High school graduation gift ideas for son

My husband and I met online ten years ago and did long-distance between visits until I could move in with him, though I'm pretty sure he may have groomed me (I was 16 and he was 21 when we started talking) but I'm not sure, I'm still working through alot of stuff tbh.
The months leading up to our wedding was when he became emotionally and psychologically abusive, he'd always had a bit of a short temper but now he was quick to deliberately say hurtful things when he got mad. He would throw and break things in front of me when his temper flared, and make threats to hurt me if I didn't stop pissing him off. Sometimes he'd scream insults at me so loudly my ears would ring and I could feel the bass of his voice in my chest from across the room.
He wouldn't give me space during arguments when I asked for it either, he'd follow me from room to room insisting we had to settle things right away; he'd claim I never cared about him if I didn't respond to him, and he'd swear to lock me outside overnight if I tried to go for a walk to calm down. He'd push me until I exploded and then scream at me for being such an abusive bitch. At least twice our neighbours called for wellness checks on me, he would apologise to the officers and we'd pretend that we had no idea our little argument had gotten so out of hand, but as soon as the door closed again it was always my fault; he wouldn't have behaved that way if I had just used my brain and not made him so angry. Its so twisted, the way I provoke him and then play the victim.
Three years of this and too many breakdowns later, I told my family everything I had been hiding from them out of shame and they got me out of there. I'm back home now, preparing to file for divorce but I can't stop feeling so dumb for how much time I wasted on him- and ohmygod, the moneeyy 😩 so much money on visas, travelling, care packages, post cards, letting him spend entire paychecks of mine on weed & video games to make him happy!! All for what?
I know I'm only 26 and I thanlfully got out while still very young, but I'm so angry I wasted a decade of my time being a bangmaid to someones crusty, deadbeat son! All the life opportunities I turned down to sit on skype with him so he wouldn't feel rejected and get depressed; I didn't go to college after graduation, rarely saw my friends and never stayed out late to hang out with them, I haven't even learned to drive!! Talk about setting yourself on fire to keep someone warm 🤦‍♀️
It also haunts me how many red flags I brushed off before we were married that are perfectly neon now! 🤦‍♀️ The way he treats his mom on a bad day, how "all" of his exes were "crazy", the way he fiended over weed like a junkie, how he treated his cats when he was angry, the fact that his 'friends' never reached out despite living in the same area... it goes on. I can't believe the things I used to make excuses for just because I was infatuated with him, I'm so embarassed.
Short or long distance, man or woman, it doesn't matter; always be suspicious of older people trying to persue you- ask yourself whats 'wrong' with them that makes no one their own age interested, and why would they want someone with less life experience and maturity.
And always have a way to get yourself out of there if things ever go badly; be it a rainy day fund, a go bag in the trunk of your car, or having an emergency contact you can rely on to get to you in a pinch. Anyone who gets upset over you trying to protect yourself has something to gain from you being unprotected. A safe person who loves you would feel confident you'd never need to use your escape plan, but glad you had it anyway.
Thanks if you read this far 🌷

I am a new graduate in California who recently completing my schools preceptorship in DOU (1:3 high acuity patients). I learned so much and my preceptor gave good feedback, however I felt like I was fighting for my life every day and scared of not knowing what to do when my patients coded, or felt scared of titrating medications and all of that. I work as a tech at my job and right now I have the choice to apply to either DOU or med surg for the residency. All of my peers and colleagues thinking I’m being hard on myself however my gut is telling me that for my and my patients benefit, that I could start work in med surg and move to higher acuity once I’m more comfortable. Everyone complains about med surg but my hospitals med surg unit is not too bad and I feel that it would be a good place to get my bearings. Am I making a decision that I will regret?

I have a talent for drawing and art. I’m not trying to brag or anything like that at all, it’s just what people have told me throughout my life. I’m a junior in college and a computer science major, and my boyfriend has been REALLY pressuring me to get back into drawing.
For context, I haven’t really done anything with art since high school. I have tons of art supplies, well over hundreds of dollars worth, that I just… haven’t opened. Some stuff hasn’t been opened for years at this point, just completely untouched. My boyfriend has been urging me to use them. He really think with my computer science major and my art hobby I could do something really cool. I’m learning Japanese and he said that it would be awesome if I tried to learn from mangakas and incorporated it into my senior thesis.
I feel awful, because he’s tried so many different ways. He’s even gone out of his way, as a geoscience major, to talk to people about manga art and has taken time out of his day to research programs I could try or streamers to watch.
he’s genuinely such a sweet person and someone i need in my life, but i feel awful because as much as I want to just do it, I can’t. It’s stupid, because I know it’ll make me happy and he wants me to be happy and have things to be proud of even if he or my friends aren’t present- but I just can’t get myself to do it. I nap when I could be doing something enjoyable, and it’s the biggest detriment to me. Not just with my hobbies too, but with my classes and other things.
I think my overthinking is a big reason for why I can’t just go for it. I have severe OCD and anxiety and it feels like every time my boyfriend suggests it or gives ideas, I think of 5 reasons why I shouldn’t. Things like “oh there’s no point because other people are better” or “look at this person who’s x years younger than me and they’re already so good” or “it’s stupid to think i could ever do anything to that great of a level.” I know it’s irrational and I just need to go for it, but it feels so daunting. i don’t know how to actually sit down and do it.

tldr: I ran The Portal for some friends, and we all had a good time. I'd call it successful because we had three characters out of 16 survive, one for each person playing, but they didn't get through everything. Could I have motivated better problem solving and a thirst for more exploration?
Background: Last year I fell in love with DCC after reading about it here and elsewhere. I bought a couple bundles and I convinced my friends to let me run it for an impromptu in-person session about a month ago, (We're all in our 40s and in other games so finding time to play is always going to be tricky.) We were all hanging out with them visiting for the weekend, and the DCC rulebook caught my friends eye. Since I had wanted to judge it, I suggested we try it out on their final night in town, and printed out five 0-level four member character sheets from Purple Sorcerer. There were three players, so my plan was to control two(!) of the 0 level sheets as 8 NPCs.
Session 0: This was done right before the first session, so maybe it doesn't count. I did go over how this game wasn't 5e, being less heroic, more deadly, and that the funnel was a way to play the game during the character creation process,
Spoilers follow for The Portal Under the Stars
Session 1: I had them each have a character named Roberts, with "Oldman Roberts" being their weird uncle, telling them about the Empty Star, the portal, and the riches that presumably lied within. They stopped at the town's single pub, gathered the crew, and headed for the portal. Once there, they spent impatiently picked the lock with a "lucky" roll, frying a promising character and setting the tone.
Three more got killed by the spear throwers, including an NPC with 18 intelligence, my bad. Finally, the falconer of the group sent her hawk through, trigging the last spear with no damage. So far I felt okay about how things were going, as they were starting to think laterally. However, nobody picked up the spears or armor until I had some of my NPCs do it.
The large statue room proved to be equally as deadly. The most intrepid of the party were spared, as they were standing under the giant statue, investigating it, when the first PC decided to leave the room, getting instantly BBQed. Another party member sent in her dog, which got fried, but then she got killed after she collapsed in grief beside it. A couple characters dashed through while the statue burned the others, and one genius player did think to pry off the entrance door and use it as a shield, but still four characters and the dog lied burned on the floor by the time the statue ran out of charges. I felt a little bad, since the death toll was already at eight with the judge's dice coming up badly for the PCs nearly every time. Now that I write this, it also seems that I gave the statue six charges instead of five. Oops.
The characters that had gone through the eastern door noped out of there when they saw the bone piles, and we ended up with three PCs following an NPC through the north door. Here's where I made another mistake. Since it had been some time since I had sent the NPC north, I decided that he had picked a fight with the crystal men and been killed. The PCs came in to see the crystal men all standing around the dead NPC and his torch. They took the wrong lesson that a fight was inevitable and immediately attacked. Amazingly, one PC felled two crystal men on his own, but the other two were brought down. With four crystal men still closing in on the last PC in the room we called it a night.
Session 2: About a month later we were able to meet virtually to finish things off, with me gifting the four remaining surviving NPCs to the players. Since I realized that I hadn't emphasized the importance of using luck, I retconned the last room, allowing one PC with a high luck score another chance to trip one of the crystal men with his staff. He succeeded this time with a modest luck burn. The players had figured out the light attraction by then, but refused to metagame, and the selfish PC who figured things out, Stealin' Roberts, refused to tell the others. I suppose this was consistent with his chaotic alignment, so one crystal man did follow them into the Strategy room, falling down the stairs. Three of the PCs finished off the stalker, found the silver figurine treasure, and things were finally looking up for the treasure hunters.
At last, they had made their way into the clay army room. The trailblazing PC wisely turned tail upon seeing the advancing army, going back to smash all of the clay figurines in the strategy room. Not bad thinking, but nope, the warlord wasn't dumb enough to set up a weakness like that. This showed the party how slow the clay soldiers were, as he had plenty of time to do it, but two of them still decided to test the statues' metal. They were quickly skewered by the surprisingly sharp clay spears. The remaining PC in the room ran away and hid in the Gazing Pool room for a few rounds, cowering in terror behind a column.
Meanwhile, one PC made his way through the hallway west of the Monument Hall, cautiously opening the door to the Scrying chamber. SSisssuraaaggg didn't care how cautious he was, the PC lost initiative, and died in one bite. So much for that room.
Three other PCs made their way into the Cheiftains' Burial room, and made short work of the seven skulls with only five points of luck burned. Still, one skull did manage to kill a PC in a single calf chomp. The PC in the Gazing Pool room grew tired of hiding in the dark and groped his way to the burial chamber, so unfortunately nobody witnessed the army fall into chaos after the generals' skulls were smashed. The three reunited survivors looted the chamber and hightailed it out of the tomb, happy to survive.
I couldn't argue with their decision to survive, and I plan to award a luck point to the neutral alignment PC who suggested leaving, but it was certainly anticlimactic! I feel like the scenario is flawed in this aspect. Could I or should I have motivated the players to stay for a little longer? They never really tried to figure out why the place existed in the first place. Leaving was very consistent with the old-school mentality, but maybe not so consistent with the funnel spirit. This scenario was harder than I thought, I even skipped "attacks of opportunity" on retreating PCs to lower the difficulty a bit.
Lesson learned - my snap decision of having 8 NPCs caused problems. The players kept trying to force the NPCs ahead, etc, and it was too much for me to judge my first session while controlling 8 NPCs. Although the players did end up needing the extra spear fodder and that worked out, I should have instead just adjusted the difficulty of the scenario down a little by reducing the number of spear throwers, the number of flame thrower charges, etc.

I’m a senior in high school and I will be graduating soon. I’ve had the same school account since third grade and it would be awesome to save what I’ve made somewhere. My school has blocked sharing with other accounts not in the school network and when I try to download them onto a flash drive it won’t go over. If anyone knows of a way to save my google slides and docs for posterity sake that would help me a lot!

(29M) About a year ago I got out of an abusive relationship. My former partner(Female a year older than me) would not hesitate to be mentally abusive, and on some occasions physically. She was also financially abusive. And controlling. My former partner had BPD and knew lots of ways to manipulate my neuro divergent tendencies. Things like telling me i was stupid, I was nothing without her, I didnt have any friends ect. The instances of abuse were always framed as my fault because in her words I "just pushed her and pushed her and pushed her". a year ago I escaped that situation and since then have not really shown any interest in having an intimate relationship with anyone in that time. I was also in therapy and still am. Even though I didn't try to pursue an relationship, women would still show interest in me and these things have been detrimental to my self worth because these women show interest and then for whatever reason are deterred from ever talking to me again. The first instance was a girl that showed a lot of interest and even gave me her number with out me asking for it we texted for 2 months and she began to text me less and less. I eventually just asked her about it and said that she didn't want to give me the idea we could be more than friends even though she was the one who pursued me and wanted to talk about deeply personal topics like the kind you would if you were romantically interested in some one. I decided to just move on but this did make me feel really dejected and like I was unfit for anyone to really want to consider me as their partner unless they had ulterior motives of control and abuse as those seem to be the only relationships I've been in throughout my adult life. Which is only reinforced by my cycle of thinking as I didn't date or even have a lot of friends in my teen years. After this I met a girl at a bar who was actually working there. I know that bar staff are supposed to make you feel welcome and be overly friendly as I've been in quite a few, but this was different. I would come to this bar with a friend of mine and it was known and would be well on display that I was the designated driver. I've never really been much of a drinker, my friend on the other hand enjoys his libations. He tends to ask me to go because he knows I can keep him in check, and because I train martial arts can keep the situation under control if things get out of hand. Essentially he knows I can ensure he's safe and I can keep a conversation going. Anyway this girl notices I'm the dd because I'll only get a water when we come in and starts to leave from behind the bar and bring me a water when we walk in regularly. We also start to engage in conversation pretty heavily. So one night I came in by myself because my friends work schedule had changed I gather all my courage and ask her for her number. She seems pretty happy about this since we had been talking for the better part of 3hrs before hand and she even gave me a hug before I left. I texted her a little while after leaving the bar so she would also have my number. I received no reply. I figured she was busy so I didn't think too much of it. A whole week goes by with no reply. I finally decided to send a text jokingly asking her if she was ghosting me. I get a one sentence reply stating "heeyyy I've been busy" about an hour and a half later. I text her back "hey don't apologize I'm here when you're ready to talk" I meant it as a nonchalant reply like "hey no rush I'd just like to talk when your free" I wasn't upset or anything but I suppose it could've been misconstrued as being passive aggressive. That being said she never replied to me again. The feelings I mentioned previously creep back in and I don't even talk to another woman until almost 7 months later. This was also not a planned instance as I had gone out to a bar to participate in a kind of baby shower type get together a friend of mine was having. I didn't plan on talking to anyone who was woman, especially since the party I was going to was divided by gender as some celebrations of a child being on the way will be. I had already been at this bar for a few hours and was planning on leaving until my friends wife decided to bring her party over to the same bar and it ended up being just a casual hang out as the women that were involved with the mother's part of the get-together were now intermingling amongst us. As this was happening I had noticed one of the women had a tattoo of the avenged sevenfold logo on her back. I struck up a conversation with her about how I was a fan of theirs in junior high and so were my friends. We then continued to chat and I found out that we actually had a lot of things in common not just music taste,and that we both played guitar, but also stances on politics and humor and just about anything else we talked about. I talked to this woman for close to 8hrs we even went around the corner to a pub to get food. While we were doing this she invited me to come over to her apartment we then proceeded to sit on her couch and share different songs and genres we liked with eachother and talking about life, while smoking weed as she had a prescription and I suppose didn't want to be rude so offered me some. I'm not a smoker really but obliged. While this was going on I did disclose to her my financial situation and that I lived with my parents because I was trying to get back on my feet again. She seemed really supportive about this as well. We later started watching the show black mirror and were starting to get closer physically her legs were draped over one of mine. Her chest was over top of mine. My arm had slid behind her back and our faces were a bit close. I'm really cautious about consent and personal space because of the abuse I went through so I asked her "hey would I ruin the vibe if I kissed you?" Kind of nervously as I was a little high. She just kind of giggled and said she liked to take things slow. I said it wasn't a problem and respected her decision and we continued watching back mirror in the same position. Later she said she was going to go to bed and I said I would sleep on the couch. I kicked off my shoes and was laying on the couch still high. The door to her bedroom which was across the apartment from the couch only about 8ft away was open and I turned my head and asked "hey did you want me to come to bed with you?" She said yes so I promptly went into the bedroom and we began cuddling. I fell asleep. The next day I woke up and we still cuddling. We both kind of woke up at the same time. We talked a little while still pretty much spooning eachother. While we were doing this she kissed me. We then kind of softly made out, talked a little got out of bed sat on the couch, kissed a few more times, watched black mirror. This whole time I've gotten 2 calls from a friend of mine who I am in a band with we practice on Sundays and I was going to be late I considered not showing up but ultimately relented and decided I didn't want to be clingy and wear out my welcome especially since I hadn't planned on any of this and she had slightly been hinting about starting her Sunday routine and I didnt want to throw off her process to get her week started. So I decided to leave. I kissed her again told her I'd really like to see her again and left. A few hours later while I was at band practice I sent her a meme She replied about a day later. Since then our texting was really scant. She did sucrose when we met that she wasn't on her phone a lot and didn't text that much so I chalked it up to that. I tried to really have a conversation going but couldn't. I also asked if she wanted to hang out that Thursday as I had the day off. She said she was busy which I thought no problem. Oddly enough I got an update on Facebook that she had posted in a musicians page I'm a part of about wanting to meet up and jam with other people that same day. Also we didn't add eachother on social media so she had no idea if I would see this. I though it was weird but didn't really think anything of it outside of "hey I play guitar too why can't we hang out and play?" After that I got sick and she happened to stop texting me. The next week I sent another meme and sparked a sparse text conversation that went nowhere. Then a few days after that on the advice of my therapist I decided to just ask her out on a date. I was ignored. This made me feel like utter fucking shit. As well as being confused as to why she would spend so much time with me, kiss me, and even half ass text me. To just ignore me. The thoughts I previously mentioned crept back into my skull and were very intense. I started to spiral and think why it would happen. I thought about my physical attributes, about how I was over six foot tall, about how I was in decent shape, about how even some of my male friends and people in a professional environment had told me I should be a model, tha I was "handsome". I'm kind and compassionate. I try to be a great conversationalist. It just didn't make any sense to me it didn't feel fair. I was heartbroken as I though I had met someone who actually appreciated my taste in music (she Even told me I had good taste in music), the fact I was kind of awkward. She liked my point of view and ideas on things. She liked that I looked out for my friends. She seemed to accept me. After all of that I didn't it wasn't even real I guess. Since then I was having a lot of negative thoughts I even found some old Facebook messages this girl had sent me when I was a teen in which she was emotionally manipulating me Essentially wanting me to be limerent (she had even posted on my wall about how she cared about me and was sorry she couldn't make it to my graduation that she never intended on going to) which added to all of this negative thinking I had been experiencing lately. (I even thought to myself I sounded like an incel which also was disheartening those people suck and I dont even want to be considered in the same catagory as men who would treat women that way) I really just don't know what my problem is and I just don't want to try to get back in to dating as well because I don't like this feeling of being dejected and not feeling worthy of some one else's love. I'm left with this deep hurt and I just want to say fuck it I'm done.

Everything is just too fucking much for me to handle. I can’t get a job cause I can’t find anyone to hire me like ppl get jobs everyday but I can’t. I literally can’t even deal with this anymore I’ve applied to everywhere in my area and got nothing be declines when I’m literally qualified for the job. Then graduation is coming up and ofc drama my grandma said I can’t believe I betrayed here and treat her like this. Wtf do u mean I worked for her and waste a bunch of money on gas to work and waste my Saturdays working instead of doing fun stuff. Like it makes no sense just cause I can’t deal with the stress and my mom is having a fucking procedure and she doesn’t even fucking care. My family treats me like absolute garbage and goes and talks trash about us and treats my mother like shit I have no words for them. My grandma has me so fucking upset I don’t even wanna go to my fucking graduation after working my ass off to get out of there. I’m already fucking depressed asf debating whether I should just end my life already and make it easier for everyone. No one understands how fucking hard it is to be me it’s fucking mentally draining and no one gives a fuck. Then my mom has been arguing with me about fucking college she wants me to go to community college but I want to go to university. Idk what to fucking do like it’s so much for me that I don’t even wanna go anymore cause I’m become so overwhelmed and stressed out. Idk what I’m going to do I don’t think I can afford university cause I don’t have a job and no one can pay for it but I want to leave where I live so bad. I hate where I currently live it honestly sucks I don’t have friends, I don’t have anyone tbh besides my mom and sister. I just feel like staying at home isn’t going to help me focus on school and be productive. I get community college is cheaper and I could start my career faster but like I would probably want to go back to school anyways for my bachelors. This is just too much like I’m debating the pros and cons and they’re both evening out the same. If I go to university I start June 3 and if I go to community college I don’t give up my summer for school. I just wish I had someone to actually help me cause I’m a first generation high school grad and first to go to college.

Hi,
I’m a junior in college and I live at home with my parents. This is terrible, but I honestly don’t think I’ve fully cleaned my bedroom since I graduated high school. I have depression and anxiety, as well as the stress of school and working 2 part time jobs. I’ve started to clean several times but eventually lose steam and it just gets messy again. I’m honestly too embarrassed to share pictures, but I’ve always struggled to keep a clean room and this is probably the worst it’s ever been. Honestly, you can’t even see the floor in most places and the door doesn’t open all the way. My mom has offered to help but I feel like she criticizes me every time she does and realizes how bad it is.
I think I have some hoarding tendencies as well which is part of the problem. I shop as temporary relief for stress and depression and have trouble getting rid of things, so it piles up. I tend to get really attached to stuff, especially if a loved one gave it to me.
Even when my mental health is relatively good, when I think about cleaning it feels so overwhelming. If I start and anyone makes any kind of comment about it, even good job etc, I lose all motivation and can’t keep going and I’m not sure why.
It’s really scary for me to post this, I’ve been hiding it from everyone except my immediate family, and I’d hide it from them if I could, too. But I need non-judgmental help. If you have advice, words of support, etc it would be really helpful.

I’m 16, turning 17 in November. I have a bad relationship with my family and have gone down the “if they don’t care about the good, they’ll care about the bad” pipeline and have bombed my grades this semester. I’ll probably have to retake my math and english classes. I also cannot get a job because my parents forbid it. I have no real friends and no chance of a girlfriend as of now. My plan for the future so far is to work after high school so I can afford a gun and take my life. I know that’s grim but I really see no other pathway for myself. Life’s been bad the past 5 years so I can’t see my options without my own negativity. The ideal scenario for myself would be graduating something in university, getting married, having 2 kids, and just living out the rest of my life. I just need some outside pets and realistic advise. And hopefully a plan to change my current one.

Hi there! I'm pretty new to excel and I've run into a problem when trying to figure out a function to print appropriate tags depending on words in a column.
In this case, I'm trying to add tags(column Q) depending on the words in the B column. E.g. High School Library would produce the tags: High School, School, Library.
I have tried using =IF and =ISNUMBER etc but I have difficulty understanding how to add other conditions to the function.
Does anyone have any idea of what functions would be best for doing this or could produce a function for my case?
Thank you!

Everything is just too fucking much for me to handle. I can’t get a job cause I can’t find anyone to hire me like ppl get jobs everyday but I can’t. I literally can’t even deal with this anymore I’ve applied to everywhere in my area and got nothing be declines when I’m literally qualified for the job. Then graduation is coming up and ofc drama my grandma said I can’t believe I betrayed here and treat her like this. Wtf do u mean I worked for her and waste a bunch of money on gas to work and waste my Saturdays working instead of doing fun stuff. Like it makes no sense just cause I can’t deal with the stress and my mom is having a fucking procedure and she doesn’t even fucking care. My family treats me like absolute garbage and goes and talks trash about us and treats my mother like shit I have no words for them. My grandma has me so fucking upset I don’t even wanna go to my fucking graduation after working my ass off to get out of there. I’m already fucking depressed asf debating whether I should just end my life already and make it easier for everyone. No one understands how fucking hard it is to be me it’s fucking mentally draining and no one gives a fuck. Then my mom has been arguing with me about fucking college she wants me to go to community college but I want to go to university. Idk what to fucking do like it’s so much for me that I don’t even wanna go anymore cause I’m become so overwhelmed and stressed out. Idk what I’m going to do I don’t think I can afford university cause I don’t have a job and no one can pay for it but I want to leave where I live so bad. I hate where I currently live it honestly sucks I don’t have friends, I don’t have anyone tbh besides my mom and sister. I just feel like staying at home isn’t going to help me focus on school and be productive. I get community college is cheaper and I could start my career faster but like I would probably want to go back to school anyways for my bachelors. This is just too much like I’m debating the pros and cons and they’re both evening out the same. If I go to university I start June 3 and if I go to community college I don’t give up my summer for school. I just wish I had someone to actually help me cause I’m a first generation high school grad and first to go to college.

Of course I've heard of burnout. I've known I've been chronically stressed for years. There are numerous aspects of my life that have put me at high risk of burnout. Lawyer - check. Business owner - check. Business struggling - check, check. Mom of autistic child - check, check aaaand... CHECK. Now trying to stay healthy while getting older, keeping my video game-loving husband on track, and ALL the meetings with ALL the therapists AND teachers AND doctors, AND the kindergarten transition, and IEP's and different therapies and exposures and swim lessons because he "cannot appreciate danger..."
I have hit a wall. I am SO.TIRED.
Fortunately, my son is okay. Still well-cared for. Still in therapy. Still in school. Happy as a clam.
But I am F A I L I N G at work!!! I am emotionally and physically exhausted. I am apathetic. I can't bring myself to do much or follow through on things. I am moving slowly on everything. I won't talk to people I don't absolutely need to speak to; and I'm even avoiding talking to some people I really should be speaking to. I have been feeling and acting this way for about 2 or 3 weeks now. And in the kind of deadline-sensitive field I work in, this is NOT good.
I would like to quit, but I own the company and it's attached to me like a wart on a pig's bottom. And with pending cases, it's not so easy to just wind down. Also, I may just be reacting to working and handling therapies almost every day since last November. So I'm gonna try to see if I can take some time off in the near future, but things are not looking good.
Any other burned out working parents out there?

Everything is just too fucking much for me to handle. I can’t get a job cause I can’t find anyone to hire me like ppl get jobs everyday but I can’t. I literally can’t even deal with this anymore I’ve applied to everywhere in my area and got nothing be declines when I’m literally qualified for the job. Then graduation is coming up and ofc drama my grandma said I can’t believe I betrayed here and treat her like this. Wtf do u mean I worked for her and waste a bunch of money on gas to work and waste my Saturdays working instead of doing fun stuff. Like it makes no sense just cause I can’t deal with the stress and my mom is having a fucking procedure and she doesn’t even fucking care. My family treats me like absolute garbage and goes and talks trash about us and treats my mother like shit I have no words for them. My grandma has me so fucking upset I don’t even wanna go to my fucking graduation after working my ass off to get out of there. I’m already fucking depressed asf debating whether I should just end my life already and make it easier for everyone. No one understands how fucking hard it is to be me it’s fucking mentally draining and no one gives a fuck. Then my mom has been arguing with me about fucking college she wants me to go to community college but I want to go to university. Idk what to fucking do like it’s so much for me that I don’t even wanna go anymore cause I’m become so overwhelmed and stressed out. Idk what I’m going to do I don’t think I can afford university cause I don’t have a job and no one can pay for it but I want to leave where I live so bad. I hate where I currently live it honestly sucks I don’t have friends, I don’t have anyone tbh besides my mom and sister. I just feel like staying at home isn’t going to help me focus on school and be productive. I get community college is cheaper and I could start my career faster but like I would probably want to go back to school anyways for my bachelors. This is just too much like I’m debating the pros and cons and they’re both evening out the same. If I go to university I start June 3 and if I go to community college I don’t give up my summer for school. I just wish I had someone to actually help me cause I’m a first generation high school grad and first to go to college.

I’m a senior in high school and I will be graduating soon. I’ve had the same school account since third grade and it would be awesome to save what I’ve made somewhere. My school has blocked sharing with other accounts not in the school network and when I try to download them onto an external drive it won’t go over. If anyone knows of a way to save my google docs (and/or slides) for posterity sake that would help me a lot!

I’m an early 20s male, may not be relevant but for a little background, I have been very depressed for nearly my whole life, very traumatic childhood and such, first person in my family to graduate high school, and I’ve always been very smart and athletic and all that. but I’ve never really talked about it, and never let it affect my life on the outside, I’ve had a few good relationships and been pretty normal, but where I am currently struggling is I can’t seem to feel fulfilled by my accomplishments, I guess a lot of people would call me an over achiever because I’ve accomplished a few very very difficult things throughout my life so far, but none of them feel fulfilling but it’s for an odd reason I have consistently chosen the hardest path I can take, difficult schools, highly competitive activities, and I always seem to succeed nomatter how hard the thing I’m doing is, but only barely, I feel as tho I could attend the hardest school on the planet and just scrape by, but still do it no matter the difficulty. And it has always been like this, I would get the highest test scores in high school on almost everything but I graduated with a 2.0 gpa because I found the bare minimum I could do and I did it, I then attended a military school which is one of the hardest in the world, and I succeeded but just barely, I know I could’ve done better but again I found the bare minimum and scraped by, it’s like no matter what I do, I’ll find a way to make it but I refuse to push myself to my full potential no matter how hard I try, I’ve heard the “if only you would apply yourself” a thousand times, and the thing is I’m currently on track to have a great career but I just always feel pissed off at myself knowing I have the ability to do better but my brain won’t let me. The main problem is that I can rise to just about any challenge, but I will literally put the bare minimum effort in to get by and succeed, so I keep finding harder and harder things to do in order to push myself, and I keep succeeding but because I do the bare minimum each time, I’m never truly happy with myself no matter how great the achievement simply because I know I didn’t push myself like I know I have the ability to. And I feel guilty for feeling like this sometimes because I know that there are others who worked so much harder than me at some of the things I have achieved and they never made it. Anyone else have any similar feelings?

I’m a senior in high school and I will be graduating soon. I’ve had the same school account since third grade and it would be awesome to save what I’ve made somewhere. My school has blocked sharing with other accounts not in the school network and when I try to download them onto a flash drive it won’t go over. If anyone knows of a way to save my google slides (and docs) for posterity sake that would help me a lot!

I keep hearing how critical it is to have good friends in your adolescence because that's where you learn to be independent and develop the social skills you'll need for the rest of your life, but it’s too late for me to have that. I tried to fit in with other kids but they mostly thought I was weird because I’m autistic, so I was bullied and left out a lot. I never really had a group to do anything with outside of school and I don’t think I can stand knowing that everyone else gets to enjoy their coming of age years when I couldn’t. I never got to go out to a movie with friends or have sleepovers or go on trips together, and I missed out on every important milestone of my life. I never got to celebrate with friends on my birthday or when I graduated high school, or have fun at summer camp or anything like that. It really makes me angry to look back at my old yearbooks and see how much fun all the normal kids were having.
I ended up dropping out of college and my family made me move with them to an isolated area and my family is forcing me to live with them, and they treat me like I’ll never be able to work, and I have no real means of getting out of this area other than running away. Even besides that, I feel I missed out too much on life since I’ll never know how it feels to be a normal teen and growing up feeling like people care about you or that you have a future. I think what I want more than anything is to get those years back and if I can’t then I think I would rather die than get any older.

Wouldn’t it have been great if you learned financial literacy or entrepreneurship in school?
Maybe some basic tax knowledge, negotiation skills, or even public speaking.
Instead, you learned all about atoms and algebra.
But, the periodic table isn’t that helpful in our adult lives.
And the lack of real-world topics leaves us all woefully unprepared for our futures.
This failure has led to record-high wealth, achievement, and happiness inequality around the world.
That’s where Kidpreneurs comes in…
What Is Kidpreneurs?
Kidpreneurs is a breakthrough approach to raising your children so they grow up emotionally strong, resilient, and creative......all while ~reducing their social media time~ and helping them discover a passion for learning. They’ll develop life changing skills allowing them to:
✅ Think critically…
✅ Solve difficult problems…
✅ Communicate effectively…
✅ And build a healthy self-esteem...
Allowing them to become fearless, thriving kids in school today...
And go onto excel at high school, college, their first job and beyond.
We achieve this by teaching them the basic principles of Entrepreneurship...
By providing them with a fun and interactive experience they can go through at their own pace...
Then showing them how to apply it in the real-world by starting their own "mini business"
As a result, in the next 28 days...
They'll develop new skills most kids won't learn until years later...
Enabling them to confidently pursue their goals...
And inspire them to discover their unique gifts and talents, conquer adversity, and overflow with confidence.
In short: They'll become KIDPRENEURS! learn more click here

Wouldn’t it have been great if you learned financial literacy or entrepreneurship in school?
Maybe some basic tax knowledge, negotiation skills, or even public speaking.
Instead, you learned all about atoms and algebra.
But, the periodic table isn’t that helpful in our adult lives.
And the lack of real-world topics leaves us all woefully unprepared for our futures.
This failure has led to record-high wealth, achievement, and happiness inequality around the world.
That’s where Kidpreneurs comes in…
What Is Kidpreneurs?
Kidpreneurs is a breakthrough approach to raising your children so they grow up emotionally strong, resilient, and creative......all while ~reducing their social media time~ and helping them discover a passion for learning. They’ll develop life changing skills allowing them to:
✅ Think critically…
✅ Solve difficult problems…
✅ Communicate effectively…
✅ And build a healthy self-esteem...
Allowing them to become fearless, thriving kids in school today...
And go onto excel at high school, college, their first job and beyond.
We achieve this by teaching them the basic principles of Entrepreneurship...
By providing them with a fun and interactive experience they can go through at their own pace...
Then showing them how to apply it in the real-world by starting their own "mini business"
As a result, in the next 28 days...
They'll develop new skills most kids won't learn until years later...
Enabling them to confidently pursue their goals...
And inspire them to discover their unique gifts and talents, conquer adversity, and overflow with confidence.
In short: They'll become KIDPRENEURS! learn more click here

Hey so I am on F1 visa but I completed my high school in US as I was on a different visa back then ( L-2 to be specific) would I be eligible for in state tuition. I was reading AB540 but it confuses me as it says u need to have no visa. But under it says if you graduated from American high school in CA ( which I did) I would qualify.
What should I do? Like my SLR says residency determined for fall 2024 but I haven’t filled out any forms . Would it be worth filling out the form or just praying?

This is a 2 part question. As this is o ly my 2nd cruise, I'm kind of lost on the intricacies of booking.
I booked a cruise for October for me and my kids; 1 room, 1booking number. A month later, I decided to gift my nephews a cruise for their graduation. Same cruise, 1 room, 1 booking number, but didn't change names.
The problem is, I went to change the names to theirs, and I can't change my name on the booking. What do I do?
Question 2. My son wants to invite a friend. Can I add a person even though my room is paid?

Hi! I’ve never really posted on here so I’m sorry if this isn’t done well.
Lately I’ve felt happier and more confident in myself than I have in months, probably close to half a year. I’ve also realized how amazing of a support system I have in my friends and family, that the people around me have full faith in me to do my best and mean well in everything I do. Most importantly that these are people who are happy to pick me up when I’m in the depths of it. My life has changed a lot in the last couple months, the first major positive changes I’ve made since I turned 18 and started my adult life (I’m f20 now).
Considering that I have an amazing support system and am ready to make major changes in my life, I’ve really been considering colleges out of state. How do I know I’m ready for that major of change? I’m getting my associates in psychology after this summer, want to go somewhere with a college town but not a party school, probably graduating with somewhere around a 3.4GPA from a great community college. Are there any schools y’all would recommend? I’m honestly just looking for any advice at all because I have no idea what I’m doing