I want some good news.

  • Jeena@piefed.jeena.netEnglish
    3·
    5 hours ago

    After coming back from a year of parental leave I didn’t lose my job.

    My previous project came to an end just before I went on parental leave and the company couldn’t secure new projects locally.

    But because I was involved ipartially in a different department before, that department secured a internal budget for me as a Subject Matter Expert.

    Now I’m advising on that topic and was also brought in to a big internal project, so my job is secured for some time now.

    For me it’s extra difficult because I moved to a different country and have a really hard time learning the language, which is a must to get a different job here.

  • grysbok@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    8·
    14 hours ago

    I took all my meds on time, and so did my dog.

    Oh! I also baked a pizza and it was really tasty. Pup didn’t get pizza, but did get oven-dried fish skins and he’s really happy about that.

  • dedst@lemmy.world
    201·
    20 hours ago

    my kid slept the whole night last night. first time. I didn’t even know what to do when I woke up and no one was crying.

    • Huckledebuck@sh.itjust.worksOP
      3·
      8 hours ago

      I was lucky with both of my kids. They both started sleeping through the night relatively quick.

      Good for you! Now, on to the next parenting challenge, but at least you’ll be getting better sleep.

  • Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    18·
    20 hours ago

    I’ve been focusing hard on my job, and received feedback from a C Suite Exec this week that he is impressed with my professionalism and interpersonal abilities, especially when meeting with other execs or company lawyers. He even has started coming directly to me because, quote, “Shit gets done when you’re involved.” This is huge to me because I’m impossibly awkward in social circles and mostly a shut-in neckbeard, but somehow it works for me at my job.

    I also received recognition in the form of a beautiful glass plaque from the CEO this year, and it feels amazing.

    I crawled my way up from homelessness to stability and now I’m rocking it at my job. Feels good man.

    I know it’s a bit taboo and perhaps unwise to put so much emphasis on your job, but it’s what brings me happiness because I’ve struggled and fought to get to where I am now. My success has afforded me a comfortable upper-middle-class life and I’m still kind of shocked that it all came to fruition. Went from sleeping under the underpass to a penthouse condo in less than two decades.

    • Huckledebuck@sh.itjust.worksOP
      3·
      8 hours ago

      There is no need to consider any of this taboo. We spend a very large chunk of our lives simply working to earn money to live. If what you’re doing for work is something that makes you happy and proud to be spending time on, then that is worth some monetary value. At least, that’s how I feel.

  • ohlaph@lemmy.world
    12·
    20 hours ago

    I left a company after getting laid off and surprisingly found a job before the 60-day warn notice expired.

    Second day, the new company announced layoffs. Luckily, I wasn’t part of it, but that has been a wild ride.

  • FridgeReborn@lemmy.world
    26·
    1 day ago

    I’m sort of dating someone.

    2ish weeks ago my parents met another couple at a cocktail party and found out they had a single daughter about my age. In an extremely unsubtle attempt to set us up our families did an escape room together. Honestly, sex and dating have never been important to me. My longest relationship was a couple months long in high school, I went on maybe 3 or 4 dates in college. I went to this escape room thinking I’d make pleasantries for an hour, solve some puzzles and go home. But when I met her she was cute, and smart, and funny, and after we escaped she asked if I wanted to go with her to something else she was doing that day. We ended up spending the whole day together. And again the next weekend. I haven’t “officially” asked her out, or kissed her, or really acknowledged anything about what this is. But I have had so much fun with this badass trapeze-flying, skydiving, engineering, competitive dancing, just-so-cool woman that I can’t stop thinking about when I’ll see her next.

    • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      2·
      3 hours ago

      Don’t wait, ask her out. Nothing is worse than an opportunity missed from procrastination, and some girls have short fuses when establishing a romantic foundation with someone.

      Asking her out isn’t a binding commitment for a long relationship, but it does bookmark you as an interested party.

  • Monster@lemmy.world
    17·
    23 hours ago

    The company that lost my $3500 computer a month ago finally sent off a free replacement and it’ll be here next week! Normally, they replace it with a refurbished one but since they don’t have any, I’m getting a new one.

  • lyth@sh.itjust.works
    151·
    23 hours ago

    I got stoned in VRChat for the first time, not too long after getting my first VR headset. As a furry who’s very interested in screwing with my sense of self, this was a really big deal to me in a way I can’t easily explain.

  • The summer blues...@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    56·
    1 day ago

    Changed my name from what some family’s abusive mother gave me, got a job at Amazon, on my way to move out and never see that family again. ✂️👔