My flight just landed so I should be able to join in 30 mins or so.

PS- Never fly a 20 seat jet, scary as hell.

Isn't low sens players usually easier to tell if they are hacking? Having a high sens player that flicks is usually more common for hackers

At least it's another original excuse. Everyone that I know that goes against a hacker will shut down the game they're playing then either a) look into 10,000 viruses to find one real hack, or b) go out and buy a private hack.

I have a few.

Having, not one, but two exes call me long after we broke up and having no prior conversations to tell me that they were pregnant. To make things more awkward, I was the first person they both have told. I am almost never at a loss of words, but both times I had no idea what to say. After a few LONG seconds of counting how long it's been since you have seen them (1+ years) at least the panic goes away. I still had no fucking clue what to say, they were both 18-19 years old so I didn't think saying "congrats" would work here, nor would saying "Are you subtly asking for a ride to planned parenthood?" So, I just sat there saying "yep" a lot.

When a work colleague turned on his laptop when he got to work and porn was blaring during a meeting.

Every single funeral, since I have no idea how to act and I don't like to hug my family.

Getting caught making out with your (then girlfriend's) roommate and the conversation afterwards.

Making out with a random girl at a party that your date (now wife lol) drove you to and conversation later. Actually, thinking back there is a lot of awkward stories about when my wife and I were "dating" in college but I don't think I want to go into anymore since they make me look like a scumbag (and I was)

OH and a recent one. My wife's grandmother has alzheimers so she always thinks it is still 1930, while at dinner in a real nice restaurant loudly asks "why is there a negro in here?"

Having all the experience you do with stress and unhappiness, how, nowadays, do you deal with those things when they show up again (whatever form they may take)?

I don't think that I do deal with it very well. It's one of the main reasons that I drink, but I can tell you it's worse when you have time to think about it. My first advice would be to keep busy at first and see a professional early rather than later.

I've recently turned 20 and live with a lot of things in life that friends and outsiders have called "unfair", but I haven't found anything I can do or say about my circumstances to be satisfying or bring me happiness. When I deal with things now I tend to emotionally shut down and view everything very logically until it's over, and frequently find myself falling back on escapism (video games, talking with friends, music, w/e).

I understand that completely, since I am/was the exact same way. Most people consider me "cold or too blunt" since I am honestly unable to empathize with people a lot. Talking about it with friends is very helpful and you should continue to do so. It's probably not the best idea to use anything to escape from it since you will never truly be able to and it can lead to later problems. I do have a lot more to add but I feel like the best thing I can do to actually help is for you to add me and talk about it more personally. I have an idea what you're referring to, but it's better to help with specifics. If you rather have me type it out here, just say in this thread and I will add more to it.

I want the view of another person who knows what it feels like to have really bad things in their life that they just can't get rid of, so they just deal with it. (Or more accurately, I feel, just continue existing with it.)

I doubt that it will ever help me. When I started I thought it would, but at this point I just want to finish it. Honestly, it depends on your major, sometimes it is required.

With cream and no sugar.

Never was a fan of them

What are the options

I don't think about it really. I don't think that it matters too much. The one thing that I wouldn't like to be known as is an asshole/rager/troll.

It kinda depends on the company. I worked for OU and we had a separate department that worked on the students computers so we worked exclusively on network itself. We really had 3 departments, two departments were all student labor (comp repair and installation of cat 5 lines) and the real IT department in which we were salary.

To answer the questions as much as I can from that POV, it's true that you have some times that you are doing nothing. While there is always 100 things that need to be done, it's always something that pushed back until tomorrow. It really depends on your work ethics, since it's easy to seem like you are busy when (if) anyone walks into your office. But when things go wrong, it was always our fault. I personally didn't have to do much coding since there was another person that was much better than me, so he handled all the real coding. Most of what I had to do was just pushing his coding to APs and the such. There is quite a bit of maintenance, daily, weekly, and monthly, but as I said before, some things don't always have to be done right then. Doing them often will help in the long term. There is nothing worse than having to drive in the middle of the night to switch out an UPS battery.

I would suggest learning coding honestly. There is always good money and jobs for good coding.

But going to bed for the night, I will answer more tomorrow

As I explained, no one anymore. But at one time I used to be pretty decent.

It's more domestic politics, while I studied International to move to Europe, I haven't been able too yet. I will add more tomorrow.

POLS is a lot more theory than anything else, so very little is used in the majority of political jobs. I have to say that it's more social science mixed with tons of statistics. It's kinda sad and most people won't admit this but voters are nothing but a statistic to anyone outside of field work.

I did in college

It's pretty different. It all comes down to what your job wants. We had to make every inch of Ohio University to have wifi so some days it was pain and other days we would play 2v2 Starcraft BW

I honestly forgot (should say blocked) about a lot of the abuse until I was about 19, and the physical in an odd way helped with sports. It's sad, but something I had to deal with

Edit

I was getting really tired so I want to add a few more things. When I was younger I thought of it as "normal" so it really didn't bother me too much. It wasn't until I was older that I figured out how much worse the abuse got when he was drunk or high. I learned to stay away when he was getting to the point of no longer being able to control himself. Sports really helped in that regard, since I wouldn't be home as often and didn't have to spend hours being bored in a bar. Looking back, I am honestly lucky that I was never in a drunken car accident.

As much as we have a server :P