Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff
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I couldn't decide if though should go in RL Anger, but..
Work just dumped thousands of cases on me to review - for a department that is not one I work in, and I have not been cross trained to work in. This after I got more of my usual cases despite the tech issues with the software they insist I use (I couldn't log in at all to use it) because other people are 'doing other things'.
This is not my job, and I'm struggling with the tech crap as it is. I'm already depressed, and this is just pushing me to literal tears. I'm just so tired.
I have been pushed to interviewing for other jobs - I have an interview tomorrow for a job I would love, it pays more, it's more in line with things I'm interested in. If any of y'all have a thought to spare me tomorrow, please do. I'm desperate.
I've been seeing a therapist, but.. I have to find a nice way to tell him this isn't working for me. He's a very nice guy. But he's not... he's not helping me? Sure, he's sending me to get ADHD meds, which is huge, but... he just tells me 'it'll get better' when I'm telling him how depressed I am. There's no real feedback, no getting into underlying crap, which is what I need.
Sorry. Rambled.
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@macha Sending warm thoughts for your interview tomorrow. Depression is insidious and scary, and hopefully better things are in your future.
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@macha said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
I have been pushed to interviewing for other jobs - I have an interview tomorrow for a job I would love, it pays more, it's more in line with things I'm interested in. If any of y'all have a thought to spare me tomorrow, please do. I'm desperate.
I'd give 'em tree-fiddy if they'd hire you.
Seriously, though, fuck your current place of work, and I hope you get this one.
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Wish these little waves of moving-related stress would go away. Like, Ikea being out of the desk I wanted to buy should not cause a toddler-esque meltdown in my brain, but it does.
...Probably because my desk currently looks like this.
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Your current desk comes complete with Doggo and is therefore the best desk.
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I read a really interesting series of articles recently that posited (with graphs!) that there may be a chemical component to obesity that is down to industrial processing introducing additional chemicals to our foodstuffs (one of the suggestions is lithium from lithium grease for example).
My problem is that I don't know enough about the science to figure out whether or not the argument is actually any good, or if it's one of those 'this all totally seems logical when you read it but if you do any follow up work around it the whole thing will fall apart' things. The series starts here, for anyone who's interested, but YMMV and it may be total garbage: https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2021/07/07/a-chemical-hunger-part-i-mysteries/
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@ifrit said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
I read a really interesting series of articles recently that posited (with graphs!) that there may be a chemical component to obesity that is down to industrial processing introducing additional chemicals to our foodstuffs (one of the suggestions is lithium from lithium grease for example).
I believe that the current leading theory goes like this:
The 'sedentary lifestyle' theory of obesity has been somewhat discredited just based on observable history: in the 1930's we started transitioning from farm work to office work, and beef, beer, and other high-calorie foods became readily available as industry kept taking off and prices kept falling as production and distribution tech got better and better. And yet, from the actuarial tables that insurance companies kept, there was no obesity epidemic despite rather sedentary lifestyles with lots of fat and alcohol.
But around the 50's and 60's, we start getting into heavily processed foods: starches and carbs that are very easy and quick to digest that our biological processes are just not meant to handle effectively. And so our systems freak the hell out, and by the 70's we're seeing an incredible rise in obesity despite activity and caloric consumption just based on the prevalence of these kinds of cheap, fast, ultra-processed foods.
And then we blame fat, naturally, because fat clearly makes you fat for reasons, it has a lot of calories, whatever. So we strip out fat and start adding processed sugars to absolutely everything, which doesn't actually help and really just makes it worse as the set points (the 'baseline' weight of our bodies, the one that it works to actively maintain) just skyrockets higher and higher and higher because the biological processes that regulate your metabolism in proportion to your caloric intake has no idea how to handle this crap that you're eating.
Here's the hat trick, though -- if you stop eating those kinds of foods, your body goes into an entirely different kind of starvation freakout and starts packing on as much fat as possible because your fucked up internal processes assume that you are dying and in a famine, so the more you try to eat 'regular' foods and move and work out the more your body thinks that you're in a desert death march and works against you.
Interestingly, this is one of the reasons that bariatric surgery has such a high efficacy rate: It does actually reset this system, whereas dietary regulation doesn't. It removes both producers and receptors of a buttload of hormones and biochemical regulators and forces your anatomy to start over from scratch.
Naturally, more research needs to be done to verify these results and whatnot. But from what we understand, right now, of the biochemical processes, it's the food supply itself that is causing it, not consumption or activity, combined with just genetic predisposition toward large or small bodies.
Racism isn't Tinkerbell. It doesn't need you to believe in it for it to exist.
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@ifrit said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
I read a really interesting series of articles recently that posited (with graphs!) that there may be a chemical component to obesity that is down to industrial processing introducing additional chemicals to our foodstuffs (one of the suggestions is lithium from lithium grease for example).
Chemical and genetic.
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@derp said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
But from what we understand, right now, of the biochemical processes, it's the food supply itself that is causing it, not consumption or activity, combined with just genetic predisposition toward large or small bodies.
The food supply, yes. But it's not really the food supply per se, it's the available food supply. And by that, I mean that lettuce is more expensive than mac and cheese. The lettuce with actual nutrients in it, that is. Not the iceberg shit. Broccoli? More expensive than chicken or pork. Eating healthy is damned expensive.
So yes, the food supply but the underlying problem is income inequality. It's just more affordable to eat crap that will pack on the pounds.
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Where are you? Broccoli is definitely cheaper than chicken or pork here in the Midwest.
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
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@ganymede Maybe its more expensive per calorie? That was my first thought.
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@ganymede NYC area.
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That ought to do it.
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@ganymede
Double post since the first was a while ago and I only now went to check. So, checked online at the market I shop at. Everything priced is the store brand. Since frozen is generally cheaper than fresh, that's what I looked at.1 pound bag of broccoli florets is 2.09. 1 pound of chopped broccoli (basically the stalks chopped into dime sized pieces) is 1.19, so that at least is cheaper. 1 pound bag of mixed peas and carrots is also 2.09.
Chicken is 1.79 a pound. I almost never see pork any more lower than 1.99 per pound. Cheapest beef is 3.99/lb which is fortunate since I really like steak but it's the least healthy option.
Meanwhile, a 1 pound box of pasta is 88 cents. It's on sale. Normally it's 99 cents.
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yeah, they've been doing tons of studies on stuff like that since -- at least I was in high school. In 2020, in order to eat what would be generally considered 'healthy' foods, it will cost you literally ten times as much calorie-for-calorie, and that gap just keeps widening.
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@tnp said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
1 pound bag of broccoli florets is 2.09. 1 pound of chopped broccoli (basically the stalks chopped into dime sized pieces) is 1.19, so that at least is cheaper. 1 pound bag of mixed peas and carrots is also 2.09.
Chicken is 1.79 a pound. I almost never see pork any more lower than 1.99 per pound. Cheapest beef is 3.99/lb which is fortunate since I really like steak but it's the least healthy option.
Around here, you can get broccoli for $0.99 to $1.49 for a full head with stem. Chicken hasn't dropped below $1.99 per pound since the pandemic started.
All of that is weird to me because Ohio is the 3rd state in production of chicken.
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Soooo my interview today never called. That's the second phone interview this week that didn't happen like scheduled.
I really wanted that job. I tried to call the number she called me from, but it was a general switchboard number. No dice.
Now I just want to cry in a blanket wrapped corner, but no... work has to dump still MORE cases on me, without so much as a heads up, because someone else's team can't handle their shit.
It's one thing to need help. It's another thing to FUCK UP MY GODDAMN SPREADSHEET WITHOUT A FOREWARNING.
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Not having enough people is really starting to wear on us, and it's just getting worse.
At what point can we just not... function any more?
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@silverfox For the first time in the almost 10 years my boss' boss has been here, they're offering overtime to review all those stupid effing cases. That's how shorthanded they are.
Assholes need to pay better.
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@macha said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
Assholes need to pay better.
This is pretty much universally true no matter what field you work in.
