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Senior developer.

Senior /jp/ Poster

What the fuck is that?

u wot m8?

Advanced shitposting specialist

University student. I enjoy pretending to be a NEETｗｗ

Being that I've been on /jp/ longer than most of the current userbase (that is, longer than 6 months) I really don't give a fuck what anyone thinks of that. /jp/'s lifestyle opinion ceased to matter to me after that horrendous milk thread.

Any other students finding the summer holidays really boring? I want to get back and party already...

>>9498792
I Decided not to go uni as I don't know what to do with my life, probably try for something IT.

Did I dun goof?

Anime Screencap Publisher

>>9498756
Someone making bacon through chemistry.

>>9498802
Going to university is good, going to IT is bad.

i am a turkish mechanic

author of the famous children's 3koma manga 'Arthur'

I got rejected from college twice! Im not smart enough. Aside from that I just sit in my room and occasionally work a volunteer first aid job/rescue jobs.

Life in good.

I am /jp/ #1 professional bully.
I make girls cry.

>>9498817
it's the neetest job I can think of

>>9498816
I bet that tastes crap.

>>9498817
>>9498838

IT isnt that bad it depends which field you work in. programmer jobs are full of bad autists, hardware jobs are full of normals and FPS gamers.

>>9498817
How's getting paid to play videogames and browse /jp/ the whole day and solve a few shiteasy computer problems bad?

>>9498824

Sorry. I meant I got rejected from I.T twice. Wont you teach me /jp/?

>>9498803
keep up the good work

>>9498802

Depends. Are you American? I wouldn't go to uni in that case. Too expensive.

If you're British no excuse, student loans are great and you can spend 3-4 years fucking around and doing nothing. Who cares what subject it's in. Close your eyes and pick one. Student life is basically NEET life (yes I know what the acronym means, calm your autism) with exams now and again. Your own place to live, free money and loads of free time to do whatever you want.

Goddamnit now I've made myself depressed over being at home for summer. Hurry up September...

>>9498824
I guess that makes you a first responder.

>>9498863
>If you're British no excuse
The tuition fees rose!

>>9498866

yes

>>9498863

In the UK you can only spend 1 year fucking around and doing nothing, because you have to pass the end of year exam to get on to the other years.

1st year is great though; you don't have to talk to a soul, you can get up to 2 grand every 3 months 'maintenance' which you don't pay back and the only student loan you pay is maybe 3000 when you're earning over 21,000 a year. Which most of us aren't anyway.

>>9498870

Oh yeah, there is that. They rose the year after I got kicked out.

All that money for doing literally nothing though, it was so good.

>>9498870

Still free if you're Scottish master race

Although in any case, don't worry about that so much. It's not like you have to pay cash up frontｗｗ. Raised tuition just means your student debt will be a bit higher, and it's always going to be fucking loads anyway so who cares

>>9498838
It is, but it requires insane dedication. 9-5 jobs are good because they are 9-5.

>>9498883

>In the UK you can only spend 1 year fucking around and doing nothing

Honestly, it's subjective. I fucked around in 1st and 2nd year and plan to this year as well. Uni exams are easy as hell, you can fool around all semester then cram and rote memorise in the last month

>>9498886
>a bit higher
Isn't it like three times as much?

>>9498899

I didn't want to do that, uni was too hard for me. I came from a shit school and got into a shit college, it was massively lucky I got into uni in the first place so I wasn't ready for all the theoretical shit they threw at me. I just got a job instead.

>>9498899
Easy as hell for you probably.

>>9498898
meaning I have to study a lot or what?

>>9498904

it went up exactly 3x as much for me, first year was 3200 a year, then it shot up to 9800 a year.

>>9498899
Agree.
You just need to know the trick and attend the last class when your lecturers hand out so called TIPS.
I am not a good student but I didnt put in any effort at all and pass all my exams and got a 2nd class honour.
You just need to do past year papers and learn the tricks to pass.
Assignment is the tough part for me since you need to work in group and you get fucked for being lazy.

>>9498917

Yeah damn right, I am a fucking tensai, always have been.

Naw just kidding but seriously studying is little more than memorising shit, below a postgraduate level it'll never demand any real intelligence of you. You just need the patience to read Sparknotes in between browsing /jp/

>>9498911

Fair enough dude.

>>9498817
im working as an system administrator at a company. the only thing I do is helping people with copmputer problems that I can fix in a few minutes and when there is no work im playing games and another stuff.

you don't wanna end up on a helpdesk because you will have to work with stupid people all the time. but being a system administrator is ok.

>>9498945

How do you get into that role? Did you have to work your way up?

Aww how cute, another thread about how college kids waste their time outside.

>>9498955

Uni does not equal college in the UK.

>>9498964
It's still a waste of time and energy no matter where you go.

>>9498955

I have no job yet I get paid to live in an apartment most working people couldn't afford where I spend my time browsing /jp/, drinking and eating nice food

You and I are the same, only you have to live with your parentsｗｗ

CS>IT
Deal with it itfags.

>>9498989
ECE>CS
Deal with it csfags

>>9498973

Not at all, Uni is amazing. Nobody talks to you, nobody knows who you are, you could just walk into any lecture at any time and nobody would be any the wiser. Lecturers don't ask you questions or know you, you just turn up - fill in the paper register and walk out right afterwards if you want. Or you just sit there on a laptop for 1 hour pretending to take notes while you post on /jp/.

Then you go home. By the time you've been at home for a couple of hours you've pretty much forgotten you ever went outside and you don't have to go back for a week. You do this all year around with huge holiday breaks and stuff whilst getting paid handsomely.

This is the UK though, we don't have frat parties or whatever weird rituals the US has. There are some students that like to get drunk and stuff but that's all in the dorms and they don't bother people anyway.

Just go to uni from home.

>>9498989
>>9498993
No job/college/school>everything else

>>9498999
It's like that here too. I genuinely feel sorry for Americans.

>>9498999
I dropped out of university because I had the complete opposite experience. I said and did nothing, yet people insisted on talking to me. And while British universities might not have the whole frat culture that American colleges have, there is still a lot of partying and carousing and people making way too much noise in their flats at 1am.

Though I went to a former polytechnic, so it's not surprising it was full of scummy and friendly people. I wish I had been born middle class.

>>9498999
I wouldn't call it amazing, merely better than work.

I approve or deny applications for autism bucks.
Pic related, it is what I look like when I deny one.

I find it depressing that there are people here who work or go to school.

Are you just doing it because you have no other option? It's very easy to live without working or going to school. There's so many ways to make money on the internet without putting forth any real effort, getting money from ads, translating, etc. And of course there's always autismbux.

Why are you doing this? Why are you throwing your life away?

>>9499034
I am trying to get out of hell

>>9499034
>I find it depressing that there are people here who work or go to school.
>It's very easy to live without working or going to school.
>getting money from translating

Are you an idiot?

>>9499034
I was on disability for a couple of years and dropped out of school at 14.

I became good friends with one guy over time, and he was manager of the fresh produce section of a supermarket. At Christmas nearly 2 years ago he asked if I wanted a job because he needed help, so I said yes. He went on to have a mental breakdown and now I am too scared to quite because the autism bank will see I'm capable of work.

>>9499048

Ten minutes a day of freelance translating a language that you learned for the sole purpose of playing eroge is hardly work.

>>9499034

I'm in my late 20s now. I was a NEET growing up but then I got a full time job so I could have money to buy things. I'm unemployed now because I got laid off, I haven't worked in 9 months. But I do want to go back just so I can get money.

Stuff like government benefits and internet cash is nothing compared to the money you get from a real job. Especially if you don't have a car or any responsibilities like that, it's just a massive amount of pocket money to me. I haven't changed what I spend my money on since I was 18.

I do marketing work for a country club. It's boring and slow but it pays very well for what it is, and it's a pretty small business so I end up alone in the office a lot of the time, nice and quiet so I can focus on work and not think too hard.

In my free time I write novels and publish them on amazon. The income from that looks like it's going to match and then exceed my regular job if I keep it up. If/when I achieve that, I am going to quit my day job and spend the rest of my life writing about cute lesbian serial killers.

>>9499034
>There's so many ways to make money on the internet

I think the volume of Make $$$ Online NOW scams demonstrate that this isn't really the case. Filling out surveys or CAPTCHAs won't get you very far, and investing or joining a start-up require money, effort and risk.

>>9499086

>is nothing compared to the money you get from a real job

Why would you need more money? /jp/ related hobbies are not expensive and the vast majority of it you can just pirate. I get autismbux and for the most part I don't even know what to spend it on so I just put it in a box.
>Especially if you don't have a car or any responsibilities like that

Having a car and responsibilities are an unpleasant byproduct of employment. I have no car and no need for a car because I don't have a job.

>>9498875
Please respond.

>>9499109
I love you anon.

>>9499104
Superior Yuropan public transit means you don't need a car to have a job.

>>9499104

Well a car and responsibilities aren't a byproduct for me because I can walk into work and the only responsibilities my job has are going into work at the correct time and doing the job I'm paid to do.

'/jp/ related hobbies'...I'm sorry but I'm not really into all that /a/ and /b/ hivemind stuff. I buy anime-related goods, I visit Japan, I buy music equipment and games. I go to doujin events and upload CDs or games I buy, I'm the reason you can pirate your stuff and live off autism bucks.

All that vs. online 'bragging rights' of being a NEET (Which I've been there and done that before there was even 4chan), it's a no-brainer really.

>>9498999
>you just turn up - fill in the paper register
European country here, free university, and I only have to show up for exams.
Sucks to be you, UK.

Also OP, my speciality is shitposting by replying seriously.

I have two cashiering jobs and also commute to community college. I'm not very social but it's something to do, I was a NEET for a year and I just want money to support my hobbies.

I would like to be a professional musician but I guess I need to go to a larger university and do some other stuff to do that. I just think it'd be really great if some time in the future I could get my skills really up to par and find a secure spot in an orchestra. I want to travel around and some of the bigger ones have really good pay.

>>9499136
m8 ur a nigger

>>9499109

heh.

>>9499136

>I buy anime-related goods
>I visit Japan
>I buy games
>I go to doujin events

Jesus christ, what a nightmare. I thought working was bad.

>>9499151
Yeah, I don't even know how he manages to live while doing such things. It must be fucking awful.

>>9499080
You're telling me 5 hours of translation work per month can support you?

You're deluded.

>>9499165
There is a reason why he got laid off.
Nobody want an employee that take weeks off to attend some events.

>>9499080
This post brought to you by RETrans International™

I don't know how to get autismbux in my country so I still go to college. I always imagine it being hard to pretend you're autistic even though I have some autistic traits.

How did you guys do it?

>>9499136
NEET pride has taken over /jp/.

For some reason ``taking it easy'' to them is a diktat that forbid any kind of work that would earn you enough money to do thing you wouldn't be able to do otherwise.

Much like a religion, not working grants them some sort of self-righteousness, and going astray (working) is enough to be excomuniated and considered as a parriah.

I wonder what it feels like to have hobbies that require money. The whole idea seems so strange to me.

All learning is free because of the internet so I can learn anything without spending a penny, all of the entertainment I enjoy can be downloaded, I grow and harvest any of the plants that I would need for when I want to have a change of pace and explore my mind, and all of the instruments I own were one time payments.

Every hobby I can think of that is enjoyable is either completely free or requires a very small initial payment.

>>9499178

Free like the monthly payments keeping your computer connected to the internet

>>9499178
1) not everything is on the internet.
2) you can't download cars nor any other physical item (such as fig, daki and onahole)
3) improving the quality of one's life (a house in a quieter place, a bigger fridge, a comfortable bed, a better computer with 7 different screens, audiophile headphones)

>>9499190
In a lot of places it's easy enough to leech residential, commercial, or government wireless (in the library or some shit).

>>9499163

Of course not. The money you make online supplements the money you get from autismbux. Autismbux is the foundation to living without a job and any small amount of money you can get on top of that from the internet goes to whatever you want.

>>9499190
I use aircrack-ng.

>>9499173

Actually get diagnosed with aspergers as a teen. No faking please.

>>9499208
I'm not autistic enough to have my parents worry apparently.

>>9499173
You have to either be unable to work or at least convince a team of people that you are not able to work.

If most of the people who know you don't assess you as too far gone, either suck it up and work, or learn to act really well.

>>9499194
Consumerism is pretty disgusting. Living in a peaceful place is very nice, but buying stuff I don't need only makes me feel bad.

>>9498999
My experience is a bit similar... but I go to a small uni (around 1k students) so interaction is almost forceful. I always try to talk as little as possible and to avoid every subject that isn't related to studies. However, what I hate the most about college is the insane amount of time and work it requires. I'm a hardworking student and I do great, but I'm always stressed, I get headaches and I barely have free time to enjoy my hobbies. I also have to do huge team papers pretty much by myself if I want to get a good mark. It's awful.

I'm loving this summer, I've only gone out a couple of days in the past month (only for medical and bureaucracy issues) and it's just amazing, in fact I feel like I have too little time for the huge amount of things I want to watch and play.

>>9499169

Going to Japan was part of my job. But taking weeks off for holiday is fine, no employer is going to care.

>>9499190

>Free like the monthly payments keeping your computer connected to the internet

Internet access is cheap. I don't consider it a hobby, it's just a small monthly bill.

>>9499194

All of this stuff is pretty much completely unnecessary. I don't understand why you would spend money on it unless you just had a lot money and wanted to get rid of it.

Houses outside of cities are quieter and cheaper though. Don't need more money for that.

>>9499216

Neither was I. It was my highschool who recommended me to a psychologist, and then he recommended me to a psychiatrist, and so on. Its amazing the amount of shit I supposedly have, even I dont believe I have some of it.
Either way, Im living on about $245 a week now. But its still not enough for me to move out anywhere decent.

>>9499255
Worrying about such thing is just as bad.

Do what thou whilt, as long as you take it easy and enjoyee your lifetime then you're doing good.

Having a bed that gives you back pain because you don't want to indulge in no consumerism is pretty stupid.

>>9499194

>improving the quality of one's life

Not possible.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill

You're working harder to get to a quality of life which is objectively better than your current life, but your happiness will eventually level back out and you won't be any happier than you used to be. The mind will always adapt and adjust to new living conditions.

If you try to chase happiness then you will just end up working exponentially harder to maintain the same level of happiness. Best way to be happy is to just sit down and enjoy what you have because it's not getting any better.

>>9499280
I agree. It's just that I live in a rich country. I have everything. If I worked eight hours a day, I could buy a new bed every week. It's sick.

Don't have a job right now. I dropped out of college twice (actually I got a degree from 1, then went to another college for another, THEN dropped out). I would like to get a job to support my hobbies but don't have any real world skills or socialization. I've been looking into becoming a truck driver and driving cargo and stuff all over the country. Seems like it could be pretty cool job.
I think if you're a single loner type guy with no family/obligations that could be an good job.

>>9499136
>I'm the reason you can pirate your stuff and live off autism bucks.
Keep up the good work, but know your place, kiddo.

>>9499315
You need to be able to lift heavy objects though.

>>9499298
Yeah, well fuck your theory.
It's complete bullshit and you either know it, or aren't educated enough to know what you're talking about.

>>9498803
>Horriblesubs
You're fired.

>>9499343

>Yeah, well fuck your theory.

Great argument.

Why is it that rich people feel unsatisfied and depressed just as much as everyone else? Happiness doesn't keep increasing as you acquire more and more objects, it just isn't how it works. If it was then rich people would be in an endless state of euphoria from all of the objects they own, but they aren't and some of them complain more than the poorest people in the world.

If you were honest with yourself then you would probably see many examples of this in your own life. You work more to increase your wealth so that you can buy the things that you want, but after you acquire them then there is always something else which is more expensive that you now want to buy. It's an endless cycle which requires you to work harder and harder to keep chasing after increasingly expensive objects that you want.

Drug tolerance works in the same exact way. Take a drug, get high, body builds a tolerance to the drug, you now have to take a higher dosage to feel the same effect that you used to feel from the lower dosage, etc. Increases endlessly in the same way that the requirements to satisfy greed increases endlessly.

>>9499389

You're >>>/a/

>>9499413
>Drug tolerance works in the same exact way. Take a drug, get high, body builds a tolerance to the drug, you now have to take a higher dosage to feel the same effect that you used to feel from the lower dosage, etc. Increases endlessly in the same way that the requirements to satisfy greed increases endlessly.

Except with drugs you can take a break and come back to reset your tolerance. And some drugs have a reverse tolerance.

I'm not the guy you're arguing but I don't think anyone on /jp/ is going to be rich. We all have enough common sense to know that money doesn't buy happiness and so on, but people also know that living with nothing can be shitty. I buy nice things for my family because I never had them as a kid, sure it's not gonna make us enlightened but it helps. It's the small things that can make the big differences.

tl;dr I think you're blowing a very simple comment way out of proportion

>>9499445

>my family

It's time to leave, normalfriend.

>>9499413
Yeah, except working harder just for the sake of one day getting a higher salary is not how it works. People become successful in their careers because they love their job, not because they see it as a way to get cash to buy new anime figurines or whatever.

That theory of yours very rarely applies in real life. People aren't mindless drones. They usually have way more complex reasons for their actions than you give them credit for.

>>9499413
You obviously have minimal knowledge on the matter.

Also, how is a bed that doesn't hurt your back going to ruin your happiness ?

Yes, you didn't say it with that exact wording, but if you carefully read, which I'm hoping that such a feat is within your reach, it is your thesis.

>>9499460
Excuse me while I throw up.

>>9499461
>Yeah, except working harder just for the sake of one day getting a higher salary is not how it works.
It is true for a small selection of people, those who have this ambition to become number one in life running through their heads (and obviously higher salary means better life) and think that working ninety hour weeks is the way to do it. These people are not common. You can find them in law firms and sometimes trying to claw their way through Wall Street.

>>9499460

My family = my single parent.

Do you find it hard posting on the internet without trying to fit into a hivemind like a sheep?

>>>/a/

>>9499478

>Do you find it hard posting on the internet without trying to fit into a hivemind like a sheep?

Yes. Don't bully me.

>>9499490
You told somebody to get out and you're resorting to this?

>>9499461
>>9499467
Please elaborate. You're not saying very much.

I wish people would stop considering things like cars to be unnecessary. If it weren't for having a vehicle where I live I wouldn't be able to get a decent job or go to school, much less even be able to get to a grocery store. There are many places where public transportation is available and of course people can always walk or take a bike, but it's not possible to do something like that in this disconnected backwater town. I do shop online for things like books and clothes because those kind of stores are pretty far away even for a drive, but I can't buy food online.

>>9499495

I said don't bully me, now stop it. /jp/ anon is legion and we don't forget. You will regret it if you continue.

>>9499502
>If it weren't for having a vehicle where I live I wouldn't be able to get a decent job or go to school

x3

>>9499502
It's necessary in the sense that an internet connection is necessary. It may make your own life significantly better personally, but you certainly don't need it, especially if you're not going to do with it what most people do with it.

>>9499497
``please I just made half assed wikipedia research work and you guize are sayan Im wrong; tell me how on fugging erth I cud b rong lolz xDDD checkm8''

-u

If you're interested in the subject go read books about it made by intelligent people, and actively collect information with personal research.

But to be honest, the way you think is the root of the problem.

FUKK ALL THE NORNMAN FAGS 3DPD AM I RITE CL/a/SSY BROS? XDDDD

>>9499520
I haven't been participating in this discussion because I've seen it many times before, but if you're going to act like a fucking retard, you need to get the fuck out.

Do you know why successful and rich people arent truly happy?
Do you know what are normals top regret when they are dying?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/feb/01/top-five-regrets-of-the-dying

These people are weigh down by their success. They have tons of responsibility and every misstep that they do will be shamed in public.
Do what you like instead of chasing material wealth.

>>9499529
>if you're going to act like a fucking retard

spoiler: both sides are.

It was'nt so bad until the wikiFACTS guy showed up.

>>9499540
No, fuck off. This

>``please I just made half assed wikipedia research work and you guize are sayan Im wrong; tell me how on fugging erth I cud b rong lolz xDDD checkm8''

is beyond the pale.

>>9499461

>People become successful in their careers because they love their job, not because they see it as a way to get cash to buy new anime figurines or whatever.

I don't think this is true for most careers. Most people work a 9-5 that they work simply to get by, many rich people work ridiculous hours in a job they despise to make huge amounts of money so they can plan for retirement, and then there's a small portion of people who are actually passionate about their careers and enjoy working. Most do not fall into that last category, but there are very few people in our society that don't have some object that they want to buy which is just out of their rich. Even the blue collar worker saves up to buy luxuries.

>>9499533
You should keep in mind that a large amount of people actually LIKE working. A large part of successful people became successful because they liked their jobs, then the successfulness kinda came as a side effect. Other than that, I agree with you.

>>9499467

>Also, how is a bed that doesn't hurt your back going to ruin your happiness?

I don't know what is with you and beds so I can't comment on that. I've slept on a couch for years and I'm happy with it.

I can think of an example with computer chairs though. I used to have an old computer chair and I liked it. It was worn down, wasn't in very good condition, but I was perfectly happy with it. One day it finally broke and I had to purchase a new one. I bought a much higher quality chair which was objectively better in every way. For a short time, maybe a month or so, I thought this was really great and I loved how comfortable it was. Eventually I got used to it though and I was now just as happy with this chair as I used to be with my old chair.

If you were to give me back my old chair though then I probably not be happy with it because I was spoiled by knowing what it felt like to own a better chair. The happiness itself was equal regardless of the chair though.

Ignorance really is bliss. If you find a way to feel happy and content with being poor then your life can't get any better. You can improve the quality of your living conditions, but the happiness you feel will always level out and be equal to what it used to be.

>>9499543
Ok, I guess it is, I'm sorry. I'm so sorry that the quality of this blog thread is so shitty. I guess It's my fault blog threads are shitty and not /jp/ related, right ?

Hey you know what ? make a third blog thread, it'll definitely be good this time, and two aren"t enough for /jp/.

>>9499520
You're talking with several people and right now you're quoting the wrong person. Working obviously is a prerequisite for fitting in and starting a family, but what does it have to do with anything? I read and I'm familiar with Maslow's thoughts. Do you know what kind of people you are talking to?

Sysadmin.

>>9499567
>Do you know what kind of people you are talking to?
This is the worst rhetorical question I've seen in a while.

You're not suposed to count how many book you've read and flaunt them as trophies.

>>9499591
That wasn't supposed to refer to my knowledge but to my past and personality. I've been a misfit piece of shit for my entire life. There is no hope. Do you get it already?

>>9498740
>>9498740
>>9498740
>>9498740
>>9498740
WATAFUK OP, WHATS THAT

>>9499607
What I don't get is how is all that bullshit related to buying a comfortable bed.

>>9499621
A post criticized consumerism and two defensive replies appeared. The other guy kept going on about how a good bed is a jolly great thing and the other guy started to preach about the wonders of being a well-adjusted person. They were just asking for it.

I'm a web developer, it's pretty slack most of the time unless a deadline is nearing.

>>9499648
How can you put up with the webdev environment? Every time I think about javascript, it makes me sick.

>>9499663
I do backend 90% of the time, what is it you dislike about Javascript?

>>9499669
1. It's a terrible language.
2. It's used for the most evil of all evils, DHTML.

>>9499554
Nobody is blaming you for the thread being shitty, because presumably you're not OP. People (rather, just I) are blaming you for making a shitty post. Just because the thread is not good is not a good excuse to act like a retard.

>>9499734
Yes it is.
Having any kind of quality standart for this kind of thread would mean tolerating them.

Not /jp/ related shit should stay out of /jp/.

>>9499734
I'm actually more okay with aikido spam than half-assed, half-serious replies that promote nothing but mediocrity.

I do research.

>>9499806
No, you little insolent shit. If the thread is shit you report it, or hide it, or if you really want, tell everyone to fuck off or write about how great Yoshinoya is.

What you don't do is participate in the thread while acting like a fucking retard, which is what you did, because once you take sides you've participated in this shitfest and are part of the problem. Deliberately acting like a retard should not be tolerated. "XDDDDD EBIN XD SPURDO" - u type shit absolutely should not be tolerated. Do not act like a fucking moron just because somebody else said something dumb.

>>9499684
While it's not a perfect language I don't think it's that bad.

Sure makes front-end jobs a lot easier, although less elegant.

I am on disability. I worked a bunch of mediocre jobs for years because no one decent would hire me. Did my best to support myself but mostly ended up barely getting by. Had a complete breakdown almost ended up homeless, applied for disability after like two years not working, I kept telling myself I would pull myself back together, never happened, now I do nothing and I'm pretty poor.

I feel sorry for people who will have to work the rest of their lives or even the people getting by on government money since I don't see how it could be enough.

>>9502200
What's your living situation, alone, parents?

>>9502282

I live with my girlfriend. My dad's dead and my mom lives really far away, I never see her anymore. My girlfriend is pretty much the only person I have in my life. If she leaves I'll probably end up dead.

>>9502309
A girlfriend who is okay with her lover being a useless man who sits around all day collecting a disability check? She's probably sleeping around.

I'm a full time student studying to work either in engineering or academia. I came from a shitty home with a shitty father and was dirt poor so fuck spending the rest of my life that way.

>>9502322

She is a crazy shut in too.

cop.

inb4 'oinkoink u dont rule ME mister police man, i own a gun hurf a durf'

I was honestly checking if I still was on /jp/ with the recent replies in here

I'm starting university this Monday so I guess I'm n o longer a NEET.
I'll miss these 2 years...

>>9502338
oink oink, you don't rule ME, Mr. Police Man. I own a gun, hurf durf.

>>9502358
You'll drop out and join us again

I make independent video games.

I'm also working on a Computer Science degree at a community college with around a 70% black student population. It's covered by financial aid, though. I don't have to worry about student loans, so I'll deal with it.

I work at McDonalds full time at the moment. Made some poor choices.

I'm dropping down to part time in about a month to start an engineering couse at university

>>9502409
I failed the job interview for McDonalds. There isn't much left for me in this universe.

Applied to Income Assistance today,
they told me I might have a chance to get about $180 a month.

I somehow doubt it but if I get it life is gonna turn good

Night Audit

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_auditor

I'm the guy who gets paid to do nothing.

bio and ag engineering grad student

one day I will grow my perfect waifu in a transgenic square watermelon patch

>>9502353
Please go /jp/ is no longer for losers, go with your truNEET bullshit.

I got hired by my cousin as a programmer, he's nice to me but I spend 3 hours a day travelling and I have to stay there 8 hours a day, totaling 11 hours.

I know this is a great opportunity as he treats me well and probably won't fire me if I fuck up, but this is killing me. I'm already tired after 3 months; I've never worked before and losing most of your day is fucking shit. Is this what life is all about?

>>9502458
the travelling 3 hours thing isn't helping, move closer if you can.

>>9502431
>/jp/ is actually filled with successful, happy people

>>9502491
Having a job doesn't make you happy. Quite the opposite.

>>9502458
You'll get used to the 8 hours. 3 hours of commuting is pretty brutal, though. Can you do something else in the time you spend commuting? I ended up with an hour and a half commute, but I also spend that time reviewing kanji in anki and listening to doujin music, so it's not time totally lost to me.

I work at Target and I have a 2 month temp position at some company where I do nothing all day because they don't pay for me to be there, since I got it through an employment program for the mentally ill.

>>9498740
>Today I started thinking, "what does /jp/?" So people of /jp/, What is your job?

Computer programming.

>>9499034
>I find it depressing that there are people here who work or go to school. Are you just doing it because you have no other option?

If I could think of something better to do with my time, I would do that instead. I tried being unemployed for a while, but I got really bored.

>>9502499
Some people enjoy working, it makes them feel accomplished. If it makes them happy, why do you care?

It's not my thing, but I don't look down on people who work.

I used to grow shrooms in large amounts and sell them to a middleman, he got busted or something so I stopped because I'm too autistic to sell them myself

>>9502491
Whom are you citing?

epic lizard picture btw

>>9502534
>Lol Why Are You So Mad........

>>9502491
Happy people don't come here, anon.

>>9502546
If I wasn't so sure you'd hate me, I'd ask to be your friend.

>>9502401
I'll be studying philosophy, something I like, so I doubt that.
But I'll be joining you in 4 years!

District marketing representative for Microsoft.

>>9502431
You sound bitter.
Should I feel bad for you because you aren't as much satisfied with your life as us even though you're working so hard every day and we're not?
Deep down you don't think we're losers, you are just jealous and angry.

To all of you guys with jobs: Have fun throwing your lives away. Keep up the good work so we can relax!
Don't forget, you are our slaves, nothing more.

>>9502576
Your parents are your slaves though, and when they die nobody will be.

>>9502579
You're an idiot.

>>9502572
>I'll be studying philosophy, something I like, so I doubt that.
Its like you want to pay to waste time.

>>9502581
Nice counter argument.

>>9502582
Oh no sir! In my country you don't pay for university unless you're an idiot.

>>9502576
How does it feel to have such strong cognitive dissonance that your desperately lonely mind actually twisted your logic into thinking you were happy with your situation? Work and life goals nurture your mind instead of stagnating and rotting it away in your room on a chair staring at a screen. I can only imagine how bad it must be that you actually managed to convince yourself that you're content.

>>9502586
Here, let me explain it for your simple mind. He's calling you (the taxpayers) slaves because they pay for his autismbux and housing or whatever he gets. You being an idiot thought NEETs only survive because of their parents.

>>9502521
It's more habit than enjoyment actually. Common people are so much accustomed with working the vast majority of their time since almost their birth it's only the natural order of things for them. They try to avoid annoyance, misfortune and obtain a relative perennity like this.

>>9502593
Ah, carry on my friend.

>>9502595
There aren't autismbux in my country though.

In case you haven't realized, your parents also are taxpayers, and worse, they're directly paying for your shit. They're the real slaves.

Oh, and I don't work either. But at least I realize that I'm being a shitty son, unlike you who try to come up with this kind of stuff to feel better about yourself.

>>9502558
I only hate very specific types of people, and those types really don't come to /jp/, let alone post here.

I'm not very judgmental. Why are you so sure?

>>9502630
I can't remember when or where I read it, but I'm pretty sure it confirmed that you'd hate me, I don't want to say much more, I'd rather pretend we were anonymous friends.

>>9502597
I will.
Ha..... It's nice not living in murrica..

>>9502595
Not that many people around here qualify for disability assistance because it's not that easy to get on if you don't actually suffer from crippling problems. Many are leeching off their parents for the time being. Or, as you so wonderfully put it, enslaving their parents. What wouldn't I give to do that.

I am graphic designer (a very medicocre one) I do a few small projects here and there, My main source of income are photorestotrations that give me 10-20 dollars per photo and I am also enlisted as a mistery shopper (some franchises hire companies that send checkers that pretent to be normal costumers to see if they stores follow their protocols) they pay 40 dollars per visit and once in awhile I get to buy something cool that the company later refunds.

All this give me enough to pay for my apartment and basic needs and I get to spend half of the day just chilling out and looking for for more jobs

Why are there so many replies in this thread?

>>9498945
I'm interested to know, if you're still around, what kind of company you work as a systems administrator for. My sysadmin does shit tons of work, almost constantly. But he does quite a bit of programming, scripting, hacking together fixes for open source software, database administration. He's also the only one in that position or similar, so he has to take on everything that is requested of him, and we do a lot of shit in-house that most people would outsource to third party developers. I envy his knowledge and capability, but not his job.

>>9502693
a lot of people that browse /jp/ have jobs/careers, are you surprised by it or something

>>9502641
You don't seem to me to be the type of person I'd hate. It's not like I wouldn't be able to change my mind even if I did. Like I said, I'm not very judgmental.

If remaining anonymous is more comfortable for you, then by all means don't let what I say sway you. I don't see what you have to lose by telling me the reason why you believe that I'd hate you, considering that you're posting anonymously. It might just play out to your liking, and there's no real downside to it.

You would also sate my curiosity.

>>9502708
But those kid's don't belong here.

>Why is it that rich people feel unsatisfied and depressed just as much as everyone else? Happiness doesn't keep increasing as you acquire more and more objects, it just isn't how it works.
I may be several hours late, but let me just voice my opinion here. What the fuck is with that? Why aren't rich people satisfied with their status? Why can't money buy happiness? My stance may be weak because this is all fully hypothetical, but if I were to run into a large sum of money, I'm absolutely positive that my quality of life (and consequently, my happiness) would increase exponentially. If being surrounded by a hot tub, marble flooring, high class paintings, dark wood walls, books of several genres, all the movies and games you could ever want and play, the latest technology, a sleek automobile, a luxurious bed, high speed Internet--whatever the hell you desire--isn't what you'd call a good life, I'd like to hear what you have to say about living in poverty with piss bottles and trash bags about you as various insects invade your home and gnaw away at your body while you slumber.

I would understand if the extra income required holding a more laborious occupation as the stress of the latter could nullify the pleasure of the former, but even those who win the lottery seem to become depressed as the years pass. It doesn't make sense at all. Do people threaten them for their money or something? I really don't get it.

>>9502767
In an anonymous board nobody is important enough to decide who belongs here and who doesn't.

>>9502890
They are afraid to lose all that money would be my assumption.

>>9502890
I think it's because #1, too much money puts a lot of power in your hands and you don't really know what to do with it. Like imagine getting 100 million $, what would you do? It's really hard. And #2, most people put other human beings as their first priority and you can't necessarily get that human comfort with money alone. Sure you can get shiny and expensive things, but I think that wears off after a while.

>>9502916
Assuming that a person was poor to begin with before, the thought of losing their newly gained money (although it would be terrible) shouldn't generate enough fear and paranoia to utterly cripple their happiness. More importantly, it's pretty unlikely that you'd lose all your money by spending too much. Unless you gamble or get jacked by a mastermind, both of which are avoidable outcomes if you use your mind a little, there isn't anything to worry about.

>>9502928
I can understand that it would be overwhelming to hold such copious amounts of cash, but surely there must be ways to intelligently spend it. If you don't want to spend it all for yourself, perhaps you could save it up for future generations, gift your friends, donate to charity, invest in a cause you support, whatever. The second part, I don't really know what to say to that because I agree about how most relationships birthed from money end up being quite shallow. Regardless, if you had family or friends beforehand, it's not like they'd suddenly start hating you, right? If they do, they weren't worth much anyway.

Better yet if you don't desire social comfort from the start, because then you can live out your dreams without worries.

>>9502890
Think of it like an RPG where the main goal you have is to level up so you can beat that final boss and now imagine that being rich is equivalent to being max leveled with max stats and given a weapon that can one hit the boss. You may have fun at first destroying everything but it does get old quick. The fun out of playing the game came out of doing all the side quests and exploring the world as you got stronger to take on that final boss but with all that removed you have a pretty empty world.

>>9503019
Funnily enough I was actually thinking about your analogy before you posted it. But while it poses some valid points, I dismissed the thought because whereas in a video game the scenario is pretty much over when you receive those upgrades, the benefits of hard cash in real life are much less short lived because they can afford you far more pleasures than just beating the final boss. It may be like if you had 999,999 gold (the max), it wouldn't really help you at all because there's nothing to buy with it, but if there was still more to achieve in the game like a secret gallery of lewd scenes with the characters that you could unlock for 800k gold (for sake of example), it isn't meaningless to be so affluent.

The main difference is that being rich IRL doesn't necessarily end the game right there. To me it seems more like being rich, unlike reaching the "upper limit" of your previous world, is more like being able to enter a world that was previously inaccessible to you. Real life doesn't exactly have an end goal, so I think the problem partly lies therein.

>>9499139
Lucky you.

American Universities are stressful as all hell. Classes that force interaction with others, forced public speaking, lab classes with even more forced interaction, etc.

Coupled with insanely high costs. I'm glad I dropped that shit. At the end of the day, you don't even get a job if you did not make awesome social connections with influential people.