Also, thank you for posting and commenting and making such an exciting community thrive!
I have a very irregular work schedule, resulting in a lot of free time punctuated by periods of intense crunch. It’s not unusual for me to have a few weeks at a time just empty of work.
I post my hobby/sidegig tabletop commission projects, since I’d have been working on them even without Lemmy. Then since in real life I come across many odd things in my traveling, I’ll make sure to snap some photos.
Then I just have a daily habit of browsing certain sites and feeds related to various Lemmy communities and linking to Lemmy whatever catches my eye.
What commissions do you do and in what community do you post them?
Tabletop miniatures. I post in [email protected] and [email protected]
Most new OC I post there is a commission.
Nice!
I work from home.
I have a bad habit of leaving comments when I want to leave none ever. So comments >0 is too many by my own reckoning. I have the free time because depression. I make these comments because I’ve lost my self control in that respect
I seem to compulsively leave comments as well, I think they help give body to the community.
Its good Lemmy work
That’s a good way to look at it lol, I’m contributing to the Lemmy fluff. Someone will read it and eat 5 seconds of their time, thus contributing to the goal of Lemmy; wasting time
Wating time Learning!
Constant cultural and empathetic expansion!
My job is mostly only busy first thing in the morning. I go around and swap out empty containers for full ones. Then I have to refill the empties. The machine takes an hour to run, so that leaves me a bunch of downtime.
At night, I’ll make a bunch of posts ahead of time while I watch TV and save the drafts so I can post them quick in the morning before I head off to work. Some days I’ll get too much content, and others nothing, so I have about a week’s buffer of post content.
Ha, this reminds me of another comment about dandori, the Japanese art of time management referenced in Pikmin.
I think they were talking about their work, while you use dandori for the more important lemmyverse. Nice.
This is my go-to “too long to stare at the wall, but not long enough to play a phone game” time waster.
I’m pretty sure I died in 2008 and just haven’t cooled yet.
Thoracic spinal damage is super rare. The thoracic region is the area where your ribs connect. It isn’t like the lumbar spine you likely associate with back problems. It usually requires external sources of traumatic injury to cause problems. Unlike typical back problems, thoracic damage can greatly impact posture; not just in the sense of ‘hold your shoulders back and don’t slouch’ bad posture. This is more like, what you associate with bad posture is somewhat related to fatigue, but you’re likely unaware of how much continuous strength you actually have that underpins your ability to remain upright. These muscles are still engaged even when you are reclining above around a 45° angle, just to a lesser extent, and certainly in use while sitting upright or standing. When the thoracic spinal region is chronically damaged, holding posture above 45° can become like lifting a 1 kg dumbbell in your outstretched arm at shoulder height. I can hold posture and situp or stand, but it hurts from the moment I start. By 30 minutes it is painful enough for me to lose the focus to read and comprehend well. By 1 hour in, I’m unable to think clearly over the background noise of the pain. Taking pain meds and muscle relaxers doesn’t change anything about my condition. It just makes me care less or less self aware. I am here most often because there is a position I can sit in that allows me to fully relax my back while holding a phone. I spend my up time doing other things, I can sit with my computer in bed longer or hold up a novel size book okay. This is a profoundly lonely existence to deal with long term. I’m often hurting too much to really talk anyways. I need the filter of text to piece my thoughts together and feel like I am myself. In a lot of ways I let this place fill a fundamental social need. I don’t expect people to understand. I simply have no access to escape this situation and be myself.
Did you post recently about concerts? I’ve been thinking about that and how difficult that would be.
I didn’t post about concerts. I don’t follow, sorry.
Sorry. My mistake. Someone recently posted that they had a medical condition that severely limited their outings and the thing they missed most was attending concerts.
No problem. Heck I miss the grocery store, or any chance to interact with real people without being weird or at least weirder than normal. I look fine, and try to mask the pain, but it just comes across as awkward and I end up hurting for days when I push harder. Getting dressed and traveling to a concert is hell for me. I hope whoever it was gets the chance to live their dreams through.
I honestly expected more answers to be like this.
Glad you’re here and glad there’s a position you can find some relief and still get some solid community/social engagement and dumb memes.
I think a lot depends on the degree a person is stuck dealing with issues. If I could ever let go of the pain, I wouldn’t talk about it or want to. For me it is like stupid annoying background music I have to shout over to think or do anything. Thanks though.
Can’t find work
The long, frantic hours of waiting for someone to respond. Always extremely frustrating.
Best of luck on the job hunt
I check in throughout the day and scroll a little when I get in-between sorts of moments, also watching for notifications. It’s still just fitting into my regular day though, a couple minutes here, a couple minutes there.
It’s actually a lot better than reddit for that, since there isn’t as much activity, so I seldom get sucked deeply in like you can with something with endless content.
Post on company time 😉
They don’t pay me enough at my job so I gotta find something to do while they aren’t paying me enough to do my job.
Noble.
Sincerely.
I work from my phone so it’s easy to check Lemmy continuously.
Slow at work, what else am I gonna do? Work?
Work sounds terrible, be Lemmy!
Company time.
If you’re paid to do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life.
Commendable
I won’t have what I love tainted by employer/customer expectations.
My job mostly entails me working in a ticketing system all day. When I’m all caught up and there’s no backlog of tickets, I usually kill time hanging out here while I wait for more to come in.
