@pcshipp Building in silence. That way only I get to see myself fail and quit halfway, and I don't have to deal with the embarrassment of having everyone watch me start yet another project without ever finishing the last, lol.
@games_rozz True. When I started this acc, I was so excited to see my follower number grow to 1k eventually, and I fed a lot on that. Coming back after a hiatus now, I don't super care about that anymore, but I do miss the (few) regular interactions I've had.
I should be used to rejections after sending out an application, but it just hits different when you were excited for that job & put in extra effort. So, no COBOL job for me, but ig I'll keep playing around with it. Today's application was for a job as a PHP dev. We'll see β¨
@TheAudacity_26 I'm by no means attractive "by social standards", and people have made that more than clear to me in the past (other context than the aforementioned situations), so I was always surprised when someone actually, genuinely wanted to talk to me π₯²
@Autistic_Lauren Yep. I still remember someone asking me if <person's name> and I are friends, and I said "uhm, yeah, I guess". Soon after, that person came to me and asked why I tell others that we're friends. Ouch. Lesson learned: from that day on, I used that word rarely and carefully.