stupid first world problems you're dealing with

  On 9/30/2017 at 3:07 AM, usagi said:

it is now Dicksword.

HAHA! sexual

I've been letting my disdain for work fester for too long and I'm way overdue for getting a new job. But I don't know who to turn to for help.

  On 9/30/2017 at 4:37 PM, ambermonk said:

I've been letting my disdain for work fester for too long and I'm way overdue for getting a new job. But I don't know who to turn to for help.

Think about what you don't like about your current job.

Then think about what you would like to do instead.

If you don't know how to do it, start researching and then practicing it, honing your skills.

Then think about organizations or situations where you could do those things, and do/experience less of the things you don't like, and have someone pay you for it.

Then research and think about each individual organization/person and their goals. You may have to learn some new lingo.

And think about how you could serve their goals, in terms of your skills and experience. 

Then when go talk to them, and explain how you in particular will help them achieve those goals, and why they should hire/pay you to do so.

If you have friends/acquaintances that already have rapport with these people/organizations, this will all be much easier.

Ask lots and lots of questions to yourself and others throughout the process. If you get frustrated with one question, there will be more questions that need answering, so go try to answer those in the meantime. Take lots of notes and stay as organized as you can, in whatever way that works for you.

Good luck.

What kind of work do you do, Ambermonk?

My fwp: I need a haircut, but I’ve been too lazy to get to the barbershop. The place is like 2 subway stops from work.

Do it yourself. Cutting your own hair is way easier than you’d think

in the last day: I break my phone, get in a fight with the lady, car gets engine problems, lady spills boiling water on her stomach, gets huge 3rd degree burns. Currently spending some quality time at the urgent care clinic in the heart of the ghetto. and the landlord for the home I was hoping to move into never got back to me. yay weekends

went to my uncles 70th bday party, 40+ people. i didn't mingle and i can get away with that because the family knows i'm not a social person. old people getting krunk ftw i guess

  On 9/30/2017 at 6:05 PM, doublename said:

What kind of work do you do, Ambermonk?

 

My fwp: I need a haircut, but I’ve been too lazy to get to the barbershop. The place is like 2 subway stops from work.

I check out rental equipment for outdoor use on a military base, making sure it's in operable, serviceable condition before the client rents it. Blue collar work, really.

At least I can say I've applied my college degree to some extent when international joint exercises take place every summer, especially when the JASDF (Japanese) personnel visit. Probably a bigger deal to them than I realize.

  On 9/30/2017 at 6:41 PM, Squee said:

Do it yourself. Cutting your own hair is way easier than you’d think

Especially with a cordless shaver. When you're losing hair like me, it's the exact same concept as a lawnmower, but for your scalp.

reaktor's file system/navigation/shared folder and preset management is a total pile of dead dog dick that was eaten by zombies and shit out into a river that was drank by camels that then rotted from theinside out and fell to pieces and chomped by scavenger birds that went mad and flew into car windhsields and caused a 50 car pile up on the highway killing hundreds who were trapped and burned alive in their cars sending toxic smoke into the air that was breated in by surrounding life forms who then died in place and acidically burned down through earth's crust into its core causing it to explode cracking the planet into pieces and sending it off into space etc etc etc...

  On 10/2/2017 at 12:57 AM, ignatius said:

reaktor's file system/navigation/shared folder and preset management is a total pile of dead dog dick that was eaten by zombies and shit out into a river that was drank by camels that then rotted from theinside out and fell to pieces and chomped by scavenger birds that went mad and flew into car windhsields and caused a 50 car pile up on the highway killing hundreds who were trapped and burned alive in their cars sending toxic smoke into the air that was breated in by surrounding life forms who then died in place and acidically burned down through earth's crust into its core causing it to explode cracking the planet into pieces and sending it off into space etc etc etc...

I always forget why I couldn't get into Reaktor. I actually don't think this is part of it but something equally infuriating. I get along so much better with Max.

^ lol

Labouring under a foul cold that 'got better' and then got dramatically worse. Haven't had a decent night's sleep in about a week.

wandered onto /pol as I occasionally do, to see what kind of rabid state they'd worked themselves into after the Vegas shooting. of course I copped a load of random, unrelated gore/violence and other lovely stuff. standard. normally I can handle it but I saw a gif of a woman being beaten and burned alive by a crowd, and it's bothering me.

my own fault, really.

Had a plumber come look at my water heater and attempt to fix it, but after three hours of labor he couldn't do a full fix. And the bill ended up being more than $400.

Not his fault tho - turns out the water heater is 14 years old and apparently was never flushed, and according to the manufacturer is supposed to be flushed once a year. Plus whoever installed it apparently did an ass-backwards job, which was long before I moved into the condo unit. And at some point I'm supposed to buy a replacement.

I hate massive unexpected expenses.

 

  On 10/5/2017 at 4:15 AM, ambermonk said:

Had a plumber come look at my water heater and attempt to fix it, but after three hours of labor he couldn't do a full fix. And the bill ended up being more than $400.

 

Not his fault tho - turns out the water heater is 14 years old and apparently was never flushed, and according to the manufacturer is supposed to be flushed once a year. Plus whoever installed it apparently did an ass-backwards job, which was long before I moved into the condo unit. And at some point I'm supposed to buy a replacement.

 

I hate massive unexpected expenses.

 

 

ugh.  pain in the ass. had 3x plumbing things this year. clogs, broken pipes... some stuff i almost fixed but had to pay to get someone to do it because i don't have a solid good electric motor snake thing... also need to replace a bunch of plumbing this year. $2k ish expense.  also have equivalent amount of medical bills to pay. should note that same exact procedure in the ER i had a few years ago.. first year of the ACA and the bill was $37.  this last time bill is $2500. fucking fuckers. 

anyway... best of luck w/the water heater. replaced mine a couple years ago and it's not too difficult so long as you have a somewhere to drain the water out of the current one and can get the proper hoses to connect to the water heater. also new water heater is way more fficient so it's like $300 to use it for the whole year or something stupid.  i got a rheem.. was i think $800 and i installed it myself in a couple hours. 

  On 10/2/2017 at 11:54 AM, Leon Sumbitches said:

^ lol

 

Labouring under a foul cold that 'got better' and then got dramatically worse. Haven't had a decent night's sleep in about a week.

everyone around me has the lurgy plus its meningitis season on campus, but so far so unscathed

gp's are doing flu jabs, so deffo time for a booster

The IT dept. at my company reset my computer and lost all of the key chains and bookmarks. Also, it reset my VPN and system settings. Spent most of the afternoon just getting back up and running.

root canal temp filling pops out drinking fuckin water on a friday evening after 4appts trying to sort this bastard out

so thats at least 3/4 days & nights with rising, throbbing discomfort....and i thought me fangs were pretty pearly compared to the national stereotype

any1 got any smack?

Tfw u go to a gig and your fucking ex there

=(

  On 10/6/2017 at 6:41 PM, cwmbrancity said:

root canal temp filling pops out drinking fuckin water on a friday evening after 4appts trying to sort this bastard out

 

so thats at least 3/4 days & nights with rising, throbbing discomfort....and i thought me fangs were pretty pearly compared to the national stereotype

 

any1 got any smack?

in the united states this would never happen

It’s impossible to meet single women offline.

  On 10/6/2017 at 7:32 PM, zaphod said:

 

  On 10/6/2017 at 6:41 PM, cwmbrancity said:

root canal temp filling pops out drinking fuckin water on a friday evening after 4appts trying to sort this bastard out

 

so thats at least 3/4 days & nights with rising, throbbing discomfort....and i thought me fangs were pretty pearly compared to the national stereotype

 

any1 got any smack?

 

in the united states this would never happen

 

chuckle vision, gripping some oxy would be easier though

dentists here kinda fall outside of the NHS remit, at least if you want something done promptly/competently without waiting 6/12months to get on a waiting list, even tho NHS dentists exist apparently, somewhere, some times out in the ether

£210 for an extraction on a sunday, or $240+...... and even then its an hour away, if could you DHL a strip of oxys i'd be much obliged, you know you want to & i promise not to crush em & snort em perish the thought

thank fuck for oil of cloves

  On 10/6/2017 at 9:21 PM, doublename said:

It’s impossible to meet single women offline.

I used to fret about this kind of thing in my 20s. But now I've realized that subscribing to a dating site was one of the dumbest decisions I've made this year.

Nederlands elftal crylol