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>> No. 31490 Anonymous
21st January 2022
Friday 10:27 pm
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How do I square the circle that I've always believed you should live life passionately rather than in a state of sleepwalking but that with age you just stop caring at work. I'm lucky enough to have an incredibly interesting career but I've still reached the point of going through the motions.

I don't really want to throw things away or play silly buggers in my 30s but I'm tired and it's hard to care. Everyone is a fucking idiot and it all gets pointless when nothing actually gets done.
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>> No. 31491 Anonymous
21st January 2022
Friday 10:34 pm
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Unless you're incredibly lucky, work isn't real life, it's the thing you do to support your actual life, in which you can find things to be passionate about.

I don't hate my job or anything, but it's never going to be the highlight of my week. I do try to take on new projects I might care about, or try and develop other, younger colleagues, but other than that, I'm quite content to gather money for not much effort, because it means I can spend my energy at home on things I love, like arguing on the internet.
>> No. 31492 Anonymous
22nd January 2022
Saturday 4:29 am
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Seconding what the lad above said. I actually frowned and snorted a bit when your first sentence ended with "at work".

Your life shouldn't be about work. It's always going to be a big part of your life, yes, so it's important to have a job you like and do at least give half a shit about, but it shouldn't be the only thing you're waking up for on a morning, it shouldn't be where you're placing all your self-worth. That isn't healthy.

This is why I feel greatly sorry for our American friends. From the sounds of it, their work culture is one that demands absolute devotion and subservience for 40-odd years of your life, in exchange for a nice retirement package. It takes its toll on families, interpersonal relationships, and society itself.

Unless you're some sort of scientist on the verge of a world-changing breakthrough, or something like that, don't place so much value in your career.
>> No. 31493 Anonymous
22nd January 2022
Saturday 4:46 pm
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>>31491
>Unless you're incredibly lucky, work isn't real life, it's the thing you do to support your actual life, in which you can find things to be passionate about.
>>31492
>Unless you're some sort of scientist on the verge of a world-changing breakthrough, or something like that, don't place so much value in your career.

How do you two manage to use the internet when you can't read? I'm especially disappointed in #91 as he literally missed my exact wording on being lucky.

What I'm talking about is that I've been lucky, worked hard, not-settled and not-had-shit-for-brains so I have a career that is interesting to spend the majority of my waking life doing. Still I've started to become a zombie-person despite it. I'm phoning it in these days and this is troubling as, to get pretentious, I took a lot from when Kierkegaard criticised his (comparatively) free Danes for being free but spending their lives in a state of sleep. The world we live does at lot to sap your energy and it's hard to stop it from fogging your mental process to the degree you wake up at 40 spending 40 hours of your waking life asleep so you can spend 40 minutes a week painting silly figurines or doing whatever other bullshit perfunctory hobby people have at the time only to have a "midlife crisis" when you panic about what has happened to you.
>> No. 31494 Anonymous
22nd January 2022
Saturday 5:11 pm
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>>31493

The point is you've been lucky up until now. So either find something else to be interested in at work, or, welcome back to reality.

You don't sound particularly like you want our help, though.
>> No. 31495 Anonymous
22nd January 2022
Saturday 5:33 pm
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>>31493

So what do you do? Genuinely curious.
>> No. 31496 Anonymous
22nd January 2022
Saturday 5:41 pm
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>>31493

It's obviously not that interesting or else you wouldn't be getting bored of it would you, you silly prick. I'm breaking the "don't be a dick in /emo/ rule here because this lad has already been a dick back at the people offering advice first, thus forfeiting his right.

Heed what the other lads said. What you mean when you say you're fortunate to have an interesting career is that you are emotionally invested in your career. There's nothing wrong with that, but by the sounds of it, you don't have anything else going on in your life. You wouldn't be so defensive over the matter otherwise by my reckoning.

There's no problem being passionate about your work, but you need breaks, you need other things. You need a missus and you need some mates. You need a life. Otherwise you'll have the exact same midlife crisis from the other side.
>> No. 31497 Anonymous
22nd January 2022
Saturday 5:49 pm
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Lately I've been considering using my modest savings to move away from my hometown and toward a more urban environment, where I might find a specialist gym to explore my interest in climbing.
I've never done something like that before, never even realised the possibility.
>> No. 31498 Anonymous
22nd January 2022
Saturday 7:34 pm
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>>31495
Doing so would be doxing myself. You've discussed some of my work here before and it was as surreal as you would imagine.

>>31496
>It's obviously not that interesting or else you wouldn't be getting bored of it would you, you silly prick

Well it is which is what is perplexing. I've got other things going on but your job is where you spend the majority of your waking life so I consider it important that what you do is fulfilling.

Only a fanny wants /emo/ to be a hugbox.
>> No. 31499 Anonymous
22nd January 2022
Saturday 8:22 pm
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>>31497
that's a bit of a non-sequitur, but fine.
Are you sure you want to move just to get closer to a climbing gym? Even here in the flatland arse end of nowhere, there's this
https://fenrock.com
Sure, move to somewhere you can frolic on real cliffs, but surely climbing walls are everywhere, to get your fix?
Of course, moving away from your hometown might well be a good plan, regardless of climbing.
>> No. 31500 Anonymous
22nd January 2022
Saturday 9:09 pm
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>>31498

Charlie Brooker?
>> No. 31501 Anonymous
22nd January 2022
Saturday 9:11 pm
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>>31498
I'd still say the earlier advice in the thread is valid. Having something outside of work that you are excited about, even just shifting your priorities a bit towards one of the other things you already have going on, could be a mental palate cleanser. Nobody's telling you to stop giving a shit about work altogether, just re-frame.
>> No. 31502 Anonymous
22nd January 2022
Saturday 9:24 pm
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>>31498
ARE STEW?
>> No. 31503 Anonymous
22nd January 2022
Saturday 9:40 pm
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>>31498
Captain Picard?
>> No. 31504 Anonymous
22nd January 2022
Saturday 9:41 pm
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I reckon it's that guy who made the furby organ.
>> No. 31505 Anonymous
22nd January 2022
Saturday 9:54 pm
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>>31504

Fuck off now I'm going to have to start reading posts in his voice.

He's only a pretend chav, clearly middle class underneath. It infuriates me.
>> No. 31506 Anonymous
22nd January 2022
Saturday 10:23 pm
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Quick, someone draw up a list of everyone we've ever discussed here.
>> No. 31507 Anonymous
22nd January 2022
Saturday 10:36 pm
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>>31506
We can rule out Meat Loaf for starters.
>> No. 31508 Anonymous
23rd January 2022
Sunday 1:41 am
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>>31504

If that's true he can fuck off. Stop building stuff in "Kosmo format", you're just too scared to do the soldering for eurorack size stuff.

I reckon it's Tom Scott.
>> No. 31509 Anonymous
23rd January 2022
Sunday 1:54 am
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>>31508
Tom Scott is frightened of dark twisted forces of Reddit, I don't think he'd ever be going this deep into the internet:
https://www.tomscott.com/reddit/
>> No. 31510 Anonymous
23rd January 2022
Sunday 2:01 am
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>>31509

Bloody hell. Bless him. He sounds so sheltered, particularly for an internet person.

I'd guess Ashens was here but he'd definitely just tell us one way or another, also it's probably not a youtuber as this bloke seems to have an actual career.
>> No. 31511 Anonymous
23rd January 2022
Sunday 2:29 am
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>>31510

He's on the internet, but I'm not sure he's an Internet Person. He must be knocking on for 40 and was doing internet video things before YouTube even existed. He's a relic of a previous era, like a Radio 1 presenter who has been moved to Radio 2.

I can't imagine that he has ever wondered whether it's gay to fap to catboy trap glizzy; I'm not sure that he even knows what most of those words mean.
>> No. 31512 Anonymous
23rd January 2022
Sunday 2:31 am
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>>31504
Look Mum No Computer (who, while maintaining some cracking old telephone exchange equipment has since betrayed that mantra by using arduinos). Might post here but honestly, why would anyone announce their identity here? We can guess who some of us are, particularly on /A/ and /emo/. But outside of Disturbances why would you even want to know?
>> No. 31513 Anonymous
23rd January 2022
Sunday 3:51 am
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>>31509

>In short: there was a long thread speculating about my personal life and history, including someone digging up ancient details about partners and, frankly, getting close to doxxing me. That's so far over the line that I don't really have words for it

Ooooh what has he got to hide eh? Dirty little bugger, I bet he's got an underage ex or there's photos of him somewhere doing puppy play at a kink night in his uni days.

I don't get this though, it's implicitly part of what you're getting yourself into if you become an Internet Person.
>> No. 31514 Anonymous
23rd January 2022
Sunday 7:24 am
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>Everyone is a fucking idiot and it all gets pointless when nothing actually gets done.

Rent seeking is rife in companies and the solution to ignore it is crazy. Whatever I make at work (and at whatever quality) the company is too incompetent to use it. I've been advised to get a different job, but most offices are like this: people in their comfort zones justifying their job.

I can't care about work less because 35 more years of this, and forced apathy for the sake of short term comfort, will destroy me. This problem is rare in places where things getting done matters. My solution is to move myself to something to a place where getting things done matters, which for me is probably likely self-employment.
>> No. 31515 Anonymous
23rd January 2022
Sunday 12:38 pm
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>>31513
I know Tom irl and I'm fairly sure there's nothing going on, I've actually complained about him before on here for being a sodding wet blanket. He's paranoid about his address and to be honest I see it that he's just not the sort of lad who can handle conflict with someone face to face.

Despite this he wears the same outfit irl as in all his videos.
>> No. 31516 Anonymous
23rd January 2022
Sunday 12:44 pm
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>>31509
>I don't think he'd ever be going this deep into the internet
It's been a long time since we were any edgier than many parts of reddit.
>> No. 31517 Anonymous
23rd January 2022
Sunday 1:03 pm
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It'll be someone involved in Digitiser. Guarantee it.

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