It’s friday, so lets try to end the week in a positive note with a laugh.

My own: got the first compliment of my life after a locker room raid.

I was told I was pretty easy on the eye with no top on, with a smile and a wink to boot, after a few minutes of playing the toss the bundle around game.

  • @kakes@sh.itjust.works
    54•6 months ago

    I was laid off from my welding job. My boss liked me, so he helped me get a job at another shop. But I was in a really bad head-space in that time of my life in general, so that combined with a few other things, and I quit that new job within about 2 days after starting.

    I was totally unable to find a welding job after that. There was a reason the first so laid me off after all - oil markets had crashed, and I lived in a very oil-dependant city. So I ended up working temp jobs to get by, but for a solid 2 years I did nothing but kick myself for being so stupid. To this day, I think quitting that job was one of the stupidest things I’ve ever done.

    Anyway, after 2 years of that, I finally decided to change gears entirely. I went to school, got a CS degree, and now I have a cushy, well paying programming job.

    I still think it was stupid to quit that job back then, but if I hadn’t, I wouldn’t be where I am now. I often think about how I can apply that way of thinking to other areas of my life.

    • @grabyourmotherskeys@lemmy.world
      6•6 months ago

      I find devs that have a blue collar (or whatever) background are the best. You know what actual work is separate from the programming aspect.

      I got into dev later in life and the real world experience contributed to my ability to focus, complete work, get along with others, and appreciate the value of a well paying job where I wasn’t physically at risk.

      • Chaotic EntropyEnglish
        28•6 months ago

        Sounds like something that was “funny” in the 90s but is considered a crime now.

        • qyronOP
          5•6 months ago

          Hey, the least I can say was that both locker rooms got mutually raided, so it was an equal opportunity exercise.

      • athos77
        12•6 months ago

        “Embarrassing moment” + “no top on”: OP is very likely a woman because men aren’t likely to be embarrassed by being topless. I’d guess a bunch of other people* ran into the girls locker room while she was changing and either had just a bra on up top, or nothing on up top; and they grabbed her clothes and played keep away for a few minutes. But afterward, they told her she was pretty and mildly flirted with her.

        * ‘other people’ could be boys; but it feels like OP is from the Commonwealth, meaning it could also be a boarding school and thus a locker room raid by another house.

        • qyronOP
          1•6 months ago

          Uh… Not at all. Not on the Commonwealth and not a woman.

          • @grabyourmotherskeys@lemmy.world
            2•6 months ago

            I have only been comfortable being seen with my shirt off as a man for about 10% of my life and it was a window from 18 - 23 or something. Even then, only with a tan.

            • qyronOP
              1•6 months ago

              I can definitely relate with that.

    • qyronOP
      1•6 months ago

      I’m not. At least I don’t consider myself as such.