Boards: Ten years ago ...

gozunda

This was boards 10 years ago....

https://www.boards.ie/search/submit/?date_from=07-04-2011&date_to=O8-04-2011&sort=best&query=%2A%3A%2A&page=2

What a difference a decade and a global pandemic makes...

What were you up to 10 years ago?

John Doe1

gozunda wrote: »

This was boards 10 years ago....

https://www.boards.ie/search/submit/?date_from=07-04-2011&date_to=O8-04-2011&sort=best&query=%2A%3A%2A&page=2

What a difference a decade and a global pandemic makes...

What were you up to 10 years ago?

In my 3rd year of an arts degree in Trinity living with with my friends from school who I began to realise were toxic and suffering near constant panic attacks.

Much better now thankfully..

ILoveYourVibes

gozunda wrote: »

This was boards 10 years ago....

https://www.boards.ie/search/submit/?date_from=07-04-2011&date_to=O8-04-2011&sort=best&query=%2A%3A%2A&page=2

What a difference a decade and a global pandemic makes...

What were you up to 10 years ago?

Having the worst year of my life. In hospital. Very ill. In pain.

Not a time I want to dwell upon.

I got better now thank god. Then my father got ill two years later. Then I got ill again.

the first part of that decade was not good.

Everything is ok now though ..or better

ILoveYourVibes

John Doe1 wrote: »

Much better now thankfully..

Glad to hear it.:)

punisher5112

Doing the same sh1t every day

gozunda

Meant to add. As far as I remember I was in Rome with the OH. Those were they days ..

BeerWolf

/shrug

And I still won't know in 5 years time when this account is 20 years old.

A thread I made almost exactly 10 years ago;

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=71706525 :pac:

BeerWolf

BeerWolf wrote: »

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https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=71706525 :pac:

Ever get sorted?

Lewis_Benson

Was unemployed, going back to train.
Now an IT System Admin.

Sky King

The pit of the great recession. Those were some dark days. Never again (hopefully!). Covid doesn't compare, for me at least anyway.

Lewis_Benson

Sky King wrote: »

The pit of the great recession. Those were some dark days. Never again (hopefully!). Covid doesn't compare, for me at least anyway.

Same as.
Was in fear of losing our home back then.

This year has been great for us, selling our house in town to buy a larger house in the countryside

I was at the peak of my powers as a bull****ter, soaking up the hot Mexican sun as I followed in the footsteps of the San Patricios from D.F. to Puerto Vallarta, and wearing an onion tied to my belt, which was the fashion at the time. Now I'm back in Ireland and have of course switched to garlic in accordance with local custom. Later today, on an excursion to Rathmines I will walk up Castlewood Avenue. Cromwell's Koonts marched up Castlewood Avenue back in the day. The dirty barstewards. It was mostly fields back then and instead of paying for things with money, we used to play each other little tunes on the tin whistle, a custom I maintain to this day in Tesco.

amber2

Was the eldest of 3, all alive at this point but both siblings now deceased and one parent, all happened within a short few years. The First in a car accident and this had a profound knock on effect on everyone else’s life, also I’m not that old, at least I think anyways but time ticks on. Oh to turn the clock back if only for a few minutes.

gozunda

amber2 wrote: »

Was the eldest of 3, all alive at this point but both siblings now deceased and one parent, all happened within a short few years. The First in a car accident and this had a profound knock on effect on everyone else’s life, also I’m not that old, at least I think anyways but time ticks on. Oh to turn the clock back if only for a few minutes.

Sorry to hear of your losses amber. In the same decade and within a very short period - myself and the OH lost 3 parents between us.

completedit

I had such a weird decade. I entered it in third level and ended it in third level. The years seemed to speed up since around 2015.

Ten years ago I signed up to boards. There were some excellent posters on the economy forums because of the big disaster. I remember a great poster called BeefToTheHeels. And where did Scofflaw go? Why did he sign off his messages with cordially, ? That used to rile me up real bad in the politics forum.

Hangdogroad

Starting a call entre job with Abtran. Not fun.

pgj2015

I was riding out the recession in College, it was a great year.

Sgt Hartman

I was renting at the time and throwing my money away on video games and DVDs instead of saving for a place of my own . It would be a rough enough decade, with a horrible boss and work colleague, and some other really stressful moments including coming out to my parents and looking for a new place to rent after my old landlady sold up.
In recent years I've moved into a new department at work and myself and the OH have bought a place of our own so things seem to be much better now

JohnCleary

Just back from our first ever backpacking trip. 3 months in SE Asia doing the usual Thailand - Laos - Cambodia - Vietnam route.

Travelling is the best drug ever and we have been doing 1-2 month stints anually in various SE countries since. Damn expensive drug, though!

JupiterKid

A decade ago, I was pretty much on the cusp of a spiral into self-destruction and alcohol abuse. I had to leave a brilliant job because of relentless bullying by a new boss, was continuing to work part-time lecturing in academia, I was very lost and my now OH and I had broken up (we since got back together).

On the plus side, I did get to see Rome for the first time (a truly beautiful city) and went back there the following year. A book I had co-authored was also finally published. At the time I didn’t feel any sense of achievement as my mental health was so bad.

In 2011 I had already been on Boards nearly seven years, my mental health was very poor and deteriorating (severe anxiety and depression - at one stage I didn’t leave my apartment for four months, getting my dad to bring me food etc) so basically I was like a hermit.

Windmill100000

Sky King wrote: »

The pit of the great recession. Those were some dark days. Never again (hopefully!). Covid doesn't compare, for me at least anyway.

I'm the same. 10 years ago I had lost my career and was trying to live on 40e a week so I could hold onto my home. Was getting 196 a week to live on and was renting out a room to assist with the mortgage. I was considering going back to college....

I ended up going back to college (put it on my credit card as no other way to pay for it), got my degree and am now working in the health industry as a frontline worker. I've paid back the credit card, held onto my home and no longer need to sublet.

Back then I could not envision I'd ever be secure and happy again.

r93kaey5p2izun

My life has changed a lot since 2011 in terms of career. The influence of boards definitely played an indirect role in that, and not in a good way. Wish I could warn myself to recognise and ignore the utterly deluded and ignorant stuff from here and the media that affected my decisions back then.

kowloon

I was using the same cheap mesh back office seat I'm sitting on today. The padding has flattened and the cat has clawed some of it. The tilt mechanism is broken and it doesn't sit flat. I'll order a new one, but it won't be the same.

PommieBast

Ten years ago there was a work-life balance: You worked or you life hung in the balance.

I considered myself lucky to have entered the jobmarket at all in 2010 and those 2-3 years in hindsight was classic burnout. Think Red Bull for breakfast...

JimmyVik

Love reading the property threads from 10 years ago and comparing them to todays ones

BeerWolf

Deleted User wrote: »

Ever get sorted?

Yup. Used some prescribed steroid cream that worked great.

Oranage2

10 years ago I failed college, got a dead-end job and felt life was pointless. Ten years later I finished my college course, got married and enjoying life. Hopefully I'll get accepted to a masters course and have a child.

Reading this thread just shows how life has its ups and downs.

theteal

I had just packed in the job and was getting stuff ready for the big move. It was a busy few weeks with a major session thrown in. We'll be here a decade on the May Day weekend - so much for "ah we'll give it a few years to see how it goes. . . ."

Mister Vain

I had just started a new job and met a stunning Polish girl called Dominika. Things were looking good but then I got dumped and my boss turned out to be a cúnt. It has been all downhill since.

gozunda

Was trying to remember what was in the headlines at this time back then. Couldn't think of a thing. ::o

This from next week 10 years ago ...

ednwireland

i was reminded this morning that its my 13 year anniversary working for the company i work for ...Ba****ds

so pretty much the same as im doing now

HeidiHeidi

How on earth can people remember what or where they were at 10 years ago?


I can barely figure out what I did last week!

ETA - I see from my own post that I joined Boards 10 years ago - news to me! How time flies!!! I still couldn't tell you what else I was doing at that time though.....

Mister Vain

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

How on earth can people remember what or where they were at 10 years ago?

I remember everything. I always had a great memory. I can't do basic maths though. Numbers fúck me up.

EmmetSpiceland

I was off having far too much fun to have time for a place like boards.ie.

2011. What a year. I was coming to the end of a 4 year relationship with someone who went on to become one of the most important people in my life. He hasn't been a part of my life for quite some time but I think of him often and hope for the day we can have pints again.

Mammy was diagnosed with dementia not too long after, June I think it was. I remember all those moments like they happened yesterday. Finding tablets and asking her if she's ok. Getting a call from my dad to say she'd "taken a turn". Sitting in the car being told by her doctor that "yes it's vascular dementia and neither of them will accept it". Fùck you doctor I thought.

A lot of bad things happened in that year. Things that changed me and taught me.

All those years inbetween. It reminds me of something I read "I have what I have and I am happy. I've lost what I've lost and I am still happy".

Harry Palmr

Things were worse for me then than they are now. So I'm not looking back!

KungPao

Getting ready to watch Jedward showcase our musical talents at Euro Song 2011.

Dark days.

SVI40

First anniversary of my two sons coming to live with me full time. Best 10 years ever (well, 11), since.

RedXIV

Had a 9 month old and we'd just found out another was on the way. I was in my job for about a year and already not too happy with it but was focused on everything I could to go up the ladder for money for the kids.

My wife showed me photos of ourselves around then and we honestly look like kids.

10 years on and I've got a family of 4 kids, finally made an honest woman out of the better half, both of us went to college and now we're trying to buy a house. No idea how we survived on so little back then but can say I've been very lucky to be so happy the last 10 years. Tired, no question, but very happy

2011 was a bit of a low point, wondered if I would grow old alone and whether I'd ever meet someone that I really loved. I thought at that stage that I was old and over the hill and that I'd missed my chance of having an interesting and happy life, with people my age all around starting to settle down.

Since then I've moved abroad twice, got married and have a 2 year old son. Looking back I can't believe how negative I felt at turning 30. My 30's have been the best years of my life, hands down. I always love the phrase "the day is darkest just before the dawn.....", it's so true. Life can surprise you.

Lewis_Benson

Watch reelin in the years from 2007 upto 2011, we we ré all in a bad way.

[Deleted User]

[Deleted User] wrote: »

All those years inbetween. It reminds me of something I read "I have what I have and I am happy. I've lost what I've lost and I am still happy".

That's a great maxim for these times.

One of the most amazing things about humans, which separates us from animals, is the dual capacity for sympathy and resilience. We can feel terribly sorry for ourselves, or more often, other people; and still have the toughness to stick the head down and keep going.

Would place mental-health professionals at the upper-end of that skillset, btw. It's a very unusual talent when you consider that other creatures have to choose between surviving and caring.
The covid plague is the latest proof that we are capable of both.

A Tyrant Named Miltiades!

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

That's a great maxim for these times.

One of the most amazing things about humans, which separates us from animals, is the dual capacity for sympathy and resilience. We can feel terribly sorry for ourselves, or more often, other people; and still have the toughness to stick the head down and keep going.

Would place mental-health professionals at the upper-end of that skillset, btw. It's a very unusual talent when you consider that other creatures have to choose between surviving and caring.
The covid plague is the latest proof that we are capable of both.

Yes humans are absolutely incredible. Sadly though many many people don't keep going. For one reason or another, usually many, they give up. People who work in mental health are just as (sometimes moreso) flawed as their clients/patients. The difference I think is awareness. In order to help another you must know all of you inside out and not be afraid to face down the demons.

GT89

I just want 2005 back please simpler times

cj maxx

GT89 wrote: »

I just want 2005 back please simpler times

1997 for me

GT89

GT89 wrote: »

I just want 2005 back please simpler times

Man-bags and bootcut jeans and €400k for a semi in Lucan, bought off plans? No a-thank you.

shreko

2011 was the end of a bad few years for me. Several years of being alone and very worried I would never meet someone. Literally around this time 10 years ago, my most recent “relationship” ended. Although we had only been seeing each other for a couple of months I really liked him and felt it was going somewhere. I was gutted, lonely and sad.

10 years later, we are married and have two small babies. Casting my mind back just reminded me of how down I was and how much better my life is now. You never know when life is about to change :-)

uch

After all these years, I still Like Cake

Sgt Hartman

Boards seemed a lot more active 10 years ago across all categories. Now it seems it's not nearly as popular as it once was. If I go to the A-Z to search for certain topics I find a lot of dead topic pages and threads which haven't seen a new post in weeks, sometimes months.

Sgt Hartman

Sgt Hartman wrote: »

Boards seemed a lot more active 10 years ago across all categories. Now it seems it's not nearly as popular as it once was. If I go to the A-Z to search for certain topics I find a lot of dead topic pages and threads which haven't seen a new post in weeks, sometimes months.

I can't understand why. I love the Boards format, ability to type, no limit to characters, can post vids/photos. It's deadly.