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>>15617194
Kill myself. Can you imagine being a teenager in 2019?

>>15617194
Work a dead end job deluding myself that I'm going to make it.

Join the navy. Get them veteran gibs.

Also because there is a moral difference between a citizen and a civilian.

>>15617194
i would already know what i wanted to do and would have been working toward it my entire life

>>15617194

kill myself and spare the 11 coming years of misery

actually kill myself things are way worse now than 10 years ago

Actually I might just become a monk and shitpost 24/7 just like Brother Nathaniel

>>15617243
This, but pretty much any of the services are a viable option

>>15617194
>pic related
tfw the sauce (Boku Girl) is not hentai...

I wouldnt bother with university, I would stick to ONE thing and master that instead of studying a billion things and being good at nothing.

>>15617194
Learn to code by myself. University only serves to make contacts

I would learn to code and start investing into crypto. MITX is a good choice.

>>15617243
unironically should have joined the army. it's what I was built for but I ignored my heart.

>>15617194
ill fuck all the chicks...jk ill just neet in the basement.

>>15617194
I don't regret the things I haven't done. I regret the things I have done. Don't believe the bs about experience and living your life in the moment.
>t. recovering alcoholic/junkie who blew through a million dollars and dropped out of college because he fell for the party meme

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>>15618423
The worst part is that I can't even remember all the nights of drinking and getting high, theyre just foggy snippets. But every morning when I wake up on the floor of my studio apartment in the inner city at 6 am, let me tell you that feels about as 'lucid' as it gets.
So if I could go back in time to tell my 18 year old self one thing, it'd be 'dont get high, don't get drunk, dont fuck strangers'. The only reason you're encouraged to do that is because of a crabs in a bucket mentality. Your 'friends' want you to make the same mistakes they're making. I bet a lot of those same friends would hate me if I had spent my twenties keeping my money in an index fund and working hard towards getting a good degree.

>>15618450

Happened to me, but as a ghetto anon

Fuck 18, if I could go back in time I’d get my GED at 16, train and certify for my CDL by 18, become an OTR trucker and spend 5 years-8 years working and living in cab making 100,000 a year.

Buy house out of pocket FLA/GA/AZ/somewhere affordable, invest the rest of my money, work a part time job somewhere if necessary to pay utilities and taxes.

A smart 16 year old could be financially free in 9 years if they were led to the right choices, but everyone will push them to take on 80k of debt for a Cuck Studies degree and they’ll end up homeless.

>>15617194
Get into Nippon university and go live abroad for a few years. While there i'd get really good at Japanese and programing, from there you are pretty much set.

>>15617847

But I bet the drawer sure has drawn some hentai before.

Easy mode: killing yourself
Hard mode: Focusing day-by-day on improving yourself physically and mentally

>>15618012
This but the opposite, it's nigh impossible to get a job without a degree

Pursue purpose.
Don't go to college or university.
Get into sales
Focus on making money from 18-21.
Then you can spend time fucking beautiful women later on.
Learn Python
Don't smoke weed or do hard drugs. (LSD)
Learn boxing or kick boxing or some form of martial arts.
Set a goal and don't stop until you get there. Write it down and look at it every day and night. (Financially or physically or mentally etc)
Don't buy expensive cars. Buy a cheap Toyota and fix it up.
Picture the man you want to be everyday.
The days are long and the decades are short.
Learn to meditate.
Don't fap.
And remember.

"Memento mori"

unironically? i would start hrt right away

>>15617194
Well. I lived between places with my gf, parents, and an employer for a while at that time. I completed an associates degree and instead of going straight for my bachelors, I moved across the country and had some fun but ultimately failed. I then NEET'd at home in obscurity and depression for about three years. I moved across the country again, and after nearly two years, failed in my relationship and became homeless, luckily I found a job on a pot farm and was able to earn enough in a short period to support myself living in the city, I would repeat this process for two years, earning enough at my seasonal job to scrape by in town working odd jobs the rest of the year. This year I turned down a job offer at a IT Network, starting at $20 an hour with room to grow, in order to pursue a love interest which ultimately failed. I will be returning to my seasonal job tomorrow. I have $200 in cash, $600 in debt, a 2004 car with 160k miles, and am effectively homeless barring my girlfriend who is an addict with chronic pain but supports herself nonetheless and lets me stay with her for now. I will make between 5-10k at my job and after that be completely listless and drifting again.

I am 29 years old. This may sound like a nightmare but this string of adventure and failure is the only thing that has stopped me from killing myself. Where it not for travel and intrigue, I am pretty sure I would have shot myself or jumped off a cliff.

always get consent

>>15617194
I would read Bronze Age Mindset immediately. Probably the only force that would motivate me to do something based instead of cucking out.This anon is right >>15617270 things are exponentially worse than a decade ago but with no signs of slowing down.

I am 19 fresh out of high school and I went to uni. Oh and I have 20k LINK. Planning to /make it/ since I have no interest in wagecucking.

>>15617194
sauce

>>15617243
I agree with you, but there's a big difference between the US military and a Heinlein-esque one. Some of the biggest, least-moral scumbags I've met are ex-servicemen.
>>15618140
I'd tell you it's never too late, but it's not worth it if you're over 24, unless you really need the gibs.

>>15617207
Unironically this. Being a boomer is pretty a-aight.

>>15620718
I’ve seen you smugposting with your stack quite a few times now. I understand you are ecstatic to be out of the rat race before it begins, but I hope you are still lifting and improving so that you may use this windfall to reach your greatest potential. You must read BAP book.

>>15617194
join military 4 years for free college/trade school

>>15617194
Probably something retarded and self-destructive.

I make 3700/month in disability and got paid 4400/month to go to school in San Francisco for two years when I got out. Also claimed 1800/month in unemployment during that time. Plus got a free A&P cert, fiber optic install cert, various other HVAC related certs, and did 2 semesters of school while I was in. Now I work in a helicopter overhaul shop making 35/hr plus the disability. Military was the best shitty decision I ever made

>>15617207
The girls dress like prostitutes too

>>15618485
at 16/17 I decided to go down the smart pathway of no debt in life 23 now

>>15617194
Two chicks at the same time, man.

Nothing cause I was an even bigger bitch back then than I am now.

>>15621308
Samuel? Samuel Hyderson?

>>15620009
no fap has the opposite effect on me srsly. Makes me uber depressed

Hm, probably the same as I did because I ended up doing pretty well

>>15618500
Why the Japanese? I can do both but I don't see how to leverage the language.

>>15617194
take HRT (hell I would have started earlier even) since I know now that thoting is the best gig.

>>15620132
lol your life is straight out a movie plot

>>15621706
Wouldn't wish it on anyone. Every year that passes I essentially tell myself "something needs to change, I need to develop my skills and get a job, I need to get on the path to home ownership" - it hasn't happened yet. I don't really see it happening, I've spent too much time free from the bells and whistles of a normal job to ever be able to abide those rules. There is a small chance I could shoot for a normal life with a tech job or writing, but mostly I just feel the inertia of my life dragging me into old age and complacency. I don't have any excuses, I'm healthy, above average looking and relatively intelligent. So it goes, I suppose. Being homeless isn't so bad, and most of them have chosen that lifestyle.

I would find a way to assess my skills, and which one of them would give me the most monetary gains in ten years and then dive heads first towards developing and monetizing that.
Meanwhile, I would play the sexual market, looking to develop skills and get a low maintenance cum dumpster (because those actually make you richer by increasing your productivity and reducing tail-chasing mistakes).
After ten years living extremely frugally (because cheap pussy plus cheap internet means that entertainment is easy and cheap) I would the fuck out of this dead end country and move towards a developing one for retirement and to find a pretty (and poor) girl that would worship me.

>>15620009
Why Python?

>>15617194
With all of my accumulated knowledge and experience or without?

>>15622257
I think that it is more of a "you need to give advice to a random average 18yo kid" thing.

>>15617194
by the way, she's not a guy here

work and stack bitcoin as much as possible.

>>15622251
python was good 10 years ago, now not so much, learn javascript if you want to make web apps or automation, learn c++ if you want to make games or desktop apps.

>>15618713
>drawer

Its called "artist"

>>15617194
Learn a trade and start my own small business

>>15622703
what if his drawer is secretly a hentai artist?

>>15617207
came here to say this

>>15617194
Get your PMP and Scrum master certs. Instajobs

>>15623036
I know a girl with a meme degree who became a "project manager" for software devs right out of college, making 100k+. Imagine being some guy grinding your nose for years, entering a competitive highly technical field and being "managed" by project manager stacy, it boggles my mind. That being said, it really is confusing how DevOps, Project manager types have absorbent salaries despite having told me in convos they have no idea how to code, this is actually really good advice

>>15617194
Back in 2013.... I would’ve got a job and went all in bitcoin every paycheck. Then all in eth. Then sell at ATH and keep some for later.

>>15617194
Take hrt and get that BBD

>>15623080
Maybe it's because they know the difference between "absorbent" and "exorbitant"

>>15617194
I would try and pick up a trade apprenticeship, save money, and by the age of 25 (7 years later) move to Brazil, buy a chunk of rainforest, marry an Indian girl, have a gigantic Catholic family, and 100 years from now there will be a chunk of the Amazon swarming with mestizos with my last name. Everyone will wonder why all these mestizos have a German last name.

>>15617194
>If you were 18 fresh out of high school right now what would you do
enjoy being young and not worry about money for another 4-5 years

>>15617194
I seriously have no idea. I'm 22 and all I have to show for is 5 years of job experience, a shitty 40m2 apartment (worth 70k€) and no future which is why I will go back to university.

>>15617194

Don't stay in highschool for an extra year. It wasn't worth it. You'll go back to school through adult day school to finish your HS diploma. Use the money you spend on anime and video games and invest it into an index fund. Don't finance a car when you know full well that you cannot afford it. Going to conventions for drinks and hotel parties aren't worth it. Stop pretending to be come hot shot. You're just the same as the rest of them.

Whatever you do, don't left your own parents get the better of you. They may guilt you into doing things that would only benefit themselves. Don't listen to their nonsense. You gotta make those choices and go through with it. I regret missing out on some great opportunities like a new rental property or even a stack of silver on sale.

>>15621403
Imagine how many untranslated doujins you could read

>>15617194
Get to South Korea somehow.

If I could do it all over again I’d be a bum.

>>15617194
Nothing

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>>15617207
t-thanks for the insight guys. I turned 20 last month.

>>15617194
Stop Masturbating

>>15625288
I'm 22 and finding that their advice was worth listening to a few years ago. Still holding out myself but I'd wanna know for what reason

>>15624147
you're a faggot.

>>15625395
no u