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[Dawnchaser 🌄 8,087]

8 minutes ago, lomk said:

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Hey Dawnchaser. How you been? It's been like 2 or 3 years since I was last somewhat active here lmao

Woona?
Not too bad, lost my job just before 'Rona hit Trying to keep spirits up and occupied.

Yourself?

Edited November 4, 2020 by Dawnchaser 🌄

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20 minutes ago, Dawnchaser 🌄 said:

Woona?
Not too bad, lost my job just before 'Rona hit Trying to keep spirits up and occupied.

Yourself?

Si. This I, woona. Don't really go by that anymore since I left the fandom, but yeah.

Sorry to hear about your job, dude. Have you been able to find any side gigs?

I think between the last time I was on here and now, I got engaged. I also had a job that made me horribly depressed and my boss made me paranoid so I just up and quit before having a new gig lined up. I spent 3 months unemployed last year and couldn't collect unemployment so that was nice. I had to cash out some retirement to make ends meet, haha! But I did have all the time in the world to made our old rent house spotless by the time we moved out of it so at least we got our deposit back. 

Our dog also died right before I left that job. Probably a contributor to the depression. Was in a major funk for a while but we bought a home and I found work and things picked up. 

I've also been seeing a therapist to help reconcile childhood traumas. I also finally came out to myself as a radical atheist. Then to my partner. My therapist is helping me work through it. I think my adoptive parents will write me out of their will if I told them, but I told my mom I'm sick of buying Christmas gifts and I don't want to give or get anything at all for Christmas and apparently that makes me greedy? Whatever the opposite of generous is. I tried to explain I have enough THINGS and what I want from my family is TIME and apparently that didn't click with her so I'll be talking about that with my therapist. My mom also knows I'm not going to church and asked if I can't buy gifts can I at least start going back. I said no. I'm pretty proud of myself for that. It made her awfully sad and I'm sad about it too, but I'm finally standing up for what I believe. So yay for steps forward I guess? I wad having an anxiety attack the entire phone call and almost came out of the closet. But she did say that if I wasn't having agnostic feelings towards church that it'd be as easy as going to Target. So maybe she's starting to suspect it. Idk. 

Maybe one day I'll tell them. I'm kinda sick of being fake with my family just to be accepted. 

So that's my TED talk lmao

Oh yeah and I'm also getting out of accounting. I'm studying IT certifications. I have accounting to fall back on and I'll keep my current job til something in IT comes along and I can jump ship and not just land in the water. That's exciting. 

Edited November 4, 2020 by lomk

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Sorry to hear that you've had a rough time , glad that things are getting sorted

Yeah, ive been doing a few things here and there to earn some coin. Being off work was handy when the kindergarten closed down and now school has started it has meant that im about to collect my daughter at 2:45 in the afternoon.
Not having to get up at 0400, or getting home at 0000+ and having Sat and Sun off has been nice Kinda want a job that is M-F 9-5 but suspect that getting something that works around mid-afternoon school pickup will be tricky ...and if not, then we have to make sure that the extra money is earned to cover after-school clubs :/

 

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Yeah I get that. We don't have kids, but one of my old bosses (really cool guy, I miss working with him) has two kids. He and his wife worked out with their supervisors whereby they alternate days in which their hours are moved back to accommodate their kids' schedules with school and daycare. So two days a week, he worked something like 0600-1500. 

This was six years ago. I think their youngest is in high school by now so I'm sure he works the same hours everyday at this point. 

Edited November 4, 2020 by lomk

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Wonder what i could do as self-employed?

[lomk 20,663]

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My folks are self employed, but their work is heavily dependent on having something to do. 

Both their jobs are super dry in the summer months so they spend all day in the pool for two months straight and get 34 shades darker for it. But in their busy months, which I'd say are February, March, May, October, and November, at least one of them is working as much as 18 hours a day every day for the next month or two. 

Me personally, I couldn't do what they do. That's why I work for an organization, haha!

Edited November 4, 2020 by lomk

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There are pros/cons of being an employee rather than an employer (even if its just yourself)

[lomk 20,663]

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Yup. At least they can't be fired for screwing around too much. 

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Existential crisis of being self-employed and having to call yourself in for a meeting

 

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Company meeting 

 

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Heya

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HI

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*gives Dawn all the cakes* 🍰

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*boops @Flutterstep*

*hugs @Flutterstep*

How are you?

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@Dawnchaser 🌄 I’m doing good, thanks. 

Hope you’re doing well. 

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Excellent

Yeah, not too bad