Real life happy

[Pavel]

@Aria said:

her neighbor’s sister’s pastor’s hamster

Wait, President Gerald R. Fluff died? And this is how you tell me?!

[dvoraen]

This is more of an “RL Ambivalence.”

So TL;DR - I basically quit my retail job because it was just getting to me too much, and a whole bunch of things involved I’m not going into. I basically got the high-risk part of the high-reward thing I was volunteered for as part of the remodel that’s going on. I was not slated for termination; that was my decision simply because I didn’t see how a personal LOA would solve anything (which would be LOA #3 for almost the same reasons as the first two).

So what’s the other side of this? I feel like I’ve not so much liberated myself so much as forced myself to confront some issues with respect to employment, and what I can and can’t do with the degree I got on my employer’s dime and finished last year. (Still hate job search, though.)

… I just have some serious deadlines due to the financial state, and the worst case scenario is I could ask for (very conditional) reinstatement to said retail job, but that deadline is about 7d tops from today.

But I feel like this got me to actually take myself more seriously instead of wallow in imposter syndrome. A few things that came up over the past almost 12 years at said job convinced me that I have… more of a handle on CS topics than I thought I did when comparing to others. And that’s without getting into vibe coding and other agent-based programming soapboxes.

So yeah, happy to start discovering myself more in a very ironic way, but also at the same time.

[Hobbie]

I’m resigning in three minutes.

[Solstice]

Car troubles. Was quoted no less than $2500+ for repairs in 5 different places.

Last place I called lowered his voice and mentioned I should take it to this other place he knows.

They fixed it for $518, and it works perfectly. I could kiss both the mechanic and the guy who sent me his way.

[Floof]

I’ve been on testosterone for a month and so far it’s been amazing

[L. B. Heuschkel]

My second book hits the market on November 1. It’s not wrong what they say, number two is harder than number one.

[Pavel]

@L.-B.-Heuschkel said:

number two is harder than number one.

[Cobalt]

I am not exactly excited with the new project I am on at work, but for once they aren’t violating ADAAA laws under the guise of “training is more important (than your health)”, and I’m getting a small raise next week putting me back to what I was making a couple of years ago (e.g. making up for pay cuts I got when being shuffled around).

[junipersky]

We have an adoption date!!!

[junipersky]

Ahahahhaa… my robotics team made it to the state level again. Which is amazing and I’m so proud of them!!!

And I’m totally so freaking tired x.x. I was looking forward to having my Wednesday and Friday nights back!!