The Whining and Bitching Thread
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viewerfromnihil
Vein-Marbled Tower
Not sure which way I'd go on this. I did a pretty good job of damaging my hearing as a kid, and consequently have tinnitus and trouble hearing people speak when there's background noise. If I had to choose between deafness or blindness, I think I'd prefer to go with blindness so that I could still play music, but then I remember I wouldn't be able to read.
Dak
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I was thinking more in terms of total loss than gradual/partial.
Yeah. Independent mobility and still being able to communicate (reading/writing) trump even missing out on music for me.
dwellerINTHEdark
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The Ozzman
Melted by feels
dwellerINTHEdark
Curator of the mausoleum
Dak
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My reading speed >>>>>>>>> audible reading speed. Highly inefficient. Plus most of what I read isn't in books, and I don't read much in the way of "popular" books either.
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Something in My Eye
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Who in their right mind would choose blindness over deafness?
Nate Skalman
What’s in the basket?
Funerary_Doom
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Eck, I have terrible eye sight myself and grapple with the fact that I’ll be wearing glasses for the rest of my life. However, I’ve gotten used to glasses though sometimes I do get headaches from them. As bad as my eye sight is, though, i can’t imagine not having it. Losing either (hearing or eyesight) is basically a type of hell I wouldn’t even wish on my worse enemies.
Literally not being able to see well is my biggest insecurity. I see fine with my glasses, but without them? Forget it. If I lose my glasses during some post apocalypse, I’m done for.
@Satanstoenail i feel like I’ve read something about your eyes before. Is it a retina issue that happened? Or did you notice something was off?
Literally not being able to see well is my biggest insecurity. I see fine with my glasses, but without them? Forget it. If I lose my glasses during some post apocalypse, I’m done for.
@Satanstoenail i feel like I’ve read something about your eyes before. Is it a retina issue that happened? Or did you notice something was off?
Satanstoenail
My Larpstyle determines my Derpstyle
I think I’d probably be dead within six months if I totally lost either.
It’s a cataract. I first noticed that I was relying more on my left eye when reading and my eyes weren’t working ‘in stereo’ as well. Got prescribed glasses that didn’t work, went back a year later and diagnosed with a cataract.
Dak
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Damn that's morbid. Guess I'm just more cantankerous? Although losing my sight completely would give pause.......
Satanstoenail
My Larpstyle determines my Derpstyle
viewerfromnihil
Vein-Marbled Tower
After days of deep reflection, I have decided I would rather lose my eyesight. Hope this helps you through this shitty situation, @Satanstoenail
Satanstoenail
My Larpstyle determines my Derpstyle
Cheers man, yeah I agree. At least being able to listen to music would be some sort of relief. I'd still probably be dead within six months though
viewerfromnihil
Vein-Marbled Tower
But your chances of becoming a professional musician would immediately sky rocket, with click-bait titled Youtube videos and everything.
Onder
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"Blind guy can't find his guitar" would maybe get 10000 views.
The Ozzman
Melted by feels
I have basically zero percent job satisfaction right now. I get paid a shit ton of money to essentially sit around and do nothing (honestly someone in the world's dream job tbh). I guess because my job is more project based, it isn't unexpected to have lulls in activity but I swear the last 6 months I've had to start asking people if they need help with things because of the lack of work to do or the degree of ease at which I can complete work. I have to ask to be assigned to projects so I don't feel like a fucking freeloader just browsing Wikipedia or shitposting here. I don't feel challenged or enriched at all. Rumor mill says that at some point I'm going to be pushed into a developer (programmer) role but I'm not really optimistic about it. I don't see any of the developers retiring anytime soon and the youngest developer is 50 or so years old. We have a sizable project about to start soon so I'm sure I'll be really busy with that until it's over but even then I don't feel challenged. I know I'm somewhat proficient at my job because I find system defects all the time that need to be fixed but I never feel like I'm pulling my own weight at all. I am the third most knowledgeable person about this administration system in a company of 1,000+ people so I have job security/knowledge power and could feasibly stay in this role for a long time but this isn't what I want to do for even 5 more years.
I've thought about:
All that money for schooling to be bitching about a job I don't like. Fuck this.
I've thought about:
- going back to school
- making a complete career change and learning a trade of some kind (which would involve #1)
- joining the military (I have one more year to join the Army and until I'm 39 to join the USAF so I have some time to make a decision on this but not much time. I would also have to drop 40 more pounds based on my height but I could probably get a waiver if I drop half that)
- finding a job at a different company (although I hate interviews enough so shy away from this right now)
- transferring to a different department in the company (although I imagine once I learn how to do THAT job, I will become bored again)
All that money for schooling to be bitching about a job I don't like. Fuck this.
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