/lit/ - Literature

>>21863722
I think this is his best work.

>>21409159
>"oh I have all this money and prestige, but it's just not conducive to my art."

It's just a way to make money, it's not a hill I would die on. I don't know if I would call it "prestigious". I doubt people generally give a shit about this field. It's mostly other people in the field who all like to jack each other off about how smart and high-earning we are. I also don't think it's a cultural fit for me though I am eccentric myself, I am just weird in a different way than other people in my field. I feel very alone and I don't connect with anyone here. I have never met anyone quite like me. It's a stable job, but that's not what life is about. I am not close to my family. I drifted apart from my friends and I no longer have friends I hang out with. I don't have an SO or kids. I think I am too autistic or wired differently to just have a normal life and find a normal spouse or find a normal community I can be content in.

All I have is some money and a college degree, and I guess a fit body from spending my free time lifting if I am not writing. I didn't even gain most of my money from my tech job anyway, but a regular blue collar job that I used to have.

Why are there no books dealing with the fact that it's impossible these days for a non-Chad to get any female attention ever?

It demoralised me so much to see Chad and Stacey couples or hordes of Staceys at the universities in my city (both with a female majority), and knowing that I'm excluded from things. The supposed social contract or any obligations to society seem a joke as a result.

How the hell do I cope with being 25 and driving around the city at 11 in the morning and seeing all these hot girls I never talked to ever while at university, knowing they fuck Chads regularly and go out to clubs while getting shitloads of attention and get shitloads of matches on Tinder and they easily know how easy their lives are?

How am I supposed to cope with having been friendless at university and never doing anything with any girl except prostitutes and knowing no girl has shown any interest in me ever? And in school I had friends but girls thought of me as a weirdo nerd (not that I talked to them or talked about my interests)?

Social conventions are a mask. I don't feel dumb or physically inadequate (although i wear glasses and do not have a good face, which obviously is a big factor) or insecure about things I can change. I am simply not a normie.

How do I get casual sex if I have no friends and a sub Chad face? I don't want to join stupid interest clubs to meet women. That's a stupid idea.

You guys keep saying that you read to figure out the human condition but my observations of society have led me to pretty much figure it all out. The human condition consists of:

>selfies
>talking about dat rad party in the past
>talking about dat rad party you're at
>talking about dat rad upcoming party
>hashtags
>#prayfor[location]
>yoonay
>bae

That's it. That's the whole thing.

> Ask a girl out for the first time in 22 years of existence
> Girl sitting in the library, reading manga
> Kinda plain, but cute
> Creep around her for half an hour from a safe distance, acting like I'm looking for a book
> I really was, but still
> Finally muster up courage,approach and ask her if she's free sometime in the near future
> *giggle* "Ugh...nah thanks"
> She quickly stands up and leaves
> Librarian saw it happen
> mfw

Don't fall for the "YOU HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE BRO!" meme. My self esteem is at an all time low. That's what I get for being born ugly.
Never again.

I did engineering but stop with this "arts degrees leave you jobless" bullshit. tonnes of finance companies and other companies with large grad schemes take people with any degree.

The only people who think that X degree is the unemployment degree are people at really really really shit unis. The sort of people who wouldve been manual labourers if born 40 years prior to heir actual birth.

If you think university is vocational then you are lower class pleb scum who wouldnt have gone to in 1980.