The key to eating healthy is to find healthy foods that are reasonably inexpensive that you can eat as is, or cook simply and quickly with minimal chance of ruining it.

For drinks, water first and foremost, with maybe milk/juice occasionally.

For breakfast, toast/bagel and fruit, or maybe a granola, yogurt, and frozen berry parfait

For lunch, something like pretzels, mixed nuts/raisins (the hidden gem in any healthy diet), cheese and an apple/grapes.

Both of these are quick, healthy and require no cooking. The trick is dinner.

What I recommend is having a three piece meal, a carb so your not hungry, and then a vegetables and a protein for nutrition, all cooked separately.

For carb, pasta is fine, rice is better, but best would be an ancient grain like quinoa or farro, which nutritionally blow them out of the water.

For veggies, broccoli is easy to steam or boil, as is sweet potatoes, but sauted spinach is another nutrition king.

Finally, steer clear of red meat for the most part for your protein. Beans, chicken, turkey and wild caught fish are your friends.

An absolutely killer meal is something like quinoa (boiled), sweet potato (sliced and boiled or baked whole), spinach (sautéd first), and turkey (sautéd second)

Nutritional, filling, two pots, one pan, about 20 minutes total, and the only thing you need to watch is the pan, and spinach/turkey don’t burn fast anyway.

But the most important thing is what you don’t buy. Most people, including me, have poor impulse control when we’re hungry. So go shopping full, and then don’t buy yourself anything unhealthy, because you will eat it later.

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If you like your hair on the shorter side, hair clippers.

I’ve been cutting my hair for a long time now, and have probably saved thousands from skipping barbers, as well as been able to cut my hair exactly as I like it, and far more frequently/conveniently.

But you need to understand, they feel the same way about you.

When you ignore them instead of engaging on every topic, they think you are giving them the silent treatment, which is also associated with children

Give you the mature ones you can learn from, you say. Have you engaged those people? People will be more likely to teach you if they like you, and they’ll be more likely to like you if you talk to them.

I’m not saying you’re wrong that it shouldn’t be this way, and I am agreeing with you that a position of like lab/rad tech with less colleagues might be more fitting to your personality.

But I am saying expecting people to care about you, understand you and treat you well, while you make no effort to do the same, is completely naive and hypocritical.

You say small talk is “irrelevant” to your job, but since you lost that job for not doing it, and it sounds like not for the first time, it is, by definition, extremely relevant.

“I felt they weren’t listening to me.” That is how, by your own admission, you made them feel for 8 weeks. To turn your question around, why should they listen to you?

I understand how you feel. I never understood natural small talk in school, and like you I was ostracized for it.

But the difference is I recognized how important it was to have allies in any environment, and the only way you get them is via socializing.

So I tried, I suffered, I learned and I got better. And that I did that again, and again, and again.

Have you made that effort? You already said you haven’t.

But this episode clearly hurt you, and it’s happened in the past, so don’t you think it’s time to learn?

Einstein once said that doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity.

Have you accepted that if you don’t change, these things will happen, again and again, for the rest of your life? If not, you are insane.

You say they are thin skinned, but to a few external observers, this long post also feels that way. Either don’t change and accept the known consequences of your actions without complaint, or adapt.

Of course it’s difficult. But people do difficult things every day. Think of it as a challenge. In addition to asking “do we give sodium bicarbonate by metabolic acidosis or alkalosis?”, also ask “so, have any plans for the weekend?”. And remember both answers, and ask them how whatever they talked about on Monday.

These conversations don’t have to take long, but just engaging for a minute or two will drastically change people’s perceptions of you. Which, considering those people can fire you, is extremely relevant.

Ultimately, your complaint is they don’t care about you. But you admit to not caring about them or their problems either, so I don’t understand why you’d expect a different outcome.

Thankfully there’s now an easy, low fee, way to maximize your return/risk ratio: Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs).

As I’m sure you know, risk and rewards are correlated in financial markets. Country and corporate bonds that are more risky are less expensive, and so have to provide higher yields to gain investors.

The same is true for stocks, in the sense that you’ll obviously make more money if you can invest in a winner early when their stock price is low. But of course, it’s low because there’s a chance it will fail, wiping your investment.

This is where ETFs come in. Before you had two options: choose individual stocks and risk choosing wrong, or pay a financial consultant outrageous fees to do it for you.

ETFs allows you to track the market, without needing to worry about individual stocks. They also (usually) charge very low fees.

If you are interested in US equities, VOO, which tracks the S&P 500, has a gross expense ratio (ie how much you pay them) of .03%. Considering how 20 years ago you might have paid a financial advisor 3%, it’s literally 100th of the cost. QQQM, which tracks the NASDAQ has a GER of .15%, is also good.

As an Italian, you might also be interested in an EWI, which tracks Italian stock performance, and has actually done pretty well the last year. However it has GER of .50%, so you’ll be paying a bit more. I’m not sure if you have access to different products there, so might be something to look in to. European stocks have done pretty well of late, so you may also want to look into ETFs for other countries (DAX for Germany, EWP for Spain, EWQ for France, etc). Finally you may want to consider emerging markets, like EMXC for China.

Again you may have access to different products, I’m not sure how that works, but basically any ETF which tracks a developed or high growth emerging market country would be good to add to your portfolio, and you should prioritize those with low GER to maximize your returns.

What if we had to torture and murder you to solve global warming? Would that be ok?

Setting goals that matter to you, and then working to achieve them.

Succeed in school. Get a good job. Find a partner. Have close friends. Have a hobby. Be involved in your community. Become a professional athlete. Become the leader of your country. Smoke a bunch of weed, play video games, and do as little work as possible.

All of those things can be parts of a meaningful life, as long as they are things you value.

Each of us gives your own life meaning by the goals we set for ourselves.

There’s no singular meaning, just like there’s no singular life.

Aww, did I hurt your feelings so much that you had to troll again just to feel relevant?

Tell me, when you got owned last time, do you actually process that you’re a waste of space who has no family that loves them, no friends, lives in a one bedroom apartment and works a shitty job, and feels like this is your only way of getting attention that no one will give you in real life?

Or is it more an instinctive biological response, like a salmon swimming upstream?