/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

"Where will you be in 5 years? What about 10 years?"
>35 years old
>no degree or technical qualifications
>$12/hr
>working a dead end call center job
>testosterone depleting
>neuroplasticity depleting
>every year becomes harder and harder to retain new knowledge
>tired even more frequently than you were in your 20s
>parents are dead, no family to rely on
>come home late hours too tired to draw but in the back of my boomer mind I just know that one day, any moment now I'll be a rockstar comic book artist in nippon
A-a-right time to draw 250 boxes!!! Again!!!
>draws my 45 box
>hands are aching due to all the typing I was doing at work
>give up
>turn on my AR apple smart glasses and browse Magater, the social media Twitter replacement developed by the Trump administration
>see all the /ic/ anons I once saw 10 years ago doing great things, hired by studios or working on projects of their very own and making money
>"They made it..." I say to myself in a low, monotone voice
>I go to my dashboard
>My drawing has 6 likes--OOH a new follo--
>It's a porn bot
>I block the pornbot and unblock it to get it to unfollow me in rage
>I switch the AR functionality of the headset to VR and dive into a porn session with a YouPorntuber, pay them half my weeks salary for 30 minute virtual sex session just to feel good ANY good for myself
>I fall asleep on the floor with cum dripping all over the carpet as I restart my miserable day the next day with my mission to complete drawAbox and never advancing
"One day...one day I'll make it" I mumble in my middle aged man voice

>>4868495
same