Everything in my life is either exactly the same or worse. The single thing I can point to as improving over the last decade is my personal maturity and political understanding. And that’s pretty much just a result of getting older, would’ve happened no matter what.

Anyway I’m not gonna go on a whole rant here, wondering if people feel the same, if maybe there’s something I’m missing/haven’t thought of

  • PurrLure [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Things that have gotten better for me personally:

    • Moved out of my parent’s house.
    • Finally escaped retail hell for a bullshit corporate job.
    • Had multiple partners, including my current lovely partner that I’d like to spend the rest of my life with. M-Maybe we could even be in a larger poly relationship in the future??? o///o
    • Partner went from $15/hr to $25/hr in less than a year.
    • I frequently managed to pay off my credit card, in part because I used to get a ton of paid OT.
    • I lost 55 pounds during covid and made some long term online friends that I need to hang out with more.
    • I’m vegan now btw. uwu
    • Not a lib anymore that goes on YouTube for free educational slop only to land on “North Korea bad, China building empty cities” propaganda and believing it without any critical thought.
    • I was one of the few that got to WFH full time during covid, and it was glorious.
    • Embraced my younger self and admitted to myself that I am in fact still autistic and that it doesn’t go away with time.
    • Stopped trying to mask with sad fat old lady wardrobe and got built a nice plus size goth wardrobe over time. I even got the confidence to dress casual goth at work.

    Things that have gotten worse:

    • Over 7 years into this job, and I’m still a contractor with no paid days off or real career progression, just like retail.
    • The job market is too shitty to look for a higher paying job externally.
    • Once upon a time, 2 people making a combined $100k a year or more (even pretax) could afford a “starter house” in a couple of years, especially if they didn’t have kids. Or at least a nice condo. Yeah, we’re still renters, and I wouldn’t be shocked if we stayed renting even after I turn 40.
    • Building on the last point, the concept of a “starter house” is now considered a joke by the average person.
    • Not that we want them, but affording kids went from unlikely to impossible (unless we want them to go through American poverty and fascism, no thanks lmao).
    • Pretty much EVERYONE, for one reason or another, has no hope for the future, my depressed ass included.
    • Climate disaster gets worse with each passing year, and depending on what party you ask is either considered a joke or too inevitable to do anything serious about in the USA.
    • Grocery prices exploded.
    • Rent prices exploded.
    • I had to beg for my wages to go up with inflation, and they’re already falling behind again.
    • AI is a cyberpunk nightmare.
    • I gained most of the weight I lost because they made us go back to work.
    • I finally told work about my disability right when the gross Kennedy shit was happening this year (yeah I have autism) and work didn’t even let me WFH more days.
    • I got super burned out this year, and I can’t remember most of the year very well. It took like a half a year to recover fully while I was still working full-time.
    • They’re taking away most of our paid OT at work right before a recession hits.
    • The 10-year break from official recessions was nice while it lasted, even if a couple of unofficial recessions happened during it. Getting mentally prepared for the next big one happening to a capitalist hellscape near you.