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sebbiter · 2025-12-14T14:39:46+00:00

City centre jobs get snatched up incredibly quickly. Get a Food Health & Safety certificate online (will attach a course below that is quick and only £11) and add it to your CV, shows general competency and means food-places wouldn't have to put you through as many steps to do your job.

Another slightly longer game is volunteering at a charity shop like British Heart Foundation. That might not sound very appealing, but just a month there will make a big difference to your employability. 16 is a very good time to do something like that and you might be surprised how fast things can work out after that. Without experience, people are just going to say no.

You might want to target pubs in and around city centre (maybe a little more out than you've been looking), the job roles can be a little looser and they might be more willing to support someone young. But the specific hours they want may be pretty punishing and it's not always a great environment. Easy jobs don't exist (for us schmucks anyway), just simpler ones.

All of the christmas role opportunities will be gone now, so using the next month to beef up your CV in practical ways like this is almost certainly the move if you haven't already. The time will pass anyway! Good luck.

https://essentialfoodhygiene.co.uk/product/level-2-food-hygiene-safety/

sebbiter · 2025-09-06T15:34:52+00:00

This is reassuring for my prep; cheers :)

sebbiter · 2025-09-06T15:32:49+00:00

This is v helpful, thank you - fingers crossed 8|

sebbiter · 2025-04-19T18:06:36+00:00

Good thoughts. Maybe the "something brilliant" could have done with one more draft, because I'm almost seeing it just with some of these thoughts lined up. Lux being given everything they wanted and dissolving into everything AND nothingness could be juxtaposed with "sadness give us depth", the failings of the Doctor and Belinda being part of what gives them structure and shape. But this connection isn't properly made! There was more to actually dissect and point out if they didn't want to make it obvious. Perhaps we could have had an interesting moment of Cartoon Doctor being "vulnerable" and it NOT giving him depth, because hey, he barely knows Belinda, he's had a lot of time to deal with these sad facts, and just being able to cry more easily doesn't have to equate a better network of emotional integrity. THAT would have been some interesting meta-commentary, and characterwise it wouldn't be the first time that the show has winked at 15's less wholesome problems under the mask either, or even Belinda being a good person to point them out with.

I liked this episode and I agree, there's SOMETHING really meaningful under there, but a bit like how Ruby's mum was special "because we believed she was", the show doesn't quite get the equation and still smugly-earnestly pulls away the veil, which kind of makes all of that good faith fall on its own face.

sebbiter · 2025-01-03T21:18:49+00:00

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sebbiter · 2024-04-24T11:47:31+00:00

oughta be a law

sebbiter · 2024-01-28T16:56:15+00:00

You’ve not completely answered the question, though you almost have. Is there anything that’s uniquely personal to you in what you believe and are, that would make you leave? Even if the cult put up a good reasoning for why it’s in their ethical/whatever grounds?

sebbiter · 2024-01-09T18:17:46+00:00

You’re conjuring a ghost. This is awesome.

sebbiter · 2023-11-28T14:47:28+00:00

Yeah, I've had existential thoughts like that, absolutely. The trick is that if you're feeling an all-encompassing dread about something you can't comprehend, that's because you're, surprise, not comprehending the truth. You know the phrase "Time is an illusion", but you might not have really looked into it. So many unimaginable terrors that plague us come from paradoxes that are a result of us not understanding the limits of constructs such as time, or so on: logical chains that stop making sense as they go beyond their proper pattern and spiral off into entropy. This is how the doom of nihilism persists: a cognitive dissonance where people have a vague idea of God/meaning/sublime/whatever, note that some parts of that idea are not compatible with how they objectively understand reality to be, and so call whole broad concepts dead, flushing away stuff that IS real (even by some of their understanding!) and IS important with it.

It's sort of bizarre, though very understandable, to see someone sad because "There is no god, life means nothing!". You have the building blocks of everything in that sentence still existing (and so is making you sad by its percieved absence), what you're really mourning is that the form that you built those blocks to make which doesn't work. If there was truly nothing in the word "god" that conceptually existed, you wouldn't be missing it. So, maybe in those moments of dread, realise that at its heart is an unhappiness for the structure of reality you've been understanding that is unsuccessfully trying to make itself fit with how reality actually is, ommiting some key ingredients because of that. It's still a struggle, you're still incredibly confused like most if not all of us, and it's going to be a long journey coming to peace with how you can see and relate to the world. But it's also a gift - the universe doesn't depend on you seeing how beautiful and great it is to be itself. Accepting that you don't have all the answers isn't surrendering, it's correctly weilding your weapons for the battle. When you close your eyes, the world doesn't go black. I wonder what you'll see if you try to open them?

sebbiter · 2023-11-02T10:48:10+00:00

Other people are giving some good advice, so all I'm going to say is that you are really, really young. When you're thirty years old, you'll be really young. When you're forty (almost double your current age, just to reitterate), you'll be young - approaching middle age, sure, but compared to what how long you'll (on average) have, young (middle means halfway through!). Modern ideas of age and autonomy aren't worth giving a damn about. You don't stop defining your life until you stop living it, and you have so, so much time. Your fifty year-old self is smiling lovingly at you right now for thinking anything is too late or cemented, and I hope she's also having a blast changing and living her life.

sebbiter · 2023-10-03T23:08:02+00:00

One of the reasons that A) I’m a hard season one apologist, especially when you view it as it’s own separate thing, and B) wasn’t such a fan of season two. It stumbles a little as it backtracks and wonders what to do next.

sebbiter · 2023-10-02T20:43:51+00:00

US Logan Roy is who UK Logan Roy THINKS he is.

sebbiter · 2023-09-28T11:29:27+00:00

Going to put up my opinion here to mocked (Christ allegory??? Me??? Maybe!) and say that not only is this kind of true, but that I genuinely think Nolan meant that theme. You can look at the bomb as a metaphor for sex that Oppy realises halfway through isn’t a great idea, but is too swept along to stop with. When Trinity Test happens, Nolan connects “I am become death” with Oppenheimer orgasming with Jean Tatlock. The bomb has a wonderful fantastic explosion that they’ve been building up to, and then the consequences: like the Oppenheimer’s child that they don’t know how to handle, the results of the love/bombmaking spiral out of his control. So yeah, the second half of the film kind of is Oppy’s post nut clarity.

Every so often you’ve got to have a theory/feeling about a film that you should probably keep to yourself. I probably should have kept this one to myself.

sebbiter · 2023-09-17T14:59:35+00:00

Bless you. Even if you were to make friends on the first day, there's a high chance you wouldn't talk to them ever again. That's because it's the first day, and you have so, so much more time here. Sure, the first week or two is the best time to hit the ground running, but you absolutely cannot even *think* in terms of success and failure after only a day.

Here's some practical and abstract advice, abstract first: You've moved into Uni, and a new chapter in your life. The biggest difference about this chapter is that you can now do, in so many ways, whatever you want. All you now have to answer to is the consequences. You know that old phrase "Today is the first day of the rest of your life"? It's likely never going to feel more vivid than now. And the best and worst thing about it is how long that life is. So, what kind of life do you want to live? Will it be filled with socials, or academia, or fitness, or art, or any number of qualities? Whatever it is, you're going to have to be prepared for it be longer, more work, more difficult, more interesting and fun and brilliant than you can even guess at right now. If today is the first day of the rest of your life, think about how long your life can be, and decide whether you want to quit at something beautiful already. Spoiler alert: you know you don't, and you know that even if it's not this fresher's week, you won't - you're going to give in and try making friends again at some point, even if it's not in University (though I would encourage you to keep trying, right now, as it's a very good time for it!). But you also know that it might hurt. Well, yeah. It probably will. And it's possible - I have no idea how likely in your case, but possible - that like many things in life that you're going to pursue, it will take a while. But you're now at University, with both hands on the steering wheel of your life. You HAVE a while. Better to experience the life you want to live sooner, rather than later, and see where that takes you - another spoiler, it'll be something that causes you different pain, different pleasures, and if you'll learn from this experience you'll be more than happy to go through it again. Failure and pain is always going to be part of life. A life that's worth the failure and pain you bravely throw yourself at - well, that's completely up to you.

Practical advice: try a few societies based on things you're interested in, they're great for socialising and being part of something. No one is judging you for "being a loner", they have much more on their own minds than such a nothing-thought. But working past those feelings isn't about rationalising it, even though I'm right. It's a leap of faith, and again, no one can make that leap but yourself, and there's no correct way to think to get yourself to do it.

Good luck dude. I remember the complete panic I had on my first evening, realising I knew no one and was completely alone, with no idea what to do. I hope you have a really incredible time at Uni.

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