#please just fucking hire me

[indecisive-behaviors]

I think job hunting is my least favorite thing in the world

[lumassen]

Okay so I’ve been a quiet Sonic fan since I was a kid and grew up playing Sonic Adventure 2 so naturally the Sonic 3 movie has me in a chokehold but can we just talk about this FAN MOVIE I JUST FOUND???

For people more into the fandom than me this is probably old news but for those coming into the fan base, please I am just in AWE and just sat here and bawled my eyes out while watching it.

It’s fucking amazing.

[freshmangojuice]

the only secondary character I want to come back for the new Red Dwarf special is SPANNERS

[katyspersonal]

I am really impressed by how much more fun Dark Souls 2 is to play than DS1 holy shit gfhgngvj

Both games are a blast to play, but in all seriousness, I'll be sooo devastated when I beat DS2 into Platinum too. :/ Well at the very least it is pretty big, so not happening soon.

[every-captain]

Idk man things are bad with my job.

[dramatic-dolphin]

every time i have to call my dad to ask for money i feel so fucking bad im gonna throw up. what if i just shot myself instead 😐

[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.

[floralovebot]

prayer circle that all the characters we haven't seen yet look good too 🙏

[dragonpyre]

I have to say seeing some of the people I follow randomly get into Jedi fallen order / Jedi survivor lately and start taking Cal on as a blorbo is my favorite thing. You are blessing me with content of my boy and I love your art style. And also I think it's helping me get over my writers block with the fic I've been working on, so thank you for that.

Awwwww thank you so much! It’s also always an honor to know I’ve inspired ppl to work on their own creative works too

[utter-poison]

when do i get to become an internet clown who makes money

[skyburger]

i love reading things set in countries that i'm knowledgeable and/or have been to because i can point out really minor errors in fanfiction. i think the average american does not know that in england (and apparently some of asia! which i only just found out) there are switches on power outlets so you can just turn it off instead of unplugging it. like 9 times out of 10 that won't come up but on the off chance it does i'm like ohoho. this clown has never been to england...! my favorite part though is watching americans (specifically americans because i swear to god people who speak english as a second language and/or are from any other country have some idea of what it's like to have an accent / personally know people who have accents? idk) try to write british accents like it is REALLY funny. i literally only lived their for five years and i never picked up a full accent myself (certain words and tones i did but they're mostly gone after living in the states again for a few years) but between living there and having a ridiculous amount of family there & visiting them often (like once a year if im lucky) i like KNOW what british accents sound like. i think some americans genuinely dont even know theres more than one or two english accents i think some people think there's like posh english and chav english and nothing else. maybe scottish accent gets thrown in there if they remember the uk is not in fact just england. i would bet real money they've never heard a welsh accent. anyway my point is it's really funny watching people who don't know as much as i do write this stuff. like i see it and i understand how doctors read this and go Oh that is so medically inaccurate. i get them now. anyway i dont remember what my point here was but please know if you are attempting to write a british accent. reddit and youtube are your best friends if you don't have a british friend you can ask and also rest assured even if you do ONE google search. it will not be the worst attempt ive seen guaranteed

[strangerhawke]

if i dont leave the house, i dont spend any money <3 life hack <3

[ourimpavidheroine]

Mako and Bolin set off towards Penquan Island in the Fire Nation to find answers to a case—and maybe a little bit of their past along the way.

When a strange missing persons case falls into his lap, Mako is forced to choose between his job and doing what he feels is right! An upturned room and an unhelpful witness aren’t promising starts to the investigation, but when his brother Bolin comes across a surprising clue that ties their own mother to the case, the pair embark on a journey to the small, rustic island of Penquan. The island’s inhabitants seem to have things to hide, and the brothers are determined to get to the bottom of it—even if it means uncovering uncomfortable parts of their family’s past.

[theres-whump-in-that-nebula]

Moral of Casanova (2005):

Don’t emotionally neglect your child with selective mutism or take them to public executions.

[seveneyesoup]

hate logging onto indeed to see notifications that are just indeed telling me to message people whose jobs i applied for. THEY should be messaging ME

[fullsunstrawberry]

never like trauma dumping on tumblr but this is my only safe place to rant about shit…