Wife (Community Manager) currently works from the couch in our living room and I (SWE) work from a sit-stand desk in a sunroom. We bought a floating home in the PNW just before Covid hit and it’s been a great work-from-home spot. Starlink internet has been an absolute lifesaver.
I’m on a Macbook Pro with dual monitor setup, Kinesis Advantage ergo keyboard, and Logitech trackball for mouse.
I’m renovating our bedroom right now on nights and weekends—the room is currently gutted down to plywood and drywall. Economically, it makes sense for me to hire the job out, but I get so much satisfaction doing it myself, working with my hands and seeing the job well done.
I was profoundly burned out in early 2021. I almost rage quit about 50 times, life lost all joy, dark thoughts, the works.
Wife told me to quit which took a huge psychological weight off my chest. Didn’t end up quitting, but told my boss I was burned out and took two weeks off to rest. Enrolled in therapy and started taking an SSRI for the first time in my life. Project From Hell wrapped up and the work stress dissipated.
A year later and I am much better but still recovering.
I hope you can get your partner’s support to quit, even if you don’t go through with it.
I haven’t tried shrooms but had a similarly horrifying bad trip on weed brownies at my parents’ place a few years ago. My dad had just gotten into baking them and insisted I have two (BIG mistake) and I spent the next 6-or-so hours cycling through panic attacks and hallucinations while absolutely convinced I had murdered my parents earlier that evening.
Gotta say, my ole man knows how to make a potent pot brownie.
I interviewed at a company last month that reminded me of your experience. The interviewer was extremely rude and it was more of an interrogation than anything.
After berating one of my responses, I told him this wasn’t going to work out, that this was easily the most off putting interview I’d ever experienced, but thanks for the consideration.
The dude was stunned, apologized profusely, and we somehow salvaged the last 20 minutes which we spent nerding out on tech and hobbies.
I ended up taking my name out of consideration, but it was a cool experience realizing I can (respectfully but assertively) tell people to fuck off if I need to.
I’ve had StarLink installed for a week now. We live on a floating house in Oregon, and up until now, DSL was our only viable option. That’s been hard given my wife and I both work remotely and do a lot of video calls.
Our impression: it’s fast, latency is awesome, but “downtime” is common and disruptive. Having the internet go offline at random intervals through the day, often for 10+ minutes, is a thing. We expected some of this given it’s currently in beta and it should get better as they make improvements and add satellites.
It’s a free, private online journal with a focus on mental health.
I spent $4k usd in the domain name in 2015 and around another $4k in operating costs since then.
It has virtually zero marketing and has organically picked up around 1,500 users. I use it myself every day which is success enough for me. Fun project that has helped me land a few jobs, and my scant user base seems to dig it.
Care to elaborate? It’s abundantly clear to me that disinformation and conspiracy theories is a major, and probably the biggest, threat to democracy. I mean, shit, there was a major effort to undermine the U.S. elections resulting in a violent insurrection and there isn’t any sign of this slowing down.
Feeling lost in an enigmatic codebase. God, I hate that feeling.
My very first day as a software engineer, my boss had me pull down a massive code base, showed me the backlog, and told me to get to work. No training, no mentor. Years later, and I still only have a faint idea what that goddamn program did. Stuff of nightmares.
My wife and are I live in a pretty small house (one story, 1,300 so ft) so we’re pretty much in sight if each other almost 24 hours a day.
I don’t really have much to offer beyond what you’re doing but spontaneity is nice. Today we both felt like shit with what went down in the capitol yesterday do we said fuck it, called out of work tmrw, and we’re currently in a hotel room on the coast drinking beer and eating pizza on the bed (well, we were, now it’s “friend phone time”).
Aside from that: working out together and drives out in the countryside.
Valid points on eating more whole, unprocessed foods.
But shout out to some of the plant-based meats coming to market. My wife and I switched to a 99% vegan diet this year and I’m impressed with how good plant-based meat has gotten. I can hardly tell the difference between plant-based and real meat.
I’m on a Macbook Pro with dual monitor setup, Kinesis Advantage ergo keyboard, and Logitech trackball for mouse.