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Cake day: July 18th, 2023

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  • An elevator music job is exactly what I want. Something that I can do four days a week, that doesn’t totally suck, and that I don’t have to think about when I’m not at work. Add work-from-home and I’ll be the happiest fella around. My big issue with my “career” is that I’m about to graduate with a degree that’s not entirely useless but very general, if that makes sense. There will always be someone with more adequate, more specific qualifications than me, and because there are very few jobs in my field that I wouldn’t hate, my options are extremely limited. My current job would fit the bill fairly well if it paid better, but the company only hires students for it, and if I wanted to stay with them after graduating, I’d need to become something like a team leader. Add that I’ll definitely be one of the first to go if they run into financial hardships, and it doesn’t feel like a viable career any more.

    That’s why I’m thinking about doing an apprenticeship in a completely different field that has way more job opportunities that are, on average, better paid and more secure. It’s still a scary thought, though. I’ve been in the “trying to find myself” phase for so long, but my interests change so rapidly that I never really pursue anything for long enough to actually find myself in any of it.

    I agree that working conditions are often hostile to human nature, and I guess our entire economic system needs a major overhaul to create a world where people like the 26-year-old woman you mention don’t see themselves forced to do things like that (it’s also really fucking with my head whenever I hear that someone who’s younger than me has died). I try my best to put myself in a position where I’ll never have to even think about doing that because of a job, and I definitely have the kind of mindset that puts work last, but living in a world like this is extremely taxing nonetheless. It’s not just the body perpetuating existence that’s so hard. It’s the extreme mental strain of living under conditions that make perpetuating existence so difficult that is really taking its toll on me.

    And I appreciate your old fart advice. Thank you <3








  • LordAmplifier@pawb.socialto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneRule
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    6 days ago

    Is this a Microsoft joke that I’m too LibreOffice to understand?

    • A bug in Microsoft 365 version 2409 is auto-deleting Word documents while saving.
    • The bug affects those documents that have capitalized “DOCX” file extension or include “#” in the file name.
    • Thankfully, the file is moved to the Recycle Bin which can be restored. For now, you can rename the file extension to avoid the bug.

    That’s interesting. I don’t know anything about programming, but it’s always funny how a small change somewhere can break software like this.










  • LordAmplifier@pawb.socialto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneRule
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    8 days ago

    Picking a favourite is tough! Dergs are definitely very cute, and there is such a large variety of them. They can be fluffy or scaly, wings or no wings, big or smol. My sona is a canine, and they are very fluffy, cuddly, and have pretty beans. But felines are cute, too! And avians are so elegant, and protogens are super cool. If I really had to pick a favourite, I think I’d choose canines because I like them in art and “in person” (fursuits). Protogens are a close second, though. Do you have a particular kind of derg that’s your favourite?