I want some good news.

  • eric@lemmy.caEnglish
    9·
    8 days ago

    I got a job after an 11 month job search. I only had 2 interviews in that whole time.

    • ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml
      5·
      8 days ago

      Wow, 2 interviews in 11 months is rough. Last year it took me 5 months, I’d say around 20-30 interviews, and 6 years of experience as a dev. Congrats on the job!

  • Ookami38@sh.itjust.works
    8·
    7 days ago

    Mums biopsy results came back negative. Given what we knew going in, I was expecting that to be the case, but good to have it confirmed.

  • rez@lemmy.mlEnglish
    8·
    8 days ago

    Met a cute guy at a bar last night and we talked for a bit. It was really refreshing and took my mind off all the shit that’s been going on.

  • So_zetta_slowpoke@lemmy.world
    8·
    8 days ago

    I just got offered a new job after rage quitting a really bad one. I’ll be working with at-risk kids in a group home, basically a low security facility for kids who have either had run-ins with the law and need a second chance or who just don’t have anywhere else to go. I’m excited, for once I feel like I’m going to be doing work that’s actually important and not just making some wealthy idiot wealthier.

  • dedst@lemmy.world
    7·
    9 days ago

    my kid slept the whole night last night. first time. I didn’t even know what to do when I woke up and no one was crying.

    • Huckledebuck@sh.itjust.worksOP
      3·
      9 days ago

      I was lucky with both of my kids. They both started sleeping through the night relatively quick.

      Good for you! Now, on to the next parenting challenge, but at least you’ll be getting better sleep.

  • The summer blues...@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    7·
    9 days ago

    Changed my name from what some family’s abusive mother gave me, got a job at Amazon, on my way to move out and never see that family again. ✂️👔

  • Truffle@lemmy.ml
    71·
    8 days ago

    My SO works from another continent from time to time, he has been gone for a month now but today he told me that he’s going to be home for christmas. My kid is going to be over the moon!

      • PoscoBumbleroot@lemmy.world
        2·
        9 days ago

        I did put in my two weeks, but I had nothing I was working on and I canceled my meetings, so now I’m still laying in bed instead of freezing my ass off in a cubicle :)

  • Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    5·
    9 days ago

    I’ve been focusing hard on my job, and received feedback from a C Suite Exec this week that he is impressed with my professionalism and interpersonal abilities, especially when meeting with other execs or company lawyers. He even has started coming directly to me because, quote, “Shit gets done when you’re involved.” This is huge to me because I’m impossibly awkward in social circles and mostly a shut-in neckbeard, but somehow it works for me at my job.

    I also received recognition in the form of a beautiful glass plaque from the CEO this year, and it feels amazing.

    I crawled my way up from homelessness to stability and now I’m rocking it at my job. Feels good man.

    I know it’s a bit taboo and perhaps unwise to put so much emphasis on your job, but it’s what brings me happiness because I’ve struggled and fought to get to where I am now. My success has afforded me a comfortable upper-middle-class life and I’m still kind of shocked that it all came to fruition. Went from sleeping under the underpass to a penthouse condo in less than two decades.

    • Huckledebuck@sh.itjust.worksOP
      1·
      9 days ago

      There is no need to consider any of this taboo. We spend a very large chunk of our lives simply working to earn money to live. If what you’re doing for work is something that makes you happy and proud to be spending time on, then that is worth some monetary value. At least, that’s how I feel.

  • Wrongdoer4094@lemmy.world
    3·
    9 days ago

    I am traveling through Greece with my girlfriend. After a nice (and exhausting) hiking route we are back in the hotel – one of the best rooms I have ever been to. She is having a shower and I am chilling over the bed. At this very moment everything feels great.

  • jrubal1462@mander.xyz
    3·
    9 days ago

    We switched my son’s Pre-K for a number of reasons. Mostly because they didn’t have room for him in the older class (where he belongs), but also because it was kinda trashy, kinda franchisee, and every day we dropped him off he was crying and clinging harder and harder. The new school is just some lady running something out of her house.

    A friend asked him what he’s thankful for last night and he said, “My new school” 😭😭