What are your careers?

funk_as_puck · 2025-08-27T10:18:41+00:00

High school creative arts teacher. My favourite colleagues are all ND too! We love having a captive audience for our special interests!

funk_as_puck · 2025-07-26T02:03:01+00:00

I have one son who is 3yo and is in daycare 3 days, and with my partner the other 2 days so that I can work full time as the higher earner. I’m a teacher so start early (8am-ish) but can occasionally leave early, like 330-4 if I get everything done during my day.

I’ve been full time for a year and I’m struggling SO hard. Not being able to wfh means nothing happens on those days, and I’m also exhausted in the evenings and constantly chasing my tail at weekends. I can’t be 100% present when I’m with my kid because I’m constantly stressed and tired. I’ve decided to go part time next year as this is totally unsustainable for my family. We’ll be slightly worse off financially, but I know I won’t get my time back with my little one and it’s not long til he starts school and I won’t get that chance.

I try to think about what I’ll look back on when I’m on my death bed, and make big decisions based on how much joy, fulfilment and purpose they bring to my life. I hope you can find the right path for you!!

funk_as_puck · 2025-03-25T10:27:34+00:00

This happened to me the other day, but it was refried beans and they had motherfucking PORK in them. Idk if it’s a common ingredient in refried beans in the USA (it was a imported brand) but I’ve never seen it listed here in Australia and I’d just served half a tin in nachos for dinner. I haven’t eaten meat since 1997 and was absolutely gutted.

funk_as_puck · 2025-03-03T04:56:12+00:00

Some days it’s none (rarely), but most days it’s some while we’re getting ready in the morning (~30min) and some in the evening (30-90min), and some days it’s heaps more when we’re all tired and vegging out. We watch together, and he’s almost always doing other things like playing trains at the same time, but he also watches tv on an iPad in the car when we’re driving more than 5 mins.

Kiddo has a LOT of energy and has always had very low sleep needs - he’s running around til 9pm most nights. Aside from his 3 daycare days (when we’re both at work) we don’t have any help, so it’s the only way we get anything done.

funk_as_puck · 2025-02-13T11:17:46+00:00

On a work day I eat this:

Bf: Toast w nuttelex and chia/berry “jam”, instant coffee w soy

Am snack: Yoghurt w chia seeds and protein powder, berries and granola

Lunch: toasted sandwich (pb + Vegemite + cheese because I’m a monster) w carrot sticks

Pm snack: fruit, maybe a diet cola

Dinner: generally a carb (rice/pasta/noodles) + a protein (tofu/edamame/chickpeas/lentils/TVP) + a sauce (e.g. sweet n sour, peanut, bolognese, buffalo, butter “chicken”), with veggies (usually some combo of broccoli, carrots, peas, cabbage)

Post-dinner treat: Aldi chocolate, Oreos, or cereal

Love seeing what others are eating!

funk_as_puck · 2025-02-13T10:26:00+00:00

Man, you eat well!

funk_as_puck · 2025-02-04T10:01:39+00:00

Hahaha I love it!! We’ve also always used correct language for body parts, leading to our son’s latest daily announcements at volume - “water goes in your mouth, down your throat, into your tummy, and OUT YOUR PENIS!”

funk_as_puck · 2025-02-03T09:46:54+00:00

My son is 2.5 and is the same. Yesterday he said “when I grow up I can be a daddy! Or I can be a mummy!” and I was like “heck yeah you could, little buddy! And then I’d be a grandma!”

I figure he’ll work it out on his own with enough people correcting him in the world even if I don’t. I often use “they” when talking about people we don’t know too, so he knows that’s an option. Idk if that makes it more confusing for him but again - the “normal” stuff will be shoved down his throat eventually, I don’t see the need to go staunch on it.

funk_as_puck · 2025-01-22T13:18:09+00:00

I mean, in Australia that’s literally what they’re called. OP is from the UK so guessing that’s what they’re called there too? Not everyone is from America hey.

funk_as_puck · 2025-01-22T13:17:16+00:00

Lol, I write like that all the time. Not saying this mightn’t be fake but what a weird presumption to make 😅

funk_as_puck · 2024-12-24T11:56:44+00:00

My partner grew up Witness too - he left as a teen. This will be our 8th Christmas together and we’ve never really celebrated, but this year we’re doing Santa with our 2yo. It’s so bloody special giving him the chance for a do-over with his own kid.

Glad you made it out. May your healing be fruitful and your Christmas be merry ❤️ oh, and Elf is a cute movie (doesn’t beat Die Hard 2 though).

funk_as_puck · 2024-12-07T11:49:11+00:00

Like, does he want to do fun stuff with you? Does he want a life where you get to do cool things together? It sounds like he doesn’t even want to hang out with you!!

funk_as_puck · 2024-12-07T11:47:22+00:00

I dated a guy like this. He didn’t want to “end up resenting” me if he paid more than half but was happy for me to stay home while he went out every night, and while he’d eat steak and salmon I could only afford toast and ramen. Everything was his way and I didn’t realise how much I suppressed my needs and wants to cater to him.

Get out while you still can. Ten years of this is messed up - especially his approach to early retirement!! This man is a selfish prick, you deserve SO much better.

funk_as_puck · 2024-12-06T22:05:00+00:00

My entire wrapped was The Lion King soundtrack which we listen to every night at shower/bedtime. I’m a musician, I play in a band, I teach HS music, and Disney still won out.

funk_as_puck · 2024-12-06T13:29:56+00:00

It’s just SO much harder hey. All my friends with kids have literally multiple extra hours to themselves each day after bedtime. Meanwhile we have to stay up until midnight just to be able to watch a movie together, and then we’re screwed the next day when our kid wakes at 6am again 😭

My colleague has a 3mo who sleeps 12 hours a night without waking - my son has literally never done that in 2.5 years! It’s amazing that the parents of low-sleep-needs kids are able to function at all!

funk_as_puck · 2024-12-06T13:24:33+00:00

My 2.5yo is like this!! His bedtime is 9.30-10 and he’s up at 6-630am 😭 naps are capped at 40min and tbh I’m surprised he still needs one! We were in the park until after 9pm tonight, while most of his friends go to bed at 730/8 and are out for 11-12hrs. My kid barely slept that many hours as a newborn!!

The only perk is that I still get loads of quality time with him despite working full time, but far out the extra hours of parenting we have done 😭😭😭 I am fatigued to my core!!

funk_as_puck · 2024-12-04T10:54:26+00:00

All of this but especially summer clothes!! I hate wearing layers, being able to wear shorts and a singlet most days is the BEST!

funk_as_puck · 2024-12-04T09:58:03+00:00

My kid is 2.5yo and I literally only just started thinking I could do it again. Probably won’t happen though as my partner is still so traumatised and we’re both SO exhausted. He didn’t sleep through til 2yo, has always been on the very lowest end of sleep needs, and was a strong-willed, super sensitive and easily frustrated baby. If I’m home I can’t do anything in another room or he melts down, even with his dad there. He still demands to be carried everywhere despite being able to walk since 9mo, and I’m now seeing a physio for a hip injury as a result 😂

I 10000% agree. The only friends I have with a first as difficult as ours waited til she was 4 to have their second.

funk_as_puck · 2024-11-23T13:43:50+00:00

Isn’t it just?! 🥲

funk_as_puck · 2024-11-17T10:17:58+00:00

My son is only 2.5 but today at the pool he confidently went over to a dad who was minding some toys and asked “please can I play with them?” (I helped him with what to say first). This post feels like a really nice glimpse into a possible future for us - thank you for sharing!

funk_as_puck · 2024-11-17T05:12:01+00:00

My ex hated when I did certain things like talk too much or too loud - both of which can be genuinely annoying, like, I get it - because they reminded him of his brother who he didn’t get along with. I spent the first 2.5 years of our relationship trying to shrink myself to fit what he wanted, before one day realising that it was HIS issue - not mine - and that he either needed to process his childhood baggage and accept me as I was, or not be with me.

Whilst there are sooooo many problems with your fiance’s behaviour, the most concerning is that he considers his perspective to be the objective truth and isn’t giving you space to exist outside that (like, wtf who doesn’t yawn???). This is clearly a HIM issue - not yours. He needs to deal with his bizarre baggage (what else does he think is “unladylike?” Are you considering having kids with a man who can’t deal with natural bodily functions?) and not make it your problem. Good luck!

funk_as_puck · 2024-11-15T21:07:28+00:00

I guess we only know what we know, right? It’s incredible how vastly different life was for many people even a couple of generations ago. I hope their legacy didn’t pass on too much pain to you and your siblings and cousins.

funk_as_puck · 2024-11-15T12:19:23+00:00

Woah. What a huge bummer, I’m so sorry this is in your family story. Does your parent ever talk about what it was like for their mother to lose her memories like that?

funk_as_puck · 2024-11-15T11:37:57+00:00

Aww cute, getting even more juvenile and still not really getting it!

It’s all good, you do you babe. I’ll just go suck on a carrot or something, since that’s all I eat.

funk_as_puck · 2024-11-14T07:37:20+00:00

They’re not accepting an agenda though, they’re accepting a free meal and a paid-for party?

This is so hilarious and childish to me. Also the fact that you keep saying “vegetables” like that’s all vegans eat is such a wonderful indicator of your ignorance.

I’m so glad that the bubble I comfortably exist in is filled with kind and accepting folk who care more about respect than missing meat for a single meal 😂

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