Random Positivity Threads
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On occasion, we here do a thread of random positivity, where we start with a thematic prompt and talk about things that are enjoyable just for the fun of it. Past examples:
We have also had a couple threads of educational-resource recommendations. These are marginally more serious, since they're about gathering actually good explanations of things that sneerable people like to pontificate ignorantly on. But I'll list them here because learning is fun:
Feel free to comment in the old threads and/or suggest new ones in the comments here.
...almost two years to the day after getting laid off I have received and accepted an offer for a new IT job making more than I ever have and working with a client that I'm actually excited to help support.
I'm somewhat in shock since the last two years have been so incredibly hard. Like, I might have to indulge in some public therapy and put together a more in-depth reflection on this experience for MoreWrite at some point to give me a chance to organize my thoughts and feelings properly. But for now: holy fucking shit we got there.
Congrats.