stupid first world problems you're dealing with

  On 8/7/2014 at 9:30 AM, DerWaschbar said:

Even though I'm probs just a character in your dream I want you to know that I belieber in you spiral and you will be O.K. I also believe in life after love.

where's my message of support, you furry bastard?!

lol sry! i do love you. it looks today isagi, not you.

<3

<3

i make 700 dollars a week and have -85 dollars to my name .. im not very good with money lol

Cat is most deffo preggo.

Got in today and her midriff has doubled in size and become spherical.

UK WATMMers, who wants a kitten?

Would love to help you out but can only just about afford the 2 I have right now. I love teh kittehs. Surely somebody here can help.

I'll take a stack of kittens, i ran out of clay pigeons.

I'm having a really hard time dealing with myself. Not in a "depressive, suicidal way" (well, not yet). I really have a lot of ideas to make, a lot of stuff I want to learn and do, but I simply can't find enough time:

Stuff I want to learn/do:

-Programming

-Animation

-Music making (mixing/mastering)

-Drawing

-Writing

-Neuroscience/Astronomy/Psychology (more of a hobby)

In no particular order.

That list is me. I have a lot passion for them. But I feel a lot uninspired to do stuff, not even tired.

I'd really want to go away from my daily life (school, daily life), to be completely alone with the nature.

Do you know any good alternatives to feel relaxed and free? This is killing me, seriously.

you can't do everything so pick one or two attainable goals in one or two activities. If you spread yourself too thin you will master nothing and continue to remain unsatisfied. Each field you describe allows for deep delving and is a broad subject on it's own. So stop shooting yourself in the foot and pick one thing, try to get good at it and if that doesn't work out, you're still young, pick something else.

If you're feeling uninspired, then don't force yourself to do stuff. Nothing good will come of it. I spent the last two years writing books and now I'm suddenly not so interested in writing any more...for the moment, anyway. Now I'm making music (despite saying three or so pages ago I wasn't going to bother making music LOL)

As for time, I don't know how busy you are or what you're studying, but there's no time during breaks or lunch to do something? I used to draw comics / make music at work during my lunch hour and sometimes my break times too. I walked around with a microphone gathering samples too. That was fun, even if the music was pants.

As Delet mentioned, any in particular you'd truly like to do first? You say they're in no particular order but there has to be one of those you're more eager to start on than the rest. For example, I have an idea for an animation too but it's not very high on my list right now. Some other time, perhaps. And you say learn: does that mean they're all things you've never done before (aside from music I'm guessing)?

Going to nature...sneak out for a few days and go somewhere tranquil? If not an option, camp out somewhere nearby?

  On 8/8/2014 at 1:52 AM, Bechuga said:

If you're feeling uninspired, then don't force yourself to do stuff. Nothing good will come of it.

I've actually given the opposite advice to peopple a number of times. Sometimes i think it's necessary to kickstart your creativity. When i've felt uninspired I've forced myself to work on creative projects and usually find once an idea forms it ends up inspiring other ideas, which gets me out of the rut. It might not even be a great idea, but once the creative juices get flowing again it can become something better. If I didn't do this sort of thing I'd probably wait around forever for lightning to strike and never get anything done.

  On 8/8/2014 at 12:17 AM, delet... said:

you can't do everything so pick one or two attainable goals in one or two activities. If you spread yourself too thin you will master nothing and continue to remain unsatisfied. Each field you describe allows for deep delving and is a broad subject on it's own. So stop shooting yourself in the foot and pick one thing, try to get good at it and if that doesn't work out, you're still young, pick something else.

Yep. Though I do love each of those things, I guess I need to stop worrying about "master all of then in one day" and focus on one first. It sounds simple and logical.

  On 8/8/2014 at 1:52 AM, Bechuga said:

If you're feeling uninspired, then don't force yourself to do stuff. Nothing good will come of it. I spent the last two years writing books and now I'm suddenly not so interested in writing any more...for the moment, anyway. Now I'm making music (despite saying three or so pages ago I wasn't going to bother making music LOL)

 

As for time, I don't know how busy you are or what you're studying, but there's no time during breaks or lunch to do something? I used to draw comics / make music at work during my lunch hour and sometimes my break times too. I walked around with a microphone gathering samples too. That was fun, even if the music was pants.

 

As Delet mentioned, any in particular you'd truly like to do first? You say they're in no particular order but there has to be one of those you're more eager to start on than the rest. For example, I have an idea for an animation too but it's not very high on my list right now. Some other time, perhaps. And you say learn: does that mean they're all things you've never done before (aside from music I'm guessing)?

 

Going to nature...sneak out for a few days and go somewhere tranquil? If not an option, camp out somewhere nearby?

Yes! I started doing some music while breaks. And I have basic knowledge in all those fields, but I can hardly say I "master" any of those. All of them are on my top priorities, so maybe I need to manage my time better to study each one efficiently and without distractions (already working on it).

  On 8/8/2014 at 8:31 PM, Zephyr_Nova said:

 

  On 8/8/2014 at 1:52 AM, Bechuga said:

If you're feeling uninspired, then don't force yourself to do stuff. Nothing good will come of it.

 

I've actually given the opposite advice to peopple a number of times. Sometimes i think it's necessary to kickstart your creativity. When i've felt uninspired I've forced myself to work on creative projects and usually find once an idea forms it ends up inspiring other ideas, which gets me out of the rut. It might not even be a great idea, but once the creative juices get flowing again it can become something better. If I didn't do this sort of thing I'd probably wait around forever for lightning to strike and never get anything done.

 

I think that's a really good idea. The problem with me is that I'm sooooo fucking uninspired that I don't even want to open,lets say, Live or take a pencil and draw. I feel like "nah, fuck it, I'm uninspired so anything I do will be shit". I think it's a bad habit, and one I/we should delet... from our lives. The hardest part is getting started.

Thanks guys for the advice.

  On 8/8/2014 at 8:43 PM, logakght said:

The problem with me is that I'm sooooo fucking uninspired that I don't even want to open,lets say, Live or take a pencil and draw. I feel like "nah, fuck it, I'm uninspired so anything I do will be shit". I think it's a bad habit, and one I/we should delet... from our lives. The hardest part is getting started.

The other thing that's important is to allow the "shit" to happen. If you're not well immersed in the practice of doing something, it'll prob be a little rough until you're a little further into the habit of it. So even if you think something you're doing sucks, it's usually still good to see it through to the end so that you've got that experience under your belt. Then once you've accrued a lot of experience doing whatever it is you're doing, you can start being a little more ruthless with your art and say "this idea is bad and not worth pursuing any further." But I think when you're starting out with something, it's a good practice to even see the bad ideas through to the end. Sometimes you can learn the most from those.

googling people i used to know from school and there's like scientists and teachers... i wish i could be that successful. i'm not getting bent out of shape about it and i have achievements and such but yeah... craziness.

I used a friend's vaporiser tonight. first time using one, hit it really hard. now I'm pretty sure there was nothing but weed in there, but I'm getting a strange kind of high that I've never gotten before. I'm lucid enough to write this. I feel physically tired but also kind of brain-hyper right now. I'm feeling alternating waves of fear and happiness. I actually can't go to sleep, the darkness made me feel like my mind was drifting off and wouldn't come back. but I'm also smiling - literally, right now - at myself at how silly I'm being. I feel like my short term memory has become a stretchy rubber band. lots of weird uncomfortable pseudophysical sensations.

I guess I should just drink a bunch a water and wait to nod off.

what did I smoke?

I drank all the milkshake and now it is gone ;;__;;

omfg ableton keeps undoing all my cross fades, this is the most irritating program bug ever, fuuuuuck aaaaaaahhhh stoooooooop, hate you ableton!!!

For the past few weeks I have been pursued by a member of our office occupational health and safety committee for many small matters that I would consider to be non-issues. She is an (entry level) employee who may not have had many opportunities to directly engage management.

Yesterday she approached me while I was talking on my mobile phone and eating my lunch in my car, she saw me sitting there and wandered over and knocked on my window. She was concerned about a very small rust spot on a metal handrail outside our office (the actual rust spot is the size of a quarter). Later when she confronted me about it I told her I didn’t see any danger to our employees, her response was “tetanus”, when I looked back at her (I was walking away at this point) she said something about if I had a paper cut and touched the rust spot on the handrail I would likely get tetanus.

At our quarterly OHSC meeting she raised the issue of sinkholes, she had heard about sinkholes on the news and had come to the conclusion that our directors had a responsibility to investigate for the presence of sinkholes in the vicinity of our offices. I’m not an expert but I gather sinkholes are extremely rare and investigating for the existence of sinkholes involves very expensive geophysical testing, like earth penetrating radar, seismic surveys, and soil borings etc. I didn’t know how to respond to this request immediately, other than to point out in a nice way that without evidence or some indication of the existence of sinkholes it would be unreasonable to conduct an investigation.

The biggest and most painful unresolved discussion point for our committee is how to address the matter of employees working afterhours. From a OHSC standpoint the fear is that an employee might get injured or killed and not be able to get help if they are working alone afterhours. Many organizations can mitigate this risk simply by having an onsite security guard, unfortunately our office is small and there is no need to hire a full time security guard. Recently at a meeting one of the management members suggested that perhaps we could just hire a security guard to come in a do a walk through the building at midnight, I guess the logic is that if someone had injured or killed themselves at work the security guard would find them and be able to help. (I jokingly suggested that we should hire a second security guard to come in after midnight to make sure the first security guard wasn’t killed during his walk through the building). My comments were not appreciated.

I’m looking for advice on how to deal with this person. Ideally I would like to convey to her (respectfully) that I’m not interested in speaking to her about matters that don’t pose an imminent threat to the health and safety of our employees.

I realize this is a music forum but I wasn’t able to get many suggestions from an HR forum I posted this message on, and also I’ve heard some very good feedback about other first world problems on here before. By the way I work in an office environment, the biggest health risk to our staff is carpal tunnel syndrome, and ergonomic matters.

I would suggest being direct and stating exactly what you've said above: "I'm not interested in speaking about matters that don't pose an imminent threat to the health and safety of our workers". Furthermore I would suggest to her politely that she not interrupt your lunch with questions about rust. She does not sound adequately equipped skill wise to perform this job, you might want to speak with her manager if you are not her manager. Even an entry level h&s clerk would not (in my experience) suggest looking at sinkholes or be concerned about a quarter sized rust spot. What next? Does your company need an asteroid contingency plan?

  On 8/9/2014 at 11:30 PM, Zephyr_Nova said:

omfg ableton keeps undoing all my cross fades, this is the most irritating program bug ever, fuuuuuck aaaaaaahhhh stoooooooop, hate you ableton!!!

that's pretty fucked actually. I was gonna commend the milkshake one cause that sucked, but this is a real level 9 disaster.

i'm really really bored of my job.

  On 8/11/2014 at 2:28 PM, Papillon said:

For the past few weeks I have been pursued by a member of our office occupational health and safety committee for many small matters that I would consider to be non-issues. She is an (entry level) employee who may not have had many opportunities to directly engage management.

 

Yesterday she approached me while I was talking on my mobile phone and eating my lunch in my car, she saw me sitting there and wandered over and knocked on my window. She was concerned about a very small rust spot on a metal handrail outside our office (the actual rust spot is the size of a quarter). Later when she confronted me about it I told her I didn’t see any danger to our employees, her response was “tetanus”, when I looked back at her (I was walking away at this point) she said something about if I had a paper cut and touched the rust spot on the handrail I would likely get tetanus.

 

At our quarterly OHSC meeting she raised the issue of sinkholes, she had heard about sinkholes on the news and had come to the conclusion that our directors had a responsibility to investigate for the presence of sinkholes in the vicinity of our offices. I’m not an expert but I gather sinkholes are extremely rare and investigating for the existence of sinkholes involves very expensive geophysical testing, like earth penetrating radar, seismic surveys, and soil borings etc. I didn’t know how to respond to this request immediately, other than to point out in a nice way that without evidence or some indication of the existence of sinkholes it would be unreasonable to conduct an investigation.

 

The biggest and most painful unresolved discussion point for our committee is how to address the matter of employees working afterhours. From a OHSC standpoint the fear is that an employee might get injured or killed and not be able to get help if they are working alone afterhours. Many organizations can mitigate this risk simply by having an onsite security guard, unfortunately our office is small and there is no need to hire a full time security guard. Recently at a meeting one of the management members suggested that perhaps we could just hire a security guard to come in a do a walk through the building at midnight, I guess the logic is that if someone had injured or killed themselves at work the security guard would find them and be able to help. (I jokingly suggested that we should hire a second security guard to come in after midnight to make sure the first security guard wasn’t killed during his walk through the building). My comments were not appreciated.

 

I’m looking for advice on how to deal with this person. Ideally I would like to convey to her (respectfully) that I’m not interested in speaking to her about matters that don’t pose an imminent threat to the health and safety of our employees.

 

I realize this is a music forum but I wasn’t able to get many suggestions from an HR forum I posted this message on, and also I’ve heard some very good feedback about other first world problems on here before. By the way I work in an office environment, the biggest health risk to our staff is carpal tunnel syndrome, and ergonomic matters.

This person can't be for real. If it was a guy you could just tell him to fuck off and his ideas are stupid and they'd just have to man up and deal with it, but in no way ever do something like this to a female in the workplace, even the suggestion of negativity can end badly with serious career ending repercussions for you. -sie- Management will realise after a bit (hopefully) that she's a wacko and tell her to tone it down, if not have a word with them privately (not with her).

don't you have a HR department for her to raise these issues with? in terms of health and safety you should have a person trained in first aid on site at any time you have employees working. this can be a manager or a supervisor. just make sure you are compliant with health and safetly regulations and it's fine.

  On 8/11/2014 at 2:56 PM, delet... said:

 

  On 8/11/2014 at 2:28 PM, Papillon said:

For the past few weeks I have been pursued by a member of our office occupational health and safety committee for many small matters that I would consider to be non-issues. She is an (entry level) employee who may not have had many opportunities to directly engage management.

 

Yesterday she approached me while I was talking on my mobile phone and eating my lunch in my car, she saw me sitting there and wandered over and knocked on my window. She was concerned about a very small rust spot on a metal handrail outside our office (the actual rust spot is the size of a quarter). Later when she confronted me about it I told her I didn’t see any danger to our employees, her response was “tetanus”, when I looked back at her (I was walking away at this point) she said something about if I had a paper cut and touched the rust spot on the handrail I would likely get tetanus.

 

At our quarterly OHSC meeting she raised the issue of sinkholes, she had heard about sinkholes on the news and had come to the conclusion that our directors had a responsibility to investigate for the presence of sinkholes in the vicinity of our offices. I’m not an expert but I gather sinkholes are extremely rare and investigating for the existence of sinkholes involves very expensive geophysical testing, like earth penetrating radar, seismic surveys, and soil borings etc. I didn’t know how to respond to this request immediately, other than to point out in a nice way that without evidence or some indication of the existence of sinkholes it would be unreasonable to conduct an investigation.

 

The biggest and most painful unresolved discussion point for our committee is how to address the matter of employees working afterhours. From a OHSC standpoint the fear is that an employee might get injured or killed and not be able to get help if they are working alone afterhours. Many organizations can mitigate this risk simply by having an onsite security guard, unfortunately our office is small and there is no need to hire a full time security guard. Recently at a meeting one of the management members suggested that perhaps we could just hire a security guard to come in a do a walk through the building at midnight, I guess the logic is that if someone had injured or killed themselves at work the security guard would find them and be able to help. (I jokingly suggested that we should hire a second security guard to come in after midnight to make sure the first security guard wasn’t killed during his walk through the building). My comments were not appreciated.

 

I’m looking for advice on how to deal with this person. Ideally I would like to convey to her (respectfully) that I’m not interested in speaking to her about matters that don’t pose an imminent threat to the health and safety of our employees.

 

I realize this is a music forum but I wasn’t able to get many suggestions from an HR forum I posted this message on, and also I’ve heard some very good feedback about other first world problems on here before. By the way I work in an office environment, the biggest health risk to our staff is carpal tunnel syndrome, and ergonomic matters.

 

This person can't be for real. If it was a guy you could just tell him to fuck off and his ideas are stupid and they'd just have to man up and deal with it, but in no way ever do something like this to a female in the workplace, even the suggestion of negativity can end badly with serious career ending repercussions for you. -sie- Management will realise after a bit (hopefully) that she's a wacko and tell her to tone it down, if not have a word with them privately (not with her).

 

I don't really recommend telling anyone to fuck off, how could that ever end well? lol

I agree with what StephenG said, just telling her to tone it down a bit. Don't want to turn her so apathetic towards her job she decides not to replace the fire alarms or tell anyone there's serious faults in the building design.