I mean sure they exist, but they also have at most 2 posts. I understand that Lemmy is still growing, but god damn does is feel empty compared to what Reddit offered.

$800/mo is $19,200 over 2 years. So no, you can't survive almost 2 years on $10k.

It's not usually that high but it's not totally uncommon for me to spend that much a month. I usually try to keep my spending between $1,200-1,800/month but that doesn't always happen.

How in the world are you able to live off $5k/year? My last months credit card bill was $2.6k and I don't even pay rent or tuition on my card. I'm also single with no dependents, own my own car, and have extremely cheap rent.

No he wasn't.

When I was 15 my grandfather took me out into the woods to teach me to drive stick in a 30,000 lb dump truck. I had never driven anything bigger than a golf cart before. My space to work with was a clearing maybe three times the size of the truck. I did not learn to drive stick that day.

I've had my 40 oz Contigo for maybe 6 months. I honestly don't like it that much because it leaks a little, but it was the only design at Walmart that I liked and I don't exactly have the money to buy a different one.

I'm genuinely shocked that you're the only one in this thread who picked up on "I'd never heard of narcissism until I recently watched some YouTube videos and concluded that both my parents and several of my relatives are narcissists.".

I'm not going to say it's impossible, but I'm highly skeptical.

Regardless of the reliability of the definitions used, I really do think you have provided the best advice in this thread. OP, if you read this, I agree with them full-heartedly. Seak out whatever counseling you can and look to more than just YouTube / the internet for information.

Really? You find it accurate that many people who want biological children want them over adopting because they dislike/hate orphans?

That might be those people's answer to why they wouldn't adopt, but I'd put a lot of money down that the majority of people who want their own kids feel that way for reasons that are far more nuanced, and far less rooted in hate, than "fuck orphans".

I 100% agree that there are far too many people working the hours I work out of necessity. I also agree that I shouldn't have to work the hours that I do, but I'm also in a less common situation where I'm working these hours out of (to an extent) my own free will. I'm in my clinical year of vet school right now so I fully knowingly signed up for this ahead of time. I absolutely could get another job somewhere else, that would probably pay just as well with better work life balance, but honestly I love what I do too much.

None of that is to say that the medical field isn't horribly exploitative and in desperate need of an overhaul. But also I'm not going to be the one to push for that change, or at least not until I'm firmly established in my field. Unfortunately I've gotta just go along with it for now if I want to be able to keep doing what I love.

Wow, that's a really horrible and judgemental take.