Love the work, hate the job?
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@AndyD said in Love the work, hate the job?:
@Doctor-Phibes said
feels like the tech that was supposed to help us is slowly stifling all the joy.
It started in the 80's and is still getting worse in every way. My recent solution is literally to laugh at the ineptitude of tech when it fails
Obviously I'm online, but there is a reason I never got a twitter or truth social or bluesky or linkedin or other accounts. I try (try...) to keep the "noise" to a minimum. I'm also a "rapid unsubscriber" from email lists, so I only get a few emails per day, which is nice. My tech routine is basically TNCR, CNBC, a very local news website (https://ccxmedia.org/). At night when the kids are in bed I open up my HOA's facebook thread (right now the only active discussion is someone replacing a light fixture they can't find a match for), and the top stories on reddit. It drives my wife nuts sometimes but I also don't reply to texts right away if I'm doing something... it's not a damn walky talky. It's a somewhat futile attempt at keeping things simple-ish.
But tech can be really wonderful, freeing up our time so we can be creative
Ha... tech can be great, too. Last night I threw on the VR goggles after everyone went to sleep and I was fixing the ISS in space with the earth below me. It was marvelous.
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The social aspects of tech are concerning, but there are good sides to that. Our phone bill is a lot lower than it was 25 years ago, and I get to see my family via video link.
What I'm really complaining about is the fact that the great tech revolution has actually made things less efficient, at least for me. The job revolves around a bunch of software 'solutions', whose purpose seems to be other than to make my job easier.
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Well some lady accidentally broke a glass lampshade and asked if anyone had a spare. Luckily some guy just replaced his light fixtures so he had one... how lucky!
Today I'm actually replacing all of our recessed lights (cans with flood bulbs) throughout the house. I'm installing flat LED lights that provide the same lighting but less energy, heat, and replacements. Plus they look sleeker. As a result I'll have dozens of flood bulbs available I'll tell the facebook group about, and I'm sure they'll be gobbled up within an hour. Lots of "freecycling" in this neighborhood...toys, strollers, bikes, etc.
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@89th said in Love the work, hate the job?:
Well some lady accidentally broke a glass lampshade and asked if anyone had a spare. Luckily some guy just replaced his light fixtures so he had one... how lucky!
Today I'm actually replacing all of our recessed lights (cans with flood bulbs) throughout the house. I'm installing flat LED lights that provide the same lighting but less energy, heat, and replacements. Plus they look sleeker. As a result I'll have dozens of flood bulbs available I'll tell the facebook group about, and I'm sure they'll be gobbled up within an hour. Lots of "freecycling" in this neighborhood...toys, strollers, bikes, etc.
Thank you. Good luck with the light replacements. I dread doing to when it comes time. So far so good, two years in. I have some lights that are 20' up.
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Your new house should have LEDs so hopefully you're good for a while. I do have a light bulb extension pole thing that I've only had to use once. It's pretty cool... would be more fun to attach a bulb to a drone and pull an Interstellar spinning docking thing.
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@89th said in Love the work, hate the job?:
Good post man. It's almost like the ability to unplug, or go analog, or just slow down and sit without looking at a screen...watch raindrops race on a window. All of it seems to be almost like a new workout routine, but mentally. It's hard. It take discipline now to just sit, and wait, or do something the long way.
Honestly, I do everything I can to stack the deck in my favor. I keep my phone plugged in at all times and when I'm in my car, I turn it off to make it a pain in the ass to use.
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Reminds me of a (light) argument I had with my wife a few years ago. I was going out for a run, she asked where my phone was? I said I don't take it. She asked but what if I get hurt? I said, I ran for years before cell phones were that common, I think it'll be ok.
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@Aqua-Letifer said in Love the work, hate the job?:
I keep my phone plugged in at all times and when I'm in my car, I turn it off to make it a pain in the ass to use.
Pretty much the only thing I like about my phone is the fact that I can listen to podcasts and music when I'm driving.
