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The area I live in is mostly Denovian Era deposits, so while there are trilobites, they are rared than in places like the Rockies. Dream job would be working with the Burgess Shale in Canada.

This, ladies and gentlemen, is was accountability looks like. I'm happy you got the apology you deserve, Salem, and I'm glad to know people can admit when they have been misled. A win all around, imo.

Thank you ^^

I'll take a look into them and file what I can. Certainly can't make the situation WORSE lol.

I'm gonna lock in and keep it together till my lease is up in May. If they want to treat my like nothing more than a tool, I'm going to treat them like nothing more than a paycheck. They can kiss me doing more than bare minimum goodbye.

My apartment lease (my one big financial commitment) is up in May. I plan on moving back in with my father (who has graciously offered to allow us to live out of my old bedroom rent-free). I'll grit my teeth and bear it for money's sake till its time to start school. Then they can kiss my ass.

I appreciate all the info and I'll look into what is possible in my state. I firmly believe what they are doing wouldn't hold up to legal scrutiny, but it's not about who's right or wrong. It's about who can afford the legal representation the longest.

Thank you so much! It's gonna be a process (I don't think I'll actually be IN SCHOOL till fall 2026 at the earliest) but that'll give me to to fire off applications and organize financial aid.

I will never understand people using KF like it’s some reputable source and not a troll hole that was created to bully a mentally ill person to the point of mental collapse.

iuhgh wip

cw⚠️ noncon

God I wanna slap those pecs like the 50lb bags of rice at the grocery store.

Behold evolutionary perfection!

I appreciate the vote of confidence :3

Thanks for the kind words. It’ll be an uphill battle, but at least there’ll be something better at the top

If I go Paleontology, I wanna specialize in trilobites, because I am OBSESSED with these silly-lookin' little sea bugs!

Thanks Mocha! I'm planning on going back to get a BS in Geology and then hopefully a Masters in either Paleontology or Extraction. If I go Extraction, I wanna on thorium mining, cuz thorium salts can be used to power nuclear plants more efficiently and without the radioactive waste of uranium.

Then consume until there is nothing. And then consume the nothing, as well.

It's gonna be a wild ride and I'm gonna do my level best to keep giving you guys the art you follow me to see and the art that keeps me going at the end of those shitty days.

But I'm finally gonna do something for me.

I know it's gonna be rough and tough and expensive, but that's life right now, anyway. If I'm gonna suffer - if I'm gonna sit up at night scared out of my mind - I at least want it to be in pursuit of what I want. Not chasing after a job that wouldn't piss on me if I were on fire.>>

So, I'm going to do something for me. Something BIG, for me. Something expensive and stressful and maybe borderline crazy, just for me. Once the holidays are past, I'm going to be looking to go back to school. I'm going to get a degree in what I want. In what I'm passionate about.>>

I've been putting myself last since pretty much the moment I entered adulthood. In some cases, I've done it willingly and without regret. Some things are worth sacrificing for. But as I sit here, dreading returning to the job everyone told me I should want, I find myself at a crossroads.>>

So I sacrificed what I wanted to do - what I was passionate about - to get a 'stable, normal job'. Years later, I find out that being a paleontologist can be a pretty in-demand job, considering our civilization currently runs on liquid dinosaurs. So knowing where to find them is pretty profitable.>>

Growing up, I wanted to be a paleontologist. I loved dinosaurs and fossils and not in the way most kids did. I wanted to be nothing else till my senior year of high school. Then I received the dreaded "Well, what are you going to do with a degree in paleontology?" talk from the adults in my life.>>

Before you worry, this is NOT me saying I'm quitting art. It's the one thing that really keeps my head screwed on straight and out of the proverbial oven. But I'm realizing now that I've been sacrificing what I want to do and what will make my life fulfilling in the pursuit of 'normal'.

I'd been sacrificing my mental health and emotional fulfillment in return for a 'stable, normal job'. And now it's neither stable, nor normal. I'm fighting to keep a job I hate, that hates me, all for the sake of just having a job.

My art has suffered as a result.>>

That job has been one I've held for half a decade now and one that, while I was certainly not passionate about, was at least not actively harmful. And in this world, that's sometimes the best you can hope for.

But these past few weeks have put a LOT into perspective.>>

Kind of a Life Update™️

So, these last few weeks have been exceedingly rough for me. My job, that I thought was stable, has become increasingly shaky. My disability accommodation has been effective terminated and I'm going to be forced to return to the office.

Or be unemployed. That's an option.

🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪 Consume until you are sated, little one!

"We are designed by a higher intelligence"

OKAY, BUT THEN WTF IS A MIGRAINE FOR??

We're gonna need to do a year-long, in-depth study and the first step is going to a nice dinner. Trust me, I'm a Scientist™️