/biz/ - Business & Finance

[Anonymous No.7254983]

>mealprep my meals at $3 a meal
>eat by myself at my desk at work
>coworkers laugh and ostracize me for being a boring loser that eats the same thing everyday
>meanwhile they go out and eat at restaurants and spend $8 a meal followed by a Starbucks(tm) coffee for $5

Why are normies so dumb?

[Anonymous No.7255002]

>>7254983
nobody cares

[Anonymous No.7255009]

>>7254983
this is crypto board lad

[Anonymous No.7255013]

Hardboiled eggs are dope

Do your thing, OP, fuck your coworkers

[Anonymous No.7255032]

>>7254983
Normies don't understand the effect of compound gains.
Dumb fucks

[Anonymous No.7255035]

>>7254983
Just remember not to feel any compassion for them once you're well off and they're living paycheck to paycheck.

[Anonymous No.7255046]

>>7255035
>>7255032
way to feed OP's undeserved sense of superiority and insecurities

[Anonymous No.7255057]

>>7254983
Normies will stay normies.

[Anonymous No.7255058]

>>7254983
Frugality is a poor people meme. Make more income.

[Anonymous No.7255082]

>>>/ck/

[Anonymous No.7255084]

>>7255046
>undeserved
Nah, people who have common sense and aren't brainless cattle fully deserve the sense of superiority. What a horrible life yours must be if you look at the average wagie wasting away his earnings every Friday at the club and think "we're totally equal, he is not inferior to me at all".

[Anonymous No.7255087]

the difference between us and them is they waste their money on overpriced useless shit and complain about being poor

this guy is doing the same
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56XYThTXgOQ
>inb4 hurr dur cnbc
he has a good point why normies will be forever poor

[Anonymous No.7255093]

>>7255084
>brainless cattle

Nice one edgy teenager. Grow up.

[Anonymous No.7255104]

>>7255058

This.

[Anonymous No.7255107]

>>7254983
Who the fuck cares OP? Hit jackpot, be fucking rich and come back later to laugh at them while they still need to work for a living. Normies are on a normie job because after all they are just that: normies. I'd rather kill myself instead of being that mediocre

[Anonymous No.7255108]

Eat good food
Fuck women
Drive fast cars
Live life
YOLO motherfucker.

[Anonymous No.7255128]

>>7255009
>>7255002
>>7255058
>>7255104
They spend $13 a day more than me.
22 working days a month = $13 x 23 = $299 which makes $3588 a year.

Now assuming a very conservative growth of 25% a year with cryptocurrencies, I'd have $1,538,106.96 when it's time for my early retirement.

[Anonymous No.7255137]

i bring soup in my thermos when i go into the office. i refuse to spend $8 for lunch at the cafe. i make a lot of money.

[Anonymous No.7255152]

>>7255128
Good for you. So why do you give a shit that your coworkers are going to starbucks? Sounds like you have some self-esteem issues to be honest. Its not your problem.

[Anonymous No.7255156]

Nice saving money.
Life isnt only about money tho.
Id rather have fun eating with my mates at some place than loner eating some dry chicken prepmeal

[Anonymous No.7255170]

>>7255093
t. normalfag spending $10 a day on hipster food

[Anonymous No.7255203]

>>7255170
>>7255128
Yeah and my coworkers will throw jabs at me for bringing a gallon of water to work. It doesn't really matter in the end because I know they're just making banter/conversation. I doubt your coworkers are trying intimidate you into drinking starbucks. You just like to victimize yourself because you're a fag and need to think low of others because you yourself are a boring ass loser

[Anonymous No.7255220]

>>7255203
Absolutely SEETHING

[Anonymous No.7255233]

That actually seems quite delicious, OP. Don't give a fuck about normies. They're cattle who bow down to (social) media, gov't, big companies and so forth.

>>7255156
>than loner eating some dry chicken prepmeal
I see. So you're one of those who can't understand why sometimes people like to be alone and do their own thing. Please elaborate, I'm truly interested in this point of view as it seems to dominate society.

[Anonymous No.7255249]

>>7255220
Why are you seething? Because its the truth? Its time to grow up and stop worrying about other people's lack of frugality. This is high school level stuff. Once you reach adulthood you're not supposed to be concerning yourself with the mistakes of others

[Anonymous No.7255252]

>>7254983
>intermittent fast
>go to the grocery store every night
>buy a cooked chicken for $5
>buy broccoli for $2
>full until the next night

[Anonymous No.7255271]

>>7255058
not really, it's the 'penny saved penny earned' mentality

i'm also pretty frugal, never eat out, meal prep at home, mostly drink water/coffee (brew coffee at home), and don't drink much alcohol or waste money on entertainment.

I generally save ~$20-30k/year more than most of my friends by doing these things. I get to take a nice vacation each year where many of my friends cannot afford to, and I get to invest most of this money into stocks or crypto which results in gains (money working for me) where my friends/coworkers do not.

I like my way better, I'm more comfy, more financially stable. I could afford to lose my job and not find a new one for ~5 years and still not be poor and homeless, where many of my friends/coworkers who are living the high life are actually just living paycheck to paycheck and keeping up appearances.

Frugality is the best way to live if you aren't part of the 1%. Always, and I mean ALWAYS live way below your means.

[Anonymous No.7255290]

>>7255128

Where are you getting 25% annual growth?

[Anonymous No.7255301]

>>7254983
>guy who brings his own lunch but can respect people who do differently
isn’t a loser, manages to become friends with his coworkers

>guy who brings his own lunch and thinks he’s superior to people who don’t
absolute loser, needs a pat on the back from anonymous posters on the internet who also think hes a loser

Frugal people are the ones who “make it” but then immediately make a thread about how they’re thinking about killing themselves because the money didn’t change anything.

[Anonymous No.7255302]

>>7254983
>$8 a meal
Kek, try to $20.

[Anonymous No.7255320]

>>7255249
>Once you reach adulthood you're not supposed to be concerning yourself with the mistakes of others

>/coworkers/ are bullying OP - not the other way round
>OP is at fault because "he is concerning with mistakes of others"
What kind of inversion is this?

[Anonymous No.7255327]

>>7255290
YoY growth of my diversified crypto investment portfolio

[Anonymous No.7255328]

Because they can't see beyond keeping the appereances and that makes them slowly waste their money, time and interests

[Anonymous No.7255339]

>>7255301
This. That kind of negativity just leads me to believe OP is just a generally unlikable person. People acting like they're special because they're frugal and brag about it as if thats not basically the majority of this board ahahahaha

pure neckbeard circlejerk is all this thread is

[Anonymous No.7255342]

>>7255252
Literally what. How? Do you not exercise?

[Anonymous No.7255344]

>>7254983

Why are you still working? I thought everyone in /biz/ did crypto?

[Anonymous No.7255346]

>>7254983
So you're saving $10/day. That's $3,650/year.

By the time you are retired at 60 you'll have saved maybe $142,350 at best.

Meanwhile, you'll have eaten the same thing every day for your entire life, while all your co-workers have realized money is fucking meaningless and have been enjoying themselves and trying new things and having great life experiences.

Good job, keep worrying about saving so that you can FINALLY start to live life at the time that you are first realizing your mortality and that you'll be dead before you know it.

[Anonymous No.7255353]

>>7255233
I said that I WOULD RATHER , Alright?
I have nothing against OP and you.
I have meal prepped myself and the chicken will always be dry.

[Anonymous No.7255360]

>>7255233
To the normie, life is nothing more than a race to consume as much as possible before you die. It's funny because their rampant consumerism also stops them from earning more money via saving and investing, which would allow them to consume even more.

>>7255290
In crypto that's a very low end estimate. If you're in crypto and not making at the very least 25% annual growth, what the fuck are you doing nigger?

[Anonymous No.7255375]

>>7255346
meal prep is good tho. Also probably more healthy, so let's say he haves a year more to live

[Anonymous No.7255378]

>>7255320
>Haha anon chicken breast again? Haha!
>Omg stop bullying im gonna cwy

what a huge faggot you are. Like i said, you have low self esteem

[Anonymous No.7255393]

since when is a coffee $15

[Anonymous No.7255399]

>>7255360
normans life is being "individual"
while all of them look like they were copy pasted in mspaint
>same haircut
>same shit tattoos
>same clothes
>same music taste
>same interests
>travels to tourist magnets all round the world
etc

[Anonymous No.7255401]

>>7255339
Yes, frugality is a curse of the greedy and selfish, people who will never truly enjoy life.

I went through some time where I had to be frugal out of necessity - I literally was eating rice and eggs every day. NOT healthy and NOT what I wanted. My co-workers didn't say shit to me. We all ate together, acted normal, and were friends. This guy has no friends because he's human scum.

[Anonymous No.7255405]

>>7254983

There's no way that anyone laughs at you for doing meal prep. I don't believe that.

[Anonymous No.7255410]

>>7255320
aww da mean poorfags at werk made fun of my chicken i cant handle da banter ;(((

complete and utter homo

[Anonymous No.7255418]

>>7255378
Hmm, no. You're literally making no sense here - how is it that OP is taking care of others life when it's other people who are making fun of him?

Are you unironically and literally a normie?

[Anonymous No.7255427]

>>7255342
A whole chicken is pretty filling anon, that's your normal daily intake of protein for an average adult male

[Anonymous No.7255432]

>>7255346
That's 130k more than his retarded normie coworkers will have, and if he puts even half that in crypto or other investments he'll probably have anywhere between 2x to 20x that.

>while all your co-workers have realized money is fucking meaningless and have been enjoying themselves and trying new things and having great life experiences.
Absolute cattle mentality equating spending money and mindless consumerism to living a great life, good job. Why are you even on /biz/? You're blatantly not gonna make it.

[Anonymous No.7255440]

>>7255418
dey makin fun of me im gonna cwy waHHHHHHh
dey made fun of my chicken bweast wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh mommy plss help me

[Anonymous No.7255454]

>>7254983
>tfw don't even make food for myself
>tfw go through a workday without any food so I can save money.

[Anonymous No.7255471]

>>7255360
>their rampant consumerism also stops them from earning more money via saving and investing

you can't really blame them though since every bit of external influence is telling them to do this; government, big corporation, media, advertising, its all telling them to SPEND SPEND SPEND and PAY TAXES! NOW! NOW! NOW!

the government, corporations, and media don't care about your compounded gains in 10 years, they want your money right now so they can be the ones compounding the gains.

at this point it's cliche to say it but humanity is nothing but tax and profit cattle for the elite, and I know people tend to look down on this opinion but I legitimately feel superior for recognizing this and being a frugal spender who is aware of and avoids media and corporate influence as much as possible.

[Anonymous No.7255480]

>>7255440
Relax, dude.

[Anonymous No.7255487]

>>7255320
In all likelyhood it's just some workplace banter or a mild jab, not "workplace bullying"
And yes, OP IS at fault. We're not judging fault here between two children fighting on a fucking schoolyard, we're judging a singular person on his moronic behavior. WAAAAHH THEY MOCKED MUH PREP! Fuck outta here and stop caring so much about what other people think. OP is never going to make it even if prepping food is a wise financial decision

[Anonymous No.7255500]

>>7255346
>>Meanwhile, you'll have eaten the same thing every day for your entire life, while all your co-workers have realized money is fucking meaningless and have been enjoying themselves and trying new things and having great life experiences.
What if I don't find making fake friends, with fake conversations and pretending to find their conversation topics interesting fun?

[Anonymous No.7255501]

>>7255128

nice blog post retard

[Anonymous No.7255506]

>>7254983
>eating meat
>calling other people dumb

Never change meat-eaters. Hitler would have gassed you

[Anonymous No.7255512]

>>7255002

this is why i come to /biz

[Anonymous No.7255526]

>>7254983
i cant even get off site for food so i bring my own

[Anonymous No.7255551]

>>7255500
Then you don't find making friends fun, and that's fine. Most people will have at least a few things you can relate to them on once you get to know them, but if you don't give a shit to connect socially there's nothing wrong with that.

What there IS something wrong with, is judging others when you are equally if not more of a dumb piece of shit. Instead of living your life to enjoy it, you are busy worried about the people across the cafeteria and trying to justify your own inadequacies through judging them. Pathetic.

[Anonymous No.7255569]

>>7255551
Yeah but I don't say stuff like "Oh, going to eat and pretend to be friendly with one another AGAIN?" every single day to them.

[Anonymous No.7255583]

>>7255432
That's not even remotely true. I promise you that in 9.9/10 cases people who are more social in the work place will go on to make more money than their socially retarded peers. That $130k will be made by some of those co-workers in a single year, and most of them will close the gap within a 5 year time frame.

Next.

[Anonymous No.7255592]

>>7254983
Maybe they can afford to lose 3 grand a year on pleasantries.

[Anonymous No.7255595]

>>7255500
>OP is literally “that guy”
>”too intelligent” for friends but at the same time desperate to socialise as shown by this blatant blogposting

What’s the social equivalent of an incel because OP is that.

[fdjkla No.7255602]

f4g

[Anonymous No.7255606]

>you cannot enjoy your money
>having lunch is a luxury
never gonna make it OP

[Anonymous No.7255623]

>>7255500
Nobody said you have to be friends with them. But being a pathetic wretched angry loser is not going to make your work environment any better and someday who knows, you may need these people to vouch for you and your performance someday. Its called networking dipshit. If nobody likes you and you're constantly snubbing them off are they going to give a shit if anything bad were to happen to you? Probably not

[Anonymous No.7255626]

>>7255592
What if I don't find eating """nice""" food on a time limit fun when I have to deal with the fake concern and pretend to be interested in others for 45 minutes which is then sometimes followed by superficial and materialistic window shopping?

[Anonymous No.7255641]

if you actually had money op you would realize your penny counting is utterly worthless

[Anonymous No.7255647]

>>7255346
True. But it's all about balance. Let's say OP brings lunch 3 days a week and eats out 2 days a week. Save some money and also experience life too.
OP is a total fag.

[Anonymous No.7255651]

>>7255432
Oh and putting aside the fact that you worrying about the "cattle" IS a fucking cattle mentality as shown all over this board, whereas I give no fucks about anyone around me and simply aim to enjoy my own life...

Why am I on /biz/? Why are YOU on biz you reddit tier scum? This isn't a board to share your feelings about how you have no fucking friends and bitch about consumerism. Cry me a river. You need to focus the fuck up and stop worrying about defending your emo clique.

[Anonymous No.7255667]

>all these asshurt normies revealing themselves and getting mad at being called out

It suddenly makes sense why pic related is the /biz/ motto, we have a lot of actual normalfags here. This sure explains a lot.

>>7255471
>at this point it's cliche to say it but humanity is nothing but tax and profit cattle for the elite, and I know people tend to look down on this opinion but I legitimately feel superior for recognizing this and being a frugal spender who is aware of and avoids media and corporate influence as much as possible.

Being right isn't cliché, because that's exactly what it is. Herd mentality is what is relied upon, doesn't matter if a few of us don't fall for it, the important thing is that the vast majority do. Best thing you can do is ignore the herd and do what you know you should do, generally the good stuff tends to float to the top, so if you have the right mentality you won't have too many problems being financially well off for your life.

>>7255583
>wagie cattle living paycheck to paycheck swears he will earn more because he has a lot of friends he goes out drinking with every Friday night

[Anonymous No.7255682]

>>7254983
>networking is a thing
>you lose out on opportunity for $100 a month

[Anonymous No.7255683]

>>7254983

To be fair OP that does look fucking disgusting.

[Anonymous No.7255686]

>>7254983
>Dear diary,
>OP was not a faggot today. I wish him a healthy and wealthy future.
>I too wish I could save money and not get fat. Maybe his normie coworkers will someday be wishing that.
>A boiled eggy and salad seems like a /fit/bros luncheon diet dreams.
>Here I sit in the same position, saving money and tuna fishin'.
>To all the normies who'd laugh at that, I'll smile and watch as they get fat.

Stay rich and healthy, OP.

[Anonymous No.7255690]

>>7255647
and listen to coworkers talk about their boring lives and pretend that I care about them? I don't give a shit about how their kids are doing or whatever goes far beyond the petty foibles of their lives.

[Anonymous No.7255696]

>>7255342
Have you ever eaten a full roast chicken? Go to your local krogers or whatever you have for a super-market, find the whole chicken, usually roasting in a bag or plastic carton with a handle, take it home and eat the whole thing AND a stalk of broccoli and tell me you're not full for the whole day, shit is filling as fuck.
>>7255626
>pretend to be interested
>makes a thread on /biz/ to complain about what others do with their money
Come on, bud...

[Anonymous No.7255700]

>>7255271
Enjoy your anemia and low serotonin levels while I hit on the hot waitress at the local buffet

[Anonymous No.7255708]

>>7255651
>...
>calls me Reddit tier scum

Oh the irony. Also nobody is worrying about the cattle, we're laughing at them. Well, some of us are, others are enraged bovines like you shitting up the thread with your asshurt.

[Anonymous No.7255709]

>>7254983
If you don't spend your gains on good food there's literally no reason to make money.
Food is the only true friend, anything else is a lie.

[Anonymous No.7255714]

>>7255647
Balance is subjective. Regardless of that, it's not the things OP does w/ his money that matters, it's the fact that he's looking over his neighbor's fence ridiculing them for what they do with theirs. That ALONE tells me he's not actually living his life well since.

I hate people like that with a passion. "I'm better than you because I'm xyz..."

No, you're not better than anyone. In fact, you're equally as bad as what you imagine those other people to be, if not probably far worse. You are everything that is wrong with this world.

[Anonymous No.7255722]

>>7255399

/biz/ "individuality"

>virgin
>buy high
>sell low
>has no nice things

[Anonymous No.7255731]

>>7255427
Why did you choose to start fasting during the day?

[Anonymous No.7255743]

OP can't handle the bants

[Anonymous No.7255748]

>>7254983
Because they can leverage their social capital gained from eating at a common place for other things.

It depends on their working environment if it is worth that much though. Being a cubicle warrior makes it pointless. Eating with those with connections will pay huge dividends.

Social capital is really important regardless. Maybe stop being a LARPing loser, OP?

[Anonymous No.7255757]

>>7255708
>Laughs at brown cattle
>Turns around to see many black cattle laughing at brown cattle with him
>Thinks he's not cattle

People like you are bottom dwellers.

[Anonymous No.7255759]

>>7255696
I have something in common with /biz/ but not my coworkers who I dread talking to because I couldn't give a shit about their conversations or lives.

>>7255709
Food is only fuel to live, a temporary pleasure.

[Anonymous No.7255786]

>>7254983
this is a repost from 3 months ago but that anon ate broccoli chicken everyday

[Anonymous No.7255798]

>>7255759
A) You don't know if your co-workers are on biz or not. This is an anonymous message board.

B) What in life is NOT a temporary pleasure?

Do you even hear yourself?

[Anonymous No.7255808]

>>7255759
The temporary pleasure is my only true pleasure, everything is so damn shallow and boring. Probably because I'm a loner fuck. And no I'm not even fat, I just really like flavours.

[Anonymous No.7255812]

>>7255156
>Id rather have fun eating with my mates at some place than loner eating some dry chicken prepmeal
Yeah but OP is at fucking work. Obviously it's necessary to spend money on your own happiness, but there's no reason to waste money on a fucking weekday lunch at work. Save the "eating with your mates at some place" for the weekend and you'll still be saving money.

[Anonymous No.7255818]

>>7254983
Not having the company pay for your meals and on top of that, a kitchen stocked with snacks and beverages as well.

[Anonymous No.7255823]

>>7255128
>Now assuming a very conservative growth of 25% a year with cryptocurrencies,
>lol

[Anonymous No.7255826]

>>7255700
>hot waitress
>not realising it is a trap

[Anonymous No.7255830]

>>7255759
>>7254983

Meal planning is incredibly smart and healthy but you really need to connect with your co-workers more. It kills your career to be to yourself. Don't turn down going out for a lunch on Fridays.

[Anonymous No.7255838]

I used to be like that. Blowing all of my money on shit. Now I have like 20k of debt to pay off and I can barely afford to put anything into crypto. But coming here has changed my entire frame of mind. Now what I want more than anything is financial independence and freedom from wageslaving. So now I think about saving money and investing it 24/7. I’ve never been more driven to save money.

Spending used to be like a drug. I’d get a rush from spending money on shit. Now each day that I don’t spend a dime gives me the best feeling.

[Anonymous No.7255861]

>>7255748
Lifestyle creep
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/lifestyle-creep.asp

So they get double the salary but then start spending double on food and clothes and their homes to keep up with the jonases.

>>7255798
>>7255808
A car is a temporary pleasure but it's at least 15 minutes of temporary pleasure compared to a 15 minute pleasure.

Even worse when you're on a leash during work hours and have to go out with them, find a seat, find a restaurant, argue where they want to eat, listen to their boring conversations, and get back to office. HOW are you suppose to enjoy food on a normal working day when the clock is ticking down when you have to go back?

[Anonymous No.7255864]

>>7254983
>3/meal
Try 3.50 a day.

[Anonymous No.7255875]

>>7255651
>worrying about the "cattle" IS a fucking cattle mentality
I was thinking about that the other day. There's this constant point made by some that "anons do have cattle mentality just like normies".

What you don't realise is what you seem to perceive as cattle mentality is actually people getting /naturally/ grouped in a collective mindset - to put it another way...
>normies are manipulated into joining a social group, and then follow all their ideas and trends
>anons have their own ideas and trends, and end up grouping people with similar thought processes (aka autism and aspies)

That's why you see so many similar stories here about anons being bullied either as kids or even in adult life.

That also explains why chans became so strong with meme magick, and normies, although always social and with similar mindsets, are still just... Cattle, for a lack of a better word.

[Anonymous No.7255904]

>>7255058
Unironically this.
You only pack a lunch because you don't have anything more profitable to do with your time.
I can't personally speak to why your coworkers would spend money frivolously, but what you're doing is just as frivolous, except with your time instead of money.

And sorry to break it to you m80, you've only got a limited time, money is near endless.
Normies win again.

[Anonymous No.7255915]

>>7255500
You are a weird antisocial weird fuck. Your better off in solitary confinement.
Jesus Christ it sucks to be you. I actually feel bad you are the way you are it's sad.

[Anonymous No.7255918]

>>7254983
this is similar to what i do, only i just buy meats n cheeses n almonds/pecans and eat that every day. dumb fucks order out multiple times a week, easily blowing through $40+ extra a week on food. These same faggots will bitch about not having enough money.

[Anonymous No.7255921]

>>7255342
a whole chicken is roughly 1000 calories, tons of fat, and over 100g of protein. that with a huge thing of broccoli (with stem) keeps me full

[Anonymous No.7255948]

>>7255915
>society tells people to be unique
>everyone conforms to the same standards, wears the same clothes, listens to the same music, watches the same shows
really makes you think

[Anonymous No.7255953]

>>7255861
>Lifestyle creep
This. These people are slaves to consumerism and they will NEVER let go of it. If they double their salary, they will double their expenses. It's not about the food or the company or the thing they bought, for these people it's about giving a purpose to their own life by consuming. You don't just drop this, this is something deep seated in their psyche, removing it would take brainwashing-tier therapy.

[Anonymous No.7255977]

>>7255915
>i r-really feel s-sorry for you FUCK YOU ASSHOLE YOU SHOULD BE IN CONFINEMENT YOU DEFINITELY DID NOT STRIKE A NERVE IN ME FUCK YOU

[Anonymous No.7255992]

>>7255921
Yeah great. But your a weird antisocial weird fuck. Do better man your kids will hate you so will your wife she will cheat you will an hero if you keep living like the weird fuck you are. Do better man do better

[Anonymous No.7255995]

OP is the weirdo that everyone in the office thinks will be the office shooter some day lmao

[Anonymous No.7255996]

>>7255904
That's a kind of weird way to put it. Surely by making a cheaper lunch the time spent doing it is also worth it economically over the long term. $5-10 dollars saved per day for 15 minutes work isn't so bad. Unless you're incredibly busy and those 15 minutes are worth more sure. But that will only be a handful of people in this thread if that.

[Anonymous No.7256018]

>>7254983
Agree. Can’t beliebe how fucking retarded some people are with their money. I used to work at subway and there’s be work cunts that came in everyday and would get a foot long and a drink which is like $15. 15x5 = $75 a week just on lunch LOL kys lazy cunts

[Anonymous No.7256043]

>>7255861
Yes, you'll probably spend more time driving than eating in your life (depends on where you live - in a city like NYC, no way). But, the average person will spend more than 3.5 years of their life eating. That's going to be 5% of your entire life, which you have committed to simply not giving a shit about. That sounds insane to me.

And listen, I've said this whole time it's not about you going out with your co-workers or not. If you despise it that much then fine, no reason to put yourself in those situations. But, if you were truly zen and enjoying your life, you'd actually be able to find the good in those situations and enjoy them as experiences. Some of my favorite life experiences have been ones far outside of my comfort zone and being able to just sit back and appreciate the moment because life is not JUST "what I want, when I want it". It's not just the good. It's the bad, the stinky, the gross... life is a wild ride filled with incredible experiences of all sorts. Why not enjoy them all to the fullest capacity you're able?

There's no reason to be so bitter about any of this shit. This is the world you live in, so you can either sulk in the corner over it or make the most of it. That's your choice. It is LITERALLY your choice to make, and you're choosing sulk in the corner.

[Anonymous No.7256068]

>>7255948
Noone tells you to do shiiiiiiiiit. What is this follow the leader. Grow some nuts.

[Anonymous No.7256074]

>>7254983
That meal looks pretty based, bro. I'm seeing plenty of veggies in there, good for your blood pressure.

[Anonymous No.7256088]

>>7254983
That looks like a poor attempt at orange chicken friendo.

[Anonymous No.7256097]

>>7255058
It’s not about frugality. You can cook yourself a better quality meal which happens to be cheaper than buying it as a restaurant or food joint. That’s just a fact.

[Anonymous No.7256104]

>>7255992
ohhh no Stacies won't use me for my money

[Anonymous No.7256125]

>>7255203
Wtf you guys don’t have water provided? We have free coffee and water coolers, just have to bring a water flask or some shit and I’m in manual labor

[Anonymous No.7256160]

>>7255700
how would my lifestyle cause anemia? lol

and i have a girlfriend so i probably wouldn't be hitting on waitresses even if i was going out to restaurants

[Anonymous No.7256165]

>>7256018
You work a minimum wage job at subway and you're talking shit on people for making bad financial decisions?

[Anonymous No.7256200]

penny counting is for plebs

do you think rich people give a fuck about spending $3 vs $10 on a meal for themselves?

[Anonymous No.7256201]

>>7256018
get back to making my spicy Italian you worthless wagecuck

[Anonymous No.7256219]

>>7254983
>I'll take things that never fucking happened for 0.06btc

[Anonymous No.7256224]

>>7255722
Lol

chekd

[Anonymous No.7256249]

>>7255948
Don't listen to these idiots. You keep packing your own healthy and cheap meals and doing you.
They'll regret being social at all costs when they're 45, fat, with high blood pressure, and emotionally dead.

[Anonymous No.7256255]

Why are people defending wasting money? Going into coffee shops regularly is retarded, just use the kettle in the office or fill up a thermos at home in the morning.

[Anonymous No.7256260]

>>7256200
Unless if they're some billionaire tycoon with links to government and taxpayer money, honest rich people /actually/ do care about spending, you know. You do realise you only get rich by saving money and spending less than you earn, right?

Not to say you can't go out and enjoy something more expensive sometimes - I think OP himself said before that he likes to travel sometimes and that's one of the reasons he saves money.

[Anonymous No.7256274]

>>7256200
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/998.The_Millionaire_Next_Door
read this book

contrary to popular opinion, "rich" people that spend lots of money tend to be underaccumulators of wealth instead of prodigious accumulators of wealth

[Anonymous No.7256299]

>>7256249
And by the way, all those "friends" they think they made doing that will turn out to not give a damn about them.

[Anonymous No.7256303]

>>7255948
It's more like, "be new and unique and exclusive and - hey, not like that you fucking weirdo autist". Normies at their finest.

[Anonymous No.7256341]

>>7256274
>the millionaire next door
Fucking trash self-help book written by a non millionaire. Opinion disregarded


>>7256260
>You do realise you only get rich
No, the only way you get truly rich is by maximizing income and building equity in things. If you think you "get rich" by penny pinching you're just upper middle class who lives like a pauper. Don't kid yourself into thinking the actual rich give a fuck about $5 for a meal vs $10

[Anonymous No.7256348]

>>7255996
>a handful of people in this thread
lel you mean a handful of people on this board, if that

[Anonymous No.7256349]

>>7256255
because OP is a faggot. he's the type of person with no friends and no real life. yes, frugal, but he will die alone, and in many ways, is literally just a waste of life.

[Anonymous No.7256367]

>>7255690
>petty foibles
There he is again, the master baitsman!

[Anonymous No.7256416]

>>7256255
Because /biz/ has been swarmed by Redditors and Pajeets that will never make it. Next time you see some retard on this board saying he lost money in crypto, you know the kind of person he is.

[Anonymous No.7256423]

>>7254983
getting hungry watching your meal
looks so healthy tho

[Anonymous No.7256435]

>>7256341
Ok then. By all means, spend fucking $1000 on food every day and let's see if you're correct about saving not being important.

[Anonymous No.7256481]

>>7256416
No, it's because "Waste" is subjective. If I get more enjoyment out of spending my money on food than you get out of saving money on food, and my net happiness over the course of my lifetime is greater than yours, who's better off?

You guys need to take your subjective opinions and place them in a dildo time capsule in your asshole and realize what's right for you isn't right for everyone.

When you're a little older you can pull the time capsule out and realize what a fucking moron you were to spend time downgrading your own happiness simply by judging how others seek happiness.

[Anonymous No.7256487]

>>7255480

rare

[Anonymous No.7256515]

>>7256435
have fun penny pinching your way to an extra $4,000 a year while actual /bizraelites focus on maximizing income instead

[Anonymous No.7256519]

>>7254983
>prepping for 3$ a meal
WTF
>eat by myself at my desk at work
>why didn't i get a pay raise and/or promotion in 15 years?!

[Anonymous No.7256551]

>>7256519
hey dumbass boomer, the only way to get promoted or a raise is to switch jobs, gone are the days staying at your current job and thinking you'll go up the ladder

[Anonymous No.7256577]

>>7256519
Because the boss is a normie and cannot understand someone who's quiet and efficient and would rather promote incompetent albeit incompentent employees.

/biz/ is also full of such stories.

[Anonymous No.7256598]

>>7256551
If you don’t know how to negotiate you’ll never make it

[Anonymous No.7256602]

>>7256577
>incompetent albeit loud* employees
durr

[Anonymous No.7256627]

>>7256577
I can tell you've never actually worked an office job if you think competence is what gets you promoted.

[Anonymous No.7256629]

>>7256598
>get a 10% raise at current workplace
>or apply to a competitor for a 20% raise
HMMMMMM

[Anonymous No.7256655]

>>7256551
If you think that most people who are climbing the ladder aren't switching to roles at companies where ex-colleagues or business acquaintances now work, you're wrong.

You know who gets hired for the 250k+ jobs? Recommendations. You don't walk into an office where nobody knows you and get hired to be a VP or C level. And your odds of getting hired at any job increase ten fold if you were a recommendation.

You will be competing for new jobs with people who are recommendations from current employees, and you will lose and not get hired most of the time. The only place you have even close to equal footing without that advantage is at an entry level position.

As a VP level at my current company I can tell you of the last 4 people I've hired, 3 were recommendations. The last one has since been laid off. Coincidence? Nah.

[Anonymous No.7256668]

>>7256655
majority of normal people aren't going to make more than 120k a year
That' why we dream in crypto

[Anonymous No.7256687]

>>7256668
Keep investing in crypto & I hope it can pull you out of your situation, but if that's your mentality then crypto is your last and only hope. Why not hedge your bets and start trying to succeed in the world if you're so concerned w/ finances?

Then if the crypto thing happens you can abandon those efforts, but if it doesn't you won't be totally fucked and miserable for the rest of your life.

[Anonymous No.7256694]

>>7255084
>Wasting earnings at the club
He's actually spending those earnings on maintaining his Chad psyche, which will bring him greater success in life than you.

[Anonymous No.7256708]

>>7256627
oh no, he just explained he understands the bossman doesn't promote based on competence
he's just pissed off about it, because he lacks the drive and/or creativity to put his skills to work for himself instead of being stuck in the situation

[Anonymous No.7256768]

This website is filled with such pathetic losers

[Anonymous No.7256795]

>>7255252
Mah nigga

[Anonymous No.7256798]

>>7254983
Ive seen this exact threat 50 times over the year

[Anonymous No.7256832]

>>7256768
lol dude... come on. I think most people here are pretty young, like mid 20's max. When you're that age you are simply dumb due to inexperience most of the time.

I like to be optimistic and think the majority of the folks here who haven't yet seen the light eventually will. I think the board has relatively high intelligence which makes it a lot harder to find enjoyment in life, but it makes it easier to understand that enjoyment in life is all perception, and perception can be altered.

[Anonymous No.7256857]

>>7256515
>>7256341
spending the minimum amount necessary is part of what you yourself named as maximizing income and building equity.
Obviously you're not going to turn over every fucking penny 5 times once you got your money-induced money-printer well on its way, but you first do have to get started and not everybody is fortunate enough to do it with a small loan of a million dollars at no interest from their father.

[Anonymous No.7256897]

>>7255759
jesus this is fucking depressing.

[Anonymous No.7256907]

>>7255128
This dude is so autistic he is calculating his coworkers lunch expenses to make himself feel better about eating a boiled egg at his desk everyday meanwhile his coworkers are eating nice food and socializing like normal people.

[Anonymous No.7256951]

>>7256907
Yeah it's so fun listening to coworkers talk about their mundane lives and topics that I couldn't give a shit about when browsing /biz/ gives me much more pleasure.

[Anonymous No.7256957]

>>7255128
>i spend 3$ for lunch, they spend 8+5 = 13$ for lunch, thus i'm saving 13-3=13$ per day in comparison
>holidays and vacations don't exist
>conservative 25%/year

[Anonymous No.7256985]

OP needs to wake up and realize there is value to networking with your coworkers. You don’t have to go out everyday for lunch but never going out is career suicide.

Performance reviews and raises are as much about office politics as your quality of work. You also get your biggest raises by having job offers you can leverage in negotiations. If you are an antisocial beta they know that no one else will hire you and that you are trapped in your current job and pay. Even if you get another offer they will let you walk because they don’t give a shit about you.

Even if you do meal prep, there are probably other people in the office that brought there lunch. Don’t just eat at your desk alone.

[Anonymous No.7256986]

>>7255128
but you'll die early because you're eating cheap shitty food

[Anonymous No.7256988]

Chase a check, never chase a bitch.

[Anonymous No.7257000]

>>7256957
I have more money saved than just that $3,588 a year dumbass. That just means I have $3,588 more than them EXCLUDING vacation funds

[Anonymous No.7257057]

>>7256985
see >>7256629, >>7256551, >>7256668

>>7256986
outside food isn't much healthier, I don't use artificial flavoring or an excess of salt and I only drink water.

[Anonymous No.7257093]

>wastes his valuable time cooking food instead of doing crypto
>doesn't eat out every single meal
>doesn't take 1 hour lunches every day

Wow you are poor anon

[Anonymous No.7257129]

>>7257093
it's a 90 minute lunch and I'm done in 20 and can take a power nap instead of hearing incessant chatter with coworkers following by materialistic windows shopping

[Anonymous No.7257208]

>>7257057
You’ll eventually plateau with this wagecuck mentality

[Anonymous No.7257265]

>>7257129
Listening to that incessant chatter is what will get you promoted. Moving up in an organization into management where the real money is requires people skills.

[Anonymous No.7257320]

>>7254983
Oh great, its this socially retarded faggot with his blog again. Newsflag cunt, nobody gives a shit

[Anonymous No.7257346]

>>7256481
"waste" and "happiness" are subjective of course, but you can't look at it exactly as you stated:
>enjoyment spending money on food
vs
>enjoyment saving money on food

you have to expand on
>enjoyment saving money on food
>which allows me to use that money to do ________ that the food spender wouldn't have been able to afford to do because he spent all his money on food

so if that secondary thing is less wasteful, or brings more happiness than the act of eating food, then you're kind of beat

[Anonymous No.7257361]

>>7256160
>the point
>you

[Anonymous No.7257374]

>>7256627
That's precisely the point I'm making. Although they should, bosses don't care whether you're good at what you do, they care about "muh social people" and brown nosers.

Do I need to dumb this down any further?

[Anonymous No.7257503]

>>7256165
>>7256201

Are you both retarded, can you read? I said USED TO work at subway

[Anonymous No.7257505]

>>7257346
Sure, but I did talk about net happiness as well, which factors in all of those other components.

The point is that saving money on food or spending money on food isn't right or wrong for everyone. Someone can be net happier spending more money on food than you will ever be saving that money. That is a real world possibility and likely a probability for many people.

I love food. My wife is a chef. We shop frugally at the grocery store (I saved 30% the other day only buying sale items) but we go out and have really, REALLY fancy meals for $250-500+ at least a handful of times a year. We both get incredible enjoyment out of that. For me, personally, spending money on food gives me a much greater net happiness than spending money on clothing, or my car, for example. It's all subjective.

[Anonymous No.7257584]

>>7255346
>implying anon would just let his money sit
If he’s smart enough to save, he’d invest it and that 142k will turn into a lot more.

[Anonymous No.7257603]

>>7255759
if i come home and see those bags in the floor, first thing i would do is dump everything into the trash can.... this shit looks more trash than food

[Anonymous No.7257614]

>>7257505
Fair enough. I know people who are great cooks/chefs and they share a view similar to yours.

Personally I'm on a keto diet right now (last 2 years) which is pretty bland so its easy for me to eat same meals over and over and cook at home 99% of the time and subsequently talk down on big food-spenders, but I can respect what you're saying.

I think the main point is that while there might be people like me on one end and people like you on the other, the majority of society falls in the middle where they don't really have any clear motivate or concept of "happiness" involved in their habitual spending. They just go out for lunch because that's what they're "supposed to do" and then it becomes a regular thing, day after day, with no consideration for an alternative. I guess this predictable and habitual behavior is in large part what drives the bulk of our economy.

[Anonymous No.7257754]

>>7254983
What are some easy lunches to take to work? Your chicken, broccoli, and egg looks good. I'm thinking that you might also get away with a mini-thanksgiving by making stuffing and turkey, don't know what vegetable to add though. I also like to make picadillo and tuna melts.

[Anonymous No.7257835]

>>7255087
This baldie is actually right...

[Anonymous No.7257837]

>>7255759
I get being frugile and meal prep, but putting it in bags like that is just depressing. Why not at least freeze them or put one in a container.

It makes me feel like you get off on eating low value food. Like its a punishment that you go through voluntarily

[Anonymous No.7257894]

>some years ago when I was still employed and not a rich crypto NEET
>work in a office
>lunch time
>blonde cunt walks up to me and asks if I want to order pizza
>say loud „nah that shit only makes fat“
>they order pizza anyway but that cunt and the other cunt don‘t eat much and leave over 80% of the pizza intact
>they‘re all ashamed of their weight (even the cunt that has a 10/10 body)

>some other day in the office
>brownies are left over
>blonde cunt walks up to my table and asks if I want the last brownie
>say „nope gotta monitor my calorie intake babe“
>take the brownie from her and break it in two pieces
>she eats one piece out of my hand
>while she eats it I say „mmmh yummy now that makes you go flabby“
>she gets butthurt for some reasons as I laugh my ass off

[Anonymous No.7257895]

>>7257837
They get put into a container when I bring them to work, there's no point spending extra money on containers if they'll take up more space.

[Anonymous No.7257977]

>>7254983
>purchased 4L water jug for 1.30$ every day before work
> came in with homemade food with more than enough to satisfy plus small snacks
>got smartphone only for calls and texting, if i need data i goto wifi spot at work
>Coworkers spending 20$ a meal plus 3$ for coffee every 3 hours plus 50-100$ every time they go out to drink Fridays after work
>I saved up 5k in 4 months

Anon... I don't know what to do, I'm in debt and I can't cover my house and I need to work a second job during my off days and I need to pay for my gf's kid's shit too.

^ almost every day I had that conversation with someone there.

[Anonymous No.7258020]

>>7257895
But why put it on the floor like its dog food?
Also regarding plastic bags see this: https://www.npr.org/2011/03/02/134196209/study-most-plastics-leach-hormone-like-chemicals

[Anonymous No.7258080]

>>7255128
>if you weren't a smoker then you would have a ferrari by now
Also, do you seriously not know how to calculate compound interest?

>>7255152
This.

[Anonymous No.7258121]

>>7258080
>We are not talking small amounts here – someone smoking a pack a day spends about $177 a week on cigarettes, which is over $9,200 each year.

20 years in an "diversified index fund" after taxes

[Anonymous No.7258299]

>>7255320
You must still be in high school if you think that workplace banter is bullying. Like the other guy said, OP is incredibly insecure and has an obvious superiority complex. Why else would he make this thread?

[Anonymous No.7258306]

>>7255128

This is bad math. You're assuming crypto gains will last forever, which they won't.

Also, there's nothing bad about going out and socializing with co workers. That's one way of how you move up.

Life is all about moderation. Go out for lunch every Friday. Make that your day to enjoy your lunch and socialize. That's a good medium and you don't have to be autisitc

[Anonymous No.7258361]

>>7255759
>chicken and random veggies
>all day erry day

[Anonymous No.7258555]

Congratulations anon, you bring your own lunch with you to work like 50% of the work force does. Thank God you have so many friends that you don't have to post this on a 4chan board celebrating your victory.

[Anonymous No.7258861]

>>7254983
I miss these threads

[Anonymous No.7258898]

>>7254983
I used to eat at my lunch every day because I had a kind master in the Wage Mines. Instead of spending nine hours a day shackled to my desk with an hour break for lunch I'd just work through my break and massa would let us go home just as soon as we had our 8 hours paid.

[Anonymous No.7258900]

>>7254983
>>7255128

[Anonymous No.7259472]

>>7254983
Try this too for a meal or two
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1stUUoaMudc

[Anonymous No.7259892]

They're mad at you for smelling up the office with your disgusting day old eggs

[Anonymous No.7260100]

>>7255271
>I get to enjoy a nice vacation once a year. Meanwhile my friends enjoy their life everyday.

[Anonymous No.7260286]

>makes a thread calling other people dumb
>literally letting them live rent-free in his head after work
>wastes his time on negative thoughts
>doesn't even get the concept of specialization and thinks everyone should cook their own meals
why didn't you hunt your meat or pick your berries?

you could also clean the office toilet during break if it's all about the bottom line.

[Anonymous No.7260953]

>>7255271
Why don't you just quit and not be a wagecuck for a while?

[Anonymous No.7261929]

>>7254983
Maybe you should live a little.

Also cook something good when I used to work and I brought food no one made fun cuz they were too busy asking for some.

[Anonymous No.7261978]

>>7258306
>crypto daytrading won't last forever
hue

[Anonymous No.7262353]

>>7254983
>His job doesn't offer free meals

lol

[Anonymous No.7262890]

>>7255500

>What if I don't find making fake friends, with fake conversations and pretending to find their conversation topics interesting fun?

I am a literal, diagnosed autist. Every fortnight I go to a shrink who specialises in autism, where I sit in the waiting room with other autists. That is the most autistic thing I've encountered in a long time.

[Anonymous No.7262941]

>>7262353

you work at McDonald's, stop taking pictures of your bosses meal.

[Anonymous No.7263061]

>>7262941
I work at Intel.
Also why would you think a boss at McDonalds can afford a steak and a lobster.

stay poor friend

[Anonymous No.7263207]

>>7255480
wish i'd save that pepe but i dont have the balls

[Anonymous No.7263954]

>>7256907
yup.

[Anonymous No.7264143]

>>7255002
Thread really should've ended here.

[Anonymous No.7264272]

>>7255569

No, you wouldn't say that because you're a massive pussy. You wouldn't even say it ONCE to them.

You're here on fucking 4chan venting your insecurities by insulting normal people who are just being normal people. The fact that you think they're only pretending to be friendly shows that you have no idea or concept of social interaction.

[Anonymous No.7264401]

>>7255759
>Food is only fuel to live, a temporary pleasure.
>I have something in common with /biz/ but not my coworkers who I dread talking to because I couldn't give a shit about their conversations or lives.

Congrats, you're more of a mindless drone than your coworkers. At least they enjoy themselves and live a fulfilling life.

[Anonymous No.7264607]

>>7255401
>Yes, frugality is a curse of the greedy and selfish, people who will never truly enjoy life.

this. there's more to life than saving a buck. those people are out enjoying life. he's cowering in his office, worried over every cent.

[Anonymous No.7264653]

>>7255108
This. Especially the fast car part. Life's too short to drive boring cars. Plus having people compliment you constantly is a huge self esteem boost.

[Anonymous No.7264671]

>>7254983
You'd be cooler if you just had a $2.50 Soylent that's just as good for you and zero prep time.