new year's resolutions: enter 2025 edition

[Conan]

a what

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[Rigel]

a what

can't argue with the muses when they give a blessing

[carolcat]

I have made other positive progress that isn't explicitly a previously-stated goal though. mainly spending and diet-related; eating better, more often at home instead of takeout/fast food. specifically committed to stopping that almost entirely this past week, with the exception of a regularly-scheduled dinner with friends that has been a small weekly tradition for the last few years.

i love a good regular treat meal with friends. i have one on non-payday fridays that i do with my goofier coworkers at a local mexican spot where we just talk about dumb stuff for an hour before going back to work. all the other days i pack a mealprepped lunch

I've been working on a short MLP smut fic that I should be able to release before the end of the month. Not exactly what I had in mind when I said I wanted to publish something but it is something.

gotta write for yourself above all else...........

[Soukuw]

Well it wasn't a new years resolution but I got a very supportive partner and life's looking up. Actually feeling like I can make progress this year, it really helps having someone to hold you accountable/having someone you want to be your best person for.

Guess I'll see if I actually do something with my life this year.

[Trymos]

made a new years resolution early december about stopping a downward spiral in my well being.

didn't even start the new year before getting diagnosed with bipolar, getting medicated, and stopping the downward spiral

oops

[Metalliku]

didn't get to post my resolutions for this year when i first made the thread (whoops!), but honestly speaking they're pretty much the same as last year's (and more). i mostly wanna focus on opening myself up to meet new people and to start drawing more and try to get personal projects out there, maybe finally go back to the gym too (as long as i have enough money to pay for it).

without getting too personal 2024 was loving abyssmal for me productively speaking, and as long as i wanna get hopeful for things to get better, it's hard for me to see myself in the future when the whole world around me feels like its crumbling apart and everyone i knew is moving on with their lives. time goes by real fast and it feels like im losing every opportunity to do what i wanna do with each second. it scares me, bros

[bloody jumper]

i just wanna lose more weight, i've lost ~30lbs and i'm in the 160s now and i wanna lose 10 or so more. i also wanna try out youtube video creation, and i know getting anything out of that is like winning the lottery, but i've wanted to create my own stuff for a while now, and i might as well try.

[Rigel]

My story is finished. Does anyone want to beta-read it for me before I upload it to AO3?

[Rigel]

The work is complete.

[Foxscotch]

LINKING IT SO OPENLY????

edit: im not that into mlp but that was pretty well written nice job

[Conan]

[BrickQuake]

The work is complete.

i support indie art

[log]

I wanted to make it out of my junior role last year as well as commit to an open-source repository and release a personal project. I ended up getting one of my personal projects to a release point (it is a suite of imageboard software built on S2/ASP.NET Core/Blazor), but I decided against deploying anything because it's missing data protection on the API keys and my moderation dashboard is too bare-bones.

I'm gonna claim cope on the second goal; I didn't really purposefully commit to any open-source projects. Technically all my code challenges for interviews are open source, but there is no reach to them and not really what I was looking to do.

I was set to give up on making mid-level as a software engineer; the director that brought me on was let go, and I was given over to a different team and given a good amount of senior-level work (migration of 400+ projects from .NET Framework to .NET 8.0 in addition to adding support for a distributed architecture with strict deadlines). They were also laying off career employees and only bringing on contractors, so there were clear signs money was tight. Rent was set to increase, so I moved in October to a cheaper apartment because I was not expecting a raise.

Funny enough; though, I was contacted by a recruiter the week my previous manager was let go, and after three interviews, I was hired into a mid-level role as a software engineer. I gave my two weeks notice via email; it was more-or-less "Dear [boss], I am resigning effective two weeks from the receipt of this email. Thank you, log." I did not request a counter-offer. It's been great so far--the only thing is it is remote, and that is not going well with the weight I lost for 2023... But I can't understate how big the energy shift is going from a company that is laying-off vs. a company that is hiring. I remember my first week telling my friends: "I was unaware you could be a software engineer without experiencing burnout."

For this year, the plan is to just keep head-down. I was to finish all of my work on-time and effectively, build a rapport with the new team, and throw the increase in my wages at my auto loan and student loans, hopefully paying them all off.