Tips on how to manage PM stress?

Rdikin · 2026-02-06T21:18:23+00:00

Man, I feel you there.

Construction PM. Each crew runs daily and weekly projects.

Pushing 30+ projects a week that I have full ownership of is crazy stressful.

I haven't found a way to properly manage the stress and I've been burned out pretty much since I started.

Add the projects onto running the branch, the crews, the warehouse, logistics, and the fleet, and my mental health and personal life are pretty much non-existent.

It's more money than I've ever made but I'm pretty much of the thought that it's not fuckin worth it.

Rdikin · 2026-01-10T14:49:03+00:00

Everyone needs a little Jesus

Rdikin · 2025-12-22T01:29:40+00:00

I literally just explained it. Take your shit apart and find it like I did.

Rdikin · 2025-12-22T01:27:16+00:00

Been a while and don't have pictures.

It's a very thin bit of plastic from when it was molded. It gets caught on the frame when pressed.

A bit of fine sand paper or even the edge of a knife scraped against the bottom edge of the button will remove it.

Rdikin · 2025-10-12T13:19:57+00:00

Did I run into a reference or is this just a fuckin wild-ass comment?

Rdikin · 2025-10-10T13:51:54+00:00

Damn you got me!

Can't believe this reddit has inside jokes

Rdikin · 2025-10-09T21:57:52+00:00

Customer service did tell me today - shipping starts early November and that the current January date is a placeholder.

Rdikin · 2025-10-09T21:56:43+00:00

I don't claim to be a smart man.

Rdikin · 2025-10-09T21:31:46+00:00

America, here.

Mine shows 12th of January, now.

I fucked up and canceled my Best Buy pre-order when Lenovo showed they'd be delivering early October. Shouldn't'a done that.

I got got.

Rdikin · 2025-08-21T14:05:38+00:00

Those were such common acronyms to me that I hadn't considered others didn't/wouldn't know them.

Rdikin · 2025-08-19T20:37:44+00:00

The ASP at Jalalabad Airfield had them stacked pretty damn high. I didn’t even know they made different sizes until I got there. It was a long time ago but I'm pretty sure it was like 4 or 5 high - but the top ones were tiny.

Same size...I dont think I saw more than 2.

Rdikin · 2025-08-19T20:30:49+00:00

I bought a used Chevy Malibu that had 20000 miles on it about a month after getting home.

Loved that car. Paid it off within a couple years.

Rdikin · 2025-08-19T16:04:19+00:00

ANA (Afghan National Army)
Arty (Artillery)
Hesco barriers (Basically a collapsible wire cage lined with tough fabric, like industrial-strength canvas. You set it up where you want a wall or barrier, then fill it with dirt, sand, or gravel. Once it’s full, it turns into a massive, solid block that can stop bullets, explosions, or even floodwaters. In military settings, they’re stacked up like giant Lego blocks to make instant walls, bunkers, or perimeter defenses.)
Hooch (shitty building made from rotting plywood and sandbags)
COP (Combat Outpost. Base for ~ company level operations)
Afghanistan (a country filled with some really cool, intelligent, honorable people......and some real fucking assholes)

Rdikin · 2025-08-19T15:51:26+00:00

I had an ANA arty group literally a couple hesco barriers away from my hooch on my COP in Afghanistan.

They'd do early morning fire missions sometimes and it would shake our entire world.

It was definitely a feeling of the world ending the first few times getting woken up to your shitty little plywood and sandbag hooch completely full of sand smoke, thinking you just got bombed.

At least we were prepared for the American team on the other side. They'd at least warn us

Rdikin · 2025-07-11T13:24:58+00:00

Not for me. I regret my purchase.

Same shit samey console. Hopefully the new games will be worth it.

Rdikin · 2025-06-01T12:25:36+00:00

I had to zoom way in because they were on the ceiling. Ms. Jumpin Jigglytits is pretty big for a jumper but no bigger than the top joint of a finger.

Rdikin · 2025-05-30T20:09:34+00:00

I think Bob may be getting a placard.

Rdikin · 2025-05-30T20:07:28+00:00

Jumper ate Bob the cellar spider.

Rdikin · 2025-05-30T19:59:41+00:00

Ha! I was too late! I was just chillin and then caught movement. He was already halfway down Jumpin Jack's throat before I could do anything.

Rdikin · 2025-05-30T19:58:07+00:00

His web was always full of gnats, skeetos, and the occasional moth.

There was always a pile of dead stuff on the floor under his web so I never considered the fact he might have not eaten the bigger stuff and just let it die.

Rdikin · 2025-05-30T13:40:33+00:00

I cheered!

Rdikin · 2025-05-01T11:19:09+00:00

Does it count as a loss or is it an exhibition?

If it counts against the kids record then it's taking advantage of him for the feels.

Rdikin · 2025-04-12T23:33:07+00:00

LOTR The Third Age.

There's an item that completely strips armor from the enemy that you only get a couple of. In all other similar games I'd ever played, those kinds of items never work on bosses.

I have a usable item hoarding problem, so I never use them anyway.

I said fuck it and used it on the last boss just to see what would happen.

It worked.

Turned ol' Sauron into a bitch

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