It should be within reasonable range, like e.g. you won’t wake up as a Yedi or Superman tomorrow and world hunger won’t be solved just in a few days, etc
I can tell you something good that is happening this week. I got a job offer so I can quit the retail job I’ve been doing for 11 years.
Congratulations!! Really trying to get to the same spot right now. I’m in software with very niche experience though, so nobody want to hire me.
Despite my misgivings with my job, it’s far less shitty than retail (been there) so I can suck it up.
I’m pretty sure that my job is related to the majority of my mental health issues so I’m really happy to get out. It’s pretty emotional though because 11 years at a job is a long time.
Congrats! My partner is in a similar spot. He deeply wants to get out of retail but even so, he’s remiss to leave behind a decade+ of his time at this company. It’s oddly bittersweet (and it doesn’t help that the job search has been rough too).
My wife is interviewing for a job today. It would be a big deal if she got it, especially since she’s been out of work for six months.
Oof, been there. It sucks. I hope it went well!
Thanks much. It apparently went great! Now we wait for the offer, which should be coming and hopefully will be worth it!
Come on $400,000 offer! Don't fail you now!
Well, it wasn't $400k but it ended up being a little better than we expected so we can chalk this one up as a sorely needed win!
Congrats for you both then.
Thanks much!
My daughter hit a deer last evening in her car and our insurance adjuster is due to be here within the hour to look at the damage and decide what to do.
My hope is that they’ll repair it and get it done quickly… she’s due to start her new job in less than a week and needs her car to get there… 🤞🏻
Wow. All the best luck to her
you won’t wake up as a Yedi
What is that? Like a Yeti Jedi?
Lol, my bad. Apparently didn’t know how to spell Jedi correctly
I’ll start. The best thing that can happen to me this week is to successfully make plans that I am happy about for the weekend :)
Figuring out that one missing word of my passphrase that will unlock my Bitwarden Vault.
I mean, I have unlimited attempts, but I need to solve a captcha for every attempt. I know the starting letter, but idk what the exact word is.
Might take days, months, or years. Too tired to keep guessing.
Fuck my life.
you know the starting letter, do you know how many letters it has?
Nope, I’m kinda just flipping through the dictionary at this point.
It wasn’t like a dice roll, it was from a chain of thoughts that led to me picking the word. It’s not some random word that I don’t know the meaning of.
I’ll probably guess it eventually. Either that, or I typed the word wrong during password creation.
If my eife agreed to go to couples therapy, that’s the best realistic thing. Well, I don’t know how realistic it is.
Best of luck
A reliable sleep schedule.
I’ve been having trouble with it for a LONG time. But last week I found that 2mg melatonin before bed makes me both fall asleep easier AND wake up in a better mood/less sleep inertia. I’m hoping it lasts.
Melatonin gives me some trippy ass dreams/night terrors
the only thing I learned in therapy that helped me was getting the correct dosage of melatonin. I use to think you would take more to sleep longer and deeper - turns out no. Need to take less.
I take 1mg now instead of 10 and it works amazing.
Without a prescription we only get 1mg pills anyway around here anyway. Is whats recommended.
whoa, you have to get melatonin prescribed? it’s like widely available where I am.
Its only recently-ish (2020) become prescription-less here in Norway, and only in small amounts. We are a very conservative country when it comes to healtcare.
Oh interesting about the lack of sleep inertia! I’ve only tried melatonin once or twice but I had such heavy sleep inertia waking up. Glad you found something that works!
I also had issues sleeping. 50mg Trazodone. No more issues sleeping. I’m out for a solid 6 hours within 30 minutes of taking.
well I can’t get that over the counter.
a decent job offer, have been job hunting for 2 months, but i’m neither senior nor junior. for some stuff i’m expert, others i have never done, the recruiters do not like this.
Dear lord I know your pain.
A great big “Fuck You” to Capitol One for making me call off work for a 6 hour interview, telling me I did great, and then telling me that they can’t hire me due to my lack of AWS experience which I told them about from the very beginning.
“Oh we’d love it if you applied again in 6 months” as though I’d ever want to work for a company that so disrespectfully wasted my time, even if I did somehow magically gain AWS work experience while stuck in a job that does not use AWS during that timeframe.
That the air will clear so I can spend the holiday weekend outside my house.
A job offer. I work in software and it’s tough out there this summer.
Remember a decade ago when people kept saying IT jobs would always be in demand?
Same. Feels like employers refuse to hire anyone.
A layoff/but out package that would carry me to my retirement date.
One of y’all can have this job. I’ve been doing it for enough decades now.
I successfully negotiate a wage appropriate to the work I’m doing as a co-op turned regular employee. Currently making a little over minimum, the national average for the work is 50/hr. Would be a massive boost to my life goals.
that my crush asks me out finally when I see them again on Saturday; or at least get closer to going out somewhere even just as friends.
Why wait for them to ask you?
The best thing would be that I get a job. Double edged sword though since it would take away the best thing that I already have - more meaningful time with my family.
