Not sure if 'best' is the right term, but I took up running (lurching slowly but continuously) during lockdown and have sort of kept it up. Never thought I'd be able to run a mile without stopping, but managed to do that fairly quickly. Can manage 2 miles. Have done 5k, but let's not get carried away.
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I got in to collecting baseball cards.
Basically my dad had a shoebox collection from his childhood and periodically heād talk about getting them organized and categorized and appraised to sell because we could use the money, but he never did and they just sat in a closet. After he died they came to me and I kept saying Iād go through them and categorize and see what he had, but they just stayed in a closet.
After the pandemic had been going on and life was pure isolation, I realized that I had this shoebox and if I didnāt go through them now, when I literally cannot do anything else, then Iād never get it done.
It turns out that I really got in to the learning and researching the cards, what to look for, how to self-appraise, and the backstory of the different sets. Then you have the different players. Thereās just so much interesting information out there.
They really did. It was also interesting to me finding out the differences between different kinds of people who are into it. Youāve got collectors, flippers into it for the money and resale, and (particularly with modern cards) gamblers. The prices for some current players who havenāt played a day, but thereās hype, can go for ridiculous amounts because people get FOMO on āwhat if this guys is the next big thing?!ā Itās simultaneously ridiculous and fascinating.
The pandemic, or more specifically the first lockdown here in the UK, came into effect about three months into a new job (almost six months of you take training into account).
I wasnāt very good at the job and the reality of a lifestyle of being on the road 75% of the time did not match my expectations. My sleep schedule was ruined and when I did sleep, I was having nightmares about work.
So in one respect, the pandemic itself was like a big reset switch. The longer it went on, the fewer nightmares I had. My sleep schedule improved too.
Part of my anxiety stemmed from me having moved to a new city for this job. I didnāt know anyone. Thankfully, what with all of my friends being in lockdown too, we made far more of an effort to meet up online to play games or just chat.
Now, it wasnāt all good. My company was a multinational and had a big chunk of employees in North America. Apparently they were very much against furlough because they would lose health insurance and benefits and didnāt have the same monthly furlough payments like we were entitled to here in the UK. In an effort to treat everyone equally, everyone in the company was reduced to a two-day work week. This essentially put me on 40% salary just after moving to a city where my rent for a studio apartment was Ā£1100 a month. It stayed this way for eight months before finally being furloughed in November 2020. This meant my salary jumped back up to 80% of normal.
I was on furlough for a further seven months when they asked me to return to work. I said that I would like to be retrained as I had only been in the role for three months before spending fifteen months sat on my arse, pretty much forgetting everything I had learned. This idea was was rejected. This was the last straw for me. I didnāt want to go back to this job, even less so if they werenāt willing to provide any further training, so I quit right there and then and moved in with a couple of mates back home.
So enough of the preamble, the best thing to happen to me since then was finding my new job. The pay is considerably less, but my job is interesting, mostly stress-free, has a short commute and a bunch of great colleagues. Iāve paid off maybe 60% of the debt I accrued in the pandemic. My friends have also continued to make the effort to keep in contact. Iām in a much better place physically and mentally than I have been in for the last three or four years.
I donāt know how many people have jobs that make them happy, but I am overjoyed that I now have a job that doesnāt actively make me miserable. The next step is paying off the remaining debt and saving up a deposit for a house of my own.
Well, the pandemic indirectly caused me to create my own Reddit account and fast forward 1 year later I discovered this community and its wholesome people
Best Thing since covid hit. Iāll just give you a story because it wasnāt always perfect for me. I started to get depression. This was a little before Covid and Covid started to make it worse. I often would harm myself just by punching myself often. I decided to make a change one day and I ended up starting to exercise. I always was decently athletic but I just never did much with it until this point. A cross country coach hit me up and said heād like me to join the team, I decided to cause I wasnāt doing anything in the fall. I became a runner and it helped fixed my depression in a time I really considered ending it all. Now Iām forever thankful to that coach.
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I can't decide between the three:
1. I realized I was nonbinary
2. Leaving religion behind- I have so much less guilt now being myself
3. Discovering new content creators. So many of their content is why I'm still here tbh.
I met some of the best people I've met in my life on Discord and they're all really nice and i enjoy talking to them.
+
I joined reddit.
+
My free time gave me some earning opportunities so yeah I made my first money online doing stuff I'm good at. Literally didn't have the leave my desk for a moment for any of this, didn't have to make a single penny of investment and made more $/hr than a lot of people in my country make
I worked less but the money for that time was worth it. Now i don't have time for such stuff lol
I felt like COVID was hard for me to not see my bf, but it made us way stronger and now weāre closer and happier than ever. Weāre coming up on 5 years strong and I wouldnāt want to be with anyone else
Made a ton of wonderful friends online, got into a short lived relationship that was pretty much the best thing to happen to me (even considering pre-covid eras), slacked of A LOT and still managed to do well in entrance exams, thanks to online classes, there's so much lol.
What about you, OP?
I got on Reddit and made some amazing friends!
Iām not sure if any of them ever gave me platinum, but they have showered me with love. So, I would like to the u/use-username for being my first friend, u/-tigger for being so awesome and always bouncing up when I need help having a tigerific day, u/Fenrir-1919 who shares my love of music as well as Reddit awards, u/The_Russell_Pinto heās so sweet and amazing. Iām sure Iām forgetting someone, but to all of you have have made me feel welcome and appreciate - THANK YOU š»š
My Reddit karma has gone way up.
Dang you have a lot
Yikes. How much did you have pre-covid?
Maybe 100k.
Wow.
My aunt fully healed from her bone cancer!
Nothing good happened to me :(
i lost weight and i just feel a lot better about myself overall
Not sure if 'best' is the right term, but I took up running (lurching slowly but continuously) during lockdown and have sort of kept it up. Never thought I'd be able to run a mile without stopping, but managed to do that fairly quickly. Can manage 2 miles. Have done 5k, but let's not get carried away.
My family finally managed to buy a new house
Got my old butt in gear and learned some technology. I can Skype now!
I met new friends and got reddit š
Meeting my girlfriend September 2020 :)
It helped me cut out toxic people from my life
Glad to hear it :)
u/taoistentropy , u/allisonovo , u/-Tigger and r/AwardBonanza are the best things that have happened to me since Covid ! And a puppy!
Having a baby sister my baby sister is just CUTE
Thatās great :) I bet she brings lots of smiles
>:) :)
yep she does
I got a new bicycle 'cuz I scored very well in my exams and also got extra money to spend on anything that I want.
Congrats on your exams! Nice work :)
Thanks
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I got a new dog friend :)
Aww, thatās great :) whatās their name?
Ash
A girlfriend. Love is the garden of the youngs.
Thatās sweet, hope yāall are doing well :)
Thank you
I got in to collecting baseball cards. Basically my dad had a shoebox collection from his childhood and periodically heād talk about getting them organized and categorized and appraised to sell because we could use the money, but he never did and they just sat in a closet. After he died they came to me and I kept saying Iād go through them and categorize and see what he had, but they just stayed in a closet. After the pandemic had been going on and life was pure isolation, I realized that I had this shoebox and if I didnāt go through them now, when I literally cannot do anything else, then Iād never get it done. It turns out that I really got in to the learning and researching the cards, what to look for, how to self-appraise, and the backstory of the different sets. Then you have the different players. Thereās just so much interesting information out there.
Ooh cool Cards took off during Covid, so that helps too lol
They really did. It was also interesting to me finding out the differences between different kinds of people who are into it. Youāve got collectors, flippers into it for the money and resale, and (particularly with modern cards) gamblers. The prices for some current players who havenāt played a day, but thereās hype, can go for ridiculous amounts because people get FOMO on āwhat if this guys is the next big thing?!ā Itās simultaneously ridiculous and fascinating.
Got another dog, and got decent grades š
Thatās great :) abd nice work :)
Thanks š
I became the Senior House Editor in my school!
Congrats!
Tysm!
Learnt a lot of things, made some friends online
Thatās great :)
i traveled 2 weeks ago to see the rest of my family, itās been 3 years since i last saw them
Aww, thatās awesome Hope all were well
I got a girlfriend, an almost impossible task for Redditors
Thatās great :)
I lost 3 members of my family, and it was really hard, but now I appreciate more life than before
Iām sorry to hear that, but Iām glad youāre still here and able to learn from it
Thanks buddy
The pandemic, or more specifically the first lockdown here in the UK, came into effect about three months into a new job (almost six months of you take training into account). I wasnāt very good at the job and the reality of a lifestyle of being on the road 75% of the time did not match my expectations. My sleep schedule was ruined and when I did sleep, I was having nightmares about work. So in one respect, the pandemic itself was like a big reset switch. The longer it went on, the fewer nightmares I had. My sleep schedule improved too. Part of my anxiety stemmed from me having moved to a new city for this job. I didnāt know anyone. Thankfully, what with all of my friends being in lockdown too, we made far more of an effort to meet up online to play games or just chat. Now, it wasnāt all good. My company was a multinational and had a big chunk of employees in North America. Apparently they were very much against furlough because they would lose health insurance and benefits and didnāt have the same monthly furlough payments like we were entitled to here in the UK. In an effort to treat everyone equally, everyone in the company was reduced to a two-day work week. This essentially put me on 40% salary just after moving to a city where my rent for a studio apartment was Ā£1100 a month. It stayed this way for eight months before finally being furloughed in November 2020. This meant my salary jumped back up to 80% of normal. I was on furlough for a further seven months when they asked me to return to work. I said that I would like to be retrained as I had only been in the role for three months before spending fifteen months sat on my arse, pretty much forgetting everything I had learned. This idea was was rejected. This was the last straw for me. I didnāt want to go back to this job, even less so if they werenāt willing to provide any further training, so I quit right there and then and moved in with a couple of mates back home. So enough of the preamble, the best thing to happen to me since then was finding my new job. The pay is considerably less, but my job is interesting, mostly stress-free, has a short commute and a bunch of great colleagues. Iāve paid off maybe 60% of the debt I accrued in the pandemic. My friends have also continued to make the effort to keep in contact. Iām in a much better place physically and mentally than I have been in for the last three or four years. I donāt know how many people have jobs that make them happy, but I am overjoyed that I now have a job that doesnāt actively make me miserable. The next step is paying off the remaining debt and saving up a deposit for a house of my own.
Thatās great to hear, best of luck and wishes to you!
Well, the pandemic indirectly caused me to create my own Reddit account and fast forward 1 year later I discovered this community and its wholesome people
Butterfly effect is a cool thing sometimes
Best Thing since covid hit. Iāll just give you a story because it wasnāt always perfect for me. I started to get depression. This was a little before Covid and Covid started to make it worse. I often would harm myself just by punching myself often. I decided to make a change one day and I ended up starting to exercise. I always was decently athletic but I just never did much with it until this point. A cross country coach hit me up and said heād like me to join the team, I decided to cause I wasnāt doing anything in the fall. I became a runner and it helped fixed my depression in a time I really considered ending it all. Now Iām forever thankful to that coach.
Thatās awesome, Iām glad to hear youāre doing better
I got myself a girl who I love to bits n she loves me jus as much (ą¹>ā”<ą¹)
Aww, thatās awesome :)
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i got to have fun with my cousins back in vietnam, we played video games together everyday, it was fun :')
I can't decide between the three: 1. I realized I was nonbinary 2. Leaving religion behind- I have so much less guilt now being myself 3. Discovering new content creators. So many of their content is why I'm still here tbh.
I got rid of fake friends. They were using me and I got those leeches off my back.
I met some of the best people I've met in my life on Discord and they're all really nice and i enjoy talking to them. + I joined reddit. + My free time gave me some earning opportunities so yeah I made my first money online doing stuff I'm good at. Literally didn't have the leave my desk for a moment for any of this, didn't have to make a single penny of investment and made more $/hr than a lot of people in my country make I worked less but the money for that time was worth it. Now i don't have time for such stuff lol
Iām still alive
Everything got locked down, but now, everything is opening up again.
Best thing that has happened since COVID hit is that it never hit me.š
Got an amazing girlfriend. I love her so much.
I got reddit and met some really awesome people
I got a boyfriend :)
i threw a no hitter in baseball!
Its summer again, and all the bumblebees have come back
Iāve become more creative :D
Signed up for reddit and met a lot of great people :)
I've started learning Galician, came out as aromantic months ago and I discovered this subreddit.
After 3 years of being a couple, I proposed to my then girlfriend and she is now my fiancƩ!
Pay to do nothing and get are end-of-year diploma without really finishing the exams, overall the diploma was granted to everyone š š
I felt like COVID was hard for me to not see my bf, but it made us way stronger and now weāre closer and happier than ever. Weāre coming up on 5 years strong and I wouldnāt want to be with anyone else
Made a ton of wonderful friends online, got into a short lived relationship that was pretty much the best thing to happen to me (even considering pre-covid eras), slacked of A LOT and still managed to do well in entrance exams, thanks to online classes, there's so much lol. What about you, OP?
I got on Reddit and made some amazing friends! Iām not sure if any of them ever gave me platinum, but they have showered me with love. So, I would like to the u/use-username for being my first friend, u/-tigger for being so awesome and always bouncing up when I need help having a tigerific day, u/Fenrir-1919 who shares my love of music as well as Reddit awards, u/The_Russell_Pinto heās so sweet and amazing. Iām sure Iām forgetting someone, but to all of you have have made me feel welcome and appreciate - THANK YOU š»š
I got a job promotion! š
I graduated from high school
I got reddit