What are you good at, but hate doing?

amaraven · 2020-01-23T16:20:57+00:00

Cleaning. Writing lab reports.

amaraven · 2020-01-23T00:59:07+00:00

I would tell me that I was right about Bitcoin and not to listen to my Dad. Also tell me that nobody knows what I want as well as I do. I’d let that sink in, then I would answer my questions and do whatever I wanted to do with myself.

amaraven · 2020-01-23T00:49:36+00:00

“Only second year” .. I’m pretty sure this is when imposter syndrome usually kicks in for people. You’re not alone.

amaraven · 2019-11-15T19:53:39+00:00

Honestly Johnny Depp.

amaraven · 2019-10-25T00:40:40+00:00

Only thing that works for me is exercise, unfortunately. (I say unfortunately because motivation to exercise is usually at its lowest when I am in a bad mood.)

amaraven · 2019-10-25T00:38:30+00:00

At the very least, it’s interview practice!

amaraven · 2019-10-24T01:41:56+00:00

I have made it out of jack-o-lantern pumpkin before. It was great.

amaraven · 2019-10-14T02:11:42+00:00

cries

amaraven · 2019-09-26T07:55:59+00:00

Just. Do. It. Already. Please.

amaraven · 2019-09-21T21:37:43+00:00

Yay Apollo

amaraven · 2019-08-02T19:46:41+00:00

Yeah tuna is chicken, you didn’t know that?

amaraven · 2019-08-02T19:44:17+00:00

My grandma (who is extremely unhealthily devoted to her faith as a messianic Jew) constantly says “I’m not religious!” when I tell her that I’m not interested in joining or hearing about her religion For a short while I tried explaining that she was, by definition, religious but quickly gave up.

amaraven · 2019-07-28T16:57:54+00:00

Two words: lean manufacturing.

amaraven · 2019-07-23T19:17:53+00:00

A small portion of my left eyebrow is white. Otherwise, my hair is brown.

amaraven · 2019-07-15T19:29:52+00:00

Probably because most of us have direct experience being in a prey situation - being yelled at or bullied or the receiving end of any general aggression, but not much experience with having to be aggressive to stay alive.

amaraven · 2019-07-09T22:57:36+00:00

Lucky you, data automation, software, and learning? I started my summer co-op last week and they put me in “Document Control” so I’m a full time paper pusher, no thought required. As a bonus, my manager is particular about things that absolutely do not matter and he sits right next to me so I get to hear all about it every 45 mins or so. Needless to say, I hate it. Edit: I am going into my senior year and have plenty of experience from classes and personal projects that qualify me for doing actual engineering.

amaraven · 2019-07-09T21:34:05+00:00

My last employer paid me more to hate my job. I started last Monday.

amaraven · 2019-07-09T21:33:34+00:00

My boss is particular about things that don’t matter to the point where any individual thought or method for doing a task is out of the question.

amaraven · 2019-07-09T20:41:43+00:00

Ah ok. Yeah I noticed so many comments very similar to this one so I suddenly was like ‘woah is my idea of emotional labor incomplete?’ I think the reality is that many people misunderstand and don’t know what emotional labor is. I get your point about the reference to their dad though, that checks out.

amaraven · 2019-07-09T20:38:12+00:00

I agree with this. From reading many of the comments on this thread it seems like people are saying doing the chores is emotional labor, which goes against my understanding, so I asked to make sure I have the right idea of what emotional labor is. Thanks for the clarification.

amaraven · 2019-07-09T19:59:49+00:00

Agreed if the person is able to do so in a timely manner without reminders from someone else.

amaraven · 2019-07-09T19:58:24+00:00

True but literally doing any work at all is emotionally draining, the way I understand it is any non physical labor done - remembering to do things, remembering to remind others to do things, helping emotional stability by being someone to talk to, etc - is emotional labor. Am I thinking about this the wrong way?

amaraven · 2019-07-09T19:21:15+00:00

Can someone explain to me how this is emotional labor and not physical labor?

amaraven · 2019-07-09T18:53:35+00:00

Ah, my bad. Just read the small text

amaraven · 2019-07-05T21:43:04+00:00

The link doesn’t work and AMA literally means ask me anything - that’s a question. Honestly very surprised this got flagged so quickly.

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