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Changed my name from what some family's abusive mother gave me, got a job at Amazon, on my way to move out and never see that family again. ✂️👔

I was just about to leave, put my shoes on, and that’s when I remembered that I needed to take out the trash. The good thing is, I remembered that before tying the laces.

Seems like I usually remember everything once the laces have been tied, but this time was different.

Also, setting a pretty low bar for good things, so that anyone can join the conversation. 😀

I just quit my soul-sucking job yesterday. I'm ecstatic to not have to go and sit in that office again.

My parents, in their 70s, started receiving a guaranteed income supplement (they're Canadian). They're still poor, but finally they can afford the basics of survival without having to work full time.

It's such a huge change.

My wife is preggo and the baby looks healthy

We switched my son's Pre-K for a number of reasons. Mostly because they didn't have room for him in the older class (where he belongs), but also because it was kinda trashy, kinda franchisee, and every day we dropped him off he was crying and clinging harder and harder. The new school is just some lady running something out of her house.

A friend asked him what he's thankful for last night and he said, "My new school" 😭😭

I'm finally starting to get my sense of smelling back AND went to see alpacas.

my kid slept the whole night last night. first time. I didn't even know what to do when I woke up and no one was crying.

I’m sort of dating someone.

2ish weeks ago my parents met another couple at a cocktail party and found out they had a single daughter about my age. In an extremely unsubtle attempt to set us up our families did an escape room together. Honestly, sex and dating have never been important to me. My longest relationship was a couple months long in high school, I went on maybe 3 or 4 dates in college. I went to this escape room thinking I’d make pleasantries for an hour, solve some puzzles and go home. But when I met her she was cute, and smart, and funny, and after we escaped she asked if I wanted to go with her to something else she was doing that day. We ended up spending the whole day together. And again the next weekend. I haven’t “officially” asked her out, or kissed her, or really acknowledged anything about what this is. But I have had so much fun with this badass trapeze-flying, skydiving, engineering, competitive dancing, just-so-cool woman that I can’t stop thinking about when I’ll see her next.

I've been focusing hard on my job, and received feedback from a C Suite Exec this week that he is impressed with my professionalism and interpersonal abilities, especially when meeting with other execs or company lawyers. He even has started coming directly to me because, quote, "Shit gets done when you're involved." This is huge to me because I'm impossibly awkward in social circles and mostly a shut-in neckbeard, but somehow it works for me at my job.

I also received recognition in the form of a beautiful glass plaque from the CEO this year, and it feels amazing.

I crawled my way up from homelessness to stability and now I'm rocking it at my job. Feels good man.

I know it's a bit taboo and perhaps unwise to put so much emphasis on your job, but it's what brings me happiness because I've struggled and fought to get to where I am now. My success has afforded me a comfortable upper-middle-class life and I'm still kind of shocked that it all came to fruition. Went from sleeping under the underpass to a penthouse condo in less than two decades.

I started a new job I really like, and got offered a promotion at the old job.

Hard to be mad in the moment when my 9 month old smiles, makes me forget about the mess for a while

I am traveling through Greece with my girlfriend. After a nice (and exhausting) hiking route we are back in the hotel – one of the best rooms I have ever been to. She is having a shower and I am chilling over the bed. At this very moment everything feels great.

I slept all day yesterday and slept in this morning as well and my skin looks beautiful

I went to the zoo today! Didn't get very good quality pics, but putting them here anyway.

Just got head!

Didn't happen in my life, but in the life of a family member and that makes me very happy as well. My sister got a permanent job at a place she did an internship in last year. It's a job in her career, half the number of hours she is currently doing working at a spa, making more money, and it's a 90% remote role. She gets to be with her 8yo son, my nephew, almost all the time he is at home now. It also means my brother in law can take more hours at his job, thus overall getting to live more comfortably.

The company that lost my $3500 computer a month ago finally sent off a free replacement and it'll be here next week! Normally, they replace it with a refurbished one but since they don't have any, I'm getting a new one.

I got chicken tendies.

My employer offered me a modest severance package, and set my last day to be the first working day of the month, meaning my health care benefits are valid for almost a full month after my last day.

Tell me you're American without telling me you're American

Apart from my mortgage, I'm finally debt free, and I'm running a surplus every month after all the bills are paid.

Well, except what we jokingly refer to as my "cripling gambling-induced credit card debt"; I returned some bottles while at the store the other day. The payout wasn't a lot, but enough to cover the mundane items I was buying. Instead of dealing with the bottle return receipt I pushed that button where it buys you a small lottery ticket instead and the money is donated to red cross. Not surprisingly, I didn't win. When at the checkout counter I realized that my GF still had my usual card after borrowing it earlier, so I had to use my credit card to pay the laughably small sum.

A "good" thing from a bad thing: my 6 year old computer monitor decided to croak today. As it's currently black friday deals, I managed to order a new one fairly cheap-o.

I got stoned in VRChat for the first time, not too long after getting my first VR headset. As a furry who's very interested in screwing with my sense of self, this was a really big deal to me in a way I can't easily explain.

my game did pretty well on a gamejam

bought house 😱😱😱 ikr wtf

Someone replied to this message, proving that the world hasn't yet ended!

I left a company after getting laid off and surprisingly found a job before the 60-day warn notice expired.

Second day, the new company announced layoffs. Luckily, I wasn't part of it, but that has been a wild ride.

I took all my meds on time, and so did my dog.

Oh! I also baked a pizza and it was really tasty. Pup didn't get pizza, but did get oven-dried fish skins and he's really happy about that.

Gave a girl anal for the 1st time today

I started my own business where I get to take advantage of landlords 🥲 it's pretty much my dream

Went to visit my elderly aunt, she's the oldest one in our immediate family at this point. We went out to eat at a local pizza place too, Don't think I've ever been to a restaurant with her before

My partner and I both woke up early and are getting breakfast together

Feel free to throw out any level of flex you want.

I just wrapped up a delightful trip with my bride of 20 something years and got a job offer for a different position in my company during the trip.

It was a practically perfect trip, but I'm also very excited to go home because I have 4 more days of vacation left and I can't wait go be reunited with my cats, and relax around the house for a few days.

The other day I made butter chicken and it was one of the best butter chickens I'd had, at least as good as restaurant quality. Can't wait to make it again and it was my 2nd try ever so I think I nailed it pretty quick. Wicked proud of that.

I ordered more edibles for tomorrow which means I have an extra one for today and I won't run out like I thought I would.

We finally have new windows and sliding glass door on our fixer-upper.

My mom sent me a Weckmann for the St Martins feast because we don't have those here.

It's fat and ugly and missing an eye (ugh, raisins, don't like them anyways) and I love it!

If you ever want good news these are some good places to start:

• https://www.goodgoodgood.co/
• https://www.positive.news/
• https://fixthenews.com/
• https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/

Stay positive, friend!

I got a job after an 11 month job search. I only had 2 interviews in that whole time.

End of life hardware replacement at work. Deadline for the project is in a few weeks. Our engineering team just sent out a new BIOS upgrade for devices that get them up to TPM 2.0 which is the main requirement for the project. We went from ~5 completions a week to under one now to stay on track. Wasn't really too worried about it but it will make work a piece of cake for a little.