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are there ways to have an income other than presenting a crumbling façade of employability and cultivating a parasocial cult leader status does anyone know
i am really feeling like i probably just didn't try hard enough last time and i should do the parasocial thing again (in more normal terms: “have a patreon”). this time round i might not even be that bad at it. i can actually write stuff now
really feels like there is no dollar amount i could be paid and no hour number i would have to work that would make full-time employment actually comfortable, and that must sound insane, but i am
this may be because i am a “knowledge worker” which basically means that the same sphere of my brain is used both for my work at work and for my work outside of work and i just care too much, it's a personality flaw
@hikari i literally-literally started taking pills to care less at work a decade ago. in hindsight this was a horrible idea but psychiatrists suck
@alice ssris or
@hikari sadly im starting to feel the same way like i have a number and a setup but.......... yeah
@hikari there's our parents' method of having previously exploited the heck out of the last financial crisis and then dumping all of that into real estate, investments, and other Capitalism™️ methods
@hikari there's a reason why we don't like to talk about our background much, and also why we're *so* jaded with the state of everything right now