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    1 year ago

    Getting married in a few months! Hopefully next year we’re able to also buy a house and start thinking about children.

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      Congratulations! it’s a fun ride, filled with ups and downs and sidewayses. Just always give 100% even if your partner can’t and remember to communicate. Take in and enjoy every moment because it goes by so fast. Good luck to you guys!

      Also, Josh is an excellent prospective name for a future child. No reason for my partiality in particular.

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    1 year ago

    My continued transition. I started feminizing HRT in March of last year. The first year was amazing and I’m really hoping for continued amazing changes from it. <3

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      You’ll have to forgive a lot of my ignorance around this topic, but I hope it all goes well for you and you find your happiness at the end of that road.

      I think and ideal world would be like a video game character creation menu that you could just access and make changes at will. But I guess that would also take the fun out of the randomness of life. Good luck on your journey!

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        1 year ago

        No worries! Thanks for the well-wishes!

        A character creation menu would be great. Several of my nonbinary and genderfluid friends would love something like that! XD

  • LollerCorleone@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Looking forward to three things. Introdu cing my SO to my culturally conservative parents. Getting an anticipated pay bump and promotion at work. I am also selected for a coveted programmed related to my career, hoping that it goes as well as I hope it does.

    • StinkyPinky@kbin.socialOP
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      1 year ago

      I, too, am lined up for a promotion soon! It’s already been approved, but may still take a month or two before I see it. The speed of the government.

      What is your career field?

  • idkwhatnametopick@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Being able to try out lots of different new things and hobbies now that university has somewhat allowed for greater flexibility in how you study compared to high school.

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        1 year ago

        ive tried out a variety of things like ive started teaching myself crocheting but at the same time ive decided to start learning python lol

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          I tried to learn python once. I followed the book and made a script that would tell you if the minute was odd or even. “This minute seems a little odd”. It was fun, but way beyond my ADHD brain’s focus constraints.

          I do IT for a living and I know that’s where all the money is, but I would never be successful. Hope it works out for you!

  • rosatherad@kbin.social
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    Finally passing all of my first-year college classes. It’ll be my third year attempting them. I’m a disabled student, so I split the courseload into two years, but then I failed a few of them this past year… I’m trying to stay positive. I’ll pass for sure this time!

    • StinkyPinky@kbin.socialOP
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      Hell yeah! Don’t ever give it up. One of my favorite people I have worked for told me, when I was failing miserably at a management position I got shoved into, that we learn far more from our failures than our successes. As long as your learn something, the time is not wasted.

      Even if it takes you 69,420 more attempts, the time will continue to pass either way. Once you cross that finish line, the struggles will be but a distant memory. You will be glad that you stuck with it. Good luck with your classes! Keep that head held high :)

  • ScottyB@kbin.social
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    I just got a new job after 7 years and while I wasn’t unhappy with my old job. My new one is with an organisation I’ve been passionate about my whole life.

    Hopefully I’ll get a holiday season this December without tragedy after a few years of difficulty around that time of year.

    Also accessibility to my local sports team has just massively increased for me and I’ll be able to attend more games and even bring my dad.

    • StinkyPinky@kbin.socialOP
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      That’s excellent! It’s amazing how much of a change being happy at work can make. Having that passion definitely makes it feel like you aren’t even working.

      Hope your holidays rock man.

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    1 year ago

    I just want to graduate as soon as possible to be honest. Hopefully I don’t even need to wait until next year for this, but I think that’s going to be really, really hard. I recently realized university isn’t really for me.

    And hopefully, after graduating, I quickly able to find jobs haha. Not on startups, but a well established IT companies so that I actually learn something. But I know that’s going to be hard, so I need to continue learning coding interview, haha.

    • StinkyPinky@kbin.socialOP
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      1 year ago

      I work in IT for the government currently. There is definitely a massive shortage for government and contractor IT positions nationwide (USA). If you are near any military installments, check them out! last I looked, I think there were like 19,000 IT related job postings. Good luck out there!

  • EnigmaNL@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I hate to admit it but there’s not much to look forward to for me. My life is pretty good and I’m doing okay and all, but nothing big is going to happen to me any time soon (at least nothing is planned).

    • StinkyPinky@kbin.socialOP
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      That’s not bad at all. At 35, I have only recently started looking to the future for where I want to be. I have always just been a day by day person. Life just seems easier that way, fewer let downs, more surprises. Hope things stay good for you!

    • StinkyPinky@kbin.socialOP
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      Hell yeah! Stick with it, it gets easier as it becomes more routine. And don’t get disheartened if you slip, just keep on truckin.

      One of the things that helped me in the past was telling myself that the junk foods will still be there when I reach my goals. I don’t need to eat them now just because they are there.

      • TellMeWendigo@kbin.social
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        Ty for the encouragement! I do feel like in the past, I’ve allowed my slip ups to totally derail my diet. This time I’m trying the relax the reigns on myself. What I’ve learned over time is if I’m too much of a perfectionist, I’ll most certainly fail. What’s the saying? Don’t let the pursuit of perfection ruin progress?

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          Yeah absolutely. I think it’s just human nature to focus so wholly on the goal, that we disregard the journey. Diets can be extremely challenging because you can’t just quit cold turkey. It’s a journey of learning new eating habits and shopping habits, learning to cook better, understanding ingredients and how nutrition effects your body.

          I’m really good about exercising and working out. Starting to get kinda jacked again even. But my diet has just never been there. I eat more junk food than I should, but I also eat a lot of healthy stuff. Not a picky eater at all. I just really like cheetos lol.

          I did have a six pack at one point, I was quite happy with my body. But it just wasn’t sustainable because I like cheeseburgers too much. I had to find the balance of looking how I want, having a positive opinion of my self, and enjoying the food that I like without over eating, but not cutting out those easy serotonin booster snacks. I envy those that can do it without having to put that much thought into it.

          I’m 6"2’ and about 220 now, slowly working my gut down and pretty happy with myself overall, but I did consume a lot of doritos about an hour ago. Oh well, I’ll go the gym tomorrow morning and try to stay on track after.

          Good luck on your journey!

  • Ni@kbin.social
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    I had to think then for a moment. But my best friend from childhood is moving back to the country and it’s been long anticipated, so that’s pretty amazing news.

    Also starting a teaching course soon and I’m really looking forward to getting back into education even part time.

    What are you looking forward to?

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      You are a braver person than I am. For being such an invaluable career, teachers do not make nearly enough. Props for moving back into education though.

      Me? Man, you are the first one to ask me that. I got a promotion at work that came with a 20% raise, but it’s going to take a while before I see it. I recently consolidated all of my debt and will be completely debt free in three years or earlier. But I guess most of all, I am going to be ordering some more sunglasses soon and I’m pretty stoked to try them out. It’s the little things, you know?

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        The little things are so important!

        Congratulations on the promotion and being debt free sooner is very impressive and a weight off your shoulders!

  • PrancingPotato@kbin.social
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    I’ve been pretty lucky these years, getting married and buying a house.
    We found out several days ago that my wife is pregnant, so there it is !
    Along the way I have a pretty significant promotion lining up, with the associated responsabilities, so we will see if I can manage both.

    I hope to be able to stick to guitar with all of it, but I am not really optimistic on this topic :D

    • StinkyPinky@kbin.socialOP
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      Well don’t underestimate the soothing power of a guitar and singing to lull a sleepless child. Unless you only play death metal. It could still work though…

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    (trying to figure the UI out, hope this posts this time)
    I’ll be going back to school for an English degree after working 7 years in software development. I still love coding but excited to stop building vaporware for a while.

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      What are you planning to do with the degree? IT is my trade but not as a developer. I just fix the computers and maintain the server infrastructure.

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    I’m about to make a big career change from social work to IT. Can’t wait tot start on this new adventure!

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      Good luck! What are you looking to do in IT? I’m currently working enterprise infrastructure which is just fancy talk for I click on things in servers until the do what I want.

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    kbin growing to be the new Reddit. Because it doesn’t feel like I can use Reddit going forward.

    • StinkyPinky@kbin.socialOP
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      Yeah I really like the environment so far. It’s growing quite fast and it has me a little nervous. But reddit has just lost all that made it so great before. I just find myself mindlessly scrolling through shit posts trying to find something that interests me, only to see the comment section full of elementary humor and repetitive dead horse jokes. They have their place, I guess, but not in every single comment section.