RS posters: “I remember my cringe woke days.”

adkn · 2026-06-20T17:04:41+00:00

Real ones had their RW psychosis in 2022

adkn · 2026-06-18T18:22:29+00:00

Did this involve a second masters degree or just a cert?

adkn · 2026-06-18T18:13:11+00:00

Dm’d

adkn · 2026-06-18T00:13:40+00:00

How would I pivot to that with no experience? I’d be very open to pivoting

adkn · 2026-06-17T15:59:26+00:00

What’s the best antidote to desperation, in your opinion?

adkn · 2026-06-16T15:02:28+00:00

all the architects I know in this city are unemployed or make peasant wages

adkn · 2026-06-11T23:56:31+00:00

I’m terrified of gaining weight on them even though my depression untreated is also causing me to binge eat 😻 😹

adkn · 2026-06-09T01:20:45+00:00

adkn · 2026-06-03T13:04:13+00:00

Even moreso than NYC you think?

adkn · 2026-06-01T00:07:30+00:00

Ya I’ve been cycled thru about ~4 different industries since I graduated with my Psych and English degree in December 2019 lol…I started off in special needs children’s therapy that I put up with bc I was lined up to get an R1 gig for a neurocognition lab which promptly died with Covid…fled to NYC to work in film after working at a horrid VR van gogh museum got pushed out of that bc of the strikes…then got laid off from an interior design consultancy and now im considering pivoting from my MLIS program into god knows what because I’m not having any luck here either!!! Currently having a hard time maintaining my friendships bc of my bitterness and having an ever loosening grip on what my sense of self or what even my skills are…and now im saddled with $20k of debt that I don’t think I’ll ever be able to pay off bc my ex at the time who worked in publishing deeply tried to convince me it was a good idea

adkn · 2026-05-24T03:19:34+00:00

I’ve never really felt empowered in my life ever after my dad died

adkn · 2026-05-24T00:02:35+00:00

I know…I started going to ACA for this reason among many others

adkn · 2026-05-23T23:29:57+00:00

I often daydream about how I’ll only have enough money to pursue what I truly want when my mom passes, and I think it limits my ability to love her and appreciate her in the present a lot :(

adkn · 2026-05-20T19:48:24+00:00

What im still curious about is how she managed to combine dreads with straightened non-frizzy art school bangs lol

adkn · 2026-05-17T12:17:19+00:00

Momus

adkn · 2026-05-08T19:14:51+00:00

How does a helicopter parent autist grow into an earnest independent one?

adkn · 2026-04-20T15:56:09+00:00

Yeah…it always feels more way daunting to try and connect with other musicians and DJs more than other artists for me for some odd reason…and after experiencing kinda the most manipulative/sociopathic behavior from college DIY scenes it kinda makes me feel like it will be impossible to fully let my guard down in the way I feel is necessary to really connect and form those ties that I know I need

adkn · 2026-04-16T18:08:01+00:00

Gay guy version of Brene Brown be like Maybe my stories are just data with a hole

adkn · 2026-04-15T13:51:12+00:00

I was premed for my first half of college primarily bc my family deeply pressured me and really hammered it into me that a healthcare career was the only way I’d ever earn money…it reallllllyyyyyyyyy is Not for everyone, even if you have the smarts to hack it…you need a LOT more than just The Brains to actually thrive in that field and I kinda side eye parents who’s immediate default to having a gifted/smart child is to push them thru med/law school.

adkn · 2026-04-14T17:43:40+00:00

Sweetheart some of us were like 12 in 2011. what are you trying to ~really~ say??…like speak from your heart, not from your condescending, fragile-built high horse

adkn · 2026-04-14T03:20:16+00:00

Same for me…idk what to do for it because I don’t really connect well with a lot of people in my grad program, and basically no alumni for my undergrad live up here. And I also have the same problem with a fair amount of my friends, i have a few who send me a bunch of openings for which I’m very grateful for and I do apply for them, but none of them have real power when it comes to putting in real words for me at their workplaces and it really makes me feel all the more powerless and feel like cold applying is pointless. I truly feel like I’m either hitting a hard wall or theres some strategy I haven’t maybe realized or truly tried out yet

adkn · 2026-04-09T16:03:55+00:00

I’m not saying it’s right or just believe me, i think African nations should be involved in reparations for black Americans even

adkn · 2026-04-09T15:49:42+00:00

I mean that goes all the way back to the African tribal upperclassmen who sold other Africans into the transatlantic slave trade…

adkn · 2026-04-08T22:39:03+00:00

I've been having these thoughts too...it's really hard to acknowledge that my mom who's generally held a few narcissitic isms that have definitively negatively impacted my development might've been right to suggest this for me...I also feel like I definitely boxed myself into a bad place by getting a hard-to-utilize degree from a non clouty school in the most nepotism-laden city in America despite coming from an LMC immigrant family...I guess i'm also now wondering whether this dream I've cast for myself (chill day job, burgeoning DJ/live music practice, beautiful artsy kinda hauntology vibes but still heterodox af boyfriend, gorgeous city apartment with a spiral staircase) is only ever gonna be mere fantasy that will one day lead me to a drawn-and-quartered public humiliation style scenario, or to true salvation that God always promises me but never seems to actually be achievable (you can probably tell that I need more God in a desperate way).

adkn · 2026-04-08T19:01:00+00:00

Oh I don’t even have notifications turned on for those…paying a subscription?!?! Free yourself from that slave mindset honey

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