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Hi all, I could really use some outside perspective as I feel completely stuck and don't know what on earth to do. This is a bit long, so for disclosure I ran it though AI to help condense it (and then rewrote chunks of it) - there's lots of specific examples of things I've left out, but hopefully this gets the main points across. Thanks for reading.

TL;DR: Late 30s, stuck in a toxic, dead-end job that’s wrecking my confidence. Should I stay, retrain into a new career, or take a shot at a startup I’ve been building in my spare time?

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I’m in my late 30s in the UK, and I’ve become pretty miserable in my job over the past few years.

When I joined, there were real promises of progressi

Hi all, our old bbq grill got rusty and I'm liking the look of either the Woodfire Electric Grill or the Woodfire Outdoor (Pizza) Oven as a replacement.

I can't afford both, much as I'd like to, so I'm leaning towards getting the Outdoor Oven - if only because it does pizza pretty well (as far as I can tell from reviews) and I've always wanted a pizza oven.

But since this will be our only outdoor cooking appliance, has anyone cooked burgers in the outdoor/pizza oven? Did they turn out OK? I mean I get they'll cook because it's an oven, but just not sure how well they'll turn out. Thanks!

Hi all, hoping you can help me. We're experiencing a heatwave where I live and the car is pretty unbearable - especially for my poor kid in the back.

We have a VW Golf SV (2014). It's in the shade in the morning and the air con will work just fine. But in the afternoon it's in full sun, and the air con barely works - it's slightly cool and the fan hardly works either (even on max fan it's about the same speed as the normal lowest speed).

I did some research into the problem a while ago and remember that it might be a thermistor or resistor needs replacing, but I haven't been able to find what I found before again. And am sadly too broke to take the car anywhere to get looked at professio

I'm really sad that I'm probably going to have to stop taking zep. Only been on it for 2 months - about to finish my first month at 5mg. But the side effects are just too much.

I have ulcerative colitis (autoimmune bowel disease), and didn't have any side effects bar some mild nausea the first week on 5mg. But last week I injected on Sunday evening, ok most of the day Monday, then Monday night I started feeling nauseous. Come Tuesday and I'm running to the toilet with diarrhoea 20+ times in the day, feeling really nauseous still, and had intense abdominal pain that I recognise as colitis pain. Wednesday was better, and the nausea let up on Friday, but I wasn't able to leave the house till

Hi all, does anyone else find that your fitbit/fitness tracker/smart watch gives you absolute garbage info about your sleep?

I haven't worn my fitbit in a couple of years, but started wearing it again after my apnea diagnosis a couple of months ago. I now remember why I stopped wearing it, because the sleep tracking just doesn't seem to work for me. Last night I went to sleep about midnight and woke up about 7.30. But fitbit says I only slept for 30 minutes between 5.30am and 7am (with an hour of 'restlessness'). The rest of the time there's just no data. It's like this most nights.

I can't actually be sleeping that little can I? I've tried giving my fitbit to my wife and it works just f

Hi, anyone dealt with their 18 month old having a sleep regression?

For the last 6 weeks or so, our boy has significantly changed his sleeping habits, and it's starting to get really frustrating. Up until about 9 months he always fell asleep on the boob or bottle, and transferring him to his cot usually went fine. Then we started weaning and reduced the use of bottle at night, having it while winding down before bed, rather than falling asleep feeding. He dealt with this change really well and at about a year we changed him over to a floor bed in his baby proofed room, and that went well too. I mean none of it happened without fuss or difficulty, but it didn't take too long for him to get

I'm at a mid-size practice outside of London (in Dorset) and things are pretty difficult at the moment. We mostly do commercial projects, nationwide, and are increasingly finding clients putting projects on hold or cancelling due to financial pressures. It seems like businesses out there in general, particularly B2C ones like most of our clients, are struggling... which then obviously means we struggle too. The country teetering on the brink of recession for years at a time is starting to feel old!

Anyone else finding the same? How's work where you are and in the sector(s) you work in?

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Hell yeah!

I've been thinking about this for a couple of days, and wonder if anyone else relates to this? Apologies if this is obvious or a well known thing, it's new to me.

So the analogy goes that my senses have a buffer. As in, light comes in to my eyes, then it goes to the buffer, and at some rate the buffer empties. Normally, this is fine. Like in a calm, nice environment the visual information goes into the buffer at about the rate the buffer empties. But some environments require more visual information to process, and therefore take up more room in the buffer. So a bright, busy environment takes up more space in the buffer, therefore it fills up the buffer faster than it can empty, so the buf

Hi all, this is my first post here so I hope this kind of question is allowed. It's a long one, so big thanks to anyone who reads and responds! This is all very much a first world problem, I am aware.

My parents are in their early 70s and have retired this year. We live in Britain and they have long dreamt about living in France (or Portugal, or Germany) when they retire.

Their situation is pretty healthy: their house is worth about £700k, they rent out an apartment worth about £160k for about £10k income a year, their pension is £35k/year (combined), and they have about £150k in savings. Their mortgage on the house is still another £70k ish. They both grew up poor and we were poor when