/biz/ - Business & Finance

Worked my ass off in 2016 and lost 60 Lbs to try to meet the weight limit requirements of joining the military. After nearly a year of trying to lose that weight and working on exercise I finally got into the USAF. Since I'm really tall (6'4") pushups are a fucking nightmare for me, I could only do 2 pushups. I decided while I was in I could either give up like a little bitch or just work even harder so that's what I did. Every day in between drills, after cleaning the barracks, on sunday while everyone was calling family or writing letters I worked exclusively on push-ups

Turns out life isn't like the movies and I tore my rotor cuff instead. I planned on getting into investing (specifically ETH it was like $60-70 at the time) after I got my first few paychecks. I was sent to medhold in basic which was basically a cockroach infested shithole that was built in the 40's that they were about to tear down within a year of my discharge. All day every day all we did was sit in the barracks with absolutely nothing to do and imagine all the cool shit we were going to accomplish when we were finally freed from that shithole. Naturally immediately after being separated with an ELS I moved in with my parents and NEETed it up out of depression for about a year. There were multiple instances where I considered it, but there's no real reason to kill yourself either. The way I see it if you're going to kill yourself you should do it in a creative way like traveling the world as cliche as it sounds, or offing yourself after making the world a better place like a certain recent event that I don't want to get flagged for mentioning.

Cried for the first time since I was 13 about a month after I got out when the realization of how much of a loser I am hit.

>>13716166
Oh I forgot to mention the kicker. I actually managed to get from doing 2 pushups to the min of 35 while I was in, and I tore my shoulder on the retake of the very final PT test. If I could have lasted for quite literally 30 more seconds it would have completely changed the course of my life.

> or offing yourself after making the world a better place like a certain recent event that I don't want to get flagged for mentioning.

Hey buddy, fuck you

>>13716166
>>13716187
Don't give up anon.

>>13716212
not too sure what you mean bromium, I obviously meant donating all of your worldly possessions to Abrams Hebrew Academy for needy hebrew children. You didn't see the news?

>>13716212
fuck off back to plebbit

>>13716237
no :^)

Was homeless, sleeping on the street for 2 weeks and then a shelter for a few months after that. No money, no food, no family, no help. I had a mental breakdown.

I came close to suicide but it's very strange because even though I was in a bad way mentally, I always knew I would/could never go through with it. It was like a coping mechanism, actually being close to doing it was the coping mechanism because I knew would never actually do it.
Now I love every moment of life and I think I appreciate simple things more than other people might.

>>13716225
Thanks brofessor, I don't plan on giving up anytime soon.

Crypto is unironically my last hope to reach a point where I won't have fallen behind my peers in terms of monetary value however.

>>13716166
military life sucks 16 hour days 7 days a week while deployed. get a cushy civilian job and invest in crypto

Son got sick and died. Still have other Children that rely on me. Not a day since that I haven't thought about it though.

>>13716280

How did you pull yourself up out of homelessness anon? Or are you still homeless?

>>13716068
this is probably the most insecure board on 4channel and its no coincidence that it deals with money the most, the most leading factor of insecurity

>>13716068
went bankrupt on extremely high end alcohol and companions. when it was all over i figured it couldnt get any worse and started a business and doing okay now. looking back it was like i was in some kind of multi year escapism trance or a bender that went on for way too long. i started my life again or kept going because i choose to. also no one would help me when i was at my lowest so its kind of a personal effort to prove everyone wrong about it being over for me.

Fired from Best Buy iny my early twenties. My buddy lived down the block and he was deploying to Iraq for a few years. I went across the street and shared a beer with him and someone I worked with dimed on me. The funny thing is I drink only twice a year. Had a federal job (not that great) lined up but I didn't want to lie on a background check about my work history, so I didn't and a month before training they said they couldn't take me. This would make a good AA story.

>>13718204
Ehmm.. have you ever visited r9k or fit?

because outsmart bullet

Was drinking 3 40oz(120oz) of steel reserves a day

>>13716166
Haha I passed all the tests and got in, you must be one fat fuck.

2 pushups?! KEK, what a retarded country!

In mine you need to pass the fitness test before joining, 32 push-ups, 32 sit-ups and a 2.6km run. Peice of piss.

Being fat is like shooting yourself in your own foot, STOP eating Ho Hos and eat some celery.

If you're fat it's your own fault (Only in 0.0001% of cases is it hyperthyroidism etc), go for a fucking walk.

I was in grad school and on an extremely tight budget, I had to use the food bank and pick up cigarette butts on campus just to get by. I was dating a girl from class and I had to use the food bank to cook dinner for us at times, she had no idea of course. I started a part time gig at a warehouse but got fired for sleeping in one time and missed my 4am shift. I ended up getting another part time job at a restaurant but got fired when I refused to be the dishwasher when they were short. They didn’t tell me I was fired, they just never gave me the next weeks schedule or pick up the phone when I called. I didn’t click with the crowd there anyway.

After I graduated I couldn’t find a job in the field I studied, so I ended up at another restaurant but got fired in a month for fucking up with the wine. I had a bitchy boomer customer who got impatient with me opening the wine and said “just give me that” and took the bottle from me to open it. It was loud enough for the whole restaurant to turn their heads and the management didn’t like it.

I fell into a miserable depression. I was jobless and the only way to survive was going on welfare and going to the food bank. This lasted for a year. I regret not getting just any job like even McDonald’s but my stupid pride was too damn strong. I just sat in my room wanting to kill myself every day. I found out about ETH when it was a few dollars but didn’t have the money to invest.

I moved to a new city with the help of my parents. I worked at the most toxic restaurant where some treated me like shit, I got threatened one time over some petty shit so I pushed him against the wall and said if he threatened me again I would end his life. I got out of there and now I work at the city in an entry level position of my studies. I started making real money for the first time and I’m loading up on crypto. I’m learning Brazilian jiu jitsu as it helps me with my depression. I have a car for the first time in my life.

Was full blown schizo for two years. Thought the government was listening in on me and watching my every move, couldn't leave the house, wanted to kill myself constantly. No job. Refused to get on meds until my parents sent me to the hospital and forced me. I went back to school at 21 and continued to deal with extreme paranoia; by some miracle I managed to graduate. I worked a shitty wagecuck job for about six months after that, but I got some additional certs and am now working a decent office job. Still living with parents at 24. Anyway, I'm still pretty broke; I want to put more money into crypto (only have 2k) but I've already lost thousands in the past 18 months.

>>13718451
Damn are you me? Except im on my last $100. At least you had parents. So far the only places that have hired my are AM crews to stock but none give out full time work. My uncle was the las adult to legit care about me and ask how was I doing and he died back in april last year. So now im alone. The only thing I can afford to pay on time is my phone. It just sucks having no power to change things at the moment. Its frustrating. In fact all Im doing with crypto is that pinetwork thing which is still worth 0 and faucets but its literally nothing. Hope it gets better but geniunely scared. Its such a shitty feeling.

>>13716166
I know how you feel I grew up alone and could comprehend how no one cared enough to keep me.

Don't feel sorry for yourself, you're not disabled, you need to get angry not sad, put that anger into going to the gym, negotiating for literally everything and have the mindset that you deserve what you want and you're going to fucking take it.

You want a girl go to the gym get a 6 pack and go to the range, join tinder use the gun pic as the first one and 6 pack as the second one.

Don't ever remain loyal to one, cheat cheat cheat.

Spam linkedin for jobs, lie lie and lie some more.

Thats it, that's how you win in the present society this isn't the 1930s/40s

My lowest is right now. My only source of income is donating plasma and teaching 5-10 y/o chinks english over skype

>>13718423
imagine flexing on a random person on the internet you must feel real cool right now

>>13717714
Sorry to hear you took the ultimate loss. It gets better, anon.

>>13718634
>Imagine being a fat fuck

>>13718601
wish you all the best anon, hold on tight!

>>13718634
That's not even flexing. He's just saying that he meets the bare minimum requirements for whatever is below a human in value. Fatties are disgusting and there is no excuse for not being able to do push-ups or walk a couple feet on a flat surface. I can type over 10wpm, does that mean am flexing on everyone itt? I can even tie my own shoes by myself.

I actually manage to keep going lower. It's an addiction and I'm fully committed to it

>>13718714
yeah fat people are disgusting. create and have problems they burden everyone else with. a fat guy, you can get along with that in the workspace- fat women are just a total waste. with 'fat' i mean really really obese, not the average extra pounds everyone has.

Lost job, couldn't get another in the industry, unemployed for a year. Spent savings on alcohol, got addicted to benzos, lived off of girlfriend.

Didn't eat a bullet cause.. prolly cause of her. Lord knows I thought about it. But realistically, when we die it's all gonna go black anyways so in that case even suffering may be better.

>>13718601
It gets better bro, take on any job and don’t let your pride get in the way. You can get full time work if you lower your standards. It sucks now but at a future date you will be glad that you did and plus it’s easier to look for a job while you hold a job. You are in my thoughts and prayers anon I know what you are going through.

>>13717714
Sorry to hear this man. Keep your head up and do what you can to make sure your kids have the best life you can possibly give them.

Full blown alcoholism and drug addiction for 3 years, ran myself into the ground and hospitalised multiple times. Tried to hang myself twice and failed, third time tried to overdose on pain killers. Cops found me and spent time in rehab for 3 months.

Recovered and was clean for a year before I fell into the pit of depression and ptsd, started drinking again and on the edge of trying suicide again and will make sure it doesn't fail this time if I go through with it.

The only thing keeping me around right now are my siblings and the few thousand I have in crypto that might make enough to help them out in some way.

>>13719621
How did you have money to keep spending on your destructive habits?

>>13719640
I had some money saved from a previous job before I was let go, received a tax refund which I put some into crypto and lived on the rest

>>13716068
When i was like 21 (30 now) i was struggling with alco/weed depressioneurosis which lasts till today (im sober, clean etc since last 8 years tho). It was thought. Every time i drunk next day i was paralyzed human waste. Serious neurosis attacks, not being able to attend uni classes, even get out of the home, from bed. Fapping only. And one day i had a alco fight with my whorish gf. We did amphetamine, tons of wodka, weed, and the next day i was falling into oblivion. My entire neural system was like Chernobyl. Had to stay with my older brother cos was afraid i will jump. Why i didnt? Was too afraid? And already knew that it will eventually pass, someday, one day..8 years later i know i was right. Dont anon.

Spend lots of time in mental institutions from 2015, 2 times in involuntary commitment and 1 time voluntarily. Extreme drug abuse and some health problems, parents and relatives called cops/mental health services on me because I was like awake for 2 weeks and abusing all drugs I could get hands on and passing out on family gatherings and talking weird stuff

I actually had a career in government and other stuff in my early to mid 20s, saved lots of money.

At the moment I am in top 1000 Link wallets but don't think much about it, don't really feel nothing even if the price would go to something like $10 which is already pushing it.. If it has not delivered anything substantial by 2025 then I consider it failed investment

I am going studying this year for a degree I just plan to waste my time on for the next 3-4 years to keep the money flowing in (here in European socialist welfare states you can basically float on the system welfare benefits )

>>13718293
Sorry I'm confused by this. You got fired from your job because you had some beer with someone? And because of this your federal job didnt accept you?

>>13717714

Fuck that's rough

>>13718204

Not in the slightest, biz is the most redpilled board since money is the only barrier between a comfy life and a stressful one, all the other shit is meaningless if there is no food or shelter

Little sister committed suicide. She was my best friend. I thought about it too but realized the damage it has caused my mom. Now I stay strong for the family and focus on making money.

>>13719962
Sorry to hear that mate, this is the kind of thought process I imagine to prevent myself doing the same.