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  • My son is currently in the same boat, he’s gone to check out (talk to counselors , look for housing, and jobs) and will be transferring his school in the spring for his final year, and has a job lined up at the beginning of the year (with housing) until classes start. He’s back home until then helping out in our place.

    On another note, the anxiety and stress about the existential dread of working until you die is going to be there and my only advice is my experience in breaking up my short term goals- I only have to survive X years here doing this and then go to college, then another X years there , then X year in each position until I reached a “sustainable” place/salary with a partner and kids at this point to be witnesses to my (many failures) shenanigans.

    I say X years because sometimes it was years, sometimes months. For example I signed up for 4 years in the Air Force, but that was broken down into 2 months basic, 2 months training school, 2 years overseas base, 1.5 years US base with a 8 month temporary duty overseas again…each part was shitty, but less shitty than the time before and in some interesting places.

    I guess what I’m trying to TLDR is that if you break up your early life I to smaller achievable goals it will help you get to where you can have a life.

    Now housing and pay is another story that, man…good fucking luck and know you have most (some?) of us Gen Xrs cheering you on.





  • Blocking sports streaming is such all out greedshit™.

    Look, if I’m watching hypothetically watching a stream without paying the premium, the commercials that have already been paid to the company are still showing, so that ad revenue is still being capitalized.

    What they want is for you to pay a premium to watch commercials during sports.

    Cable tv started wayyyyyy back when and the catch was: “pay for TV without commercials!”…which was fine and dandy, and it also had Music Videos!

    Then when I moved out on my own somehow commercials on cable tv were a thing and at that point I decided that if I am going to have to submit to commercials, then I shall not pay for cable TV.

    Old man rant over. Carry on. 🏴‍☠️















  • Che Banana@beehaw.orgtoMemes@lemmy.mlsame for menstrual cramps
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    3 months ago

    Well, to be fair Aspirin was a factor in nearly killing me, acetaminophen (Tylenol) now doesn’t work since i took that too often, and now im stuck with ibuprofen which may, again, cause a leak in my stomach that could kill me.

    Sooooooo… if you’re not taking this medication regularly, by all means, if not just a word of caution from an old, apparently hard to kill, bastard.