It seems like its been a fucking time for more than just me, so doing another check-in thread to see how yall are holding up. Especially since its been a LONG time since ive done one of these.
Got something you wanna vent about? Wanna share something cool? Nows the time!
Love you all 
For my own part - back from tour. The band made money, but I am broke. Fortunately, starting my first job in 2 years on Monday, and whats more, ITS FUCKING COOL! Finally out of the tech field, and working thru Americorps to help with a local anti-homelessness organization. Im gonna be doing back end stuff interfacing with other local orgs, but its still a job im happy to have and can be personally proud of rather than working with stupid bullshit SAAS stuff. Met a hexbear on tour and had a great time with them, and after 3 floods in a week, my partner and I are moved into a new apartment and finishing unpacking. This time were on the 4th floor! Nice building, no complaints, place is modern looking and very clean, it just feels surreal after everything that brought us here.
Reinstalled new vegas, believe it or not I have never played this game with mods (I don't do mods in general tbh, unless it's something small like tweaking the graphics a little), please suggest mods
If you don't mind me asking, what was the nature of your old tech job, and why did you leave? I'm in the middle of getting out of the niche area of tech I used to work in (firmware) and looking into other areas, but want to know what to watch out for.
I spent the whole career doing implementations for SaaS systems in different fields. Lost my last job cause straight up, I didnt work (mental health reasons, plus some professional reasons as well). I wont front, I deserved it, but whatever.
Where are you looking to go?
well shit, this is basically what happened to me earlier this year lol. though I intentionally quit before they found out I wasn't working, at which point they would have probably fired me.
I was thinking of switching to something in IT, in the long run network engineering or cloud/devops, but initially I'm probably going to have to settle for being a helpdesk technician since I have no experience in the IT world.
Hope you find something soon! If you wanna chat more, inbox is always open!
last time I played FNV I used this guide https://vivanewvegas.moddinglinked.com/ . i thought it was fun to set up and everything but i had trouble getting MO2 working on Linux (I think its easier these days) and playing too was a good time