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Between finding work, working on reviewing a game or two in my spare time, going to gym to improve my health and a shit sleep schedule, along with anxiety and depression, I've been a bit absent. Hope that's okay. :/

That's perfectly okay. *hugs*
Take care of yourself first, and if you then have any time to spare, that's kool.
author=Kylaila
That's perfectly okay. *hugs*
Take care of yourself first, and if you then have any time to spare, that's kool.


Thank ya. *hugs*

It's been tough. It's difficult to find work where I live. It's more or less a highway town. We've one technical college, one shopping centre, and really nothing else that isn't family owned.

Only thing keeping me sane these days is copious amounts of music.
Kloe
I lost my arms in a tragic chibi accident
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Just like Kyla said, no rush, just take your time, we'll welcome your awesomeness whenever, just concentrate on the important things like work and family and personal stuff.
And don't forget to fix that sleep schedule. Eight hours of sleep a day isn't just an old person proverb.
author=Kloe
Just like Kyla said, no rush, just take your time, we'll welcome your awesomeness whenever, just concentrate on the important things like work and family and personal stuff.


It's hard finding work when my 'drive' to do anything plummets as it has been. I've revised my resume numerous times, and actually found out that one of the places I was applying to (Lowes) actually doesn't hire people unless they have one year of retail experience and an Associates Degree in business for most of their front-end positions. I was baffled. O_o

author=Dyhalto
And don't forget to fix that sleep schedule. Eight hours of sleep a day isn't just an old person proverb.


I admit, half the reason I fail to fix it is from late nights with the wife, or I'm gaming and lose track of time. I tend to go until my eyes start blurring up and then I go to bed, but I'm a troubled sleeper. Not sure how to fix that, either. :/

I think the stress from our rent going up next month has gotten to me over the last few weeks. We live in a income-based apartment complex and apparently the company that owns it claims that our apartment isn't making them enough money.

Which...baffled me.

We're going from $435 to $485 on one persons income - which is why I'm trying to find it so the wife doesn't freak out so much at the end of every month.
As sleep goes, you'll find it's easier to both fall asleep and sleep soundly if you get yourself into a routine involving reasonably early nights. I used to do shiftwork. Alternating days and nights with a varied schedule each week, plus I did the late night with video games thing too. Now I work steady day shifts, shoot for 7-9 hours a night, and can't praise the health benefits highly enough.

As for your financial situation, maybe it's time to leave town. It sounds like Deadendsville. Don't let the whole "Don't want to move away from family" thing stop you or your wife. Birds have to venture far from the nest sometimes. You can always visit them.
Also, you'll need an education. This isn't the 70s where people can move from high school into a high paying factory job. Anybody who wants a decent standard of living will need something.
I recommend picking up a skilled trade like Electrician or Instrument Tech. You seem reasonably well read, so you should be able to clobber the courses and exams. Pick a college that has work placements, then make sure you're on top of the class. The rest will be gravy.
author=Dyhalto
As sleep goes, you'll find it's easier to both fall asleep and sleep soundly if you get yourself into a routine involving reasonably early nights. I used to do shiftwork. Alternating days and nights with a varied schedule each week, plus I did the late night with video games thing too. Now I work steady day shifts, shoot for 7-9 hours a night, and can't praise the health benefits highly enough.

As for your financial situation, maybe it's time to leave town. It sounds like Deadendsville. Don't let the whole "Don't want to move away from family" thing stop you or your wife. Birds have to venture far from the nest sometimes. You can always visit them.
Also, you'll need an education. This isn't the 70s where people can move from high school into a high paying factory job. Anybody who wants a decent standard of living will need something.
I recommend picking up a skilled trade like Electrician or Instrument Tech. You seem reasonably well read, so you should be able to clobber the courses and exams. Pick a college that has work placements, then make sure you're on top of the class. The rest will be gravy.


I might have to try regulating my sleep schedule in a format similar to what you're talking about. I've found that when I go to bed around nine or ten and manage to sleep straight through the night, I wake up feeling far better and more energetic than I did on nights where I didn't. I had to make a conscious effort to do it, and not simply go 'ah, fuck this' - which tends to be my problem.

And yeaaah...I live in a small town in Georgia (we grow one of the two iconic state exports) and other than a few factories on the outskirts of town, fast food/restaurants along the 'strip' (aka the main road that extends all the way through both towns), there really isn't anything here.

I've held a fondness for a city close-by: Savannah. It's a port city, much to see and do, and we'd still be close enough for friends to visit but still but able to go out and make a life for ourselves.

I was going to college back when I was younger for Marketing Management and Business Management (since I had NO clue what to do at 18), but have since found that I've a love for the medical field. While we're still in this area, I could see about getting back into college and trying for my two business degrees, and then move on to something better.

It'll keep me busy, and the PELL checks would help supplement our income. Just gotta get off my ass and soldier forth to do it.
Cool. I know next to nil about the medical field, but it definitely has to be better than subjecting yourself to minimum wage garbage like Lowe's.
I know lots of people who tragically thought they would just join companies at the bottom and work their way up. It's not impossible, but the slow-going makes for a pretty crumby life, and they tend to wind up being the loser-types who dream of striking it rich. Writing a novel or screenplay, playing the stock market, that sort of thing.
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