You're feeling what you're feeling because you're trying to treat your mental health issues yourself, and your mental health issues are interfering with your attempt at treatment.
Instead of trying to self-treat, you really should go see a mental health professional; that's what they're there for. Your work very likely will cover it; if not, well, this is why you have savings. Once a professional has helped you deal with your unhealthy attitudes towards work and what could very possibly be depression, then you can determine the best way to move forward with your life.
You could always forward your mail to a friend or relative, which I've also done, but whatever you do, get an address in a state without personal income tax. You don't want to get inadvertently flagged as a resident and sent a state income tax bill which you'll have to dispute.
The problem that I have with scooters is that I can't push my baby's stroller down the street five blocks without running into one left flopped in the middle of the sidewalk. I can't imagine what people in wheelchairs are going through.
New and different is fine, inconsiderate and inconvenient is not.
Indeed. The scooters are fine. The bad manners are a whole other thing. At least once per week on my walk to work I’m pulling scooters off the middle of the sidewalk or out of a handicap conveyance.
A lot of the bad behavior on the road is the same as cyclists in the area, except these scooters are a lot faster than the beach cruisers and fixies you regularly see.
Yea, we can solve this the same way we solve just about every other minor problem, by making it a social norm. We should say something to people who leave them in this state (plus they should design the scooters to stay standing more easily, but these companies are likely as incentivized to do that as scooters that fall break and need repairs).
Side note, sidewalks are generally pretty terrible for people in wheelchairs... cars pulled in across in driveways, curbs without transitions (think of anytime you put the front wheels of your stroller on the curb and lift the back up... how does someone in a wheelchair execute that same move?... they can't), roots, the general disrepair that many sidewalks suffer (terrible in Venice).
Those already exist in Santa Monica. The “dockless” part is what drives the issue. The docked bikes usually end up where they should. The dockless scooters and bikes are put anywhere and everywhere, even if appropriate parking is available. The solution Bird came up with was to pay people who capture their scooters more for challenging returns.
Sorry, I guess I meant have way more spaces for dockless options than we have for docked bikes. Just like dockless cars can park in many different parking spaces.
Could be a reputation system implemented, I'm guessing each scooter has a unique identifier, folks could report a scooter left imporperly. This would hurt the user whom left it there's score.
While good advice in general, I'm not sure this applies in the Portland restaurant market. Renard was pretty boring - good French food, but the same food you've eaten at a dozen other French restaurants - and that, for me, was its problem. So many more interesting places to go!
The cautious thing to do in the Portland restaurant market, as far as I can tell, is to do periodic pop-ups or a food cart and try to build up your repeat clientele to the point where you can justify a brick and mortar location of your own.
I'm guessing you just don't follow local restaurant news (Renard's opening got quite of coverage because it was in St. Jack's old space) or live in that neighborhood.
Portland's a pretty local place. I walk by where Renard used to be almost every day, and can tell you about every restaurant along all of Clinton Street (on that stretch, Burrasca is clearly the standout). But apart from a few very well-known places I've got no idea what's up on, say, Alberta.
Yeah I don't really follow restaurant news. I am just a terrible cook, so I am always looking for new restaurants to eat at, and while I live in SE, I will drive anywhere for the food I want.
Human behavior being what it is, I don't know why we'd be surprised when people who know the pain of rejection are happy to inflict that pain on others.
Reach out, either through a respected intermediary or directly, to CEOs of companies that are about to need executives but haven’t made a bunch of external executive hires yet. Get on their radar before they start their recruitment process.
Sure, this is networking of a sort, but taking a half hour to talk with the CEO of a company you might join is hardly a ‘forced conversation’.
Judging by the remarks on this thread, not many of you are interested - but those of you who are may find this compiled PDF of a Metafilter thread valuable:
I can say without hesitation that learning more about emotional labor (and reading that PDF in particular) has helped me be a better husband and father.
You're welcome to send me an email if you've got specific questions.