[Raion]

Yeah between bouts of depression and mental health issues as well as the occasional odd job I am getting out of the tech industry and trying to become an author.

I worked off and on from 2013 to 2019 in various tech jobs ranging from technical support to system administration. I have to say that increasingly my role was not as a monitor and maintainer but as a disaster manager when the automated systems failed and I hated that. they were trusting everything to a monitoring team in Serbia and Egypt combined with some automation software that literally failed to do what it was supposed to do 99.9% of the time. Critical service changes were usually catastrophic in nature with energetic self disassembly being a common issue. When your services are literally falling apart and you're telling the only people who have the power to fix it that that's not their job you have a serious problem.

I'm trying to become an author simply because I have always had a talent for writing; but it has become one of the hardest points in my life. I'm still going to see it through either way but I'm probably going to spend at least several more weeks feeling sorry for myself and drinking when I run out of motivation to finish the edits.

Overall though the hardest thing that I have had to deal with that has even affected this community is that things that I've considered as part of my life are now considered points of contention that people have to take a partisan stance on. Me and several other members here on various continents happen to be fans of firearms. People feel the need to also speak out about whether or not Japanese anime is "sexist" or "bad for society", keeping in mind that it's been popular in the US since the 80s and nothing bad has happened because of it. And just about everyone has at one point or another tried to push identity politics; myself included. I won't harp too much of that but it always struck me as strange when people make statements based on there race, ethnicity, or sexuality to the expense of everybody else not part of that in group. About the only thing I've ever pushed was in the chat server when we were talking about controversial issues that a lot of people seem to find to be hard topics.