DJDarren @ DJDarren @thelemmy.club

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Isn’t it just.

I’m surrounded by young lads who think that working themselves to the bone is some kind of flex, or lazy pricks who give the others shit for not working hard enough.

These days I just crack on and do my thing. My manager is happy with my work, and I can sometimes spend a good five hours just scrolling the internet, looking busy.

Mine is modest; but practice being mindful of your emotional reactions.

If something upsets you, interrogate why, and whether your reaction will help. 90% of the time it won’t, so learn to appreciate that you are upset, but don’t let it control you. Because if you don’t you’re going to start seeing the world through incredibly negative eyes.

For example, I used to be a nightmare behind the wheel, always getting angry with shitty drivers and red lights. But I began trying to catch those thoughts, and asked myself whether they would stop other drivers being shitty, or whether it would stop me getting caught at red lights. Would I still be angry in ten minutes? The answer is almost always no, so to expend that energy feels like a waste of time to me now.

Sure, I still get pissy, but I don’t sit with it for longer than I need to. You wouldn’t sit in acid, so why sit in anger?

I’m 43 and gradually coming around to the fact that as long as my managers aren’t actively talking to me about not doing enough, then I’m doing ok. It’s worked wonders for me being anxious that I’m not doing what’s expected of me.

It’s fine to do the bare minimum as long as you’re not fucking things up for your colleagues. You get paid to cover the minimum of your job description, not to work yourself to death.

You could argue that actually our normal state of being is wanky and that the next 5-10 years are the anomaly.

Found Tim Apple's Lemmy account.

I mean, yeah, but only to other Applethings.

There's a reason Office Space is such a popular movie.

"Nightmares are dreams too"

"I come to work to get stuff done!"

Yes mate, but you're not getting paid enough to hurt yourself cutting corners.

I hear this all the fucking time from people who want to rush ahead and show off how productive they can be for a boss who has no idea they exist. Drives me mad.

sad iPhone noises

Right up until it doesn't, for no reason you can ascertain.

We ditched Prime a few months back after they pulled the adverts fuckery with Video. It wasn’t a terribly difficult decision, what with buying less and less from Amazon over the past couple of years.

What it has highlighted though, is how effectively Amazon has fucked our high streets. You want boot laces? Then your options are one chain store or online somewhere and that’s it. Which I guess has made me more mindful of what I’m buying.

Also, Angela Morley whose best known work these days is the score to the movie that traumatised an entire generation of kids.

He’s got an angry inch.

By which I mean, only the best rocks get displayed in Poole museum. And this is the best rock.

I know that museum, it’s very cool. Poole is a nice place.

I had a friend who did that.

Unintentionally, of course. The fog that morning was incredibly thick, he didn’t see the roundabout and drove onto it full bore. Clipped a direction sign and damn near grated one side of the bodywork off.

Makes me sick tbh.

Fuck skub and the horse it rode in on.

Yeah, exactly that.

So I back up my own shit on my own external drive, just in case.