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31/M/ATL.  Web Developer.  Author of Yafsiga. Board Game Enthusiast.

[smokinghorse]

Burnout is a jockey and he's riding me to death.

[renthony]

The fastest way to shut down my "freelance life means I have to constantly be working" thoughts is to remind myself that if I was a boss holding a worker to the standards I hold myself to, their union would hunt me for sport and nobody would blame them.

[vaspider]

Not me immediately screenshotting this and posting it to the OPP freelance writers chat I'm in

[clpolk]

I tell myself: "I'm the owner of the company. But more importantly, I'm also the head of Scriveners Local 23, and I have some demands."

So what that means is that I have a four day work week. I work monday-tuesday and then Thursday-Friday. Fuck the boss if they don't like it.

I have a workplace wellness program that means I can take breaks for yoga, meditation, exercise, and naps.

I have unlimited paid personal days thanks to my project oriented work structure--I get to decide what's the best balance between production and restoration. Fuck the boss if they don't like it.

I have five days each quarter for vacation. attending a convention, conference, expo, bookstore event tour, or a writing workshop *is not a vacation.* that's business-related travel. taking a day or two for a weekend jaunt *is not a vacation.* that's unlimited paid personal days. Five working days. Each Quarter. Vacation. and since I always have wednesdays off, it doesn't count.

I know there's a piece of your brain saying "I have to hustle, I have to hustle"

I know

My brain does that too

And without the union boss in my head, I'll just work until I drop. That's what I did for years. And then I burnt out so bad that this is the first time I have actually made real, noticable progress(1.) similar to my pre-burnout rates in years.

Because the union boss went on strike, and the boss' bottom line was *destroyed.* If I have to crunch now, the union boss enforces recovery time. that's all overtime. but since I don't get paid a wage, I get all that back in time.

The boss never wants to see a strike like that again.

There is power in a union, even if it's only the union in your head.

(1.) only it's not similar. it's half the "speed" of pre-burnout. It's probably my actual true real speed and not my sweatshop labour hustle culture speed. FUCK THE BOSS IF THEY DON'T LIKE IT.

[ranidspace]

Vote ONLY what the previous reblog says for you to vote. if you see this poll and no one has tagged it, vote randomly. After voting, reblog and tag it it with a random option you DID NOT vote for.

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Voting ended onFeb 6, 2023

[airlocksandaviariesarchive]

Looks like we can’t isolate, ignore, ibuprofen our way out of this one boys

[beaunydoorin]

strong contender for pic of all time

[agardenandlibrary]

[improbablecarny]

people who don’t watch horror movies are SO confident that they know everything there is to know about the genre. like it’s okay to not know things. it’s okay if you don’t like friday the 13th or whatever. i promise you don’t need to make an ass out of yourself on the internet about it

[improbablecarny]

horror is an incredibly diverse genre, because there is potential horror in everything. it’s in nature, it’s in architecture and technology, it’s in human relationships, it’s in folklore, the past, the future, the mundane. there are horror movies from all over the world. it is straight up anti-intellectual to pretend that the handful of B slashers you’ve vaguely heard about comprise the totality of what horror has to offer. If you’re just not interested in horror, or if you dislike certain subgenres of horror, then that’s fine, you’re not obligated to like anything at all. but smugly announcing that you don’t like horror because you dislike a handful of VERY specific non-universal tropes is just as stupid as saying that you hate comedy because you don’t like adam sandler movies.

[improbablecarny]

this is what I mean by anti-intellectualism btw

[felikatze]

loooooove how in Tha Real World lotsa mistakes dont have consequences. whoops, booked the wrong item! time to just... remove it from the list and book the right one! whoops, sent an email when i should've called! got a mail response that everything's fine but i should please call next time! whoops, lost my passport! gotta go get a new one at the civil office!

like it does not matterrrrrrr so many fuck ups can just be fixed with only the cost of time. fuckin school test mentality is a scrouge upon the earth and upon mental health. most mistakes can always be righted, and after that you just move on with your life. who give a shit

[the-quasar-hero]

Incredibly fucked up that you have to clean the dust off of fans. You are a machine that creates wind; get your shit together.

[relelvance]

Reblog with your score

[official-megumin]

HOW?

[professionalchaoticdumbass]

[official-megumin]

you can’t seriously exclusively play minecraft?

[professionalchaoticdumbass]

i can and i do

[prokopetz]

Is your new game engine really a technological revolution, or did you just double the minimum requirements?

[amazoogle]

wowowow you put a hundred trillion quadrillion and eight polygons on the screen and wrote a bunch of poorly optimized shaders to make them dance. boring as fuck who cares. i am on my knees begging and pleading AAA studios to make games with half life 2 graphics and spend the rest of their gargantuan budget on writing & making the gameplay good

[breebird33]

Happy Candlenights… I figured I’d make designing a candle knight a yearly traditional. And in case it isn’t obvious, especially if you look at last year’s candle knight…. I recently got into Dark Souls…

[wolfmons]

[acegender]

explain your gender in 10 words or less without using boring words like “male”, “female”, “nonbinary”, “masculine”, “feminine” or “androgynous”.

go!

[thetitanhorde]

Kirill Sarychev

[dxlyxx-deactivated20211004]

[sympathischeufos]

Video description, translation from Russian:

Tall man with apparently only a towel around his hips: It's not easy to be a voluminous man and live in a standard apartment with standard bathtubs. Bathtub manufacturers, I want you to consider non-standard men.

Sh-ha! (dramatically takes off towel off his loins, revealing shorts underneath)

Hah! Thought I would bathe naked, did you? Hehe!

(making straining sounds, he climbs into bathtub. In an impressive display of the Archimedean law of displacement, water splashes out of the bathtub, like, everywhere. He props his feet up onto the armature, because the bathtub is too short too comfortably put them in)

[unintelligible]

(folding his legs over each other) and then you lie down the way you like, lay yourself down, and lie there.

End translation.

[drinkyourjuiceshelby]

[wickedwonderlandd]

[fuckmountain2-deactivated202204]

[narklos]

Based on a true story.

[shitposting-hobbits-to-gallifrey]

For the love of God please unmute this

[omghotmemes]

This is what he would have wanted

[aztechnology]

op link the video it’s fucking hilarious

[porterr-robinson]

[sandersstudies]

This is so

Unnecessary

[myrrhguy-deactivated20250626]

how do you explain to someone that this is your sense of humour

[celtic-pyro-deactivated20230725]

“What could the audio possibly be?”

*unmutes*

“Oh,”