To have a good manager and better support at work. It would make my job much more engaging and I’d be more productive too.
To finally propose to my girlfriend. Bad family circumstances have stopped that as of late, but I’d like to not worry anymore about it and just move on with my damn life…
To be happy. Depression is hell.
Honestly same.
I just want to be happy (◞‸◟)
I’m sorry to hear that my guy
The first step to happiness is to have hope. Think about a lifelong dream of your’s, and then form a plan on how to achieve it.
I’m all for hope, but clinical depression is lifelong. There’s always going to be ups and extreme downs. Stating that happiness is an end stage that people with clinical depression can reach and maintain isn’t realistic.
I have clinical depression. Speaking from experience here.
Same.
To retire or change my job. If you want to get into IT, never become a sysadmin if you don’t absolutely love your job. I’m overqualified and with every day I do sneaker admin stuff, I stray further from the actual prestigious software engineering job I wanted in the first place.
I moved from IT to software engineering. My deepest desire is also to retire or change my job. lol
Honestly, I just want to work on whatever I want to work on. I’m so tired of building other peoples’ bullshit. I miss enjoying this work.
I moved from IT to software engineering. My deepest desire is also to retire or change my job. lol
Grass is always greener on the retirement side.
Same, same.
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A job and a decent earning.
I just wanna like chill with no responsibilities or overhead for a bit
I keep thinking about how retirement is only… 30 years away. Yup. Only 30 more years then I get a few where I don’t have to do the mundane drudgery.
I want to be happy.
Came here to say something similar. Currently hating life and fantasizing how I’d quit my job and burn this bridge
A cure for my arthritis, I’m tired of it and it’s fucking uncurable.
I haven’t been able to work most of the last two months due to h medication change. Wheees drug roulette. Incidentally, I woke up because prednisone makes sleeping fun.
You’re not alone, though I’d take deletion over a cure at this point.
I would like to know how it feels to be competent at a job - any job. In my four decades on this earth I still haven’t managed to find out what I want to be when I grow up. I’ve had many jobs over the years but never ever felt like I was decent at any of them. They’re usually the kinds of jobs people don’t want to do so I’m decently job-secure despite my ineptitude.
Ever heard about the Dunning-Kruger effect?
Sure, and impostor syndrome. But both of those are supposed to be transient, and people eventually ease into their roles and lose their doubts about their abilities. That never happened to me. I’ve also never stuck around anywhere long enough to get promoted above rank and file so I don’t have a single worthwhile achievement to put on my CV for prospective future employers.
On top of that, I’m fairly sure my current job will not even exist in a year or 5 due to AI, so I’m already looking for a completely different alternative/field unrelated to my current one.
I’ve been going at my job for over 6 years now and I have turned down promotions because they would make me worse off in several respects. Most workers are “rank and file”, by definition; we can’t all be managers.
No one would work then. (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞
I just want to say that paid employment doesn’t need to be what defines you. A lot of people never ‘find their passion’ or ‘follow their dream’. It’s very ok to just work for money. You don’t need to be a superstar at work. You can just enjoy the paycheck part of the job. Just do something to make money, that’s fine. You probably underestimate the value of just showing up regularly, even if you think the quality of your work is below what you want, literally just showing up on time and doing the job is putting you ahead of at least half the people who do those jobs.
Thanks for your kind words! Very much appreciated. I do struggle with self esteem and valuing myself but this is more about feeling competent than confident. I don’t need to be the best in my field or anything, but it’d be nice to have contributed at least something worthwhile other than just the everyday grind.
Stability. Life has been so tumultuous this past year and I just want things to level out.
Sleep
To be calm. I’m in a constant state of panic. I don’t know what to do because the pills aren’t really working… I have awfully bad anxiety.
I hope this doesn’t come across as patronizing but have you tried vipassana or a similar style of meditation? My wife had really severe anxiety and she found this to be the thing that helped her the most.
Interesting. I’ll have to take a look at that!
If you’re able to find time to do a 10 day vipassana retreat, I highly recommend it. It’s free and they provide good food, run entirely by volunteers and donations and they have centers all over the world. I’ve done it a couple times and I know several other folks who have and it is a very compelling experience. I really think the technique they teach is a real cognitive skill, it’s taught from a buddhist perspective but there is no requirement that you adhere to any particular spiritual beliefs.
I’m sure there are other forms of meditation that may or may not be helpful, this is just the one I’ve had positive experiences with.
To make something of myself. I had a decent paying job that I recently quit because I felt it was a waste of my time and skills. I’m passionate and I want to learn to grow.
