The only thing that really works for me is when I make it a 25 minute hyper-focussed challenge: Set a timer and make the maximum progress that is theoretically possible in that time. No getting water, no toilet breaks, no looking at the phone. Beats 3 hours of getting a glass of water, toilet breaks, getting hungry, realising I should work out and shower first and finding more reasons to jump up any day - surprisingly. Got to always treat it as if it were a competition.

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    3 months ago

    The real achievement is that I got my daughter through a high falutin’ extremely expensive college with no debt and now she makes more than I do.

    I had to eat a whole lot of ramen and endure living in a shit hole rat infested rent house to pull it off, but she did the work, I was able to fund it, and it all worked out in the end.

    Somehow, she still voluntarily speaks to me. That’s the achievement.

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      3 months ago

      You’ve done good, bro. Are you getting near retirement? I’ve thought about going back to school and doing it right this time too.

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        3 months ago

        Got about twelve to fifteen years to go depending on circumstance. Been working for forty years as child labor laws weren’t so strict when I was young. Pretty tired and not sure how I’m going to endure the home stretch.

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          If I ever go back to studying, it definitely has to be from home. Might even have worked out the first time then. Over 50 % of my energy went into the logistics of being at a specific location at a specific time with coursework done, and picking up the course certificates. Yes, I did all the courses for an intermediate diploma and more (back before BSc and MSc was a thing), but failed in picking up 20 % of them before they were destroyed.