Recent content by dan_in_stoke

Starting to feel more and more a loser. As the years go by nothing changes in my life. Watching cousins you used to "baby sit" have kids, get married, move away etc weighs heavy on my shoulders. Ever growing pressure from parents etc to "find someone" and raise a family. When I'm on a train...

Hi, thanks for all the responses, I guess the opinion is they don't work. From my experience is they don't as I have filled in all the various profiles with photos and descriptions, sent numerous, probably 100s of messages and never got a reply. From E harmony I think they might use BOTS as the...

Hi, Currently a member of several dating websites, some with paid memberships :- Eharmony, Elite Singles POF Ok Cupid and Tinder My profile(s) are full and include photos but despite sending out lots of messages and contact requests no one ever replies. Makes me feel like the ugliest guy in...

I'm Dan and I'm in sunny (!) Stoke on Trent. 37 - Not had a friend for many years and I find it difficult to meet / speak to people.

I'm living in Staffordshire

Well it was a girl I used to work with, she did seem interested in me as we often talked and she time to come and speak to me. So I plucked up the courage and asked if she wanted to go out after work. She laughed in my face, told me she was never interested in my and proceeded to tell everyone...

Sorry not posted any replies. I've been extremely busy with work (more than usual), currently doing some research and development with a lot of pressure on me. Thanks for all the comments, I didn't realise there were so many people who felt the same or in a similar situation. Triple Bogey -...

Hi, Been on here a few years but hardly posted. Sorry. I felt quite optimistic at the start of the year (strangely) but things have gone down hill since my birthday in early February.... ...I got 3 birthday cards....1 late, all from my immediate family. Now I've got this deep dark feeling...

Thanks everyone. Believe me I've tried so hard to get somewhere. I'd move tommorrow if I could get a job in a larger city (birmingham, manchester, liverpool, etc) and I have tried, probably contacted as many studios as I could find. About three years ago I was told I should hone my...

I hear where you are coming from, had some similar experiences and going through some of the similar feelings about life currently. How come you didn't finish your degree ? My passion for what I was studying was the only thing that got me through it, did you not have the same ?

Hi Okiedokes, madmoke, rdor, Barbaloot. Yea I get what you say about my degree but from my current point of view, while it was a great achievement, it currently appears to have been for nothing. From my experience breaking into the mainstream CGI industry is probably one of the hardest...

Hi Hawx79, I know exactly where you are coming from. Know exactly how you are feeling. I became the odd one out at college so had no choice to carry on going and endure it. I often feel the same way, if I had done something so bad. I think more likely, they, your work collegues don't know you...

Hi Callie and Barbaloot, Thanks for the welcome. I'm in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, UK. You both make a good point about getting a secondary job, in fact I have tried. I did have one at Woolworths, before it collapsed...it was there during Uni and the manager offered me the opportunity to...

Hi, I know this one of my first posts but something...ok alot of things have been buzzing around my head, keeping me up at night so I'm going vent my troubles... ...Simply put, I'm in my mid 30's and as my sister put it.... ...I don't have a life. I've always been a quiet person, not want too...

Yea, know the feeling. I try to go for a walk most days, get away from my desk but past few weeks its been terrible...so much for a sunny July.