Been getting sick a lot lately

[stirs]

On a related/unrelated note, get out of debt/don't go so far in debt.

I learned this early and there is no better feeling than knowing you can dump a job if you want to and are not tied to it due to debt.

Off my soapbox now

Look at the satisfaction Rummy got by just talking to people and enjoying things, sans the phone no less.  Technology is great, but not always our friend

[TheRumGone]

Sometimes it feels like the weight of the world can be on us in the type of society we live in. Be good to yourself. Sometimes just talking about it to someone like a close friend irl can help. Hope you get to feeling better buddy. 

[Moose Hoover]

water fasting + salt cave.

[Bronn]

Sup bro, I just stopped by to offer my own advice.

Like others have mentioned, it sounds to me like you might have too much on your mind. That is interfering with your sleep, which in turn messes with your diet, which makes the daily grind somewhat cyclically difficult.

I think a lot of it is the job, too. But, any stress from any direction can contribute.

You've got to learn to disconnect, even if it is something as simple as coming home at the end of the day and not doing jack poo around the house (cleaning up something or whatever) and just finding something to unwind with that doesn't lead to more stress.

Be careful though, because doing this is a good gateway to paths you don't want to go down. Thing such as alcoholism or drug abuse can stem from the early stages of unwinding stress relief.

I don't agree with the people that say only sleep in your bed. So what if you doze off on the couch one night? Some of the best sleep I have ever gotten has been in the worst possible places. The couch, the floor, a car, etc. If you're comfortable wherever you are, then the sleep will come.

I'm not going to offer advice on the diet front, really, because that is probably my own biggest vice. I eat the worst possible foods and too damn much of it, but a side effect of that is that I am happy with it.

I do have friends that hit the gym or have regular workout routines. That works for them, and can be a form of stress relief. If you think that will help, this is pretty inspiring (also inspiring if you're depressed because of some bullshit  thing): http://aaronbleyaert.tumblr.com/post/109959086957

The bottom line is to increase things that make you happy, and decrease things that don't.

 

I sound a lot like your story at times, so the stuff above is just from my own experience. I don't drink, smoke, do any drugs or get a lot of sleep (2 kids) myself and, as I said, my diet is pretty horrible. But, for the most part, I make the most of what I am dealt, and try to keep a positive attitude with everything. If you can do those things, you'll notice the bad things a lot less because they won't be there, or because you'll be able to deal with them better.

[Bronn]

Also, on the "getting sick a lot" front...

I think it is because illnesses are adapting to us, and we are overcompensating with antibiotics, etc.

Being sick sucks. But everyone has been in the same boat, from what I have experienced, lately. It is a majority of people, not just you and I.

Chemtrails man... Chemtrails...

[Khyber53]

8 hours ago, Bronn said:

If you think that will help, this is pretty inspiring (also inspiring if you're depressed because of some bullshit  thing): http://aaronbleyaert.tumblr.com/post/109959086957

 

Man, that was worth reading. Really, really worth it.

[frash.exe]

On April 11, 2016 at 3:19 PM, Khyber53 said:

Dude, you can eat wheat berries and drink 12 gallons of water a day, go to bed at 7 p.m. and contemplate your navel and it isn't going to do you a bit of good.

It's the job.

It's killing you and you know it deep down, but won't admit it.

Everything you are trying to do, it is to meet the performance requirements of the job. Not a bit about enjoying yourself, your family or your life.

Go find something else to do in less of a pressure cooker situation where you are only safe when you are the lead dog killing yourself to make someone else a buttload of money.

It's the job.

*sigh*

I'm probably gonna agree with you and say you're half right here. It's not the job, though. It's jobs. It's the state of working in this country.   The workforce culture in America is horrible and should be reformed dramatically. I think about this from time to time. Sometimes I feel like I'm in a rat race. That we're going back to the industrial revolution working environment where increased productivity is demanded forevermore until it stretches out the limits of tolerance on the human body and the collective physical and mental well-being of this country goes down the toilet.

 The traffic is the worst it's ever been every day. I drive past the same accident in the same spot once or twice a week. Last week I'm in the left lane on a highway and some guy in a white Mercedes almost legit drives into me from the middle lane. He probably would've if I didn't notice him out of the corner of my eye and made a quick maneuver onto the shoulder. This isn't a driving error made out of lack of skill. This is just poor judgment. There was an exit coming up on the left but he wasn't even trying to make it; he just wanted to be in the left lane. I know this because I saw him behind me for like another 4 miles. 

We're a bunch of strung-out, caffeine-addled bastions of exhaustion by the time we walk into the office. Everybody is short on a Monday. Everybody over 36 has a back support or a donut fit onto their chair. Everybody over 50 can't wait until retirement. At some point you meet someone in your office whose cube is adorned with Dilbert comics. I can't think of a more appropriate expression of giving up your goals in life than finding Dilbert relatable. Some managers look at smartphones like giant dildos with gold sparkles on them and can't see someone flip it out to text their S/O or pregnant sister or whatever for five seconds lest they turn into R Lee Ermey. Dunkin donuts in the break room is like fuging Christmas Day for these people. If you surveyed a bunch of random office spaces, I bet you'd find an alarming portion of the employees have never even heard of OSHA. 

The work isn't mentally stimulating for me. I could quit but what is out there? I'm just going to be working for someone else or some other faceless board of directors that can't be negotiated with for a raise and enforce their employee directives and policies through HR, which isn't really a department it's just a less fortunate extension of the executive department. My last job was especially like this and that's a main reason why I left. They don't think of you as anything more than a gear performing a function so the business works like a clock. This is what I went to college for? This is what I went through all the loops to be educated is for?

I thought about getting a nice DSLR and once I got good enough to know it around, I could do some freelance photography for real estate, because, my god, you look at some of the listings on Zillow and the photos look like they were shot with a Nokia from 2003. And we're not even getting into things like staging, just resolution. Maybe start on the side and see where it took me. Because right now I can't think of something I want to do that confines me to a desk or singular location for 40+ hours a week for the next 40 years of my life.

Sometimes I tell my parents I want to move to Australia, like Melbourne and set myself up and start a new life away from this overcrowded shitfest of materialistic people who take themselves way too seriously called North Jersey, where I have to sit in line for 20 minutes to buy a candy bar. They laugh at me. Little do they know if I had the money I'd fuging do it. 

[stirs]

Thought of leaving NJ for other parts of the US?

What is your field of work?

[frash.exe]

Right now, inventory for computer equipment. But before that I did troubleshooting and configuration which exposed me to a little bit of everything I guess.

[Khyber53]

10 hours ago, frash.exe said:

*sigh*

I'm probably gonna agree with you and say you're half right here. It's not the job, though. It's jobs. It's the state of working in this country.   The workforce culture in America is horrible and should be reformed dramatically. I think about this from time to time. Sometimes I feel like I'm in a rat race. That we're going back to the industrial revolution working environment where increased productivity is demanded forevermore until it stretches out the limits of tolerance on the human body and the collective physical and mental well-being of this country goes down the toilet.

...

Yep. Can't argue with you a bit. I gave up a good career for a break, then went out and chased an office job and a paycheck for 15 years. One day, that office job that I hated was gone, poof. I had been cast aside. I chased more of them, and then one day I said screw it and went back to what I wanted to do for a living.

The checks aren't as big as before, but man, I haven't regretted it. I have fun, I have a life, I have control over my days. It has made the world of difference.

Then again, I'm not in NJ, but in NC. Maybe you need to head South where life is at a much more human-friendly pace.

Edit to say: "If you come South, though, don't be bringing that bad workplace crap with you. We don't want any of that down here."

[TheRumGone]

21 hours ago, frash.exe said:

*sigh*

I'm probably gonna agree with you and say you're half right here. It's not the job, though. It's jobs. It's the state of working in this country.   The workforce culture in America is horrible and should be reformed dramatically. I think about this from time to time. Sometimes I feel like I'm in a rat race. That we're going back to the industrial revolution working environment where increased productivity is demanded forevermore until it stretches out the limits of tolerance on the human body and the collective physical and mental well-being of this country goes down the toilet.

 The traffic is the worst it's ever been every day. I drive past the same accident in the same spot once or twice a week. Last week I'm in the left lane on a highway and some guy in a white Mercedes almost legit drives into me from the middle lane. He probably would've if I didn't notice him out of the corner of my eye and made a quick maneuver onto the shoulder. This isn't a driving error made out of lack of skill. This is just poor judgment. There was an exit coming up on the left but he wasn't even trying to make it; he just wanted to be in the left lane. I know this because I saw him behind me for like another 4 miles. 

We're a bunch of strung-out, caffeine-addled bastions of exhaustion by the time we walk into the office. Everybody is short on a Monday. Everybody over 36 has a back support or a donut fit onto their chair. Everybody over 50 can't wait until retirement. At some point you meet someone in your office whose cube is adorned with Dilbert comics. I can't think of a more appropriate expression of giving up your goals in life than finding Dilbert relatable. Some managers look at smartphones like giant dildos with gold sparkles on them and can't see someone flip it out to text their S/O or pregnant sister or whatever for five seconds lest they turn into R Lee Ermey. Dunkin donuts in the break room is like fuging Christmas Day for these people. If you surveyed a bunch of random office spaces, I bet you'd find an alarming portion of the employees have never even heard of OSHA. 

The work isn't mentally stimulating for me. I could quit but what is out there? I'm just going to be working for someone else or some other faceless board of directors that can't be negotiated with for a raise and enforce their employee directives and policies through HR, which isn't really a department it's just a less fortunate extension of the executive department. My last job was especially like this and that's a main reason why I left. They don't think of you as anything more than a gear performing a function so the business works like a clock. This is what I went to college for? This is what I went through all the loops to be educated is for?

I thought about getting a nice DSLR and once I got good enough to know it around, I could do some freelance photography for real estate, because, my god, you look at some of the listings on Zillow and the photos look like they were shot with a Nokia from 2003. And we're not even getting into things like staging, just resolution. Maybe start on the side and see where it took me. Because right now I can't think of something I want to do that confines me to a desk or singular location for 40+ hours a week for the next 40 years of my life.

Sometimes I tell my parents I want to move to Australia, like Melbourne and set myself up and start a new life away from this overcrowded shitfest of materialistic people who take themselves way too seriously called North Jersey, where I have to sit in line for 20 minutes to buy a candy bar. They laugh at me. Little do they know if I had the money I'd fuging do it. 

This is seriously the best post I've ever read on the huddle. Ever.

[frash.exe]

9 minutes ago, TheRumGone said:

This is seriously the best post I've ever read on the huddle. Ever.

If this forum had the platform of tumblr imagine how many of my commentaries you'd see people posting on Facebook and Instagram in four years

[pstall]

Work dillusionionment is nothing new. Sadly.

I would guess 60-70% of Americans are misemployed.

We simply have a small portion of the workforce that are doing what they love. Many factors but chances are their passions don't pay very much.

I run circles around those above me, get more done in a faster more effective way AND get the most out of those i lead and it's all for not.

Layers and layers of insecure middle managers who destroy any shooting stars and exasperate thier direct reports. So many companies make money despite themselves.  

If more people would do what they were born to do you would see a Renaissance like never before. Stress would go down. Work life balance satisfaction would go thru the roof. Innovation would multiply and the collective qualtiy of life would become exponential. 

 

[Bronn]

I would watch Fight Club. Watch it a lot.