u/Glittering_Echo_7963

In this modern world, where most households have two working adults, how often do you cook and eat your own food from scratch?

When my husband and I first began to work "proper jobs" we tried to keep up cooking pretty good meals at home, like we did through uni and student-type jobs. Stews, pizzas, bakes, wraps, tacos, falafels, sushi... all was homemade and we loved doing it. We used to love cooking, and eating.

It's now been 3 years working office jobs, and these days I pat myself in the back for making a toast. We have a variety of ready-to eat curries at home, and frankly my husband lives almost entirely on that. I fear we'll even forget how to cook. We also have a smaller kitchen, so I hesitate to blame it entirely on our jobs. What has been your experience?

How do I remove it? My plasterer came a month after the floor was done up, and he didn't really cover the floor properly. He said any plaster remains would go away with warm water. Which is a lie, as I've tried warm water, warm soapy water, wood floor cleaner, multisurface, cloths, brushes, everything!

One corner was left with a big lump of glue and lacquer, which I cleaned before it fully dried. I'm in the UK, where pine flooring is common, if that's of any help. The lacquer is British Gypsum multifinish (a reddish paper bag I've seen at B&Q.

29 yo female, 56kg, 163cm tall (5.4 feet)

5 hours after the jumping into a river from 5 metres height, I had the most basic check done on my ears and was told my right eardrum is perforated and infected, and my left one is about to be perforated. I'm taking some drops. I was in excruciating pain for about 4 hours after the event, and my hearing was very muffled for about 6 hours, and has only now started to return.

I'm meant to take two short flights in about 36 hours, and I don't want to get permanent hearing loss...

I've been abroad for 8 years. The first few years, I visited family as little as possible because I would get panic attacks. The contrast between my culture of origin and my adopted one is very noticeable, and my family are somewhat rude compared to what people are like at home (where I settled down).

There was a short spell of time after I met my now husband when visiting was somewhat nice, and we've been coming 2 weeks per year since. This year it's been... stressful and at times pure hell. My relatives speak nonstop without listening, and just have one-sided monologues. The general culture here encourages attention seeking behaviour, and people look up to the most cocky bastard. I can't wait to return home, yet I worry about what this means for my parents, and the relationship we'll have in the future.

If this happened to anyone, I'd love to know how your relationship with family has developed. I spend about an hour on the phone to each of my parents every month or every three weeks, and visit for two weeks straight every year. I worry about when they age, and they end up alone (my grandparents are in their 80's and 90's) particularly as my parents are divorced.

Has this happened to anyone? It's chickpea-size and it doesn't move. Pretty much my whole boob is sore from the fall, including this lump.

My LM vaguely told me they're pretty sure the HO doesn't do managed moves. My mental wellbeing is hanging by a thread and I cannot squeeze it out of me to apply for other roles after work, though I'm pretty sure I'd do well in another department. Am I really in the only department that doesn't do managed moves?

It's for engineering positions, and I'd like to work x4 8 hour shifts, as opposed to 5. I'm trying because in my two years I have worked with two colleagues who were working 4 day weeks, so I know there's a slimmer of hope. (I have NOT been offered a job yet, I'm just informing myself in advance)

Is it something to raise during the call in which you're offered the job? Right after? Or post receiving the written offer? I take it isn't something to mention during the interview process. Tia

Is it normally done during the call in which you're offered the job? Right after? Or post receiving the written offer?

It's for an engineering position, and I'd like to work x4 8 hour shifts, as opposed to 5. Tia

Edit to add: I haven't been offered the job yet. I'm asking in advance.

By elsewhere, I mean anywhere. My husband and I struggle to make ends meet, and we've considered muuuuultiple options, from 30 minutes away from the city, to other countries.

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We've gone so far as to share some of our ideas with family, but they're older and didn't struggle so much paying their mortgages. So they look at as with concern, while we think the ideas we've shared are pretty reasonable given our circumstances.

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We don't even have kids, and we would love to have them one day, but we feel as though our housing expenses have to reduce very significantly, almost to the point of not existing.

Edit to add: we're in qualified careers, but our housing costs are ridiculous. We have a EU passport, so would be moving to another country with good and free healthcare. We also think of moving rural within the UK, but virtually every comment focuses on how we're thinking of leaving the country and just trying to discourage by telling us the UK is great etc. If you're going to be the 1000th comment like it, pls refrain 🙏

Thank you to everyone else who told me about their personal experiences, in and out of the UK.

It's my first week working with Data Annotation, and I just opened a series of tasks I got access to since passing a qualification yesterday.

Each task gave me 18 hours to complete it, and as I was reading through the instructions I realised that it may bloody well take me that long to learn how to navigate through the project.

I never intended to log in more than say 3 to 4 hours per day, so after skipping the first task and seeing that the second one was just as complex, and that it would take me the entire afternoon, I exited, releasing the project. I was looking to work for about an hour at the time.

The project is gone and I lost 40 minutes which I won't get paid for. I am flabbergasted that anyone has the willpower to sit through this for however long it takes. I'm personally in data annotation to make money flexibly by working an hour or two here and there, so I can't see how people in my situation can stick to it, not knowing how long a task will take before they open it.

Thoughts? Are you sitting for 10 hours with the same task and I am just a snowflake?

Interested to hear when this happened (last decade, last year, etc) and how soon after losing the job you lost your house. My husband's just lost his job and the job market seems bonkers. We're basically preparing the house for selling just in case.

Edit to add: by losing the house I don't necessarily mean repossession, but having to sell it.

2nd edit: I've only received advice on how not to loose the house. But I was more looking to see if anyone has sold under these circumstances and didn't regret it. Like, maybe they downsized as a result of the job-loss and were happier with that arrangement, or maybe they moved to a different area with cheaper housing. We do have some equity afterwards.