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Not so great.

Pretty much feel as though my family wants nothing to do with me, that my friends have all moved away and that no matter what I do to become better someone or something is in my way.

Feeling as though I am being pushed out of my parent's house before I'm able to find a place to live, because my step dad has tried to get me to move out since I turned 18, just because he wants the room I'm in. He's more concerned about getting this room than what's best for me.

Pissed off enough that I'm pretty sure I'm going to live in my car for a week or so at this rate because I'm sick of his passive aggressive, poor advice bullshit he's been doing. Tried to tell me I should stop looking for a house and get an apartment because I needed to buy a couch...
 
Aquamarine said:
I'm...not that great. I'm stressed out...a whole bunch of emotions are just swirling inside of me.
So I took some time off work...I need to just get out and escape.
I booked myself at a really nice resort in Bermuda...I'm catching a flight out of JFK tomorrow.
Going there just to relax and unwind a bit. Sitting at the beach, meditating next to the waves, and sipping a nice virgin pina colada...that sounds just perfect right about now.
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Be sure to settle in as fast as possible. Maximize chill time. We'll miss you for the NPD's but take a break!
Laekon said:
Realizing I've been out of work for 4 months now and only had 1 interview. It's making me think about switching careers which would require going back to school. I don't mind school but time and money aren't free. No idea if getting into nursing or physical therapy is doable at 35+.
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Neither of those seem particularly age sensitive unless you're starting from ground zero. But it doesn't sound like you are. School is also another chance at some serious networking.
donkey show said:
Got a breakfast burrito and a brew waiting for a flight to Cologne.
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=o. Cool.
 
Pau said:
Oh man, Digimon World 3. <3 I never beat the boss though. I should play again.

For some reason, I could never save in Digimon World 2. Maybe I just didn't get far enough?
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You just needed to go to the menu on any given map (ex. Overview of a city or domain). You can't save indoors for some odd reason.
 
Sick home from work today, got a horrible pain in the lower back (happended yesterday). And since Friday I can feel my heart beating all the time which is really fucking with me.

Don't worry GAF, I have a doctor's appointment later today.
 
I've been dandy as roses. I've been swiping right like a mofo (occasionally swiping left) on Tinder for the past 2 hours while listening to jazz from the 1920s on the radio. It goes with the rhythm of the music but man Tinder is addicting as sin. Just finished replying to a girl (/stealth brag) and I'm gonna head to sleep soon.
 
Finally fixed a problem that's been bugging me at work for over a fortnight. Unfortunately I don't feel any sense of satisfaction.

Feel like I need a vacation but I just got back from one. Overall pretty meh.
 
My headache is finally starting to go away. It took water, Advil, and a Red Bull. Throwing caffeine at migraines seems to be the only way to stop them.
 
Meh, I just heard from the doctor that after 10 months of injury, 6 weeks of wearing a cast and giving up a fuckton of things for it, the treatment won't work. Feels bad man.
 
Not too bad, cheers!

Got a busy week ahead of me: Working for 2 days and then I'm off for 8 mainly doing stuff around my new house. However it'll be broken up with awesome stuff like seeing the Easy Star All-Stars performing Dub Side Of The Moon, playing Magic The Gathering with friends and family, a spot of Geocaching and going to a rock club on Friday with some mates. Then I've also got to find some time to book in for a tattoo appointment, too.

All in all, I'm feeling pretty stoked.
 
I'm doing great. Just got back from a movie date that went really well, was our 3rd date so we got very close, made out and talked for hours after the show. All in all a good night. Go see Boyhood, good movie.
 
I'm not sure if coming to terms with being a lifelong nervous wreck will make it better or worse, so I'm spending a little too much time trying to puzzle garbage like that out, but I can never really justify complaining when I've got shit like internet and air conditioning.
haaaaahhh~
 
I'm doing pretty good, thanks! Quietly saving money for my first legit vehicle now that I've finally got my license. I'm excited for the future but very lonely and am wondering if I'm ever going to meet someone.

I've been thinking a lot lately about how for so long my not having my license was what defined who I was and why I was unhappy. Now that I've got it though, while I feel a big burden lifted from my shoulders, it's just been replaced with the burden of driving safely and affording a vehicle and I see that, while I'm very happy I got it, it has just replaced one issue with another. I spent so long studying for and pining for my license and not having the stigma of lacking it that now that I've got it I've no patience for getting a vehicle.


I guess unhappiness truly all comes from a lack of contentment.
 
Doing great personally OP, 7 weeks into losing weight, 28 pounds down so far. Only 8 more pounds until I drop below 200lbs, getting excited for that.
 
Moving back home in less than a week after living in Korea for two years. Shitting bricks of excitement and dread. Also, really fucking sad to be saying goodbye to the friends I have here knowing that we will probably never all be together in the same place ever again...
 
Glad someone made a thread like this, because I need to vent a bit. Excuse me, but I'm probably gonna sound like a whiner here.

So today was my first job ever. I was supposed to be either a stocker, or a different job at the store I work at (we'll just call it BestBuy for now (but it's not BestBuy but like it mostly)). Instead of doing either of those, they made me register boy. Which is NOT what I signed up for, or wanted to do. Although, I can't complain about that. I'm the worker, so they can pretty much do whatever they want with me.

I get a bit of training (emphasis on "bit" of training). They teach me how to check items, check cards, and how to be fast. What they didn't teach, is how to do all the other stuff. Which is mostly what occurred on my time. People doing returns, using gift cards, applying discounts, etc. All of this, I wasn't taught. So I kept having to ask for help, which I could tellt he other employees were getting frustrated about. I was on register the whole 9hrs I was there. It was a terrible experience. I also forgot to mention that I was stationed at the help desk. Yes, they put a trainee at a help desk. So people kept coming to me for questions, which I couldn't answer. The only question I could answer, was where the bathroom was lol.

I guess what I'm most mad about, is how to check people's items out. The way to do so, I can't go too into detail. It's just a lot of putting in passwords, using the interface, and other things I didn't like. What happened to just scanning the item, and giving the person their change? Now I gotta go through some damned techno interface to do so. I was also mad because they left me by myself for about an hour. They left the newbie on his first day at the register... alone... for an hour... at the helpdesk... while they were all at lunch...An employee came back after a few, and saw me with 5 people in line. Mostly because I had a problem, and was waiting for help. It was just so infuriating. That whole experience was just terrible. I'm pretty sure it's just the specific store, and not every cash register is used like it. I really don't want to touch that interface, ever again.

I'm just not sure if I want to keep this job now? So all in all, my day was crappy. I'm just doing a lot of thinking about that job at the moment.
 
Gintoki313 said:
Glad someone made a thread like this, because I need to vent a bit. Excuse me, but I'm probably gonna sound like a whiner here.

So today was my first job ever. I was supposed to be either a stocker, or a different job at the store I work at (we'll just call it BestBuy for now (but it's not BestBuy but like it mostly)). Instead of doing either of those, they made me register boy. Which is NOT what I signed up for, or wanted to do. Although, I can't complain about that. I'm the worker, so they can pretty much do whatever they want with me.

I get a bit of training (emphasis on "bit" of training). They teach me how to check items, check cards, and how to be fast. What they didn't teach, is how to do all the other stuff. Which is mostly what occurred on my time. People doing returns, using gift cards, applying discounts, etc. All of this, I wasn't taught. So I kept having to ask for help, which I could tellt he other employees were getting frustrated about. I was on register the whole 9hrs I was there. It was a terrible experience. I also forgot to mention that I was stationed at the help desk. Yes, they put a trainee at a help desk. So people kept coming to me for questions, which I couldn't answer. The only question I could answer, was where the bathroom was lol.

I guess what I'm most mad about, is how to check people's items out. The way to do so, I can't go too into detail. It's just a lot of putting in passwords, using the interface, and other things I didn't like. What happened to just scanning the item, and giving the person their change? Now I gotta go through some damned techno interface to do so. I was also mad because they left me by myself for about an hour. They left the newbie on his first day at the register... alone... for an hour... at the helpdesk... while they were all at lunch...An employee came back after a few, and saw me with 5 people in line. Mostly because I had a problem, and was waiting for help. It was just so infuriating. That whole experience was just terrible. I'm pretty sure it's just the specific store, and not every cash register is used like it. I really don't want to touch that interface, ever again.

I'm just not sure if I want to keep this job now? So all in all, my day was crappy. I'm just doing a lot of thinking about that job at the moment.
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you should really talk to your boss

dont quit yet
 
I'm in a bad motel that doesn't even have a bed because I have to take an exam to become an army interpreter/translator

If I get the job it'll be more than worth it though. It would sure beat getting beaten the shit out of daily in the frontlines
 
Gintoki313 said:
So today was my first job ever. I was supposed to be either a stocker, or a different job at the store I work at (we'll just call it BestBuy for now (but it's not BestBuy but like it mostly)). Instead of doing either of those, they made me register boy. Which is NOT what I signed up for, or wanted to do. Although, I can't complain about that. I'm the worker, so they can pretty much do whatever they want with me.
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I'm not sure how it works there, but are there different classifications? Like at my work, there's different tiers of clerks who can do different things, even if it's not the thing they were scheduled to do, because it falls under their classification.

If not, you could do what I did when I worked at a Wal-Mart and they asked me to check. I just asked for help with every customer until they let me go back to do my regular shit, and I never got called up front again. :)
 
Felt great going back to work after two weeks vacation, but insomnia reared its ugly head and now I have to go to work with 0 hours of sleep.
 
I'm feeling a little bit anxious today. There are a bunch of big changes happening at the same time atm. I'm sometimes not quite sure wtf I'm doing and how/where I should start to approach it all.

The sunny weather does good things to my mood though :D
 
I feel like I should once and for all clear the dark hidden corners of my psyche, and look at the harsh, cruel reality straight on.

Not that I am afraid, not that I am sentimental or that I will get any more angry at everything, or that I will finally be free. I worry that once I embrace the whole truth I will not easily muster the energy to move forward, once all fantasies are shed, and that I might set myself back and who knows how long it will take me to get back. How much of myself will I lose?

Fantasies and hope at least give you an aim.

I feel I have no more patience for all that nonsense and that I have been down this road too many fucking times.

^^^^Yep, that was vague enough.
 
Horseticuffs said:
I'm doing pretty good, thanks! Quietly saving money for my first legit vehicle now that I've finally got my license. I'm excited for the future but very lonely and am wondering if I'm ever going to meet someone.

I've been thinking a lot lately about how for so long my not having my license was what defined who I was and why I was unhappy. Now that I've got it though, while I feel a big burden lifted from my shoulders, it's just been replaced with the burden of driving safely and affording a vehicle and I see that, while I'm very happy I got it, it has just replaced one issue with another. I spent so long studying for and pining for my license and not having the stigma of lacking it that now that I've got it I've no patience for getting a vehicle.


I guess unhappiness truly all comes from a lack of contentment.
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TBH Horse, some people just feel down no matter what. I'm the same way, which you are already aware.
 
Took the day off. Been gaming, chilling, here on GAF. Was part of a major project at work over the weekend in the late night hours, did really well, impressed some big wigs, developed some new processes on the fly for resolving some problems we were having. Flying a bit high.
 
I'm alright. About to start the work week and my hands are kind of tired. I do the same motion with my hands for hours a day nonstop at my work and it wears me down. Also trying to figure out how to start talking to this girl I'm into.
 
it's a toss up for me. my professional life is going extremely well. in addition, i'm entering into a side project with a friend of mine that has a lot of promise and is pretty exciting.

my personal life is in shambles, unfortunately. i'm already on meds for depression and am seriously considering that i may need to begin therapy to work out what is going on with me as i don't think the meds are enough. i'm convinced there is something wrong with me as i always seem to end up the bad guy with people even though it's generally unwarranted. if it's not me, then i just have a penchant for getting involved with assholes who are great at buying their own bullshit and love slinging it at me when i stand up for myself and say i'm not taking it. perhaps a therapist could help me decide which is the case as it is hard when you are on the inside.
 
Not so great.
Only got like 2000 yen and I don't get paid till the 29th, and I have my water bill for about 3 or 4000 yen due by the 18th lol...
Messed up at work today too.
Other things making me feel down too but don't really want to talk about those.
 
FStop7 said:
My headache is finally starting to go away. It took water, Advil, and a Red Bull. Throwing caffeine at migraines seems to be the only way to stop them.
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That shit is a vicious cycle. Tried to quit caffiene ages ago, got migraines from the lack of it, only way to get rid of migraines was to drink more caffiene. And weaning doesn't work.

Hope all is right, now.


As for me, doing okay. It's raining really hard today and the atrium outside my fishbowl of an office has a metal roof so it's pretty loud, but not loud enough to drown out my neighbor's day long personal conversations (not my employee/dept, none of my business). Think it's time for headphones and the GotG soundtrack.
 
Not good, For some reason I feel like this world has become a shittier place to live in. Too much emphasis on money, status etc. Values don't matter any more.
 
I am at work, supposed to be working, it is much easier to GAF now i have been promoted & work in the office, i am on a computer all day.

I'm not bad at the moment, still on the anti depressants though & a female wouldn't go a miss either :(
 
Aggravated today and a little upset about how my weekend went with the GF. She can be very difficult and we just didn't have a good weekend together. Lots of passive-aggressive fighting. Very little time together. Just no real happiness or joy.
 
Gintoki313 said:
Glad someone made a thread like this, because I need to vent a bit. Excuse me, but I'm probably gonna sound like a whiner here.

So today was my first job ever. I was supposed to be either a stocker, or a different job at the store I work at (we'll just call it BestBuy for now (but it's not BestBuy but like it mostly)). Instead of doing either of those, they made me register boy. Which is NOT what I signed up for, or wanted to do. Although, I can't complain about that. I'm the worker, so they can pretty much do whatever they want with me.

I get a bit of training (emphasis on "bit" of training). They teach me how to check items, check cards, and how to be fast. What they didn't teach, is how to do all the other stuff. Which is mostly what occurred on my time. People doing returns, using gift cards, applying discounts, etc. All of this, I wasn't taught. So I kept having to ask for help, which I could tellt he other employees were getting frustrated about. I was on register the whole 9hrs I was there. It was a terrible experience. I also forgot to mention that I was stationed at the help desk. Yes, they put a trainee at a help desk. So people kept coming to me for questions, which I couldn't answer. The only question I could answer, was where the bathroom was lol.

I guess what I'm most mad about, is how to check people's items out. The way to do so, I can't go too into detail. It's just a lot of putting in passwords, using the interface, and other things I didn't like. What happened to just scanning the item, and giving the person their change? Now I gotta go through some damned techno interface to do so. I was also mad because they left me by myself for about an hour. They left the newbie on his first day at the register... alone... for an hour... at the helpdesk... while they were all at lunch...An employee came back after a few, and saw me with 5 people in line. Mostly because I had a problem, and was waiting for help. It was just so infuriating. That whole experience was just terrible. I'm pretty sure it's just the specific store, and not every cash register is used like it. I really don't want to touch that interface, ever again.

I'm just not sure if I want to keep this job now? So all in all, my day was crappy. I'm just doing a lot of thinking about that job at the moment.
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First day of a new job is always a mess and it could be like it for a while. Once you learn most of the stuff that is needed to be done you will be fine. Don´t quit your job and keep asking how to do things.
 
I'm a little sleepy, but good.

Lately I've received more cash (holiday entitlements), so I've been purchasing lots of games! And in four days I'll go on a 15-day vacation, so life's good right now!
Thanks for asking, OP. I hope you're doing great!
 
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