The college degrees I earned in an attempt to get away from a soul sucking career: Nursing. First mistake was getting a fucking bachelors degree in nursing. That is not neccessary, because an associates degree would be sufficient. In fact, nursing needs to go back to more on the job training in an apprenticeship style program, hopefully run by a union rather than just the hospitals like in the old days. This requirement to have a bachelors degree in nursing that many jobs have is bullshit, and it’s just an excuse to get H1-B Filipina nurses (who work their asses off for less than US citizens) imported en masse. My next mistake was earning a degree in nursing informatics, which hasn’t done shit for me and now I find myself in a job I’m stuck in because I’ve been away from the bedside for so long. My third biggest mistake was earning a MBA in a further attempt to get the fuck away from nursing. Right now, MBA holders can’t get the jobs they would typically qualify for because the market is saturated. And maybe I could have done a dual MBA/MHA (master in health administration) degree in order to become one of the suits in a health system that makes the problems for nurses worse.
Now I don’t know what to do, and I want to die. I am seriously looking at switching over to become an electrician, specifically for low voltage. One of my previous jobs which was informatics related, I worked with those guys for a while. The worst thing they have to do is pull cable through tight spaces and up steep heights. Rest of the time they are using fine motor skills to connect smaller wires to the devices, and then programming them. I think I could hack it. The problem is, in the USA, things are getting politically and economically unstable, and a nursing license in another western country is more of a golden ticket out of this shithole of a country than any apprenticeship. If I had to flee at the drop of a hat, I would have to start an apprenticeship from the bottom again. At least nursing gives me a lifeline, even though the longer I remain a nurse, the more likely I am to want to kill myself. Even my therapist has noticed that, and has told me to leave.
a tattoo, and I didn’t even pay for it.
The reason it’s a waste is because it’ll cost £5-600 for a decent cover up. Essentially I got this to cover up… Terrible decision.
I have a variety of tattoos, and I only regret one of them. Still proud of the others decades later.
Rent, but I can’t afford to save up towards my down payment because I have to spend it on rent
love this for us
Any games that I’ve ever bought but continue to this day, not play.
6 years of using bottom-of-the-barrel laptops because I wanted to buy new. Not to mention the time wasted “optimizing” them, working around their quirks, and spending a whole day fitting a riveted-in keyboard that was never meant to be serviced. If I had the foresight to buy a used business-grade laptop for $200 when I started, I might as well have daily driven it to this day.
$1000 x86-64 Linux tablet. Turns out, I didn’t really need it, and it’s too techy to sell to anyone in my neighbourhood, so it’s just collecting dust.
Collecting dust? What’s the make and model? I’m interested in it.
Just returned my Linux swapped Microsoft surface pro 8 top of the line edition got a banging deal but the whole folio aspect is not as good as laptop and keyboard popping up on text boxes in Linux are stupidly hjt and miss. Returned. The slate is also really hard to hold with a sleeve for your hand type case.
All games bought outside of GOG
Steam?
Steam even though supports linux gaming, it doesn’t have DRM-free games
Lots of games on steam are DRM free
Steam summer sale, and yet I fall for it every year. Doom collection still sitting in my library collecting dust.
I have enough games in my steam library that I could probably play a new game every day for 2 years, and I still haven’t redeemed all of my codes from humble bundles.
But God forbid I pass up a 90% off sale on a game I heard mentioned once 5 years ago in passing…
It’s only THREE DOLLARS, how could I not!
Taxes.
I wouldn’t mind if they went to something other than the military and ICE
Star Citizen backer bundle that was supposed to get me an art book, USB key, and a few other things. Will never get it even though they made over 1 billion dollars
My wife has been sick with a persistent respiratory infection for six weeks. I have a shoulder injury. We haven’t been staying on top of the cleaning. We finally admitted that the house smells like one of those caves you age cheese in, and booked a cleaner to put it back in good shape so we can just maintain it going forwards.
Last night, at my wife’s insistence, we tidied the house from top to bottom and wiped down the flat surfaces so the cleaner wouldn’t arrive to a messy house. 😟
In her defence, she kinda saw the irony of it.
As others have said, tidying and cleaning are quite different things. Most cleaners will come to do the latter. If your house is untidy, it makes their job harder.
You can get a person in to tidy up for you, but it’s usually a different person than the cleaner, and that requires much more input from yourself “Where does this go? Where do you want this? Do these clothes need to be folded or washed? Is this trash or not?”.
Anyway. Yes I’ve definitely been guilty of tidying the whole house before our cleaner comes.
I hear you, but if you want the cleaner to deep clean, you gotta surface clean. Or just pay for twice the time.
There’s a difference between cleaning up and cleaning. You pay for the latter, unless you have a ft maid.
My ex
I was young and didn’t know how to say no…
Timeshare.
Did you get the TV at least?
Ugh… Same. Legally, I couldn’t have agreed, but that didn’t matter. Not my proudest moment.
Hmmm. I wouldn’t exactly call it a waste of money (yet) but my current smartwatch. It’s not bad or anything it’s just… not that useful. The fact that I have to charge it often, doesn’t make it better
I remember looking for a new watch awhile back and seeing a review that said “The battery life is outstanding! I get almost two whole days without a charge!” and thinking “naw dude”.
But, I also don’t like “smart” watches… or “smart” anything. I want a damn watch that can occasionally do GPS tracking when I want it to and the battery should last, at minimum, one month.
My Garmin last a month or two. Depends on the model. But it’s less smartwatchy and more health and fitness. Gps is accurate in all my tests down to about 2 feet. Takes me to and from my car in parking lots with ease. Geocaching is a breeze. Best of all the watches I’ve tried.
Garmin is where I landed too.
I couldn’t do the instinct 2 solar because of the 50mm size (I have dainty little wrists) but the instinct 3 solar is available in 45mm.
I’m over a month in and at 70% battery with minimal direct solar, but it does give it a 1-3% bump when I’m working outside.
At this point, I have to see how long it can go without charging.
(Again, I don’t use any of the “smart” stuff, just the heart rate monitor for sleep tracking - is that a new thing to require HRM for sleep tracking? Long ago, they did it with the accelerometer)
Garmin honestly makes some of the best money can buy. I’ve tried a bunch.
I feel exactly the same. I bought mine mostly for hiking and the battery isn’t even lasting a whole hike. No tracking or anything.
Garmin. Mine last 2 weeks to 2 months depending on the model. Nothing compares. Avid outdoors.
Apple watch?
Pixel Watch 2
Right, right
I love my smartwatch, it usually holds charge for an entire day even with the screen on all the time. I think they stopped making them though, it is a Fossil smartwatch. I also like that it just looks like a normal watch at first glance.
By contrast, I have bought a tablet twice thinking I would love to have one, and then NEVER know what the hell to do with it. My phone is easier to carry around. :/
My previous one was a fossil and I loved it until fossil turned it to literal trash with the latest updates + not getting wear os 3. Gorgeous watch tho
Oh yea, the updates really suck honestly. I swear every time it updates I feel like it loses functionality that I loved.
Apple Watch 7
The health app is wonky. When it checks your vitals it vibrates. Think about this, you are wearing the watch at night and it vibrates which wakes you up. Stupid.
Apple Music, here’s another one, let’s say you have your watch tied your phone and a Bluetooth speaker connected to the phone. Then use the phone to start Apple Music and stream some music to your Bluetooth speaker. The watch will tell you what song is playing that’s good.But let’s say that you want to use the watch to choose a different playlist. It won’t let you. It will claim you don’t have any device connected to the watch to play music. The watch should be telling the phone, but it never will. I don’t know if this is an Apple Watch or an iPhone issue but either way it pisses me off.
Voice to text works great on the iPhone when trying to send a text message. Half the time won’t work on the watch. It willclaim you said one word when you said a different word. Why don’t I just text like most people do ? because I’m a super slow Texter with my thumbs and it’s much faster for me to hit the microphone.
Mine does not vibrate when I’m sleeping.
The health app is wonky. When it checks your vitals it vibrates.
I think you need to check your settings, because it definitely doesn’t do that by default.
I bought a smart watch and found it collecting dust. My new job is strongly against being on your phone while at work. Nothing against earbuds and a watch however. Now it takes me twice as long to send a text via my watch.
Drugs, including nicotine.
Alcohol too
Probably, as I always had a penchant for a good single malt, but I mostly used to smoke reefer., occasionally dabbled with other things when I was younger.
