Lockdown/Covid Check In
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I’m more in the @antipodean camp. Whilst I feel very sorry for your friend and really hope she gets through this, it seems pretty clear she picked a wrong’un. He clearly lied from the outset, abused her and her daughter and put them both in grave danger. Fuck him.
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@majorrage said in Lockdown Check In:
@mn5 said in Lockdown Check In:
Really sad story. It’s astonishing how many people I’ve found out this year do Coke on a regular basis. Who has that kind of spare money ? We got offered some at a party a few months back, I was too busy drinking to really want any and having never tried it in 44 years am not keen to start now.
Hope your mate is doing ok. Doing drugs ( and whatever else ) in front of small kids is pretty unforgivable in my opinion so I hope she’s getting the support she needs.
Seconded this. When you dig a bit deeper into people, the number who do it, especially those in high flying city jobs, is really astonishing.
Slight diversion but in one of those programmes recently where they showed the whole chain to source etc of drugs they randomly stopped people in the street and tested 20quid notes. The % that tested positive for coke was staggering. Also testing the readers on the gates at tube stations after people tapping their cards to pay.
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I've never done coke as I knew that I would turn into a waster if I started in London.
Don't mind people doing weed and I may try once in a blue moon (once or twice every three or four years sort of thing)
Now that I'm more sensible, I would actually try coke to see what it's all about. It's the only drug I'm curious about (not curious about heroin or meth or LSD etc)
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@hooroo coke is such an addictive drug, gives you a dopamine high then messes with you ability to produce dopamine so you double down on it.
I hear there's a shit load of it about but I'm unlikely to be mixing in the circles where it is offered.
It's an interesting drug. In my young foolish days, I tried them all (pre P fortunately). I must not have an addictive personality as I never had any issues with any of them but I did see a lot of people get seriously fucked up.
Booze has been my drug of choice for a long time now. Less so during lockdown which seems to be in contrast to most.
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@dogmeat said in Lockdown Check In:
@hooroo coke is such an addictive drug, gives you a dopamine high then messes with you ability to produce dopamine so you double down on it.
I hear there's a shit load of it about but I'm unlikely to be mixing in the circles where it is offered.
It's an interesting drug. In my young foolish days, I tried them all (pre P fortunately). I must not have an addictive personality as I never had any issues with any of them but I did see a lot of people get seriously fucked up.
Booze has been my drug of choice for a long time now. Less so during lockdown which seems to be in contrast to most.
Might give it a pass then.
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@hooroo I would highly recommend getting curious about LSD ha ha, but Im 100% with you on meth and heroin. Fuck that shit. Tried coke once and that was enough for me. There was a wee bit of mixing going on though, but I have no desire to try it again.
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@paekakboyz said in Lockdown Check In:
I would highly recommend getting curious about LSD ha ha, but Im 100% with you on meth and heroin
Acid my fave 'hard' drug - probably
Smack's just so fucking boring
Met some heavy P users who were functioning members of society for quite a while but all ended up as the normal whiny, full of excuses, untrustworthy, dependent junky. -
Lockdown checkin, Part Whatever...
Finally looking forward to getting out of Sydney - last time I left the greater Sydney Region was January, and my monthly updates from Google Guide maps are pretty fucking depressing reading.
Tuesday I'm doing a whistle stop tour of the NSW Central West (such wonderfully Ocker names like Gulgong, Dunedoo, Wongarbon etc) in order to scout a ~300km cycle trail I want to complete next year - for which I may have asked Santa for some bike panniers. Bit of back roads, overnight somewhere maybe in the swag this time around. Next year it'll be camping, hopefully a week off in Autumn. Bike needs a service and new rubber before then.
First week of January we're up the coast for some family time away.
In between that, the joys of Christmas with Alco Father-in-law, divorced bro-in-law (maybe his kids will show up), and the wife cooking way too much shit for all of us. Boxing Day with friends watching cricket. Maybe a dawn run over to the northern beaches which we try to sort out at least once a year. This was Freshwater Beach, around the corner from Manly, October last year.
I'm never going back to the office fulltime in the current climate. I'm coming to terms witht he fact I might end up a "Lifer" at the current place, but at the same time I'm conscious that I have a specific combination of skills, experience, and knowledge, that aren't common.
Could I go contracting? Yeah, probably give it some thought after the current role goes stale and some form of inheritance comes through to ease the financial pressure. I'm 45 now and if my Mum or MIL die in the next few years it is time to start getting tactical on retirement planning.
My problem is this: nearly every contractor I've dealt with - or cleaned up after - is a fucking shortcut merchant. I want to actually solve the core problems in a robust fashion, and almost put myself out of a job in doing so. Based on my experience with IT contractors, that isn't a common mindset. Get in, do exactly what they say, get out. Consequences, shmonsequences.
Marriage is still solid. Relationship is not - encountering long droughts in between the occasional burst of activity. Not ideal, and that's another part of The Next Step: letting the wife pull the pin before me to chill her the fuck out. Would improve our relationship significantly.
She's doing management in Aged Care services and it was a fucking nightmare before COVID, partly because she's a perfectionist and therefore nobody else matches up. She is one of those people who could never go ExCo because she's shit at delegating; too busy focussing on minutiae that isn't really important in execution. The fucked thing is she was spoken to by her seniors, specifically about climbing the ladder as identified talent, but has never aggressively pursued it.
Thinks she's not ready but if she just jumped into that sweet, sweet executive salary, I could be a kept man by now!
Absolutely happy to be Mr Mum with two teens in the house. I basically do all the taxi work and 60% of the meals anyway, in my current WFH role.
17yo son has a gf at long last. She's a skinny little thing whose divorced parents have NZ accents despite being Chinese originally. He also hit his straps in his HSC as he's finally doing the subjects he wants. Halle-fucking-lujah!
14yo daughter has had a bf for about a year but he's a safe choice, having not much going for him besides a sense of humour. Another skinny one - I mean rake thin. At least he's not a sports dickhead, tho I've never met him because they're both too chickenshit to show up.
The daughter unit really is the apple of my eye. Amazing human in my heavily biased opinion, but prone to the odd bit of drama. Teens.
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@nta said in Lockdown Check In:
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nice picture but...
Mate you're 45 years young. Don't even think about becoming a lifer.
Carpe Diem* and all that
*carpe diem doesn't mean seize the day it's more like take the fruit when it's at its ripest. What you get when Hollywood tries to abbreviate a 2,000 year old metaphor written in a dead language.
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@dogmeat said in Lockdown Check In:
Mate you're 45 years young. Don't even think about becoming a lifer.
Been here 14 years. The current work is interesting enough and probably has legs for another year at least.
The company is big enough that I've not really done the same time for more than a couple of years at a time.
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@nta If you want to avoid the splash and dash contracting have you considered a move into the consultancy side? Solutions architect, enterprise architect etc? There's a huge shortage. And you can be analysing and recommending optimal solutions and designing the compromises rather than just going along with them.
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@jc said in Lockdown Check In:
@nta If you want to avoid the splash and dash contracting have you considered a move into the consultancy side? Solutions architect, enterprise architect etc? There's a huge shortage. And you can be analysing and recommending optimal solutions and designing the compromises rather than just going along with them.
Interesting thought - I am presently splitting my time between the "doer" role and the strategic stuff in the current team. It is a hard shift because I like getting my hands dirty.
My daughter finishes school in 2025, so those might be the years I use to grow into that area before jumping. From what I can see, consulting is mostly bullshitting-with-flair anyway
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@nta said in Lockdown Check In:
@jc said in Lockdown Check In:
@nta If you want to avoid the splash and dash contracting have you considered a move into the consultancy side? Solutions architect, enterprise architect etc? There's a huge shortage. And you can be analysing and recommending optimal solutions and designing the compromises rather than just going along with them.
Interesting thought - I am presently splitting my time between the "doer" role and the strategic stuff in the current team. It is a hard shift because I like getting my hands dirty.
My daughter finishes school in 2025, so those might be the years I use to grow into that area before jumping. From what I can see, consulting is mostly bullshitting-with-flair anyway
You're 50% there.
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@gt12 said in Lockdown Check In:
@nta said in Lockdown Check In:
@jc said in Lockdown Check In:
@nta If you want to avoid the splash and dash contracting have you considered a move into the consultancy side? Solutions architect, enterprise architect etc? There's a huge shortage. And you can be analysing and recommending optimal solutions and designing the compromises rather than just going along with them.
Interesting thought - I am presently splitting my time between the "doer" role and the strategic stuff in the current team. It is a hard shift because I like getting my hands dirty.
My daughter finishes school in 2025, so those might be the years I use to grow into that area before jumping. From what I can see, consulting is mostly bullshitting-with-flair anyway
You're 50% there.
On a related note, the best description I heard of an MBA is "it gives you the vocabulary to speak with confidence on topics that you have no understanding of"