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I just picked an arbitrary figure and decided "fk it, I'm not allowing it to get bigger than X" and chuck every last dime past that number into a couple fidelity mutual funds. Is that dumb?

Even if your job is boring easy, being able to quickly drop what you're doing to do something else and then go back to what you were doing is a skill in itself. Even if I've mastered surviving my current environment, I am still working in hell.

What's can be one person's, "busy day they manage to survive" is my, "in the trenches during WW1 with shells exploding and you're running low on ammunition and haven't slept in three days."

I don't know what to do.

I like low rise slightly tapered jeans. Levi's low stretch 514s are a nice cut, but the cardboard patch ones aren't worth $75, and the leather patch ones aren't worth $100. But I actually like the material of the higher end Wranglers and LL Bean jeans more. I would obviously prefer selvedge, but for 3x the price if I don't LOVE the cut, its not worth it. What should I buy?

Usually I just wait for a good sale on the leather 514s, but I don't mind mixing it up if I can find something better.

I can't keep doing this. Saturday is the second busiest day of the week and I'm by myself every single one. I've tried to convince management that I am not enough. But they just say to buck up because it just sucks in general. But then they want me to track how many boxes I put out while also trying to keep filling the sale items and priorities.

I hate continuing to be employed here, but the market in general is terrible. Sigh....... I don't know how to continue to survive.

I like Levi's Premium 514s (leather patch, low stretch). Not paying $100 just to get them dirty at work though. The cardboard patch ones are OK, but ehh, whatever. Between the "regular" Levi's and "nicer" Wranglers, I think I would rather have the "good" Wranglers (the $60 ones, not the $20-$30 ones). But most stores only have the "ehh" Wranglers.

I LIKE the selvedge ones, but they are like 3x the price for actually GOOD selvedge in a well-designed cut that actually looks/feels good. I'd feel legit bad just wearing them at that point. I can't really afford Blue Owl Workshop jeans.

So IDK. It's just nice having a few fresh pairs that feel more special than work pants. But yeah.... there's too many pants.

Does anyone else get the, "too many options" overwhelmed feeling? That can be an autism thing, right?

You go into a store, there's like six brands of shampoo, each brand has at least like five scents or types.

Jeans - there's the premium ones, the regular ones, straight, athletic taper, slim taper, slim straight, boot cut all in like seven different washes. Or do you actually need chinos?

Or if you want alcohol? Just forget it. There's bourbon, or do you want Irish? Or do you actually want tequila? Or do you just want a 12 pack? Of lagger, pilsner?

And what do you tell the guy working behind the Starbucks counter? Iced caramel macchiato? Berry energy drink?

I really hope I don't want a new car within the next five years. The last time I nearly had an anxiety attack.

And the market even presenting a good choice , not withstanding, what types of jobs would I want to do? Where would I want to live? What "type" of person would I be interested in dating? I DON'T KNOW, THE ONE THAT MAKES ME FEEL GOOD AFTER IT HAPPENS.

What do you even do?

I have a DL650 and currently just do casual street riding. I have a KLIM Induction, armored gloves, full-face and boots. Is anything else absolutely essential? If I go on longer trips, then yeah, I want pants. But too much for just AROUND and I'll maybe find excuses to not ride.

I'm a novice to alcohol in general really. I usually go for like light, crisp, sharp, or fruit flavors over like soggy burnt wood. What should I try?

The sun has risen, I go to Shaw's, I stock Shaw's, I leave Shaw's. Take that away and I'm just an NPC in an open world video game. I don't know anything about anything. At least as an adult, I can figure out what color pants to get, or what flavor of ice cream I like. As a kid, I couldn't even do that.

You know how when superman first gets his powers he gets really overwhelmed when he tries super hearing because he takes in everything and can't focus? Yeah.....

At least I got a motorcycle and started investing this year. I was able to get myself to choose to do that. But how to date, get a higher paying job, feel more socially respectable (even if just having a job is socially respectable), I don't know. Such things do not fall within the scope of "I go to shaw's, I stock shaw's, I leave shaw's."

I am too old to be running the dairy department of a grocery store without a plan (32M). But I don't want to be a manager and worry about directing and leading.

I should try to find love and make somebody pregnant and buy house and handle stress of 90k/year job and do successful be a man things.

But don't...... want to. Does anyone else know the feeling I mean? High functioning and general anxiety disorder. I just want sanity, peace, mostly being left alone. I DO want more than that, but IDK how without being miserable in the process.

I don't want to put any further energy or time into doing my current job. I basically run the dairy section of a grocery store that does hundreds of thousands of dollars in sales a week Pay advancement means needing to pay attention to more things, bouncing between tasks even MORE, having higher communication confidence, and being a supervisor.

That doesn't sound like me, and it's not what I want. I would have to fight my general anxiety and high functioning autism diagnoses even harder. But I'm somehow BOTH bored out of my mind AND sick of being tired all the time.

But I know for absolute certainty if I just found some other random job I was able to get, the feeling would come back and it wouldn't help me any. Making more money would be nice, but that's not even what I care about. I care about not needing to just accept surviving doing it as good enough. I don't even know if that's possible.

What do I do?

But what if I want to use the treadmill on the same day that I do push ups and mountain climbers and shoulder lifts? I can't find shoes I like to do both of those. Maybe Inov-8 is the closest what I want out there?

Idk.

32M, high functioning. I drive, work 6 days week, have a motorcycle and dog. I invest very heavily relative to my income. BUT....... that's where the positives seem to end.

My "job" is running the dairy section of a grocery store. I don't make appartment money. I live at home. I have generalized anxiety disorder I manage with Prozac, music, coffee, my dog and ocasionally gym. I have never dated anyone. Commiting to daily responsibilities makes me miserable. I have a college degree but can't take the communication, present this, attend this meeting, negotiate that higher level jobs have.

I am basically a sad little joke of a man. I have no idea what to do or where to go. I feel as if I have peaked.

My store director would rather see unbothered people working longer than scheduled while getting everything done, then stressed people working their scheduled shifts struggling to get everything done.

I always thought the rule was, "get done everything you are expected to get done, in the amount of time we give you."

But that is not actually the case here, given the circumstances.

32M. I currently work more than full-time grocery retail and am struggling with immense burnout and disappointment. I have a business degree but with my "high functioning" Autism and general anxiety disorder, I struggle when I am "put on the spot," multi-tasking, coordinating tasks, and whenever socialization is more complex than "peanuts are in isle 7," or "let me go look in the back, I actually found it surprisingly."

I would greatly prefer to move AWAY from logistics/supply chain/warehouse type work even if that is an obvious choice I could maybe survive. It doesn't feel different enough.

I never got the "specific special interest, absorb info about X like a sponge" part of Autism unfortunately. Just the social uncomfortableness, perfectionism (maybe somehow related) and feeling stress when I shouldn't.

I can't sell things, negotiate, attend high-stakes meetings, talk on the phone a lot, etc. I just have an extremely high work ethic and personal standards I can't figure out what to do with.

I do a darn good job, ask anybody around. But whenever I get to the point where I think about advancing, i can't handle the cognitive overload, needing to hyper focus on how I present myself, prioritizing, or splitting my focus onto sixteen different projects.

I see work, I do work. That's about all I can handle. AND I'M BORED OUT OF MY MIND AND I FREAKING HATE IT.

Sure, I hate being INTERRUPTED. But knowing that I can do something to make your day better/easier that doesn't take a ton of time or figuring out? Yeah, I'm game.

Like, what am I going to do instead? Be a contract manager for a multi-million-dollar operation? Be a Certified Financial Planner? Schedule meetings with stakeholders? Convince people to buy something? Listen to office politics? BLECH.

I just want to work hard, stock what needs to be stocked, and hand you your shit to make you feel good, so you can go back to LEAVING ME ALONE.

I hate the PAY; I hate being surrounded by people ALL DAY. But I hate high-stakes socialization, planning, meetings, and sitting staring at screens until my eyes burn just as much, if not more.

So yeah, I don't know.

I have gained notoriety as the employee who successfully picks things up and puts them down in other places fast enough. That's what I am.

But the longer you spend here, the more your knees and wrists hurt. I don't want to stay here so long, my reputation for being effective degrades.

That's what scares me. But I don't know where to go or what to do because I like the straightforward nature of what we do.

It isn't complicated or conceptually stressful. It's just a lot of work. so far, I've been able to handle a lot of work, but I don't know how long I can.