Is it possible for you to at least set a bed time and a wake up time that can be consistent ?
I usually wake up at the last moment, go to work, then a big nap. I have troubles sleeping. Like the other day a granny cut my priority on a roundabout and smashed my car.
I feel I’ll always have money troubles. 
When there is a night I go to bed a it late then I’m so tired I want to nap, I’m so unproductive during the day
That is why I am asking if you can set a consistent time, at first you wont sleep well but if you keep a bed time routine it will improve. You could also try some meditation before going to sleep. The book "The Purposeful Primitive’ has some nice stuff on brain training and meditation. I am sure @TrainForPain or @T3hPwnisher ca suggest other or better references.
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I appreciate the tag, but I don’t sleep very well and haven’t done much that’s been successful getting a handle on it. I typically just give up and get on with my day. I’ve never been a big sleeper, though, even when I was young.
I have been trying the Elite Pro minerals and noticed some super-weird dreams, which I’m taking to mean my sleep is at least maybe a bit deeper.
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I definitely get the vivid dreams. With ElitePro and Mealatonin, my sleep QUANTITY doesn’t get better, but quality is MUCH better. I get very deep sleep
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we have a lot in common, well, mostly negative stuff haha.
I don’t have friends and I don’t go out. I work from home and sometimes there is literally zero work to do, but i have to keep moving my mouse so i look busy. I find social media really toxic. I try really hard to get people to care about my stuff, but at the end of the day they just…don’t. If people care about your stuff that can be somewhat rewarding! I remember one of my stop motion animation barbie videos got like 7 likes and i was over the moon LOL. But it is SOOoOOO not the way to feel accomplishment or base any self worth on it because one day people could just move onto the next thing, ya know? Not saying you’re stuff isn’t awesome enough to keep people around, but it seems to me people have zero attention span these days.
You’re still so young though. I find at my age now (36), i hate how hard it is to stop being depressed because I feel like I don’t have enough life left to be happy.
Chin up buckaroo !! I always enjoy seeing what you have going on in your log 
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Some of them are really odd! I dig it - like a free ticket to a very strange movie.
I’m older than you! I say we don’t have enough time to waste not being happy.
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Well I do have friends I just don’t see them as much anymore. Honestly I feel angry, frustrated, and apathetic all the time.
I know, stop wanting, start accepting. Annoying stuff keep happening to me these last few weeks and I get so angry I want to hit stuff like a child.
I don’t even have my home. I don’t have much money, and sometimes I feel just I have to go be a wage slave to a unqualified labor job I don’t like if I ever want to even rent a place. I feel like my sole value as a being is based on these kind of things. Owning things and money. Well, this is what society wants anyway.
People don’t care about anything much other than themselves. Well some people find value in my things, but not enough to make a good living every month yet.
And I’m barely younger at 32 
but at 36 you still have pleeeeeeeenty of life left lol!
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Not that you asked, but as long as your BUN:Creatinine ratio is in range, this is no big deal! 
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After deloading, taking it easy and stuff, I’m back to hard training. I must admit I’m not super motivated by training right now since I don’t follow a super precise program and I don’t plan on performing well at the comp anyway.
“I can totally relate. I was on short-term disability in my mid-twenties to early 30s. I felt like I wasn’t an adult, wasn’t a real man, and had nothing of lasting value to offer.”
Not related to training, but I saw this quote by @TriednTrue and this hit me. This is how I’ve felt for many years. Well I don’t really have a disability appart from Asperger, which isn’t that annoying, but simply because I don’t have enough money as a man ahah.
Anyway, yesterday’s session, I was very tired and week (went out this week-end, yeah it’s always the same shit, if I don’t change things, nothing will change):
07/11 - Max Effort Upper
A/ Chain Bench 1 x 100 + 40kgs
B/ Incline DB Bench 3 x 8 with 34-38 kgs
C/ Incline 2-Board Bench 5 x 3 with 90 kgs
D/ V-Bar Pushdown 4 x 8 with 80 kgs
Then I had to cut short and gooo
Current shape or so:
I’ll change things and gonna lose a bit of weight. I’ve been wasting enough times.
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Changing things sounds like a good idea.
Losing weight? Doesn’t look like a good idea to me, but what do I know, I’m fat and weak LOL. I know you have said your social media cred is proportional to how shredded you are but… you look good.
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Looking great dude!
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Yeah thanks guys! It’s more that, you know, if I want to do a video ob abs for instance, well I’m not shredded enough ahahah
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I’m curious about this enough money as a man stuff. Do ALL guys feel like this ALL the time? I was with a guy who was down on his luck for a long time and I always bought the groceries, didn’t mind not going out on dates etc. I never once thought oh damn, he better earn some green soon cause this is PATHETIC>
I certainly don’t speak for all men, but I married my wife making significantly more than her. Over double. She was fresh out of college, I had a solid career, just no question I supported us financially.
Then she got into the corporate world. I got some pay raises, but hers came faster and more frequently. I was still making a significant amount more, but she was contributing a lot.
Then she wanted to get her MBA, stop chasing promotions for a bit. I’m paying for that now, and as a result of her getting close to finishing up, she got another promotion, to where we make about the same.
She is pretty much guaranteed to land a job making 150%-200% of what I currently do within the next 12 months. Multiple offers on the table, just trying to find what she wants to do. It will be the first time she is making more than me.
And. I. Am. Thrilled.
Look, I make a good living, I’ve got a respectable job. That’s awesome. It makes me very happy with I could take care of us when we were both young and starting adult careers. But now? If she wants to make a shit ton of money and use it to bolster our investments, take more vacations, buy that cable machine for the garage that I know I don’t need but want anyway? Hell yeah I am down for it. If she keeps getting promoted, my 5 year plans gonna become stay at home dad. I could make a great trophy husband. Start wearing a lot of sweaters, get really into smoking meats and learning obscure WW II history facts (as every self respecting middle class white dude does.) I’ll even get my ass a little apron to wear around the house to do chores while she is off making the big bucks…… wait what was I talking about again? Lol
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No. It depends on how much you buy into traditional gender roles.
That said it sucks to be “poor”, no matter your sex. I speak from experience and I’m not that much younger than OP.
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I have no problem with a girl making mroe than me. I have a problem with me being poor lol.
I never encountered a woman that did not wanted her man to earn more than the average salary, no matter her beauty or status.
It’s just that considering my career, it might take a bit more time yet
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I make about 150k per year currently (before overtime and taxes) and have been pursuing a BS in Computer Information Systems because i don’t feel that this is enough money. If i weren’t married, I’d probably be cool with where I’m at - but the responsibility of providing for a family is a constant weight.
Most women are not okay with “average” anything in men they seek to marry. Top 10% earners, over 6ft, over 6 inches and is responsible for their happiness (blame Disney and evolution, but moreso Disney for happiness).
“Only women, children and dogs are loved unconditionally. A man is only loved so long as he provides something.” - Chris Rock
Sorry for the derail, @Spock81 if you truly don’t care that your man (hypothetical) doesn’t earn more than average - you are a very slim % of women that feel this way. You could watch up on some Pearly Clips or Fresh and Fit on YouTube if interested in learning more about this. Jordan Peterson goes into it a bit as well, just not exclusively.
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I guess I just don’t like the idea of being judgey about where someone is at, or even worse, being hypocritical. I’m 5"0 and have never earned more than average, usually quite less. It would seem messed up to have height and wage requirements in that sense.
Though I will say this, paying for food or this guys gas never ONCE turned me off, but i HATED that i could always eat more than him. I don’t care to earn more, but ill be damned if my portion sizes are 3 times the size.
And he was like that even when he paid so it wasn’t like a guilt thing. It made me feel like a ravenous monster haha
Sorry, off topic. Back to @aldebaran being broke sucks, I’m trying not to rush myself to get to a better place, but it’s hard not to feel shitty about oneself
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Oh yeah, I have the 6 pack, 6 feet, 6 inches, and soon 6 months out ahah, but really not much money. Last month I earned a good living, but not this month. I’m not where I want to yet.
Jesus, I’m poor but I always paid for dates and stuff, and would share with my partner for other things (usually the bigger share)
Women will have the patience for a hot 22 yo with a plan, not a hot 32 yo with a plan. At my age, they want to see the green and that I have already proven myself
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