Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things

Doozergirl

lemonjelly wrote: »

Re Michaels concern for lir. I've mentioned before that I've felt personally very demotivated. Definitely not as happy as I feel I should be atm. I'm aware I'm not alone in this. Initially, because of work situations (almost everyone here is moaning about all sorts & is unhappy) I wondered if it was work related. However, I have spoken with friends who also indicate they're quite down. More than 1 friend has described engaging in similar kinds of behaviour which are/may be described as personally being quite destructive types of behaviour.

Didn't misskool also relate something similar recently?

I'm wondering if this is a seasonal thing, like SAD?
Or is it a sign of the economic times?

<shrugs>

Me too (too short)

Doozergirl

lemonjelly wrote: »

I am convinced that being in a windowless office, not seeing daylight etc is affecting me a lot.

I read your post & felt I'd love to live out in the fields. That said, I'm sure the grass is always greener...;)

I am absolutely shocked that you have no windows in a bl00dy expensive golden cheese palace like that. I thought the prime aim of the architects should be to make them enlightening places (in both senses of the word) for people to work and learn.

There's no wonder you're feeling down if you're spending nearly every daylight hour of the week in a fluorescently lit room.

Come and walk my dog in your lunch break. It'll make you feel better.

chewmylegoff

lemonjelly wrote: »

Re Michaels concern for lir. I've mentioned before that I've felt personally very demotivated. Definitely not as happy as I feel I should be atm. I'm aware I'm not alone in this. Initially, because of work situations (almost everyone here is moaning about all sorts & is unhappy) I wondered if it was work related. However, I have spoken with friends who also indicate they're quite down. More than 1 friend has described engaging in similar kinds of behaviour which are/may be described as personally being quite destructive types of behaviour.

Didn't misskool also relate something similar recently?

I'm wondering if this is a seasonal thing, like SAD?
Or is it a sign of the economic times?

<shrugs>

i find that each year i get more depressed around this time of year. it's just the gradual onset of grumpy-oldness, i expect.

i'd quite like an office with no windows at the moment because the sun is shining directly into my eyes.

lostinrates

Although it's slight
Y obsessive to keep updating, I really want to reaffirm that I don't want any one but me to be worrying about me. I've just had some steak, and another sort of berocca and feel MUCH better, and m taking advantage of spurt of energy to clean a couple of floors before nipping out to do animals for the night.

Tomorrow I'll have the drink stuff earlier.

neverdespairgirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

My moaning would be related to the fact I am not in control of my life and have no date that I can see when I know I can plan to be free.... maybe 2012,.... maybe 2013.

As a species, we're not in control of our lives at all. Only bits around the edges.

lostinrates

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

As a species, we're not in control of our lives at all. Only bits around the edges.

Well I think ,ost of us have more choice than most of us choose to exploit really. The world is our oyster, but a lot of us are squeamish about shellfish:rotfl:

LydiaJ

lostinrates wrote: »

The single biggest help before we're amphetamines, I only had them a short time but they let me feel really incredibly normal, I built a lot of physical strength during that time but also, the big get better was time, sleep, and the indescribable freedom of being able to communicate.

I taught once with a lady who told me that she'd been prescribed amphetamines in the 1960s, for weight loss. She said it had been the only part of her career when all her lessons were prepared in advance!

lostinrates wrote: »

Lydia, Lydia is running on empty.

I'm getting better, slowly, thanks. And my empty feeling has nothing to do with the weather or the economy, and everything to do with supporting my parents through the last few months while trying to hold it all together as a working single parent of complicated bereaved children.

Davesnave

Doozergirl wrote: »

I am absolutely shocked that you have no windows in a bl00dy expensive golden cheese palace like that.

Me too. I only worked in an office for about a year, but at least we had windows.....which looked into other windows of offices, all full of people like us, looking out! :rotfl:

My worst working envioronment was probably the chicken houses, both battery and deep litter, where there was a great combination of dust, smell, low light levels and noise, but that only lasted for 6 months. I was 18 and desperately needed the dosh.

I spent most of my teaching career in nice rooms, some of them with direct access to a conservation area with woodpeckers and squirrels as neighbours. On the down side, some of those rooms had pretty poor heating systems and insulation, but then my fellow workers were mainly under 12 years of age and had little ability to stage a walk out!

lostinrates

I wonder what would happen if all the people in windowless offices demanded lights for sad. I think it's terrible to build a new building that is lauded but doesn't offer something which for full time workers in winter could be there only access to daylight.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

...have had a glass of fakes etching that is not berocca but sort of like it, I think baron a is better.

What does this mean?
Are you doing etching?
I can't do that as it involves stuff you have to be careful with, in a ventilated area and you have to dispose of stuff properly ... and so I don't have the space/disposal methods available to me.