I appreciate the detailed response! Definitely food for thought.

I tried my hand at HVAC but I absolutely cannot stand not having a schedule, nothing worse than getting home and getting a call that I have to go back out for… that and I live in an overpopulated area so driving in traffic every day was just adding to the stress. I was never more miserable than when working that job. :/

Probably not exactly what you meant, but not going to college with my group of friends that did. They went for computer science because they were interested in it and are now doing very well for themselves. I was never that interested in it and am more “hands on” with physical stuff so I didn’t feel like I should “waste” the money on that degree and figured I would spend time trying to figure out what I could do.

I never “found myself” and am currently living in someone’s garage making not much money working in a factory that’s going to be over 90°F today with 75+% humidity… So in my case the financial mistake was not taking out a loan. :/

“just hold the fucking meme and no one gets hurt ok!?”

The “problem” they’re trying to “correct” by the use of the word coordinate, is that in order for the unlimited money super pacs to be legal, they must not coordinate with the campaigns of those they support.

Now they want to have full control over the unlimited money instead of jumping through hoops to hide their control.

Billionaires are just straight up buying the country.

It’s absolutely time for another tea party, we don’t have representation, the ownership class has representation. They don’t pay taxes, but we do.

What the actual fuck… I need to find someone who is deeply familiar with the types of jobs a person could have.

If you told me “chocolate technology specialist” was a thing, I’d have probably gone to college for it. Instead I’m stuck in a factory, just dreaming about chocolate… And then going home and eating it lol

I don’t like to be too specific with what I do, I’ll just say we’re more Gucci than Garmin. Our products are “luxury” and apparently the competition isn’t really competition.

But who knows, maybe there is another one out there that is gaining popularity. I don’t really pay attention to that market other than what my job entails. Lord knows I can’t afford even our cheapest product, not to mention I have no use for it lol

How I celebrate a 3 day weekend: I make it a 4 day weekend lol

Some people use their vacation time to take a week off at once, I use it to make every 3 day weekend a 4 day weekend lol

I work for a company in the US that supplies these kinds of ships with specific equipment. I can tell you there has been a MASSIVE decline in purchases since a particular orange “man” started running the show in the US. A lot of them are “afraid” to make purchases now.

We would generally aim for a “40 unit” build week as that is pretty much our capacity, 25ish is the general slow period we face annually. We’re doing 10-13 unit build weeks now.

Yup…

“For your protection we’ve decided to arrest everyone who is not a registered Republican”

At the moment it’s Zani

She’s tired and overworked, but she cares about doing something and doing it right. Plus she has a super hot “Italian-ish” accent lol

I already gave up that hope.

I live in someone’s garage and my “retirement plan” is a shotgun sandwich.

Makes sense, it’s actually the perfect hire for the Department of Injustice.

I honestly kind of hate that I grew up in the 90s… Born mid 80s and was old enough in the 90s to have my childhood engrained with this idea that the future was all progress from there on out. Then the 2000s come along with a big ol’ middle finger and it’s just been fascists all the way down and economic decline from there. :/

Ah yes the song of our times: concerning leadership changes.

Trump administration: “We are having the DOJ investigate all Democrats involved in removing flints Great Lead Pipes! This was a wonderful Roman tradition that the Democrats DESTROYED because they’re Marxists. We’re removing all lead regulations and returning the lead to the people!! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!!”

Unfortunately we got this future Biff:

“Daddy daddy, what do you think the future will be like?”

“Oh I think it will be wonderful: flying cars, more understanding of our neighbors, space travel, cures for diseases, people will live more comfortable easy lives!”

The future: fascists, racist robots, billionaires, more fascists, bombing civilians, cutting science funding, the earth is on fire, more fascists, cutting HIV study funding, more racist robots, gutting artistic employment, more billionaires, fried donuts.

I guess it’s not all terrible, just mostly.

We’re going to look at everything. Ideally, he’s going to turn out to be much less than a communist. But right now he’s a communist. That’s not a socialist.

Ah yes, the cherished American standard of “guilty until proven innocent.”

This is what absolutely kills me about the people around me in this country…

The owner of a company has an idea of your total value, your “compensation.” They factor in the cost of healthcare in that calculation, so we’re still paying for the insurance and yet so many people see it as “their company pays for it, if we had universal healthcare then I would have to pay a tax!” … mother fucker you already pay the “tax” for a much worse, more expensive system where people still aren’t covered…