idk what neurodivergent young adult needs to hear this but you are NOT supposed to give 100% at your job. I’ve gotten more promotions and raises since I started giving 40-60%, which my evil CEO uncle informed me is what bosses actually expect when they say 110%. My mental health has improved tremendously. I’ve spent 2 out of 5 workdays secretly writing my novel for the last 2 years and I’ve never been more respected and appreciated. Also–when you see glaring wasteful errors in the company’s operating systems, say absolutely nothing! Embrace inefficiency. It is your friend in this capitalist hellscape.
my 37 year old vampire girlfriend keeps telling me i simply don’t understand the woes of immortality as if I didn’t also own a VHS player or visit a blockbuster a few times as a kid
she keeps staring off into the distance saying those shit like “those as youthful as you know not what horrors lie in your past” even though we both know damn well she’s talking about the 2008 financial crash
DS9 is the best trek series because it’s the only one that engages in a philosophical debate not about aliens but about the philosophy and goals of the Federation itself instead of treating it like an unconditional moral authority at best and a system with a couple bad apples at worst.
