r/AskLifeProTips

I work a typical 9-5. I have an office and a job where I spend most of my time at a desk. I have no guidance on what needs to be done. I am basically my own boss with little to no oversight. I'm a high performer who gets the above and beyond done very quickly.

My question is, when I have weeks at a time where I have nothing to do for 7 out of the 8 hours of the day, what do it do???

I listen to audiobooks, I upskill myself, play games. But I'm exhausted. I feel like I'm just collecting a paycheck. This is fine to some people but I want to be busy, I want to be growing.

LPT
I’ve been a Reddit user for years now. Not one to post often but I do comment and the like. I’m just wanting some answers because I’ve already answered them myself but looking for more input. So I’m a social media user but not one who posts or engages all the time. So when I do and mind you I had family members blocked for years and I just added them back and they start their bs again wondering if I’m okay? Like wtf ? My buddies and I do this on the regular but when I decided to include my immediate family again the same bs starts again?

I, 24M, have been with my girlfriend, 23F, for over 4 years. She has never been a “size 2”. That’s not something I would ever ask of her and that’s not what I’m looking for, but we have both gained a substantial amount of weight during our relationship.

When we started dating, I was around 180 pounds and “skinny fat”, she was 170 pounds give or take but I didn’t care. We are in love. I decided to start losing weight when I hit 252 pounds and after 8 weeks of more exercise, gradually cutting out sugar and overall just making better decisions meal wise, I’m proud to say I’m down to 228 pounds.

My girlfriend on the other hand is now just shy of 300 pounds. I’ve noticed that the further we get in our relationship, the more she gets sick, doesn’t feel good, is lazy more often than not and I’m starting to be worried about her health. She’s always been more of a home body than a going out type of person but by lazy I mean that she doesn’t want to do even basic things half the time like shave her legs, she doesn’t want to come over to my place because she doesn’t want to get out of bed(4pm on a Friday), she doesn’t want to go grocery shopping or cook and just wants to get chic fil a or panda express instead. Just general no desire to do much. On the other hand, I work 50+ hours a week and she complains if I want to go out to the bar, a concert or the casino with a few friends of ours once a week.

I started realizing this when we went to a Basketball game(we normally go 5-10 times a season) and she could no longer fit in the seats. Now we have to buy more expensive “platinum level” seats for her to be comfortable. Same situation when she flew on a weekend trip with her parents a couple months ago, she was complaining to me about how small the seats were and she hadn’t before when they or we typically go on a weekend vacation once a year.

I’ve kind of brought it up before, she’s always been insecure about her body. I had mentioned that I wanted to start getting in shape and going to the gym, meal planning/prepping, the whole 9 and that I thought we could do it together. She said she’d do it but it was more of like a “ughh fine” than a true “I’m down” and I started looking at gyms to go to. She never ended up going with me or showing any interest.

Most of her family is pretty big. Is it possible she just thinks it’s normal to be that out of shape?
How do I have a conversation like that out of concern? Am I doing something wrong?

I am '18M' and I am a college student.

Idk what is happening to me it feels like I need someone who loves me cares for me, A girl.

see others in campus and insta living the "couple life" the life which I am currently dreaming of.

May be I am not good looking that no girl finds me interesting. I see others having two two GF at same time. And on the other hand there is I who haven't even talked to girl in a flirty way yet.

I am unable to identify the problem.

Everybody says forget love it is just an distraction just work and work but I think that's not true at a certain time you need someone.

certain time you need someone.

Due to this I doesn't even want to go college the only thing I'll see there are couples a girl roaming with a boy who does that even deserve here.

I fear that what if I stayed lonely throught out my life.

Are there any ways to practice and improve critical thinking? “Live life”, but are there any more efficient ways? Like, some pre-defined efficient methods to apply to train our critical thinking

So I have a 5am clinical rotation this semester and my roommate wakes up if I even breathe too loudly. I literally have zero time in the morning and my hair takes ages to dry. What’s the absolute best way to dry hair fast in a dorm room when you're always running late? I can't be walking into the hospital with dripping wet hair but I also can't stand there for twenty minutes with a loud dryer waking up the whole floor. Are there any specific routine tricks or things that actually speed it up? Pls help.

I tried to ask professional piano people, but they all told me to get movers who know how to move a baby grand, which isn't really what I was looking for, but I clearly didn't specify well enough, so that's on me.

So, anyway, the question is how would you move a baby grand piano long distance if you were moving it yourself? The situation is that I have a friend moving across Canada (Ontario to Vancouver with Centennial) and they have a baby grand that they want to protect. They already have movers for the move, but let's just take that part out of the equation.

If you were moving a baby grand yourself, how would you do it? What would you take apart? What would you leave together? How would you wrap everything and secure everything? How would you place the pieces into the truck to ensure safe transport from Point A to Point B?

hey everyone, im coming to WI from abroad in two weeks on a j1 visa for the summer. first time ever in the us! ill be working two jobs (one morning, one night) and wont have a car, so ill be biking/walking everywhere. just looking for any general tips on surviving the summer, handling a crazy work schedule, getting around safely without a car, and what foods/spots i absolutely need to check out while im there. thanks!

Heading on a plane trip tomorrow so no WiFi and I don't have Spotify.

Is there any place I can download music or podcasts to my phone in advance of the trip?

Thanks

Hi I travel around 25km to the office from home.In the morning I will come by taking 3 buses, and in the evening i will go by metro and taking 2buses. Almost i travel 4hours daily, covering my entire 13hrs for the work in a day!! I became bored of watching the reels and shorts so can anyone suggest me what to do in that 4hrs of journey so that helps me in a good manner either to my career or developing some skills!!

The more obscure, unique and niche the better

I'm especially interested in advice that isn't obvious to beginners but made a noticeable difference in plant growth, watering, soil quality, or pest prevention.

Im 22 and live in a fairly big home with a lot of corners and hallways which get really scary at night. Its embarrassing to say I'm still terrified of dark because i keep imagining scary things everywhere in the dark especially around a corner or behind me while im walking, so this is a bad combo. To try and get myself be better with darkness I sometimes try to intentionally imagine something and then force myself to check that something isn't actually there. or sometimes i just try to walk around the house at night with almost every light being off.

Do you think this will help in the long term or will this just makes it worse.

So I've been at this job for about 3 months and I really like it. The problem is the last few weeks, I've struggled to go every day and not call off. And I can't figure out why. I've had this issue with every job I've ever had.

I actually like this job. I'm pretty much left alone and can do whatever as long as my works done. I made a pros and cons list and the pros definitely outweighed the cons. The only cons were the pay is low and I can't really call off since it's a small team and only one person works at a time for that shift. So if I call off, someone would have to do a double shift or not even open the business that day which is obviously a no go.

My anxiety is telling me to just run and quit but I don't want to let my boss and coworkers down, and I'm also scared they'll yell at me which I really can't handle.

How do I handle this?

Could be anything—keyboard shortcuts, cooking, communication, budgeting, fitness, or something completely random.
Looking for ideas that have a surprisingly high return for a small time investment.

My best friend just confided in me about something terrible that happened to him.

He lives in the USA in the Midwest and said his wife was the victim of revenge porn I guess there’s over 100 videos and images that have been leaked multiple sites. I told him to try local law enforcement but they’ve done between fuck and all apparently. He doesn’t have money for a lawyer and I gave him 100$. Trying to figure out what to do I know there is a way to have this stuff taken down but I don’t know where to begin any and all advice is helpful.

I know spot-reducing belly fat isn’t really a thing, and I’m not looking for medical advice or extreme diet tricks. I’m just curious what realistic lifestyle changes helped people lose fat when exercise wasn’t really an option.

Was it mostly cutting sugary drinks, eating more protein, tracking calories, improving sleep, reducing alcohol, or just being more consistent with meals?

Would appreciate practical advice from people who have made progress mainly through food and daily habits.