cjs: whatever farkakte fuckin nonsense they're gonna come up with to treat their gooch melanoma

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Xaris: Jul 25, 2006; Lucky there's a family guy
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hbag posted:

is this the rest of my life
getting up at awful times just to go to work and then go home exhausted five days a loving week, forever
is this seriously loving it

aww, i remember when you first joined up and was a naive sheltered widdle baby still tinkering with SuSE linux with notepad. now you're a real adult and i'm so proud :3:

two things that helps:
a) work a 9/80 schedule. seriously having 26 extra 3-day weekends is life-changing. that every other week i get to look forward to that owns so loving hard. 8 vs 9 hours a day is mostly moot, the day is mostly shot anyways and i'll gladly take working +1 hr every day in exchange for more 3-day weekends.
b) reclaim the weekday evenings: it's so easy to lose those in just burn-out and "only live for the weekend". I was doing that for almost a decade: i would come home, make dinner, login to shitpost, play games, and conc out before doing the same poo poo every day. that routine is absolutely abysmal and weekdays were basically just black holes of nothing now i'm doing pottery classes twice a week for 3+ hrs, workout routine the other two days, and spend a weekday on deep clean and movie night. do not let your weekday evenings to to waste. it's the quickest way to just wanting to die.

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Xaris: Jul 25, 2006; Lucky there's a family guy
Lucky there's a man who positively can do
All the things that make us
Laugh and cry

Jonny 290 posted:

Yeah i'm 42 now and the plan is to exit the tech industry by age 46 at the latest. then im gonna go write a check for a small cottage and work 20 hours a week making dovetails for some rich rear end in a top hat's cabinets, and 20 hours fixing what will then be 50 year old silverface stereos.

this is a good plan. all the boomers and silents that worked until they were 70+ and then immediately keeled over once they officially quit just because they�d have to spend time with their spouses and don�t know what to do without work is just really sad to have witnessed all around. Americana work culture is brain poison

I get a pretty great pension and ss if I retire at 67 but loving lmao, even if for some magical reason western civ is still standing I�m expecting to die somewhere between 65 +\- 5 anyways so I�m getting out a decade before that even if it�s terrible financially because at least I could spend the rest doing something with my remaining time on this planet

where are you getting the cottage? upstate Vermont or Maine or ny seems nice; maybe even evaporate maple syrup on the side

Xaris fucked around with this message at 07:49 on May 23, 2022

# ¿ May 23, 2022 07:46

Xaris: Jul 25, 2006; Lucky there's a family guy
Lucky there's a man who positively can do
All the things that make us
Laugh and cry

RokosCockatrice posted:

serious questionn do people have an obligation or a responsibility to contribute to society? I thought 'obviously, like, at least a little bit' but no joke I got shouted down for 3 solid days by several people who thought the answer was no no no no how dare you

imo yes people have an obligation to heal and better society (or the people around them) to the best of their ability. This should absolutely not be confused with "working a job under capitalism/producing profit". just having a job doesn't mean you're contributing , and visa-versa not having a job doesnt mean you aren't contributing; same as someone being an amorphic blob whose sole existence is passively c o n s u m e as much resources as possible is not really living -- but no one like that actually exists and is just a strawman. it can be simple things, teaching stories/passing on history for aftercare, fixing up community bikes, helping someone cross the street, being there for someone whose suffering, teaching your friend's kid to swim or how to use a lathe, providing refuge for animals/insects in land preservation, and billion other ways including passing on wisdom/knowledge/experience/art/gifts is contributing to society.

unfortunately many millions of people have terminal brainworms where it's presumed that it all just means "have a job under capitalism"

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