Pick something to get good at, then really work to get really good at it. The younger the better. But be focused. Ideally something you can make money with.
IMHO that’s a surefire way to burnout and self-doubts later on. My advice would almost be the opposite.
Never too late to change if what you’re doing isn’t working for you. Recognize when you’re about to kill your passion with expectations, and don’t do it. There is little to no cross-disciplinary knowledge that doesn’t come in useful, so don’t force yourself to be single-minded in your pursuits. What you’re learning matters surprisingly little, that you’re learning matters so much more.
But yea, don’t change major pursuits, like, every year. Probably depends on the person which advice they need. I definitely would have needed the latter.
Get a dashcam. It’s worth your whole car and everything in it.
Wear hearing protection.
Can you share model details. Also, possible to use while driving/swimming.
It’s really easy to have an alcohol problem without realizing you have an alcohol problem. This is especially true in people with certain personality or mental health conditions. Alcohol cost me a ridiculous amount of money and at least one job and nearly a couple of others. I was drinking to get out of social anxiety and have addiction issues in general, but somehow didn’t see how bad I was getting. I would take time off drinking and think I was fine, but I always went back to it. Never start that. Also, never start smoking.
Sleeping with someone you love, when they don’t love you, is a heartwrenching experience as soon as one of you gets off. Doubly so if they’re cheating on someone.
Get. Your. Oil. Changed.
It’s quite embarrassing, but I don’t drive very much (have been working from home for almost 5 years now) and let time and miles get away from me. I’m currently waiting to hear back, but I’m very likely going to need to get a new engine, so this will be the most expensive mistake that I’ve ever made.
Not just, “change your oil at the recommended intervals”, but “change your oil annually, even if you don’t reach the service interval”. If you car is going to be sitting for an extended period of time, drain the tank, run the car dry, put the battery on a tender, and change the oil before you start it back up. (Reason: most gas in the US has ethanol in it, and ethanol is hygroscopic. Water in your engine is bad. )
Same…
Never start a machined bolt/nut with your electric drill. Start it by hand first.
And start it backward, slowly. You can feel the thread drop in. Then start to turn the right way.
Works with threads in plastic as well so the metal screw doesn’t make new ones.
care to elaborate?
By hand you can feel that you’ve engaged the thread properly. If you just send it with a power tool then dealing with cross threaded fasteners is in your future.
my assumption is a machined bolt is not as tempered as a store purchased one so using an electric tool on it could strip the head.
Using a hand tool applies less torque so you are less likely to strip it.“Machined” doesn’t mean “homemade”, it’s a manufacturing method meaning that the threads of the bolt/nut were cut from a smooth piece of metal (as opposed to being cast or forged from a mold). Machined hardware is more likely to have defects like tiny nicks in the threads or bent threads that can damage/ destroy whatever you’re using it to fasten. You can usually tell pretty quickly if you’ve got a shitty bolt or nut if you’re threading it by hand - any irregularities are easy to feel. But if you just blast it with a power drill right off the rip, you won’t feel any of it, and might end up with an unplanned permanent fixture.
But can I strip…myself??? I WANNA BE NAKED!!!
Not recommended while using power tools.
Based on my posting history, I thought this comment was in reference to pissing and shitting your pants in your sleep.
Also not recommended while using power tools.
That sounds like quitter talk to me.
By the time the changes in your health are dramatic enough that you notice the difference, you’ve already done enough damage to warrant a loooong recovery. This goes double for mental health.
A lot of people will just write off symptoms that don’t disrupt their daily routine. “Walk it off,” so to speak. But that’s when you should have started looking for what lifestyle changes you could make to avoid anything more dire in the future.
I failed out of college the first time I ignored my anxiety and depression. This time, it led to a complete breakdown that I’m still struggling to overcomevthe symptoms of: I spend every day feeling on edge like my safety is threatened, and my gut revolts at every crumb of food. At night I twitch and can’t sleep from the stomach pain without a sleeping pill. And it’s been better this week than it was this time last month, where I hadn’t slept for >48 hours, after a week of waking up every hour nightly, and was in the worst pain I’ve ever experienced as my body started to digest itself.
It started slowly in spring, with just a panic attack once a week or so, and spikes of anxiety that caused my vision to shake too much to see… But I still perservered without much thought. The doc prescribed me anti-vert meds, said it was just vertigo induced by allergies, sent me on. I forgot about it all summer as I focused on obligations and trips and work.
And now I’m wondering if this is just my life now, if I’ll never feel relaxed again. Will the meds and therapy work, or have I done irreversible damage to my brain through inaction? Admittedly a less unpleasant thought than wondering if I’d ever be able to see straight long enough to get work done and put food on the table, or stand up without collapsing from panic and dizziness. At times I’ve wondered how much more I can take before suicide starts to sound like the better alternative.
I’m gonna keep on fighting and healing, but holy shit I wish I had just started the meds sooner.
Always out matching money into your 491k.
As someone who thought they couldnt afford it. I could have. Just do it. I regret not doing it sooner so much.
Check out Mr FancyPants over here, investing in their 491k while us plebs invest in our 401ks
You have a 401k? I have an old lunchbox I put quarters into…
You have a lunchbox?!? Lucky you, I have to hold my quarters in my mouth and my friends all call me “Mumbles”.
If you see a toilet in your dreams, don’t use it!
What about if there’s a fire, can I use the hose to put it out?
It probably wouldn’t even put the fire out.
Watch “Strange Brew” and let me know if you change your mind on that.
Awesome Canadian movie.
When that was first said, what came to mind was actually Gulliver’s Travels with Jack Black. Fires are typically not even weak to a firefighting hose, that’s why those firefighting games at Chuck E. Cheese are so hard. Firefighting is actually more difficult than that.
Can’t confirm. I’ve had lucid dreams, where I’m aware that it’s a dream, but not in control.
Then I started just pissing everywhere. And I could feel my sweatpants getting soaked. And then I shit myself. And in the dream I’m panicing because I know it’s happening in real life. I’m very aware that when I wake up my sweatpants will be piss soaked, and I have shat myself. I can FEEL it happening as it happens. Then I wake up. No shit. No piss. Totally dry, and I IMMEDIATELY need to get to a bathroom. Where I shit and piss in the toilet.
And then I stand up, and there’s no shit or piss in the toilet. And I’m like “WTF??? Am I just groggy? What the hell is happening???”
Then the toilet starts talking. “FEED ME YOUR TASTY POOPS!!!” And I’m like what the fuck is going on? Am I on drugs???" And this toilet is getting angry that I won’t shit in it’s mouth. Then it starts stomping around like the piano from Super Mario 64.
Then I wake up, and IMMEDIATELY need to piss and shit. So I run to the toilet, and yell at the toilet “ARE YOU GOING TO DEMAND I SHIT IN YOUR MOUTH??? I KNOW YOUR TRICKS, TOILET!!!”
And thats when I hear my neighbors laughing, because the walls are thin, it’s 3AM, and they now think I’m crazy.
This has happened several times. I hope I never meet my neighbors.
Weed will reduce your dreams, which could be good or bad in your situation.
Cool story, bro.
what the fuck
This made me laugh so much 😂
I was mostly wtf, but I will admit I did laugh.
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Remember that, in general, consuming almost always costs you something while producing can potentially give you something. This is true in a very broad sense.
…although not true of poop.
Technically it is. Producing it gives you feeling of achievment (depending of the product size) while consuming costs you your dignity.
what if I lost my dignity long ago already?
Enjoy your snack, you earned it!
Be true to yourself and don’t be afraid to say how you feel. That’s what it means to be human; no one gets extra points for hiding it.
some cool stuff also qualifies as either luck, brave or stupid; or a combination of those.
what’s brave today maybe an embarassing thing that keeps you up at night later.
Username…relevant?
Think twice before lending money.
Don’t lend money that you expect to get back.
This is the way
I don’t lend.
If they need money and I can afford it, I’ll just make a gift of it.
If I can’t afford it, they can’t have it.
Don’t get entangled in interpersonal drama among the people you know. If someone comes to you with some petty bullshit about someone else, and you weren’t there, don’t take their word for it, don’t repeat their story.
