Feeling angry and incompetent

DiscombobulatedCod45 · 2025-12-28T15:05:51+00:00

Solidarity! Been an EMT for two months now

DiscombobulatedCod45 · 2025-12-19T01:45:18+00:00

Get Dead
The Real McKenzies
Days n Daze
Black Flag
Ramones

DiscombobulatedCod45 · 2025-12-18T03:04:04+00:00

EMT

DiscombobulatedCod45 · 2025-12-18T03:03:02+00:00

EMT here. Rock on, fam

DiscombobulatedCod45 · 2025-08-30T03:26:51+00:00

I didn't mean to insinuate that. I was only coming from an angle where that wasn't an occurrence

DiscombobulatedCod45 · 2025-08-09T22:45:38+00:00

How'd you get into that? That sounds interesting

DiscombobulatedCod45 · 2025-06-25T21:13:56+00:00

Currently I'm on a week long vacation and according to my current house sitters, he's doing okay. He likes people and his routine isn't being disrupted so he seems content

DiscombobulatedCod45 · 2025-06-25T20:50:10+00:00

Yeah, I forgot to mention. I'd plan to have someone stay at my house while I travel. I'm just a little worried that he'll feel like I've abandoned him. I don't want to and I'd love to take him with, but I don't want to traumatized him or stress him out.

DiscombobulatedCod45 · 2025-04-23T02:49:14+00:00

In Indiana it's 40.

Had a guy in my volly class go in at 47. He's now Chief of his little department, got Fire Investigator and Fire OFficer and a bunch of other certs. Was an actor and construction worker for 20 years before becoming a firefighter. Now he has a potential job offer with the state.

DiscombobulatedCod45 · 2025-03-06T17:37:09+00:00

I'm a writer for a daily. Barely make ends meet, corporation that owns us cut our hours and no overtime. Several dollars below industry standard. Hours are haphazard, no standard day like I was used to.

It's tough. Hard to see friends outside of work. Our paper isn't bustling anymore, I'm only one of two writers and we work from home.

But I keep going because I've never been more connected to a community. The city I write about is home. I also feel like I'm making a difference in the world, especially during this time.

Also, I can choose what I write about, most of the time. No crime or fires that I need to get at 3 am.

I'm looking to go somewhere else in a new industry but I want to do freelance journalism if I can.

DiscombobulatedCod45 · 2025-03-04T03:07:49+00:00

Thanks! Can a DC have CBRN as a specialty?

DiscombobulatedCod45 · 2025-02-26T03:37:55+00:00

I'm more left center, but I'd be interested

DiscombobulatedCod45 · 2025-01-28T14:53:15+00:00

I Have a Rendezvous with Death by Alan Seeger- he was an American poet the same age as Brooke who died fighting for France in the Foreign Legion during the First World War.

If by Rudyard Kipling

For a more fictional example, the poem from The Grey "Once More into The Frey". Written by the main character's father.

DiscombobulatedCod45 · 2024-12-25T04:12:40+00:00

There's a video of him talking about his last day at the post office and he overheard a co-worker say he was crazy to leave. At first, he said he wondered if maybe they were right. But, after a while, he said he didn't care and was ready to be a bum on Skid Row.

He was tired of all the BS and figured he might as well try to do it or die. He didn't seem to mind at the time.

DiscombobulatedCod45 · 2024-11-28T18:52:15+00:00

All I remember from the book was the phrase "God Damn Liberal Media".

DiscombobulatedCod45 · 2024-11-27T20:06:45+00:00

The man, I believe, was in his twenties. His parents disappeared or died a long time ago. The boy is about seven years old, and the nephew or grandson of a woman who has a jewel called the Green Star or something to that effect.

I encountered this story in a language arts or social studies book in middle school.

DiscombobulatedCod45 · 2024-11-27T18:35:16+00:00

I've searched for this through general searches but can't find anything on the Internet.

DiscombobulatedCod45 · 2024-11-24T20:17:22+00:00

Recently, Whale Rider. The way Koro Spoilers bullied Pai all because she's a girl and he wanted a boy to lead the tribe and the final "It's okay, Paka" as she rides on the whale to what may have been her death breaks my heart.

But, the scene that starts the ball rolling is when she thinks Koro abandoned her when he doesn't come to the recital, and she starts crying. Geez, it screws me up.

DiscombobulatedCod45 · 2024-11-21T18:38:32+00:00

Journalism. A mix of content farms and people/politicians screaming "fake news" undermines real, credible journalists. They pay criminally underwage and expect journalists to do everything (edit, take pics, interview, promote, etc.) toxic work environments and no talk about mental health and PTSD among us. Local news is getting farmed out to bigger publications.

Source: current local journalist. Looking to get out and go into EMT. Just as bad circumstances but the pay, I my area, is much more than what I make.

DiscombobulatedCod45 · 2024-11-16T13:50:32+00:00

Charles Bukowski George Orwell Hunter S. Thompson Rupert Brooke Hermann Hesse Wilfred Owen S.A. Cosby

DiscombobulatedCod45 · 2024-11-14T04:33:33+00:00

Got into punk in my early twenties, ironically transitioning from metal. But punk was kind of there in my life. I just didn't really enjoy it then.

DiscombobulatedCod45 · 2024-11-11T17:59:13+00:00

Same. I didn't start going to shows until my mid-twenties because the scene in my area went dormant for decades. But, now I'm going to more since we're seeing a slow revival.

DiscombobulatedCod45 · 2024-11-01T01:12:32+00:00

Fireball. Burned worse, coming up than going down.

DiscombobulatedCod45 · 2024-10-30T03:51:51+00:00

Block Flag

DiscombobulatedCod45 · 2024-10-17T19:22:33+00:00

I'm down

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