/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>11697906

You are an idiot if you go into university with thoughts of dropping out. This is why community is better.

Oh no work is hard

for the lazy

How can anyone get that upset over school?

People compete about the stupidest things. It's like when people can't cook and they're super proud of it. "I can't even boil water!", "Yeah? Well I BURN water!", "I don't even know what water is!"

Reminds me of that one Monty Python sketch.

This doesn't offer a reason not to be employed, though.

>>11697928
School is hard :(((((

>>11697932
>>11697928
It's uni

>>11697930
At least water doesn't cost $500 per gallon like it would if they were using the same pricing model higher education does. You can just attempt multiple times until you learn to boil water.

>>11697930
Oh yeah, well I compete about way stupider things than that.

The work is fine. I can't speak for other courses, but I imagine if you spent just a couple of hours a day actually studying then none of this would be a problem. "My teacher gave me an assignment and it's due in tomorrow! I hate my life!" Well if you'd actually done the work when he assigned it two weeks ago, this wouldn't be a problem. Hell, if you'd spent that one night working instead of partying, you'd be done by now.

I dropped out because of the social pressure, not because of the work. Though maybe avoiding social situations was why I never had trouble with the work. I had so much time to kill I actually took up learning stuff from other courses.

>>11697939
Fine, you win. I don't know why I bothered anyway...I'm the most pathetic person in the world...

>>11697928
Dunno, some people just pushes themselves too hard, like studying complicated majors and strive to be on top. I think it maybe part of the anglo culture of amuricans too, their ambitious and competitive mentality.

I chose the easy life, I choose not giving a fuck.

>>11697944
Compared to me, you're a winner. A huge one.

>>11697937
>>11697940

>>11697950
What did you take?

After four years of suffering and barely making it through, I think I am finally going to be suspended next semester from my University.
I was so close...

I am at the moment and would be for my whole life if I could help it. I actually have an excuse though I am diagnosed as having Schizoid Personality Disorder.

My parents will make me get a job after Christmas though.

>>11697958
What? Why did you reach that far if you are going to drop out? Now it's too late to drop out. Get it done.

>>11697958
I'm sorry anon, keep trying your best. I'm cheering for you!

NEET for 9 years in January.

That's what happens when someone without the intellectual capacity thinks going through school will change their genetics.

Third year.
I wonder how long this will go on for...
I'm so tired of this life but going outside is even worse. No escape.

>>11697983
Why/how are you tired of NEET?

>>11697990
The internet has gotten really uninteresting and my only interest in life was internet. And sleeping I guess.

>>11697983

Get prescribed some anti-depressants, especially the none SSRI ones and an anti-anxiety med. They will make you cheer up.

>>11697958
What the hell did you do?

>>11697994
No fucking way. No fucking doctor is going to mess with my brain.

>>11698003
smoke some cannabis anon it'll help with stress and anxiety.

>>11697993
Make a videogame

I've been a NEET for five years now.

I'm bored and I need a new keyboard because this one is finally dying. I'm kind of glad that I don't have the money to go to college ever, because I would never be able to pay back the loans, but I'm also so bored with doing the same things over and over again every single day.

I wish I could get my hands on some mind altering drugs. I've thought of killing myself because of how bored I am, nothing is really fun anymore. Video games, exercising, reading, I get no enjoyment out of any of it now. ;_;

>>11698011
It's impossible to focus on anything that isn't internet, sleeping, and aimless wandering at night.

>>11697955
Computer science.

>>11697974
I feel like we need to do more to teach people (particularly kids) that it's okay to not be the best. I'm not saying we should congratulate little Piggy for coming twelfth in the school race, but we should educate people that not everyone is a genius or an athlete, and it's perfectly fine to work in a factory.

>>11697940
but if you do it on time you might miss /jp/ shenanigans.

There's a sister thread on r*k right now
Reading post 9848625 made me really sad

>>11698029
>making a videogame is not internet

>>11698053
Making a video game is art, programming, music, and design at the very base. I don't know whom you are quoting either.

>>11698053
Make a videogame by internet

Is this the NEET problems thread?

I have way too many beer bottles. I don't want to concern my parents that I'm becoming an alcoholic, so I tend to hide them around my room. I can throw a few in the recycling but it's always full, I can get rid of one or two here and there with general waste, but I'm gaining beer bottles faster than I'm losing them.
A few days ago I filled a big bag with most of them and walked around the streets, putting 2-4 bottles in every outdoors bin thing I could find. I thought I'd gotten rid of most of them but now there's more than ever. They're behind my monitor, under my bed, behind my bookshelf, on top of my wardrobe, next to my desk, behind my computer. They are everywhere and I want them all gone but I don't know how to get rid of so many things.

>>11698060
You have a lot of free time. You can do all of those.

>programming
Use a Game Maker

>>11698065
There is no chance of being able to focus on anything other than internet, sleeping, and aimless walks.

Psh, I have mental breakdowns on a daily basis.

Its fake.
"lol dude I'm so depressed im psycho xD"
Normies cant actually experience emotions, they just imitiate what they think those emotions should be.

those cowards ain't even pissed in a bottle

>>11698105
Bus driver.

I need to find a job now after I crashed my car.

What's a good job that doesn't require a degree, experience and won't involve too much human interaction?

>>11698108
That requires a bus driver's license, silly.

>>11697965

I'm also schizoid. It doens't bother me anymore. I'm glad I'm like this, I feel I have more control over myself because I'm not interested in other people or their needs. I understand that I come across as cold, blunted and socially awkward but I really couldn't give a fuck. I'm much happier living in my own little world all by myself.

>>11698105
Driving instructor.

>>11698105
Night stocker at a grocery store maybe?

>>11698114
That requires more years of experience as a driver than I have. Also it entails a lengthy and costly learning period. Not to mention you're in the car with someone all the time.

>>11697940
I spent all the time playing video games and posting on /jp/.

>>11698095
Wait, isn't it the psychos who can't experience true emotion?
Or is what they feel actual emotion and all of normal humanity so far fake?

>>11698105
Truck driver.

>>11698125
That also requires a special license.

Stop suggesting driving-related jobs!

First world problems: The picture

>>11698133
Two memes in five words. Congrats

>>11698105

If you don't mind physical labor think about taking up a trade, often you'll be working with one or two other people but you may be able to find something where you work alone. You could also get a job where you're the only English speaker, and avoid human interaction that way.

>>11698135
I don't want to commit to something like that.

>>11698140

Nightshift at a factory

>>11698136
That's not very impressive. It's possible to do five memes in five words. I think you fell short on creative ideas, but You definitely have potential.

Why are you people acting like this guy has a choice over what job he gets?

Even when I've wanted or been made to apply for jobs, it's not like I can say, "I want something in an office!"
I just have to apply for whatever there is. Even then I don't get it. I was rejected from a cleaner job because they had more qualified cleaners applying.

>>11698144
F the HELL off workie

>>11697967
>>11697995
There's not much I can do at this point; I was put on academic probation last year due to poor grades and failing classes. If I don't improve them this semester to at least a 2.0, I will be put up for academic review and there is a high chance I will be suspended. But I did rather poorly again this semester and will stop short at about 1.9, if even.
I struggled and barely made it this far. I sometimes feel I only got here through miracles.

>>11697971
Thank you.
If there is anything University has taught me, it's that the world is a beautiful place and I was given all the opportunity in the world, yet it was still squandered. I realized that the world is not at fault, as the only problem is myself.
But I will still keep trying, there is a very slim chance Administrations might let me stay. I hope you keep trying too.

Me too bro. I'm finally getting my NEET degree.

>>11698095
There's actually a study or something wherein it's hypothesized that people with autism (or maybe it was blunt effect) have too many chemicals released to feel emotions, which causes the brain to stop being receptive towards them.

>>11698160
Whoa, autists are hyper normies?!

>>11698136
I didn't even know they were "memes". Stop being so paranoid.

I've spent so much time here the outside world has become alien and scary. I can't go back. I'm stuck.

a powerful gust of wind, a weird stare, odd songs playing on the radio, everything, anything will scare the shit out of me. Only these 4 walls can keep away the powerful forces conspiring against me. I want to write a resume and get a job, but the thought of having to write down my name, address and phone number on a piece of paper and giving it away makes me shriek

>>11698178
I feel the same way. I'm scared of everything.

>>11698171
How would "first world problems" not be a meme? Of course it's a meme.

>>11698195
lol he thinks he made it up

>>11698205
Don't laugh, maybe he did. One time I invented the Fibonacci sequence when I was about 5, then it was already a thing. If I was born 1000 years earlier, I'd be a millionaire.

http://specialisterne.com

haha I envy you NEETs which magically have the financial capacity to support your habits or lack thereof, really baffles me how you are able to do literally nothing and somehow live comfortably, share with me your techniques on happy living with zero income, assuming you don't leech from your parents or some magic money fountain.

>>11698213

autismbux

>>11698213
A few days ago someone said they did HITs so they could buy themself snacks. That seems like a really good idea.

>>11698213
Rich parents.

>>11698214
I'm unfamiliar with this acronym, what does this entail?

>>11698213
>assuming you don't leech from your parents
why would you assume that

>>11698214
Anon, what's a ``HIT''?

>>11698224
because not everybody has the ability to this, or for very long, I was wondering if there are alternatives outside of this.

>>11698207
Since he's presumably above the age of eighteen we judge him more harshly than we would judge a five year old.

I'm on the verge of dropping out. People say to just study and just do the course work but I can't force myself to do boring stuff. I think I'll go NEET for a year or two (or however long my parents allow) and then off myself.

>>11698228
I wager you are excluding the majority of NEETs then.
If you consider NEETbux magic then all or nearly all.

>>11698223
>>11698225
Human Intelligence Tasks, from Amazon's Mechanical Turk. You do things computers can't (easily) do, like transcribing audio, evaluating search results, translation, finding something in an image, ect. You usually don't get paid much at all, so it's not really worth it to try to make a living off of it.

>>11698228
I managed to leech off my parents for three years now.

Sometimes I get nagging but it's alright. My sister actually gives me way more shit than my parents.

>>11698247
>get into Amazon Mechanical Turk
>find something that I can do
>qualifications required:
>"Total approved HITs is not less than 100"
>"HIT approval rate (%) is not less than 95"
it's like a nightmare, the experience thing is even here

>>11698063
How big is your town/city?

A lot of towns have recycling collection centers where citizens can come and drop off stuff. The one in my town has 5-6 of those huge metal shipping containers, and you just show up and throw your stuff in the respective container (actually, there are usually workers there who will do it for you). They even have bins that they open after hours so you could drop off stuff in the middle of the night if you wanted.

You could also go to your local landfill (if there's one near your town), but they often charge you money to dump stuff, and I'm not sure if they'll just let someone walk in off the street.

An easier solution would be to brazenly try and throw them all out at once. If your parents ask, just tell them you have been saving the bottles for months, but finally got sick of them.

>>11698247
Also I really hate to bring this up, but there's a subreddit for making money on the side by doing similar tasks online.

http://www.reddit.com/r/beermoney

It reads, "/r/beermoney is a community for people to discuss online money-making opportunities. You shouldn't expect to make a living, but it's possible to make extra cash on the side for your habits/needs."

>>11698247
Oh, I am familiar with that Amazon program. It pays horribly, but if you have absolutely nothing to do and no will to invest your time to create long term gains then it's one of the best things out there. I imagine that's how the character in HikiManager made his money.


Personally, I'm trying to break my way into internet marketing. I'm following a case study some guy posted about how he went from 0$ to ~$3k per month. Ridiculous considering that after the initial stages it was just writing once a day.


There are a lot of ways to make money online guys, you just have to get creative and find something that you can do or sell.

>>11698258
I can't do anything.

I'd love to attend a University but I'm too stupid.

>>11698258
How do I get the money though?

I don't have a bank account

>>11697965
Schizoid is a psuedo-disorder made up by kikes. I technically am a schizoid, fucking 80% of /jp/ is technically schizoid. You don't have an excuse.

>>11698284
You need a credit card to sign up on PayPal...

>>11698267
Usually the money is sent to your paypal account if you don't have a bank account, especially one based in the US. From there you can of course buy things online like giftcards or what have you.


Has anyone here actually persisted with Amazon's Mechanical Turk program? It sounds like a fun thing to do if you're really bored.

>>11698252
Don't waste your time with it.

I tried Mechanical Turk years ago when it first started, and it took tons of mind-numbing work just to earn $1 an hour. Things have gotten better, since you can do audio transcription or write articles for better pay. However, even with that you're lucky to get $1-2 an hour. If you're really good at transcription or writing articles, maybe you can earn $3-4 an hour.

And those estimates are optimistic ones.

>>11698267
Not that guy, but before I quit my training to become an online chat rep for ATT, my company said they were able to deposit money into a Paypal account. You don't need a bank account to have a Paypal account, right? I thought you just needed a bank account attached if you want the account to be verified. At least that's how it was when I made my account a long time ago.

Also, while the job was simple in theory (assist customers with ATT products via the chat box on the website), it was pretty difficult. They want you juggling three chats at once with no longer than a 15 second delay between responses, on top of having an encyclopedic knowledge of every single thing on the ATT website, like phones, plans, ect. On top of that you're expected to make one sale every two hours or else you do not get paid. If the customer gives you a bad survey score, you will be dropped to minimum wage until your customer satisfaction rating goes up.

The pros of the job were very flexible hours (not sure of opening hours, but closed at midnight Florida time), absolutely no actual meeting face to face (a couple of phone calls, rest was done entirely online, mic may be required for training), and being able to work from home but that's about it. The cons were the high chance that you may not get paid, the high chance that some customer may rate you poorly and cut your pay, working through (or at least training) through remote desktop which was incredibly laggy, and the amount of stuff they give you to study before you begin.

>>11698285
I'm 120% sure there are alternatives, I just can't think of any.

There is such a thing as online banks. They don't have a minimum monthly balance requirement, or monthly payments.

Where there is a will there is a way.

>>11698290
I actually did it a while back, did two things, then got bored and forgot about it. But I checked my account just now out of curiosity and have $1.30. Maybe you were just picking bad HITs or I got really lucky, but that's not bad for like an hour of easy work that I phoned in anyway.

>>11698300
I had a job like that and it was horrible. I'd rather be unemployed

Textbroker seems pretty legit if you want to make some money. You just need to be graded before you begin.

>>11698300
You never run the risk of being unpaid, since they have to pay you a differential if you fall behind minimum wage.

It surprises me that there isn't some definitive "make enough to survive guide" for /jp/sies to recommend to other struggling NEET.

>2013
>being a wage slave

I shig the dig.

>>11698341

That seems quite promising, at least for me anyway. You contribute and get something back in the form of critism of your work and payment. Might be good for those who want to improve their writing ability.

>>11698380

>>11698218
how?

>>11698390

Read the information provided on the website.

>>11698380
Taking it easy all the time is boring. I am not that much of a sociopath that I want to give up all human contact either.

And I like pretty, expensive things.

>>11698392
I didn't know this was a website, thank you

>>11698395
>Taking it easy all the time is boring.

How?

>>11698395
get outta here, normie

>>11698397
Ennui.

I like some strife in my life, a constant struggle. I am one of those few people that likes his "job". I am being paid for doing things that I did for free, back in my NEET days.

anyone thought of doing military service and then being a neet with disability pay and all the other benefits?

p

>>11698440
With the sort of time investment required with that, it would be much easier to just start some sort of entrepreneurial venture.

Is this the neet friend hookup thread? I want a neet friend too.

>>11698450
Can I be your friend if I'm not a NEET?

>>11698454
I don't think so.

>>11698450
>>11698454
No, you gentlemen are mistaken. This is the "I don't want to go to school or get a job, what are other ways to survive?" thread.

>>11698462
Okay, sorry for bothering you. I hope you find someone nice.

>>11698470
Y-You too

>>11698380
>>11698380

>>11698420
what is your job?

>>11698063
Your parents know that they are there.

Alcoholism is harder to hide than you think. They probably have already given up on you~

>>11698063
How are you affording all this booze on a nonexistent budget?

>>11698546
Not him, but when I used I just stole shit. This was back when the economy hadn't yet gone down the crapper, so I just trolled construction sites for scrap metal. Every now and then I'd find CD players and other big ticket things that I could sell online. Scrap alone got me enough for a bottle of Mad Dog, but I'd usually be able to haul in enough good stuff to upgrade to vodka. street NEET life!

Nowadays I get rich engineering students and b.comms to pay me to correct the spelling and grammatical mistakes in their papers. If the work wasn't seasonal and based in demand I would be able to make a living off of it. I should learn Japanese and Mandarin so I can do it for all of the international students here.

There's this kid who is like 20 years old who dresses like Gordon Gekko. I wanna punch out his stupid face should I do it? He's creeping around my favourite Starbucks right now...

Death to normies...

>>11698576
>my favourite Starbucks

Leave, normie.

>>11698576
This made me laugh.

Don't hate on him, laugh at his silly ass. It's absolutely hilarious when there's some baby-faced nerd who thinks he's classy, or some how edgier than people dressed normally or "swaggy" or whatever the new hot diarrhoea of a trend is around. It's the same thing with those fedora wearing kooks, so it's a great laugh.

If you're really hurting on punching him, make sure you share pictures later! Even better, steal his suspenders. "Top lel" would be had.

>>11698579
You are only normal if you buy a five dollar drink, use the WiFi for not torrenting purposes, don't use the bathroom to shave, and leave after an hour.

Also, the workers are usually cool with scummy homeless kids camping out, since Starbucks has a policy of hiring wannabee crusties. I sometimes trade zines with this one cute guy.

>>11698587
>this one cute guy.

Normie as fuck.

>>11698582
I understand why black kids play knockout now...

>>11698588
/gaypee/ is protected otaku culture heritage!!!

>>11697958
This happened to me, I'm going back in January after 6 months of being a neet.

>>11698596
congrats, man.

>>11698594
#slaythegay

>>11698593
That turned out to be a fake trend! Read the news JayPee, it's good for you!

But sitll, around blacks, never relax!

>>11698535
Software developer.

>>11698617
My black friend is over at my house right now and I'm pretty relaxed.

>>11698629
That's because you're probably black too!


Where's my #/nigp/ies at?

>>11698644
No, I'm white and therefore right.

/jp/, if you're so good at the internet, why aren't you making easy money online???

>>11698127
I'm assuming you're referring to psychopathy and not psychosis. Emotion has nothing to do with it, it's a lack of empathy/conscience that defines a psychopath. Their emotions work just fine although they aren't likely to feel guilt due to their lack of empathy.

>>11698617
Please mister garrison, go back to /pol/...

>>11698644
Blacks are pretty chill if they aren't super racist. They usually have the best taste in manga and 2hus as well in my experience, though I've only talked otaku culture with like three black guys.

Blacks being good at fighters is a complete myth though.

>>11698692
Too busy mastering masturbating.

tfw getting kicked out of uni for cheating 3 years ago, and now i am 23 just starting freshman again in college :(
i have no idea what to say if anyone ever ask me what i was doing for 5 years

>>11698652
That's great. Would you like some fair trade coffee, or perhaps you're hungry? I always keep my pantry stocked with Kashi-brand granola bars.

>>11698711
I've always bugged my family for employment. I've never passed a job interview though they are painful.

>>11698703
>Blacks being good at fighters is a complete myth though.

Fighting game community in my town is completely dominated by darkies. Maybe it's just here.

>>11698732
>darkies
I bet you know what brand of tires you own as well

>>11698738
What

>>11698711
Just say you were volunteering and working some odd jobs here and there while you were deciding about the best route for yourself academically.

It's not hard to slink past normals, they are a foolish species that is unfamiliar to the cruel cunning tactics of your sly jaypee poster.

>>11698644
Why is it every black person has to announce to the world that they're "black and normal"?

Just fuck off already, I know you can get attention from yuros who have never met a black person but do it in private, we don't give a shit.

>>11698741
He was implying that you're some sort of redneck southerner that drives a truck and has custom tires that you chose specifically.

He's just being angsty d00d.

>>11698741
Look, It's okay my good sir. I know your circumstances dictate that you do all of your shopping at K-Mart, I completely feel you. I'll say an extra prayer to the LORD Jesus Christ in your name. Hopefully He'll answer my prayers and you'll get that extra shift down at the auto plant.

>>11698751
I'm not black dude, I was just really hoping someone would post niggy.

>>11698765
Jesus doesn't exist, sheep

>>11698772
I've been to his tomb in Japan. What now, faggot?

>>11698772
If God doesn't exist, why are you such a loser?

Checkmate, atheist.

>>11698776

>>11698772
Epic, /b/ro...simply epic.

I heard one guy's job consists entirely of him breaking rocks or something with a sledgehammer and writing reports or whatever. Anyone know where I can get a job like this? I think I'd enjoy it.

>>11698765
lol I'm sorry I offended you with an ethnic slur, you silly nigger

ittnt?

>>11698772

You must be very lonely. When you are ready, God will be there to forgive you. But don't delay--you might die in your sleep tonight!

>>11698786
I don't know about that, but you can get a job planting trees. You wake up at 5 am though, but the rest of the day you're walking around a forest with a bag of seedlings just planting trees. There's a video on YT of some guy documenting his daily routine as a tree planter.

>>11698793
Are you ... bullying me?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

>>11698795
Harder than it sounds. You have to plant them exactly how the company wants you to do it, and if you mess up some bitch with a clipboard will make you do it again. Also they charge you room and board.

NEET life is the best.

>>11698798
I'm gonna bully the HECK out of you. ;))

>>11698805
Why are normies such control freaks? Does it really make a difference if the spacing between trees is exact?

>>11698807
trujaypees use HE'LL !!_!!

get...out.........

>>11698795
That sounds cool too. Where do I go to get that job? I'm usually awake until 5 am, I don't think doing the opposite would be hard though. Really I'm not a deep sleeper at all, I've had pretty bad sleep deprivation problems in the past. It just doesn't bother me so I don't sleep often enough. Came pretty close to heart attacks in the past.
>>11698805
>You have to plant them exactly how the company wants you to do it, and if you mess up some bitch with a clipboard will make you do it again.
Not a problem so long as it's not one of those "you didn't do it right"-"you didn't tell me to do it that way"-"yes I did" situations.
>room and board
Won't the job pay me enough that I can cover it? I don't really care how much money I have as long as it's enough to eat.

>>11698807
Yeah, get him!
NEETFight™!

>>11698822
what the h*ck did you just s*y to me???

>>11698827
Not sure where you can find a job like that, but I'm sure a quick search will yield some fruitful results.

>This is your average NEET after five years

>>11698834
Holy shit I wouldn't want to fuck with that guy

"Wait til you get a job" made me laugh.

>>11698829
You are gonna get a bruisin kiddo........do you know who youire talking to kissama?!

>>11698840
http://youtu.be/Byz94fkwf6U

I'm glad they keep you pathetic retards contained here, fucking hell It's embarrassing even being considered the same species as you miserable fucks

>>11698834
That picture has a lot of things that you really need to take in to really get a solid sense of the magnitude of absolute shitheadedness that surrounds a person like that. God damn.

>>11698851
I love Christian and the Hedgehog Boys!

>tfw getting left behind from your classmates

>>11698858
Agreed, this board is a goldmine for the GOP

>>11698742

Don't kid yourself, /jp/ is overrun with normies who know, or at least are familiar with, your supposedly cunning ways. I'd never call you out, though, that would be impolite. Plus I have a weird sort of respect for the sort of "innocence" (not the best word for what I'm trying to describe, but close to the mark) that many of you /jp/sies seem to possess. Better than the deluded liars I have to put up with every day, anyway.

>>11698866
Welcome to his "Megan Shrine"

>>11698860
>>11698851
>>11698834
the fun starts at 2:20
http://youtu.be/wEKLxgRJnAc

>>11697906
Wow talk about subhumanism, all of the people posting there are literal degenerates, clearly too retarded for higher education anyways. Those comments are something I'd expect out of a confirmed retard like Sparkgay, not someone that could actually get into university.

>>11698878

I laughed because I have pictures pinned on my wall with those same paper sleeves.

>>11698884
Wow, is this the same queerbait that I sometimes see posting on /g/ay?

>>11698878
does it feel good to make fun of someone who suffers from legit mental retardation? serious question

do any /p/sies want to start a business with me? i'll be the ideas guy if you've got the skills!

>>11698907
What kind of business?

>>11698902
http://www.sonichu.com/cwcki/28_October_2011

I never understood why people took school so seriously when there was no real practical application in much of the skills taught.
In the real world, it's mostly about social skills, connections, and personality.

>>11698913
software/tech

mostly r&d at first but within a few years we might have something that microsoft will take off our hands for big benjamins

>>11698928
The highest paying jobs require university degrees.

Sure, you can get rich without one if you're some kind of entrepreneurial genius, but that shit happens to something like 1-5% of the world population.

>>11698936
Who gives a shit about "the highest paying jobs"? Why would the average person want that? Most people just want enough to pay the bills in as little work as possible, not 60 hour work weeks so they have more money than they know what to do with so they spend it on $100,00 cars and boats and $800,000 houses.

>>11698944
You can get more shit done with less time when you have higher education.
Even if you don't like the job you still get more time to take it easy, hell you could even set aside enough money to retire early.
But with just a high school diploma you'll be probably bound to some shitty low paying job for the rest of your life.

>>11698944

>Who gives a shit about "the highest paying jobs"?

Normals.

>>11698944
Because working manual labor your whole life sucks and when you have no skills your employers treat you like shit.

there's a freelancer website and people upload their projects there and set a minimum and maximum amount they are willing to pay

>try to get a job translating ("i am bilingual")
>people whoring themselves to make a translation for the minimum pay

>try to get a job copy typing ("i type pretty fast")
>even more people whoring themselves to take jobs for the minimum pay

>try to get a job programming ("t-this skill is not so common")
>even more and all of them from Russia

/kill myself

>>11698951
>slave away in college to the point where you would go crazy if it weren't for the pills
>slave away at your highest paying job so you can retire early
>live like a neet for 20 years until death
>before that happens you'll probably ruin your life by having children or getting married and then divorced
>all the while some faggot who does literally nothing is making a fortune off all of those people hoping to retire early working under him

Sounds terrible. I'd rather work part time and eat rice and beans every night in my apartment while playing 2hu.

>>11698969
>>11698962
Who are you quoting?

>>11698969
Aren't you being overly dramatic?
Anyway, good luck with finding a part time job that will feed you and pay the bills without a degree or some kind of creative skills.

>>11698936

There is nothing stopping any of you here from becoming that 1-5%. You're all talented and you know it but you don't try.

>>11698890
Yeah, the same thing

>>11698989
Wow, so it turns out I'm not the only one in this thread with some actual ambition in life.

Good speed, fellow jaypee

>>11698989
>my country doesn't have a free market
>only way to be the 1-5% is to be corrupt and sociable
There you go.

>>11698989
Well, are you one of the 1%? If not, why don't you just follow your own advice?

Oh wait, the system is rigged.

>>11698989
I could make a pretty good game. It'd be in a genre no one cares about though, so I wouldn't get any money. Just because I have a talent doesn't mean it's useful.

>>11699006
There's always a market for wierd indie games.

Even if only 100 people are interested in your game, if you can convince them to pay for it, you're going to make a sale.

And if you're making a game in a niche topic anyways, you're probably doing it for the love (which should be the main reason in the first place) so the money should be icing on the cake.

There's a market for everything, you just have to tap into it. If it was easy, everyone would be doing it.

>>11699006
If you can just get near 1000 true followers then your game will be successful.

http://kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/03/1000_true_fans.php

>>11699018
"true" fans

>no true scotsman

>>11699018
Sounds cool in theory but the article doesn't really tell you how to actually get those 1000 fans.

>>11699048
I've read a bunch of stuff on marketing before, and I can tell you that the best way is to provide genuine content, answer unanswered questions, and actively communicate with your audience.

Go to a forum where people discuss the topic, and be helpful there. Then attract people to your own content through this method.

http://www.matthewwoodward.co.uk/tutorials/how-i-built-a-top-100-blog-in-12-months/

Essentially this.

get your business tips shit out of jp plox

>>11698711
The one time I applied for a job I just made up stuff to fill a three year gap. The important part is that you know what a certain job entails.
For example, I said I've been working at an opinion research center because that's something my sister used to do. From her stories, I could talk about experience in an interview as if I did it myself. In the end they wanted me for the job, naturally I declined because I was suddenly scared shitless of change.
That was a year or so ago now. Sometimes I wonder what would have been if I had taken that. Was a decent offer too, 20k starting with only a three day work week.

>>11699013
>>11699018
Far more than 1000 people bought Dragon's Crown. The genre would be the same, the mechanics would be just as good if not better. However the art and music would be plainly inferior, there wouldn't be anything fancy like online co-op, or voice acting. I wouldn't actually have any way to advertise it. I'd honestly be surprised if I got 100 people that wanted to buy it. There's no hope for improving the art since artists won't breathe unless you pay them not to smother themselves. I doubt I'd be able to find anyone that could make suitable music even if I had the money to pay them. It just doesn't seem likely to me that I'd get paid at all. Maybe I've got a bad sense for this sort of thing? I mean I've seen some really worthless shit on kickstarter raise thousands more than I'd need to live long enough to make the game. Even if I were to do something like that, lets say I completed the first stage and released it as a demo, how would I word my request? Would people really be alright with me saying "you're paying my living expenses so that I'll have long enough to complete this game."?

>>11699070
Pretty much. I mean, that's what paying money is, especially on crowdfunding websites. It's "Pay me money to live on the way I do now so instead of going out to find a job, I make this neat product that you're interested. Everyone wins! Pay me more, and I'll have more money to live on even longer and add even more features."

Your best bet is to track down something similar to what you have in mind, maybe in another fandom or something, and see how that made sales, what they said on their kickstarter or whatever, etc.

If you are ever stuck, look up something similar, and get ideas from there.

>>11699071
What was the job?

>>11699098
Being cute! :3

>>11699057
What the shit is wrong with that post? There's like 5-6 actual tips but 90% of the post is just this guy talking about his travels or whatever. Why the fuck would anyone read all of this shit?

>>11698779

If you become a wizard by not having sex past the age of 30, does that mean you become a God by not having sex ever?

What if God is just the incarnation of millions of virgins over time that becomes a pure spirit and ascends to the next realm?

>>11699101
A big way to get people invested in you and your product/whateverthefuck is to make a connection with them.

People are more willing to buy things from people they're more familiar with.

>>11699098
Business computer scientist

>>11699120
What's that?

I want a job
>>>/prog/
is hard

>>11698178
Since I don't go outside very often when I need to everything feels foreign to me, like I've forgotten how to even walk.

>>11698224
The only reason that I'm trying hard to make it so I don't become a total NEET is so that I don't need to put a burden on my parents.
I'd probably just hang myself if it came to that.

>>11699120
>Business computer scientist
a job with that title only pays you 20k per year?

>>11698565
>students and b.comms to pay me to correct the spelling and grammatical mistakes in their papers.

does every university do this? this is right up my alley.

>>11699130
I'm on the same boat. I'm trying hard right now so I can take it easy later once I get this one thing I'm trying to get off the ground going. It will be magnificent.

Just wanted to reply to let you know you're not alone.

>>11699124
A mix of programming and small-scale management. It's business-to-business work, meaning not much design bullshit and a lot more number crunching. You work closely with other business to present solutions to their problems and pretty much every customers requires a completely different application.

As a beginner I naturally wouldn't have done much management nor would I have talked with any customers, but mostly be a code monkey. That was the general idea from the very start though and the reason I went after the job in the first place.

>>11699137
Take note of the workload. On the hour it was something like 12€ which is pretty damn good for a starting position without a degree or previous experience.

>>11699133
>>11699130
Well Im a NEET because I was raised to not care about anything. Honestly my response to everything is "I dont care". I cant really change it, and I cant really find any meaning in anything. I probably have something seriously wrong with me.

Have any NEETs who worked previously experienced anything weird? I worked for a year and a half and did lots of really self damaging things to cope with it. I quit and have never returned to the good person I was before being exposed to what life is like. Not like drugs or anything, just really risky behavior that could have ruined my life forever if I misstepped.

Maybe you are all alone. Maybe everybody else is a normie starting NEET threads and posting Anzu just for the comedic value. There is no place for you in this world, you have merely created a fantasy world in your head where there are others who you can relate to and aren't just posting ironically.

>>11699136
Yeah I would have turned that down, too. Sounds like too much responsibility.

>>11699159
DAMARE

Hi. I am a student and tutor at a university. I have plans to teach in a few years.

I think a lot of college students don't realize the amount of work they are signing up for. Then they blame their teachers when they get overwhelmed. At my school, 2-4 hours of self study is expected for every hour in class - it's even in the syllabus handed out on the first day.

Silly normies.

>>11699158
I never experienced anything wierd because the few times I got a job I always chose very carefully to only apply to stuff that would involve little to no human interaction.

The last thing i did was fold blue-line prints with a special machine (because they're like A3, A2 and A1 - huge). That was really relaxing, just the whole day in a small room alone with the printer and the folding machine.

>>11699159
I think about this every night. It makes me feel so sad and cold

>>11699159
I actually imagine it to be the other way around. I keep seeing these posts about people pretending to be a NEET but I doubt it's more than one person. I don't really understand the humor in pretending. Floorshitting is completely different though.

>>11698779
I don't like the image because it reminds me that I will never be some cool reclusive person who is shrouded in mystery but legendary for his knowledge in some obscure area.

>>11699178
Your knowledge of eroge is legendary.

>>11699178
I feel the same way. I get jealous of everyone and pictures like that make me really unhappy that I cant become that no matter what.


My ultimate fantasy is living in a small wooden cabin in the middle of the woods, but not really that far from a village. Of course I have amazing internet, and Homura lives there with me. We run an alchemy shop and sell potions that we make, and when bears and stuff come to our house she freezes time and protects me.

>>11698863
She's so cute in the bottom right panels.

>>11699194
>>11699158
Im the guy who posted those. To fellow NEETs, honestly living in pure despair works. When i did have my job, I was so steeped in despair that going was a way to darken the despair, and make me feel it even worse. I came to really love the feeling and develop a strong affinity for true sadness.

I felt that nobody could grasp why I felt so sad, so making it worse felt good. Characters like Homura were so fun to read about or watch, becuase of how bad their lives were. Along with my Homura 'Cabin fantasy' a common one was just sitting with Homura at a table and crying with her, because neither of us would ever have a partner to love.

Hers was dead and intangible, as was mine - her. So we had a mutual understanding and the sadness of the fantasy, along with the sadness of enjoying such a fantasy really warmed my soul.

>>11699194
Well obviously you won't be anyone like that if you don't try to be!

>>11699132
>does every university do this? this is right up my alley.
I dunno, probably. I just slap up posters on campus advertising my services. You can do the same. Be prepared to talk to people with poor english in person and on the phone though, because native english speakers will not be the majority of your customers.

Remember: cash in hand before you look at any documents.

>>11699194
That sounds like a nice fantasy, too bad alchemy isn't real and Homura doesn't exist.

My ultimate pseudorealistic fantasy would be running a small shop that sells mainly obscure books and things but also other stuff but that sort of very-niche thing is inherently unsustainable anyway even if I had the money knowledge and motivation to start it up.

>>11699184
I don't play eroge because I'm picky with my fetishes and not motivated enough to learn Japanese to increase the titles I could choose from.

>feelio when watching scrubs by yourself at 4 in the morning and crying at the wrap up scene when patients die and the sad music plays and the fact that you're crying at this in this situation makes you cry even more
Any NEET's know this feel?

>>11699214
Who are you quoting? What's a feel?

>>11699214
No.

>>11699214
I dont know that feel specifically but I do refuse to stay up past 2am, because it means all my online friends are gone to bed and the feeling of loneliness is absolutely crushing.

>>11699202
Additionally, you should have a grasp of language at a senior undergrad level. Being able to form a rational argument is a great asset.

Owning or otherwise having access to complete style guide manuals (Chicago 16th, MLA, APA, etc.) will also be basically required, since you're going to need to check and correct their in-text citations, footnotes, and works cited pages to see if they conform to the needed style that the professor demands. The free online guides will be useless as they only cover the most common citations, not the obscure 17th century monographs that show up once or twice in every paper. Most large university libraries have electronic or paper copies available.

>>11699209
>mainly obscure books and things
Hold illegal screenings of fansubbed animus.

>>11699232
>because it means all my online friends
>online friends

well, better university then work..guess...

(sobs in the corner)

>>11699237
What's there to make a profit from in that?

>>11699248
Akagi has a job and is friends with IRL girls he has no right to look down on anyone.

>>11699232
I go to bed pretty early for the same reasons. I live in a different time zone than my friends as well, so it compounds it.

>>11699251
Profit is a stupid motivation.

>>11699214

>feelio when in hospital emergency department
>had a epileptic fit in Tesco and pissed myself
>I'm in so much pain where I fell on the floor
>can't stop laughing because I think it's actually quite funny
>have to be mentally assessed before I can go home

It's been shown that no matter what happens to you in life, even if it's as extreme as winning the lottery or losing a limb, your overall hapiness does not change long term. your hapiness is genetically predetermined, probably by dopamine levels and dopamine receptors

>>11699266
Whom are you greening Also stop pretending to be niggy idiot

When the happening happens, NEETs will be the first to be drafted into Iran.

>>11699268
It sure takes off a load when you blame something other than yourself.

>>11699268
what about extreme cases like for example, PTSD

is that also genetically determined

>>11699251
Charge kids to watch.

>>11699198
I think homura would point at your dick and laugh at you

>>11699198
I know

I hated my shitty job and I used to drink every night until I passed out and threw up all over the room
NEET life is a blessing

>>11699263
Yeah, but people who want to watch that will watch it at home already, so there isn't much other motivation. Doing it out of the goodness of my heart would be pointless since it wouldn't affect anybody.

>>11699281
Why do you think so many NEETs are chronically depressed, or at the very least sleep inhumanly long amounts?

>>11697906
>http://imgur.com/gallery/5xCHvf2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqllO_WPu2Y
it's not the students fault, teachers are trapped as well.

>doompaul.jpg

>>11699282
susceptibility to it certainly is to some extent

PTSD is still a low incidence % wise, it's not out of line with other mental disorders.

>>11699290
i want a girl to laugh at my dick just once just to see how it feels

>>11699311

Le feelio when my dick is too big for that to happen.

one day..................................

>>11699316
Mine is large, but there has to be something a girl can laugh at it for. Maybe it's comically large, or pathetic that it's never been hugged, tugged, licked, or massaged to climax by another person.

>>11699325
draw a smiley face on your dick that'll sure work

>>11697906
The first time I heard "you die if you work" I thought it was a meme. Holy shit.

>>11699338
Your post doesn't make any sense.

>>11699355
i think he meant 'you work you loose'

>>11697906
>3 Mental Breakdowns
That word is thrown around a lot.
http://youtu.be/QKwMFas9XnY?t=15s

Why is college seen as an obligation, not as something you do to better yourself?

If you don't go to college, you have no prospects besides your individual merit, and if you go to college, you still have no prospects, and you're thousands of dollars in the hole.

>>11699456
Because you're a client "student" and your parents are paying a lot of money for it so you can get your certificate saying that you're good at something.

Something like that.

>>11699266
niggys are disgusting go away you scare me. They're not the cute chocolate people TV told me they are.

>Why aren't you a NEET already?
Because of some circumstances, I cannot.
With that picture, I can't relate. Even with the work load and studying, I felt fine. Maybe that guy's study habits are bad?

>>11699450
When I went to college people would come up to me and ask if I was OK because I was that distraught looking.

Also, fuck everyone having to take a STEM course even if you suck at math.

>>11699456


because an un-intended consequence of many anti-discrimination laws was that many businesses (especially in more technical fields), no longer utilize apprenticeships, creating a captive market for universities (the irony is that in the end you need years of internship/entry level work to get anywhere anyways, you killed guilds and all you got was student loan debt).

>>11699479
[citation needed]

>>11699481


source is my ass

>>11697958
Same's, dropped that shit after all that time.

After a while all the forced oral presentations cripple you. Even traditional nerd majors have them.

>>11699487
This makes me glad I was forced to take a public speaking class. It really helped me get over my fear.

>>11699287
It would be if I felt safe. Im the same guy and I never have a sense of security. Its worse because I live at home and my parents room is less than 10 feet from the chair im sitting in. Its very stressful living here and it have given me a lot of grey hair, more than my mother and grandmother have and im only 23...

I used to drop all my courses and panic right before exams. I took a year off and find this shit so easy now. I'm in a full-time course load with harder courses than I ever had too. I think it's mostly maturity and how I actually do my homework pretty responsibly. I mean I'm not even super responsible, but if I have a problem set I give myself 3-4 days to do it. If I have readings I try to do them 1-2 days before. I don't even go to my classes and I get solid 80s.

Math and Philo double major in case you were wondering.

You guys terrify me. Thank you for being a spur of motivation that I need to get shit done. I really do appreciate it, even if I feel sorry as hell for you.

>>11699506
What college assigns homework?

>>11699514

Pretty sure every single college in the world assigns homework.

>>11699479
I don't think anti discrimination laws are the problem

unions and other professional associations get richer by restricting the amount of people allowed to compete with them, it was in their interest to get rid of apprenticeships and force everyone to spend half a decade in academia before being allowed to work.

>>11699514
What college doesn't have homework?

>>11699520
They were also responsible for child labor laws which restricted able bodied and willing teenagers from working jobs and bringing the cost of labor down. So basically the whole higher education thing starting from high school on is artificial to keep kids from stealing older people's jobs.
Unfortunately, they did not foresee that importing immigrants would have the same effect. And even if they did, the powers at be would over rule a union's demands.

>>11699323
Not one day, we live in the future.

http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm22268397