This is a bit of a shout in to the void but I'm getting desperate.
Since my income was sliced in half (#BurnOut / #SadisticManagers) and everything is doubling in price I've had to choose between bills and food, this month I had no choice.
Both lost to the bare necessities.
The most I could spend on myself was 16€ for my birthday dinner. I've lost 10kg, I'm scraping the barrel to exist.
If anybody can help with anything, I'd be grateful
(Let's try this again bc something with the Markdown got fucky.)
New instance means I copy-paste my #introduction from my previous instance lol. So here’s my #intro!
I’m Bryn, (she/her, 25) and I live in the greater Pittsburgh area! I’m a #bisexual, #polyamorous#trans girl with a passion for #electronics, #music (especially #indie), and human interaction, i.e. #communication. I’m happiest when I’m among friends, lovers, or just other people in general!
I was a team lead in customer facing tech support for a home security company, but I gave that up after facing major #burnout. Now, I’m taking a few months to recuperate while my partners keep me alive, and I’m looking to start a #freelance#branding and #WebDesign co-op with one of said partners!
This account is not professional; I post #nsfw content on occasion. I spent too much of my life without confidence to let my newfound beauty go to waste! :blobcatsmug: This content will always be hidden behind a content warning, of course!
Definitely follow me if you like cute girls, relationship anarchy, free open-source software, or any combination thereof! Boosts are also very much appreciated, but please give higher priority to mutual aid requests and the like.
My personal website can be found here! You can also look at my Kolektiva and Disqordia accounts (in bio) for a backlog of my previous pictures, commentary, and other nonsense. :blobcatnomcookie:
Selfie includes EC but is safe for work. :arainblobderpy:
At #PyConUS2023, @davidism facilitated an open space discussion of "maintainer #burnout, how to survive it, and maybe how to prevent it." Our notes, my analysis, and useful links in a new blog post:
2021 zeigte eine Studie mit 3292 TN aus deutschen Kliniken während #COVID19 höhere Belastung durch moralischen Distress. Das Ausmaß kam vor der #Pandemie nur in der Pflege auf Intensivstationen vor.
Besonders betroffen:
Pflegefachpersonen & MTA.
Größte Korrelation bei #Depression, #Angst-Symptomen, Arbeitsauslastung & Kontakt mit #SARSCoV2.
The idea that you need to be constantly busy just to justify being alive is utterly corrosive. It eats away at simply enjoying being alive, and turns the point of living into an endless list of tasks and duties.
My sense of needing to never be seen as incorrect in professional settings turns out to be highly, highly tied to my need to be unambiguously accepted by colleagues while publicly and proudly trans.
stop telling people “you can still reach me” when you’ve taken time off.
stop cleaning up emails the night before you go back to work (weekend or PTO.)
stop taking responsibility for the company taking advantage of you. if you truly are the only person who can solve a problem, that is on the COMPANY. not you.
being buried with work doesn’t mean you have to finish it all right now. you need the time to rest and recuperate. take it. don’t blur those lines. we are working most of our lives, so take the break when you get one.