Feeling tired all the time

Show me a picture from Moscow and I will show you pictures from LA, Chicago, and NY.

My cell phone can't do that, but believe me, Russia has not been a country with a functioning social system for a long time, especially not for foreigners from Asia living in Moscow.

You don't need a cell phone. You need Google Maps. I can see every single street in Moscow.
So use Google Maps and show me homeless tents. Save evasive crap for a better occasion.

So many in Rusha, which one do you want.

youtube.com/watch?v=zkpCb9ndD_0

Any one you want with homeless tents.

They can't afford tents so they sleep in the sewers.

news.sky.com/story/moscows-young-homeless-seek-refuge-in-sewers-10150116

I may join them shortly since I'm 75-25 about quitting my job tomorrow.

It's a very good job and pays a silly amount of cash, well into 6 figures, however money isn't everything and quality of life is more important.

I have a few months off, back home in PL, then go back to my old one that pays a bit less and doesn't have the fancy office and the fawning staff but gives more time off, doesn't fvck with my head and doesn't feel like I'm in prison.

Perhaps I'm just being prissy.

I was reading that article about homeless in Moscow to give perspective. If I were in their shoes I'd take any job and they're probably far more miserable than me. Perhaps it's all relative. Money isn't everything however when you don't have it, it becomes everything.

I'll go to bed now, try to sleep and toss a coin in the morning.

Can't offer you any advice, but can only wish that whatever you decide ends up being the right call.

Do let us know what you decided.

Thanks, much appreciated. I suppose I'm just after attention. Cheaper to whine here than to break teacups.

Having just unloaded all my work woes (and it's on topic since I do feel tired all the time; Africans can be very nice people but my God it's frustrating to deal with them sometimes) I got a voice message on a messaging app as soon as I pressed 'post message' here saying "you got what you wanted, sleep tight".

I'll try, and it's now 25-75 about resigning tomorrow. I've only done 3 months in the job so I'll give it another 3 months and decide in July. I've another two job offers for easier jobs, same region, nicer places, half the money, less prestigious and not officially a 'VIP' with all the trimmings but more time off back in Europe to spend with my OH who's alone and very lonely and with an incurable wasting disease and whose country is currently being invaded and fit in longer and more frequent visits to an elderly, declining and lonely parent in a different country.

And it's nicer here than the Moscow sewers or punting out English lessons to the ingrates of Europe.

Rant over, just writing it has helped a bit. I just wish they didn't pay the salary three months in arrears or give me three staff teams on four sites where only half show up in a given day and the other half smoke skunk weed in the staff rooms with their morning coffee and the IT support guy who works for me is a geriatric who literally doesn't know how to turn a computer on.

Africa, Africa. I sort of feel a lot better now and moaning on here is lower impact than a mid life crisis or a nervous breakdown.

I feel a bit better now 😏

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Thanks. The nub of the issue was the amount of time off I get back home in Europe (not been in PL since December and have heavy responsibilities there) which they wanted me to cut short to 2 weeks rather than 4 and of course the money which is crazily in arrears and paid by a government subject to sanctions so my bank reject the transfer they tried to make.

They've (assuming it's not just a lie to mollify me which is distinctly possible) agreed to 3 weeks and I'll try to get it sent to my OH's account in Poland where they're a bit less prissy than England and will just see it as a payment from a UK shell company. I've told them he's my wife's brother. I doubt they completely believe that but they don't seem to care in Africa as long as you make the effort to lie politely.

The real problem is that things that should be little problems escalate and become big ones when you're a long way from home.

Anyway, thanks. Time for bed and time to realise that I'm moaning too much.

As someone who has experience... unless you suspect outright criminality on their part - I would relax. It'll come at some point.

Pick one close to your kids. How many do you have?

How many biological kids are you sure that you have being that none of them look remotely like you do.

I did some work for them once before via a contractor and they paid up in the end. I'd guess it's more just crapness and a bureaucracy that makes North Korea look like a hippie commune. Working for a government can be bad enough if it's a real one. A government with armed rebel militias fighting mercenaries is another level of crazy.

Anyway, time will tell. Either I'll throw a hissy fit and flounce out or see how it goes. They'd massively lose face in the whole region of this country if I left suddenly.