PlanetOfOrd

That sounds totally awesome! What do you like best about metal?

Nice! No idea what a wacken is, but sounds fun. Stay safe in the rain. I've found events are actually a lot more memorable with uncharacteristic weather. 🤣

Because you somehow misplaced yet another phone 3 weeks after buying it and yet this lady is able to keep a jewel for 80 years without forgetting where she set it even once.

McDonald's: here's your burger, your drink, your napkins, your bag, your hand wipes, your silverware, and your kitchen sink.

Jack-In-The-Box: Hold out your hand (dumps burger condiments into hand)

Me: Um...napkins?

JITB: (sigh) Fiiine. (Pulls out emergency napkin)

I often go to plays to. For me, the best seat is on the stage with the other actors. Bwahahaha. 😝

Even if I'm not accepted for a role being a stage hand is still a thrill.

You sit where you're assigned, peasant!

We found our MCU fan.

Between the sticky Coke spill and the teen giving TikTok movie updates, and right behind the dystopian row of popcorn shrapnel.

Thanks. I already know my mental health is in the tank. Has been since I started my career. I've lost count the number of times I've been fired (and learned from each one), but that has trained my brain to constantly be in a state of "I have to do a 1,000% percent job at this new position so I don't get fired." But then I end up getting fired anyway because I burn out. Add in the fact that I often spend months or years without payable work the stress just keeps stacking. It's not like it's a sudden stressor like the death of a loved one. It's an "undefineable" stresser that you can't quite get across to people who have been able to steadily work with a company for years without a fear of losing it.

The only way to break the cycle is the shout out the noise and aim for exactly the position I'll thrive in, to where my flaws won't be grounds for firing but will instead be what makes me "me." I've been told all my life I'm flaky, I don't listen (more of a processing disorder thing instead of a moral thing), I'm too creative...I've heard it all, and I'm sick of it. Since nobody is telling me I'm valuable, I'll say it myself.

My aim is to be an inspiration to people in my boat. That you can be labeled a "failure" by society but come out of it a winner.

I will not quit until I've made other people around me successful (with me joining along with them, of course).

Yup, I have a connection of thousands of people in tech, hundreds of CEOs, founders, and presidents; I check in with them regularly. I've been to physical meetups. I ask what the need. I see if they need help.

For the past 3 years it's been, "Yeah, we might have something down the line soon."

I have a very active presence on LinkedIn. For the past 5-7 years I've been interacting with people. Publishing tech articles to help enterprise businesses for the last 2-3. I check in monthly with my higher ups by messaging them, and usually the messages go unanswered.

I've built my network over time. My network is a bunch of employed people and a bunch of unemployed people. Nobody actually hiring. I've been stuck in that rut for years. Again, the most success I've gotten is people pulling out random projects from their back pockets. Some of them I'm able to stay in contact with. Most of them I never hear from again.

SOMETHING HAS TO WORK! I WILL NOT FAIL! PEOPLE ARE DEPENDING ON ME TO SUCCEED!

I'd hope they wouldn't submit a job app for me.

I'd hope they connect me with the right people.

From what I remember people need tech work done, not computers.

I guess I need to see that movie. Even as an American apparently I am missing like 95% of Western culture.