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Title: It's almost a new decade, how did this decade treat you?
Post by: Himu on June 05, 2019, 03:37:41 PM: Personally it was the worst decade of my life. Bad work situations, recovering from the recession. It sucked ass.
Title: Re: It's almost a new decade, how did this decade treat you?
Post by: BisMarckie on June 05, 2019, 03:40:22 PM: Honestly it was kind of a blur. 2009 feels like yesterday.
Title: Re: It's almost a new decade, how did this decade treat you?
Post by: Tasty on June 05, 2019, 03:43:16 PM: Basically went full circle, to the point I'm not sure I'm better off today than I was back then.

At least back then I had hope for change.
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Post by: paprikastaude on June 05, 2019, 03:44:25 PM: Quote from: BisMarckie on June 05, 2019, 03:40:22 PM
Honestly it was kind of a blur. 2009 feels like yesterday.

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:fbm :fbm

couldn't tell you what happened in 2013 compared to 2016.
Title: Re: It's almost a new decade, how did this decade treat you?
Post by: Tasty on June 05, 2019, 03:44:28 PM: Nintendo basically went full circle too, come to think of it. :delicious
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Post by: Himu on June 05, 2019, 03:45:31 PM: Basically fuck the 2010's and it's only going to get even worse.
Title: Re: It's almost a new decade, how did this decade treat you?
Post by: Tasty on June 05, 2019, 03:50:11 PM: Ehh I think things will be fine unless something big internationally happens.

Then we're all kinda fucked.

If that doesn't happen, climate change will take a few decades to really get into gear anyways.

Just gotta coast until the inevitable washes over humanity. 8)
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Post by: Great Rumbler on June 05, 2019, 04:02:49 PM: I'd give it, like...7 out of 10. Not as great as I was hoping, but not too bad overall.
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Post by: Don Rumata on June 05, 2019, 04:04:21 PM: Quote from: BisMarckie on June 05, 2019, 03:40:22 PM
Honestly it was kind of a blur. 2009 feels like yesterday.
Accurate, a dark blur at that.
All i remember is that the internet became insufferable shit this past decade.
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Post by: Rufus on June 05, 2019, 04:04:47 PM: I'm older, but still just treading water.

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Post by: TVC15 on June 05, 2019, 04:11:20 PM: I wish I was dead all the time and it’s only going to get worse.
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Post by: Mr Gilhaney on June 05, 2019, 04:15:17 PM: Terribly.
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Post by: BisMarckie on June 05, 2019, 04:19:25 PM: Quote from: Esch on June 05, 2019, 04:17:19 PM
except all the fascism

Yeah the mods on the Bire have really ruled with an iron fist lately.
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Post by: BisMarckie on June 05, 2019, 04:27:00 PM: Don't ban or leper anyone!

The Bire: the flea market of ideas. :rejoice
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Post by: BisMarckie on June 05, 2019, 04:54:48 PM: routios blessing up this thread :tocry
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Post by: Atramental on June 05, 2019, 05:03:26 PM: 2009 me was a very broken and miserable human being. I wanted to not exist for most of my early 20s.
2019 me is full of immense love and hope. I am becoming more of my true self with each passing day.

The years between 2009 and 2019 were full of misery and pain but I came out the other side in mostly one piece.
Title: Re: It's almost a new decade, how did this decade treat you?
Post by: bork on June 05, 2019, 05:05:17 PM: Quote from: Cindi Mayweather on June 05, 2019, 03:37:41 PM
Personally it was the worst decade of my life. Bad work situations, recovering from the recession. It sucked ass.

The first half of this decade was kinda bad for me, but things got a lot better in the latter half, particularly in the past three-ish years. We went from having very little money, living with my parents, no jobs, and an old beater car to having good jobs, a nice condo, two new cars, and an amazing dog. :heart

Dealing with crazy rent increases sucked and I was so happy that we were lucky enough to get some help in putting down payment on our place from our folks.

But dumb rent shit is nothing compared to the hell that was my previous job. It didn't start off that bad (although the pay absolutely sucked), but with ownership and management changing multiple times, it got worse and worse, to the point where I felt like I was working in an IT sweatshop. Nobody gave a shit about anything.

It got nuclear-level bad when I got promoted (this was definitely a place where you did NOT want to move up) and had to work with a horrible piece of shit, power-hungry, abusive bitch who verbally harassed and mentally-destroyed me until I was finally able to go to HR and get the hell away from fucking witch. She made the environment incredibly toxic, targeted people and got them fired, and "feuded" with other managers. I was told they had a complaint file from like 50 different people, and yet she was never demoted or fired. But karma did finally kick in when she attempted to go for a supervisor position- this was not open to anyone currently-employed and she went over our boss's head to get an interview with the higher-ups anyway. The boss had no idea about this. She got laughed out of the interview and then our boss found out and made her go take some certification tests she had always skipped because "it was too busy." This broke her and she gave up on the place.

And while that was great, working there at this point was still so shitty for me. The bitch was taken down, but now just being there was a bitch. I had a shitty work schedule and had to work Saturdays, which always was awful since nobody wanted to be there and people would frequently call out or just no-show and/or quit. I was the only manager there so all of this was my problem to deal with. It got worse when I was told they were switching people to 10 hour shifts (you'd get off three days a week, but I did NOT want to be there that long) and I was going to get saddled with an even worse schedule and would have to work the entire weekend, with the times being something like 2pm to 2am, I.E. I would never get to do much of anything with my wife. This stressed me out so much. I tried stepping down, but got yelled at. My boss was just as stressed as I was and I was pressured into staying as a lead. -_-

Then...hope. A buddy who had quit a year or so prior got me an interview where I am now. The first interview went great, but I fucked up the second one (three people sitting on all sides of me and bombarding me with questions = nerves shot to hell) and figured I was fucked for now and would have to work the awful schedule, planning to use the days off to pursue job leads.
:stahp

And then a miracle occurred!
:rejoice

They called me and offered me the job! Turns out I was #2 on their list of candidates and the #1 pick decided to stay where he was. Working where I am now is the polar opposite of the shithole I was at and it took a good year or so to get over the old place. People actually care here and I feel like a person instead of a number. Stress levels are way, way down. And it helps that the pay is a hell of a lot better. Been doing great even got a nice big raise recently. Things feel much better.

So, home stuff is good. Job is good. It's nice to be able to waste money on crap and do some traveling again. Now I just need to work on ME. My health declined a lot at the previous job (seriously, even the CHAIRS were so bad and busted up that I had back problems from them) and I have been working to get my ass recovered and get in better shape. Just recently started a new diet change last week and I already feel so much better. Gonna kick the next decade's ass and make it mine! :punch
Title: Re: It's almost a new decade, how did this decade treat you?
Post by: Nintex on June 05, 2019, 05:25:28 PM: 2009 - Crisis hits, lawl all your hopes and dreams are DEAD but you too busy partying and playin vidya to notice, bro leaves to co-found game studio on the other side of the country
2010 - OOPS we fucked up even more you guys so we kinda have to tell you now that your generation is fucked sorry
2011 - Help frens to finish their studies, find internship, dad nearly dies of heart attack, survives
2012 - We'd like to hire you, you may work fulltime for your internship salary FUCK THAT
2013 - New job at a place where lots of my study friends work as well, pretty cool, studio bro co-founded folds, returns home
2014 - Finish studies, promotion, time to make bank yo
2015 - Company splits up, mom falls into heavy depression with unknown cause - can't speak, eat or walk only way to communicate is via cat pictures on iPad
2016 - Company nearly bankrupt, mom attempts multiple suicides, mom gets cancer, learn about family history, back plan to abolish grandpa's grave
2017 - Mom cured from cancer, still depressed, attempts multiple suicides
2018 - Everything is just awful, should focus on work, car EOL got a new car
2019 - Nearly died in a highway crash, tooth breaks, mom finally gets proper care, get shares in company, finally making bank

My bro leaves for Canada next month, another new chapter in life.
Uncle with Parkinsons is getting real bad.

The last 10 years have been a rollercoaster with only a couple stable factors.
Take good care of your real friends and your mom :heart
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Post by: Akala on June 05, 2019, 05:26:38 PM: This decade still has plenty of time to totally fuck me, I ain't calling shit till next year.
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Post by: bork on June 05, 2019, 05:51:45 PM: Quote from: Nintex on June 05, 2019, 05:25:28 PM
2019 - Nearly died in a highway crash

Oh hey, yeah, this too. End of 2018 for me. And my parents a year (or two?) earlier. :'( :-\

People drive like shit here. I wish I could avoid the highway at all costs (and will do so when able) after that accident happened. The other day I went to go help my dad buy a table at Ikea and while driving there, in the middle of a good amount of weekend highway traffic, three morons in Mustangs decided to race each other and were weaving in and out of all the cars at 80+ MPH. No idea how they didn't wreck or cause any other wrecks. Maybe they did- we thankfully got off the highway shortly after this.
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Post by: Human Snorenado on June 05, 2019, 06:02:04 PM: 2010-13: no sex, shitty work and family situation
2014-19: occasional sex, shitty family situation got better because I cut it out of my life, lots of bullshit health issues, work got better then bad and now is laughably stupid and I need to find something else or go live in a highway underpass or something

The fascism and stupidity was ever present, remember the tea party launched in 2010, fuckery has been constant brehs
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Post by: Tasty on June 05, 2019, 07:02:26 PM: Wait, I actually started to learning piano this decade (a goal since 2006...)

2010s > 2000s
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Post by: Trent Dole on June 05, 2019, 07:49:23 PM: Hmm, fuck this decade.
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Post by: agrajag on June 05, 2019, 07:49:46 PM: the decade isn't over until 2021, no?
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Post by: Momo on June 06, 2019, 01:30:45 AM: I nearly died, my dad nearly died, but we both made it for now.
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Post by: benjipwns on June 06, 2019, 01:34:08 AM: tv's been alright tho

and games

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Post by: Raist on June 06, 2019, 02:36:22 AM: :yeshrug
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Post by: curly on June 06, 2019, 03:01:48 AM: still 6 months left to turn it around

:goty2
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Post by: benjipwns on June 06, 2019, 03:12:21 AM: Quote from: curly on June 06, 2019, 03:01:48 AM
still 6 months left to turn it around

:goty2
don't force your first world calendar on me social fascist
Title: Re: It's almost a new decade, how did this decade treat you?
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on June 06, 2019, 05:46:40 AM: I became an adult in the span of 10 years

2010 - living back home after last backpacking trip looking for a job

2019 - wife, kid (plus one on the way), house, cars, bills, responsibilities

My life is much more stable and happy now then back then.
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Post by: Rufus on June 06, 2019, 09:23:46 AM: Quote from: Dufus on June 06, 2019, 06:06:15 AM
I dunno... depression makes it hard to remember things. :doge
Also makes it so there's nothing worth remembering. :itagaki
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Post by: ToxicAdam on June 06, 2019, 02:47:11 PM: :snob I don't think in terms of decades, I think in terms of scores.
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Post by: CatsCatsCats on June 06, 2019, 04:04:04 PM: 2009 shit got bad 2019 shits so much better
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Post by: Brehvolution on June 06, 2019, 04:14:11 PM: It had it's ups and downs. Not happy about slowly turning into my dad, physically. At least I don't have his allergies or poor eye sight.
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Post by: toku on June 06, 2019, 05:16:49 PM: Time is an illusion and I refuse to engage with it on terms that do not benefit me.
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Post by: Kara on June 06, 2019, 05:27:14 PM: My first five-year plan ended in flames, the second one was more of a Karakand in One Country kind of thing that put me in a position to attempt the first five-year plan again. History repeats itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. :wag
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Post by: BisMarckie on June 06, 2019, 05:32:06 PM: Quote from: Kara on June 06, 2019, 05:27:14 PM
My first five-year plan ended in flames, the second one was more of a Karakand in One Country kind of thing that put me in a position to attempt the first five-year plan again. History repeats itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. :wag

Are you a Brechtian drama character? :thinking
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Post by: recursivelyenumerable on June 08, 2019, 12:51:15 PM: Too early to tell! Lots of changes and advances in my life but most of them feel incomplete and/or precarious right now, so I feel like how this decade went sort of depends retroactively on how well I handle the dangers and opportunities in the coming decade. Actually I'd say something similar about the world situation too. Ask how the 2010s went again in 2030 and 2040?
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Post by: Nabbis on June 09, 2019, 05:50:04 AM: Started out pretty shitty but i fulfilled all of the plans i had. Lost weight and got into a very good shape, got into uni even though it took a few tries and now now im finally working and making nice $$$. Future looks great so far.