🩸💀 𝔗𝚎𝚑 𝔅𝚊𝚖𝚜𝚔𝚒 💀🩸

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Cake day: June 23rd, 2023
  • 🩸💀 𝔗𝚎𝚑 𝔅𝚊𝚖𝚜𝚔𝚒 💀🩸@lemmy.worldtoVideos@lemmy.world•What does “The average American reads at an 8th grade level” mean in practice? A worryingly concise explanation.English
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    3 days ago

    Support your local Teachers then. Get involved by learning about the issues your school district is going through. Learn about what teachers are required to do for each class. Voice your opinion at public meetings. If you can, help by volunteering to help a kid or kids, read, write, or work out math problems. Vote on local issues and for your locals. It’s not true for every school district in the US, but there are sometimes positions that the public vote on for school district based things. All and all… it doesn’t have to be like this. But don’t feel down and out if it seems like you’re the only one who cares or is doing something about the issues/problems at hand. So many people work outside the public eye, to better things for the students in schools around the world. If I had a wand and could change one thing in this world that had to do with Education, it would be for the public to become fully aware and knowledgeable of what actually happens on every level of teaching in public schools.

  • 🩸💀 𝔗𝚎𝚑 𝔅𝚊𝚖𝚜𝚔𝚒 💀🩸@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What "deals" have you made with yourself that are real and practical for your purposes?English
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    20 days ago

    After working several months at a grocery store that was supposed to ‘just keep me busy for a time’ while I looked for a better job and allowed me time to study digital marketing, I soon found myself in a dark place.

    I was working at a grocery chain, making only the state minimum wage at the age of 29. I had no intention of keeping it more than three months, and intended to obtain a handful of digital marketing certifications and finish a course I had just purchased, all while working there. But depression, my ADHD-I, self-worth issues, hopelessness, loneliness, and anxiety… all got in my way. I found myself dreading going to work. I dreaded this becoming my long term future. Just over a month in (is my best guess,) is when I started to get suicidal ideations. I knew I needed to change things, but nearly all of the things that would help seemed unreachable for me. I fought myself for weeks, as to whether I was being unreasonable about my situation, or was there really a valid reason to quit and go back to working some temp jobs, while I pieced things together more. Unfortunately, my self-esteem had suffered some hits from my job before. And now I just felt stuck in a crappy life, all over again. Just working dead end jobs, and just to make that ‘all mighty dollar.’ My soul was in rough shape, and I felt like I was losing my mind as the days passed. I started to experience a higher and more pressing suicidal ideation, while at work and at home. I wanted out so badly, and was so ashamed of where I was in my life that I was considering death over any other alternatives. I bought into a lot of the falsehoods that my depression spoke. And I just never seemed to be able to stay afloat long enough to get out.

    I ended up being fired after working there for 7 months and having been switched twice to other job positions, then working as a cashier. I had a lot of mixed feelings about it. Glad that I could move on, but knew that I personally didn’t have anything to fall back on right away. I learned a lot about myself from that whole experience, but the majority only came to me years later. Such as, it takes a lot for me to find a job, and once I have it, I won’t easily move on. Even if it’s heavily wearing on my mental health. It kinda broke something inside of me, and it would take almost a year before I started working again.

    Many other things happened after that, but the main thing was, I started taking my mental health level very seriously. I wasn’t going to allow for a paycheck, to destroy what I had been building up for years and years to have. I wasn’t going to allow myself to sink so deep ever again!