I just think of it as chilling doing something fun. Doing your hobbies without your phone near should reduce the urge to “make content”. But also realizing that the juice is sometimes just not worth the squueze, I mean, you could try, but doing something for the sake of doing it out of enjoyment is what helps me do my hobbies.
Yep it’s such a fragile situation
I’m the same with reading novels! It’s so hard for me to situate things because I don’t see images while reading! I found out that’s called antaphasia!
Those are some good hobby ideas! I’m going to get back into drawing and doing urban sketching to get out of the house more and join some local urban sketcher meet ups.
I tried lifiting and I didn’t enjoy it! But I’m going to try it again or something that seems more fun! I was looking some things up, and kettlebells seem like alot of fun, swing and all, lol! So I’m going to look into that more and see if there are any classes.
I never really considered that IRL is just as brianrot as online! And in some ways it makes sense! Like people spend alot of their time online as is, so I’m not surprised that people’s behaviors today are at a minimum influenced by online media and such. It’s a vicious collective action problem! I dunno how to change the sisuation but I’m going to be doing more hobbies and things not on a screen, that’s for sure, lol!
I’m going to look into fun physical activities to do! I do go rock climbing with my brothers but truthfully It’s not my favorite thing to do. But I’m going to keep exploring things.
That’s a good idea! I have an old Kubo that I neglected for far to long!
This is wonderful advice, and I’m gonna just take things day and day and try to get out of my shell despite the cringe and discomfort. I need to remind myself that being uncomfortable is how I grow and to stick to it!
I hear that alot! I feel like for people who are interested in more macro works a MSW has kinda been pigeon holed in micro work sadly. Like I care about social economic policy mostly. I think a MSW is valuable but a MPA might be more so for what I want to do.
Yeah student debt is no joke. I was fortunate enough to be in a position where I could commute and had enough student aid and scholarship to go debt free first 2 years and use savings from working part time to pay next 2 years off in (less than 6k each year). But I wish more companies would invest in proper training than push that on students and college to do (poorly imo).
That’s fair, I have done jobs and internships and I have learnt there’s just things I don’t like about but I tough it out. I wouldn’t frame it like that in a job interview tho! I would say it was about to best use my time in college studying and developing a topic area I was passionate in! I go to a small liberal arts college with alot of different topic areas but not a lot of depth, and didn’t want to transfer due to financial reasons so this was good compromise.
Thanks for the salesforce tip! I saw a listing on LinkedIn for a Community Development Associate for ICF or something and applied anyway despite having a couple more months till I graduate. I have been looking at consultancy firms and engineering services firms as well. I was kinda stuck on working in local government but I have learnt there’s actually alot of options to try for.
Yeah, certs seems like alot of ppl advice. I was looking into completing Eco-districts and some tech-y certs
I was actually a Sustainability major but switched to Social Services then made my own, because I wanted to focus on stuff I was interested in. But yeah, thinking about it I feel it just depends on how I market it. And I was considering grad school and might get a MSW or MPA.
I decided to make my own to mostly avoid classes in each of the majors I wasn’t interested in tbh. I wanted to go into some type of urban/housing career, but after interning in a planning department for my city, I realize how limiting this career really is. I have been interested in community development since high-school.
My recommendations are broken. It just repeates what I’d been watching and never nothing new. I don’t know why my algorithm is broken. I have gotten to the point of watching more movies and tv shows at this point.
Man thanks for the reminder, What influnced my choices was cost and bachelor’s doesn’t have as much strength in the job market it once has. If a more free and less stressful comes at a cost a social life early one so be it. Older me will hopefully appreciate the foresight. I need to put more work in cultivating a more full social life.
I never had a dishwasher growing up. When I moved into my current home and It had a dishwasher, I thought it was dumb, till I started using it… But I do a little bit of both, on the days where I am super lazy and let the dishes pile up, I would put them in the dishwasher just to get them clean, but on the days where I am truly responble adult, I would just take the 5-10 minutes to wash the little bit of dishes by hand. So in short, both.