Just 1 ever, and its the one I am working right now. I struggled a lot in my late teens and early 20’s with school and other things, so work was just not possible for me. When I finally was a bit better I searched for almost 3 years, until I got the job I have now. Was really frustrating searching for so long but at least the work right now has been going smoothly

Yea I am. This is common in college too. Club meetings would sometimes just be an hour of everyone venting about their job and nothing else. I’m very aware of how stressful that life can be but god I hated sitting in silence so much cause I didn’t know what to say.

I was confused too which is why I asked. I even talked to the organizer of this specific meetup and he told me that he has been frustrated for the past few that it was such a common conversation. He even asked people in the chat to try to come up with other conversation topics before this most recent meetup and it didn’t really do much. It sucks because many of these people were actually really nice I was just unable to hold a conversation with any of them for very long.

That all makes sense. I just hate talking about things that stress me out so talking about work can be really hard…

Im sure it’s a good way to get to know people. My job is just not interesting so it’s difficult for me to say a lot about it.

I’m gonna ride my bike to the spot it’s at. Should be nice beforehand.

Damn. This is pretty much exactly how I feel too. I see and hear about this kind of awful shit men will do to people so much, and realize that most people I’ve interacted with in my life would probably think I would be like one of those people too. I could never fathom hurting someone in any of the ways described here, so seeing it’s so common makes me so fucking upset and angry. Makes me hate being a dude so damn much.

I’m know that I’m not the target audience, but reading these responses and seeing what everyone has gone through makes me so damn sad and angry. Seeing the shit people will put others through is so upsetting. I’m sorry any of you here had to experience any of it.