Work.

i can sympathise with the helping people that don't want it angle, but tbh the only advice i got there is the 'become callous, desensitized and cynical' and i kinda feel that that's basically my advice to you any time we get into politics/society etc threads so y'know, absorb the bad days sand don't become a darraghmac over it or anything is maybe what i'd say to you.

I'm just tired and burning out, plus teenagers are all the most disgusting of savages, plus I don't have any transferable skills and I just wanna work with Not People for the rest of my sentence.

Plus Wednesday. Wd rather be at home playing FM tbh

Pro tip: differences between Aspies and all other kids = Rizla-thin

I bet you've actually got fuckloads of transferable skills, dude. Audit yourself!

see, i could be NV in another 10 years (sorry dude if i'm overestimating yr age there) except i'd need to get nicer, and i can't see that happening.

btw intelligence is hella skillful, don't be an ass

(xp)

Ah I probly need to start taking some active steps here, but no excuse, taking a chance gets harder when yr 40 and you've got dependents.

Could be worse, I could own a PL football club.

stfu the lowest net asset worth in EPL owners is 5m (and that's a dude with a minority stake in everton) i wouldn't be complaining.

mind you he probably has to deal with aspie teens the whole time too.....

I think I posted in one of these before? whatever..

working at a community college in hong kong as a assistant lecturer. on a one year contract. my job involves teaching high school level english to students who weren't able to get into uni the first time around. they hope that by doing well in community college they can get a chance to move on to a real bachelors program. the success rate is only about 20-30%, which is tremendously depressing. teaching to students in their second language is also v. v. depressing. fuck colonialism tbh.

currently bored out of my gourd but the college says they are considering reupping me for one more year and I might take it tbh. studying the lsat and hoping to apply next year - don't really relish the idea of being put out on my ass and having to find a stopover job for a year before going back to school.

srsly, i'm wondrin bout this 'helping peeps that don't want to be helped'

it sounds incredibly irritating but have these kids explicitly asked you to help them? if you think about rigidly folowing the terms of your contract rather than a pedagogic/altruistic imperative towards each kid then perhaps the frustration would lessen

to be replaced with the more common employer directed resentments maybe
i dunno, just be thankful you're not like that person in the shoe shop with the sandals and the toes eugh

so one of the benefits of where i work is my schedule's really flexible and i can get away with a lot. it's also a curse, because it's easy to claim 40 hours when i only work about 30, or take a nap on the job, etc. the problem is i keep doing stuff like this even though it makes me feel crappy. like, i won't get reprimanded per se because my bosses are my parents, i'll just end up feeling stupid for being spineless, lazy and spoiled which makes it harder to just suck it up and work in the first place. right now my "bosses" are on vacation. i have a bunch of paperwork to get through in the week-and-a-half before they get back but since they've been gone i've let myself slide even more.

i've tried setting realistic goals (i can only goof off if i get through two folders a day, "just don't open ilx today," etc.) but they're not working very well. the most success i've had in the past w/ this is just to KIP and try not get overwhelmed, so i'm working on that but... not doing much atm. i guess i'm wondering if anyone has any advice on how to do better at this sort of thing, keep working and stick w/ it or something. my job is easy but tedious (records management) btw.

Should be better to go by that name...

Caleb Garth called it business.

what

Hate my job so much. Zero satisfaction in work in any form, conceptually and in practice.

Irish public sector, housing schemes. 3 years, 1 more until I'm permanent, damned glad to get it when I did, as long as things stay as bad as they are I'll stick with it and get experience. Can't see myself doing it for the next 40 years but pension, conditions, training & opportunities all pretty good so there's a good chance I'll slowly smother my 16 yr old self and settle for it in the long run.

― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 10:15 (1 year ago)

amended to reflect new realities

My job is only as much of a burden as I allow it to be. Cliched, but true. And also something I'm very, very bad at managing.

My series of jobs since graduating college in the spring: Phone sex operator (using a woman's voice, natch). Nude model. Faux finisher.

what, like emile heskey?

http://www.fauxfilleddreams.com/images/Sherrel-9.jpg

ive been at my job 2 and a half years now, which is the longest ive ever lasted anywhere. it's incredibly easy, there's no stress, the workload is very light, but it's incredibly monotonous and sisyphean really. this was all very well and good until i start hatching a plan to get up and move far away in 6 months or so and now im prematurely demob happy and each day is at least somewhat excruciating.

how many of you do 30 seconds of work, 30 seonds of internet screwing around,30 seconds of work, 30 seconds of internet screwing around, 30 seconds of work, 30 seconds of internet screwing around, 30 seconds of work, 30 seconds of internet screwing around,

cuz I do

yup. maybe i'm more like 4-5 minutes on and off depending what i'm up to.

work-wise

can I defend myself by saying its some ADHD management strategy?

I edit a digital entertainment site, about 1m unique users a day. It's... okay, I care little for our content or audience but I am learning how to make decisions or be an editor, and also it pays well, which allows me to live my life more.

god i don't know how long i can keep up this noxious blend of anxiety, boredom, guilt and eating up all my time

till 67 or 68.

I've just had to have an interview for the job I'm already doing. Terrified that I'm not going to get it. Reckon it's ok to ask for the afternoon off? Cannot concentrate at all.

Monday #2 at new job, actually feeling quite pos about this latest move within public labyrinthine system

so...I don't think I've got it. Despite having worked here for four years. Great.

till 67 or 68.

I tend to assume that I'll need to work until 72 (presuming I live so long).

Ive only got 34 years left, that is 103% of a me

Yep, just lost my job.

vice is a flighty bride iirc

if only they were my employer

makes sense they were yr bit on the side akshully lol

not sure what me writing for them has to do with me losing my actual job/source on income but keep it coming m8

sorry to hear that dwight, good luck

Sorry mayne

I somewhat foolishly assumed that was yr main job

thats pretty shit, nothing like uk 2k14 more than summary re-interviewing for long term employees

hope shit sorts itself out

http://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/01/in-the-name-of-love/

Cheers lads. It's a bastard this. Feels incredibly embarrassing to be in work today surrounded by the colleagues on the panel who don't think I'm up to the job.

times like this i always wish there was a neat Youtube of the closing line from Patty Hearst

Sorry to hear that DY.

till 67 or 68.

I tend to assume that I'll need to work until 72 (presuming I live so long).

― Word Salad Username (j.lu), Monday, January 27, 2014 12:20 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's thinking of it this way that made me decide to go back to school to train as a nurse practitioner because although I'm unlikely to finish before I'm 40 I figure it'll be worth it to do something I really want to do for probably around 30 years.

According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, the two fastest-growing occupations projected until 2020 are “Personal Care Aide” and “Home Care Aide,” with average salaries of $19,640 per year and $20,560 per year in 2010, respectively.

do you need a personal care aide to assist you w/ that

that lady otm!

if you’re a business reporter or similar there’s always a column waiting to be written about the “skills shortage” in industries x, y, and z where goldurn it they just can’t find the right people - itisamystery.gif