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so i keep hearing

expectations can be tough

moonship I tend not to agree with the essential premise of your inquiry since every single generation is supposedly worse than the last and they all seem to turn out ok even when every circumstance appears to work against them. I think that you could probably retrain into any civil service field you wanted; I find it doubtful given what I have surmised about your inclinations from these borads that you would ever be happy as a cog in the private sector. If I may ask you a question in return, is there a particular reason you feel the need to get this kind of career advice while school is not in session?

just feeling like i don't want to go back to work on tuesday.

also:

1) gradual dawning realization that i was happier in my service jobs than in my work as a teacher, possibly because i find the constant cheerleading in the teaching field to be a drag. i'm a fairly withdrawn person at the best of times, and a rather glum person at the worst of times. teenagers tend to react badly to this, whereas most adults i worked with saw it as professionalism and/or politeness.

2) sense of mediocrity in my work that i can't figure out how to overcome

also:

1) gradual dawning realization that i was happier in my service jobs than in my work as a teacher, possibly because i find the constant cheerleading in the teaching field to be a drag. i'm a fairly withdrawn person at the best of times, and a rather glum person at the worst of times. teenagers tend to react badly to this, whereas most adults i worked with saw it as professionalism and/or politeness.

2) sense of mediocrity in my work that i can't figure out how to overcome

just feeling like i don't want to go back to work on tuesday.

yeah that's definitely a sign. teaching kids is a line of work which requires a lot of enthusiasm to offset the sisyphean struggle from what I've observed

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hi tombot, any chance of this? :-D

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hey tombot--

drinking. did you cut down or was it never a problem? cutting down, did you need to? did you ever do it cold turkey? i'm not a genetic wino and i'm feelin the need to cut it out; nothing else fills me with such joy these days. AA?

i shouldn't be asking some guy on an internet forum about this, but i thought you might have been somewhere around this yourself.
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Dan,

It's ok. Mostly. They said not to put any weight on it.

Mr. P,

I have cut down on drinking quite a bit from six months ago, a year ago, the year before that, and etc. I have not quit drinking, but I have gone cold turkey before and it was ridiculous (cheap though). I'm not a "genetic wino" either, but I used to do all kinds of stupid shit on/for/with booze.

I can understand where you're coming from re: oh shit this is trouble but you don't need a bunch of other people to tell you not to make dranks the centerpiece of your lifestyle or whatever. Alcohol isn't the problem, you're probably just bored and slightly depressed and day after day you've cranked up your tolerance to a level that seems frightening. Don't concern yourself with that so much, just set some other goals in your life for career/relationships/whatever so you aren't stuck in a rut and the twelve pack problem tends to take care of itself.

Tombot, did you throw any shoes at the inflatable W in Dupont Circle and what size were they?

Morbius,

I didn't throw any shoes and you know this because having once been a member of a marching band at an inauguration AND the uniformed services I can proudly say that all of this pomp and ceremony is straight up 100% bullshit and that ESPECIALLY includes the unofficial hoo-rah nonsense that has taken over large portions of my city for the last few days.

sorry, feel ya

how is the government?!

miss u tom where u been @?

6-day temp ban.

lulz

RIP...

you guys killed him with all your butthurt mod complaints

nice work. now you're stuck with the itr crew as your mods.

just stopping in to say bi

totally called this btw

Wait, is TOMBOT really not around?

he posts as a-bomb on 77

I'm not on 77.

You should hear what a-bomb's been saying about you.

AFAIK tom is not posting on ilx at this point, not sure if he'll come back or not.

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Thread of missing TOMBOT

FICH DICH, CONFICKER

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this turned out to be true!

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how is the government?!

boo!!!!

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you'd better not mess with el tomboto

sry abt single handedly driving u off the internet dude

have u been in space y/n?

Welcome back, Tom.

tom i never realized i could miss u so much

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