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624 sats \ 8 comments \ @cryotosensei 15 Feb HealthAndFitness

Got your attention, didn’t I?

As an ex-General Paper teacher (for the uninitiated, this subject basically involves pre-tertiary students writing an argumentative essay under stressful exam conditions), I used to find it challenging to get my students to dissect an issue from various angles. To the extent that I used a funny mnemonic to entice their minds to internalise all these angles into their long term memory - SPERM.

S - Social P - Physical E - Economic R - Religious M - Mental

Which aspects of health are you doing well in? What other aspects do you want to improve on?

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24 sats \ 4 replies \ @Aardvark 15 Feb

I'm doing pretty good on the physical and mental, probably could use dome work on the social.

21 sats \ 3 replies \ @cryotosensei OP 15 Feb

You probably enjoy solitude though. Otherwise being a truck driver wouldn’t have worked out.

Are you an ISTP?

48 sats \ 2 replies \ @Aardvark 15 Feb

I'm not actually sure if I got into ISTP or not. Truck driving almost didn't work out for me actually.

When I first started I was an over the road driver across all 48 states. I would spend weeks at a time alone in a truck. It's not an easy way to live. I was extremely happy when I got a local job so I could go home everyday, because thet much isolation isn't healthy.

41 sats \ 1 reply \ @cryotosensei OP 15 Feb

This reminds me of Tom Hanks and his volleyball friend.

Must be tough. I wouldn’t last a week - I’m a people person.

What made you come around to the truck job? The flexibility?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Aardvark 15 Feb

I was in my late 20's and I lost my job. I was single and thought "how hard could driving for 40 hours a week be?"

Well, first of all, legally you can work 60 hours a week, and they expected you to do it. And second of all, like I said the isolation was really bad.

Luckily now, I usually only work 40-45 hours a week, unless it's a busy week. If I need hours, they'll let me work more.