danw1979

I will never moan again about having pollen in my eyes during hayfever season.

We’re still a European country.

hi, it’s Hammersmith Bridge and every water company in the UK on line one for you.

You’ve extrapolated my “couldn’t give two shits about work” to “he cares about nothing in this world”.

There’s plenty I’m in control of and have autonomy over. Whether or not my current corporate masters decide to TUPE me again to the next set of cunts isn’t one of them.

Do you ever find yourself thinking about something deeply and then someone appears (it could be a child… for me it usually is) and asks you a question completely unconnected to whatever it was you were thinking about, and then - this is the bit that astonishes me - you find yourself answering the question verbally, maybe almost in full before you even re-focus your attention on the little person and whatever it was they asked ?

When I experience this it’s like the conceptual formulation and language expression part of my brain is quite happy to run itself for a few moments before I - the qualia of being me - has decided to experience that moment.

Utterly bonkers. I love it when it happens. It gets me thinking about how weird language and knowledge and consciousness really are.

The first 6 keys are literally someone typing them in lazily on a keyboard. You can almost see their fingers barely moving across the top numeric row as they generate them.

Because most of the world is

Agreed on the healthcare point - it’s way easier to say because I’m British and I don’t need health insurance.

I couldn’t agree more !

Nope, I’m old, with family, been jobless recently.

Experience has taught me that investing the OP’s amount of emotional capital into your job leads to unhappiness.

Well, I don’t have that luxury ! I’m old, I do have a family to support, and I’ve been out of work for 6 months at a time recently, under financial pressure.

I still feel the same way.

> That first meeting crushed my soul. I heard my ears ring more violently than ever. The color drained from the world. I could barely walk straight.

There was a time that I really cared about my work and about my colleagues livelihoods.

Then I realised, it’s just a job. I’ve lost jobs before. I’ve taken shitty, low paid jobs before. It’s just a job. You turn up, they pay you, then you go home to your actual life, the one that matters.

People take their jobs too seriously.

What ? They are literally stopping development in a year.

“The trick everyone misses”