Ive been applying to a remote first company I want to work for for about 3 weeks now and ive got 1 failed interview and about 30 reject letters. Can't complain, ive got a good job now, but I want to go back to remote work
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I have spent the last 5 days seething about the rise of fascism in my country.
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Bad and no
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U intersted in trying something different tonight Re:Sleep?
Wdym by that?
I mean: are you willing to try something easy and dead simple to sleep like the dead perchance?
Have at it, I'll take all the advice I can get
I'll do it in baby steps and keep the dialogue open. Okay, you ready to try what I suggest tonight, promise? It'll be easy
Dawg you're stringing me a long It's not a gun right?
No way. So here's what I want you to do: (step 1)
- Get an album or even better, an audiobook for a story you love. Go do that and make sure you really "have it" (nobody can undownload or delete it, taking it away somyou can maintain your consistent structure)
You need something you like and that doesn't rattle you + you'll be cool with listening to like everynight. Don't worry so much about being bored or whatever: if all goes well, you won't be listening too long to the point you may never finish it lol
Edit:
- are you on Android/iPhone?
- can you make sure you have it completely dark? Whether ambiently or by wearing a comfy sleep mask?
Oh man the only thing I can think of is the Magnus archives but that keeps me up at night if anything. Perhaps Lord of the rings? Or maybe the Percy Jackson series, I read the fuck out of that when I was a kid.
I use android
Room is as dark as I can physically get it, I live in a apartment and there is a bright ass light right outside my window and while I have blackout curtains a little seeps through the cracks.
My autism doesn't let me have things on my face so a sleep mask is a no go unfortunately.
Is it the consistency that helps you fall asleep? Because normally stories keep me up.
Just think of an album or book that you know so well its sort of boring to listen to but still comfy cuz you know it from going through it several times previously
No excuses, figure it out. Comfy but goddamn have I read/listened to this so many times aha
I'll make it easy: -get the app SpeechCentral and buy it one-time (~$10). Get an ePub for a book you don't mind hearing via audio. Import it and put it on at bedtime.
Let me know how it goes.
I'll update tomorrow night, I'm with my girlfriend tonight so I won't get the chance
Infinite Jest is a good choice lol. That book is like Great Gatsby on steroids and impossibly long, unnavigable.
You just need something to get lost in , rinse and repeat, sunrise sunset
It has gone poorly, I totally forgot and now its 5 am
Tell me when its done + accessible to you
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It was a case study [group] if toxic study group politics...
What was there to be toxic about, was this Community?
Suburban housewives trying to learn a new language through osmosis. It is discouraging to be in a group where noone does the work and tries to actually learn instead thinking that paying for something is enough to master x or y.
Got tired and left.
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Nice to see a prevalent positive comment section among the usual gloom and doom in lemmy.
No big victories or challenges for myself, all going boring but fine overall. Which is kinda a victory, I guess?
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And filename encryption:
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To my WebDAV server:
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I started working on this feature basically to blow off steam because my brand new, very expensive server wasn’t working. After many hours of troubleshooting, I think it was just a bad stick of RAM. So I got that going for me, which is nice.
I've never been this stressed in my entire life. It hits me each morning precisely the second I wake up.
Got laid off from work recently. I don't feel like finding a new job because I have 10 years of experience and I know I don't like working for someone else. It feels meaningless. I don't want to spend my life like that. What's the alternatine? Well besides the extremely unlikely event of winning the lottery I feel like the only other option is to start my own handyman bussiness that I've been "dreaming of" for who knows how many years. I don't however mean that I have some deep passion for entrepreneurship because I don't. Not at all. I just feel like it's the only other option I have and there's atleast a slight chance that I might like it. Hell, it could even end up being one of the best decisions in my life. Maybe. I don't know, and I'll never find out if I don't try it.
But doubt. Oh so much doubt. This is by-far the biggest and scariest decision I've had to make ever. I know I can just end it if it's not working out and find a job and that's that but it just feels so permanent. It feels like I'm putting my entire future on the line. It almost feels like risking my life. It's stupid and I know it. I just can't help it. No amount of reasoning is enough to fight off my emotions on this. I'm absolutely and completely terrified.
That's a good sign, honestly.
Your feeling is telling you that you are about to make some "significant" change.
I believe in you. Now you believe in yourself.
EDIT:
I'm actually going through something similar myself. I've always wanted to be a teacher, and now I'm like one week away from actually doing that. It's nerve-wracking.
Victories: got conditionally accepted for my 2nd choice for uni (still haven't told any close friends until I hear back from all schools and make a decision)
Challenges: I'm taking linear algebra and diff eq. It's the first week and I forgot how to take derivatives and integrals. I've been staring at the problem for hours and still don't get how to take the derivative for e^(y/x).
Here comes my boomer moment:
You kids have it so easy with technology these days. Back in my day we really had to stare at equations or wait for office hours with the prof.
Then it came Wolfram Alpha which showed you step by step how to integrate an equation if you wrote it into the prompt.
Nowadays with ChatGPT/Gemini/xyz you can just take a picture of your homework and it will solve it for you (and explain it in any level of detail that you want, if you care about learning). You can have it explain differential equations talking like a pirate, if you want.
Very understandable. I wouldn't go with A.I. it's pretty shit for math, but there are calculators out there like wolfram better suited for this. I like struggling first and if I need to use those tools, then I might. My school also has a math tutoring center but as linear is the final sequence, there is less help for that. Some profs probably forgot it.
Congrats on the acceptance!
My challenges are too belligerent and numerous to name here, but they're overshadowed by the victory of getting a really fantastic car, one I've been wanting since I was a teenager.
Congrats! What car? Will you be letting the Stig drive it?
It's a VW GTI. I'm pretty sure the Stig already drove it, but it's white with a decent tint so it actually kinda looks like him. (Them?)
Pretty great, been drinking beer and having steak. Going to proceed to get baked and laid to cap off the evening.
Remember always finish on the bach, never on De Bussy.
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