Self Improvement
A community which focusses on improving yourself. This can be in many different ways - from improving physical health or appearance, to improving mental health, creating better habits, overcoming addictions, etc.
While material circumstances beyond our control do govern much of our daily lives, people do have agency and choices to make, whether that is as "simple" as disciplining yourself to not doomscroll, to as complex as recreating yourself to have many different hobbies and habits.
This is not a place where all we do is talk about improving "productivity" (in a workplace context) and similar terms and harmful lifestyles like "grindset". Self-improvement here is intended to make you a generally better and happier person, as well as a better communist, and any other roles you may have in your life.
Rules and guidelines:
- Posts should be about self-improvement. This is obviously a wide category, and can range from advice, to finding resources, to self-posts about needing to improve in a certain area, or how you have improved, and many other things.
- Use content warnings when discussing difficult subjects.
- Do not make medical decisions solely because of a discussion you have had with any person here (e.g. whether to take or not take medications; diagnoses; etc.) as we do not vet people. All medical problems should be discussed with a real-life medical professional.
- Do not post harmful advice here. If this is seen, then please report it and we shall remove it. If you are unsure about whether it's precisely harmful advice or not but feel uneasy about it, please report it anyway.
- Do not insult other users and their lifestyles or their habits (unless they ask, I suppose). This is a place for self-improvement. Critique and discussion about a course of action is encouraged over shit-flinging. Don't talk down to people.
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I learned arcane languages. retroactively I think I did it bc the earliest thing from my childhood is being told I will never learn to write and read and general abuses and so I started to compensate and language proficiency seemed like the best way to do so. I feel a little bit better now, but it's not like I discovered my self-worth that way
I donno what all fandoms you are in but maybe look into conlangs. I only really became privy to them because my wife is a linguistics nerd. But if you know 8 languages and recognize the various structuring and such, you might be a good fit for creating languages for tv and movies.
Or even just for creative writing and such.
I'm currently working on a quasi-creole for a story but really want to have it fully developed if this story goes anywhere. I'm a bit clueless on it all though.
first I need a better job (paying enough to live off beans and public transport, but if I am able, I think I want to learn or teach endangered languages in some capacities. I speak some that are pretty gnarly to learn for europeans/amerikans like Arabic and Hebrew, so I don't think I will be troubled by difficulty. I don't know-know 8 languages bc I need to maintain languages as well, I'd more say around 5 active ones and 8 passively
That's still impressive by any means. Bilingual should be a pretty normal thing in the SStates imo and I wish they'd teach Spanish in early development more than making is an elective in HS. Just being able to casually speak 5 and know 8 others in any capacity blows my mind.
I hope we can all find jobs that better fit our passions. I have seen morn than a few posts about other users in a very similar under-employed situation. It sucks and I wish I could just get paid a living wage helping people instead of turning cows into profits(last software job).
Language is not monetizeable if you are too trans and weird for corporations and don't want to be a
also I have always respected IT people (I am not disciplined enough for it)
I feel like my "gift" is the computery side of IT and not so much the dev side. I can do both. But can't get even an entry level job because I fucking suck at talking to humans and so I suck at interviewing.
Thats sick