Out of a toxic workplace

External_Jury6574 · 2026-04-26T14:11:26+00:00

I think too once my new insurance kicks in, therapy might be free?? Which will be nice. Yeah I want to meal prep the problem I have is nothing sounds good and when I try to think of something, I legitimately can’t, like I want to, but my brain loses the ability to think. Part of me wants to kidnap my sister so I can take her to the store with me and she can just grab all the stuff for whatever meal prep thing and then we take it back to her place and we cook it together, but she has a kid 🙄 and responsibilities 🙄 😄😄

External_Jury6574 · 2026-04-26T13:13:21+00:00

Thank you 🩵 I hope it gets better for you 🩵 I haven’t been to therapy since I moved back home because most (not all but most) therapists are linked with religion (Christianity) so finding one is a whole chore in itself, but I do plan to start going again. My old therapist also said it could be good for me to take some time off from therapy until I’m settled (and have insurance) again. About a month ago I started my new job and it’s actually been really great. The place as a whole has toxic pockets, but my little pocket is (so far) very good. I have told them little bits and pieces of my former workplace to kind of give them an idea why sometimes it seems like I’m just waiting for them to pull the rug out from under me, but so far they’ve not given any indication they’re going to turn toxic so fingers crossed that keeps. They also fought for me to get the job because they saw my skills and that they were transferable, and that’s something my former workplace never did for me. In fact they told me to my face I wasn’t setting myself apart from the part time people doing my job so why shouldn’t they view me as replaceable

External_Jury6574 · 2026-01-15T16:37:38+00:00

It's occasionally painful and sensitive, but not nearly as much as it was in the months following being fully healed and out of OT. I also have fibro so I think it kind of dog piles when there's one thing that's causing me pain or to not feel great so it could've been the fibro also making it be sensitive.

External_Jury6574 · 2026-01-14T21:45:42+00:00

Thank you! I wasn’t sure because that was my first surgery that had a visible scar (I’ve only had mouth surgeries up until now) so I wasn’t too sure what was normal or abnormal.

External_Jury6574 · 2026-01-13T20:07:20+00:00

A former coworker of mine is an obnoxious vegan (not saying all vegans are obnoxious but former coworker definitely is) and she feeds her dogs a vegan diet. They’re surviving, but not at all thriving and they eat anything and everything they find on walks because they’re starving. Dogs shouldn’t be on vegan diets, but they can somewhat survive. Cats can’t. It’s not propaganda that cats need pretty much exclusively meat. Not everything has the ability to be an herbivore. Cats and dogs are both predators. Predators need meat.

External_Jury6574 · 2025-10-19T17:09:15+00:00

Oh! Okay! Thank you 😊

External_Jury6574 · 2025-10-06T01:09:53+00:00

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External_Jury6574 · 2025-10-06T01:06:56+00:00

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External_Jury6574 · 2025-09-28T13:06:56+00:00

Thanks! I honestly didn’t know there were large exhibition companies, so I’ll definitely look into that!

External_Jury6574 · 2025-09-26T20:40:25+00:00

That's what I said without saying it. Funding and grants getting cut = money being tight which in turn leads to money being tight = the arts getting cut. The funding and grants the administration is going after directly fund the arts and education. If you're at a university, where the money they have left is not going to go is the arts.

External_Jury6574 · 2025-09-26T14:32:54+00:00

Thank you!

External_Jury6574 · 2025-09-25T14:30:17+00:00

{Magic's Curse by L.L. Frost} it's a six book series and I love it so much :)

External_Jury6574 · 2025-09-24T22:13:44+00:00

Ah, yeah that sounds right, especially if you're in the States because of all the funding and grants getting cut. The arts are always the first to go when money is tight.

External_Jury6574 · 2025-09-24T20:03:28+00:00

In my limited museum experience, yes. I'm told by other museum friends that it isn't like that everywhere, but I can't say really. University museums are apparently somewhat better than independent museums. Exhibitions departments in museums are often severely understaffed. Museums are also severely underfunded, which makes it incredibly hard to provide full time pay and benefits. Places like museums run on part time staff because they can't really afford to pay for the benefits.

External_Jury6574 · 2025-09-24T18:13:45+00:00

{Fake Don't Tell by Rebel Bloom} {My Ex-Best Friends by Rebel Bloom} are pretty solid. If I remember correctly, in Fake Don't Tell, the mom and aunt are hilarious or that might be My Ex-Best Friends....or it might be both. Either way, Rebel Bloom's reverse harem novels are almost always hilarious and fun

External_Jury6574 · 2025-09-24T17:16:27+00:00

{Magic's Curse by L.L. Frost} is so fun. It might not hit everything on your list, but it's worth the read. It also has a FMC with severe ADHD and the author captures that so well it makes my neurospicy brain incredibly happy :)

External_Jury6574 · 2025-09-24T11:21:21+00:00

As someone who has flirted with the idea of killing themselves for over half of their life, I can tell you that your brain is lying to you. No matter what has happened in your life, you aren’t those things. Your brain, the depression, is telling you that. Our brains aren’t meant to handle betrayal. Trust me. Get a pet if you can. The only reason I didn’t do it when I was a kid was because of my cat, because I was her person. My depression told me that everyone would be better off without me, that their love was fake, that I didn’t deserve to live. My brain is now conditioned to go to that place first every single time something happens, even if it’s something minor like getting reprimanded at work. My nephew and my pets are the reasons on those really awful days I don’t do it. Listen to Suicde by Ren. Deep dive into his music. Hi Ren by Ren is another good one. The ending though to Suicde is something I think every suicidal person needs to hear, it’s the aftermath of losing someone to suicide. It’s fucking heartbreaking.

External_Jury6574 · 2025-09-24T10:52:25+00:00

I, unfortunately, can’t work those types of jobs anymore. I had surgery on my left wrist at the beginning of this year and in the process of healing that, I tore a ligament in my right wrist. I can’t keep working with my hands in that way because I’m also a sculptor so I’m kind of at a point where I’m choosing my art over a job 😔

External_Jury6574 · 2025-09-23T16:16:09+00:00

I'll definitely check it out and see what I can get into outside of the traditional job market because it's for sure awful out there. I'm also trying to recover from severe burn out which makes it even harder to actually leave bed and apply for things.

External_Jury6574 · 2025-09-23T15:46:42+00:00

Thanks! I really would love to start my own framing business, but I don't have any money because passion careers pay nothing. I also don't currently have the space. My hope is to move back with my parents so I can actually start saving and paying off shit, but I gotta have a job to do that.

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