u/Suspicious-Tell-9785

Yo I’m married 33m here. Condo with wife and kitties. We pay all our bills on time. I go to the gym. I take care of my little family, BUT after work and on the weekends I cannot bring myself to sit in front of the tv and game. Which hurts me cause I LOVE j/rpgs and FFXIV and have so many on ps and Xbox, but the thought of taking that time away from my family and makes me feel like I cannot do it. My wife urges me to take my me time, my youngest cat likes watching live streams of birds and animals on YouTube (LOL) and the oldest boy like butt pats and sitting on my lap and chest.

I don’t think I’ve lost the urge to game because tbh the switch 2 and switch light have been my outlets especially in handheld. And I have pc handheld to play my steam games, I feel like my consoles are gathering dust and I wanted to know if anyone else feels this way :/?

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99 comments and over 50 upvotes! You have made this not so young whippersnapper’s day! Stay awesome friends and keep gaming!

Hey folks,

I’m currently in a good place and in a geed medication regiment. Even got back into MA training and working on fighting again… with a good job that can be a career. But why is it that I want to run home from
Work and crash…. Even loving my MA gym I’m only at 2x training days this week but wanted to do 4+… people root for me and the coach supports me even though I’m a new member. But all I can think of is closing in myself. Is this normal with our condition?

I’ve always been afraid of success but also want to be celebrated and prove I belong here….

Hi all,

I’m 33m and I teach career development to ex felons for a local non profit. My main goals is to teach interpersonal and soft skills for two weeks before they entire the 3rd/ final week with the instructor who teaches tech and hard skills. I’ve been here a month and I enjoy it. I don’t care about them, but I receive glowing reviews from students and their case managers and mental
Health affiliates.

However, this current cohort is difficult… they don’t want to participate. Many are illiterate and have other cognitive issues compounded by various traumas and the coupe de Grace is I have two problem
Students. One a mother and two a man/ father who is taking courses to be a social
Worker at a local
Community college but considers himself above curriculum and his class mates to be too
Slow
For
Him.

Neither participate, neither are utilizing the services provided in the program and neither frankly act like they want to be here, but they definitely demand their weekly stipend they receive. Today almost broke me because the female said they want to put their vending machine on this building and then raise the price every week for me only as long as I work here because she knows I’ll
Use it. I’m on a weight loss
Journey and have lost over 140
Pounds but I’m still a large black man. I finally reported them
To management today because they are getting disruptive and despite my attempts and talks with them to get them
To succeed, they simple refuse to be anything but obstinate.

Im frustrated because i dont onow
Why this is bothering me so much. I’ve taught and tutored before in other settings. I literal train and practice mma for my hobby! I’ve been through scary and hard shit/
Multiple traumas. Mental
Health episodes and even ptsd. I go to
Therapy. I take my meds. I make sure I’m
Good so it doesn’t reflect on class. I even memorize and remember everyone’s name, personality and their interests and needs in the classroom. But I am
Disliked and disrespected by these two and it’s frankly pissing me off.

Did I do the right thing by reporting them? My week three counterpart says they should
Be dismissed and I trust and agree because he’s been there for years teaching. I don’t want to see other black people fail, but I am not getting through to them and frankly i believe they are abusing this program…

Hey homies,

I’m a career counselor by trade and also a chronic job hopper… last year I had 4 jobs with the longest being a tenure of 2 years. Since then I’ve struggled to land…. I do my work. I meet my kpis, and never have been reprimanded but I also live paycheck to paycheck and struggle with keeping my mental head and neck above water.

My wife is my back bone and she makes good money but I don’t want to keep letting her down. How does anyone else cope? My current job is 50 mins one way and it’s longer than 9-5 each day. But my current offer is 25 mins one way. 35 hrs a week and a 10k raise. I’m nervous about being paid what I’m worth but I’m also tired of job hopping in the 40k range. Does anyone have advice for me or am I think too much like I always do?