How are you doing? - Kiwi Farms Wellness Check

[Niggs Monaghan]

I feel like I'm becoming too racist and normal for my old friends, who are becoming or have become full on yuppies and NIMBY libcucks.
Don't know what to think about it, but it is daunting to try and make new friends as an adult. Especially being an introvert and shy.

 

[WhoBusTank69]

The nerve of the imploded tooth is exposed to absolutely everything, so it's constantly being stimulated in unpleasant ways. I don't, really don't, want to have to take opiates to block the pain though.

The pulp being exposed is not ideal, you should get to a dentist ASAP. This is beyond DIY damage control.

 

[Vapor Sauce]

Busy season of work is coming up alongside a project I'm heading. The next 3-4 months will be a lot considering increase in work plus all the holidays. But I'll make the most of it and at the end of the day it's not too bad, just some extra hours I'll have to put in. Plus I love the Fall.

Been playing more old games lately which is so refreshing. I dusted off my old PS2 Slim and it's so nice to just pop a disc in, turn the machine on and the game starts. No connecting to wi-fi, no updates, no charge the fucking controller. I've started going through my backlog of games on Steam too.

Life is good but I know it won't last forever so I'm constantly reminding myself to enjoy this moment in time.

 

[Outer Space Traveller]

Busy season of work is coming up alongside a project I'm heading. The next 3-4 months will be a lot considering increase in work plus all the holidays. But I'll make the most of it and at the end of the day it's not too bad, just some extra hours I'll have to put in. Plus I love the Fall.

You can do it, it will be worth it in the end!

 

[2mm and 99 others]

I was fine, until a few minutes ago. I saw a mouse. Being on the second floor I never thought I'd have to deal with mice, but there you have it. The bed bug problem I had previously is all but resolved. I haven't seen them in quite some time (and they weren't even originating within my apartment, but migrating from another). But mice? Uh uh. No way, babe. Time to get the fuck out of here. I've been wanting to move for awhile, but stopped actively looking for a place because there's basically zero availability and it got discouraging. Definitely not sleeping much tonight, if at all.

I'd say there is a Feline Solution for that, but for me, it's the cat is who sometimes brings them inside in first place. Anyway, the spring traps are the most effective though violent, just put all the other food sources out of mouse reach and make at least some of the flat mouse-proof. One can't live in peace with them, not for a long time.

 

[⋖ cørdion ⋗]

Bi-weekly job rant. I've a master's and want a low-end office monkey data input gig. Most office jobs sound easy but they always got this little tick box of "office certified". It's a 2-year project with a year of internship, and I've been advised against it cause it's "a waste of time, especially for someone with a master's". I'll find people on linkedin with similar education but because they had an internship while studying, they easily coasted onto the next full-time employment. Even that one time I met someone with a 100% match in terms of degree and lack of job experience, they found a suit-and-tie bank job. I helped them out during workshop and they were dense as a door. Really no idea what made the difference.

I'm incredibly paranoid about being laid off too, so temp positions, especially maternity cover type shit is so offputting even though I know it could easily be a way in. Fucking sucks, and what sucks more is not having something on the line to distract me from a job that is meant to be less than half of my day anyway.

 

[Liquid denim]

Increasingly angry. I talked to this guy on Wednesday about buying something from him because it was a sweet deal. Now today he tells me he was underselling it, and if I want it he will have to raise the price from 2100 to 3000 bucks. We agreed on 2100, and now he wants to change it. I told him to never contact me again and to shove those 900 dollars up his ass.

 

[543kb]

College is going well, for the first few weeks anyways. I'm getting used to being away from family for an extended period of time.
It was stressful at first, but I'm starting to settle in, and I'm hoping to break my bad habit of procrastination to the last second.
I find myself increasingly obsessing over my long-term goals, most of which start with advanced A.I. and something to do with biotech.
I worry for the future. I worry someone will achieve this goal before me, and I fear it will be someone with bad intentions.
Someone with some morals needs to make a G.A.I. first.
I also appear to have caught a cold despite it still being like 80 fucking degrees fahrenheit outside. Holy shit.
I also know absolutely nobody at this college. I'm good at making new friends and don't find it particularly daunting, but despite this I've never been good at getting out of the house.
I find myself listless. I get up in the morning for two reasons. I have things to do, and I want to be with my loved ones. I'm on some sort of clock until this goal I've chosen is done.
I dream of something better. A formless, meaningless dream at the moment.
I want more stories. I wish I could remember more.
But I'm feeling pretty good. Around the best I've felt in a long time. My mind is reasonably clear, clearer than it's been in a long time.
I'm better with building theories, not putting them into practical use. But this should be good practice.
Something in my mind tells me it wants to wake up. I want to try harder.

 

[Juan But Not Forgotten]

One of my fillings fell out and the tooth it was in more or less imploded moments later.

9/10 pain atm, suicide is on the table since I can't afford dental work.

I get that you can't afford the dentist now, but the truth is that if it as bad as you describe, then no one else can fix this. Getting infection in one's jaw is a terrible scenario. As for pain, well, I can only recommend isolating that part of your mouth, since with a nerve exposed you can't do much. Don't touch it, don't breath with your mouth and avoid it while eating. Painkillers have already been recommended, but you obviously need something stronger than ibuprofen. Take care, stay strong and get a dentist ASAP.

 

[AnOminous]

I get that you can't afford the dentist now, but the truth is that if it as bad as you describe, then no one else can fix this. Getting infection in one's jaw is a terrible scenario. As for pain, well, I can only recommend isolating that part of your mouth, since with a nerve exposed you can't do much. Don't touch it, don't breath with your mouth and avoid it while eating. Painkillers have already been recommended, but you obviously need something stronger than ibuprofen. Take care, stay strong and get a dentist ASAP.

There's also this junk for the very short term:

It will supposedly last a few weeks. It isn't permanent but it can't be worse than having an exposed nerve.

 

[ADN_VIII]

I get that you can't afford the dentist now, but the truth is that if it as bad as you describe, then no one else can fix this. Getting infection in one's jaw is a terrible scenario. As for pain, well, I can only recommend isolating that part of your mouth, since with a nerve exposed you can't do much. Don't touch it, don't breath with your mouth and avoid it while eating. Painkillers have already been recommended, but you obviously need something stronger than ibuprofen. Take care, stay strong and get a dentist ASAP.

I'm going to try for an emergency dental clinic and see if they can just pull what's left of the tooth out and stitch it shut. Just gotta get to Monday.

 

[FedPostalService]

Bi-weekly job rant. I've a master's and want a low-end office monkey data input gig. Most office jobs sound easy but they always got this little tick box of "office certified". It's a 2-year project with a year of internship, and I've been advised against it cause it's "a waste of time, especially for someone with a master's". I'll find people on linkedin with similar education but because they had an internship while studying, they easily coasted onto the next full-time employment. Even that one time I met someone with a 100% match in terms of degree and lack of job experience, they found a suit-and-tie bank job. I helped them out during workshop and they were dense as a door. Really no idea what made the difference.

I'm incredibly paranoid about being laid off too, so temp positions, especially maternity cover type shit is so offputting even though I know it could easily be a way in. Fucking sucks, and what sucks more is not having something on the line to distract me from a job that is meant to be less than half of my day anyway.

We’ve stopped hiring people with a master’s as they just turn out to be lazy twats who join the union and complain that thinking isn’t in their job description.

We’re finding people without degrees or who just fucked about whilst getting their first degree seem to be the ones who put a decent shift in and can get shit done.

Getting a master’s is pretty bad career move unless you’re actually able to use it professionally.

 

[The Feline Solution]

Bite an ice cube until the nerve freezes? Maybe there's a way to kill the nerve so it eventually stops hurting, like (someone you trust with a steady hand) stabbing it with a red hot needle.

Yeah, how about not doing anything like that? The fuck is wrong with you? DIY root canal sounds like a very bad idea no matter how you put it. @ADN_VIII could try gargling with a clove oil solution or apply that directly to the nerve but i am not sure if that's even possible in regard to raw nerve pain nor if it actually would soothe it that much, i have it around from past, normal tooth aches and it works to dull that pain, at least until i could see a dentist in a couple of days.

I feel like I'm becoming too racist and normal for my old friends, who are becoming or have become full on yuppies and NIMBY libcucks.

I'm off to see my friends in an hour and while they are plenty more liberal compared to me, they are at least not denying reality around them. Even the swarthier ones share general resentiments against the new arrivals in the country, the one who used to work with refugees in the past (coaching position because he speaks arabic) was the first who ever told me that afghans are complete subhumans, no exceptions. Feels good, man.

I'd say there is a Feline Solution for that

We had mice at my girlfriend's place at one time and my cat was the first to notice and went crazy whenever she heard them in the crawlspace. The couple of times the mice ventured out my cat just sat and stared at them instead of viciously attacking (like she does with moths and other insects) so i guess it depends on the cat. Mine is not the brightest, to put it mildly. The exterminator is always the best bet in these scenarios, the mice were pretty cute but not cute enough for me to risk disease and damages to the living space.

 

[GR8 B8 M8 I R8 8/8]

We’ve stopped hiring people with a master’s as they just turn out to be lazy twats who join the union and complain that thinking isn’t in their job description.

We’re finding people without degrees or who just fucked about whilst getting their first degree seem to be the ones who put a decent shift in and can get shit done.

Getting a master’s is pretty bad career move unless you’re actually able to use it professionally.

Wasn't there an article about University graduates getting fired left and right because they're extremely lazy, wait to be told what to do when they should know better and/or sit on a job without doing work or showing up until they're fired and collect short term pay that way?
Sounding like it's true. University creating lazy, brainwashed beings with eternal debt.

 

[FedPostalService]

Wasn't there an article about University graduates getting fired left and right because they're extremely lazy, wait to be told what to do when they should know better and/or sit on a job without doing work or showing up until they're fired and collect short term pay that way?
Sounding like it's true. University creating lazy, brainwashed beings with eternal debt.

Can confirm. We pay very good wage and I see people who just watch problems mounting up rather than a quick stop and fix because the think that’s for more senior people.

Crying about stuff not in their job description and then crying about not getting promoted because they’ve never done anything to demonstrate they can work at a higher level.

it drives me insane. Luckily we’ve got a few driven colleagues who can take up the slack but it’s really a pain that we can only ever rely on two or three people.

Rant over.

 

[Betonhaus]

Wasn't there an article about University graduates getting fired left and right because they're extremely lazy, wait to be told what to do when they should know better and/or sit on a job without doing work or showing up until they're fired and collect short term pay that way?
Sounding like it's true. University creating lazy, brainwashed beings with eternal debt.

Can confirm. We pay very good wage and I see people who just watch problems mounting up rather than a quick stop and fix because the think that’s for more senior people.

Crying about stuff not in their job description and then crying about not getting promoted because they’ve never done anything to demonstrate they can work at a higher level.

it drives me insane. Luckily we’ve got a few driven colleagues who can take up the slack but it’s really a pain that we can only ever rely on two or three people.

Rant over.

Honestly I can say that the current education system heavily discourages initiative and independent thought. For the first bit of you try reading ahead you can end up missing instruction that is only given verbally, and there are many cases where you get penalized if you answer a question in a different way then what the instructor told you to do, even if it's an equivalent method or even a better answer. It's instilled that doing things on your own means doing it wrong because you forgot one minor step or some other counter intuitive detail. You're told to shut up and do exactly what you are instructed to do and nothing else. And knowing that there are other things you were supposed to be doing can be panic inducing because it's not part of the script of things you were allowed to do.

I think I'm going to ask my supervisor to start asking me if there things I could be doing, as I realize that I miss opportunities to show initiative because I didn't realize the opportunity until later. I don't know how well it would work for others like me, but maybe prompting them to look around and think of something that they can do will help them learn more initative?

Update, my supervisor responded immediately that I'm doing great, and learning quickly. The work we're doing is largely a 1.5 person job (the second person for heavy and awkward stuff and for safety) so this is the normal pace for the role. I'll admit I was a little worried about that as it is a much slower pace then at a machine shop that tries to cram as many work orders through as possible.

 

[⋖ cørdion ⋗]

Can confirm. We pay very good wage and I see people who just watch problems mounting up rather than a quick stop and fix because the think that’s for more senior people.

Crying about stuff not in their job description and then crying about not getting promoted because they’ve never done anything to demonstrate they can work at a higher level.

it drives me insane. Luckily we’ve got a few driven colleagues who can take up the slack but it’s really a pain that we can only ever rely on two or three people.

Rant over.

I've not tons of job experience but I already feel like I went wrong. I wanna work and get shit done but lack the bootstrap we'll-try attitude that means I'll get shit done on my own merit. Though no idea what I would've done if not university. I wanna meet and be reliable and get a back pat, but then I hear union folk say "work 20 to 30 then land an office gig or you'll hate your life" so I'm already fucked.

Who knows. A 50/50 office and driving around gig sounds great but I just lack the vision. Generally it's just nuts to imagine the process for handifolk getting jobs. Read a job listing, have a license, apply and get it. No soft values and shit. It makes sense cause my approach to a lot of things is "I've no confidence so I'll make up for it with time and hard work".

I still see mundane jobs pop up sounding amazing and if I got one of those I'd be set for 5-6 years. Shit, even swiping hoes I sigh in relief if they're 'just' a painter or such. So tired of career prestige.

 

[Georgio Cocklord]

Well its been a while, turns out I have psych problems. Shocker, I know. Theyre not med problems thank god but a lot them come from stuff irl, PL stuff. Everything else seem to exacerbate them occasionally. One of these is called an inferiority complex, what I call leaderboard syndrome. It hinges on my self perception of being at the bottom of the leaderboard in different, if not all, areas of life. Big Bummer, when it hits hard, it hits real bad. I guess thats what happened wrt my activities online and I guess some things should not be viewed as a leaderboard, even if they look that way, self perception of social pariahism and all that. Im sorta okay now despite everything around going to shit, still not out of the woods yet, still very retarded as expected with occasional chimpouts and on the chopping block ofc but I should probably get around to getting used to smiling with a damocles sword on my neck or 10 or 20. As a great man once said "Laugh and the world laughs with you. Weep and you weep alone.".

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

I want everyone to have a pleasant weekend. Even if you're having a rough go of it, things will get better and the storm will pass.

"Just remember, out there somewhere you've got a friend, and you'll never walk alone again."

 

[Friend of Dorothy Parker]

I am sitting outside digesting a nice brunch before errands and stuff, and this damn spider won't leave me alone. It's about to fuck around and find out. On the nice creature side, a dragonfly sat on my knee for a little while.

I finally almost have my job under control. Almost. I took on this additional role very recently, and though it's absolutely doable, it's new to me, complex, and a lot to get my arms around immediately. Thankfully, I'm finally able to start transitioning my old work to someone else and focus on the new work + a huge project I've also been running. Having to answer to very high-priority people for what my predecessor, who's no longer there, did, and it'll be my name on it. No pressure.

Also planning to interview for a leadership position in a company "interest group," and joined another group that's some rah-rah "let's connect in person" planner group, in order to show my commitment to the very stupid annoying focus on getting people doing live collaboration/connection in the office (I loathe having to go into the office, and I'm under target for days in, which will have negative consequences for me, so I'm forcing myself to do better by making myself a poster-child for being there and getting tf over my childishness).

And we're already starting the year-end review process.

It hinges on my self perception of being at the bottom of the leaderboard in different, if not all, areas of life. Big Bummer, when it hits hard, it hits real bad. I guess thats what happened wrt my activities online and I guess some things should not be viewed as a leaderboard, even if they look that way, self perception of social pariahism and all that. Im sorta okay now despite everything around going to shit, still not out of the woods yet, still very retarded as expected with occasional chimpouts and on the chopping block ofc

We been knew. But seriously, I'm glad you're exploring and challenging your perspectives. It's not easy to do but it is important and good.