shalafi

Been at a desk for 20-years, now at physical labor. Recently figured out that I'm running a serious caloric deficit, and I'm already a skinny fucker. Also, I'm aiming to build a little muscle and a lot of endurance. How do I eat?!

Back when I was working hard, ate tons of fast food. Too expensive and time consuming, don't want off the clock to go eat (hour round trip including eating). Took a 12-hour shift today and did OK sucking down granola bars, water and kratom, ate my wife's kickass meal when I got home.

What can I cook or bring to work to power me? What's simple and cheap and doesn't require much on-site prep? (We have a microwave, toaster, all that, I just want calories and protein in my face with no fuss). Afraid I'm half-ass cannibalizing myself.

tl;dw: Autonomy, mastery and purpose is essential to happiness. Had all three, in spades, at a previous job. Left for double pay and benefits, total misery after losing them.

First time I watched, "Holy shit! He's about to talk about Linux!", and he did. "Hey! That's how Wikipedia works!", and it was.

I think on this every time I see comments about how someone isn't paid enough to give a shit, work harder. I was making $82K at my last job, miserable and struggled to understand what my damned problem was. Never knew employers existed that treated their people so well. Wife kept telling me I should be thankful, and I was! Yet I was deeply unhappy.

Now I'm driving a forklift and slinging mulch, satisfied as a pig in shit! Weird? I get it after internalizing this video.

• Autonomy: If I see something that needs done, I jump on it. Don't need to ask the boss or get the team's consensus, I just fucking do it. I can look back and say, "I did that!" Nobody comes along and stops me, "Yeah, we don't really have to do that." Nope, I wanted to do that, proud of how it turned out.

• Mastery: Sounds funny, but yes, I could spend a few years mastering all the fine details of this job. If I have nothing on my plate, I'm free to wander off and find someone that could use the help, learning more as I go. Getting better every day, feels good.

• Purpose: Harder to define, but for me my purpose is to "move up". That means gaining the respect of my coworkers, maxing every raise, getting better shifts, getting promoted and generally doing what I want instead of being told. Already my managers trust me, not looking for work to assign, instead trusting me to find what needs done. Every manager I've met, bar none, started out on the bottom and worked their way up. The GM and one of the assistant managers were old IT guys that gave it up to throw rocks and guide people around lumber. One coworker told me I was one of two of the new hires he actually likes, rest are dipshits. Feels good.

Anyway, if you're unhappy with your job, or your personal life, give this video a shot. It's certainly not a "how to be happy" talk, but it shows much about what motivates us.

Gaetz and Boebert in there twice, heysus.

I've got 8 of these things, had them for a few years, never seen this weirdness.

Last time I charged it, it seemed fine until I turned it on. Now it's cycling through every mode; low -> high -> red -> red blinky. It's been doing this for 3 days! Had to shove it in my desk drawer because it's driving me nuts. No, it won't turn off.

Can't find any reference to this behavior. Ideas?

Anyone know the details? I'll start a new one if I can.

I know the AR buffer is a totally different system than what I'm proposing. But still, I have an old spring and weight I could try with just a little widening on the shotgun hole.

Also, I realize the hole isn't angled to kick straight back. But might I see any reduction in felt recoil?

(For those not in the know, as I wasn't last year, you can easily change the weight in the AR system. LOL, didn't know you can pop the spring with a car key! I went up to an H3 (heaviest) and it still cycles like a dream, even with crappy .223. Wasn't sure how much difference I was feeling until a friend and I compared with his stock Aero. Holy shit did his kick harder!)

Insurance at my last company was so low, I'm not certain what it cost. $50mo. I think? When I started it was $35.

Let's do math. $20 every 3-months for a copay to get the doctor to re-up my prescription, $10 for the pills, $30 total. Add in whatever my employer paid for my part over 3-months, add in the doctor's cash-price difference. You get the idea.

And I probably could have found a way to cut the prescription price in half, or less. Ideas? That company Mark Cuban started? (Looks like it's $8.23/90-days there, haven't dug in on total price.)

Just learned about direct primary care, may jump on that if my new job doesn't cover insurance, or it isn't worth it. Thoughts on that?

Obviously I'm an American. You don't know how sad that made me to type. It's humiliating.