it only gets better if you make it better. Organize a union at your workplace
Really didn’t expect that direction in the second half 👍🏻
I like giving real solutions to these kinds of problems :)
What kind of degenerate sleeps without the head of their bed up against a wall?
People who have had bedbugs. Old habits die hard.
Say what?
When you get bedbugs and want to prevent them from getting on your bed (after treatment, say) you pull your bed away from the wall, thus limiting the surfaces they can transfer from. If you also put your bedposts in interceptor traps you’re pretty safe from them. They’ll get stuck in the traps and be unable to get out.
Source: had to deal with the bastards for a year because of a useless landlord and incompetent exterminator. Got really, really good at pest management.
TIL
Ha, stupid bedbugs. A trap like that would probably never fool me!
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I heard that they can climb to the ceiling and drop down. Not sure how true it is, but helps to enforce how nightmarish they are, like they are some sort of unstoppable entity.
I’ve heard that too, but it seems pretty unlikely and I never experienced it when I had bedbugs. Plus it would have to be a pregnant(?) bedbug to continue to spread the infestation, otherwise the rare one that dropped on the bed would be stuck there and eventually die…
I dunno if they’re quite that smart. If they are, they didn’t do that when I had them.
Right, but in that case you could get a frame with a headboard.
A headboard touching the ground just invites them in. If the headboard is removable, remove it temporarily.
They are mounted to the same frame you said you put on the trap stands.
Yes, but some are removable. If you can’t remove it you’re pretty much screwed - good luck getting a headboard inside of an interceptor trap. Just the bedposts, wheels, or whatever the frame has go into the traps. Basically you need to limit the access they have from wherever they’re hiding to your bed.
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I’m in the bed in the middle of my room gang, never had bed bugs.
But then Monsters can attack you from any angle - Bed in the corner gang sleeping back to the wall.
Lol, I’ll even wake up sleeping with my back to the door – no fear.
Wtf next thing you’re going to say you sleep with your arm hanging off the side of the bed or your feet sticking over the edge. I’m surprised you’re still alive.
I’ve only woken up like that a few dozen times in my life.
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What a mad lad. Is it possible to learn this power?
I guess just move your bed to the middle of the room and wait until you get used to it. I’m not sure about the subconscious/sleeping part… Maybe it’ll just happen naturally over time?
Absolutely diabolical
Maybe they have problems with night sweats
Me. I don’t need my bed clapping against the wall alerting my incredibly nosy neighbors to my evening activities.
What’chu know about what goes on in my butt?
Suck dick for a living. Much more free time.
I prefer to be choosy about the dicks I suck
Ok then no more gaming for you mr. wontsuckdickformoney
That’s Ms Sucksthechoicestdicksforcashonly to you
Not what I heard
😘
I can’t really be bothered to do my own marketing and STD vetting.
Get a pimp
Amazon sell those?
Stay up longer. Wake up tired. Do your job really half-assed all day. Let your employer have the worse you.
Did this while younger, it can work for some time but don’t underestimate the consequences to your health from not getting enough sleep.
How much younger are we talkin? Asking cause I’m getting older and wanna know when that’s gonna tell life to kick me in the nuts
About late 30s it kicked in for me
Hah they still actually look forward to playing the game, instead of just playing it to fill the time.
Get up at 6. Work will 6. 1hr to make dinner. 2 hrs awake with wife. Go to bed at 9. Wake up at 530 and cry for 30 min.
Rerpeat adinfinium until i finally die. This is no way to live.
This is no way to live.
I wonder what would happen if everyone who felt this way all at once just decided to stop. All at once, everyone turns around and goes home. How many people would it be? Half? 3/4? Most of them?
We almost got to experience a change when Covid hit, the only bright spot, but it was soon eclipsed by corporate buzzwords and inspirational music montages on powerpoint telling us how happy we are to return to offices and ten hours of driving and 1/8 of our paycheck on gas every goddamn week so we can sit in a visible place while we waste time reading emails that don’t pertain to us and attending meetings about initiatives that are meant only to make the shareholders think we’re doing something.
Shareholders who attend the meetings via Zoom at that.
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I’m working towards just this, not a tent necessarily but a very small house/shack, gonna get some dogs and chickens and probably work at a local grocery or do art until I die.
I am not making much progress. I wonder who tf is buying houses.
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You could afford to work part time remotely
If you’re a professional that even has that option. Factory workers and blue collar schmucks like myself are chained to a radius around available work :(
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Find me land for $8k within reasonable distance of an area with tech jobs please.
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The point is to work less not avoid work completely. I’m unable to work 100% remotely for the time being, rural internet is still a joke most places.
I’m just saying it’s not so simple and still requires an incredible amount of work, saving, and sacrifice to “just retire to an acre and get some chickens.”
This is 100% truth.
When you’re young, you have a lot of free time and no money to enjoy that time
When you get into a career, you have money, and no time.
When you retire, you have money and time (to some extent), but you’re old and likely not able to enjoy things nearly as much as you would have been able to when you were younger (generally due to body aches and whatnot).
Being middle/lower “class”, you’re basically fucked.
No, it gets much worse.
No but it does get worse after you have kids. Ah who am I kidding, this is a greentext post.
But then you get kids. Definitely better than video games.
Father of 3 kids under 6, I still play an hour or so a day, some weekends I get a night to play with friends.
And I have time for work in commercial electrician. Come home to work on my garden, chickens, greenhouse, and hang with the kids and family.
Going to be doing my own solar in the next week or two. Tonight going to a mtg mh3 event with a friend to play some magic.
All weekend to chill with my children, wife, and enjoy some parks. Once kids are asleep I’ll watch a movie with my wife.
Life is good. Time for everything.
Are you guys dual income though? How do you have time to keep your home clean? I don’t even have kids but with full time work I struggle.
I’m full time (40 hours) and my wife is a stay at home mom. She might work in the summer for delta airlines as a gate agent but that’s if the season allows for it. Either way that income is less than $5k for the year so it’s not for the money, but the flight benefits.
The home being clean… Well we let a lot of things get surface dirty because cleaning after the kids is a full time job in and of itself. We’ll deep clean once a week, dishes are cleaned right away, toys after you’re done, beds, sheets, carpets and deep floor weekly. We got a system. My wife does an amazing job. I make sure our vacuums work lol.
Agree on the taking care of the place full time job piece! My partner and I are just starting to think about kids, and are most worried about the extra work in making sure things stay clean enough to be safe.
Granted, I’ve had a whole lot of health issues (just completed surgery 5/5 in the last 5 years) so a lot of home maintenance fell by the wayside. We’re also both full time (42 hours minimum) and on top of that I have at least 4 medical appointments weekly still, so we are just in the process of getting a system going.
Thank you for sharing what works for you!
Oh wow yeah that sounds like a hand full. Health becomes a problem for us. If one of us gets sick for a few days it gets pretty rough. We don’t have too much time to go out, and my wife and I haven’t really went on too many dates since our 3rd was born. But we’re both on the same page that it’s part of the season we’re in. I’m busy maybe 3 days a week and that already makes it rough, but I can’t imagine if my week was full of appointments.
Don’t worry about being too clean for the kids. The first one is always going to be the learning curve, and we’ve been there with the ultra clean everything. Germs and chokeables. Now on our 3rd we’re a lot more lax, being more observant when it’s necessary. But you will drive yourself crazy picking every speck off the ground lol.
But ultimately my wife and I are a team. And if there’s anything that becomes too hard for us it’s because we weren’t on the same page about it. Life moves forward. Children are the best thing that ever happened to us. And our hobbies didn’t disappear, we got new ones and old ones either aren’t interesting anymore or adapted to fit. You’ll never be 100% ready. If you and your partner want children, let that child grow with you.
Yep I got one and videogames aren’t even in my radar. I don’t even have a gaming computer anymore
It’s easy! Just take 100% of your free time and throw it away on a far-off dream so you’re completely exhausted. Go into debt trying to get a fancy degree to maybe increase your earning potential.
More seriously, if you feel you’re in the same position:
If you’re privileged enough and have the willpower, you might be able to find a happier work environment (though it requires sacrificing your already meager free time by searching for jobs constantly for 6-12 months or more). I know folks for whom that’s paid off - very impressed with them. May also be some online courses or community colleges around that could open doors.If your situation is impossible, I’m sorry. I feel for you.
Fucking pathetic. I hope you don’t actually feel this way, mindset is literally the biggest obstacle.
Feel what way?
I am privileged and happy. I do believe folks who are not happy should consider investing their time understanding other potential available opportunities including work, training, and higher education.
Obviously a, say, severely disabled person whose paycheck is captured by their abusive partner cannot apply my advice, so in that nearly impossible situation I sympathize.
Seeing reality for what it is and not giving up is the opposite of pathetic. Pathetic is assuming someone who sees life that way is going to be overcome by their mindset. Denial isn’t necessary to function.
Narrator: No, it doesn’t.
He only has two hours after work before he has to go to sleep? That’s like a 70 hour work week!
I mean you still have to get home first, then probably cook and eat something, shower, etc.
All of that takes time as wellI have about 3h of gaming after work during the week. So the meme is pretty accurate about this part. But I also have free weekends, enough vacation time and a job that doesn’t drain much energy. So I’m fine currently.
Can confirm. I am currently in the meme.
At my last job I had barelly 30 mins if lucky, used to work for almost 80 hours a week and at tikes worked up to 12 days straight with no days off.
All for a barelly 800 euro pay.
Oh, man, that’s rough. How is such a thing even legal?
Live in a shithole and everything is legal
He should sell his instant work-teleportation device for money instead of working
I mean it helps if you don’t completely hate your job.
Easier said than done
Yes, but maybe worth prioritizing in your career.
Trust me, i would LOVE to enjoy my 10 hour manual labor workday at the only employer that pays that well in a 50 mile radius, but call me cynical, I find it quite difficult
Can you consider moving to a better place? I understand you might have things going you down but it’s good to evaluate your options
This is the kind of thing that’s easy to say but hard to do
Yeah Ive thought about it, that’s not something I can even consider though until I wipe out some debts and save up
It surely gets better if you can make the necessary changes to your life to improve this.
I never hear anyone talk like this who doesn’t live in the suburbs with a huge commute. I live in a city and can get to work in 15 minutes without a car.
My schedule is:
- 6:00am: Wake up, shower, eat breakfast, get dressed.
- 6:45am: Leave for work.
- 7:00am: Arrive at work.
- 12:00pm: Lunch hour.
- 4:00pm: Leave work.
- 4:15pm: Arrive home and unwind.
- 5:00pm: Workout.
- 5:30pm: Prepare Dinner.
- 6:15pm: Eat Dinner.
- 6:45: Clean up kitchen and other parts of home.
- 7:00pm: Movies, Video Games, Social Time, Sex Time.
- 10:00pm: Go to bed
That gives me a full 6 hours between finishing work and going to bed. If I choose an easy dinner, I hardly have to do anything less than fun after work, and I work in a cool part of town so I don’t actually have to go commute anywhere. I can be drinking at a bar within 5 minutes of clocking out, and I don’t have to drive home. Any other errands I make in a week are within walking distance of my home or work.
Before I moved, my schedule was:
- 5:45am: Wake up, shower, eat breakfast, get dressed.
- 6:30am: Leave for work.
- 8:00am: Arrive at work.
- 12:00pm: Lunch hour.
- 5:00pm: Leave work.
- 6:30pm: Arrive home and unwind.
- 7:00pm: Prepare Dinner.
- 7:45pm: Eat Dinner.
- 8:15pm: Clean up kitchen and other parts of home.
- 8:30pm: Movies, Video Games, Social Time, Sex Time.
- 9:45pm: Go to bed
So that gave me an entire 3.25 hours after getting home, giving me no time to fit a workout in without giving up other leisure activities. This doesn’t even factor in that everywhere else I needed to run errands was a 15-30 minute drive away.
The largest predictor of divorce is a commute longer than 45 minutes.
I’ve had some pretty long commutes in the past because my work location changes every few years. I enjoy the work, though, so that helps, but I’ve still been feeling the OP lately. I’m in my late 30s and I don’t have kids and “fun” doesn’t really do it for me anymore. More and more I need to feel like I’m doing something worthwhile instead of aimless hedonism. I’ll figure it out, though, it’s just time to make some, as you say, necessary changes again.
Making sure you have time is important. My schedule breakdown isn’t really the blueprint of my life. I belong to social groups, and I volunteer. I have hobbies and projects that I work on.
If you don’t have enough unstructured time, you’ll never have the opportunity to build structure around it.
At first it looked like Photoshop, and I know it is, but I just realised… it’s that dude from that double suicide photo, isn’t it? Russian dude and his girlfriend?
What the fuck man. It’s Ryan Gosling.
Oh, so it is. That’s reassuring. The photo is from the ancient times of the net. Very peaceful, the guy like he’s sleeping except it’s in the snow so you know something is amiss. That pic with its weird vibe reminded me of it.
Also… have you actually been to 4chan, my friend? Where do you think I was exposed to a suicide pic (as SFW as it was) without warning…?
