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I have been fighting against a lifelong workaholic streak I’ve had. If you’ve ever struggled to relax during free time or feel best when you are putting my fires out, you may be shocked to learn that your brain may actually have developed a physical addiction to the adrenaline of being forced to perform. My therapist mentioned this might happen and I certainly have felt it. You can make it through the withdrawals! This is a great piece on it :
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I have joined Ofss 1 week back and on second day itself I was allocated to project and onboarding WIP I received mail stating to report back to office 3 days per week under hybrid work model policy.Is this compulsory my base location is 2600 km from my current location as I am joining the citi project its seems difficult for me to grasp things though I have only 1 yr of prior exp by I think my team is expecting a lot so moving to new city and learning at same time is not possible .
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This is so sad to read. Your family will resent you for this one day, and it will consume you.
My father is a “prepper”. He spent his life savings stocking the basement with this shit. Guns, gold, canned food, dehydrated meals, etc.
March 2020 he locked himself in their with my mom convinced the end of time was here. She left him after 6 weeks because he wouldn’t let her leave to even go back into the house. She had enough of it. They had no retirements savings, no equity in the house because of refinancing it so many times, and no friends because of how much of a conspiracy theorist he became.
It was 5 more months until my dad came out. He missed the birth of his first grandson hiding down there scared of the world. He ate all his food reserves, and had to come out. He now lives alone in the house, and none of us talk to him anymore. He started out just like you, “preparing for the worst” and it just consumed his entire life until there was nothing left.
So I really hope you don’t go down this path OP. The world is not as dark and grim as you think. There may be environmental challenges one day, but I promise you it won’t be you who suffers. It will be the less fortunate, people who don’t have resources to make life live able. But you’ll kill yourself convincing yourself that you are one of them.
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And as I said, it was more than the money he lost.
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I would recommend you throw away your TV and stay away from all newsmedia. They hook people with fear. Just go outside and talk to your neighbors. It is going to be okay.
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Agree MD1, “consider the source” should be our mantra. The AP and Reuters are at the top two with the most integrity in the media bias chart. (I would go so far as questioning who wrote this chart to see what their biases may be.) Most of the other channels are basically garbage entertainment. Twitter feeds from shadow characters who don’t even have the courage to use their real name are less than garbage, for example. Yes, scrutinize everything and try and find out what the motivations are behind stories and channels before giving them any credence whatsoever. Or better yet, don’t waste your time, turn off the news and go live your life.
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Pick any period in the US history you think may have been “better”. Slavery? When tuberculosis was a big problem? World wars? Great Depression? My point being, this may be as good as it has ever been.
They have been predicting doom and gloom since the dawn of time. Unless we get his by an asteroid change happens gradually and we adapt
Or you can give your self endless anxiety over things you can’t control and develop a benzo habit
The part that “preppers” never understand is that you actually need a “community”, not isolation, to survive any apocalypse. Who is likely to survive, a marauding gang or your lone-wolf-I-am-legend-LARPing self? The whole prepping culture is incredibly stupid.
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Stop watching the Walking Dead... and the News..
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I’m 24, live in South Eastern, PA. You trying to link up, pepper’s live longer in groups? But in all seriousness. Only purchase a high quality rifle and pistol, keep them pristine and only stockpile ammo for those calibers. Regarding food, diversify, cans last over 25 years, you can buy Mylar bags to store flour and corn meal for about 20 years as well. Protein is king, any kind. Buy a 55 gallon drum and fill it with water, those are great. Silver and gold coins are prepper currency, I don’t take dollars. Learn to grow food and care for animals, buy lots of books like the “how to” also buy lots of tools, and random things like contraceptive, you don’t wanna chick 6 months pregnant when marauders come to kill you.
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I just like to be self reliant, and no, this isn’t fallout
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I disagree that this is a rational response and I was writing and rewriting a post to try and express that delicately, but I can't. So I'll just say be sure this is the lifestyle you want to live.
Blame Biden and all his voters. With Trump, we had world peace, and not many crises, if you exclude Trumps twitter wars.
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We have a fair amount of items stockpiled, but it's not so much thinking doomsday is coming - more like, let's have enough to live for at least 2/3 weeks if there are major power outages, a natural disaster, etc. and we can't live like normal. Don't let fear consume you.
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Im with you OP. The skills idea makes sense. Learn to fish, not store fish in basement. Makes sense. If all else, it would be a really productive collection of hobbies and skills you’ll develop as you get ready. It’s still things we should know today but don’t need to thanks to the times
SD1 has the only right answer.
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Sounds like you’ll just get robbed on day 1 of the apocalypse 😂
Alright I’m gonna needa build a bunker, oh sh*t that’s what D2 mentioned
Doomsday Preppers is a show you must watch!
Yeah I’ve seen clips of it
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I’ve started thinking about this as well. I bought a gun so I’m getting there lol. And ya it’s about having water, so you need to be close to fresh body of water of have a really deep well. And then ideally want to live in a place that’s close enough to wilderness for deer/bear hunting or whatever. I live in florida so I have the ocean but I’m worried with how many people will want to be in this state if the Midwest continues to dry up
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Ya duh. I’m referring to being close to ocean for food, and for water we have the aquifer under us so I just need a deep well.
Just do your best to stay on the sweet side of the bell curve and you will be fine in most things
have some provisions and protection but limit it to a week or like a storm prep. as for guns, yes. i live in a major us city that had riots in 2020 and none of my neighbors had firearms, so some stayed with us as people were shattering their windows, looting and breaking into homes and businesses so yes get guns and store and use responsibly.
but you were too busy writing white papers and distributing opioids - mckinsey - more irrelevant every day
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During the pandemic I moved to a more rural area. I have water and electric in my area but it’s septic and I have propane (for context). That alone gives me more peace of mind being away from people, if anything like that happens.
I just wanted space and I like to hike and whatnot but just living here forces me to be more prepared. I have a backup generator, gasoline, radio, antenna, etc. Earthquakes are a risk, so I have a month+ worth of water, food, batteries, solar chargers, etc.
As for guns, I hunt and do trap/skeet so I have rifles and shotguns. If you really want to have “bug out” weapons, given how common they are, I’d suggest 9mm and go with Glock pistol and some kind of Glock magazine fed AR-9.