Luck is like a rollercoaster to me: bad luck followed by good luck and vice versa. I’m usually either really lucky/unlucky or barely lucky/unlucky. Never really in the middle.

In 2014 and 2015 I was nearly killed or injured in two separate accidents at work. Luckily I got away with no injury. I’ve worked dozens of jobs but they are either high turnover roles or they are part-time and barely pay my rent so I need to be subsidised by social welfare. All the people I meet are bonkers and I feel uncomfortable around normal people anyway, because I don’t have their lifestyle or any career direction. I’ve basically been unemployed since early 2021 with very few small exceptions. Prior to that I was unemployed from about early 2016 til late 2020 then had my job for 5 months but quit due to the intense pressure and my boss threatening me with written warnings for not performing tasks with perfect KPI and too many complaints from impatient customers. It’s just impossible these days. Even with a job I can’t move into a better rental - I’m stuck in a shared house with 8 bedrooms and only 1 communal kitchen which has numerous problems. No car park, so I can’t drive to any jobs now, has to be on a bus route. I got sick of having to share a driveway with the other 6 tenants who all own cars. I have to keep moving my car and then on the road there are time limits. I sold my car at the start of the year and made a loss. It didn’t take long to spend the money because it was so little. I basically bought a board game, some new underwear and a subscription to a website. Also bought new foam (installed on my computer chair) no money now lol

yes, I also have felt cursed for personal reasons I won’t share

Yeah, I’ve been looking for a job for three years, and based on the number of times I’ve reached the final round of interviews only to get kicked down, I’ve started to wonder if I’m on some sort of blacklist.

Life is a roguelite and sometimes the RNG gets bad rolls one after another. Actually happens pretty often.

Sounds like a really shit streak for you though.

I was born on 1993-09-10 (not in the US).

Imagine enjoying your eighth birthday party, then less than 48 hours later, you saw the North Tower collapse through live TV.

Imagine visiting the Kennedy Space Center in December 2002 and you saw Columbia sitting on the launch pad.

Imagine looking forward to your 32nd birthday, then on the day itself, the internet is abuzz because Charlie Kirk was shot.

@shojivr@lemmy.zip Yeah, happens. I used to be very focused specifically on a nonstop failure chains, it took me a while to realize that, depending on your mood, you can attach much more significance and importance to individual setbacks than you did during a time when things were generally a little better. I found it to be an important realization to have and keep in mind, even while sometimes it really is just one crap after another with no mental workarounds about that

Quite often, yeah. Hope you stop feeling that way.

It’s not luck. The gods hate me.