#it's a work qualification

[hidden-but]

that part of year, when i google my academic title to figure out where the fuck the dots in Ph(.)D.(.) go in czech

[whenthelightisrunninglow]

finally got my hands on the BW manga thanks to: YOU GUESSED IT, THE PUBLIC LIBRARY!

[bobbinfire]

So I watched Beetlejuice Beetlejuice today...

[front-facing-pokemon]

[yardsards]

i needed to express a sentiment in the creative stylings of @dunmeshiminimumwage

[tropicalcontinental]

More crossover stuff 💥💥💥 + that one "piss off bitch boy" joke is so funny to me (Elias tries to look into Gertrude's mind and receives said response) and I feel like Collin would do it to him too

[ethosiab]

sometimes ill be working on an assignment, overthinking a question, and i'm hit with a blinding clarity of "oh wait i actually do not give a fuck about this". and suddenly my current answer works great!!!

[sugaredoleander]

i say this with love. house fanfic writers, if you ever want me to beta something for medical accuracy, i'll fucking do it no questions asked

[akajustmerry]

really very frustrating and hopeless to understand that so much of my current limbo state wrt employment/occupation/art is because of my shit management skills. the reason my teaching accreditation was frozen was because i didn't check what would happen if i didn't teach for an extended period, even though i should have. now my department credentials are stuck in this weird no man's land of: i need them to teach but the only way to be re-accredited is to teach (don't ask its a bureaucratic nightmare and i cry whenever i have to explain it). then there's journalism which, while there was definitely a lot of bullying horseshit happening at my last job, the reason they could justify doing all that to me was because they could literally point to all the deadlines i missed and correspondance i failed to act on and say, "well merry does not perform adequately" and its not untrue. they were dicks about it but they didn't have to fake anything. and now because of that however indirectly i lost my job and haven't been able to get one back (see: the teaching debacle making everything harder). i burned out of academia because i kept having to get extensions because i couldn't get my shit together and now i am terrified to go back because i disappointed myself so much when i handed in a dissertation i wrote in 4 days because i left it until the last minute. gayv club feels like a goddamn miracle, like, without deah that just would not happen and i know that because all the solo projects i've tried to do in the past year (the iwtv essay, substack, etc) keep being "delayed" because i can't organise myself enough to even sit down and do things i love for fun which is so crazy. its insane. and ykw it's not even like i avoid this stuff to do something else useful like sleeping or reading or exercise. naur!!! most of the time all i do is sit listening to music and staring at a wall. and yeah it helps to know this is adhd but it also doesn't because its still me innit!!! its still all comes back to me just not doing the things when i need to or even want to. that's the impact. that's all that matters to everyone. i know i will feel better when i am medicated properly and that this will pass and i will eventually build a life i want but god this really sucks and it really sucks to know that it's on me, yk? i didn't do the things and regardless of why i didn't do them i didn't do them </3

[dkettchen]

I got my first paycheck from new (non-media/normal people) job, and turns out I now earn (per hour, AFTER tax) LITERALLY DOUBLE what I earnt (per hour, BEFORE tax) in my few, shitty, short-lived, freelance media jobs over the years

(and this is stable, indefinite employment at a lovely, chill, local, community-serving company doing something I actually enjoy & care about, a mere year after deciding to retrain/switch industries, on the grand qualification of a (free, due to government scholarship!) 3 month coding bootcamp I did last summer)

I will literally never shut up about normalising creatives having non-media backup qualifications and/or day careers (that aren't some highly-temporary day job you don't care about and doesn't pay/treat you well)

[al-mayriti]

going back to my roots (i got selected for oposiciones in la mancha)

[frick-yes-dragons]

New career ambition can I be the builder working on Dan and Phil’s house

[toskarin]

I couldn't really say that SPRAWL had the best fps soundtrack of 2024 because it released in 2023... except that it added more songs in 2024 and that means it can slip in on that technicality

[halleywars]

Anytime I see some Facebook video of some Appalachian blob guy yelling at Wendy's employees with a million comments to the tune of "yes sir I done had the same experience at that wendeees they needs ta fire her." I have to come on here and speak my truth that no one is entitled to good fast food that costs less than 7 dollars per person. If your food is cold or gross that's how it comes. That's literally what you paid for. Why take pride in a job for criminals and drug addicts. Why would they ever do a good job. They have absolutely no incentive to do so. "Well I deserved what I ordered" you don't even deserve that. No one that is working there wants to. They're all in a halfway house or theyre a teen that will not put that job on their resume ever again. The location exists to wash someone's money and to give you cancer. It literally does nothing to walk inside and film them. They will get the exact same job somewhere else if they do get fired. If you want to work hard for a free burger coupon you do you! To me 30 minutes of my time is worth more than 5.99 but I guess that's not the case for you. You are doing absolutely nothing by calling them out. If you want hot, unsmushed food, COOK IT. YOURSELF!!!! RETARD!!! THE FOOD GETS COLD WHEN YOU DRIVE HOME!!! THE FOOD GETS COLD WHEN YOU DRIVE AROUND WITH IT!!

[jacenbren]

Nero from devil may cry is trans to me purely because of his haircut in dmc4. this is a baby transmasc who just experienced the rite of passage that is asking the hairdresser for your first “boy” haircut and being stuck with the most heartbreaking pixie cut in existence because you’re too polite to say anything lmao

[gaylactic-fire]

Let it be known I first got turned down from childcare college because I (stupidly) disclosed my disability during the interview, and it immediately turned into ableist assumptions, mostly stemming from "well what if you have to lift a child?"

Today not only do I LOVE working in the field, but I've realised children are light as fuck, and I too, cannot resist the allure of uppies