No one has to care about you. No one has to be nice to you. No one has to be fair to you. Expecting otherwise is just going to leave you open to getting fucked over. People are only out for themselves and if you don’t want to be taken advantage of you have to watch your own ass.

Nobody is coming to save you. Nobody. If you want help, ask. If you don’t want to ask, learn to save yourself.

Sleep, or you will need to fix all the shit made half-asleep in the next day

Lean in to arguments that piss you off but that you have trouble verbalizing your position in. 9 times out of 10, you walk away able to better articulate your position, 1 time in 10 you end up changing it.

In north America we have a legal system not a justice system.

Cost me over 4000$ and 10 years of my time.

Always check for toilet paper before you shit

Work friends very rarely turn into real friends, learnt this after covering, changing many shifts only to be left out of staff nights out etc, and when I put my foot down and stopped being a doormat for them found myself jobless and friendless, never let it happen since though and much happier.

Sheer spite is a perfectly valid reason to continue to get out of bed in the morning.

Nobody on their deathbed has ever said, “I wish I spent more time in the office.”

A battle you don’t have to fight is a battle won. But if you do have to hurt somebody, hurt them bad enough that they won’t get back up. Otherwise, they’re very likely to come right back at you.

Nothing matters but family and friends. The rest will pass sooner or later, there is no need to cling to it when it is time to let go.

When you feel the burnout building up, you really should not try to stick it out “just until this project is done and I can get some rest”…

The only constant is change

Drink more liquids.

Drugs and alcohol don’t make things better.

If you really think that you can’t continue anymore, you can keep going about 3 times as much before real failure.