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>wake up
>check my phone
>got an email saying I was rejected for a job for which I did an asynchronous video interview that I did a few days ago (where you are recorded over the internet, answering questions, but you don't actually talk to anyone; they review it later)
>check my bank account
>less money than expected from paid in from my job
>phone HMRC (UK IRS) and they change my tax code but I won't be repaid the extra money for a while
>go outside and see attractive young people in the primes of their lives (I'm 27 an haven't had friends since school or female attention ever, never been to a pub, club, or party)
>see Staceys driving expensive cars in the middle of the day (they are probably rich)
>listen to BBC radio 4 program that misrepresented Ayn Rand
>currently drinking coffee in central London to feel less alone and pass the time
>paid £3 for Starbucks coffee with young happy zoomers at the till
>thought I had an epiphany and would turn the corner last night: don't feel like having any junk food, so maybe I have changed, but I am still extremely unhappy: feel like I need to be productive all the time
>feel bad I'm 27 and haven't really started a solid career yet

Nothing too bad but life grinds down the soul

I binged again but only a small binge

>> No.11783613

Just start using drugs already

>> No.11783617

London meetup WHEN

>> No.11783619

>>11783613
Didn't work for me. Still depressed, dick in hand, and now a slave to chems

>> No.11783624

>>11783613
fpbp

>> No.11783630

Please save the keywords for the middle next time, it provides a sort of anticipated suspense as to whether or not you are indeed the same autistic loser spamming this shit constantly or not.

>> No.11783633

>>11783630
Add on: what I’m saying is that I liked how you did it this time, usually there is a template you follow but not this time

>> No.11783634

London is just the worst. For your own sake, please move anywhere else

>> No.11783638

>>11783606
HMRC don't change your tax code unless you've had a significant change in income or a change in receiving benefits. Explain pls.

>> No.11783639

>>11783634
London is just bad because of him.

All the Chads and Stacey’s he sees are actually browsing 4chan’s literature board and making fun of Londonfrog behind his back. Their whole lives revolve around tormenting him.

>> No.11783723

>>11783634
I have a theory that the spiritual essence of England cultivates depression. What a fucking awful place.

>> No.11783775

>>11783723
Where do you think the healthiest places to live are?

>> No.11783790

>>11783606
No, you're life is gonna get better! Start working out!

>> No.11783791

Londonfrog your fixation on other people’s happiness, while understandable, is pathological

>> No.11783806

>>11783606
you are gonna make it one day or you are gonna die

>> No.11783820

>>11783617
I would honestly fly to London to finally meet londonfrog

>> No.11783868

>>11783606
>asynchronous video interview
God, that sounds so dehumanizing. It's like you're not even worth their time; they can review as much or as little of you as they please. Searching for a decent job really makes you feel like a fucking cockroach.

>> No.11783975

>>11783868
They probably judged him off of appearance after one second and turned the video off desu

>> No.11783984

where is the unsubscribe button

>> No.11783997

>>11783984
Over on reddit

>> No.11784017

>>11783820
Me too. I'd straighten him out and get his life on the right track

>> No.11784020

Goddamn man
>tfw binge due to Stacey

>> No.11784032

>>11784017
>>11783820
>tfw we are all going to have a global 4chan summit in London at londonfrog house

>> No.11784041

>>11784032
Someone find his actual physical address and we should do this, regardless of if he wants to or not

>> No.11784092

>>11783775
switzerland, iceland, italy

>> No.11784104

idk how it is in uk but in the us, smaller country-ass towns far from major metropolitan centers usually have a bit of labor shortage and it's way easier to get a job. however, there is nothing happening in these middle american towns and they really suck the soul out of young workers. all of life is a tradeoff

>> No.11784128

Yep' that's an authentic Londonfrogpost alright. Don't settle for cheap knockoffs.

>> No.11784160

>>11784092
I'd add Spain to that list.
The british climate only foments perfidy, one cannot but pity them.

>> No.11784162

>>11784032
I'd train over to London to have a pint with londonfrog. Hypercapitalist modernity really is shit, we need solidarity

>> No.11784197

>>11784104
Not OP but its pretty much the opposite here in the UK, at least England. Jobs for young people are hard to come by outside London, the country's economy is unfortunately very centralised

>> No.11784215

>>11784160
I think that's the true answer, I have never heard of a really unhappy Spanish person.

>> No.11784223

>>11784162
Our first objective is to find Londonfrogs actual, physical address

>> No.11784252

>>11784197
>Jobs for young people are hard to come by outside London, the country's economy is unfortunately very centralised
Oh SHUT UP. The unemployment rate in the UK is now the lowest in Europe at 4%. During this time (uni start) literally hundreds of thousands of positions open up everywhere.

Anyway OP, I'm also 28 and have these feelings sometimes. Ageing anxiety and Fear of Missing Out is inevitable as you near 30. I have a decent job that I enjoy, a girlfriend (although I'm divorced), and don't look too bad (still have hair), and STILL I feel like shit looking at young people in their prime.

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>>11784215
Not even el Hechizado...

>> No.11784299

>>11783606
LondonFrog, did you go to a private school? Because you seem to have a mentality I find very common among children of the British professional upper-middle-classes (accountants, doctors, lawyers). It’s basically meaningless that you dont have a job at 27. I’m unironically envious of your actively discussing your issues via /lit/, even if unproductive. It’s /lit/-related because I feel like you’re describing the average situation of anyone who takes writing seriously in our current era, where we’ve erased the language needed to discuss life in terms beyond the immediately pragmatic. Especially in the UK, where ambition for anything except money is treated as a form of mental illness. If your life was exactly the same as it was now, and you were also writing a longform fiction project drawing on that energy / experience, you would be pretty much average. I can’t stand anyone I’ve ever worked with, and I’m aware that doesn’t make me pretentious but reflects the uniform idiocy of the British public. Just DGAF as much as you can man. Reduce this to biology: you experience a stress reaction to seeing other people being happy, and the only way forward is getting better at handling that discomfort, which will likely never change. Rooting for ya

>> No.11784313

>>11784299
Cringe

>> No.11784324

>>11783606
Would it be a good idea to transfer to a British University? I'm currently weighing my options. I'm in the US btw. Britain does seem pretty gloomy.

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>>11783606
Londonfrog, you will never know how much I love these small posts of yours. It feels like I have a friend. How sad is the affair of man; every hour spent in company with those who would gladly see you starve for another few morsels for themselves. Every day a slave to our base drives, trapped in body, trapped in society, trapped in existence. I would kill myself were it not for fear of God.

>> No.11784488

>>11784336
Well put. You know I sometimes wonder what really comes after death. I'd like to believe in reincarnation.

>> No.11784664

>>11783606
Oh so this is what those anons who thought I was "londonfrog" for saying how great Ayn Rand is were talking about.

>> No.11784919

I care about you londonfrog, wherever you may be

>> No.11784948

>>11784324
Depends what university.

>> No.11784986

>>11784488
I like to believe that it’s endless, dreamless sleep.

>> No.11785135

>>11784948
Was thinking Birmingham or Warwick. Doing a Criminology degree.

>> No.11785196

OP here. I didn't exercise today. I just had some chocolate but I am confident that I can avoid junk food now. I'm not so sure about avoiding coffee. I just stretched and feel a lot better because sitting is brutal for the lower back.

I waste all my free time and then feel extremely offended whenever I have to waste my time on chores or paperwork.

>> No.11785234

>>11785196
You sound like you have the spirit, soul, and essence of a very sassy black woman

>> No.11785247

>>11785196
Why dont you go out for a run every now and then. Or go to the pubs or whatever. I mean you just gotta do it. You can sit there and think all day but its not gonna get you anywhere. And youre still somewhat young. At least your not 47.

>> No.11785443

>>11783606
I think you genuinely need to consider getting the fuck out of the city. Literally go move to the Hebrides or something, I bet you could find some manual labor job there or you could just save up money.

>> No.11786480

>>11785196
so how log did that epiphany last? 8-9 hours?

>> No.11786523

Your a basketcase. At least do drugs so you have an excuse to be such a sad little frog poster

>> No.11786690

based Londonfrog. Never give up. Life is pain, but that's okay. It's part of our shared experience.

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>>11783606
>asynchronous interview
>tfw so neet you don't even understand strange wagie rituals and customs

>> No.11786788

Unironically the best poster on /lit/

>> No.11786907

>>11786788
if he rte diry i#d bue it deu

>> No.11787363

the plan is to just save, quit your job, buy a dodge, tour Europe, fuck exotic whores and die of syphilis insanity

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>>11786780
feels good

>> No.11787384

>living in London

Neck yourself

>> No.11787421

Living in London pre-WW2 = based
Living in London post-WW2 = pseud

>> No.11787438

>>11783638
they might have got his tax code wrong. I once had two jobs at the same time, and for about three years hmrc would give me two tax codes, splitting my tax free allowance between two jobs (even though I was back to only having one job), because they're useless fucks. I'd have to ring them every time the new tax year arrived, or if I changed jobs because of it.