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Working from home in an my family is like
Me: *hackerhackerhack on the keyboard*
*Spouse comes in with news about an activist comrade who died in conditions aggravated or directly caused by covid*
Me: *Hackerhackerhack gotta carry on making the internet safe for capitalism*
Me: *hackerhackerhack on the keyboard*
*Spouse comes in with news about an activist comrade who died in conditions aggravated or directly caused by covid*
Me: *Hackerhackerhack gotta carry on making the internet safe for capitalism*
*Kid comes in, distraught about shit going on with the fact their grades were cut down because of the class backgrounds at the college*
*Hug kid quickly and then back to hackerhackerhacking. Some godforsaken fintech API can rest peacefully tonight but I can& #39;t*
*Hug kid quickly and then back to hackerhackerhacking. Some godforsaken fintech API can rest peacefully tonight but I can& #39;t*
*spouse comes back in, one of the folks she& #39;s advocating for is being threatened in her housing and the local tenants union are ignoring racism. She& #39;s mad as hell and needs to vent*
*But I& #39;m here trying to figure out what function prologue is on this particular architecture*
*But I& #39;m here trying to figure out what function prologue is on this particular architecture*
There& #39;s a bunch of other stuff, I& #39;ll stop. One of the things I& #39;ve really learned a lot through this period is that the current shit going on takes a shit tonne of emotional load bearing and distribution to keep us all sane.
And the reason there& #39;s a stereotype of basement hacker dudes is because it& #39;s really really hard to even give a shit about high tech complex abstract stuff when everyone is having such a monstrously shit time, so it really helps to be isolated if you are lucky that way.
It& #39;s 9pm, I& #39;m physically shaking mad about some of the shit not just going on in the world but around and connected to people I know.And tomorrow morning I guess I& #39;ll carry on trying to give a shit about 500 page technical manuals for machines the world would probably do okay w/o
I resisted using the word "emotional labour" to describe mutual care relations earlier in this thread. But I feel like it& #39;s got a role to play in the whole "swallow my feelings about what& #39;s going on, ignore my better instincts and carry on doing the job that feeds my kids" thing.
That being, the emotional labour isn& #39;t in looking after my family, but in pretending everything is fine to keep my job until i get through all this.
