As someone who was unemployed for two years and struggled with depression all his life, I would advise people not to underestimate the positive impact finding work can have on someone who's been unhappily idle for years. Seven years is a long fucking time. A long time to, say, be scared of going out in public, or talk to people. A long time to be unable to find the energy to get out of bed. That's what he's happy about. Picking up the pieces and getting out there again. Not being ashamed of his new shit job, just proud he's doing something instead of wallowing in the symptoms of mental illness.
Currently not paying rent to my mom because I can't afford to and kinda hating myself for it incidentally
Understandable, all you can do in that situation is help out wherever you can and make a genuine commitment to give it back later.
Gonna reach out to a non-profit debt counseling service tomorrow morning and see what I can do. There's probably some sort of payment agreement I can come to. I'm just so bad at finance stuff and so easily overwhelmed in general.
I was a NEET then I started a youtube channel that's doing alright. Not making much money but it is what it is.
This hits a bit hard personally. I've got some trauma and massive depression going on, lost my IT job due to my deteriorating mental health. Marriage ain't going so good either. Lib wife won't wear masks and now has had COVID twice, got my high risk special needs son sick twice in the span of a month because she insists on putting him into team sports where he isn't masked. Today bags on me for my mental health using it as a deflection for when I criticize her choices.
Why are fucking liberals? To be fair, I was one when we got together, but that was in 2008, I was younger and didn't know any better. I evolved left, while she was saying how nice it would be to have a Latino president like Marco Rubio. I'm regretting my life choices which isn't helping the depression. I think I would eat a slug before regressing professionally. I've been homeless and rock bottom. This time in my life is giving me similar vibes.
I don't know a single goddamn thing about marriage, but I hope y'all work it out comrade.
Yeah, but does that one have a 30 second long feedback loop at the end that's a clear metaphor for injecting heroin?
I have some valuable long-learned skills that I enjoy putting to use but our society chooses not to be able to make use of them! :) #MadeMeSmile
Best of luck to the guy though, I do get it. Just sad that "yay I get to be in a shit position" actually warrants a 'yay'.
Perseverance porn must be destroyed :internet-delenda-est:
Prepare to work harder than you've ever worked for the lowest pay of your life
First of all I totally get why doing something productive feels good after not having been able to for a long time. But the social hierarchy of employment that is displayed here is really revolting. In a free society cooking food for people wouldn't be considered debasing and the people doing it would get just as much respect as the ones programming the computers.
I then think about how a free society would handle someone who became unable to work for a prolonged period of time due to mental illness. Under communism he probably wouldn't have had to let go of his tech job but would have been kept on by his workplace who would have made an effort to maintain the relationship and keep in touch and would have offered him a possibility to return part time and with the necessary accomodations when his health allowed it. The binary of being employed and performing at full speed or being unemployed and unable to perform anything would be gone and replaced with the "from each according to their means" principle.
Had he reached the conclusion that tech was no longer the right place for him he would have been offered relevant training to transition into another profession and the levelling of status and income between professions would mean that going from tech worker to cook wouldn't be the social and material downfall it is under capitalism.
“Screaming at people who almost certainly agree with me” is a strange hobby.
I have to assume that this person is just bullshitting for reddit points or some weird corporate PR, like, "Looking for a fresh start? Come work at MacDonald's!" messaging
I do feel better working gets my mind off the ptsd
Unless someone yells at me then the knives come out
