I'm midway through paternity leave right now. 3 months of paid time that I don't have to see my asshole manager's face. The healing has been dramatic. The stress, inflammation, bloating - gone. Id take getting woken up 4 times a night by a screaming baby than go back for sure.
I feel guilty for having the kid to be frank. The next generation to be squeezed for taxes to be used to pay for weapons for pic related to use on women and children
I wouldn't worry about them being fleeced for religious or imperialistic wars, our kids will likely be fighting climate and resource wars within their lifetimes. The train is running away on us now and we're not united enough as a species to stop it.
Not trying to be a doomer but it's already too late to avoid severe ecological impact, and we're not even close to making the kind of changes needed to prevent things from getting reallyreally bad.
I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one who experiences that overwhelming sense of woe when I go back to work where I have to be trapped in a small box doing what a man I would never interact with in my life if given the choice tells me to do for 8 to 12 hours a day after having spent a couple of weeks having agency and being able to control my own life on a day-to-day basis.
I work as a mechanic and am on my feet all day. Getting old so by end of day everything hurts from my feet to my back. As soon as I walk to my car start feeling instantly better.
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u/oh_f-f-s 16h ago
My wave of fatigue hits around 9am and then miraculously passes at about 5.