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Fucking sick of my job, having to work on shit I hardly understand, could fucking care less about, and learn stuff by reading boring documentation I'd rather light on fire. Too trapped (financially) to quit. Everything sucks, fuck you, etc.

Today has been slightly meh.

I figured out a new budget to go with my payraise that allows me some play money at the end of the month and pretty much insures that all my payments are covered. Unfortunately today, some payments that I made before I came up with the budget are catching up to me. So out of a $430ish paycheck imma have around $36 left till next week. I should still be able to make it, no other payments, plenty of food at the house, solid ride situation to work and home, no shortage of weed, just stressful as balls. Praying nothing crazy happens yet.

On top of that, tracking for the Truly Beautiful Disaster I got from a friend is saying my package went out for delivery and was never scanned as delivered. Nothing has shown up on my porch. Super minor but its just an extra thing. ugh.

BitchPudding wrote: On top of that, tracking for the Truly Beautiful Disaster I got from a friend is saying my package went out for delivery and was never scanned as delivered. Nothing has shown up on my porch. Super minor but its just an extra thing. ugh.

same thing happened to me yesterday. they ended up delivering it today. hopefully its the same for ya

My arc flash got delivered to the house a street down with the same address.. I walked down their and grabbed it heh.

worra wrote:Fucking sick of my job... Too trapped (financially) to quit. Everything sucks, fuck you, etc.

I'm in this boat, and I have no other marketable skills. I'm desperately trying to figure out a hustle to get out of the Sys Admin mines, but we can't take another financial hit.

nogodsnobedtimes wrote:

worra wrote:Fucking sick of my job... Too trapped (financially) to quit. Everything sucks, fuck you, etc.

I'm in this boat, and I have no other marketable skills. I'm desperately trying to figure out a hustle to get out of the Sys Admin mines, but we can't take another financial hit.

Get your PMP and pivot into IT management? I've been an analyst/senior analyst/statistician/data scientist for over a decade and I'm getting burned out of grinding math and want to move to management. My strategy: prepping for the INFORMS CAP exam so I can move into a data lead role, then I'm going to get my PMP so I can jump past mid-management. If you can write up a good business case and depending on your company's policies, you can convince them to pay for the exams (for mine, they'll pay for the exams but not the test prep materials).

My current role is a single-person department so there's not really anywhere to advance and no management. I'm the management, as well as the help desk and everything in between. It was a nice change coming from an MSP, but it's been hell the past year or so. I need to bounce to a place with a real IT dept where I can flex my actual skills (which does not include things like budgeting and contract negotiations and people).

nogodsnobedtimes wrote:My current role is a single-person department so there's not really anywhere to advance and no management. I'm the management, as well as the help desk and everything in between. It was a nice change coming from an MSP, but it's been hell the past year or so. I need to bounce to a place with a real IT dept where I can flex my actual skills (which does not include things like budgeting and contract negotiations and people).

That seems like a smart move. If possible, a straight lateral move can be really strategic for those other reasons, like the potential for promotions in the future. I've found that small companies have more room for quick movement up, but only to a point, whereas bigger companies it is often a slower grind but the potential is higher. Hope that helps or is encouraging or something. Job stuff is so frustrating.

I fucking miss you guys. I'm really stressed out and depressed as fuck.

After 2 long years, my custody hearing is in 4 days. I have no idea what my life is going to look like after next week.

I had what seemed like a promising job interview at a hotel that's opening up here but I don't know now. It was hard to read how they felt, but I'm one of like 3 people they've interviewed, so maybe?

My son is also in the process of being screened for ADHD and autism, and I'm very confident that he has at least one of them. Which is fine, and something I can deal with but it's just one more thing on my plate. I'm also basically giving 1/3 of the money I make to a babysitter so that's fucking awesome.

Anyways, I'm alive, just very sad. I haven't been around much the last year or so and I really do miss this place. I feel so out of the loop.

neonblack wrote:Anyways, I'm alive, just very sad. I haven't been around much the last year or so and I really do miss this place. I feel so out of the loop.

Hang in there, neon! ILF is always rooting for you

neonblack wrote:I fucking miss you guys. I'm really stressed out and depressed as fuck.

After 2 long years, my custody hearing is in 4 days. I have no idea what my life is going to look like after next week.

I had what seemed like a promising job interview at a hotel that's opening up here but I don't know now. It was hard to read how they felt, but I'm one of like 3 people they've interviewed, so maybe?

My son is also in the process of being screened for ADHD and autism, and I'm very confident that he has at least one of them. Which is fine, and something I can deal with but it's just one more thing on my plate. I'm also basically giving 1/3 of the money I make to a babysitter so that's fucking awesome.

Anyways, I'm alive, just very sad. I haven't been around much the last year or so and I really do miss this place. I feel so out of the loop.

That's really rough. Good luck with the job and the custody hearing.

I know we're just strangers on the internet but we're always here to talk.

Good luck neon! We miss you!

Seriously, man! Love and miss ya, sending good vibes!

I'm going to make it a point to visit more. Things are already looking up. Got some good news regarding the custody thing but it's not set in stone yet so I don't want to get too excited. And band stuff is still going well so expect me to start shamelessly plugging in the near future. You guys might see a good bit more from me soon