I must’ve gone into the wrong field. Learning to program can’t be much harder than statistical mechanics.
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You’re not making more than $30/hr (without benefits)?
And it’s not trivial to get long term full time consistent contracting, and even then there’s always some kind of unpaid BS that goes along with it, and salaries for programming (and other things) are much lower in Ohio than in, say, the SF Bay Area, but a lot (or maybe all or maybe more than all) of the extra money goes into housing.
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For a while last winter/spring I had a contract for 2 days a week programming (node mostly) for $500/day. It was awesome while it lasted, but it was not something I could dependably live on. Hopefully when my kids are out of college I’ll be out of debt and in a position to have very low expenses and do that sort of thing.
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I think he’s said something about drinking beer.
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I drink a lot of beer 
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Interesting thread!
Likewise. I tend to get time to stop and think over the Christmas period.
Trying to do a bit of a spot check on my life. No specific resolutions
Job: not super happy with the job. Moved back to Australia and took a job that was a little of a step down. Over the last 18 months the job has shrank further and further due to subsequent restructures and changes.
Not sure what to do here, because I’ve moved jobs a fair bit in the last 5 years. Adding one more short job to the CV probably isn’t great, but then neither is allowing my career to die in a job I’m not enjoying.
Health. Have some specific health goals I’m working on. This is however going pretty well and I’m in a good routine.
Education. Relating to job stuff. Considering doing a part time masters in Energy Systems. (Renewables, climate change, electricity grids, etc)
This is a big time and money investment tho if I’m not sure.
Social: I have no friends in my new city. Next season at rugby will probably get me a bunch, if that’s the type of friend I’m looking for.
Languages. I really should be working on my Tagalog. I’m probably about 12 months of effort away from being conversational. But I just can’t get over the hump.
Time management. I spend way to much time on my phone. These apps are gross and addictive and I don’t know how to quit.
“Suggested for you” videos on Facebook… ugh
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By type you mean drunk, right?
Drunk is definitely part of it.
- drunk
- younger than me
- less likely to be in professional or senior jobs
- less interest in social issues etc
- Not super diverse.
My only goal for the year is to get back on my plan as outlined in my health log. Basically avg 1800 calories/day and primarily rowing for exercise.
I fly home tomorrow, and then have no travel plans in the immediate future, so my intent is to put in a solid 2 to 3 months of dedicated effort and hopefully that has me approaching 200 pounds by springtime.
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JOB
Status: I went fully independent with my business a couple of years ago. Not entirely planned. Pretty rough here and there, but last year was really good and now my wife doesn’t have to work anymore.
Resolution: 2019 was a make-or-break year to see if I could sustain this. Let’s see in 2020 how wide I can spread my wings 
EDUCATION
Status: I have advanced degrees but am insatiable. I’ve thought about going back to school. Or perhaps to better explore several online courses. I purchased an online course in Pixel Art that I never finished. My issue is hardware. I’ve been looking at an iPad Pro with Procreate. Just put aside a little with each big contract next year and it’ll be easy.
Resolution: Purchase iPad Pro, finish Pixel Art course, investigate new degree program
ENTERTAINMENT
Status: I have an AMC Stubs pass but see far less than three movies a week. Sometimes not even three movies a month. When MoviePass ran their first big bluff, I signed up and saw EVERYTHING for about a year. I saw the obvious stuff, and then I said fk it and took chances on anything playing. I discovered quite a few unexpected delights that way. But now I’ve gotten super lax. My hobby these days isn’t actually watching anything, it’s just browsing and absorbing the infinity of choices. Occasionally, I linger and study what they chose as the cover photo and media description, but that’s not actually watching anything, either.
Resolution: Three movies a week baby!!!
GAME DESIGN
Status: I love designing games. Like, I could give up everything and do that forever. Well, maybe a month. But I stopped designing last year. A lot of loss and grief and things not worth getting into last year. But now my creativity is coming back.
Resolution: Design and run a game or two for the Unstuck community. Hopefully we all grow closer and maybe attract a new user or two!
FRIENDS
Status: I said goodbye to a lot of people lately. Not all of them by choice. Some of them I didn’t even realize were a healthy goodbye until they were gone. Some of them I’m still sad to lose. But in their place, I’ve actively sought new friendships and reinvested in old friendships, and maybe found the strongest circle of friends and community I’ve ever known.
Resolution: I heard on a podcast that we tend to invest 90% of our time in our dysfunctional relationships and 10% of our time in the ones that work. This year I will be deliberate about flipping that ratio.
PHILANTHROPHY
Status: I volunteer with a trauma and addiction recovery organization but have taken a huge step back while figuring some things out. I think that time is over. I would like to be more involved again.
Resolution: Apply again for a leadership or service position.
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Reminds me of this.
Then why am I praying to him???
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Joe Pesci GOAT god obviously.
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I always kinda thought exercise and self-care was bougie self-indulgence. Now I’m approaching mid-thirties and rethinking things! I’ll start super small: 10-10-10. 10 pushups, 10 sit ups, and 10 squats every day in January. That’s my one-month resolution that I intend to increase each month going forward.
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I’d like to get jesus-on-the-cross shredded in 2020, but I’ll settle for pumping up some vanity muscles
Clean my house more often
Finish a couple interesting courses on coursera
Stay single
Don’t leave the house
Get published
Play the wsop main event
Eat less meat
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Thanks. The guy I copied had pull-ups instead of squats in the routine but I don’t have a pull up bar and have really bad knees. I love running but bad knees make it tough, so I thought I’d sub in squats to improve my running. Maybe I should do pull ups too.
I’ve read/thought a lot about core habits that, if done consistently, will greatly improve my quality of life. In 2020 I want to do these habits at least 80% of days:
Meditate
Affirmations (or gratitude journal)
Deliberate exercise
Stretch
Read at least 10 pages
I track these with the app Habitify. In 2019 I was well below the roughly 290 days I would need to complete them to be at 80%:
Meditate (60 days)
Affirmations (or gratitude journal) (101 days)
Deliberate exercise (118 days)
Stretch (114 days)
Read at least 10 pages (216 days)
My other priorities will be to establish another income source, and to add more play into my life.
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Swimming?
Swimming always seems like a lot of work before and after the actual exercise. But it is low impact, I’ll give it that.