The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:
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Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.
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Updates to let us know how you are doing. This provides valuable feedback on past advice / encouragement and will hopefully make people feel a little more motivated to follow through. If you want to be reminded to post your update, see the post titled 'update reminders', below.
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Advice. This can be in response to a request for advice or just something that you think could be generally useful for many people here.
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Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).
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So he dropped out of our PhD program about a year ago (probably a fair move, but the way PhD programs work he should have just gritted it out). Since then he's been working at his dad's IT company and neither enjoying it nor doing a good job. The things that caused him to fail in the PhD are the exact same things that are causing him to fail in this new environment (poor work/life boundaries, inability to ask for help, ego). His entire life has become consumed with this boring job that he hates so it's not very fun to talk to him right now.
Ahh that's tough. Yeah it's very hard to watch someone struggling to fit into a good work situation. I know because I was in that myself for much of my life. Still am to some degree.
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