Oh yeah, there are certainly some positions where WFH is appropriate. My wife was in software development with a WFH job prior to covid and through it. Covid actually drove her to find a new job with a hybrid policy so she can do whatever she wants.

small company, so lack of advanced IT was a small part, but there’s just no substitute to actually walking through a project site with a contractor/customer.

It’s a modified Mad Men meme. Michael “I feel bad for you.” Don Draper “I don’t think about you at all.”

You hate them for what you think they are thinking about you. When in all reality they probably don’t think about you at all.

Unless they’ve directly attacked you or bullied or directed slurs at you, but that’s usually just 1 or 2 assholes, not a whole company of people.

It depends. We learned after 3 weeks of WFH that it was a disaster, and the year of zoom meetings with clients was torture. The day we got letters from the governor saying we were “essential employees” and exempt from WFH and all other covid restrictions was amazing.

No one expected it to continue at peak covid levels. It was a grand experiment and a lot was learned, now there are a lot more options than there was 5 years ago.

either ignore it or use factual calm statements to lure out personal attacks and then report them. I got a bunch of people banned from reddit this way before I was banned for “threatening violence” in a comment where I didn’t threaten anyone at all, or mention any violent acts. Things are much calmer and more “adulty” here. Besides any political discussion of course.

Get with a friend or family member who knows what they are doing and follow them around. You can look into dedicated hunting groups but that can be hit or miss. It’s usually not hard to find a group dedicated to helping kids, women or veterans to get out and hunt, but if you are a grown man there’s not much options.

Camp stoves and fuel! I can buy a lot of bic lighters and cheap metal camping mugs for the cost of a dang Jetboil stove and fuel.

Hunting. When I was younger, poorer man I used a hand me down lever action rifle and a $5 orange vest to fill my freezer with cheap venison that I would butcher myself. for less than $100 in licenses, ammo and packaging material I could put 3 or 4 deer in the freezer in 1 weekend.

Now, I have multiple gun safes full of various guns, all of them to serve “different purposes” like long range, brush gun, restricted weapons hunting areas, slug gun restricted areas, hunting shotguns, competition shot guns. Then there’s the hunting gear, knifes, packs, laser range finders, reloading equipment, hunting lease payments, guide fees, out of state application fees.

Last year I shot 1 deer and paid $140 to have someone else butcher it for me.

lol at some point is is cheaper to take flying lessons?