u/Left_Entrepreneur918

Snapped in 2024, my dream job as a PC DA that I did for 20 years, sometimes I took it for granted, other times I cherished every minute of it.

I was a roll out agent, survived every restructuring and every snap until I couldn’t. The younger, cheaper, and better agent got to keep his job as a DA. Since then The first year was cake, the unemployment was good money, the severance was nice. I thought after 23 years with BB I deserved a break.

I started really looking for jobs in 2025 and found that all those years with geeksquad didn’t do shit for my tech knowledge. Most companies want experience supporting a large organization, not old grandmas. With that in mind my skills and experience lend well to a help desk role. I got a job finally as a desktop analyst at a hospital, just a contract.

During those 8 months I learned so much, it was like a boot camp learning Azure, Intune, Exchange, Active Directory, Citrix, about 10 other software platforms including a ticketing system. But unfortunately my contract ended.

That’s where the pain began. The job market turned sour, help desk jobs are few and far between and they don’t pay for shit. I’m getting interviews but getting turned down for entry level stuff. Being ghosted, getting to 3rd rounds, 4th rounds just to get NO. Jobs are being taken over by AI, the jobs that do exist have 2-3x more people applying for them. The cost of everything is going straight up and these help desk jobs used to be 28-34 an hour are now only paying 22-25 an hour.

The unemployment is running out what was once a generous 730 a week is now 173 a week. I still look at the jobs posting at Bestbuy and they have not had any onsite job openings for the past 2 years. What is going on? When someone leaves they just don’t fill the spot. I got approved to do installs through 3rd party but my body can’t take doing the larger TVs 98in TV upstairs? I just can’t do it.

I keep saying that be happy that I got to experience the best part of geeksquad and had a great job for so long. But I wish I could be in the geekmobile at the end of a long day with the sunset and the music playing…fuck me

So this has only happened to me once and I laughed so hard I forgot to record it on my Xbox.

I was driving in story mode and slammed my car next to a woman NPC walking and she screamed. “Jesus take the wheel!”

I’ve never heard it since and I must find it again. Am I losing it or has anyone else heard this?

So I started on the lowest dose and now 2nd week at .4mg it’s been up and down. For context I’m very very large, binge eating, and I was really hoping for help with food noise. I lost 10lbs but after a bad 2 days gained it all back.

I know I need to eat right and exercise but after being close to a weight that puts you on a TLC show, eating right and exercising has always been my problem. Depression eating is a thing. The meds make me feel full but I’m kind of a master of eating past being full.

Now I’m depressed again and spending a ton of money to be exactly where I started. My question is does the food noise go away, I’ve had a few days each week where the foods I normally binge don’t sound good to me, almost like I’m disgusted when thinking of eating them. I’d like that feeling more, maybe that counts as food noise.

Any advice from people over 500lbs would be helpful, any advice from anyone really.