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this post was submitted on 14 Aug 2025
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I'm not good at comforting words, so I won't even try without sincerely stating the obvious: That sucks.
What's your trade, and are you considering moving to a different one?
Here the day is going alright. Today's workload was very low, and this suits me fine as I work from home and daycare is closed today. So I attended a meeting online with one ear, while I had Ganbys Dollhouse in the other.
no comforting words needed, i'm just happy for your presence.
as noted elsewhere, i'm an embedded systems engineer. and i've been thinking since the first job i had in this role some nine years ago that maybe it's not the right job. but trying different things is scary and expensive, and with my physique i'm automatically disqualified from a lot of things. i'd need a strict training regime and leg reduction surgery.
your workload is probably still more than i've had for the past half year. i've just been doing course work and hobby projects.