u/PermissionReady716

I truthfully feel like such a bitch baby in the gym but I’m pretty afraid of getting injured or crushed or exploding my lower back etc. This anxiety has made it hard for me to mentally push through and train to near-failure, especially on lifts that I’m weak in or that I know I don’t have good form in. For example, squats I will bail out early because my form sucks and I get tired easily, which means I will never be able to improve. But also I am like ? Is it smart to be afraid?

I interviewed for a job and was told by the hiring manager that they had to get their selection to HR by a specific day last week. They also mentioned they’d reach out to candidates, but that HR would likely take several months. I haven’t heard from the hiring manager since the date they mentioned has passed. Should I assume I was not selected or do they have to go through the official slow-moving channels for all notifications?

This substack article has been making waves across various social medias, so I thought I’d bring it to the crown jewel of all social medias (an rs reddit community).

From what I can gather, it has been receiving a lot of backlash; I’ve seen adjectives such as cruel or strange used to describe it, with several people calling it digital self harm. I don’t really know what most of the nouns referenced in the article mean and I did think it was satire because of that, but the response makes me think maybe there’s a whole world out there that I’ve never seen, dancing in the edge of my vision but disappearing when I attempt to look at it head-on.

It seems the issue may not be that this is an exaggerated caricature of a certain type of person, but rather that this type of person is portrayed negatively. I do think it was maybe not necessary to make the subject a trans woman as I’ve encountered a few cis women who would fit this bill, but I always assumed substack was focused on personal experiences and this someone the author has dealt with.

If I am bigoted for not knowing what’s going on just tell me. I already have a whip ready to go so that I can give myself lashings in the yard.

I have a masters degree. Should I actually and honest-to-godly (realizes I can’t say kms on this site even as a joke but especially if it wouldn’t be a joke) keep going despite having no clear path forward and no end in sight