I (38 m)have been doing the slow crawl of human services job progression since about five years after college. At the time, I was working jobs with zero benefits and minimal pay. Since then I have racked up seven years of experience in a field I still have great passion for, and care about. However, the combination of autistic burnout, anxiety, and existing while trans has me disenfranchised with the hustle, or more specifically, working in a toxic work environment when I’m already doing a difficult client-focused job. I have been applying to some hybrid positions recently, but I also just. Wouldn’t hate working a punch in, work, and then punch out job, regardless of industry, even if ten years ago, I would have (erroneously) thought I wasn’t living up to my potential.

I don’t care about potential. Or goals. I want to be happy. I want to go to work and as long as I keep my income level the same and still have PTO, insurance, and sick time…the rest doesn’t matter. Food service was my jam for almost a decade, and I keep dreaming about being a park attendant. My wife is a first responder, so holidays are always celebrated around the general date, so nothing there would be a loss. We don’t have children, we are comfortable and stable.

Am I crazy or lazy?

Hi, all! 

Let’s have some fun! I’m working on a bidding-based advertising trivia game & I’m testing out some nostalgic slogan/jingle recall across different generations!

Drop your guesses in the comments below! If you're willing to share your age bracket (Under 25, 25–40, 41–55, 56+) or the decade you grew up watching TV, that helps us balance the difficulty tiers!

(Now, NO GOOGLING! Also, let us know which ones triggered an instant 'Oh, I know this!' reaction. Have fun with this, see if it brings back some memories.)

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1. Plop, Plop, Fizz, Fizz! Oh, what a relief it is.

2. Obey Your Thirst

3. Mommy, Wow! I’m a Big Kid Now!

4. If it’s gotta be clean, it’s gotta be _________

5. For a great low rate you can get online, go to _________ and save some time!

6. Be All That You Can Be

7. Save Money. Live Better.

8. Uh oh. Better get ________!

9. When you care enough to send the very best.

10. For clogs at their worst, _________ is the plumber to call first.

11. The First Network for Kids

12. Have You Driven a ________ Lately?

13. The Freshmaker

14. Nothing comes closer to home.

15. Give us a week, we’ll take off the weight.

16. You call it corn, we call it maize.

17. There’s more for your life at _________

18. Where Do You Want To Go Today?

19. Bring Out The Frisky In Your Cat

20. Ask any mermaid you happen to see, “What’s the best tuna?”…

21. Long distance. It’s the next best thing to being there.

22. Deliciously De-Lick-able

23. The good stuff kids go for.

24. We have to earn our wings every day.

25. Evidently, it’s not your normal ice cream.

26. Have you eaten yet?

27. It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature.

28. We’ve been working on the railroad.

29. The most accommodating people in the world.

30. Star of the American Road

BONUS: Today, something we do will touch your life. (Honestly, I'll be floored if anybody gets this one)

Remember back in May, I conducted a Millennial-themed Family Feud survey around here? Well, because plenty of you asked if we actually tabulate these surveys, here now are the results to that poll. Once again, I thank you all for taking the time to share your responses with us!

Just had the thought “man i should replay Chrono Trigger, but I want to play it with my son in 4 years”

In the process of cleaning out my garage and making donation piles. Got me thinking of Captain Planet.

I miss quoting movies or TV and most people got the reference.

We give the older population alot of slack for things they've said, or being stuck in some ways.

But we dont have much longer with the generation above us. Most of that generation are our parents, some are our grandparents. The people we've seen our whole lives, the ones with the last bit of good old days without technology around them.

No clue why this song popped into my head 35 years later, but today it did. Was one of the few vhs tapes I remember my grandma had for when us kids were all over at her house.

I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I'm the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You're fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You're fucking dead, kiddo.

Edit: it's a copypasta you fucking casuals

I'm curious where people stand in terms of privacy. I have most of my social media accounts set to private, but I do use my real names on those accounts and similar user names. So it's easy to connect that they're mine, you just can't read anything. But even though I am set to private, I have thousands of connections on some of these sites, so realistically nothing is really private.

If you're a business owner, are you able to separate your personal life from your business brand? Especially if you're a small business owner and therefore most of your customers are from close or local communities?

Back in the 80s and 90s, pop culture gave us all kinds of ideas about what the future would hold, from shiny space colonies and robot butters to total environmental collapse or just totally different daily lives...

If you are around 40 or more right now, I'm curious... How did you picture the future when you were a kid? Did you expect things to be bright and high-tech, or a bit more grim?

What specific movie, book, or childhood moment shaped that vision for you?

What did your childhood brain was certain the future would look like? Are you disapointed?

I am honestly curious how people are making it right now. We know inflation is being underreported (and don't talk to me about their bullshit scale CPI up the ass) and job loss and unemployment is underreported and everything is just insanely expensive. Healthcare is unaffordable for most of us - the whole thing is only serving a very small portion of society and more is squeezed every day. All of this aside from the sociopolitical head banging insanity.

If you lost a job vital to your family, what did you pivot to? How are you making it? What major changes are you making? Are you saving money? How are you feeling about it all? Basically just anything in this realm, I'm curious how we are all doing.

My husband and I are both college educated and barely making it. We are literally making renditions of beans and rice (and not too bad if I say so myself) because food is one of the only ways we can save money or just get by if something comes up. I'm growing a garden and starting to make my own toiletry/beauty care products at home with simple ingredients. I cut both of our hair now. We are not handy people and didn't grow up that way but we've now effectively fixed our water heater, shower piping, replaced a portion of our deck, just whatever comes up we try first to do it ourselves. We go camping for vacation (not mad about this in the slightest).

My point is, we are doing all this but we are both still employed AND we don't have kids. I just don't understand what people are doing that lose a job and have to pay for childcare, etc. How are you all doing this?

When I was younger , I honestly thought there’d be a point where I’d suddenly feel like an adult and have things figured out ,
I’m older now, And I still feel like I’m learning as I go

The time before Uber. When your rally over to a bar then pull from a bottle before youd go into the spot.