Poll: How are you doing currently? • Hacker News Board

Re: Poll: How are you doing currently?

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Post by runjake » Fri, May 27, 2022, 5:19 PM UTC

Pretty dang good. I have a pretty bleak view of the future, but I work hard to prevent environment from bringing down my inner being.

Resilience, in other words. That everyone else seems to think the sky is falling paradoxically strengthens my resolve. I don't know why this is.

Re: Poll: How are you doing currently?

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Post by strangattractor » Fri, May 27, 2022, 5:19 PM UTC

racl101 wrote: post #10

Just wish I had more time off. Got a lot of vacation days. But our team is so small that taking the time off makes me feel guilty. Conversely, if I don't have at least 4 days off in a row I don't know how to just relax and not try to do work. I don't enjoy watching movies or TV anymore cause all I can think about is the fact that I'm not being productive. I haven't gone to the movies since 2019 (since COVID) and I've…

I worked at Apple back when they had a sabbatical - 5 weeks after 5 years. I never took vacation. Took off during the Fall vaction+holidays+sabatical=3 months trip around the world. I was deathly afraid that when I returned I'd be so far behind. Guess what - everything was the same. Lesson learned: Take your time off.

Re: Poll: How are you doing currently?

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Post by wiihack » Fri, May 27, 2022, 5:20 PM UTC

dgellow wrote: post #19

dqpb wrote: post #18

I’m a little disturbed by the nonstandard ordering of these options

They are randomized

Yes indeed. I posted them in a logical order

Re: Poll: How are you doing currently?

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Post by MobiusHorizons » Fri, May 27, 2022, 5:21 PM UTC

racl101 wrote: post #10

Just wish I had more time off. Got a lot of vacation days. But our team is so small that taking the time off makes me feel guilty. Conversely, if I don't have at least 4 days off in a row I don't know how to just relax and not try to do work. I don't enjoy watching movies or TV anymore cause all I can think about is the fact that I'm not being productive. I haven't gone to the movies since 2019 (since COVID) and I've…

It sometimes helps me to remember that resting can be a way of investing in future productivity. A good multi-hour activity, especially one without checking your devices, can have a really non-linear effect on my productivity especially if I have been feeling stuck on a problem. So sometimes the most productive thing to do is to rest :) Hopefully that helps

Re: Poll: How are you doing currently?

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Post by strangattractor » Fri, May 27, 2022, 5:23 PM UTC

hprotagonist wrote: post #13

one must imagine sysiphus happy.

He is ecstatic just as he approaches the top of the mountain.

Re: Poll: How are you doing currently?

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Post by nsriv » Fri, May 27, 2022, 5:24 PM UTC

I teach on the second floor of a city school where budget issues mean we don't have metal doors to the classrooms (older building, first floor has them). Every room has a metal cabinet though, and so our barricade procedure for the room is to lock the door, slide the cabinet in front of it, then kick out the furniture sliders from underneath the cabinet. Today, us second floor teachers pooled our personal money (near end of the school year in the US, discretionary funds are low) to buy reams of printer paper to stack inside and fill the cabinet, so that it has stopping power for bullets. Office supply store was nice enough to give for cost when they found out what it was for.

I don't mean to set off an arms control debate here, especially since I have a particular viewpoint on this, but I've found among many tech workers there's a certain blindness to ground reality. If you have a teacher or educator in your life, please check in on them this week. If you're well-off, or even not as much, understand that your profession is (wrongly or rightly) valued more than ours, so if you organize and amplify the voices of other roles, it will help immensely.

Re: Poll: How are you doing currently?

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Post by good_guy123 » Fri, May 27, 2022, 5:25 PM UTC

Good but tired.

Grinding for an early retirement before 30.

Full time work and university takes most of my time.

Rest is spent on building side projects which I'm betting on making me money.

I don't have good elite creditionals or connections so raising money is impossible right now.

Too much to learn and do but too little time and lacking in conviction.

Re: Poll: How are you doing currently?

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Post by Wonnk13 » Fri, May 27, 2022, 5:28 PM UTC

khaledh wrote: post #12

Very bad at a personal level. Pray for me.

do you want to talk about it? or is there anyone you trust who you can reach out to?

is there anything we can do for you?

Re: Poll: How are you doing currently?

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Post by dirtybirdnj » Fri, May 27, 2022, 5:30 PM UTC

Very bad. Struggling dealing with an autism / aspergers diagnosis and trying to understand how to re-enter the workforce after a few years of being under or unemployed.

It's a complete nightmare. I want to work but I struggle with communication and being understood (or understanding) the world around me.

I have been waiting on news about a job all week and not a peep. I'm pretty sure they are waiting till EOD Friday to tell me no.

The idea of starting the job hunt over again makes me sick and trying to concentrate and focus when I'm stressed like this every single day is destroying me as a person.

I got to go fishing yesterday though, that was nice. My life would be perfect if I could find a way to stop failing as a person. Every day I'm afraid I'll lose everything because I can't "make it happen" and turn things around.

Re: Poll: How are you doing currently?

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Post by karaterobot » Fri, May 27, 2022, 5:30 PM UTC

Very Good.

In the middle of selling and buying a house. Good problem to have, but very stressful, and it's a great way to see your savings disappear. "Someone wants another check for $3000? What's this one for? Never mind, I guess it doesn't matter."

Very good because it'll all be over someday, and this is a problem I asked for — indeed, worked for years to have.