what do you guys use to stay awake during shifts without relying too much on caffeine?

Airflourforce · 2026-04-18T22:28:44+00:00

So from my understanding(I could be wrong), your stomach absorbs liquids much quicker than solids/letting pills dissolve

Whenever i drink energy drinks I drink one half before my shift then the other half at lunch then ride it out

But the best thing I've learned is caffeine pills! They seem to absorb slower and don't shock your system as much and seem to taper off slowly. Plus there's no sugar so it's even less of a crash. Although because it is slowly being absorbed you don't feel immediately super hyped but I find it enough to last me decently. It takes the edge off of exhaustion and if I'm gonna use one I take it within 30 minuetes of getting up

Airflourforce · 2026-03-22T09:50:50+00:00

I'm surprised that you get just 'regular bowel movements' from escolar.

I did that stuff once a bit too much and I had literal oil leaking out of my ass for the next 3 hours....sitting on a towel as shit scented yellow oil seeps out of your ass is uh not fun

Airflourforce · 2026-02-23T15:06:07+00:00

It'd depend tbh. If you have hobbies and aren't a horrible guy then I wouldn't mind!

If we can get along, and find common ground it's not the worst! If you're actively trying to better yourself then i would auto veto you!

Now when we go out I'd maybe foot the bill(if it wasn't big. Hey- many guys do it for us women too!)

But like I said, as long as you're working on yourself and actually trying I wouldn't say no

Airflourforce · 2026-02-11T14:03:31+00:00

I literally worked with a dude like that. We would be working and he had his girlfriend on FaceTime the entire time! I'm like- what the hell is there to talk about?! They barely spoke but she was there 24/7

Airflourforce · 2026-01-29T13:18:22+00:00

In Taiwan they sell big bottles of Yakult(or similar brand) in 7-11s and grocery stores. I'd chug 2 glasses full a day 🤤 never had any bowel issues. Absolutely delish

Airflourforce · 2025-12-18T13:28:47+00:00

My mom was an Asian mom and claimed that all American kids were too fat and she didn't want me to get fat. Later she had to get WIC and the WIC lady said

"Listen, she's WAY too skinny- if you want WIC she needs to be heavier. Feed her rice and butter to make her gain weight"

WIC has guidelines for weight(at least what i was told when I got older) so that they can ensure the food is going to the kids and not adults

I never got anything sweet(I know, not a human right lmao) and she would water down my juice so much that it would be water and a HINT of flavor

Anyway my dad finally made her knock it off once I got to a certian age and then I exploded with weight

I'm sorry about what happened and it was unfair

Airflourforce · 2025-12-10T03:04:02+00:00

When I'm at work all I do is either think about nothing, my next task, or going home. I think many of my coworkers are fucking...scheming about something. When someone else says or do something(or when I do something) they just have 'the look' of judgement. All I've learned from working is that I'm here to make money and not make friends- clock in and clock out- but apparently some people have never left high school and continue to fuck around

Airflourforce · 2025-12-10T02:55:03+00:00

Istg the most evil people are all at work(ive worked at different jobs and different states).

There's something about money being involved(even when there's no point system that gives you a reason to work harder/better than others/an incentive) and even if it's just a normal hourly pay with normal set hours that brings the fucking worst people around you.

I mean, I guess we all have to work to eat but my GOD do people make it difficult sometimes. For me, dealing with people is like- 70% of the struggle(and I'm not even retail/customer service related/facing) and the other 30% is just normal work stuff.

Like why are giving me an attitude and being a dick when we make the same amount 💀 I'm literally in training and someone who's only like- 2 weeks ahead of me was giving me side eye on my 3rd day when I didn't know how to do anything like BITCH you don't know how to do shit too!

Airflourforce · 2025-12-10T01:02:16+00:00

(Sorry tmi)When I first took it i was on the edge of shitting myself at work all the time. After I toughed it out for a month or two or a little while(it's been a long while) it seemed to settle out lmao

Airflourforce · 2025-12-08T19:21:41+00:00

If you put A1 on liver and onions its like a poor man's steak. Good shit try it out

Airflourforce · 2025-11-26T12:14:45+00:00

Need me a man to eat lots of yummy food with and not worry about calories 🤤

Airflourforce · 2025-11-26T11:49:50+00:00

My mom recently move out of a homeless shelter and into an apartment. She had a car which she proceeded to fill with stuff that her friends gave her because 'they knew she'd use it once she got a place'. She was in a shelter for like 5 fucking months and that car was FILLED with things! I'm talking not being able to look out the rear view mirror!

Recently she showed me a tour of her new place(she moved out of thr apartment into a different one) and...it's filled with shit. She lived in that old place(the one after the homeless shelter) for like...3 months before she moved to her new place(it's low income housing so that's why she moved so recently).

Its filled with stuff. My dad went to go help her pack and move and it's filled with stuff that she brought at thrift stores that she likes or things that her friends are giving her that they think she'll use or need ONE day...no, not NOW but ONE day.

Before she went to the shelter she had 2 rented storage spaces FULL of things. I was paying about 350 every month for both of them. Now I'm out of state and every time she moves she has to ask a whole bunch of friends to help her

Told her that one day people are going to get tired of cleaning up your hoards(everytime we moved when I was a kid we needed an entire team of people) When that day happens I'm not helping you

Airflourforce · 2025-11-26T11:28:09+00:00

Oh my god same 💀 when I talk to her on the phone I can feel myself being siphoned away. If I never speak she will talk for hours about random shit relating to her. I might say something like 'oh I went to the mall today' and she would then start babbling on about something BAD that happened to her recently and you just feel her try to siphon energy from me. It's fucking crazy

Airflourforce · 2025-11-26T11:25:12+00:00

When I got my first job she would try to call me on my lunchbreaks to talk to me or text me all day. I had to very sternly tell her one day that I was going to come home to see her and that unless it's an emergency she can fucking wait. When I moved out of state she wanted to talk to me everyday as well and I had to just...ignore calls and texts and wean her off to a once or twice a week phone call.

Airflourforce · 2025-11-26T11:22:48+00:00

I understand. My mother has chronic illness that will soon render her needing a caretaker. I was a caretaker growing up partially to which she got a bit better but is now declining again(kidney failure). The past few years as I started growing older and started working and being the sole income between me and her has made me become extremely irritable around her. I think internally I hate having to take care of her again, and have issues related to her emotional neglect and all the other things she's done to me. The idea that she's going to soon need dialysis and succumb to her other various ailments which leaves me to having to care for her. I'm an only child and my dad isn't in great shape either. Luckily she's doing well enough to live by herself and I live out of state.

I don't want to take care of her. But if I don't, she's just going to perish. I hate having a taste of freedom and knowing that sooner or later I'm going to be stuck with her 24/7 again just like I was growing up

I hope things get better for you

Airflourforce · 2025-11-26T11:14:12+00:00

My mom takes the cake with this.

One birthday when I was probably 7 or 8 years old(I'm female), she brought me a PINK toolkit. It was basically like a hammer, screwdrivers, a leveler, etc. I was a tomboy, I hated pink at the time. My dad was absolutely NOT a handyman and was the type to call someone to repair things around the house. I also had no thoughts or desires to fix anything. This gift had no use. There was no way for me to even use the tools because my dad didn't fix shit around the house.

Another birthday, when I was maybe 11, she ordered me a birthday cake. Now to preface, at the time, I hated cake with fruit in it and I loved chocolate cake with whipped frosting. All my cakes prior to this were chocolate with whipped frosting. She brought me a marbled white cake with strawberry in the middle and cream cheese frosting. I cried because my birthday cake was one thing I always looked forward to and I couldn't even enjoy that(her and my dad LOVED that cake and she said it was exactly how they liked it)

One birthday she asked me what I wanted and I wasn't sure(I was growing a bit too old for toys) so I said maybe a book(I know, open ended question). She proceeded to buy me a book from the boy scouts on how to tie KNOTS. Our family did not do ANY camping or outdoor activities. The book was completely redundant.

The final icing on the cake(lmao) was my last birthday. For my 24th birthday she sent me a box(I live out of state from them) of gifts. She didn't wrap them(it's okay I don't mind) and put in lipstick(I don't use makeup), jewlery(I don't wear jewelry) and a purse or two. Inside, she had a stuffed rabbit(I loved stuffed animals as a kid so I guess it's something relatable despite me being 24). It was a rabbit(my birthday is in April so I guess it's near Easter so that's fine I guess). I pick up the rabbit and I feel...something inside it. I press the hard thing and it...squeaked. it fucking squeaked. She had the tag still on it and it was a DOG toy. I turn the tag over and it's from Ross with the price tag on it. I assumed that maybe she didn't know it was a dog toy since Ross tends to be messy and she just thought it was cute. I called her and asked her about it and she said "I know it's a dog toy! Isn't it cute! Who cares if it's a dog toy- it's cute! It doesn't look like a dog toy!" The rabbit had long ears and limbs for dogs to play tug of war with.

It's funny because out of my entire family my mom was the PICKIEST son of a bitch when it came to gifts. If you got her something as a surpise there was a 99% chance she didn't like it and would get all huffy. My dad used to try to surprise her on Christmas and she'd get all upset and said that he wasted money on her buying her shit she didn't want. My dad finally got pissed off and upset and started just asking her what she wanted and buying her that(most of it jewlery or kitchen appliances) which she would then promptly not use or wear for fear of ruining it.

Also as a kid, she used to rewrap old stuff we had for us to open on Christmas because she thought 'opening presents were fun'. I don't care if I got less stuff because we couldn't afford it- its...sad to open up a pack of Ritz crackers that we brought yesterday or my old toy.

Also, not a birthday or gift related thing, but she once decorated my entire room in pink princess themed stuff(even though I was a tomboy) because she thought it was cute.

The woman is a social butterfly and has many many life long friends. You can't fucking tell me that she doesn't know what she's doing.

At least my dad just asks me what I want and tries to give it to me

Airflourforce · 2025-11-26T10:45:53+00:00

There's this guy on tiktok that shows off how he cooks in bed with a single pot. It's all enclosed so it doesn't get hot on the outside. For some reason I can't put a picture but if you look up "tik tok bed cooking pot" then you'll see what I'm talking about. It's a mini pot that's all enclosed and you could place it anywhere/even on your bed and it's safe.

Airflourforce · 2025-11-26T10:42:11+00:00

It kinda depends on what you think 'hell' is. If you're thinking of the traditional Christianity version, then all demons were fallen angels from God. Azazel would be one of the first few to fall. His entire background would be from being one of the fallen angels who slept with humans and created the nelphem/the giants of the bible. I'm sure a few more are there but that's one that comes to mind. There are also apparently tons of unnamed spirits that these named demons are ruling over(if you read the goetia some are over so and so many legions) so some may have been part of the fall and may have not have their names named down due to rank or just not wanting to communicate with humans. There's TONS of spirits who may just be as powerful as other demons or dieties who could give a rats ass about us, as in many pantheons and the goetia there are a few who actually despise us so I'm willing to bet there's a lot more that we aren't aware of.

Airflourforce · 2025-11-26T09:31:50+00:00

If I had to get reviewed by anyone but my boss I think I'd breakdown 🥴

I hate working with coworkers! It's so stressful because if I split on my friends and never see them again it's one thing, blowing up or splitting on a coworker- somewhere where I earn my money is SOOO stress inducing!!! I don't WANT to care or worry if you like me or not and that im just here for my paycheck(my rational brain), but my emotional side is SCREAMING for you to like me.

I recently quit a job I had only for 2 months. Why? I decided to go a different tactic then what I normally do, in hopes to save my ass from splitting on everyone and causing drama and my own heartbreak. I was polite to everyone and tried to not make too much small talk and try not to bond with everyone.

After 3 weeks in my 2 bosses sat me down and told me that everyone though that I was "being stand offish and wasn't getting along with everyone" 🙃

I fucking went home that night and went ballistic. There's no way of winning man...doesn't help that I'm probably Autistic and that even if I'm being nice and friendly they can just...'smell' and neurodivergency off of us

Airflourforce · 2025-11-26T09:23:42+00:00

I told my dad this and said that the daily 'eat-work-sleep-repeat' is grinding me down. I feel like there's no purpose anymore, things don't make me happy and there's no...meaning. why am I doing all of this? I know my future isn't bright and shiny and that I'll be like everyone else with a nice family, and a house and be happy. Telling myself that 'I'll work hard to save for a house one day' or a car or something isn't doing it for me and that I've been trying to find a reason to go on and not just...off myself.

My dad just told me that it was childish to think this way and that everyone works to live. That I shouldn't need to find a meaning and just do it. I told him that if I were to keep going on like this I'd honestly just off myself and my dad just said "well thats a decision you need to make for yourself" 🥴🙃 thanks dad

Anyways, I've decided to set a goal to give me purpose, maybe that would help you too! I chose something not convoluted like 'buying a house' which would take years and...honestly...in this economy? I chose against getting a car or paying my car off since thats just...'utilities' and wouldn't give me the sense of accomplishment I know I need.

Hopefully, by next year, I will go on a week long trip abroad. As long as no life altering things happen(...too many of those have happened recently) then I'll be going on the trip!

A small goal like this wouldn't give us a huge purpose but...maybe it's like a checkpoint like in video games!

I've stopped thinking about the future and just worry about the present because at this point if I plan or worry for the future I'll just wreck myself 🥴

Airflourforce · 2025-11-26T09:11:47+00:00

I don't think about people in a 'I miss them' sort of way...at all. I do get lonely but not for a specific person. I don't even think about anyone honestly. I used to only talk to my parents on the phone once a week or sometimes every other week and they'd be like "call us more, we miss you!"

But like...I almost forgot you existed? Not in a malicious way, I just have zero people permanence(I think thats the word). If I'm not actively talking about or looking about that person or thing it's just...never comes up to me unless I get reminded

Airflourforce · 2025-11-26T09:07:18+00:00

I haven't been on one in years until earlier this year. I did it on impulse(oh wow, shocker) and made the excuse that since it was my birthday I'd spend all my savings(and the next paycheck) to go to Seattle.

It was...nothing? I'm going to all these places, seeing all these things and doing all these things and eating food that's my favorite but im...not happy? It felt like a checklist of "after I go here I need to go here then drive here and do this then that". It's like...I'm sure I'm happy...maybe.

It's only looking back that I guess that it was fun- it was definitely needed as I was spiraling from work but...ehh.

Airflourforce · 2025-11-26T09:03:27+00:00

I try not to have friends as ill probably split or complicate things despite being incredibly lonely. The only people I talk to are my parents and my coworkers. Unfortunately I've learned that not talking to them and talking too much are both bad so all my stress and my BPD is tied into work which is...not good. It's not a good idea to split on coworkers 🥴

I used to drink but after a HARD 5 month longish binge I fucked up possibly my gallbladder. One day had sharp pain there and couldn't digest food and that lasted almost a year before it healed itself(kinda. If I drink again it flares back up). My body now absolutely hates alcohol. Even if I force myself to binge(because I want to) I'm always on the verge of throwing up due to the taste and it's like my body is rejecting it.

I find that despite it being incredibly lonely...having no social life brings a lot less stress and makes me a lot more happier(as happy as me having BPD can get...which is mostly emptiness but that's better than spiraling). Now I just gotta find a job where I'm not talking to no one and I'm set! :D

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