• RBWells@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Most things. People underestimate the labor, time, complexity, obstacles that most jobs involve. We are wildly optimistic.

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    It’s easy to be friendly at work. But turning that “work-friend” relationship into a real friendship, one where you do things outside of work together, is still a mystery to me. I have no idea how people do that. Others make it look so easy. I can’t imagine anyone at my job dislikes me, we all compliment each other, laugh at each others’ jokes, and hold fun conversations on the clock. Yet when a crowd gets together after work and plans where to go next, I’m baffled. I’m too anxious to invite myself, but nobody ever invites me, so I just try to ignore it so I don’t feel hurt. :')

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      Same as any relationship you just ask. Make it easy and do a group drinks after work first then if you hit it off plan something.

      I swear as someone who overthinks everything it amazes me I don’t with this and other people do lol

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          Do you work with a team/department? Just say let’s go out for dinner/drinks after work. Just like outside work expect maybe 50% to commit.

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    Teaching (elementary school). It’s my third career and definitely the hardest of the three.

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    Being happy. Living. Staying alive. Also, networking. I’m pretty good at computers, being able to build computers and compiling my own Linux based OS, but networking is witchcraft on another level. Still love it though

  • MuttMutt@lemmy.world
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    It varies from person to person.

    I can build a house from start to finish and figure it all out easily. I can rebuild a car pretty easy too. Computer hardware and networking stuff is no problem. I started navigating the us with nothing but maps (pre internet access availability for me) at 16 and have driven all over since. I excel in spatial relations from what I’m told.

    I don’t understand nouns, verbs, adverbs, or anything that goes along with it but can speak and write clearly. Learning languages is a pita. Same goes for programming. Interacting with people outside of certain things in person makes me cringe. Interacting on the phone is worse unless I know someone, I’m currently still using my wife’s debit card to access my bank account 7 years after she passed because I have to call the bank to fix mine and I can’t stand the thought.

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      If you don’t think mudding and taping drywall is more difficult than it seems, I’m impressed (and a little disbelieving).

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    After years of martial arts training, actually defeating a determined opponent in a physical confrontation.

    Also, cryptography.

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      Are you allowed to use cryptography in those martial arts confrontations? If so, is a calculator ok, or do you bitshift in your head?