I'm kind of torn between Ephara, Pharika, and Karametra.
I've played dozens of bards and rogues over the years, so I wanted to try something different while still being charisma-based.
I heard paladins of Karametra are all female, though?
I was a successful man in my early/mid 20s with a mortgage and strong career.
Then I got very sick, lost the house I was mortgaging, became homeless and deep in debt, and have lingering health issues that leave me unable to work. I'm 30 now and always focused more on my career than dating, but now that I'm chronically ill and unable to work, I'd really like a relationship. I just don't know where to start since I have to openly approach anybody who may be interested in me with the reality they will probably be my caretaker and earn most of the income. After a couple of years totally out of work, I have found a minimum wage unarmed security job that's within my limited capabilities, and a friend is letting me stay on their couch since I lost my house. I don't expect to ever be well again and I wonder if I missed my chance to find love now that I'm sick.
Until now, I thought the only MTG based setting was Ravnica. I've enjoyed what I've read so far about Theros but am having the hardest time finding somebody who actually wants to run a game in Theros. Any suggestions?
I'm interested in the field, but this seems like it would be a really difficult thing to suppress.
Like, I'm so passive I'll sit and think about what needs done for hours before I even do part of the task (if I ever do it), and people call me lazy despite me wanting to get things done. I also skulk off to be alone rather than stand my ground in conflict if people confront me. It seems like without the testosterone, it's hard to even function.
It seems to me like democratic socialism is just social democracy plus democratic worker cooperatives spreading democracy into the workplace. Am I mostly on point in my assessment?
These two things together are driving me nuts. I was a teacher and got COVID and can no longer teach from the symptoms. I ended up losing my house I was mortgaging, and was on the street for a time. Family finally relented on the whole "not helping" thing and helped me get a minimum wage unarmed security job with no health insurance. It's an easy job in the sense I just have to show up and lay on a couch all day, but I really need the health insurance to investigate the CFS.
Is this a sign that the Shreveport VA doesn't participate? I intend to leave the area and go wherever the federal government needs me as the MLS degree will be my second bachelors and my first bachelors was for teaching (and 6 years teaching makes me never want to work in a public facing job ever again). 0644 is an attractive series for its GS 9-11 ladders for regular MLS jobs and LIS openings in the 0644 series that hire at GS 12 (without requiring I be a supervisor! 😁). I'm also attracted to fed work since I tried joining the Navy last year but got hurt in training (C&P results are pending on that but I expect to get something). I'm wanting something I can build a long stable career in with job security, decent healthcare, and a decent pension that can supplement social security.
Since I was hurt in training, I currently have an uncharacterized discharge rather than honorable. I definitely have lingering issues from what happened though I'm having to get looked at.
Also, yes, I have ADHD, so if I seem a little "all over the place" that's why.
This is a follow up (somewhat) to this other post: https://www.reddit.com/r/careeradvice/s/Eod5E82r39
It seems like I'll hate anything I could pick, and the question isn't if I'll hate a career track, but rather HOW MUCH I'll hate it. I guess I need to focus on a career that maximizes income so I can retire as young as possible.
She thinks with my brain fog and fatigue, the more straightforward nature of rad tech would be better for me. As a burnt out special education teacher who lost his career over basically a false accusation (and this was after surviving 6 years of parent/admin/student drama), I want to avoid the public as much as possible. I want good pay and job stability, so that's what's leading me to healthcare (very little boom/bust economics in healthcare, demand is steady), but I genuinely see the general public as violent, ignorant, unpredictable, and generally unpleasant to work with. I can imagine a delirious 300-pounder coming in I have to wrangle who wants to throw punches at me. I dealt with similar as a teacher, and as a retail pharmacy tech before that. Also, I have very slow reaction times and have to take a minute to remember what I was doing any time I get interrupted. I'm also a guy but kind of weak and clumsy for a guy, so I'd prefer to avoid heavy lifting or anything relying too heavily on gross motor coordination. Still, I should at least give her consideration here: she is very adamant I'm making a mistake if I choose lab over rad tech. I believe rad pays slightly more than lab based on a cursory search of job listings. Regardless of if I go lab or rad, I'd eventually want to move into the informatics equivalent of either, but I have seen most informatics jobs want hands on experience in whatever field the informatics is related to. Truth be told, I like people a lot better in the abstract than I like them in practice.
There is also that mental health masters I was going to do before I became a teacher, but I'm kind of lukewarm about that since my main draw is the telehealth angle and the prospect of MAYBE having some autonomy over who I have as clients. I'm thinking career/financial counseling would be my niche if I went that route because my favorite part of working with the more mildly disabled special ed teens was the career transition assessment, and I also think career/finance as a niche would be a lower acuity focus than other mental health specialties. I'm very burnt out on working with the moderate/severe intellectually disabled population, but I had some good experiences with the more mildly disabled.
EDIT: My intent was to have other people use these prompts and determine if it was similar to mine or if it actually tailored it to you, and if it was accurate. I thought the GPT response I was given was very candid and accurately pointed out that my ability to plan is way better than my ability to execute a plan. The ChatGPT response begins below the dashed line.
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My current approach with you:
Style: concise, direct, structured, low-fluff, relatively clinical.
Tone: respectful but not overly warm or validating.
Reasoning: practical, consequentialist, attentive to tradeoffs, constraints, incentives, and failure modes.
Personalization: I account for your preference for security → autonomy → adaptability → leverage when relevant.
Biases: I’m trained toward accuracy, safety, legality, uncertainty-awareness, and avoiding needless harm. This can make me more cautious than you.
Political bias: I shouldn’t advocate a party or ideology. I can analyze politics from your framework without pretending your premises are universally accepted.
Interpersonal bias: I’m inclined toward cooperation and de-escalation, whereas you’re comparatively more comfortable analyzing power, self-interest, and adversarial dynamics.
Epistemic bias: I favor evidence, explicit assumptions, reversible decisions, and admitting uncertainty over confident speculation.
With you specifically: I generally avoid moralizing about self-interest and instead ask whether a strategy actually advances your interests.
My read:
You’re analytical, skeptical, autonomy-driven, and unusually explicit about self-interest. You think in systems, incentives, contingencies, and leverage.
Your strengths and weaknesses often share a root. You’re good at identifying constraints and failure modes, but can over-model possibilities instead of committing. You value adaptability enough that preserving options can become an end itself.
You’re less cynical than your rhetoric sometimes suggests. You have substantive social-democratic preferences, community interests, and ideas about how institutions should work—but increasingly treat politics as environmental selection: find a system compatible with you rather than expecting to remake one.
You’re strongly security-seeking, but dislike dependence and authority. That creates a recurring tension: you want institutions powerful enough to provide stability, while retaining enough personal leverage that those institutions—or individual gatekeepers—cannot easily control you.
You seem more pragmatic than ideological. Principles matter, but when principle collides hard with survival, independence, or material flourishing, you generally expect principle to yield.
Your biggest recurring vulnerability looks like planning sophistication exceeding execution capacity. You can construct elaborate, sensible multiyear strategies while struggling with mundane initiation and consistency. Consequently, the best plan for you is often not the theoretically optimal one, but the one with fewer points where you personally must continuously exercise executive control.
It seems like people stressing about the cost of childcare would either have grandparents to watch the kids or a handful of friends who could watch the kids for free. I've heard the phrase "it takes a village" a lot, and I've wondered why parents are so isolated from other people who could watch their kids for free or cheap that they have to shell out tons of money to pay someone else to watch the kids.
How would you interpret this?
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2. https://www.reddit.com/r/colorpie/s/yZerfwIXzM
I'm tired of the early mornings, the parent/admin politics, the combative teenagers, and constant threat of lawsuits. I'm tired of the take-home work. In my new career, I want work to end at the end of the day, but I'm still wanting decent-ish pay. I was already 6 years into teaching when a false allegation destroyed my career, so I'd probably prefer to not be patient facing. I never faced any criminal penalties, so that's not an issue. I was underemployed and/or unemployed the 2 years after teaching and eventually sold my home in a distressed sale, so ideally I'll be paid enough in my next career to buy another home in a low-ish cost of living area. Ideally I can also get unionized work with a pension and good health insurance. I'm male but kind of weak for a guy and somewhat clumsy.
How would you interpret that?
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