/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>10597440
Probably by doing something they like. It's probably hard for an american to imagine actually enjoying anything, but it is possible.

>>10597449
>Are you suggesting that work is an escape from a shitty life?
The only thing I'm looking forward to right now is getting to go to work this weekend, because it means being on a ship, doing ship stuff, away from the internet, away from the retarded commies and numales of my city, away from it all. Just me and radios, ropes, and a coffeemaker.

The only thing better is that in a couple months I have a three year contract of it.

Enjoyable work is necessary to proper mental health, imo. I only drink so much and get so depressed because my normal work at my home unit is so soulless and useless.

>>10526514
>You might benefit from getting involved in a charity of some sort. Or just serving others in whatever way,
I joined the reserve navy in 2014 does that count

it's been good in some ways, and I like it when I'm on ship or on assignment on the coasts, but there hasn't been a lot of work for me this year. I honestly blame my new boss for that, but still.

>think of how much more we have all had from our own mothers. Life is beautiful like that.
My mother was and probably still is a terrible psycho, and I slept in alcoves and fire escapes and bogarted my school's animu club space to sleep in just to avoid being at home because of her. Family ties are not so consistent as "MOTHER = GUD4U"

i have been drinking basically since i got up today

i am INCREDIBLY BITTER about the ABSOLUTE STATE of my department and my place in it. i like the forces but i fucking hate my department. i like the people in it, but i have never had a fulfilling experience in my department

the department doesnt train. it does nothing of value, even to itself. this is abnormal. there are exercises, and my trade does things on the coast and on ships. i've been to the coasts, and i've been on ships, and there's their own share of dog-fucking but at the end of a day, you can at least say you went to work. and yet, t's been a very long time since I've had a work night that I've been able to say I was at some kind of real job. when people I meet ask me what I do for a living, I just say "I get checks from the government", because what the fuck else do I do? I know it can be better, though, which genuinely hurts me both for my own work ethic and for trying to defend the absolute state of my crew

but I also have beef with my department because I need work, this is all i have, and i never get it. i'm constantly begging for extra hours, but i always hear about how new guys have been shunted into different departments to do Class B shit. why not me? i'm not incompetent. i certainly complain less about having to work. I like working, I get restless when I don't. i have seniority and I have skills, why the fuck can't I get work? Why do I have to rely on the PAOs and Supply for work just schlepping stuff around while fresh recruits get to be ISA assistants?

my performance and competence clearly don't matter to what opportunities I get to actually do any work. I've been for four years and while my PDRs aren't glowing, the only major/consistent problems are uniform-related and my PDRs from real units and schools actually ARE very good.

I've been a couple of bad experiences from permanently checking out for a long time and this year, I've felt myself slide very quickly towards the void