#can someone please hire me

[medicaltechnician]

tw/ weed and addiction talk/withdrawal talk

i. might be experiencing withdrawal symptoms. maybe thats whats wrong with me. i’m going to say thats what’s wrong with me. We’re gonna ignore my history of worrying and thinking i have a specific illness or disorder.

I mean. It’d make sense. My sleep is fucked, my appetite is fucked (idk, i like food and like to eat and would like to eat but we don’t got anything tastey in my eyes.)

uh, i have a little headache sometimes, but that seems more related to a possible problem with my teeth/clenching my jaw.

defo been experiencing mood swings and depressive symptoms, but also, i feel like I was like that before the weed. At least the depressive stuff.

I’m less irritable then I used to be actually, i think that shit spiked when I was on T. I stopped taking it in oct. It’s just hard to get to the pharmacy lol. (And do my bloodwork… whoops)

My dreaming is fine.

So maybe it’s not withdrawal. Idk. I’m not a professional. Not that it seems professionals tend to help anyways. I just confuse them? I need to get better professionals.

[monstermoviedean]

just thought about the reboot opening with lazarus rising callbacks. if it started with dean waking up. if dean had the handprint back. if he didn't know why

[untilsfe]

Just had a revelation. We have a lot of strong Samurai women in the comics; Mariko is no exception, tho I couldn't stop myself from imagining... how would have been if she had a backstory like Tomoe or Inazuma's? A daughter of a Samurai that learnt the way of the sword. I bet she would've rocked the part.

And can you imagine if she was also the protector of her village?? I mean like, having Kenichi be the magistrade, but her also having her own troops?? I see potential!!!!

Also, we could have called her and the boys "the three Bunketeers". Lol

[mbat]

by the way, i know the fandom keeps talking about the episode 'dot and bubble' and its themes and commentaries about racism (and its a good conversation to have, of course)

but i cant believe i havent seen anyone talking about how they have that episode, but its in the same season as the first episode with those goblins....

the sneaky little goblins stealing babies to eat them ??

in 2024?? the blood libel goblins?? in 2024??

its just. baffling. we truly are not past this kinda stuff i guess

[eggs-can-draw]

"He's just a little silly! ... And he stares a bit too long longingly at dresses, but that's unrelated!"

- Byakuya's dad, on Byakuya's gay allegations.

And she fucking slays so maybe we shoulda let her try a few on

[princehendir]

For better or for worse I think DA4 will be what finally gives me an answer re: is Mary Kirby really funny or just kinda homophobic in a way that's a little hard to clock.

[moeblob]

What Deacon thinks: what did that mean? did he want me to wear a collar too? why else would he mention my neck? i mean, if he /asked/ me i would wear one but he didn't so would wearing one be weird?

What Ymber meant: It's nice to be near someone who isn't tethered to this world to serve it with a physical reminder for all to see.

[starbuck]

me: hey, so i feel like you maybe disregarded my saying that caretaking on top of work and school and pre-planned travel is a lot for me right now and i’m not comfortable with all of that pressure being on me alone when i wanna make sure you guys have everything you need when i’m not around…

my family: of COURSE we heard you, that’s why we started doing a bunch of things by ourselves at great cost to our physical well-being instead of asking you for help!!!!!!

me:

[reasonsforhope]

Crowdsourcing a question

Okay totally personal post here because, now that search engines suck, my research is failing me. So I'm crowdsourcing my question about the residential care work industry!

Hoping at least some of my followers have experience in/with the industry and some intel on this:

Actual question: How common is it for jobs in residential care work (residential centers, btw, not home care) to actually have two people on the night shift? vs. just saying they always have two people on the night shift in interviews and their official policies, and actually it's not true?

Because my current job was, it turns out, apparently totally lying about "you'll never be on shift alone with clients" at orientation (when it comes to the night shift, anyway). Which, holy fucking safety issues, Batman!

Suffice to say this was a very fun thing to find out like three days before my first regular shift

So, I'm thinking realllll hard about switching companies, and I'm trying to figure out if I could expect to actually have a coworker at a different company, or if it's like an open secret in the field that actually, basically all the night shifts end up being solo shifts, because the industry is so chronically understaffed or w/e

[carcarrot]

letterboxd suggestions that i think would make for an even more interesting experience

they decide to add tv shows, except instead of making the show itself something to rate, they have every single individual episode of every single tv show

new rating options to include being able to rate a movie 0 stars (represented by an outline of a star) or from -1 to -5 stars

"watch it again" button for movies you want to request someone watch again, and if they dont log it in a certain amount of time, their account is blocked from being able to review any other movie except that one

[stars-inthe-sky]

10. tell me about an insecurity you overcame.

It's been a while since I started freelancing for fun and profit, but the beginning of that journey is still a pretty big deal to me.

I'd previously worked at an agency for nearly three years, so I knew how to do client-based work, but I knew nothing about business development (or billing, or taxes, or client management, or admin).

And, for those I didn't know back in 2017, I started down that whole road in the first place after getting very unexpectedly and unceremoniously fired after like four months on the job. It was never clear exactly why, but I'd thought things had been going well, and that was a pretty gutting Thursday afternoon.

I'd also just gone through a job search, so I knew there weren't many positions available in the region that would be a fit—and that the most recent thing that had seemed to be a great fit had, uh, not been. (This was before remote/hybrid work was a real norm, even though my agency job had functionally been hybrid and taught me to work effectively as such.)

But when I'd gone through that previous job search, a couple of people I spoke with had mentioned maybe needing some freelance capacity down the road, and perhaps I should get in touch once I got settled in the job if I was interested. So I reached out to them, without mentioning the rest, thinking I could at least bridge the gap while I figured out what the fuck to do. Both had solid projects for me where I learned a bunch quickly, made some money, and was excited for more.

And then it just kind of made sense to keep seeing about those kinds of opportunities—both because I liked the client-based work and flexibility, but also because it quickly became apparent that it'd be harder for any one person or institution to fuck me over in the same way.

Plus, one of the people who needed a subcontractor turned out to be a great mentor and reference; I don't think I ever told him quite why I'd decided to go all-in on freelancing full-time, but I have thanked him repeatedly for some truly foundational early guidance as well as a couple of projects he helped set me up with. He's semi-retired now but I'm still using some of those templates!

Anyway, I networked my way into a couple of additional early projects and finished 2017 with about the same overall income for the year that I had had in my agency job for 2016. (Not the fuck-them one, the one I got laid off from because, well, that was a bad end-of-year for anyone working in Democratic politics, much like this one.)

And the rest is history: I've been self-employed for about 7.5 years now and, while the constant hustle and inconstant income/workload have their own challenges, I think I've landed in a pretty secure (emotionally/professionally) place about the whole enterprise.

[katierosefun]

progress is going from “i need to kill myself” to “…i’m going to kill YOU. the only reason i haven’t done it yet is because i am merciful and also i can’t see my friends and my family and my beautiful partner in jail. so count yourself fucking lucky”

[the-busy-ghost]

I hate STAR interview questions, I can never remember specific instances of things I've done well and if I talk about a time I had to step in to clear up a mess that I didn't create, it always sounds like I'm bitching about a colleague and that's just not Decent

[st-dionysus]

Guy who lost hos job again and can't catch a break: Bartender, I'll have another glass of the cooking wine and a rum and cock!

The bartender, who is him and unemployed: I can't believe they fired me during pride month. This historic queer bar fired their only transmasculine person for Pride. Anyway, we're out of the cooking wine, so that'll be a double Bacardi with flat coke.

[irlnikeiyomiuri]

this world is so sad all i want is beta . and yet . so much work

[skitskatdacat63]

People need to stop making Rhaenicent if they were canon edits, it's killing me 😭😭😭😭😭