What Are You Doing Right Now? (184 Viewers)

[.zero]

Hey girls

 

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[AFL_ITALIA]

I guess you're right about that. It's probably because of the monotony of the job.

I don't have a problem reading a good book, but I do have problems watching Juventus games.

I too have problems watching war crimes

 

[Bjerknes]

I've been thinking about this lately. How do you all currently feel about your careers?

Love the money, but don't really enjoy what I do. Had a pretty big project end last month and now I'm just coasting until they put me on the next big thing. Been with my current employer for almost 5 years now so might need a change. But it's probably the same everywhere in the IT world.

 

[IliveForJuve]

It's just a means to an end. I wouldn't even call it a career, just a job. I'm trying to escape that and be fully self-employed.

This is pretty much how I feel.

 

[Quetzalcoatl]

This is pretty much how I feel.

You were into e-commerce right?

 

[IliveForJuve]

I think this plays a large role in it tbh. I can only speak for me, but the only time I have this issue is when I'm doing something I have to do rather than want to do. When you're doing something you genuinely enjoy, do you still find yourself distracted or unable to focus?

I think it is work related. I've been at my job for 2 and a half years and I'm already massively bored.

When I had my own little business I didn't mind getting up at 5 am on a Sunday to get work done. I wasn't rich but I felt free. I want to experience that feeling again but it's been hard to get out of the hamster wheel to be completely honest.

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You were into e-commerce right?

E-commerce and wholesale. It wasn't a fancy operation. Basically import product X from the US, advertise on Facebook and fulfil orders.

I'd also reach out to other sellers on Facebook and try to sell them the product at a lower price.

 

[AFL_ITALIA]

Love the money, but don't really enjoy what I do. Had a pretty big project end last month and now I'm just coasting until they put me on the next big thing. Been with my current employer for almost 5 years now so might need a change. But it's probably the same everywhere in the IT world.

More or less the same, I think. I've only been at one fintech company, but Instagram memes tell me it's all the same shit. From my side it's things like scope creep and product/sales almost deliberately lying about what was promised to customers.

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I think it is work related. I've been at my job for 2 and a half years and I'm already massively bored.

When I had my own little business I didn't mind getting up at 5 am on a Sunday to get work done. I wasn't rich but I felt free. I want to experience that feeling again but it's been hard to get out of the hamster wheel to be completely honest.

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E-commerce and wholesale. It wasn't a fancy operation. Basically import product X from the US, advertise on Facebook and fulfil orders.

I'd also reach out to other sellers on Facebook and try to sell them the product at a lower price.

You have the hustle to do it for sure. That work boredom is crushing though.

 

[U Picciriddu]

It's just a means to an end. I wouldn't even call it a career, just a job. I'm trying to escape that and be fully self-employed.

Can’t you go like 50/50 until self employed gives you guarantees?

 

[Quetzalcoatl]

Can’t you go like 50/50 until self employed gives you guarantees?

I've started stuff on the side, but it's not near enough yet.

Soon...

 

[U Picciriddu]

I've started stuff on the side, but it's not near enough yet.

Soon...

I like risks but only the calculated ones in that regard

Anyway good luck.

 

[JuveJay]

Europe doesn't have mosquitoes? Shiet, I killed like eight already this morning.

Definitely do have them, I get bitten most summers in the UK. But only when I go out walking near water.

 

[s4tch]

Europe doesn't have mosquitoes? Shiet, I killed like eight already this morning.

my garden has been unbearable lately, you'll get a bite within seconds

luxembourg though, very different. we visited last summer and i noticed within the first hour that there are no window screens at all. i thought i could suggest to my buddy who lives there to start a business, every neighbor would be a potential client. and then we never saw a single mosquito lol

 

[campionesidd]

I've been thinking about this lately. How do you all currently feel about your careers?

I like it, for the most part.

The hours are long and days are busy, but the work is interesting and challenging, the pay is good and the benefits are excellent.

 

[AFL_ITALIA]

I like it, for the most part.

The hours are long and days are busy, but the work is interesting and challenging, the pay is good and the benefits are excellent.

Do you have the same issues?

 

[campionesidd]

Do you have the same issues?

The work from home part has its pros and cons.

It’s hard to detach from work sometimes, and not seeing your colleagues in person isn’t great for team dynamics. That said, I get a lot more work done from home and I do enjoy the flexibility it offers.

 

[IliveForJuve]

I like it, for the most part.

The hours are long and days are busy, but the work is interesting and challenging, the pay is good and the benefits are excellent.

This is the most American thing I've read all month. Congrats.

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@Quetzalcoatl do you still feel mosquito bites? I did when I was a kid but I'm pretty much immune now. I only feel them if I go near a river in the Amazon.

I've never felt a mosquito bite in the UK or mainland Europe. Midges though, those cocksuckers bite hard.

 

[Bianconero_Aus]

We call them fly screens here you fucking weirdos.

And we have this nasty shit in some rural areas of Australia, called Ross River Fever that’s associated with mosquitoes bites. Can be quite nasty.

https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/factsheets/Pages/ross-river-fever.aspx

 

[swag]

are you one of those euros who doesn't have a screen in your window?

It is definitely a thing in Europe.

I even asked about it with locals recently, because I couldn't get over why nobody in this country wants to bother with a simple screen here in Portugal.

Yes, there aren't that many mosquitos here in general. Unless you're a wannabe French idiot and are paying hand-over-fist to live in the designer developments of Comporta, right next to the rice fields (= mosquito plague).

But when I asked folks about the lack of screens across Portugal, they gave me the most French answer: "They don't look good."

I've seen motherfuckers in the Amazon bite through jeans.

Perhaps my biggest mosquito horror story was reading about a spike in malaria cases around New Delhi while I was on a flight there from SF and I didn't take any anti-malarial pills beforehand that time.

You land at 3am at Indira Gandhi Airport, as you always do, and I get in a cab to go to the hotel.

Cabbie has his windows rolled up in the damp heat of a pre-monsoon night and locked them shut from up front. In the back I start getting assaulted by this mosquito buzzing like a chainsaw, I can't open the windows, and I'm doing my best Jackie Chan karate moves standing on the back seat trying to take it out before I get bit. Because I ain't starting my two weeks in India recovering from malaria.

I've been thinking about this lately. How do you all currently feel about your careers?

Right now, really good. I left my full-time job at the end of the year, worked out a lot of financial math on my cost of living and what I could make off investments, and I'm pretty much pre-retired if I want to be. Freedom to do whatever I want now. F the man.

 

[Seven]

Cabbie has his windows rolled up in the damp heat of a pre-monsoon night and locked them shut from up front. In the back I start getting assaulted by this mosquito buzzing like a chainsaw, I can't open the windows, and I'm doing my best Jackie Chan karate moves standing on the back seat trying to take it out before I get bit. Because I ain't starting my two weeks in India recovering from malaria.

I believe that in Asia there's also the lifelong risk of recurrence after some types of malaria notably with the Plasmodium vivax parasite. Where in Africa the risk for that particular type is much lower as most Africans appear to be immune. Not really sure if that's accurate though. It's just what I was told by a doctor, because I had a couple of bouts with malaria as a toddler in Africa and was curious if it could have implications today.

As for the screens: they do exist in Europe of course and lots of people have them, but I always feel like there are a lot more mosquitoes on other continents and that might lead to them being non-negotiable there.

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Right now, really good. I left my full-time job at the end of the year, worked out a lot of financial math on my cost of living and what I could make off investments, and I'm pretty much pre-retired if I want to be. Freedom to do whatever I want now. F the man.

You should preach the FIRE gospel now.

 

[Bjerknes]

@swag I have a neighbor down the street who is planning on applying for lifetime Visa in Portugal just in case things go south here. She's been to Portugal several times and absolutely loves it, so now I'm intrigued. But she doesn't have any family or ancestry there. How difficult is it for a complete outsider to get this Visa in Portugal?