Hi, I’m tooks! Gen X’er tech guy from WV-lite (Eastern Panhandle). Antifascist atheist. Lifelong learner.

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  • tooks@lemmy.worldOPtoWork Reform@lemmy.worldHits close to home
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    2 days ago

    Ha! Where I work, you can almost place an exact date on the promotion based on what they’re driving. I bought my first new car in over 20 years back in 2024. People at work and in general immediately asking about my “raise.”

    When I tell them it was a necessary purchase after my 2008 Mazda with 257k miles decided to no longer be a car, they grin. When I continue telling them the investment was much more stomachable because I was able to use 3/4 of the $60k inheritance my parent’s left me upon my mother’s recent death (all they had to their name was our childhood house, which my brother and I sold, paid debts from, and split the remaining balance), the air leaves the Earth.




  • tooks@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldJust say no
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    4 days ago

    To a degree, kinda. Primarily responsible for technology onboarding and training as well as consulting. Subject to whatever the suits want pushed on employees. Been doing it for so long, I can’t think of any other work fitting to my current lifestyle (work to live) to know any better. Pays the midlife hell bills, leaving enough for leisure.










  • My parents smoked Reds indoors their entire life. I essentially smelled like an ashtray throughout childhood until I moved out for college. Even experienced respiratory issues throughout high school sports. Used to have to borrow my grandma’s portable O2 tank to use for practice breaks. I feel this, and I hate it.