I lost my house in Helene, and I’m still struggling to adjust. My wife, kid, and I are cooped up in a hotel with nothing but clothes. My daughter has some of her stuffed animals, and friends have donated some toys and stuff for her, but otherwise we’re just kind of here in limbo. I don’t know how long it will be until we can get our home back together and start getting things back to normal.
I’m so sorry 💔
I’ve been on-call and have a cold. My on-call shift is way better than it used to be (it’s 10:00-18:00 Monday-Friday instead of 10:00-22:00 Monday-Sunday) which is nice I suppose. It’s been rough because I’m just burnt out as fuck and very sleep deprived because sneezing into a CPAP mask is fucking miserable.
I have a week of PTO coming up at the start of November, and I’m going to spend the entire time out in my shop, turning big pieces of metal into smaller pieces of metal. No computers, no Jira, no fucking bullshit Service Now on-call portal that takes like 70 seconds of loading before it’ll show my list of alerts jesus christ
Nope, just 40+ hours of turning the knobs on the machines to make the metal chips go wheeee as they fly off into some corner my shop vac hose can’t reach. I’ll listen to some music and some books and end the week with some cool shit that I made.
Ever realized something and suddenly that realization seems to cause an immediate effect?
I realized my normal sleep schedule allows for a maximum of 7 hours of sleep, which has been consistent for about 2 years now. Suddenly this week I just feel tired.
Fucking terrible. It’s been almost a year since I don’t have a job and nobody calls back after the interviews or exams. I’ve seen people in other countries complaining about how draining their new Amazon warehouse is… Give me that job! It feels like nobody wants me
I hope you do find work, soon. I sometimes forget that it’s way more stressful to not have a job.
Damn that sounds rough. Sorry to hear.
What are your days like? What do you do with yourself? Does job hunting take up a lot of the day?
The only job hunting I can do is using apps. Nobody will put “hey we need inexperienced people right now” sign in their door. I’m mostly all day home (unless I receive a call for a useless meeting, which usually aren’t in person anyways, just video chat), buy groceries, gaming, 🌽, self service “love”, sleep, repeat.
Crap, sorry to hear
It do be going. Idk where but it is definitely going somewhere. Hopefully towards the weekend.
On another note, i am having issues with some new 3D printer filament but it looks like it was a calibration error. So many variables to control for with this stuff.
Pretty good, all in all. I’m making some strides into figuring out how my mind works. That’s been letting me do stuff I used to struggle with, like commenting online and riding rollercoasters. Plus I feel a lot more productive and healthier now.
A relative in the military is visiting for a while. It’s been nice getting to hang out again.