How are you doing? - Kiwi Farms Wellness Check

I took the car on it's first mini impromptu road trip. It was nice to just cruise down an empty road with the sound of wind rushing by. I know it's just a car, but in a weird way, doing this for the first time with a car other than the Forester feels like losing an old friend, but experiencing the same thing all over again with a new friend all over again.
 
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Lost my job today. Been working for my dad specifically for about eight years now. He crossed some lines yesterday and when I gave him the chance to back off that shit he doubled down and told me I could put up with it or hit the road. I picked the road.

Not really sure what I'm gonna do next. I didn't particularly like the field I was working in, so it might be a good time to change things up. That said I have a wedding in September and I'm worried about how that might affect our finances going into it. I also don't think I qualify for Unemployment because I technically quit. I'll save you all the sob story but I do feel like my working conditions became unreasonable.

I half expect my dad to call me over the weekend and come crying for me to come back to work when he realizes he can't just work 15-20 hours a week and keep making the same amount of money.
 
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Abbadon's Gate said:
Lost my job today. Been working for my dad specifically for about eight years now. He crossed some lines yesterday and when I gave him the chance to back off that shit he doubled down and told me I could put up with it or hit the road. I picked the road.

Not really sure what I'm gonna do next. I didn't particularly like the field I was working in, so it might be a good time to change things up. That said I have a wedding in September and I'm worried about how that might affect our finances going into it. I also don't think I qualify for Unemployment because I technically quit. I'll save you all the sob story but I do feel like my working conditions became unreasonable.

I half expect my dad to call me over the weekend and come crying for me to come back to work when he realizes he can't just work 15-20 hours a week and keep making the same amount of money.
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Working for family hardly goes well long-term....
 
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My car has been repaired.
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I got wheels again niggas. Only memes can express my joy.
 
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I know what is meant by "got saved by a pastor", but if you ask the pastor they'll probably say it was someone else who did the saving.... Unless you mean like "I got my ass saved" rather than "got my soul saved and converted/repented."

Don't be a three-stepper now. That is, the twelve-step folk that fall on their knees and go "OH LAWRD I REPENT I WANNA BE SAAAVED, THERE IS A POWER GREATER THAN I" and receive all the asspats of the congregation..... then don't actually change.... and don't take responsibilities for their recent and less-recent fuck-ups.... and then fail, and then repeat the process. It's actually quite easy to fall on your knees and pray and become Christian, and imo all humans are innately rather good at this. To LIVE as Christian on the straight and narrow is another thing.

I am not sure if this is Catler's situation, but [edit: cut because rude]

I buy a bunch of snacks at once.... I say to myself.... "I will ration these snacks, and eat them slowly over the next week....." I binge on all the snacks immediately.... there are no more snacks for the week.

I feel like those monkeys that happily eat cucumber slices, but if grapes are introduced, they get mad if they have to eat cucumber, because they will always pick grapes over cucumbers.
 
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I've spent close to 100 hours over the last few weeks cleaning out my childhood home for my mom and dad who now live like 800 miles away.

Hauling this shit out and taking load after load of it to the dump has only reaffirmed my desire to live as minimally as I can. It's all fucking trash - they spent 30 years keeping trash. In middle school, I helped my dad build massive shelves to hold trash. And they paid good money every month for decades to rent a shed to store even more trash.

Never again.
 
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I got the notice that my EI benefits were re-activated, so I have five weeks of breathing room. I found a few jobs that looked interesting that I applied to, but no responses back yet. The shop I worked at for two days paid me right away which was good, but the telemarketing shop was very inconsistent with their payments as they file the paystub and send the pay as an e-transfer the day of. first pay was on a Thursday and second was on a friday, with the impression i got that if I wasn't there to needle them they might have forgotten until end of day. So I'm a little worried, but I can needle them over whatsapp on Saturday if they're late. Another reason why i'm glad to be out of that job.

Still looking into remote work that actually pays, but it doesn't seem feaseable unless you have specialized qualifications. I made the mistake of peekign at the average pay for Mechanical Turk workers and yeah no
 
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bliblblblbbllb said:
I am not sure if this is Catler's situation, but some people have the strong compulsion to "rearrange chairs on the sinking Titanic....
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Dude, if you're going to bring this up then either PM him or properly @ him. You're publicly trying to shittalk another person on the forum without getting called on it and they're not a lolcow or banned. That's a really bad look.
 
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Whitney Houston On Crack said:
Ever since I had my brain surgery, every once in a while, due to the heat, a virus or if I eat like a pig or exert myself too much, my blood goes to my stomach and legs and my brain rapidly loses oxygen. I lose some of my hearing and sight, but if I manage to make it to a horizontal surface and lay down for an hour or so, everything goes back to normal.
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Turns out this was a major warning sign.

I suffered a heart attack two days ago.

I'm writing this from the ICU.
 
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Sorry about the double post.

I'm being treated by the most gorgeous creature. Literally an angel came down from heaven, got a doctor's diploma and is now touching my heart both figuratively and literally. But mainly literally.

In any other case, I would have asked her out by now. She is the total package. Bright, beautiful, intelligent, funny...

However, this is not any other case. The power dynamic is totally fucked. I'm not at my best, right now. I'm not the rugged, cool, insightful and Tom Selleck-in-his-prime looking chad I think I am.

I'm a ugly, literal piece of shit, who's life is still in the balance. I depend on her. My life depends on her.

There is no way, in which I can say "hey bby wan sum fuk", without looking like a shit covered slave peasant, trying to woo the Empress Of Byzantium.
 
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Whitney Houston On Crack said:
Sorry about the double post.

I'm being treated by the most gorgeous creature. Literally an angel came down from heaven, got a doctor's diploma and is now touching my heart both figuratively and literally. But mainly literally.

In any other case, I would have asked her out by now. She is the total package. Bright, beautiful, intelligent, funny...

However, this is not any other case. The power dynamic is totally fucked. I'm not at my best, right now. I'm not the rugged, cool, insightful and Tom Selleck-in-his-prime looking chad I think I am.

I'm a ugly, literal piece of shit, who's life is still in the balance. I depend on her. My life depends on her.

There is no way, in which I can say "hey bby wan sum fuk", without looking like a shit covered slave peasant, trying to woo the Empress Of Byzantium.
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I don't know what it's called, but there's this thing that's like a benign (in that it doesn't happen in the context of a crime) version of Stockholm Syndrome, where the infatuation from the person in the vulnerable situation is towards a caretaker rather than a kidnapper.

Just saying.
 
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Nick Obre said:
I don't know what it's called, but there's this thing that's like a benign (in that it doesn't happen in the context of a crime) version of Stockholm Syndrome, where the infatuation from the person in the vulnerable situation is towards a caretaker rather than a kidnapper.

Just saying.
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I believe it's the reverse nightingale effect. It only makes sense to feel that way since the world runs on such feelings of gratitude. Either way, I hope @Whitney Houston On Crack gets out of his whack. Heart troubles fuck you up like nothing else. Once the body has a system fail like that it only gets more fragile.
 
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Whitney Houston On Crack said:
Sorry about the double post.

I'm being treated by the most gorgeous creature. Literally an angel came down from heaven, got a doctor's diploma and is now touching my heart both figuratively and literally. But mainly literally.

In any other case, I would have asked her out by now. She is the total package. Bright, beautiful, intelligent, funny...

However, this is not any other case. The power dynamic is totally fucked. I'm not at my best, right now. I'm not the rugged, cool, insightful and Tom Selleck-in-his-prime looking chad I think I am.

I'm a ugly, literal piece of shit, who's life is still in the balance. I depend on her. My life depends on her.

There is no way, in which I can say "hey bby wan sum fuk", without looking like a shit covered slave peasant, trying to woo the Empress Of Byzantium.
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Me, an empath, is suspecting you're on painkillers.
 
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