Im finally going to collage after a year break dealing with personal health issues, whats yours ?
I’ll be traveling for a year with my girlfriend. We’ve wanted to do it for years. Finally saved up enough. Starting with a few months in China. Can’t wait to eat everything. Also I get to put all my Chinese into practice.
Sounds awesome. I hope you have a great time. I’m thinking about going on a year+ long bicycle trip through China at one point in my life.
have a lovely trip you two 💚
Thank you!
Elections for Belgium are next year. We are in track to become the largest left wing party, so it’s an exciting time. It’s federal and communal elections at the same time.
My current training for my job will end next year so I hope to keep developing so that I’ll be able to fully do my job. It’s going well at the moment and my employer is positive about me.
I don’t really have personal goals yet. This year wasn’t the best with lots of anxiety for some reason and I hope I can better manage it next year.
I have some trips and concerts planned already. I will probably spend my summer in Sweden where I will work on the remote cabin my father in law bought there recently. Looking forward to it.
I hope next year goes better for you in terms of mental health, you got this! Good luck w the job, and have fun with the trips :)
I plan on getting a job after a year or so of unemployment, like it for a few months, then hate it, get burnt out, and get fired after 1.5 years. So, you know, the usual.
Spend less time on lemmygrad and more doing work.
Idk. I’m bad at planning a week ahead, let alone a year.
More range time in between college classes and finding ways to work with my org from where I’m physically at
I might do my 1 year in Army early, thought about it and the pros (I shoot cool guns) outweighed the cons
In the past members of our party happily joined the army to do combat training that would be useful in case of revolution. You might learn something.
one of the reasons I’m doing it, I don’t want to do whatever this guy is doing in this pic if the revolution comes
Do they let you fire a gun in Algeria? Over here I don’t think so but they let you clear grass between tiles to at least be comfortable with the feeling of stabbing someone.
Yeah, in live ammo training sessions.
I’ve considered doing something like this too but the Canadian military is not worth it to me. I’m glad the Algerian one is, so good luck and I wish you the best! ❤️
which country, out of curiosity
the one in my username 🇩🇿, only combat I’ll ever have (which is extremely rare) is killing ISIS member, rest of it just training and doing stuff like planting trees
that’s really cool!
if u ever join, do not reveal that you are a leftist.
Won’t be an issue, I look through Algerian military forums and a lot of them are leftists, but only economically, I’m fucked if they find out I’m queer.
maybe stop drinking depending on how the year goes
Semester 3 of university, mostly. In my next polisci class I get the same professor from semester 1! I wonder if he’ll recognize me. Other than that maybe continue studying Portuguese.
I haven’t really thought about it. I know this want your intention but this post got me thinking about making goals for myself to accomplish next year. Thank you!
Obviously I’m going to be doing stuff, but a little bit of it is fairly personal or identifiable so I don’t know if I want to say it.
I intend to start some sort of Portuguese language compsci course/help group thing to serve as basis for organising. There’s definitely not enough material out there for people who don’t speak much English.
And hopefully I’ll also manage to remain my current mental stability for a full year for the first time in half a decade.
It’ll also be local election year in Brazil too, but everything is in flux right now with the “leftist” government implementing austerity and the main communist party being split. No idea how that’s gonna go, but probably not good.
good luck!
Buying a house is something that’s been on my list for a while and something I have been seriously looking at it recently. The mortgage wouldn’t be an issue (in fact, less than my current rent) but the down payment is rough. It doesn’t help that even as a permanent resident, banks are reluctant to issue loans to anyone with a foreign name.
Somewhat related to that would be adopting a dog once I can have one again. I love my snakes but living in a place that allows dogs again would be great.
For sure, my partner and I are also trying to save up for a down payment, who knows what will even be enough in two years, which is the earliest we could reasonably hope to be prepared. Yuck.
I actually just decided this these past few days but I think I’m going to start looking for another job.
I’m unionized and have a chill job, all things considered, with good pay and good benefits and I work remote so I’ve felt like I wanted to stay forever because it feels like I get paid and protected to stay at home and do routine at this point but it’s also kinda dead-end. There’s literally no other thing I can grow toward at my work, I’ve already asked, so it feels like I’d just sit with this same position for the rest of my life. There are worse things I could do, which I know because I’ve done them and this is the best job I’ve ever had, but I’m not really happy either. It’s a lifetime better than where I was before I started but after some years, especially just sitting at home this entire time, it kinda weighs on me as meaningless. It is good work that is aligned with my politics and I would never be ashamed among comrades to say what I do but I also just feel like I want to expand a bit more in my life. I have some connections in something else so I’m going to feel out possibilities soon. We’ll see how it goes. Holding on for another year and saving wouldn’t be bad either but no one’s getting younger.
Otherwise, I’ll just coast.
On second thought, I’m just gonna celebrate Kissinger’s death all year. Rest in Piss.
good luck with your uni journey, I’m going to graduate next summer. And I hopefully will get an offer for a doctorate and move there with my partner.
Are you in a masters program currently? That’s really cool! Do you mind if I ask what field?
yeah I am, I’m studying cognitive neurosci, its only one year as most postgrad taught degrees are here so next summer after the dissertation I’ll be done
Graduated school… hopefully
