i don't think anyone expects you to do any more than you can
and with this rare freetime i am surprised you found the time to post this text at all!
plus you should really keep your money together until better times are there
i wish you all the best for your study and everything else!
don't let other ppl drag you down
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I can only say that every effort has rewards in the future. All the sacrifice you've been doing and you do every day is working towards your future, and the fact of achieve the goals that you put all your time and energy is the most grateful thing in the world, although it seems hard and disgusting at the moment. And like other's guy said in this thread, it's important you make some time for yourself.
Good luck and keep it as cool as you do :)
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Words of encouragement and support:
A few years back, when I was starting a career I loved and getting a degree for it, I would leave at 7 am to go to work, go from work straight to class, get home around 10:30 to 11, then bust open my laptop and catch up on urgent work emails. I would spend my weekends studying, and doing any actual work that needed to be done. During my christmas break from school, I worked 16 hour days, 6 days a week (end of years busy period).
During the last semester, I also had to plan my wedding.
It was totally worth it.
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That's pretty brutal. I'm sure you're eyeballs melted out during all of that. Wedding's not planned yet, but I am planning my engagement and proposal That's a secret though, don't go spreading it around. There are ears everywhere.
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I actually started planning the wedding with 2 semesters to go, but toward the end it was too much.
I remember being assigned to a group project, and just honestly telling the group "sorry. I've been working X hours per week for the last few years, it's my final semester, I'm out of steam, and I won't be pulling my weight".
They were surprisingly sympathetic/accommodating
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The daily grind is hard on a lot of people unfortunately. It sounds like you know where you need to be and how to get there. Stay the course!
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Bump! Don't forget to cimmunicate what you feel to those close to you. It helps both ways, getting some stress foo by letting out all this stuff, and showing that you truly consider them close.
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Stay strong DesertMouse!
You have taken the right choice. Best wishes!
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You are very kind person, thinking about others even when you have hard times. I wish you successful solving of all your troubles!
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Thankfully I had educated for BSc in IT and don't have to care about this now. You having hard time now, but it will pay you later. So keep doing and never give up =)
Bumpy bump and thanks for GAs!
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Bump! Thanks and good luck :) as to you as to everyone who shares a bit of their story, it's not easy to do (especially for me, even if i have a bit a different situation where my first problem is the lack of work and personal stuff that would require some of it especially for my mind).
So hope everything will turn easier :D
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Your hard work, caring spirit and great work ethic will surely pay off in the end. Not only monetarily but in happiness and success in life. Good luck and keep fighting through it! :)
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Life can definitely be tough, but hopefully you're able to find joys in the little things in order to keep trucking along and not get too down. Good luck with your studies, hopefully things get less stressful soon.
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Barely got free time myself, just not as bad OP describes.
Thanks for the GAs.
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I'm sure you can find the strength in yourself. Keep going man! We all know you can do the best! All gamers in this community stands with each other, so don't feel down! And if you do, just open a multiplayer game and swear someone/something :D
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Man I feel you. I went back to college last year and I commute 4 hours everyday. I generally wake up at 5 am and come home at 9 pm. Thanksfully it's just 4 days a week. Good luck and thanks for all the amazing giveaways :)
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It's a hard time, but when it ends, you'll be rewarded.
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you seem pretty dedicated, good luck on getting your degree! Stop giving away these expensive ga;s in the mean time. You can do that again later when the big cash is flowing in after study :) All the best!
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You should make a kickstarter page or something ^_^
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I could never do that. There are so many other people out there that have it worse off. I would feel bad using somebody else's money. I also wouldn't feel right spending anything for myself while i was receiving money from others. Go out to eat someplace cheap for a date once every 4 months? Nope, that $20 was given to me by a stranger. Right or not, that would be going through my mind.
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I mentioned in this thread in the most recent update that I would inform people as to why it has been neglected for a while and I believe that an entirely different topic is the best way to do that for the time being. Before we begin, have a GA to whet your appetite.
I currently work 60+ hours a week, with a 1 hour commute each way. That's 6 days a week filled with 10 hour days. That is because I had attempted to go back into school ( I'm going for a BS in mechanical engineering) after they screwed up my registration by loosing the dean's signature, the previous one. However, because I was joining into the second semester, there was very little financial aid and they wanted over $7000 in less than a week, and there was no way I could do that being completely self-supporting and also dirt poor (actually, I don't even have dirt, but life goes on.). That threw a monkey wrench into things, and long story short, I'm trying to save up to going back part-time to school and finish my degree. That does not leave much time for anything. I have an hour when I wake up to get ready for work, 10 hours on the job, 2 hours of total commuting, and all of three hours before I have to sleep when I get home. That includes eating, showing, paying bills, getting ready for the next day, and yes, spending time with family. I live with my girlfriend and believe it or not, she requires some time too.
Some Kombat should help with your inattention.
Additionally, this means my weekends are pretty full as well. We drove 2 hours each way for this past Easter to go to her mother's for dinner, her grandfather has been sick and we've been getting ready to plan a trip half way across the country if need be (I live in the US, so it actually matters, unlike you in some parts of the UK where you leave the country to go shopping), plan for a dentist visit; need a root canal and get rid of four well-overdue wisdom teeth, had a tire blow out on my ride home one day, student loans everywhere, and responding to a few people who have come to me etc. The point being that I have very little to none of what could be considered "free time". Although I cherish this site and that thread dearly, I have to keep my priorities straight.
Another GA to keep you going in this wall of text.
This does not mean that I will close the discussion, and it does not mean that there is no hope of it being fully updated regularly once more. Hopefully sooner rather than later, I will have the ability to invest more time in it. In the hiatus, I will not be able to update the active giveaways section, nor the total count of GA's, but if people still wish, you are more than welcome to post GA's in the comments as some are still doing. There have also occasionally been a few people that gather the active GA's and have kept an updated list in the comments section. All of it is fair game. If it is the desire of the people to let it be buried until I am able to keep it, or if some would still choose to bump is up to all of you. Just understand where I'm coming from if you would.
The lack of money issue is also why I have been unable to give for a bit now, and i will struggle to do so for a bit to come, but I will occasionally be able to give something like these here. Just not as often as I once was able to. I hope you all are doing the best you can in whatever you are doing in your life and remember, You're never alone. Even if Mad Max seems to be.
If you wish, there is another chance to win two of the GA's in the afore mentioned thread
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