Self Improvement
A community which focusses on improving yourself. This can be in many different ways - from improving physical health or appearance, to improving mental health, creating better habits, overcoming addictions, etc.
While material circumstances beyond our control do govern much of our daily lives, people do have agency and choices to make, whether that is as "simple" as disciplining yourself to not doomscroll, to as complex as recreating yourself to have many different hobbies and habits.
This is not a place where all we do is talk about improving "productivity" (in a workplace context) and similar terms and harmful lifestyles like "grindset". Self-improvement here is intended to make you a generally better and happier person, as well as a better communist, and any other roles you may have in your life.
Rules and guidelines:
- Posts should be about self-improvement. This is obviously a wide category, and can range from advice, to finding resources, to self-posts about needing to improve in a certain area, or how you have improved, and many other things.
- Use content warnings when discussing difficult subjects.
- Do not make medical decisions solely because of a discussion you have had with any person here (e.g. whether to take or not take medications; diagnoses; etc.) as we do not vet people. All medical problems should be discussed with a real-life medical professional.
- Do not post harmful advice here. If this is seen, then please report it and we shall remove it. If you are unsure about whether it's precisely harmful advice or not but feel uneasy about it, please report it anyway.
- Do not insult other users and their lifestyles or their habits (unless they ask, I suppose). This is a place for self-improvement. Critique and discussion about a course of action is encouraged over shit-flinging. Don't talk down to people.
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Same boat, but late 30s. Find meaning outside of work.
This is where I'm at. I'm 36, I hate my job, but it pays better than most things around here and I don't know how to do anything else. Sinking into my hobbies relieves some of the stress. Most people hate their jobs and I feel lucky to not be mining coal or something that leads to an early grave. I know, as a good communist I should strive for more and rally against the current system. I have in the past, and I would if there was any sort of support system. However, I need to focus on playing the hand I was dealt. Detaching from the "politics" of my job and just let management and coworkers fuck up is helping with my mental state. At the end of the day, I'm just a cog, and if I keep putting out fires behind the scenes, my managers will just keep getting away with it and what's more, they will get the credit for when I "deep state" things to work out well.
I know this isn't the advice that OP was looking for, but there's something to be said for checking out a little and not letting work get to you as bad. As long as your bills are getting paid I guess
Your life is like a mirror to mine. Checking out helped me a lot, but I find it really hard not to care about things I know can be improved and know how to improve, so I always tend to fall back into the work trap again.
Me too. I'm trying to just make peace with it. My window is closing for being able to do anything else