This is my first blog post and my official warm welcome to you. I left the heading as the generic WordPress title because, why not? It’s good enough, I guess.
In this blog, you will find some boring thoughts about life, generally focused around mental health and writing, with a little angst thrown in.
I’m just your stereotypical millennial paradox: I hold a master’s degree from a prestigious university, yet I’ve done nothing in the last ten years beside languish in retail. And the saddest part is, I don’t even have any good stories.
I make you one promise and one promise only: I will make you feel better about yourself in comparison to me. This is a gift I freely bestow on the whole world, purely out of the goodness of my heart, if only you would accept it.
I hope you stick around, even if only to get mad at me. I thrive on negative attention.
Actually, I don’t. I can’t handle anyone even looking at me funny, let alone anonymous insults. I’ll figure out how to delete comments later.
I figure no one is going to read this anyway.
Who the Hell Knows? 
This is a great intro. Gotta follow now.
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Thank you for stopping by, Joshua! I probably should update the page because my blog is going in a slightly different direction than I thought in terms of topics–though rest assured I am still here to make people feel better about themselves–but hey never thought anyone would read it 😂
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The challenge is to begin. The second step is always easier than the first. However, the 1000th, you may find, is harder than the first. We will see.
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Thank you for putting me on guard. I will probably only make it to step 350 though because I quit everything I start.
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That’s what’s nice about blogging; you can take a break, leave it be, for months if not years and come back and all is forgiven. Seriously. Soldier on.
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😉 will do
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You’re welcome 😉
Your turn 😜
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Nice to get to know you more. What degree do you have? You write so well, is it in English
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Thanks so much for saying that. I earned a master’s degree in political philosophy. I do love English though.
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Oh wow a masters degree in political philosophy. Wow. Hats off to you.
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Thanks. Wish it helped me get a better job 🤣
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May be it can. Sometimes we have to think out of the box.
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I hope so.
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So, even though I don’t have a university masters degree, I see a lot of languishing in my future. (Why?)
“I figure no one is going to read this anyway.”
Jokes on you! I am reading it!
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Now you wait a second–you can’t just show up here and say you’re going to languish and then not explain yourself!
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I’m blind. I want to go in software development field. My parents want me to get a bureaucratic job at the government, which I despise so much that I can provide power for a city for years if you can use emotions as power.
Whereas companies don’t want to hire me, because “Blind. Better candidates. Thanks for applying.”
Never mind that their “Better candidates” are nothing more than parrots repeating same things in the interviews, which they memorized before even coming there. Whereas my answers tend to be quite detailed, and very specific and natural. I don’t memorize word by word.
Anyway, sorry for the late reply.
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Sorry to hear you’re having a hard time with multiple challenges. Getting a good job really sucks when you’re not a clone of other people. Do you think there’s a possibility of combining your skills of software development with your skills of living with visual impairment?
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The problem with that is most companies don’t care about helping out disabled users. As for big companies like Microsoft and Google, they actually don’t even hire blind people to make their apps usable to blind people (It is all twisted I know, but it is what it is.)
For example, there is this guy I know. He created his own screen reader, (The software through which we use computer,) and yet, Microsoft didn’t hire him, instead, they hired a sighted guy for the accessibility stuff.
But despite all the complains, I’m gonna do my my damnedest to turn it around.
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These giant companies suck. I’m not surprised at this though disappointed. It’s also stupid of them. I definitely think you should keep trying. You know better than they do what would help people.
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I do, but sometimes it is not easy. Take medium for example. I informed them about the issue of their article editing and uploading features not working properly for me.
And what did they do? Nothing, aside from giving me a public relation answer. This is why I actually decided to open my own blog, rather than fight them over it. Yes, I don’t get the same level of traffic. But I feel I’ll get there sooner or later, and whatever readers I’ll gain in that time, they’ll stay with me through thick and thin rather than abandon me during my troubles.
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I’m a firm believer in getting back in the saddle every time I fall off. I used to be a huge quitter but I’ve kept up with my blog over a year and a half now. I hope you stay strong with yours.
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Oh trust me, I have no plans of quitting. I’ll continue to write for the rest of my life, until my fingers stop working, my mind doesn’t respond, or the keyboards are for whatever reason are completely out of fashion.
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Wouldn’t it be sad if we gave up on blogging for no other reason than that keyboards went out of style?
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It would be. But you have to understand, I just can’t type on touch screens. Especially when it comes to long articles, or even programming code.
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I can’t understand how people type on touch screens for large amounts of text anyway. It’s tedious and impossible to write quickly without autocorrect. Teens type on their phones with both thumbs and I can’t even fathom how.
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Let’s just up the difficulty by telling someone to type millions of line of programming code on touch screen…
At this point, I’ll just quit out of shear frustration.
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I’ll pass on doing that!
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Your blog intrigues me so I had to come to the beginning
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Cool! Very glad to have you here.
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“I figure no one is going to read this anyway.”
Ha. How wrong you were.
Anyway, this is an amazing intro, and looking back at the first posts of my blogs, I wish I’d thought of something that could draw me in like this. Maybe I can go back and rewrite my first post now, lol.
I also see that Joe has beaten me to the ‘coming to the first post’ bit, lol. Is this a weird thing that blog stalkers (like me) do?
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Haha, thanks for reading it, Stuart. Yes, I remember this quite well. I was going through a difficult time and had wanted for nearly a whole year to begin a blog (I actually paid for it but was too shy to do it), and then one day I said F it, let’s go.
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Dearest Hetty … Here is the honest truth ,… If you write it, somebody who is destined to read it will come …be patient .. persist in your passions …You are off to a magnificent beginning …
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Hi John, it’s Hetty from the future. Glad to report it’s two and a half years and still going strong. Made lots of friends, did stuff I never expected to. Hopefully 2020 Hetty sees this comment. I very much appreciate your kind words!
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