as someone with a job, studying a masters and in partial custody of a toddler, i won't get the middle panel for a while
pro tip: take your toddler to a library with kids section, they leave you alone while they play with other kids while you study
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From one parent to another: I wish you all the strength and patience you need!
YMCA near me has a supervised kids section if you wanna drop em off and go for a swim or something. Kinda scary leaving em with a stranger but you gotta do what you gotta do for sanity.
Jeebus that's playing life at the boss level.
I'm more of a sandbox gamer.
Just don't eat the sand.
I want to get my degree. No kids, but I'm in IT. When I went to secondary education, they didn't have degree courses for IT. They have a few now, and I'm starting to see "degree" being a requirement in job postings for my line of work...
The problem I have is that I can't even apply to universities for the course, they only offer it as a full time course. I have bills to pay, I can't possibly take 4 years off to get a degree. I have 10 years of experience in IT support. I just want to move up to more senior positions, I have no interest in management. I like being in the trenches with my fellow techs. I can't move because most of the places I've worked for are pretty small shops; so I'm at the highest level, but the highest level is barely above helpdesk.
My main issue is that I don't know universities and their enrollment systems well enough to even start to obtain my degree. I can't get them to talk to me; every time I send an inquiry, they give me the most generic and useless info, then tell me that they can tell me more if I'm accepted, meaning I have to apply/enroll first, and they don't have an option to enroll part time for a course I'm interested in.
Sigh.
I hate parents that come to the library while I'm there with my own children and they expect me and staff to clean up shit after their kid while they study.
It depends. If their kid is well behaved and their parents are close by (within a ~10 feet/~3m of the child), I don't mind much. I only get annoyed when kids' parents just straight up leave the immediate area without asking me first if I can keep an eye on them for a few minutes. Though, in the library, it isn't that big of a deal, since the kids areas tend to be well monitored by staff and open enough for parents to have clear line of sight. And I am 100% not afraid of telling a stranger's kid to clean their shit up afterwards in the library. If they get mad at me I'll just point up at the big board with the rules in our library that says to clean up after yourself.
this illustrates what i have been telling my therapist so well!
I feel like practically every second session I'm qualifying some situation of feeling stressed with: "Unfortunately with the current economic system we have I need to..."
I wouldn't be working so hard all the time if I didn't need to so that I might possibly be allowed to have a permanent place of residence -_-
I'm there with you, useful for me was joining community projects. they give me meaning
You just need antidepressants.
Is there a pill to increase my motivation to do mindnumbingly boring tasks for 8+ hours a day?
Or do I just need some crack?
Give failure a chance.
I wanted to, but my finances said no.
That's the failure.
Correct, I am a failure.
I'm on antidepressants :D depression has been on the rise along side the decay of society, theres correlations between social media and mental health :P
This is the opposite for me. Children are at daycare/school during the week. I finally get to have some thoughts to myself.
Weekends can be a nightmare when it's bad weather.
Thank the universe, I don't have a job like that. Most of the time I get very bored on the weekends and look forward to the challenges my job presents.
What do you do? That sounds wonderful
I have a challenging and interesting job as well, but having young children, my weekends are busy. But even without children, I know I'd always have something to do. I always do things I like to do when I have free time.