Great great write-up! I would personally recommend meetups. I have found them to be a great way to be social and meet new people. And one thing that makes it nice is that there's no expectation of becoming life long friends -- being able to have a conversation with a stranger, sharing your life and learning about theirs, is grossly underrated. It is stressful to take that first step -- the first ones I went to, I was basically nautious the entire day leading up to it :P but after you do a few, it gets easier quickly. (Although I will note I don't have a family, so have more time for stuff like this!)
No guarantee you'll find someone at the exact level as you, but you might at least find someone in a similar spot who can relate and provide useful insights!
I've had success with https://meetup.com/ and https://guild.host/ for finding ; can't offer too much help with scheduling :P I generally check the above sites mid-week, and sign up for things in the coming week. That's been a nice sweet-spot for being able to be early enough before things fill up, while avoiding accidentally having to cancel other things in my life for the meetups.
I have been feeling down lately but had no idea why. I decided to write down the answer I came to in a few paragraphs. If that sounds like something you care to read, read on.
Yeah weird. It actually does work on my desktop. Maybe the square space URL isn’t redirecting properly for everybody yet. chrisberry-tech.pages.dev should work until it’s fixed.
Great great write-up! I would personally recommend meetups. I have found them to be a great way to be social and meet new people. And one thing that makes it nice is that there's no expectation of becoming life long friends -- being able to have a conversation with a stranger, sharing your life and learning about theirs, is grossly underrated. It is stressful to take that first step -- the first ones I went to, I was basically nautious the entire day leading up to it :P but after you do a few, it gets easier quickly. (Although I will note I don't have a family, so have more time for stuff like this!)
No guarantee you'll find someone at the exact level as you, but you might at least find someone in a similar spot who can relate and provide useful insights!
Thanks for giving it a read. I am abundantly social. The exact opposite of my wife so nausea to he found. It's more finding and scheduling for me.
I've had success with https://meetup.com/ and https://guild.host/ for finding ; can't offer too much help with scheduling :P I generally check the above sites mid-week, and sign up for things in the coming week. That's been a nice sweet-spot for being able to be early enough before things fill up, while avoiding accidentally having to cancel other things in my life for the meetups.
I have been feeling down lately but had no idea why. I decided to write down the answer I came to in a few paragraphs. If that sounds like something you care to read, read on.
Hmmm the page isn't loading for me, I'm getting a "DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN" error.
Yeah weird. It actually does work on my desktop. Maybe the square space URL isn’t redirecting properly for everybody yet. chrisberry-tech.pages.dev should work until it’s fixed.
https://chrisberry-tech.pages.dev/
Thank you, this did the trick!