• Bear@wirebase.org
        3·
        1 year ago

        Thanks. It’s been three years and I miss it. I’ll be pretty happy just to get back to hobbling with a cane.

        …I think we both have a long ways to go until retirement. Maybe a career change is in order?

        • Thorny_Thicket
          4·
          1 year ago

          What happened if I may ask?

          And yeah you’re probably right. I’ve been wanting to try start my own company of one for a long time, but I’m just too scared to step out of my comfort zone despite life giving me great opportunities to switch and I’m once again staring at one in the face right now.

          • Bear@wirebase.org
            1·
            1 year ago

            I have Charcot’s. So far we’ve managed to keep my legs attached but they’re in rough shape.

            I know it can be scary but sometimes you just have to take the leap. Years ago I moved across the country with just what I could fit in my car and it ended up being the best decision of my life. It could go wrong or it could be the smartest thing you’ve ever done. You won’t know unless you try.

            • Thorny_Thicket
              2·
              1 year ago

              Man that’s rough… It’s really hard to appreciate things we take for granted untill it’s taken away. I really feel for the blind and people unable to walk. I couldn’t imagine having to go thru that myself. It really is things that just happens to other people and not me untill it does. I hope future medicine and science has an ace up in its sleeve to help people like you.

  • Thorny_Thicket
    41·
    1 year ago

    To retire. I’m not even 40 yet but I dread going to work every morning. I don’t even hate my work - I just don’t feel like even the relatively good salary I get is enough to compensate for the lost time.

    • Rocinante@lemmy.one
      16·
      1 year ago

      I think I know what you mean. I’ve hit a phase where time spent at work feels like wasted time, since it’s not time I got to spend doing something I wanted to be doing. Which is really contrary to the usual philosophy that time not spent money is wasted.

      I’ve switched jobs gone back to school etc, but no matter what once something becomes a mandatory routine that time feels like a waste. I’m starting to really value and cherish the seconds I actually have control over.

      • chepox
        6·
        1 year ago

        This feeling gets worse when you realize that the time we have is a limited, non-renovating and exhaustible resource. We give this away for money over and over until we run out. Depressing as fuck.

    • GreatWhiteBuffalo41@slrpnk.netEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      I took 9 months off work (well kinda I did some freelance shit but I mostly got to not work). I did eventually get bored but it took 6 of those 9 months to actually get bored lol. It may have been different if I had enough money to do whatever I wanted but, I had enough to survive.

      • Thorny_Thicket
        9·
        1 year ago

        I had a year long paid leave and that confirmed for me that my sense of meaning is in no way tied to my work.

        • GreatWhiteBuffalo41@slrpnk.netEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          To me, it just showed me that I can essentially do whatever I want to make myself happy. Work, not work, hobbies, whatever is right for the moment.

    • pickelsurprise@lemmy.loungerat.io
      6·
      1 year ago

      Yeah. I don’t necessarily even want to retire right now, it’s more that hanging axe feeling that I’m never going to be able to, between decreasing purchasing power and increasing age requirements for retirement benefits. Makes it hard to get motivated to work knowing I’m going to have to keep doing it until I’m in my grave.

  • Refurbished Refurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org
    311·
    1 year ago

    Socialism and stability. I want to persue my passions without needing to devote half of my waking hours to a job (which all are incredibly mentally draining for me), and without fear of not having my basic needs met, and I want everyone else to have the same opportunity. A job should be supplimental if people choose to work, which many will, as they feel it gives them purpose.

    A post-scarcity society and the death of corruption would be cool too.

    • chrizbie@lemmy.nzOP
      18·
      1 year ago

      Yeah it’s always strange to me that most people are working class yet most people are so allergic to the idea of socialism, thanks Russia

      • Refurbished Refurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org
        8·
        1 year ago

        P r o p a g a n d a

        Also the history of centralized control over industry hasn’t worked out too well. I’m more of the Richard Wolff philosophy of democracy over the workplace, along with a very strong social safety net, including, but not limited to a UBI that is enough for people to comfortably live on.

        • bigkix@lemm.ee
          13·
          1 year ago

          If everyone got UBI, no one would eventually be able to live comfortably off it.

          Edit: Also, “propaganda” but “the history of centralized control over industry hasn’t worked out too well” LOL

      • novibe@lemmy.mlEnglish
        31·
        1 year ago

        Huummm… thanks Russia? And not the CIA? Why would Russia be responsible for people hating socialism?

          • novibe@lemmy.mlEnglish
            3·
            1 year ago

            It ended really badly, but how did it not go very well during it? Honest question here.

              • novibe@lemmy.mlEnglish
                1·
                1 year ago

                Authoritarianism doesn’t really mean much. And according to the US (through the CIA) itself, Stalin-era USSR was more democratic than appeared in western media.

                https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP80-00810A006000360009-0.pdf

                But in any case, even if that was the case, it wasn’t “authoritarian” after Stalin. Like y’know, most countries after WW2 (not just Italy and Germany btw. Or people forget Churchill and FDR, and the “war economies”? The internment camps, jailing of “political dissidents” etc. etc.).

  • Squirrel@thelemmy.club
    19·
    1 year ago

    For the world to be un-fucked – the ultra-wealthy (and system as a whole) giving a damn about people, the climate, etc. There are many other things I want, but if I could have anything, this would be it.

  • vis4valentine@lemmy.ml
    19·
    1 year ago

    Live in a country where I can legally marry my boyfriend, have a little nice place and not be bothered by people.

          • ab60753@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
            13·
            1 year ago

            3 things.

            • increased right wing politics including fucking nazies and racistw being the second largest party now… yay/s
            • we had a large amount of immigration that becouse it wassent handeled correctly a.i. actual programs for integration, lack of said social security … there are now larger wealth gaps and seperations in sweden that ever in 40 years.
            • our social security is increasingly privitized and it is frustrating af. I am well off ill be fine, but it frustrates me sincr thease kind of wellfare sytems (substedies, helthcare, schools …) help reduce crime, and make people happier but no… lets just increase punishments and make sure that ritch comunites are safe and fuck upp the poor…
            • Disgusted_Tadpole@lemmy.ml
              9·
              1 year ago

              Well, it’s +/- the same for all Western Europe I guess. I’m from France and we also witness our then really strong public services getting weaker and weaker. Privatisation and less stated owned, leaning a bit towards the (beware, hot take) fucked up US system.

              Regarding immigration, we do have a problem here : people coming to France can’t be welcomed in good conditions. We must either stop or reduce it (right wing answer) or invest way more than we do now to welcome them more decently (left wing answer). But something needs to be done indeed.

  • AlolanYoda@mander.xyz
    17·
    1 year ago

    Moving on with my life.

    I’m near the end of my PhD. I’ve been at this lab for 5 years, as I joined before beginning my PhD, and I’ve been at the same university for 11ish years since I started my bachelor’s. I deliver my thesis in April if all goes well, and can’t wait to see what life has in store for me elsewhere.

    I love most of my coworkers, but a few drive me nuts (and everyone else, too, and I tend to be a good mediator so I always end up in a position where I’m the only one who tries to help the troublesome guys). My main supervisor moved to another country a few years ago, and the one that took me in (the only other person with PhD students in the whole lab) hates my project (she has explicitly said so) and can’t wait to get me to work on what everyone else is working on. Meanwhile my other supervisor (the one that moved) has recommended that I let go of the few responsibilities I had in this lab (apart from my project), which is a good decision, but has made me feel like I no longer belong here. Since I’m also retracting a bit to work on some papers, I feel increasingly isolated even though I love my coworkers.

    Can’t wait to finally get this over with and have an actual career in a lab where people don’t hate my project, or even an industry job where I can feel like I actually make a difference. I’m also a bit fed up with the conditions in my country and would like to try moving somewhere where nanotech is actually in demand, like the Netherlands or something. Maybe I’ll even risk a dramatic move to Asia!

      • AlolanYoda@mander.xyz
        6·
        1 year ago

        Not the answer I was expecting, but I did come out of a break up recently so whatever life has in store for me I guess

    • Helix 🧬@feddit.deEnglish
      31·
      1 year ago

      Are you also read as female? Because then your boss might just feel that you steal her show. Academia is highly competitive for women and maybe you can try to mitigate that by finding out what you can do to get on her sunny side.

      In my experience if people hate (very strong word!) projects at work, it’s usually rather the case that they’re unhappy with their own work and project this jealousy onto others.

      Usually happens within the same gender, or between people who identify as binary against enbies.

      • AlolanYoda@mander.xyzEnglish
        41·
        1 year ago

        I’m sorry, I am fully male-presenting (and was assigned male at birth - which is relevant as my boss is super conservative and would not tolerate a trans person in her office. The LGBTQ lay low here).

        My supervisor, however, IS read as female, and I fully suspect that she is who my boss has a problem with. Especially after she left, as my boss saw this as a personal betrayal of sorts. And since my own project is inexorably linked to my supervisor, I get these reactions by association.

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      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.