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Part of me watches the day fly by as I work through the various stories and issues my company has as we walk through the various phases and clean up of their own stupidity of outsourcing. I guess it would be unfair to say “stupidity” It was really a money thing. Excuses aside, the alcohol today tastes amazing as I work through the issues, nothing is ever the same, nothing is ever redundant or boring. There are times where you want to pull your hair out, jump off a building and question why the hell any one would write code, specifically Laravel this way.

I watch the internet from now and then and see the cry babies whine and complain about GitHub and Microsoft jumping into bed and their favourite, and mine too, editor falling into Microsoft’s hands.

It’s disgusting and completely childish, but I digress. The last time I was here the alcoholism and the loneliness had begun pushing me towards the Nicotine and suicide. I have managed to obviously push through and watch the money come in only for adult life to take it away, I guess that’s life. Complaining about it will do nothing other then show others how much control you lack in your own life. You quiet your complaints and bury them deep inside your mind where they fester and stir and become drowned in alcohol.

Dating is even harder, especially when you work from home, so much so that I have completely given up there, any semblance of social life is buried in Final Fantasy 14 online, where pixels and text other people write have become my friend, at least for a moment or two before the work takes over and I sit in a room blaring music and watching the code I write, appear on screen like some savant who has high functioning autism but can create amazing works of art. I don’t think I am autistic though.

The truth is I don’t mind my job, I love the money and the freedom as I stated before.

Code for me is like a seed of anger that starts deep in my core, festering, eating away at me, killing me slowly and branding me a fool. The problem is the best feeling, when there is a problem I can solve it with code, when there is a problem that cannot be solved by code I take solace in the problems that can be. I don’t like people, I hate offices and I despise dealing with my own personal issues, I would rather drink and vape until the nicotine and the alcohol has made me sufficiently numb.

Code is a place I can escape, a place I have control, a place where I don’t feel like blowing my brains out at the stupidity of other people. Have I mentioned that I hate people?

The internet is full of idiots, people ranting and raving about this and that and how it affects them oh so much, when they don’t even let their own code, there own programming problems, and in most cases shitty solutions, affect them. Look at this GitHub thing, the idiots are running around with their heads cut off, waiting for the world to end or in most cases acting like it has. Companies get bought, bill get paid, people leave each other – Shut the fuck up and deal with it.
I guess if you look back at what I have written you could say the same thing to me, boo-fucking-hoo working from home sucks sometimes, grow up and deal with it like an adult. Fair enough, I’ll take my lumps. Excuse me as I continue to drink this post away and watch the downvotes come in. I guess honesty comes with a double edge sword.

And yes I would rather use alcohol as a solution then deal with the issues.

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    Nice self-destructive spiral you have there.

    If you like to waste your life into nothingness - go ahead - piss away the best years of your life, knowing that it's YOUR choice. Don't blame it on anyone else but you. The world isn't ending, GitHub thing will be forgotten in a week. Edge lords will find something else to whine about. You'll find something else to excuse your appalling behavior.

    Or take control of yourself.

    Your choice.

    I'm not a therapist, nor trained psychologist. But it just pains me to read about such attitudes from young people with their lives ahead of them. To me it seems like you need a real problem, to realize that what you're complaining about right now is just piss.
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    P. S.

    If you can't make the choice, ask for help, ask for a doctor. The Internet is not the place to ask for help for this kind of shit.

    The Internet will tell you, rightly, to suck it up, or will plunge you back deep into the world of "feel sorry for yourself", depending on community.

    Knowing the future of your decisions right now, what do you choose?
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    @AndSoWeCode

    Have you ever even been in that situation yourself? siiiigh
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    @collinb1000 yes. Other questions?
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    @AndSoWeCode

    Would that have helped you?
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    @collinb1000 I often get carried away by stupid self-destructing thoughts, but after a while I force myself to admit that I'm not gonna achieve anything with that, and I need to pick up and continue.

    I've had many crises in my life, and through them I've trained myself to constantly remember - crying doesn't help. You know what does? Doing something to change the situation. Then doing some more, and so on.
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    @AndSoWeCode

    I see where you're coming from, and you're strong to be able to do that. Kudos.

    The thing is, why does what you're doing work? Because the goals you are oriented to are contradictory to the self-destructive thoughts and win out. If you want to have a thriving life and career and have constant income and stay alive, like many do, then yeah it doesn't make sense do listen to those thoughts. You're looking at this like your basic goals are the basic goals of everyone. In other words, you're only writing your workaround for your OS. Not everyone works the same way, so trying to shove a solution on them because it 'works' for you and calling them stupid for not having tried it doesn't make sense. Sure, you can suggest it, but the old "just get it together" really doesn't work for everyone.
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    @collinb1000 "Because the goals you are oriented to are contradictory to the self-destructive thoughts" - I just want not to feel bad. I don't have goals. Which might sound pitiful, but I do want to feel less grief in this short life that I'm given by my flawed body (nothing wrong with it, all of our bodies are flawed and wimpy). I think that every single second that I spend whining, is one second less, from my life, that I will be, or at least pretend to be, happy.

    Tough moments will always be there. But why seek them out on purpose? What does that achieve?

    Pity is easy. I'll always have time for it. Pain and death also are. They will come too. It's only natural for things to go bad. It's inevitable. You won't miss out on any of it. However the time where you can live without all of it is short, and it is now. So how about doing something a bit different while you have a chance? Why seek problems?
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    @collinb1000 you wanna hear about goals? How about the goal to be able to sleep on your side again, without agonizing pain? How about the goal to be able to take a piss, in the toilet, without people holding you? How about the goal of not dying of poverty, together with your dependents, when you have a decade of experience in programming, a strong zeal to create and experiment with stuff, and no ability to express it out of your own closed mind?

    I felt happy, when each and every one of those goals was getting closer, and were slowly being achieved.

    I, and people that depend on me, were at stake. All of my self-pity remained in the past. Shit was dead serious, and real solutions had to be considered, and everything else was a fucking disgusting egoistic luxury.

    That can be anyone's story. My temporary incapacitation was not the excuse for not whining. It just puts things into perspective - it's you, alone, against the world. And the world ain't gonna do shit for you. So why give up?
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    @AndSoWeCode

    I'm not saying that you should be giving up or that anyone should be giving up. Yes, you should not seek problems. The thing is you are telling them what they are thinking and what they are feeling and what they should be feeling and fuck that like seriously I don't care if you're tough they're not even fucking ugh you don't have to force the fucking I don't even just when you say shit like your original comment, it really doesn't fucking help. I don't care if shaming yourself is the only way you can get shit done; I do have a similar system in cases. Forcing that system on other people Doesn't. Fucking. Help. They're not whining my god. Needing an outlet of people to talk to because you need a way to express your emotions is not 'whining.' Whining is when you are making a problem out of nothing, which if you think they're whining then you may as well be fucking god because you know them better than they do. Don't take this personally you sound like an okay person.
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    @collinb1000 "Forcing that system on other people Doesn't. Fucking. Help." - does whining about it help?
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    @collinb1000 "Needing an outlet of people to talk to because you need a way to express your emotions is not 'whining.'" - the outlet is alcohol, as was pretty clear.

    It was 100% whining. No attempt at any positive thing. Just things suck, alcohol, whine. It's a destructive pattern. An outlet is a negative feedback system where you vent and become easy. What's described is a positive feedback system where negative thoughts are promoted, and sunk with alcohol. There's no outlet in that. That road leads to just one place, and it ain't pretty.
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    @AndSoWeCode What you seem to be doing is discouraging them from using this site to vent emotions, or, as you like to call it, whine. The thing is, they need some way to express/deal with the shit they're going through. No shit they're not in a good/healthy place right now, but typing out emotions on a site where people can empathize and provide answers in a tough time of their life is MUCH healthier than using alcohol to put the world aside. Telling them to suck it up is just going to make them A: tell you to fuck off or B: stop using this site and continue/worsen bad habits. Yes, they are currently spiraling into a constantly worse situation, but telling them to quit whining and gtfo just going to make it worse. Talking to people is one of the best ways to get out of a loop like that. Let them do that.
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    @collinb1000 why are you so sure it's venting? Because it's not, as I said.
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    @AndSoWeCode Why are you so sure it's not? Because it is, as I said. lol speech 100
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    @collinb1000

    it's basically this:

    things suck, I go drink and smoke, I don't wanna deal with this, I go drink.

    Dude. That's the epitome of a whine.

    Not declaring, not asking, not proposing solutions. Fuck solutions, hello alcohol.

    Whine.

    Now, this discussion is moot. If it had been a vent, a proper rant, it would've gotten more positive attention.

    And when you have a whiner, you can either pass by ignoring, or you could tell "stop whining". I don't see, and nobody has shown, any benefit in encouraging whining.
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