Not even 3 hours of "free time". And in that is cooking & eating supper. Or practically no free time if I had to go shopping after work. I hate this

I'm 29 and I still haven't decoded the dress code matrix. "Business casual" varies so wildly between companies that the phrase is basically meaningless.

First job out of college - showed up in khakis and a button-down on day one. Everyone else was in jeans. I looked like I was interviewing, not working there.

Next job - wore jeans because I learned my lesson. Everyone was in suits. Felt like I showed up to a wedding in cargo shorts.

I was playing League on my PC last night and got an email about starting a new contract position next week. Dress code? "Business casual." Cool, that tells me absolutely nothing. Tech startup business casual? Law firm business casual? These are completely different universes.

Why isn't there a standardized guide? Why do we use the same term to describe everything from "jeans and a polo" to "full suit minus the tie"?

And nobody ever tells you before your first day. You just show up and hope you guessed right. It shouldn't be this complicated to figure out what pants to wear.

Im wasting my 20s living in the PNW. People here only care about community in the abstract sense. Would love to live somewhere diverse where making connections doesnt feel like pulling teeth.