u/Denariox

After failing 9th grade twice in 2014 and 2015 I was kicked out of public school, my father was forced to enlist me to a private school on my 3rd year to finish it, and thankfully I passed.

After that I told my parents I don't wanna go to high school, because I have 2 older brothers and both of them took 12th grade twice and I wasn't about that life, so I applied for the institute of fine arts, the one in front of Adab college next to the Baghdad garage. I studied and finished my 5 years there from 2017 to 2022 and after that I had 2 choices;

A. Keep going down this path and go to the college of fine arts and make this into a career

B. Skip college and just start working immediately.

So I chose option B, I started working after graduation and from 2022 until now I've been working in private companies. Due to my computer skills and knowing 3 languages, I got accepted easily. I did jobs from call center, marketing, procurement, warehouse to now in sales for the last 3 years. But I feel like I'll forever be stuck at these low level positions because if I try to apply for something higher, they ALL require a business degree, and accounting degree...etc with multiple years of experience.

I'm comfortable at my current job, I work for an international American company so I'm good, but I'll never see anything higher unless I go back to studying, and honestly at 25 years old I have no energy or motivation to study again.

So I'll try my best to work hard and be promoted to a senior level position one day.

But if I could go back in time, I would have chosen to go to high school and after that go into a normal college and get a degree in business management or something. I wasted 5 years learning art for nothing.

I bought a Oppo Find N3 (OnePlus open) 512/16gb model very clean on Facebook marketplace for $540 because it was a great deal and I wanted to try a folding phone, I come from a Xiaomi 15T pro.

My first week with it and honestly I don't think it's for me.

1. The cover screen is too small and narrow which makes typing uncomfortable

2. the front cameras are quite bad if you want a selfie you have to use the back cameras and if you wanna use the in-app cameras like messenger, Instagram or Snapchat's camera it doesn't offer the back cameras selfie support so you're stuck with the ugly front one.

3. It's square when unfolded so watching content is quite awkward, it creates very large black bars and the video is around the same size as a standard phone.

4. The plastic inner screen makes me anxious one day I'll hit it with a fingernail and permanently damage it

5. Even though I expected this one but I really don't like how thick it is when folded, it gets uncomfortable.

Maybe I should just return to a slab phone, the foldable life isn't for me. I'll get a mid range smartphone and a medium size tablet for gaming and content.

I'm 25 years old and I currently work a sales job that pays really well but it's a dead end. You don't learn anything, you don't get challenged to grow, you're not doing anything. It's a zombie's job.

I show up to work, I check-in and I take a quick 10 minutes to do an inventory report and after that... Nothing. That's it. Customers barely come in and when they do, they already know exactly what they want so they buy and leave in 30 seconds. I don't have to actually do anything until my shift's over and I go home so I spend the entire 9 hours just on my phone.

I've seen every movie, I've watched every TV show, every anime, played a ton of games, I also walk a lot in the store too I have like 10,000+ steps a day purely from work cuz I don't wanna sit down (I have too much energy).

And it all sounds like heaven right? Get paid more than any other sales job in the entire city just to sit and chill? But.... I'm not happy.

The shifts are absolutely terrible. It's a rotation it changes every 1-2 weeks but 90% of the time my shifts are 2pm - 11pm and other times 3pm - 12AM. So I get home very late at night and I go to sleep and wake up late, like before lunch type of wake up. So I don't actually have a personal life, I go to work, I come back home and sleep, I wake up and eat something and I go back to work.

Aside from the fact that I don't have any personal time to do anything, I'm also not learning anything. I have so much energy and motivation to grow and learn stuff that will improve my character and skills but this job is a dead end.

On one hand I wanna leave and go to a new job, even if it's a startup I don't mind I just wanna learn something and create a future for myself. But on the other hand my salary is far too good for me to quit, especially in this bad job market I'm not sure if I'll ever get paid like this again and i regret it.

I'm stuck and I need some advice from you guys on what to do.

My longtime account I've owned since 2017 got disabled, one day I woke up from my sleep and it said they're suspicious of me being a bot. Even though both my email and my phone number are verified, I have authentication on my account and everything.

I re-did the verifications, got the code and entered it and even confirmed via my passport. And the end result was they disabled me permanently.

So I made another account, that one lasted barely 24 hours and got disabled and deleted as well.

For the 3rd time I bought a brand new phone number, and used another email I haven't used before and made an account with that, it lasted 3 days then it got disabled just now an hour ago. Like WHY?? just why??? My account is private and I only have 12 followers which are my real life friends. I never like any posts, I never comment, I never have even messaged a random. So what's wrong?

For the 3rd time I had even linked the new Instagram account to my meta Account and tied it with Facebook to be even extra safe that I'm real. And they still disabled me!

What do I even do at this point? I've proven I'm real via email, number, face ID, my governmental credentials, what further do you need??

I don't think I've ever had a hobby where opinions are that different from one another.

A review of the same perfume done by 2 different people could have the ground and sky in terms of difference.

So many times I've seen a fragrance one person absolutely hates and is disgusted by it and another person absolutely loves it and it's probably in their top 10 favorites.

In my own experience I watch a ton of YouTube videos and shorts about fragrances and how these influencers say "this is one of the greatest of all time, must buy" and when I go blind buy it and smell it, I actually dislike it and I sell it a couple days later. And vice versa, there may be a perfume I truly dislike but someone on Reddit says it's their favorite and they love wearing it so much.

One of these days there will be a perfume that smells like literal animal shit with a hint of mint and lemon and someone will say it's lovely and they like wearing it. Scent is VERY subjective.

Please don't be discouraged from trying something in a store because you saw Jeff on Reddit say it's garbage. And at the same time, don't be an idiot like me that blind buys whatever those content creators hype up and call amazing.

I realized this a bit late but I got there in the end. From now on I'll smell what I can in stores and what's not available I'll order a 2ml decant of it.

I graduated in art school few years ago but I started working in other fields so I kinda dropped off my skills and stopped painting and drawing but I really miss it and wanna get back in touch with my roots.

I was wondering if there's any group, organization or just a studio I can go to and meet other artists and draw/paint together?

I'll start off by saying this isn't a rant about me not being able to afford designer and niche fragrances, because when I get my salary after expenses in a month I have around $400 of fun money I get to spend on whatever I want. But I'm selective on what I buy because I chase value, and I adore perfumes they make me happy but when I found out it costs them barely $5 to make that luxury fragrance they're selling for $200 - $500 it makes me feel like I'm being ripped off and scammed if I buy it.

I know R&D, marketing, logistics, retail, warehouse..etc etc all cost money. But the profit margins on perfumes are INSANE! no wonder those perfume stores I see barely have any customers when I walk by but somehow they're open for years without any issues, they just need to sell a few bottles to make it a high profit.

A part of me really wants to pull the trigger and get myself that amouage or that Tom Ford but another part of me at the back of my mind screams at me like "Don't you dare spend $400 on damn oil and alcohol that cost them a few cents to manufacture, you're being ripped off".

what do you guys think? How do you go about it?

I've been playing Warframe since 2017, that's almost a decade of my life dedicated to this amazing game I enjoy and this whole lovely community behined it.

But I avoid trade chat like the plaque and it's for a damn good reason, I don't interact with them unless I absolutely have to. And I know what they're gonna say, "it's a free open market I'm allowed to sell for whatever price I want" and yes that's true. But that doesn't mean you should expect anyone but a gullible newbie to buy it from you.

I ran out of resources to buy galvanized mods and I was out of Endo anyways so not like I can max it out, so I checked Warframe Market website for how much galvanized steel r10 is, and it's averaging around 65-70 plat right? Just out of pure curiosity I type in trade chat WTB Galvanized steel, and I get 4 messages, 3 of those messages are 220p, 250p and 350p and the last guy said 120p.

I said no thank you and I bought it from WF Market for 65p. And this isn't the only time this has happened, it pretty much happens daily non stop towards other people that don't know any better, once I had a guy tell me "their stuff is fake, I sell legit shit" like BRUH... My brain actually shutdown reading that text from him.

They're so desperate to squeeze out as much plat as humanely possible out of you.

Thank God I don't trade, I just buy the 4600 plat offer when I get a discount from login.

What's your guys dumbest/funniest trade chat story?

I was born and raised in a Islamic middle eastern country, therefore I've never been around alcohol, but I also grew up with western media, I had access to American movies and tv shows ever since I was a child, that's mainly how I even learnt English and I've seen a ton of media about people drinking and going to bars..etc etc but I digress.

I've seen people drink it in my city, it's not banned or anything because christians also live here and they drink it but my whole life I've been scared to death about it by my peers, that if I ever go near it I'll burn in the fires of hell...etc etc.

Someone please feed my curiosity and just tell me what exactly is alcohol? Why's it so frowned upon in some parts of the world? What's being drunk like? How does it taste? And why do people continue drinking it with all the health warnings tied to it?

Thank you all in advance.

For the average person that wants a gaming PC That's future proof for a few years down the line but it has specs that are just enough to enjoy single player games in 1440p with decent smooth frame rates and could play the latest AAA games without any issues, what hardware specifications do you recommend? And what's a rough estimate of the total price going to be for said rig?

I'm on a Lenovo gaming laptop right now with a mobile 4060 in it, I want to commit to a desktop PC but I don't know when or if this AI bubble will ever crash so I wanna buy the PC now.

Online multiplayer games will always have toxicity in them, it's the nature of it, but I wanted to create this post to share some moments that made me smile and have fun after a long days of work:

1. Once on ilios before the game started, I kept trying to hit the basketball in the net, I failed 4 times in a row, my teammate was watching me and without any comms, he crouched down, lifted his crosshair high and got it in his first try, I followed his silent instructions and I got it in with that shot, I flung my mouse around in excitement and kept jumping to show him I appreciated him.

2. For years I was hardstuck gold, after a loss streak I kept getting more and more frustrated, once during a game we lost a fight that was nearly ours, I slammed my desk and the audio picked up through my mic, the ana on my team said "it's okay man, we'll get the next one, just breathe and relax your face muscles" and I have no idea how he knew my face was grumpy but I listened to him and relaxed my face and my shoulders and got a glass of water before the next round, we won that game.

3. During stadium comp once we were down 0-2 and we had a teammate DC, shortly after everyone else left when the timer expired, I decided to stay and finish it. The next round I was all by myself and when I came out of spawn, the entire enemy team joined me to a side and were emoting and spraying stickers. It was legitimately a very quiet and lovely moment.

4. I had befriended a teammate after a game and we decided to stay together as a team, we played 5 games that night until like 3AM, we got to know each other and were talking about our jobs, at that time I was stuck at a dead end toxic job that made me cry after work, he told me about his hardships and his sick mother whilst trying to provide. He was older than me by 11 years, I was 24 then, he was 35. I had never connected to someone more than with that guy that night. We still play together sometimes and he's still on my friends list. That night made me realize everybody's going through something tough, it's important to keep our heads held high and just smile and pull the strength we need from those we love.

Those are some of my moments, I'd love to hear some of yours.