I made a major improvement in my ability to not give a fuck about my job.
I work in American retail.
I didn’t know you could insert that here. I just needed that on my previous comment.
Thanks.Don’t give a fuck about it. Get a skilled labor job. Retail is soul-sucking. You want to be the guy who can build a work shed out of a pile of wood, not the guy who knows where the aisle of tuberware is.
Can’t I just not be a guy and be done with it? Lol, my boobs would thank me for sure.
Sorry I didn’t mean “guy” like male, but that isn’t an excuse I should have chosen my words more carefully.
There is nothing wrong with women in the trades. I was in Bangkok for vacation this year and saw an army sized group of women working a construction site. All of them much physically smaller than I am.
Hey, you’re all good. I was just messing with you. I know you weren’t implying anything. Haha.
Electricians are well paid and among the least physical trades
Do they make as much money over a lifetime as a Washington DC based economist? Which one adds actual value to the world?
What’s wrong with you?
Don’t make it personal, answer the question or don’t.
I reiterate their statement: what the fuck is wrong with you?
And no, we won’t answer the question as it’s a question with absolutely no possible answer since it completely depends on how you define the form that value takes. All you’re doing is trying to stir up animosity. Well, it’s working.
Kindly fuck off.
Sorry your job adds no value. Must be hard.
The dude above was agreeing with you and you attacked. You’re deranged.
You can join him on the block list.
The economist makes more money, the electrician adds more value.
I can elaborate but you can imagine the world muddling along without people telling you about inelastic demand but society would collapse in about two weeks if all the tradespeople disappeared.
Sure and think about how better things would be.
Besides for Keynes all economists worldwide thought the New Deal would be a failure. Meanwhile the US recovered first.
Only a fraction of economists think the bank bailouts were a bad idea and the US lost over a decade when you look at the Workforce Participation Rate and CEO-to-worker pay ratio.
No economists thinks student loan debt amnesty is a good idea. Meanwhile the percent of people seeking degrees continues to drop, the age of first time homeowners continues to rise, the number of small businesses started is falling, and the fertility rate hits new lows.
It isn’t that economists keep getting it wrong. It is that they are paid to advance agendas. It is like a lawyer, you don’t pay a lawyer to find justice and fairness, you pay a lawyer to be your champion. An economist is paid by financial institutions to be a zealous advocate. Which is why there is a lobbyist company whose entire job is to sit economists on congressional hearings and advance the client’s viewpoint.
Meanwhile our infrastructure rots.
i made a person
Congratulations! Me too!
Congratulations! Me three!
that’s always a good time
next few years will be busy
WTG
I made the decision to go back to school. There were various life reasons why I was unable to make that decision in my 20’s, but I am happy to have the opportunity to learn again with a renewed sense of drive and direction.
Good luck! :D
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it is really bugging me that you are getting heavily downvoted for this. it’s not like you are actively proselytizing here. i am sorry people are so shitty.
i think belief in (some type of) god is probably pretty healthy. unfortunately, my life experience has led me to a failure to believe in anything at all.
anyways… you do you. be well.
Which one did you choose?
Definitely would like some more detail on this.
As someone who has found a faith that works for me, personal, nonreligious and without a figurehead god, I’ve seen a lot of concrete benefits from exploring different ways of walking through reality. For me there was a huge difference between the sensation of feeling like a cosmic fluke, blown around in a confusing and random reality, and finding a way to feel like I’m an integral part of time and space.
It was a decision I had to make, years ago, for my own well-being. I’ve seen many others make their own personal, spiritual changes, for similar reasons to mine. Some move away from their childhood religions, towards faith structures that feel more healthy to them. Some return to theirs. I’ve also known people who’ve found meaning, comfort and purpose through studied, focused atheism and agnosticism.
You can probably tell by my tone that I’m not a big fan of organized religion. Any god that can be boxed up isn’t really what I’m looking for. That said, I know from personal experience how powerful that sort of change in perspective can be. It’s exactly the type of thing that could find high ranks in one’s best of the year list.
Happy New Year!
That’s great! I wish you all good stuff for the New Year, spiritually and otherwise.
I know how you feel. I started turning away from not collecting stamps. It’s such a good feeling finding faith in stamps.
(wink)
Happy new year!!
I met a wonderful woman. We are dating now
I got an invitation from someone I had been talking to online to come and have dinner with their family. It. Was. Awesome. I got a tour of their gardens, talked pest management, chicken composting, and propagation strategies, got a ukulele concert from their usually shy daughter with some special medical needs (and got to play something for her on the instrument she never shares), and had a lovely meal from their garden. Oh, and we traded plants and cuttings with each other to help diversify our gardens (and who they support)!
That is a lovely little vignette. Thank you for a glimpse into your world :)
For complicated reasons over which we have had very little control, we have had to move house 3 times in the last 5 years.
In April of this year, thoigh, we finally found somewhere that we both really love and which should be pretty much permanent. I am very happy about that.
Moving sucks so much, and can be extremely emotionally and physically disruptive for a lot of people. So, massive congratulations 🎊
I got hella teeth pulled.
I know it sounds terrible, but it really needed to happen. I’m waiting on my bone grafts to set before starting on my first set of implants. Even with my plastic partials, it’s a whole new world. I don’t think I had cracked a genuine smile since highschool. Now I can’t stop.
I have a boss who’s in his mid-forties. After I was out a few days for my wisdom teeth, I was talking to him and he says ever since he was a kid his dentist has said he seriously needs his wisdom teeth removed. Man gives me the biggest smile and says "and I’ve been putting it off for 40 years! ", made me wince. I would be terrified at the prospect of getting them out after that long.
It really depends on spacing and if they’re impacted. I had mine out at 35. Wasn’t a big deal, but I had other teeth that were congeniality missing, along with gum disease, so nothing was really well attached.
My car was totaled and I walked away.
Bought a house and started my dream job
Finally sold that damn boat!!
The best boat is someone else’s boat.
A boat always gives the owner two good memories. The one when you bought it and the one when you sell it
I was told this repeatedly before I bought it. I naively thought it would be different for me. It was not!
Sweet freedom
Everything sucked. 2023 was a calamity for me. I lost my best friend, I had a burnout, I got sick a lot, and it forced me to take 2 full weeks off to take care of myself in early December.
Those 2 weeks for myself are arguably the best thing I had this year however. I’ll try to repeat this every year.
That sounds a lot like my 2022. Burnout is rough, I still feel I’m not fully where I want to be. I’m glad you were able to get some rest, and I hope 2024 is kinder to you
Thanks friend!
Are we thinking in the short or long term here?
Short term (enjoyment for this year): I bought a motorcycle, something I’ve wanted to do for years but finally had the money and independence to do so this year
Long term (this will affect my future life in a good way): I got a summer research internship as a college student, which gives me valuable experience for later in life
Congrats and congrats!
Thanks!
I bought a house after saving for 6 long years.
Yay! I’m proud of you, that’s a massive accomplishment!
My daughter (born 3 months early in mid-2022) was discharged from needing oxygen 24/7. After months of having to lug her tank and pulse oximeter around everywhere, even across a room, a wireless baby was a game-changer.
She’s made huge progress in so many other ways, but this was the big one for us
