hours. Is that what “onboarding” was like for you too?
Pretty much! There’s a handful of things I did before starting to log work hours, but it’s not too terrible
The project they put me on concluded like two days after i finished the training (lmao) so now I’m waiting to be reassigned but hey i made $70 on the assessment tasks!
Good shit though, also I’ve never done a job that made me feel like I’m taking part in some cosmic eldritch ritual beyond my understanding quite like this one
Hell yeah glad you’re getting some money!
real bad
Mental health is better (I blame the extra hours of sunshine and warmer temperatures), but anxiety has me waiting for the other shoe to drop. I’ll have my first state-paid therapy session next week, so hopefully that will help.
Good luck! Hope it’s beneficial!
I should get sleep but I might have to do some contract work in a bit.
Hope you got some sleep!
Work is driving me mad. I want to quit but have nothing to fall back on and the tech market is ass and the genocide is demotivating me from wanting to do anything. But that’s been in the back of my head for months so I’m learning to manage and revolutionary optimism/organizing is keeping me afloat. It’s just this damn job in the way.
My ongoing manga series keep me afloat too 🥳 something to regularly look forward to.
Whats the manga? Good luck on the job situation, lost my tech job almost a year ago and know the struggle in that sector well. Things seem to be picking up now at least, but maybe that’s just me. Started working online for minimum wage in the meantime. It’s something to help with rent at least. It does suck, but if you want a link I’ll drop it for sure!
‘Oshi no ko’ and ‘how do we relationship’ have been keeping me going. Highly recommend ‘how do we relationship’ at least, it’s a queer drama but the way the mangaka writes characters is so beautiful. They’re imperfect, multidimensional, and easy to relate to and sympathize with.
I half thought about doing contract work or taking multiple lower paying roles, but that’s so risky and it feels sleey taking multiple jobs when others don’t have one. I’ll take the link, it’s good to keep options open since at my current place the ‘if’ I starting to feel like ‘when’.
Hell yeah I’ll check those out! Been getting into anime the past year, going through Soul Eater now, and always open to recs!
I haven’t seen soul eater myself but from a sci fi standpoint, I reccomend picking up mob psycho if you get a chance and haven’t already :)
I’ll add it to the list! Basically my system is one arc of One Piece > switch to something shorter > go back to one piece > rinse and repeat.
Good system. I’m very very slowly reading the manga. Are you doing the whole show or one pace ?
Gonna do the whole show, left off just having finished the little 12 episode segment after the Enies lobby/CP9 arc!
I promised my partner I’d buy her a sword if she made it to episode 1000 with me. She started out thinking “yeah this is cute and fun” to “oh shit this is good” during the whole Water City arc
It’s 2 PM smh. It’s job interview day. No idea how it’ll go.
You got this, comrade!
I got offered a two week unpaid trial period. Since I otherwise don’t have anything else recent for the CV, I’ll take it.
Made a recipe/dish that I’d had an intention towards for a few months.
Multiple conflicts have cleared up, largely under my supervision. But other than that, I haven’t been accomplishing much, other than doing a lot of dishes.
My savings account is starting to run low, and I know there are a few different things I could do about it. Most likely getting a 25-30 hours/week entry-level job, which would be neither difficult to get nor rough on me, and I could go back to being not so anal about money.
