So I'm in a bit of a pickle.

I need a job. I've worked before, but this time around I want to actually get my foot in the door for a career path that I feel best suited for. I'm sick of working retail, and feel I'd be a better fit elsewhere.

I just don't know where.

Growing up, it felt like anything I thought of would get immediately beat down by my parents. There were a few ideas, but of them, I can only remember journalism, with my father specifically telling me "anybody can be a journalist these days" in a dismissive tone, and that he expected me to come up with something better.

Data entry is something that's also been on my mind for a while now. It sounds like something I'd be down to try out, but I have no clue how to get my foot in the door for something like that, and if there's even any entry-level positions for that.

Another worry is that I don't have any experience with these positions, and that that fact combined with no post-secondary would essentially be walking into a brick wall.

I'm not even completely sure about pursuing these options, like the worst case scenario for me would be getting accepted for something new only to immediately discover I'm a terrible fit and back at step one in finding new work while stuck at a job that quite literally drains my will to live like previous positions of mine did.

How can I at least get some semblance of an idea as to whether or not something will be a good fit for me? I'm fine working a job, I've done so without issue before, I just don't want to find myself in a work position that kills my mental well-being again.

Discord: becomes affiliated with perpetrators of mass violence, but nobody cares

KF: becomes affiliated with more petty harassers, and everyone wants them gone

Since they don't technically fry... Or do they? They're basically mini electric ovens. What's the difference between an air fryer and an electric oven, other than size and energy consumption?

I'd like to return the "empties" for CASH!

Am quite rich in them Ifinds

I have the manual press dispenser unit

National headlines were made about the usage of AI to make someone "appear" in court. They even showed the AI showing footage to demonstrate what kind of person they were. Why couldn't they just stop with the initial footage of them at the counter? Why is making an AI of someone necessary if it's going to be based on things that can be read, seen, heard, or shown on their own anyways?

Flowpath to have a Lemmy account for complete Newb

Can this sorcery be done?

I have had a couple of occurences now where I post something then immediately delete it for one reason or another, yet the post keeps gaining votes and attention. When I check the post on lemmy.ca it returns a 404 but I can still view the post on the instance that it was posted to. Is this because I'm using the Photon front end or is this just a Lemmy thing? This seems like a rather large oversight...

Apologies for any issues...I can delete upon request. Lemmy doesn't necessarily have a ton of communities with a lot of users so I chose this one.

I had a lot of "tantrums" as a child significantly older than that of toddler age. They weren't because I didn't "get my way" or something. They were often due to frustration...especially if I felt wronged by one of my siblings and they did not get in trouble for "wronging" me. I would scream and cry for prolonged periods of time.

The internet tells me that this isn't exactly normal and generally indicates "neurodivergence" like ADHD or autism. I do not exhibit any signs of these. I seem to be "neurotypical", no matter how thoroughly I research ADHD and autism. So what gives?

My siblings did not throw "tantrums" like this. I would get in trouble as a child now and then for doing this. Yet getting in trouble didn't make the "tantrums" stop.

Now, as an adult, I realize that the name for this seems to be "emotional dysregulation". While I don't throw "tantrums" per se anymore, my stronger emotional reactions to unfairness at work has gotten me in trouble at work numerous times. This is a bit dangerous for my job stability.

So what causes this? Why am I different? Why do others not struggle with this? What causes my feelings to be out of proportion and invalid?

I have tried bringing up the phrase "emotional dysregulation" with therapists, but they seem to gloss over it in favor of trying to look at more "standard" things like anxiety and depression.

Neither seems to be inspired by the other, but share a lot of imagery and mechanics. Do they both owe a common precursor? Or is it the collective unconscious at work?

I have 2 alts on other instances because reports don't federate yet, how do I keep this all organised?

cross-posted from: https://startrek.website/post/22262174

Hello Lemmings! For the past year or so, I've been working on a solo project, and I'm kinda close to being finished with it! It's a punk rock album, made with mostly open-source tools (the only non-FOSS stuff is a couple of plugins that didn't have good open-source alternatives)!

I've seen other folks promote their games here, but so far I haven't seen any music done this way, and I was wondering if it's maybe not allowed? Some sort of Lemmy faux pas? If it is, indeed, allowed, then what communities would be amenable to maybe a twice weekly post? Should one make their own community for this purpose? What about a general purpose community for self-promotion, i.e. "imadethis" back on the old place? As you can see, much to consider. (I don't have anything out yet, so this post in itself is not self-promotion.)

What say ye, o wise Lemmings?

About a little over year ago after not being particularly active for a number of years, I challenged myself to pick up running. I went from not even being able to run 5 minutes to now regularly being able to run 8 miles...with my longest ever run being 11 miles.

Somehow, I managed to be relatively consistent for a full year in doing this. I don't run every day, but I generally try to run 3 times per week.

Honestly, I picked up running because I was going through a challenging time. Literally everyone and their mother...every mental health professional...every internet rando...says that exercise improves mental health.

Well it hasn't for me. All running does is make me tired. I don't get a "runner's high". It doesn't clear my head of negative thoughts. I don't get any of that shit.

If I am in a bad mood before the run, the run enhances the low mood. If I am a neutral mood before the run, my mood stays neutral. If I am in an unusually good mood before the run (uncommon), the run enhances my good mood. Running itself (and all forms of exercise really) is actually somewhat unpleasant to me.

Occasionally I've read people on the internet saying that you don't get mood improvements until you've run farther. Well I've progressively run farther and farther and I've been doing this for longer than a whole ass year and not seen any discernible difference.

So what the hell am I doing wrong? I don't understand.

Is that relish or is there something different?

Something something trance state

Title basically. I’m about midlife crisis age (lol) and I’ve been on computers and technology since I could walk. What is with all these doctors who are barely older than me who can barely use the Internet, don’t know how to type or what an adblocker is? I don’t feel like I can trust a doctor who is ok with malware coming in because they doesn’t run a free adblock or even DNS block. I mean wth?

This might be the wrong place for this but idk who else to ask & it feels like a stupid question so here it is.

I am 25, wanting to go back to college (blew 4 years already, long story) now that I feel like I can handle it & have a sense of direction. I'm concerned it isn't going to be doable now with trump, if I apply for financial aid and it gets gutted, idk the prospect of applying to college during this shit political landscape feels pointless. my question is, is it? Would it be a bad move or waste of time & energy to get into a college?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27700098

You know how you sometimes have to lift a leg to fart since your butt forms a seal with the seat?

What would happen if Puttin was helped into a setup like that and forced to take a permanent time-out and everyone went on vacation for a month?

Unless I'm just going crazy, whenever I drink tea outside it has a slight aftertaste that I never get when I drink it elsewhere.
Edit to add, it has more taste, if that makes sense. It has a more complex taste.

A friend of mine got herself a new Xperia 10 and wants to encrypt the SD card. It seems this option is no longer available - previously there was a "Encrypt SD card" option in settings - but no more. Apparently it was also possible to use the SD card as "Adoptable storage" - but no more.

Is it at all possible to encrypt an SD card on Android (15) or is de-googling the only option?