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Lacking direction, unsure of what I need to do and generally just fed up.......

Lacking direction, unsure of what I need to do and generally just fed up.......

Hi all.

I have made a new thread here. I need to do this to make it feel real and important or else it'll just be another comment I make on an already existing thread. There are many areas in my life where I feel like giving up. I don't really care how irrational it may sound. I don't care if it's silly. It's just how it is for me at the moment.

I've never been as good as what I am now (on paper) and I put that down to the supportive environment here on the forums.


But I am struggling again.

There are many things on my mind and in my life that are causing me to rethink a lot of what I thought I knew about family and friends. I need to review some things again.

I am also getting lazy around my physical health and diet. I eat a lot more rubbish and I've put on some weight (in the bad way). I used to be quite skinny but then I went to the gym and sorted that out. But lately I have had 0 motivation for exercise because I find it so boring. It's just really boring. I have no enjoyment in it anymore. I think I never really did, but I did it just to be healthy. Now I just don't care. I don't see any utility in doing it anymore.

I feel like giving up on dating. There are just too many fake people in the world and I am exhausted by it. I am also thinking that my lack of relationship in early 20s and late teens is a turn off for many girls my age. I'm trying to see the benefits in my situation but I don't believe there are any.

My sister's health is progressively getting worse. So is her social health. She is having fights with her friends. Mum babies her about a lot. It's not helping. Dad has given up I think. And he is also likely doing "things" behind my mum's back and she is turning a blind eye to it. I have no input on any of that so I simply have to sit by and watch it go down.

I hate my job but getting money is important. I had this conversation with my parents the other day. They seem to have the belief that I can get into something I want to do. I don't. I am trying to find the light and the way forward with that but I don't know how they can see it. I have a desire to go into journalism/writing. But that environment is so political and I don't think I'm able to "pick a side". My internship taught me how I can do it. But it's just such an effort. I don't know if I have the stamina to get there.

I think that's all I can think of for now. I am sitting here on my pc playing a videogame and waiting for food to arrive. I am worried I will just get worse if nothing is done. But that urgency seems small compared to anything else I can do.

In a nutshell - I am not well.

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Re: Lacking direction, unsure of what I need to do and generally just fed up.......

Go you my friend @MDT

good luck with your applications

xxxooo

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Re: Lacking direction, unsure of what I need to do and generally just fed up.......

@MDT I wish you the best of luck with your applications 🍀🤞

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Re: Lacking direction, unsure of what I need to do and generally just fed up.......

You, my friend are on fire 🔥🔥🔥

Go you!!!

Good luck @MDT

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Re: Lacking direction, unsure of what I need to do and generally just fed up.......

Hey all

Thanks for your support. I have finished the draft application that I only found aout about yesterday. This is one for the same job but on a different pay scale and ability level. Two people told me I should apply so I guess I read the tea leaves.

I will finalise it all tonight and send it off before the due date. It takes a lot of thinking because these things are always copious and i need to get it right

I will go to the gym now - i am finding it easier to go so long as it is close to me and i can go for shorter intervals. I need variety and less effort in order to go so that is good.


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Re: Lacking direction, unsure of what I need to do and generally just fed up.......

Again @MDT you're on fire 🔥

The force must be with you x

All the best 🤗

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Re: Lacking direction, unsure of what I need to do and generally just fed up.......

All is as the force wills it @Anastasia

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Re: Lacking direction, unsure of what I need to do and generally just fed up.......

@MDT go Hamza, you are doing well. Just got home from work.

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Re: Lacking direction, unsure of what I need to do and generally just fed up.......

Hi forumites

I have completed the application. I haven't sent it yet as I want an all clear from my boss for a reference. I need 2. I have already got 1 from there boss of mine who told me about the job ad. I took that as a sign that they thought I could do the job in question. I don't know how to navigate the politics of that sort of thing so I just simply asked.

Once I get word back I will then send it off.

I had a chance to look on LinkedIn. Its a good resource and a good tool for networking but it can sometimes make me feel melancholic about where I am at. But I reminded myself that in January of this year I was in a good place in terms of career networking. Networking has been close to impossible this year due to covid. I reminded myself that it wasn't through bad effort or laziness that things didn't work out. It was just beyond my control.

My approach for next year will be to look out for more networking events.

Last night when I saw my friend he asked me what I had been doing other than work and my answer was relatively small in that I had been socialising. I hadn't written much because I haven't had my mind on it. I've been preoccupied trying to tolerate work and figure out if I will go back to uni. I have been keeping in touch with what is going on around the world though.

All I can say is that I am trying- maybe that's all that matters for the remainder of the year. Nothing more and nothing less.

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Re: Lacking direction, unsure of what I need to do and generally just fed up.......

Very proud of you @MDT you are moving forward my friend and never giving up. Be content with your place in the world, you are valued and you matter.

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Re: Lacking direction, unsure of what I need to do and generally just fed up.......

@MDT hey Hamza, you matter to us. You are important to us. Take care

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