The problem was doing the dishes. Just let them pile up, it’ll be fine.
Side note though: Work/life balance for the win. I get paid slightly less than others in my field, but I also work ~40 hours a week, and never take work home with me. It’s wonderful.
Went from 35h/week to 40. It’s made my life so much more complicated because everything is closed when I’m finally free. I have to take from my holidays to get my car repaired.
Damn, 5 more hours a week made that much of a difference? I’m also on a 4-day work schedule that is hybrid WFH which I forgot to mention. Having that extra weekday is clutch for things you can’t do on weekends.
I’ll gladly pay those union dues, because it wouldn’t be like this without our collective bargaining power.
I am at a somewhat senior (escalations tech, pretty senior without being in real management) position at my work that involves 100% WFH and a boss who trusts me on my time management, plus watches out for us when we do overtime (I’m salary so gotta get approved time off if going over etc). A bunch of prior coworkers have encouraged me to leave to get better pay, but I don’t wanna give up all those benefits.
I make food at home for lunch, can play games at lunch, right after work, etc. I won’t discuss if I ever play games during my work hours because how dare you accuse me of that and also where did you hide the cameras in my room?
I have some seriously conflicting emotions about the time I used to get 3-ish hours of sleep so I could play more. On one hand, the games were great fun; on the other, work was hell afterwards.
I’ve had to come to terms with not having any time to play, really, except for maybe an hour or two here and there with my partner. It does feel awesome to at least have that going, but it sucks a lot that I don’t get to play for extended periods of time if I want to. Not even taking advantage of any sales right now, even though I might want to, just because I know that I won’t have any time to play.
I know it’s not like this for everyone but I have a 3.5 year old and he is what provides me the energy to keep going and brings me so much joy. Sure, I boot up the Steam Deck about 3-5 hours a week but my multi-hours gaming sessions I don’t miss at all.
Oh man, this exactly. I’ve taken to cramming in the cleaning the day before but, of course, I end up overdoing it. Then new messes appear by the time I’m ready to try again.
My dishwasher has been broken for over a week. I can see how your situation is soul crushing. The only thing keeping me going is a fix in the near future.
Question for anyone who’s got one of these things: would it be practical to like keep it in a cabinet, and pull it out when you want to use it, then put it back when you’re done? Not much counter space here… Also, someone mentioned about not needing a water hookup and just pouring water in. How difficult is it to drain those ones? I imagine if one were to try to store it between uses, you’d want it completely dry before putting away…
Maybe? You do have to make sure the drain hose is on quite tight to make sure it’s sealed. Might be annoying putting it back on each time. If you could leave it on and wrap it around it I can’t see why not. Mine was a Comfee Mini Plus so no water hookup, you could just pull it out of a cupboard so long as it fits. I mainly had mine because I had no hot water supply.
In this situation, I’d be tempted to hunt down some sort of small industrial hose quick-coupler for this situation. Something with a rubber gasket for sealing would work well, drains are not very high pressure.
Hell, a garden hose quick connect like from a hardware store might even do the trick.
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