How do you manage to have a life?

#1

Post by cautious » Sun, Sep 01, 2013, 3:06 AM UTC

I moved cities to work on an start-up and after more than a year I still can't say I have made friends here besides my colleagues (and that's mostly a during work hours thing). I love my job but I fear that I'm letting life pass by.

Has anyone here been through this? Do you have any advice?

Re: How do you manage to have a life?

#2

Post by YuriNiyazov » Sun, Sep 01, 2013, 3:08 AM UTC

I guess it is unclear to me what the problem is. You haven't met anyone because you work 100 hours a week and don't do anything else, or you haven't met anyone because after a day of work you go home and watch TV and browse Hacker News?

Re: How do you manage to have a life?

#3

Post by cautious » Sun, Sep 01, 2013, 3:09 AM UTC

YuriNiyazov wrote: post #2

I guess it is unclear to me what the problem is. You haven't met anyone because you work 100 hours a week and don't do anything else, or you haven't met anyone because after a day of work you go home and watch TV and browse Hacker News?

The latter I guess. I do work long hours but not always. It's hard to go out alone though.

Re: How do you manage to have a life?

#4

Post by YuriNiyazov » Sun, Sep 01, 2013, 3:10 AM UTC

cautious wrote: post #3

YuriNiyazov wrote: post #2

I guess it is unclear to me what the problem is. You haven't met anyone because you work 100 hours a week and don't do anything else, or you haven't met anyone because after a day of work you go home and watch TV and browse Hacker News?

The latter I guess. I do work long hours but not always. It's hard to go out alone though.

meetup.com

Re: How do you manage to have a life?

#5

Post by cautious » Sun, Sep 01, 2013, 3:16 AM UTC

YuriNiyazov wrote: post #4

cautious wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The latter I guess. I do work long hours but not always. It's hard to go out alone though.

meetup.com

I visit it from time to time but it seems to be limited to entrepreneurial meetups around here (Chile).

Re: How do you manage to have a life?

#6

Post by shire » Sun, Sep 01, 2013, 3:18 AM UTC

You kind of hinted at your problem here well technically not a problem more of a barrier. Have you tried dating sites? Okcupid.com is a popular one surf that thing. Plenty of busy people look online to meet people if the bar or club doesn't work out for you.

Re: How do you manage to have a life?

#7

Post by cautious » Sun, Sep 01, 2013, 3:23 AM UTC

shire wrote: post #6

You kind of hinted at your problem here well technically not a problem more of a barrier. Have you tried dating sites? Okcupid.com is a popular one surf that thing. Plenty of busy people look online to meet people if the bar or club doesn't work out for you.

I guess that could work but okcupid has no presence here.

Re: How do you manage to have a life?

#8

Post by YuriNiyazov » Sun, Sep 01, 2013, 3:23 AM UTC

cautious wrote: post #5

YuriNiyazov wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

meetup.com

I visit it from time to time but it seems to be limited to entrepreneurial meetups around here (Chile).

Where are you, again?

Re: How do you manage to have a life?

#9

Post by YuriNiyazov » Sun, Sep 01, 2013, 3:34 AM UTC

cautious wrote: post #5

YuriNiyazov wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

meetup.com

I visit it from time to time but it seems to be limited to entrepreneurial meetups around here (Chile).

I guess I don't really know anything about what social or dating life in Chile is like. Is it the sort of place that if you haven't made friends in high school or in college, there's no opportunity to make friends or meet people to date afterwards?

Re: How do you manage to have a life?

#10

Post by YuriNiyazov » Sun, Sep 01, 2013, 3:40 AM UTC

cautious wrote: post #5

YuriNiyazov wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

meetup.com

I visit it from time to time but it seems to be limited to entrepreneurial meetups around here (Chile).

But either way - if okcupid and meetup have limited presence in Chile, then there should be equivalent websites that are for Chile. And if there aren't any, then apparently there's a huge market void in Chile.