treating the IRL daycare like the daycare in Pokemon. If you come back to the daycare years later, you'll have a lvl 100 kid
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Kid evolved into teenager.
Teenager refuses to listen.
You went doing your shit but didn't get any badge.
What’s the point of having children if you are never home to spend time with them?
Legacy my boy. Trust funds don't spend themselves
Also only walked the dog once
1h lunch, that's a lot of time wasted that could have been used for conducting interviews. smh, ppl nowadays don't really know the meaning of commitment.
I have seen a few examples of people using linkedin to humble brag about their work ethic or whatever and all it ever does is tell me that they aren't actually happy with the thing they do.
I find it a lot more interesting to read or hear stories about projects people have been working on and them telling a little bit about the process. The excitement of them sharing what they have worked on is ten times more interesting than some randy bragging about how much they worked in one day.
Like omg congratulations. I work along hours too. I don't think it's anything to be proud of. Quite the contrary.
People like that are in a constant battle to prove how exceptional they are while being completely unexceptional. They have no real success stories so they have to create some by painting this image in their heads that they are naturally superior to everyone else. Every one of them have Dunning-Kreuger syndrome.
You're probably right, but that is so sad, omg xD
All I can say is that working long hours is soul crushing. I went through an extreme case of that a few years ago, out of necessity.
Worked so much I have like three months from that year that are almost totally blank in my memory. No clue what happened during that time.
According to my boyfriend, at my worst, I worked between 90 and 120 hours a week.
All I know is that I didn't have a social life and didn't have hobbies or any free time. Didn't even have time to breath and have a check in with myself so I didn't know that I was on the brink of losing it before I almost did.
Still paying the mental and physical price for that sacrifice two years later and it wasn't fucking worth it, man. Like at all.
I've had to relearn what it means to have freetime and hobbies. It's going okay in that department! Have gotten my plant hobby back on track and am currently making fugly fridge magnets with stupid faces and googly eyes. Figured I needed something funny to look at when I'm not around a mirror.
We also went to the beach today and collected sea glass, which is basically like meditation, if you ask me!
The place I worked at 3 years ago, someone forgot to drop their kid off and left them in the car in 90 degree heat (freedumb units). I assumed the guy was overworked as hell; that place did not give a fuck about work/life balance, just like most places I've worked here in the land of the slaves and home of the cowardly.
I can't remember what the conversion is so I'll just assume it's 90 celsius and the son cooked to a nice crisp outside, juicy tender inside
90°F, that's outside. Inside a car, it got to over 120°F (probably). The kid died.
Well shit, I was hoping for a nice denouement
The lead forklift trainer tried to perform CPR, but the child was too far gone. I think she had to take a few days off.
I mean for what its worth, if the dude has a partner they couldve just picked the kid up, its not exactly unheard of for one partner to do drop off and the other do pick up... kind of a lukewarm take here.
And the partner did minor things like:
- get his son dressed and feed him breakfast
- give the dog its morning walk
- go to work
- come home from work
- pick his son up from daycare
- give the dog its afternoon / evening walk, bringing the toddler along to spend some quality time in the park
- make and serve dinner for him / herself and the son
- give the son a bath and get him ready for bed
- read the son a bedtime story
But, I'm sure that everything there other than work would have taken what, 1-2 hours at most? Minor things.
The guy isn't saying what his partner did....
That's the point. Care is work.