The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:
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Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.
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Updates to let us know how you are doing. This provides valuable feedback on past advice / encouragement and will hopefully make people feel a little more motivated to follow through. If you want to be reminded to post your update, see the post titled 'update reminders', below.
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Advice. This can be in response to a request for advice or just something that you think could be generally useful for many people here.
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Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).
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Enjoying your job is a luxury, and one taken for granted all too often. As far as I'm concerned, all I can really demand of a job is that it compensates me for the time spent doing it, at a rate I don't regret.
It's not that people can't enjoy their work. Quite a few do, and get to work on things they'd be doing as a hobby while getting paid for it. But that's too rare to be considered something to be counted on. The majority of people don't enjoy time spent working, but they don't detest it more than the dollars it brings in.
My job is something that I am mildly pleased to be doing, and occasionally rewarding when it's not bureaucratic makework and drudgery. It's still a job, I don't go into work skipping with a smile on my face, I go do it because it pays better than the alternatives. If you've genuinely exhausted your options when it comes to doing work you enjoy, then at that point you have to make peace with not having fun while at least being paid.
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