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Fine at 7pm. By 1am I'm replaying a 2019 conversation and re-sentencing every decision I've made. My brain has a night shift and no supervision.
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#anxiety #sleep #overthinking
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Washed the same pan five times this month. 'Whoever notices, washes it' is not a chore system, it's a decision, and it's costing me my sanity.
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#roommates #renting #petpeeves
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Asked my biggest weakness by a guy eleven months into the job, for a role reposted twice this year. Gave the trained-dog answer. He wrote it down.
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#jobsearch #interviews #work
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Four hours a day inside someone else's timetable. People say 'work-life balance' like the commute isn't where the life goes to die.
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#commute #work #citylife
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Week three of the leaking ceiling. Photos sent, video sent, bucket in the living room like a decoration. Half my income for indoor rain.
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#renting #landlord #adulting
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I'm the voice on the phone. That refund policy was written by a committee three years ago. Scream if it helps, just don't tell me I don't care.
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#work #customerservice #burnout
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I'm at the gym to fix my own relationship with my body, not to be rated by three guys by the squat rack. Let people be bad at things in peace.
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#fitness #gym #confidence
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Every family dinner: 'anyone special?' then a review of my life choices by people I've met twice this year. Please let me eat the noodles.
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#family #relationships #boundaries
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Team chat pings at 11pm. 'Just a quick question.' It's never quick, and muting it gets me asked why I didn't answer. I don't have a job, I have a leash.
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#work #burnout #boundaries
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Upstairs neighbour, rearranging furniture again. 12:40am. I'm not asking for silence. I'm asking for one night where nothing scrapes my ceiling.
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#neighbors #citylife #sleep
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Store-bought crickets die overnight, wild ones are a pesticide gamble. I breed them in my bathroom now. She eats like royalty, I smell like a pet store.
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#chameleons #exoticpets #exoticvet
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Nobody will watch my snake for a weekend. Not one person. So I'm driving nine hours to take her with me.
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#snakes #exoticpets #reptiles
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Two weeks of refusing food because I moved her branch three inches. $280 at the vet to hear 'she's stressed'. Eating again now, from that same branch.
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#chameleons #exoticpets #exoticvet
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Puppy phase is a scam. Everything is teeth — the couch, the charger, my hand. He's fourteen weeks old and still a menace.
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#dogs #puppy #petpeeves
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Six months without sleeping past 5am. She screams at my door like it owes her money, and when I open it she just stares and walks off.
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#cats #sleep-deprived #petpeeves
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I come home from work and just lie on the floor for an hour. My mom keeps asking why I'm not as lively as I used to be. I don't know how to tell her that I'm not tired from the day — I'm tired from the person I have to be in it.
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#work #tired #burnout
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I'm jealous of my sister and it makes me feel like a terrible person. She's the one my parents are proud of, the one with the easy life. I love her more than anything. Both things are true and I have nowhere to put that.
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#siblings #guilty #family
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I'm the backup for everyone at my company. Someone's sick? Me. Someone quits? Me. I've never once taken a sick day because there's no one to cover me. My manager says I'm 'so reliable'. I'm just afraid to say no.
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#work #burnout #boundaries
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My brother got into college and my parents threw a whole dinner. I got promoted this year — not a single question about it. I'm happy for him, I really am. But I'm also quietly furious, and I hate that the two feelings live in the same room.
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#siblings #family #eldest-child
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My friend who still has a job told me to 'embrace the change' over drinks. He paid. He doesn't know I've been unemployed for four months. Easy to embrace change from a salary.
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#unemployed #friendship
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