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PlanetOfOrd
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That is awesome!
Everyone here is providing some great suggestions, but if I may, I'd like to challenge you to think of it a different way...
How can you set up your life so that work becomes a distraction from your phone?
Anytime I'm distracted it's usually because I'm not engaged enough. This might mean asking my employer for more challenging work, switching jobs, or creating a side hustle to become my new job.
As a (as of yet) nonprofessional photographer I take a "yes, and" approach.
99.98% of people will just take a picture of the thing and move on.
0.001% of people will say, "What's the point? I can just look up the picture on Wikipedia."
What do I like to do? I like to take a picture of the thing, but tell a story surrounding it. Is there a mom with a cell phone grinning seeing her kids run around the statue? Take a picture of the moment. Is there a couple with their arms wrapped around each other? Such a precious photo.
This can also help show scale. When I visited a volcano in my area that's a tourist trap, most people stand at the viewpoint, and take a picture of the gray and brown bump on the horizon with steam coming out. But I purposefully tried to get people in the shot. The result showed how impressive the volcano truly was.
Thanks! Sorry to hear you don't get any weather action. It rains a lot where I live, but rarely thunders. And they're typically "blink it and you miss" type storms.
Thanks!
Yes! Especially since I've been under/unemployed for the past 2 years weekends are killers! If I had a job I'd be able to spend money on going out and dating (gas is super-expensive if even groceries are outside your budget). But I basically just have to sit on my hands and wait until Monday when I can continue the job search in hopes of some income.
While proponents of the new method have theorized it would be painless, opponents have likened it to human experimentation.
Isn't that how we're doing the death penalty anyway? We're trying to find a "painless" way to kill someone, but is there ever really a painless way to do this? I'd imagine even if I'm sitting in a massage chair with classical music playing it wouldn't matter if I knew that half an hour from now I wouldn't be leaving the room.
And we can't really ask doctors because doctors have taken an oath to "do no harm."
The death penalty is just a punishment no one wants to do (well, okay, I'm sure there are plenty of people that have no problem with it), but we've told ourselves that we have to do it.
Story telling 10/10! It's almost like I can hear the person's accent, hear them telling me a story, all the while lighting the lantern. I can hear the bustling of the crowd. All with a single image.
Lighting, focus, and details is magnificent.
What did you use for editing?
Nice! Keep it up! I love the vignette around the edges and the hint of color in the foliage (I mean, besides the obvious green). One thing I often like to do is have a dominant color (or gray) and have a hint of a color in the image to give it some intrigue. Good job.
Been looking for work week after week. I have a few small client projects, but nothing sustainable.
Been at it for a few years, which is atrocious, and I know the only person I can blame is myself. Industry is tech. I'm willing to try something different, but I know it's rare for an employer to say, "hey, I know you've never done this before, but I'm willing to take a gamble on you."
I think I'll check out a temp agency this week. Being neurodivergent I need to be careful about the job I pick (suffering from a sobbing panic attack behind mayonnaise vats at a food processing plant w/ a prev temp agency taught me that), but if I explain that I'm a hard worker just a bit different I might be able to get something that's at least a 3/10 on a mental health scale.
I'm a long way away from being able to date again. For 1, who wants to date someone without work? For another, it's taking time away from finding my next opportunity. And sometimes all I want to do is cuddle with someone or take a quiet walk in the sunshine...but right now the world feels cold.
So I'll just have to tread water until I conquer this hell.
Unless anyone at their company is hiring for a software position?
That sounds exciting. Sounds like anyone who doesn't want to dive deep into a conversation with you is missing out.