I was gonna say, if your other options are poverty / prison, this isn't actually a bad deal practically speaking. Not gonna get into the ethics of military service other than to say blaming individuals for trying to escape poverty isn't the answer. When I teach about chronic institutionalization in a psychiatric context, the military is one of the susceptible demographics alongside prison and long term hospitalization.

It's minimum wage but it's like. The whole minimum wage income. Hundreds of millions of people use that $2k check to (barely) pay for food, a home, a car, and everything else they need to probably not die tomorrow. Because of the way wealth is distributed, more people do that than don't do that. So it's both a small, yet in proper perspective a HUGE amount of money to send monthly.

The fact that he can afford to pay another person a wholeass minimum wage paycheck is INSANE. Like you're his wholeass employee. I make twice that and had to make my stay at home house-husband who shares a kitchen and bathroom with me get a part time job to afford $300 of weed money a month.

TLDR; it's minimum wage, but the fact that your boyfriend is paying you A Wage is insane.

Like when I'm not medicated I miss shit. Shit I would never miss medicated. Like the patient will tell me they've got the shits and I immediately remember seeing senna + docusate in their night meds or they say their head hurts and I remember their hypertension history. And when I'm pulling meds I'm locked in and it's nbd to to turn and (professionally) tell the patient to stfu then get back to business vs when I'm not medicated they can yoink my attention all tf over the place just because they don't know any damn better and I'm just like "wait what? OK sorry um-" and then I dumped a metoprolol in the cup and didn't see their HR 58, BP 88/55 and now I've let my idiot patient kill themselves because they urgently wanted to tell me about Tylenol causing autism.

This is the diagram I use to educate new psych workers:

Even had a patient ask why she spent a whole day crying a few weeks after starting ECT when she'd thought she was doing better. I was like girl ☝️, you ain't just gettin' the fun shit back and she was like ooooooh.

ALSO. This is why people kill themselves right after starting antidepressants. Sometimes that lack of will or planning ability (aka executive functioning) actually keeps the person from making a proper plan to kill themselves and sometimes the executive function comes back before the will to live.

...or someone with IBS.....

If you wring them out real good they're basically just sweaty level of moist anyway.

I've been thinking about sleeping in running weights.

I grade the nursing assistants on a simple three point triangle similar to the body composition slider in the newer elder scrolls games but instead of skinny fat muscular, the corners are nice, hardworking, and intelligent (specifically situational awareness). You need to be AT LEAST one. My favorites have at least two. I can count on one hand the techs / assistants I've met in the last three decades who have had either all or none of the above.

Putting KDE over mint broke my Bluetooth please advise.

eta: if transfemmes are tech nerds what are transmascs?

I keep telling people of all cisness / transness that there are a LOT of cis women that don't pass. In healthcare you see a LOT of people in various states of dress and grooming and sometimes I remind my coworkers that they wouldn't look a whole lotta femme without their wig and makeup either!

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Get as much support out of them as you can stomach. Try to at least graduate a trade school if you can (some trades will let you get started in high school and be halfway done or even graduate with your qualifications). Say and do whatever you have to (within reason) to use your shitty family to get to a point where you can reliably pay your own rent and other bills needed for daily life. Then move to a new address and change your number and don't tell them the new ones. Un-add and block them on all social media, email, etc. Pick somebody you actually like and trust to make your emergency healthcare decision maker and beneficiary on any life insurance policies or bank accounts (just don't pick a romantic partner, you're too young to know who is and isn't an idiot in that context). Then go to therapy and stop talking to people that are mean to you.

I was gonna say, those beans aren't horny, they're being molested.