/jp/ - Otaku Culture

It's the beginning of a great era, at least for you.

A sign of the times. Everyone is growing up and moving on.

Soon 4chan threads will be solely about mortgages and childcare with nary an anime girl to be found.

>>12945904
Is that basically futaba in the present?

Its time to end it my nakamas. The real world is waiting for us. All that suffering and normies. Im going to find work too and suffer like no one. I will eat shit and so do the rest you.

Sayonara

>>12945904
>Soon 4chan threads will be solely about mortgages and childcare with nary an anime girl to be found.


I won't allow it.

>>12945957
Fuck off back to /a/.

>>12945889

Ganbatte, Anon-chan ;_;7

It's almost been a full year of the military for me. I've left pretty much everything behind now except 4chan.

>>12946097
You'll be fine

I was a NEET from 2007-2010 and have been in the military ever since

I browse 4chan just as much as I used to and on the weekends I stay inside and act like a NEET again, it's fun

>>12946100
Yeah, I use my money to buy figures, and mangos. I don't ever plan on changing.

>>12946115
>mangos
Are you a mango otaku?

>>12946217
Not really, I just have a few to read during lunch/breaks.

>>12945904
i wonder what it's like to see your own kids posting regularly on 4chan

>>12946100
>>12946097
Which branch?

>>12946260
>>12946097
I'm in the Air Force.

>>12946266
Were you a skinny shit or a fat shit before joining the chair force?

>>12946272
Skinny shit

>>12946266
What do you do and how do you like it?

>>12946306
I work on the electrical system for the drones.

Not really, everyone is constantly staring and waiting for you to fuck up. It puts a lot of unwanted stress on every little task. Though the benefits are nice, and I enjoy the dorm they provide me.

>>12946351
Did you need to go to university for that?

>>12946401
No, most jobs you can get with just a High school degree. Jobs you can get are mostly determined by your ASVAB score

>>12946404
How long did the training take you?

>>12946470
It's about 6 or so months. You can look up how long a job you want will take on the website.

Wait, moot left?

I'm in Japan and about to move into the game industry to make cute girl games

What's so bad about working again?

All the other boards are acting juvenile about the whole 'one day we'll all leave 4chan' thing and I don't know if I believe it.

I'm actually doing pretty well workwise, oscillate between being a total fucking social maladroit and actually pretty easy to get along with, but I'm at a point in my life where I own the fact I've been on 4chan for the better part of the last 8 years and while I'm not publicly advertising it, I'm not apologetic for any of it.

Clicking 4chan in my bookmarks toolbar is as much second nature as brushing my teeth. It's a habit and I don't know how on earth I could seriously envision myself really leaving, especially when I myself am post a period of having left and then come back stronger than ever.

>>12946507
Never mind, I read the thing.

>>12946516
No one ever leaves, but there comes a point when the population of a board might be completely overrun by people you no longer empathize with.

>>12946516
So you are officially a normal now?

How old? GOt a wife?

>>12946539
I don't think so. I'm a supervisor at work, but lunch with the other supervisors is very start-stop awkward conversation and I find I have no way of maintaining a chat with them no matter how much/how little I care.

I'm 25. No wife, almost got engaged once and when I was in that (only) relationship, I was actually "100% normal". I'm pretty sure I have codependency issues, because after the fact the only way I was able to get all the people off my back that I'd become friends with while I was dating (and it was a LOT of friends) was to tell them I was depressed, not that I'd reverted to the way I used to be.

>>12945889
Haha you're working while I'm collecting a little over a thousand dollars a month in autism bux!

>>12946404
dang, joining the air force sounds so good right now

>>12946558
Don't listen to him op. It through hardships that people grow and mature. Explore the world and do all sorts of different things, just remember to always be yourself.

>>12946571
Try to get a job working on C-130's. They have bases everywhere, and the Japan one has opening pretty often.

>>12946558
The jokes on you, because they're cutting down on both USA neet bux programs.

When did all the visual novel threads become so shit?

>>12946573
Don't listen to him telling you not to listen to him. You can never change and keep everything nice and stable forever.

That didley feelerino when you fucked yourself over by getting a shit wageslave job and now you can't quit because the govt won't give you any money anymore since you've proven yourself capable of working.

>>12946658
unprove yourself?

>>12946658
Get hit by a car.

>>12946351
>/jp/sie
>working in the airforce

that's pretty based. Good for you anon

I trade stocks for a big financial company. I like to pretend I'm in the modern day version of S&W but there isn't quite the same appeal when it's just numbers on a screen.

kusonormiethread.

>>12946571
From experience, don't do anything medical if you're enlisting. Lots of married women in that field that back bite for promotion slots when you're not looking, unless you're smart and go Biomedical Tech and work on equipment and electronics all day.

If you want to be a medic, get fit and be a firefighter, Pararescue, or go Navy and be a Corpsman.

Better yet, just go work on planes.

>>12946351
is right, you get very little feedback when you do a good job unless you kiss ass with your leadership, and get your ass jumped on if someone even thinks you fucked up.

You'll meet good people, but take care of yourself.

been working in a datacenter for a couple months now, I can't fucking take the stress, you fuck up on a tiny thing and you have 4 managers calling you in for talks threatening you with your job, everything you do amazingly well goes unnoticed, what's the point

sorry for the fucking blog, love you guys /jp/ always will you got me through some depressive times

I lived with a cancer era /b/-tard, who owned a guy fawkes mask and loved template memes. He was also a complete normie, despite pretending to be some sort of social outcast.

I don't mind being associated with non-/b/ boards, or even /b/ or '05-'07, but by '08 /b/ had completely dominated 4chan's identity in public perception, and was terrible with no redeeming factors.

It made me ashamed of being associated with 4chan.

>>12945904
I can see it now:
hey /jp/, how do I introduce my kids to touhou?

/jp/, how do tell my kids they have shit taste in anime.

/jp/ I got fired from and am way behind on my mortgage payment, what's the best way to move my family to Gensokyo?

lol you guys are so melodramatic

I have a nice rewarding job and I'm still here to shitpost on the jay. It's not that scary.

>>12946890
>hey /jp/, how do I introduce my kids to touhou?
Hey <son/daughter>, wanna see a game I played all the time when I was younger?
>/jp/, how do tell my kids they have shit taste in anime.
Hey <son/daughter>, you should try watching <show>. I think you might like it better than <current show>.
>/jp/ I got fired from and am way behind on my mortgage payment, what's the best way to move my family to Gensokyo?
You seen the Downfall scene when the guy sits down to dinner with his family and arms a hand grenade at the table? There you go.

I want to call a navy recruiter but every time I pick up the phone I freeze up and start browsing the internet on it instead. And my day job is in retail so I'm used to dealing with people, I just can't bring myself to make that one call that could change my life.

Those carefree days are truly over, aren't they?

My NEET days are over, and I can no longer just bum off of scholarships and my parent's money for school and skip class every day.

Where do you WORK now, /jp/?
I work in the fashion industry, through family connections. Everyone is either a cute girl or gay and both are very sociable. I'm hardly ever sober at work out of necessity. I can't deal with how outgoing everyone is.

>>12945889
>Is this the end?
The ride never ends. It gets a little slower, though.

I'm almost completely "normal" now, in a way I could never have envisioned it back when /jp/ first opened. Hell, I now own a fifteen percent stake in the company I work at. I still can hardly believe that anyone trusts me with anything... but then again I look at all the other people I've seen over the years and it makes more sense.

I come to 4chan only 2-3 times a week for /d/, but once I've rubbed one out I'll check out /jp/ and /g/ for a moment. I tend to post when I can in threads actually related to Japan, because I did go live there for a while (fool that I was). A few months back I think I even saw a Japanese Bird thread... talk about nostalgia.

>>12947186
Dated a girl from the fashion world. She had escaped the worst of it (worked at some mid-level position for Gucci) and founded her own line of baby clothes for rich white people. Dating me (unapologetic nerd) was part of her transition out of that world and she's much happier now.

>>12947186
I worked at retail until last year, now I'm a neet.
I'll be traveling around Europe this year or the next with the money I saved up. After that who knows.

>>12947186
What do you do in the fashion industry? Im reasonablly interested in high level fashion as a 'spectator sport'.

I find I dislike the 'outgoing' crowd. They send to have a smile on their face and a knife in their hand, ready to stab you in the back if you make the slightest slipup. They also often seem to be completely flat and have no personality or interesting hobbies to speak of. A typial example is asking what their favorite things to do are; theyll say something like watching TV and running. Nothing specific, like watching crime drama or running on beaches. Very boring people.

>>12947186
>Everyone is either a cute girl or gay

Sounds great to me. Are the guys cute too?

I'm tired of working in offices full of guys... there's cute secretaries and support staff at my current workplace at least, but almost all the professional-types are men.

How do you even find a job? All the job postings I always see are fake from some shit job recruiter.

>>12947341
You just walk the streets and trying to find out what building is hiring.

>>12947341
Ask family, acquaintances or search online.

http://careers.jpmorgan.com/student/jpmorgan/careers

>not having a self-sustaining business
>not having a portfolio,having money make money for you
>not working a slack ass corporate entry level job making $40k+

I can buy whatever figure I want (and I do)

>>12947743
You sound like one really bad ass dude. I bet you eat a bowl of nails every morning and have Patchouli as your favourite Touhou.

>>12947753
No, just someone from /biz/

>>12947237
She's lucky

>>12947296
Enjoy it as it lasts, I'm currently saving up for a trip to Japan where I plan to NEET until my visa expires.

>>12947297
I represent women's garments companies for selling, mainly to boutique stores. Mostly designer coats and office apparel. Some prints too. Think what older secretaries would wear. Not fun but it pays well. A friend reps women's pajamas and socks, I'm a bit jealous. I almost rep-ed pantyhose, which I love, but it doesn't pay as much.

Fashion is fun to keep up with and study. I think it has a lot of "otaku" potential. I personally have fashion paper and magazine subscriptions. You need to keep updated and I like to keep nice outfits. One day I dream of making a fashion VN and drawing cute girls in fashionable outfits for a job. But for now, I have this.

The industry is full of turbo-norms and I resort to drugs to keep in line. Everyone only talks about what they did with other people recently or relationships. Older people talk about what they did when they were your age. Since I have nothing like that to talk about and anything 2D is a faux pas that I never, ever discuss, it can be aggravating. If they find out I am actually a sexless loser, it could ruin entire social networks.
Excuse my blogging.

>>12947311
Constantly interacting with cute, sociable girls all day makes me anxious. And most of the gay guys are older. Some are attractive.

The older ladies are nice though. A few are retired models. But they're all married.

>>12947753
> have Patchouli as your favourite Touhou
Is something wrong with that?

>>12947743
Can I work for you?

>>12947763
Why me and not the others?

If you want a job, and you have something more than just a high school diploma, go apply on Indeed.com.

It's a numbers game. Apply for as many jobs as you can, and you're bound to hit a few just from statistics alone.

I would apply for about 200 jobs a day, and it would only take me about an hour or two at most.

>>12947757
N-No sir!
Please don't hurt me...

>>12947186
No fuck you

NEET forever

this thread disgusts me

>>12946515
japanese game industry? hope you like social meetings, you'll have to socialize with your coworkers and boss every day after work and get drunk, getting back home close to/after midnight, right on time to go to sleep to prepare for the next day of the same.

western? cute girls are offensive.

>>12948503
just like in Shirobako

>>12946785
Once you've got experience you can laze at work and still do well enough to not get yelled at.

>>12948542
>>>/a/

Fuck cowboy whatever

>>12947743
>>12947776
>>12948542
>>>/a/

>>12948503
And this is why people in japan have no time to date or have sex.

The trick is to find a job in a large corporation and somehow get lost in the system so all you end up doing is "working" i.e. shitposting on /jp/ all day long.

Who let /a/ in

>>12948569
>>12948572
>>12948588
epic :^)

I busy applying for jobs because my attempt to join the military got fucked up and I have to wait 6 months to try again. I worked for a year at walmart so its nothing new for me.

>>12948592
Epic post retard, have a funny momji pic and go back to /s4s/, your friends there are waiting for new pics of le awoo girl.

>>12948598
How'd it get fucked up?

>>12948621
how about you go back to this instead

*whips it out*

>>12948623
Too long of a story.

>>12947186
I'm NEET but I tried to work as a journalist for the past year.

The stress was intense and I wound up quitting after I had a breakdown when I had to cover a terrorist attack.

I don't know what I can do now.

>>12948652
Holy shit, a /jp/sie covering a terrorist attack? Life's weird.

>>12947186
I work as a tax lawyer for the government. At first it seemed like I was just doing it ironically, but I don't even know anymore. I think I fucked up.
I am very good at it though.

>>12948652
If you don't mind talking about it, which terrorist attack and how did you get into the journalism company? Did you do it at University or do you have family friends who "helped" you out?
Was it fun the rest of the time?

>>12948674
Did you do law at University? I always have an image of /jp/sies going to university but I can never picture waht they choose to learn about.

>>12948666
Not much happened. I went downtown to get video and got yelled at by RCMP with carbines. I got forced out of the security cordon and found a Starbucks bathroom to vomit in. I quit when my editor called barking about the video I was supposed to upload.

Apparently most of the senior staff was expecting me to snap.

I don't know how people like the guys who work at CNN can talk about covering Syria and Libya like it was a trip to the dep.

>>12948695
>Did you do law at University?
Yeah. To become a lawyer here you need to do a law degree plus another course in legal practice.

>>12948695
The October shootings at the war memorial and Parliament

It was an unpaid internship (not a real job, haha) for the CBC. I was doing it as part of my journalism program at Ryerson.

Family connections don't really help in the industry. Jobs are tight so you need to demonstrate your ability to get things done.

I got to cover some fun things, but most of it was stressful and frustrating. Journalists are kind of like the people >>12947756 has to work with, except that they are on a constant zerg rush to get the story and will bite off your testicles in order to get it.

>>12947186
I currently work as a debt collector. I'm pretty young, so I'm still being told to go to college. As of now I'm thinking about going to school for animation for gaming and hopefully end up somewhere in Japan. But whats really making me look the other way is how animators even for games are payed.

I come on 4chan everyday even at work for about 3~5 hours a day.

As far as being "normal", I wouldn't say I'm normal as I am not great at socializing.

Yeah well, I'm still NEET and things are more hopeless than ever.

>>12947186
Used to work at an nipponese supermarket until last month, now I work at a CPA office that specializes in nipponese clients. I was at the clients place from 9 to 11 and got home at 12 (b-busy season). Today I slept in, browsed the jay, ordered pizza, and watched anime and read some VNs. I plan on doing the same tomorrow.

>>12948849
Do you speak nihongo?

>>12948862
Of course not, he engages in pantomime to communicate with clients.

I've gotten more and more normal as time's gone by. I had a job for a year, left to join the military, but that shit didn't turn out well (I'm>>12948598). So now I'm looking for another job while I wait to be eligible to join again in 6 months so I can get money for college. In the meantime I'm lifting, reading, and learning Russian and Spanish.

>>12946571
>>12946266
>>12946097

The ideal is to score high on your ASVAB but not TOO high. Then you end up in AFISRA, doing intel or scientific analysis. I joined in May, my technical training only took 3 months but I haven't been able to start my job yet (and probably won't for the next half year) because the background check takes so damn long.

>everyone's working
So that makes me the only old NEET around here? Youngsters truly took over /jp/.

>>12948929
>end up in AFISRA, doing intel or scientific analysis
Do you know anyone who does that? Is it really demanding?

>>12948945
I've got buddies who've been at it for awhile. 8-12 hour days depending on staffing, odd work hours because you're doing real-time analysis on stuff that's half a world away. Other than the strange schedules, I haven't really heard many complaints. Mostly because you can't talk about what happens on the clock when you're outside of a secure facility.

>>12948938
Don't say it like it is a surprise. If there were 1000 18 year olds that came to /jp/ when it was founded then there should be about 1000 18 year olds every year after that that join. New users are bound to outnumber the old guard, especially because their number can only go down. Everyone should have known this would happen because it's inevietable.

>>12947186
I didn't really have the time to get to be a NEET, only one year of leeching of my parents after HS. Now I'm studying to become a librarian. I met a guy on /jp/ that's a librarian too and studying in Tokyo right now so I have a kind of role model.

>>12948938
I'm 18 and NEET

>>12948938
23 and still truckin'

>>12948945
>>12948980
Oh, silly me. Forgot to mention the biggest downside to working in intel. You have to be entirely infallible as far as the law is concerned.

You can do stupid shit from time to time with your buddies or in your own home, but god help you if the cops get wind of it or it shows up on your regular polygraph. Every day I'm hanging out with dudes who either are waiting to get clearance or have just gotten their clearance revoked for stupid shit.

And if you don't have clearance then you can't do your job. If you're waiting for clearance they'll find random busywork for you.

If you've lost your clearance you get no second chance. And the Air Force has no further use for you, you're out on your ass.

>>12949060
So intel people are either turbonorms or highly efficient criminals?

>>12949078
There's a tiiiny bit of wiggleroom. You can drink, but not too much. You can party, but not too hard. And you have to have either pretty strict morals or supernatural self composure to pass your polygraph (every 5 years).

I just had my first poly less than a month ago and I almost failed because I got nervous and thought about all the anime I pirate every day. I may end up getting retested soon.

>>12948938
19 and psuedo-holidayNEET

>>12949108
>thought about all the anime I pirate every day.
Chances are you pirate it before it's ever licensed in whichever country you are. No harm no foul.

>>12948938
20 years old and NEET-o

>>12949108
And I thought journalism was strict in prohibiting drinking on the job.

>>12948929
Do they put you somewhere based on your scores or do you have a choice on where to go?

>>12947186
I was a hardcore NEET, leached off my parents then my brother. Still feel awful about it.

I got my act together for a while by working at a videogame arcade, and eventually came to run the place and was it's primary technician for the equipment (moot, on the off chance you're reading this, I've meet you and invited you to my arcade once). But I burned out and went back to being a NEET for a year.

Now I'm teir 2 helpdesk support and climbing. Studying for my Cisco certs to help move up. I'm max norm at work, have a GF, go on nature hikes, but I can't bring myself to leave 4chan. Moot was right, this place isn't home, but isn't work, its something else, something cathartic thats been in my life for ~9 years.

>>12946272
How fit do you have to be?

>>12949166
Is your gf cute

>>12949157
They tell you that you have a choice, but that's 95% a blatant fucking lie. It's based on your scores and what you put down as your open jobs.

If you pass the D-LAB AND get high scores on your ASVAB, you probably have it worst (and best) of all because they're going to make your a 1N3X1: a linguist. Linguists go to Monterey, Cali for a year and a half to learn their language. Most of them get promoted from pure Time In Service before they even make it to their first base. Everyone in the other intel professions kinda hates the linguists because they've got a minimum of three stripes but they know shit all about how things actually work.

Linguists also get special pay just for having an extra language (nearly +25% of anyone of their pay grade), a re-enlistment bonus and ~2 years of housing compensation for Cali rates, which are absurd.

On the exact opposite side of the spectrum, if you score average and one of your job choices is Security Forces or Open General, you're pretty much guaranteed they're going to hand you an M4 and teach you how to be a military cop. And Security Forces are one of the only AF professions who get shot at regularly on deployments.

>>12949201
She is a qt trap.

>>12949220
Slay the gay

>>12949272
No, no bully!

>>12949166
>working at a videogame arcade
This seems like it would be a really enjoyable job depending on how cool your boss is. The local arcade (and only good arcade in my country) for me seems to be pretty lax, they have one guy working at any given time and most of the time he's playing the old Street Fighter machines, while the owner comes once or twice a week to collect all the coins.

Machines aren't godly maintained, but they're pretty solid considering that the arcade is on the 3rd floor of a niche shopping centre and most of the machines are imported from overseas.

When were you working there? Assuming you're in the US/New York, I'm lead to believe that US arcade culture died out in the 90's when home video game consoles became easily accessible and everyone had a N64, Gameboy or Playstation.

Nature hikes are pretty enjoyable if they're done for enjoyment and not as a "teambuilding exersize".

>>12949166
You're at least getting a CCNP right? CCNA a shit

>>12947771
Are you not making cover letters at all? Do you have some super qualifications or are you literally just signing up for everything you see with the same resume?

>>12948674
Give me a job I have a degree. I wish I was joking.

>>12949281
I'm actually in Portland. This was about 3 (?) years ago that Moot was in town here. He mentioned it in the farewell thing that it was at first "intense", and by that he was referring to this like 6'6'' dude who was yelling memes at people's faces and yelling "nigger' too. After about 10 minutes he left, and the rest of the chill people stayed. It was largely a fun time. Had fun just bullshitting with Moot.

As far as the arcade thing goes, Moot didn't show up at my arcade but another one that is a bar/arcade. My arcade was strictly a videogame arcade. If it was the 80s or 90s it would be my dream work, but its not. With aging equipment and making money at just $0.25 at a time, I could never keep up with things breaking down or pay for the newest equipment. Arcades only survive in 20XX by selling food/alcohol. Its a shame, but it is the way it is.

>>12949285
Just getting CCNA now but will probably pickup CCNP and CCNA VOIP before years end. Half of it is shit I already do with HP switches at work, just have to learn the Cisco way now.

>>12949220
Don't try to deceive me or yourself, those don't exist in real life.
Your "girlfriend" is probably ugly as fuck, at the very least somewhat acceptable but nowhere near the beauty that is a 2D trap.

>>12949281
Where do you live?

>>12949402
New Zealand.

>>12949341
Sounds pretty cool to have met him, and also to run an arcade. It's a shame that they've mostly died out.

>>12947186
I work at a pizza place part time so my mother doesn't get on my back about not working. So far it's not as bad as I thought it would be, only time there is actual work is at noon and night.
It's nice to have money for whatever bullshit I want though

>>12947186
I don't work, but I used to work part time as a shelf stacker and then did the TEFL thing for a while when abroad.

Not really sure what to do now, might spend another year NEET before going back to study

I don't want to be NEET.
I don't want to work.

I just want to dream...

>>12949108

What kind of stuff is on the polygraph? Do they ask you if you're sexually aroused by children or anything like that? Or is it only questions relating to security and telling people things?

>>12949429
Hi there tuxdude

>>12949761
That's all very well and good, but you know what's better?

-A forest brought back to life by the sheer determination of a woman in the Middle Ages
- The fortress of one of Magus's three former generals in the Middle Ages
- A task to be done in the future, in a birthplace of machines
- A prehistoric stone that will shine with the light of all the ages of the world
- The restless spirit of a proud knight, slain by Magus in the Middle Ages, and lingering even in the present
- An object of legend in the Middle Ages that sparkles like a rainbow

One of you is close to someone who needs help... find this person... fast. Just as you touch the lives of every life form you meet, so, too will their energy strengthen you. Fail to live up to your potential, and you will never win... I am sorry that I must simply witness the coming spectacle from my vantage point here...

I'm NEET going about 3 years now but I'm trying to get into code monkey business so I can have an excuse and get paid for sitting at a computer allday and being a turbo-hikki.

>>12949982
Not Tuxxy my man. Might be able to go to a meetup with him though.

>>12948503
Better than my current Japanese salaryman job

>>12947756
>Constantly interacting with cute, sociable girls all day makes me anxious.

Being around normie guys makes me more anxious than girls... i want girly coworkers

>>12949761
Those dreamlike days are over. It's time to wake up.

sigh........

>>12950114
Go back
to
gnfos

What in the fuck. This thread is full of normies. If you're employed you should not be here.

>>12950355
I have to work to be on here

>>12949930
It's all related to how well you can keep secrets, though some of the questions can be nebulous as fug. "Have you ever said something you regret about someone behind their back?" "Have you ever stolen something from someone who trusted you?" It may or may not apply to you, but if you think too hard about it the polygraph will freak out either way.

>>12945889
I got a job back in 2012 and stopped being active on this website since 2013.

>>12950505
what job

test

>>12950505
I got a job in 2014 and now I have to put 100% of my free time into /jp/ just to shitpost half as much as I did before.

I'm a third year medfag at a top 5 school. my fingers have probed more pussy than everyone's in this thread combined, yet my diddler has only felt the loving caress of gentle onaholes.

Served 5 years in the Marines, and am now going to school to be a chemical engineer for practicaly free.

>>12950355
>What in the fuck. This thread is full of normies. If you're employed you should not be here.

Its time for you to realize that /jp/ is getting old growing up. Fuck man I'm knocking on 30 and I still come here.

How old are you?

My job is taking peoples blood
They don't like seeing me but I just take their blood anyways and wake them up at 5 in the morning

>>12950607
26. I've lurked/posted since 20/21, and I plan on continuing to so do despite whatever degree of normalcy I've got at the time.

>>12950696
>2010fag
>literally trying to shit on posters on here that have been here twice the time he has


lmao

well where can i get a job at?


i think i'm about to fail out of college.

>>12950747
Wait, was I doing that? lol, ok

>>12950754
www.usajobs.gov

Comfy government jobs are whee its at.

>>12950747
He wasn't me.

>>12950607
That's no excuse for being a normalfag. /jp/ doesn't resolve around you.

>>12950669
Your post makes you sound like youre involved with an organ harvesting ring, but you steal (or extort) blood instead of organs

>>12950964
They're already sick and weak so my job is to take their blood to help them

>>12950979
ICU tech? Phebotomist? Or maybe I'm approaching this from the wrong direction...

>>12950797
the benefits and salary really do make it comfortable

never have to worry about ``trying to get more hours'' just to get paid

>>12951002
Phlebotomist
I work at a local hospital so most of my job is just waking up folks really early in the morning to take their blood and run tests
I'm just another face in there for most people so I'm usually forgotten pretty fast but I get paid well enough and it supports what I like to do so its good enough for me

>>12945889
I lost my virginity when m00t left
>tfw m00t was the reason i was a virgin

>>12951017
You sound nice. I hope you get a pay rise.

>>12951032
Not him, but when you work around ill or injured people all day you either become a callous prick or a warm fuzzy softy.

Especially when you have to stick them with needles.

>>12951050
I try to be a warm fuzzy softy but sometimes working here really does get to you. These people do need help which is why I opted to do this (but also out of necessity), even if they dislike me
>>12951032
Thanks I'll try to do my best

I graduate from college soon and I just want to take it easy but my family will think of me as a total failure if I don't get a "good" job.

I hope I can keep shit/fun/cuteposting on /jp/ until the end of my days.

>>12946562
Anzu the role model for da neets !!!

>>12945938 made me laugh.

I'm hopefully graduating at the start of next year but I can't really imagine myself working outside college (I'm a TA, but I'm going to try being a networks admin instead), talking with strangers that I barely know every day.

Even the other day, when I had a job interview for my practice job, I was stuttering the whole time and barely talked.

Do I really have to move on?

I graduate this year and I'll never be able to get a job, and my parents won't let me live the NEET life. I think this might be the end.

>>12945889
It's the end if you want it to be.

>>12950669
My job is putting niggers to sleep.
They don't like seeing me, but they know it's better than the alternative.

>>12951253
But she's a fake NEET.

>>12946580
I joined for the sole reason of getting stationed in Yokota
I ended up getting Osan and Lackland ;_;

>>12946097
I've been in the Army for close to three years now, and have managed to browsed 4chan in some capacity for nearly all of that time. You still get weekends to be a fakeNEET, and now I earn enough to buy any figs I want and do things like holiday in Japan. Point is, sometimes you have to go through change, doesn't mean it has to change you.

>>12951335
>Even the other day, when I had a job interview for my practice job, I was stuttering the whole time and barely talked.
Those things always scare me so much I can't think, I can barely move.
So I just try to pretend that I'm someone else.
All those times I had job interviews always felt so distant and dreamlike to me, like I'm not actually there.
I was quite successful almost every time, somehow.

Why do so many /jp/ seem to join the military? Not just this thread either, Ive seen it in numerous other threads years ago.

>>12951605
Ive never been for a real job interview. The one time I did was holiday work at a miniatures company who was specifically looking for a highschool aged student. They just took a look at some of my minatures, asked me some questions about my painting, and that took about 10 minutes. Thinking back, I feel as though I was scared to death. I had no experience with anything like that, and the person interviewing me was 40something. I was scared they weren't going to like my models and that I would accidentally lie when they asked me a question. Sounds like real interviews are scarier.

I'm probably going to finish with a major in east asian studies and a minor in history next year.

Are people going to hire me or is my application going in the trash as soon as anyone sees that?

Double university dropout here. I work shitty part time jobs now and then throughout the year because I don't qualify for anything else. My mother is obviously really upset about it but what can I do. I am a bit afraid she might snap one day and really throw me out but for now I just have keep minmaxing my NEETness/employment.

>>12951626
>Why do so many /jp/ seem to join the military?

Last resort for the eternal loser. They have a spot for just about anyone, no matter how pathetic.

>>12951626
Viral marketing. Seriously.

>>12951816
>>12951864
/jp/sies are connected to the /k/-life.

>>12951812
You should put yourself in the trash, anon.

>>12951892
I just like history

>Jan 06 04:46:52 <moots> why is /jp/ the worst
>Jan 06 04:46:55 <moots> i really don't understand it
>Jan 06 04:46:59 <moots> where did these people come from
>Jan 06 04:47:10 <moots> and why don't they just start their own site

;_;

>>12948695
>I always have an image of /jp/sies going to university but I can never picture what they choose to learn about.
I'm in law too! It seems there's a lot of us here.

>>12950669
Remilia browses /jp/!

>>12951905
It's doesn't justify wasting 4 years and an (hopefully not) American tuition for a list of suggested reading material. I'm interested in the entirety of the arts/philosophy/pol sci spectrum but knew better than to academically pursue any of that worthless shit.

>>12951927
I suppose you could look at it that way. But I do think that putting you in a setting where you are forced to do research and interpret is a lot more beneficial to learning these disciplines than doing math for those few years and then coming home from your boring math related job too tired to do any reading on a subject that you never really had the chance to develop an interest for? I feel that I've learned a lot in the arts and I don't regret it on that point.

But I'll hopefully go into illustration. I've been drawing for 4 years now and I'm reaching a professional level. The degree is just in case.

>>12951626
Cowardance.

When you fear uncertainty and making your own choices in life, the military always seems like the best bet. It also seems like a good last resort for those with no skills or incentive.

The military is a bit harder to join now, though--since they're downsizing and all. I'm not sure whether I'm happy or sad that I was permanently disqualified after 5 MEPS trips. On the bright side, I got to pursue higher education and enjoy a carefree college life where I can pretend to be a NEET every break.
On the down side, I really wanted to go to the DLI and the MOS I would have gotten if I passed the physical was sick; I believe it was a 25 or 35 series linguist or intelligence. Was an extremely unusual MOS as well since it promised a bonus for a boy joining out of High School. Though, my main goal in the end was obtaining the TS clearance and I was willing to do 8 years with the military(probably 6 active 2 reserve) for it.

Was extremely /fit/, 99 on asvab, but I had an odd twitch in my right eye that looks like winking when I'm extremely exhausted.

>>12951927
You have to truly be autistic to imagine that the primary value of attending university for the humanities is for the reading lists and book assignments.

The value is in talking to your professors and to others, and the value is also in writing essays and being forced to critically analyze works. People learn best when they have others to bounce ideas off of. Of course, most university students are fucking retarded, so you can only extract that sort of intangible value from a university like Harvard, Yale, Oxbridge, and so on and so forth; generally speaking you're right that independently reading is better than 99.9999% of universities out there. But you're certainly not 100% correct, and if I were you I wouldn't make generalities like that.

>>12951937
As someone who likes math, I don't think math is intrinsically boring (just often taught poorly). Nevertheless, interestingly enough, I wish that I had had the means to attend a good university and study the humanities. Taking classes in STEM fields is basically pointless; they are purely objective, and therefore sitting at home and autistically studying them is actually a decent option. Not quite so for the arts and humanities.

>>12951937
Science isn't exactly valuable at bachelors either. I'd have to concede that at least 70% of my time goes to unrelated independent study and the remainder gets divied up between porn, games and my soul crushing engineering major. It's basically a more tedious, shallow, lab oriented math degree so you weren't really far off. I just don't understand why people pay for the ability to be railed off from Clausewitz and Foucault until they finish undergrad. I was literally reading that shit as a teenager; why would I pay to hear some moron paraphrase it?

I've long operated on the assumption that you're forced into post-grad if you wish to make that class of credential productive. You always have the option to get shot at for a moderately higher wage, though.

>>12951999
Being able to read something is not the same as being able to understand it or being able to understand it deeply. The difference is that it's easy to tell when this gap exists for STEM subjects and not necessarily present in the humanities.

Also, professors often are able to present syntheses of knowledge from multiple sources as well as insightful opinions gained from years of study and research--it's not as though they are literally just paraphrasing authors in a literal, flat manner for hours every day.

>>12951986
>The value is in talking to your professors and to others
I can do this with the internet.

>in writing essays and being forced to critically analyze works
I can also do this with the internet. There are specialized communities, blogs, encyclopedia entries and referrals to interpretative academic publications that collectively outclass the lecture-hall. Everyone has access to a limitless void of information that if navigated properly can be more valuable than a room full of pretentious, stupid kids and a masturbating octogenarian.

>People learn best when they have others to bounce ideas off of
No they don't. This is a myth perpetuated by institutions that maintain an economic interest in corralling hoards of plebs together and selling them the idea that they're intellectually participating members of society. It's a relic of system that wasn't based on neurobiology or any mature theory of human cognition.

>generally speaking you're right that independently reading is better than 99.9999% of universities out there. But you're certainly not 100% correct
Delusional academic elitism sustains me. Bring me more.

>>12951999
I think a lot of the value in reading foucault or any literature that makes an argument on any subject isn't purely in the book itself but getting one side of a very large debate. Classes are useful because they give you access to a lot of contextual material to get you to understand the bigger picture and not just what foucault said in this one book. You can be a bit limited in that sense if you're on your own, but it's all stuff that can definitely be self taught with a jstor subscription and access to a lot of books.

I think it all comes down to a matter of priorities in the end. Like how much money do you expect to make.

>>12952034
>Delusional academic elitism sustains me. Bring me more.
Your arguments are basically premised upon the idea that you are somehow so brilliant, so uniquely blessed with this power of self-learning and independent thought, that people at top universities--who almost all claim that interacting with their peers (_in person_, yes, and not just online) was indeed an invaluable experience and that there were professors from whom they learned a great amount are almost all, for some inexplicable reason, below you.

>No they don't. This is a myth perpetuated by institutions that maintain an economic interest in corralling hoards of plebs together
Wow, you sure showed me. I guess the fact that _every single HYPSM student I know_, some of whom are ten times more brilliant than every single person in this thread put together including you and me, claim to have gotten a lot out of personal interactions with their peers is actually just a sign of how incredibly pleb they are, right? I guess the person I know who's studying graduate-level algebraic geometry as an undergrad is just ACTUALLY an enormous pleb when he says that he's far more mathematically productive when he can talk to people about his ideas in person, _despite_ the existence of Math.SE, MathOverflow, and a wealth of excellent blogs about mathematics on the Internet? I suppose the fact that conferences and colloquia for researchers exist is just... yet another sign of how pleb they are?

>>12952022
>it's not as though they are literally just paraphrasing authors in a literal, flat manner for hours every day
Have you been to a lecture? Assuming they speak english natively (which isn't the case half the time) they will often just repeatedly interject their own research interests/ideological positions whenever possible and generally fuck around with tiresome, albeit accessible, anecdotes. This is key idea here - depending on how professors are evaluated, they may be incentivized to dumb everything down and be as linear as possible to appease the class. If they aren't a native english speaker, you can expect the abuse of 5-6 filler phrases, incomprehensible narrations and some grating metaphors. It's just far too unpleasant and counterproductive most of the time.

>>12952034
Anyway, it's possible you are a mega autist who is somehow capable of locking himself up in a room and working at maximum information processing ability and therefore simply would not benefit intellectually in any way from being around other intelligent people. That's certainly possible. But the idea that other people, even those who are objectively intelligent and academically brilliant, are in fact "plebs" who are just buying into some long-running myth instead of just, well, being different from you is truly the height of arrogance.

>>12952070
Yeah, maybe you shouldn't go to a shit university, sorry.

>>12946515
I want to do the same after I get my degree.
I don't care if the payment is shit,
making cute games is my dream!
Also I think I can cope with social meetings, and people generally like me ( although I am reclusive ).

>>12952038
>isn't purely in the book itself but getting one side of a very large debate
I totally agree. Before approaching any of this variety of material I always start with the meta. My research phase typically lasts longer than actually reading the content.

>Classes are useful because they give you access to a lot of contextual material
The internet does this better, the caveat being that you need to be skilled enough to use it effectively.

>>12952059
You sound a bit steamed, mate.

>who almost all claim that interacting with their peers (_in person_, yes, and not just online) was indeed an invaluable experience
A product of the elite-university mindset. When you burn away that much money on something and your very identity is forged on this, I wouldn't expect anything else.

>below you
Not at all. Most people do it because they have either been conditioned to, never really thought about independently trying it or are just enacting what they perceive to be a societal ritual. The motives are far less selfless and noble than you seem to believe.

I've been fucking around on the internet for way too long and I suppose I just got extremely proficient at it.

>>12952140
What sites do you frequent that have this kind of material?

>>12952140
>A product of the elite-university mindset. When you burn away that much money on something and your very identity is forged on this, I wouldn't expect anything else.
Sure, but... elite universities provide so much aid that the vast majority of people who attend pay a relatively low price for tuition. I agree there's a bit of a "hivemind" mentality when it comes to how great Harvard is, but aside from that I don't detect students of other universities having their identities "forged" by the place where they went for undergrad. I don't mean to be overly antagonistic, but I think that you are just wrong on this point; I see a lot more of the behavior you describe among students in mid-tier universities, actually, that charge a lot of tuition and don't give out much aid. People at those places really love to delude themselves into thinking that they're hot shit for being there.

>I've been fucking around on the internet for way too long and I suppose I just got extremely proficient at it.
Look, I agree that you can extract a lot of value from the Internet--far more than most people realize--but I think you are being a little bit too dismissive here of other avenues of education. I am always one of the first to admit that university classes are _mostly_ shit, but I've had some amazing classes myself--not many, but a nonzero number--that really pushed me out of my comfort zone and taught me a lot, giving me insights I wouldn't've had if I had attempted to study the material on my own.

>>12952140
I mean, you're free to go talk with students at elite universities yourself. There isn't any need for me to be some sort of intermediary here; you can literally contact people online, regular graduates of top-5 universities, and most likely you can have a productive discussion about the value they extracted from their university experience that. Regardless of whether or not you're right or wrong about this, I can only imagine it would be an interesting discussion.

But I think epithets and generalizations like "a product of the elite-university mindset" is indeed a little bit arrogant, considering that you don't seem to know much about elite universities or their students in the first place (nobody who knows the least bit would ever call them expensive, for instance).

>>12952154
Academic databases, wikipedia, google scholar, open library, academic publications that discuss the work of interest, various independent resources/communities, etc. It always depends on the topic, but wikipedia and book databases are typically sound starting points for search terms, central concepts and derivative works.

>>12951812
Damn, I'm also majoring in EAS because I'm a weeb, but I also have a useful major so I'm not stuck here forever.

>>12951999
>It's basically a more tedious, shallow, lab oriented math degree
it's always so cute when people who aren't math majors think they're doing any nontrivial math in their undergraduate fields of study

>>12945889
A job hunter? Eww, that's disgusting. /jp/ is for NEETs only.

>>12952197
It's like you didn't even read the thread.

>>12952163
Hm, for some odd reason, my friends who attend Ivy Leagues never mention it. But all of my friends who attend UCB, UCI, and especially UCLA plaster it everywhere.

I notice that Ivy league schools tend to give out full scholarships quite often, while top-tier universities tend to not.

>>12952210
It's why people from Harvard say they "went to school in Boston"--like it or not, people usually have a lot of (pre/mis)conceptions about Harvard and will have a pretty obvious, striking reaction when someone says they're from Harvard. Hence, people don't actually say they went to Harvard, and I sure as hell can't blame them; I can only imagine the same holds for the other Ivies, just to lesser degrees.

Ivy Leagues are rich and can give out full need-based scholarships quite often. In contrast, the state of California doesn't exactly have that kind of money to throw around.

I think it's interesting that you seem to treat Ivies and top-tier schools as being different. I mean, I would at least count Harvard in their intersection, even though I am pretty damn elitist about what I consider a "top-tier university".

>But all of my friends who attend UCB, UCI, and especially UCLA plaster it everywhere.
This is the shit I'm talking about. And the people at UCB who think they're so great for being there can just fuck off, because its reputation is only due to its graduate programs.

>>12952227
Oh, what I meant was that Ivy Leagues are in their own "tier". I consider UCLA and UCB to be top-tier in California. Usually most people put ivy leagues in their own group due to its prestige and all.

I don't really know much about it all, though. I'm the failure in my group of friends; I missed out on my entire Junior year due to medical complications and gave up on life-- I didn't have much drive in the first place, either. It's certainly feels odd to see scholars and academics on /jp/.

>>12952296
Oh, I see, that makes sense.

If it's any reassurance, just knowing that makes me consider you more "interesting"--certainly more of a person with whom I'd like to interact--than the vast, vast majority of most people who are typical "successes". In fact, what society considers to be "failure"/"success" can just go fuck itself. I hope your medical complications weren't too bad and I hope you live a long, happy life (no matter how "useless" other people might consider it).

I am no scholar or academic, either, just another failure. We are all failures here; why would we be here otherwise?

>>12949303
You can use a generic cover letter that looks personalized but is really not.

If you lack experience, it's fine to reuse the same resume, as you don't have enough info to personalize it. Protip: most people don't give a fuck about cover letters but they usually expect one.

I just have a degree+internship and a lot of relevant part time jobs.

And everyone has a degree now. git gud.

>>12952227
I go to Yale, and I feel horribly uncomfortable mentioning it to anyone, because they'll assume I'm an entitled asshole. But if I say "I go to school in Connecticut," and then they ask where, I sound like an even bigger asshole. (Still a good problem to have)

I am 17 and study at one of Sweden's national elite programmes at the oldest and one of the best schoolds in the Nordic. Yet, I had to redo a year. And now, maybe once again

I barely attend any lessons, and I barely study. Why? I do not know. I have an enormous opportunity that seems to be slipping before me, and I know not why I do not try to catch it before it slips away. Perhaps becoming a NEET is to manifest my destiny, perhaps not.

I wonder how long the average anon has been here? I remember the hearing the original /jp/ crew having often described themselves as college grads/students, so if they're still here they must all be like >>12950607