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Unwashed Village / Re: What's going on in your life?
« on: October 07, 2020, 07:29:28 PM »Well. I quit my job because I found a better one. But I have a 6-month competition clause, so now I'm unemployed and slowly developing cabin fever from being a stay-at-home-dad.
But I bought a new 3D printer and I picked up miniature painting as a hobby, which is a very relaxing non-electronical passtime.
Cool. I used to hang around game store where people painted Warhammer 40k miniatures. As a teen played Mage Knight, which was similar but the figures were prepainted.
Working in a school has been made a nightmare by covid restrictions and having the worst prime minister of all time at the helm.
On the bright side, I'm getting an apartment with my girlfriend soon.
I am planning to move in with my partner of 1 year aswell. My only experience living with a female was with a stripper, and er, it wasn't the best. So this should be better I hope.
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Overall things are okay. I am at the same company from my last post, in the trucking industry, and fortunately we have the ability to work from home since March, as the industry is basically completely computerized now. We only deliver frozen food products, and our industry actually got busier after Covid, especially in March/April when people were panic buying food. At the time, truckers had some of the most important jobs in the country, to keep food available in stores, and it felt good to be a part of that.
It's a somewhat small local company and I don't see much opportunity for growth. My career goal is to work in international shipping, so I would like to move on to a bigger company (DHL for example) who does that and make more money. My after tax income is about $28k, not really enough to save up for a house or invest much. Some days I just want to drop it all and say "Fuck it I'll work in finance!".
I'll be 30 in a few months. It doesn't matter to me much. The weirdest thing is how many people I knew from highschool are married with families now. I remember a lot of things, so its a bit hard to let these memories go of people I used to know, and how I will (or should) never see them again. I've been taking counseling for the past few months to help with my relationship and general negative attitude that I think has turned people off.
Excited for the next chapter of my life. I want to move to another city before I start a family.