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Having Hard Time Reading a certain book.

I have started reading Climbing the Mountain My Search for Meaning by Kirk Douglas.

I picked it up at first because thought it was just another celebrity autobiography. But this one is different. Kirk goes over what it like to be Jewish and his search for his spirituality.

The problem is with how things are going in Gaza I am having hard time sympathizing with the Israeli the way written in this book. Further more I wonder how he would feel about it all if he was alive today?

Anyway 134 pages in and when he mentions the name Bibi Netanyahu I stopped and found it hard to breath. He doesn't go in detail about the man but just passing note he wrote as he writing about a lunch he had with Prime minister Yitzhak Rabin. As someone feels strongly that Israeli is committing genocide and Palestine should be set free, not sure I should finish said novel.

What would you do if your over halfway through a book that is interesting but then troublesome at same time?

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asklemmy·Ask LemmybyFredselfish

Based on my last question is there any open source meeting spaces?

I posted asking for advice on looking for work and lot of suggestions said I should try networking. Well that hard to do at 46 and have no true friends or colleagues to reach out to. Now we all know about dating sites, but is there a open source site that is for meeting for friends, or even networking like LinkedIn but not so much bullshit?

If not how would one go about creating such a space?

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asklemmy·Ask LemmybyFredselfish

Where is the best site for job hunting?

I am sick and tired of Indeed. It nothing but sales jobs and it ignores your filters. Monster full of scams or just links to other job searching sites that want you to create an account on their platform. Last ziprecuriter is also full of spam and garbage.

Working from home a year now and tired of the bullshit. Now not getting paid because computer stop working and having to wait for a replacement. On top of always working with no back to back days off.

Anyone know best place to apply? Tried locally but nothing but low pay retail and fast food jobs in the area. I have insurance license and still willing to work remotely.

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mildlyinfuriating·Mildly InfuriatingbyFredselfish

My son job lowered their hiring wage instead of raising it.

Economy getting worse and these asshole franchise decides to lower the hiring range.

When my son started less then year ago he was hired at 13 an hour. Now it's 11. They been short staff and losing workers and my learned this.

Added insult to injury he is getting a promotion to Team Lead which used to pay 17 an hour now it lower to 16. He about fed up working his ass off and a promotion means little when Walmart pays more with a starting wage then where he currently works.

Fucking corporation are fucking stupid.

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