/lit/ - Literature

>>15380042
>24
>Iliad
>NEET

>>15380042
>23
>story of the eye
>Ophthalmologist

23
war and peace
plasterer

>29
>Dan Simmons - Drood
>Software Integration Engineer

>>15380073
Based

>26
>Culture and Value, Wittgenstein
>commercial carpenter

>>15380042
>age
25
>last good book you've read
I finished The Drawing of the Three yesterday morning
I'm only a few hours from finishing Interview with the Vampire though I doubt it will be tonight, I've done a lot of reading today and my head is pretty foggy
>what you do to pay the bills
Systems Technician for the local government

>24
>The Shadow Rising
>Doorman

>>15380042
>20
>Invitation to a beheading
>nothing atm, work as an election official during election

>>15380075
Proper

>>15380196
...wanker

>26.23013699
>Don Quixote
>Write queries in Google BigQuery (but I live with my parents so I don’t pay bills lol)

25
Fathers and sons
Waiter/musician

>>15380042
>32
>The Norse Myths, Kevin Crossley-Holland
>Journalist

>>15380257
>Journalist
Fuck you

>25
>Joan Didion - Democracy
>English Teacher

>>15380262
virgin twitter user vs chad journalist

>>15380042

32
Heretics of Dune
Incel/NEET

28
Butcher's Crossing
Uber

>>15380042
>27
>A Gentleman In Moscow
>Welder

>>15380042
>46
>4chan datasets
>Information broker

for the ppl who say they are NEET, how are you actually provided for? parents/family? inheritance? state welfare?

>>15380236
How exactly do you make money off of queries?
I don't know anything about this, but its interesting nevertheless

>>15380708
You sound like we could be friends

>23
>Sartre - The Wall
>Studying linguistics aiming to go into computational linguistics

>>15380042
>21
>American Psycho
>NEET

>>15380735
I posted >>15381458 and I lost my job due to a lack of abstract, lateral thinking skills at least partially due to having Asperger's Syndrome. COVID-19 caused my father's posting to the Pacific Fleet to be delayed and I still reside with my parents.

>>15380242
>Waiter
FTFY

>>15380793
What do you think of Searle's work?

MANUAL LABOUR TRADE CHADS RISE UP

>>15381562
uga uga

>>15381589
i bet i could break your neck with 1 hand lol

24
Book of Songs by Heine
currently NEET :(

>46
>don't remember
>twitch/onlyfans

>>15381882
That's very low effort trolling when you're not even using a tripcode.

>>15381891
>muh trolling
I'm not currently posting with the tripcode, troll.

>>15381896
Have fun

>>15380042
>22
>German Philosophy 1760-1860 by Terry Pinkard
>editorial work for uni professors

>25
>negative space - br yeager
>unemployed lol

>23
>Confederacy of Dunces, currently reading Gravity's Rainbow
>Coast Guard

>>15381896
You’re a cheap troll.

Age: supplemental

News from Nowhere
the Bacchae of Euripides
Fire from the Dragon’s Tongue
Lost Goddesses of Early Greece
Well at the World’s End

I work. I am still working, though they’ve cut the hours. I may still have work once this is cleared up.

30
I only read good books. I guess Confederacy of Dunces since it was the very last book I finished.
Grocery store, produce department.

>>15381882
Link?

>>15381966
Troll.

>>15380042
>21
>modern man in search of a soul - jung
>working as an industrial electrician for a default provider

>25
Star Wars Boba Fett: Hunted
11c Airborne infantryman

>>15382026
>Airborne infantryman
>He joined the empire

>>15382029

>25
>Picnic at Hanging Rock
>English Teacher

>>15382069

>>15382026
Those and the Jedi Apprentice books are underrated as fuck.

>>15380735
IME most are either parents or state welfare. I was on welfare until i got a job but it's becoming super common for people to live with their parents expense-free well into their 20's.

>>15380042
>21
>Phenomenology of spirit
>Student

>28
>Can life prevail? by Pentti Linkola
>Receive trumpbucks every week through unemployment :3

>>15380257
What's the field like for journalism right now? I've heard it's fucked but I am interested in getting into it.

>>15380042
>18
>Beneath the Wheel
>Meat Clerk

>>15382823
>expense-free
Parents need to start charging room and board.

>28
>Simulacra and Simulation
>My bachelors in foreign language doesn't pay my bills (NEET), so I am thinking of going to law school.

>>15380042
>21
>Blindness by Jose Saramago
>I tutor CS and I have a scholarship (but I think they might cut me off rip)

>>15380042
25
The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith vol.2
I work at a guest house

>>15382837

Great book

>>15380042
>20
>Tomb for 500.000 Soldiers/ Sun and Steel.
>Sell my asshole

>19
>Brave New World (new to /lit/, just transplanted from /mu/)
>bartender

>>15383114
> (new to /lit/, just transplanted from /mu/)

Same. Based /mulit/ poster

>>15383114
>>15383118
go back

38
The Aeneid
Soldier

>19
>Hagakure
>Bartender, although only for a short period of time before the nonsense happened.

>23
>Hunger
>Software

>24
>east of eden
>sales clerk in a guitar store

>>15383181
>38
Here’s to retirement sergeant major.

>>15380042
>28
>To the Lighthouse
>Teaching, video production
I'm barely into it, but I'm not feeling it. I can see the value, I just don't think it's for me. I thought I'd mix things up after reading Butcher's Crossing before that, which was great. After that and Stoner, John Williams is becoming one of my favorite authors.

>>15380042
>19
>Malone Dies
>Mailman

35
The Pelopencian War
Plumb

>27
>Confederacy of Dunces, easily became my favorite book
>Barista, now receiving trumpbux through unemployment, will probably start doing gay porn

>>15380042
23
The Winter King
Nothing, currently. Was working part-time, but have since been exiled, and am trying to make the last of my student bux stretch til I get Universal Credit and supported housing.
Which might not happen, in which case I'm going to have to take some pretty drastic measures to ensue my continued survival
life is neither good nor bad, lad, not yet anyhow

>>15383947
should add my part-time occupation was a janitorial one. Enjoyed it, more or less, worked nights and on weekends so i didn't have to talk to anyone and could blast black metal while I swept away and scrubbed toilets for a few hours
was as fun as a job gets

>>15380042
>28
>Hunger - Hamsun
>data scientist
I fell for the STEM meme and now i'm condemned to mashing my brain into pudding for 8 hours/day

28
Horn of the Hunter by Robert Ruark
I build custom aluminum signs

I've never read an objectively good book

>age
29
>last good book you've read
Mere Christianity - CS Lewis
>what you do to pay the bills
industrial engineering (I do work at factories)

>>15380073
If you're really a doctor, how do you find time for reading? There are heaps of medical books to read and little free time

>>15380042
>22
>The Plague
>Tech Consultant

27

The price of Glory

Royal Navy

>>15380073
I read this a few weeks ago, did you like it?

19
Story of the eye
student/ barista

>19
>Algernon Blackwood 3 Supernatural Classics (The Willows, The Wendigo and The Listener)
>NEET
I highly recommend Algernon Blackwood to any Lovecraft fan

>>15380262
based

>>15382837
based

>>15380042
21
Just finishing up in cold blood
Cashier in a small corner shop

>25
>The Royal Game
>PhD student living off scholarship :^)

>21
>Die Verstümmelten by Hermann Ungar
>Being nice to my parents

>>15380042
>18
>Odyssey
>I work without pay at a market garden

>>15380042
>30
>Always Coming Home (Ursula K. Le Guin)
>Biology Teacher

>24
>1587: A Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in Decline
>Corrporate finance

>23
>A Canticle For Leibowitz
>Parts Counter Guy

>20
>Hunger by Knut Hamsun
>I'm working a tenure overseas from my home country right now, I get dorm living as part of the job so no bills yet

>23
>Unsettling of America
>Bartender

>>15384758
based

>>15380042
younger than you Mohammed
Fanged Noumena
I suck professor dick. I'm a student.

>20
>currently reading pic related
>working part-time at a warehouse while living with dad and brother

>>15384904
that book is about 3 (three) paragraphs long, just bite the bullet and read it all in one go man, you'll be better off.

>>15380042
>>age
turn 23 next week
>>last good book you've read
illiad
>>what you do to pay the bills
hvac engineer

>22
>Outlines of Pyrrhonism
>occasional field worker for local political campaigns

26
The Dreaming Jewels
Dealer

>>15384910
yeah I know it's just a bit stressful because english is not my first language and even though my english is pretty ok mark just keeps using words I've never even seen before. I wanna make sure that I understand everything he's trying to say so I have google translate open when I read. I can hardly read a page without looking up a few words

>>15380637
same thing

>>15380042
>20
>The Master and Margarita
>Student, currently NEET due to WuFlu

>19
>east of eden
>nothing right now but I worked as a martial arts instructor throughout high school

31
The Elementary Particles
Shitty administration/managerial work

I still dream of just fucking off and learning artisan masonry or timber framing or something. I'll probably die of a blood clot from sitting all day in a few years anyway.

>22
>anna karenina
>law student and bartender
whats up

>31
>Dune: The Butlerian Jihad
>Pilot

reading the machine crusade now

>>15380042
>25
>Ulises Criollo - J. Vasconelos
>A soulless job at an IT Service Desk

>>15384974
that makes more sense, are you sure something like Capitalist Realism is a good choice if you rely on google translate? What kind of reading age are you in English?

>35

>just finished House of Leaves, about to finish Ask the Dust today.

>janitor.

>25
>Read a few decent books recently, but the last /good/ one was probably La Peste
>Currently unemployed, typically work at a rock climbing gym

>>15385094
>what kind of reading age are you in English?
Well the only book I've read in english (aside from textbooks) is the sailor by mishima. I didn't have to look up a lot of words but it was his writing style that made it a bit of a hassle. I've also bought the english version of coin locker babies by ryu murakami mostly for its nice cover (which is also one reason why I bought the zer0 books print of cr).
Besides books I usually consume everything in english, whether it's subtitles in anime/movies or english speaking platforms like 4channel. The only thing I watch in german (my native language) is the news, and I read some german articles here and there.
>are you sure something like Capitalist Realism is a good choice if you rely on google translate?
I don't read cr in english just for fun, there are multiple reasons. For one I fucking hate the german book cover. 2nd I've read that the translation is not very true to its original meaning. And lastly I want to advance my english vocabulary in politics and philosophy.
Also since I'm mostly involved in english speaking discussions I want to make sure I can cite mark fisher's ideas and convey them accuarately if needed to.

> 33
> Lolita
> Care Aid (Autism)

>>15383761
Same anon, I miss it.

>23
>The Gambler
>Bartender

19
The Trial
Nothing, I am still in school

>>15380042
>19
>Frankenstein
>Archaeologist

>29
>Naked Lunch
>Primary school teacher

>>15385034
Don't you mean former bartender

>>15383964
i am on the data science track too! fml

>>15381498
Nah i get income from my music just not enough yet to quit

>>15380042
>20
>V.
>Manage a cafe

>>15385530
Close to getting through Naked Lunch. I find pieces of it mildly engaging myself but would have a hard time calling it anything but indigestible overall. Should I have started somewhere else with Burroughs?

>17
>I don't read books
>Nothing

Parents and school used to make me read shit I didn't want to read when I was young and now I have some sort of a trauma for reading books. Can't get myself to do it though I really want to read the ancient epics and some other historical stories. What do?

>>15380042
I don't trust these people saying they read 'the illiad' or whatever last. I just feel like you should have read that already, and you're trying to show off.

>>15387302
just read them. if you don't read books why are you even on /lit/?

>>15380042
>23
>Political Testament of Cardinal Richelieu
>International Relations graduate student

>>15387317
Not easy to do something I hated with passion for my entire childhood.

>>15387302
>What do?
Just fucking read them you underage piece of shit

>>15387351
ok well there is no award for reading books. if you want to read them, you will read them. if you don't, then there is nothing wrong with that. but stop asking people to teach you "how to read'? you have the ability but lack the willpower and discipline, which can only come from within.

>19
>natural history of selbourne
>ice cream maker

>>15380042
>20
>Unironically found Ted's magnum opus an interesting read
>Electrician apprentice but I've been furloughed for nearly 2 months

>>15380710
>>15380710
>>15380710

>>15380042
>25
>Black Night, White Snow
>Work for a Marine Construction company, trying to get into grad school

>>15382941
>Simulacra and Simulation
Is it essential reading? I'm thinking of ordering soon, been reading a lot of anarchist literature.

What languages you speak?

>>15383114
>(new to /lit/, just transplanted from /mu/)
dude this was me when i was 19

>>15380042

>24
>On a reread kick, just reviewed Moby Dick.
>I edit trackers, call people so that they do something so that I can edit the tracker to say that they've done it.
>I sit in meetings where we talk about how far along we are in editing the trackers and getting people to do the things so that we can edit the trackers. Sometimes, when I'm leading our taking on of a new drug study, I even get to make the trackers.

Clinical research project management is a level of absurdity it is difficult to describe. The jobs pay well, more for my reasonable skill in data management, and at the end of the day someone may get overcharged for a pill that saves their life, in part due to my work. That's enough.

>>15381514
Haven't read any of his stuff.

There is not much philosophy of language stuff taught at my department.
It's mostly formal linguistics, model theory and computational stuff.

I know the gist of the "Chinese Room" experiment and it makes sense to me.
But I haven't read anything by people who oppose it to be fair.

Anything you would recommend to get started with his ideas?

>>15380619

How is it? I understand the conditions not to be great, but I've lately maintained a level of romance around reading all day, or at least talking bout it.

>>15387701
I also made just made the transition.
Got started on /b/, then only used 4Chan for porn for years. A year ago I got into /mu/ and /int/.
Just now discovered /lit/, /sci/ and /diy/.
4Chan is better than I thought once you get away from the /b/tards.

>>15387687

Not the fellow you're replying to, but I highly recommend Simulacra and Simulation for a more thorough notion of post-modernism and its perspective on the mechanisms of modern society. It features as a philosophical touch point, with many writers utilizing its terms.

Fair warning, Jen Baudrillard is a bit of a Bloom/Nabokov type in his elitism, acerbic even to who they themselves were 20 years ago.

>>15383114

Welcome to the party! I worked as a doorman in a bar throughout college, a number of books can be read in this environment so long as you're not swamped and the owners are cool. Short chapters, poetry, are your best bets. They allow you to put the book down easily to handle a customer. some particularly pleasurable reads for me during this period and by this method:

>Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
>Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Lawrence
>The Essays of Sir Francis Bacon

and poetry of any sort. Baudelaire, Whitman, and Coleridge were my favorite from this period. If American, many Americans respect Whitman. You can bring him up as a war poet.

21
Paradise Lost
Medical student living off family support

27
Manifesto Against Labour by Krisis
Java code monkey

>>15380042
>21
>Pedro Paramo
>UPS loader

22 or 23
History of the Peloponnessian War
GIS Archaeology technician for Bureau of Land Management

>20
>Institutes of Elenctic Theology
>Navy nuke electrician (still in training)

>>15380701
You can Uber for a living now? Where do you live?

>>15387378
I've been pretty fascinated with Ted since reading the manifesto a few years ago. I don't really agree with his libertarian/anarchistic ideals, but I wonder how if his mind has changed at all over the years, in terms of a solution. I've thought about writing him, but I don't think my employers would like that.

>20
>The Hobbit
>NEET
started reading Fellowship Of the Ring and plan on reading the other two afterwards

>>15380042
>30
>Kingkiller Chronicle
>Webdev and integration shit

>>15380042
>26
>A Confession
>HR stuff for a large firm

>>15387734
depends. Most people who are in teaching are there because they love teaching. If you don't like kids, and you don't like turning them into critical thinkers, then don't fucking do it. Paycheck teachers are hated by all.

I love it. I treat English as a set of skills. So while I do teach literature, I don't see it as a means of like "oh this is about teaching classic novels". It's more like "Okay, let's teach you how to critically analyze a text, manipulate rhetoric for your own means, conduct thorough research, etc." When I frame it like that, kids are more receptive and see the value in what I'm doing. It also gives me more freedom to teach unique units. I did a literary analysis unit I designed recently where the essential essay question of it was "How do we grapple with death and dying? How have different thinkers grappled with death throughout time?" and it opened up so many great avenues

33
Jimmy Corrigan
Ethnomusicologist

>>15388988
I've always hated the way english courses teach literature.
It's always a bunch of classic novels about analyzing the human condition or whatever. Those books made me hate reading as a kid.
But then my parents bought me a new harry potter book and I was glued to it for a week.
If you want people to read you should give them something fun and entertaining. Not scar them for life with heavy classics.

>>15389146
I hear that. I pick stuff themed around topics, and I always try to bring in a mix of old and new, informational articles, novels, short stories, and poetry about the subject.

>>15381907
how did you get the job?

>>15382885
It is fucked, but I managed to find a decent spot all the same. I write for a small paper in an out-of-the-way town in Alaska. In an environment like this, you are still performing a vital service for people, and people are really appreciative (for the most part) If you bring any real flair to your work.

>>15380042
>22
>tropic of cancer
>fashion house

>>15387100
I read it just as entertainment thing, sometimes gore becomes sarcasm and its kind of magical working with imagination. Cant recommend anything else, haven`t read.

>>15380042
28 / mason and dixon / videogame developre

28
Exhalation by Ted Chiang
Web Dev

>19
>Spring Snow
>Flipping cars and Options Trading (gambling)

>>15383804
You don’t know how right you are, friend.

>>15380042
23
Ingeneering student
A book about war between Carthage and Roman,

>>15384974
This is a good reason to get a kindle cause you can instantly look up words.

>>15380042
>17
>Hell's Angels by H.S.Thompson
>not doing shit yet, maybe take sth up in summer

>>15380042
>29
>The Radical in Ambedkar: Critical Reflections
>journalist

>>15382885
Not the same person, but also a journalist.
I'm a foreign correspondent in a third world country. It's fucked and doesn't pay that much, but job is interesting and I live comfortably

>>15390210
Got any tips on breaking into that kind of journalism?

29.
the amazing adventures of kavalier and klay.
pandemic unemployment. i was a convention videographer before this.

>>15384480
>in cold blood
Great fucking book, doesn't get talked about enough around here.

>>15385231
wait...

>>15381992
Based
>20
>Psychology and Alchemy
>Statistics undergrad, fortunate enough to have good parents, so I don't have to pay bills

>age
27
>last good book you've read
Killing Commendatore - Murakami
>what you do to pay the bills
Mechanobiology Post-Doc

>>15382953
I just read Ricardo Reis and was thinking about reading blindness, how'd you like it?

>>15392804
Not the one you originally replied.
Imo it is shit, but easy to read and the story is interesting. It felt soulless.

>>15380042
>18
>The Decline of the West
>gardener

>>15380042
>19
>The Sirens of Titan
>college student, penetration testing + campus job

>>15380042
>50
>The Painted BIrd
>Code Janitor

>>15380042
>39
>Essayism by Brian Dillon
> University English lecturer

>>15380042
>29
>The Peregrine
>Filmmaker

>>15380042
22
Dubliners
server dev

>>15394016
How did you get into pen testing as a student?

>>15380042
>19
>Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence
>Freelancing

There's too many ITards here. Go back to /g

>>15383964
Is it mostly math or mostly code?

>25
>one hundred years of solitude
>military
>>15382026
>refers to himself as 'airborne' infantry
>he's a mortarman

>>15380042
26
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Spreadsheet jockey

>>15380042
32
Hunger, Knut Hamsun
PhD student

>>15380042
21
The Trial
Construction

>>15383114
Wish I came earlier

>>15384440
About to read some of Author Machen, another Lovecraft favorite. He's on my list too.

>29
>Republic - Plato
>Used to be a cook in Italy, now I'm nothing

>>15394416
Whatcha studying?

23
children of hurin
Soldier

>>15382887
what did you think of beneath the wheel / find out about it?

24
haven't read a book from start to finish since college
graphic designer

>>15389396
I jumped in blind into Buroughs with NL (as always out of principle for any artist/author). Had a vague expectation of addiction theme from reading first few pages and hearing a few things but found good chunks to be unfocused and blandly inane.
Not saying there isn't entertainment/humor value as I've enjoyed parts. Makes me curious about his other works.

>>15382887
is that euphemism for gay prostitute

>>15394323
hackerone and hackthebox

>21
>Suttree
>Construction superintendent

>>15380699
>what do you do to pays the bills?
>incel
?

>>15385835
haha im just fucking with you

crime and punishment
19
neet that lives w/ parents

>>15394926
Professional virgin

>>15380042
>32
>The Call of the Wild - Jack London
>Mortgage Banker

>>15380042
>41
>Early Greek Philosophy - Barnes
>N33T

>>15387100
"Junky" and "Queer" are his least insane books.

>>15391885
I'd say that having a major in journalism and doing an internship in a big news agency is your best shot. After getting some experience, you can freelance.

Alternatively, working in national media and then going abroad to a country of your interest with some contacts and at enough money to sustain yourself for at least six monts

27
bright lights, big city
bartender in a jazz club

>>15384163
Good to see a fellow pusser browses this shithole

>>15380699
Youre 32 years old. Absolute loser

>>15382837
Loser

>>15389137
what a joke of a job lmao

>>15396436
You can't be a NEET when youre fucking 41, at that age youre just called a loser. Quit reading and get a job fag

>>15398225
>>15398236
>>15398259
>>15398268
>samefagging this hard

28
Deep Work
NEET

>>15380042
>27
>All the Pretty Horses, Everychad’s edition. I’m in the midst of the Crossing now.
>Parole Officer

22
ludde
c++

>>15398311
I too read deep work recently, and I’ve been doing a lot of little things to focus on stuff, but some of his suggestions were just so cringe, but I’m starting to think the like, time journal or marking hours spent productive would be a good idea even if every part of me says I don’t want to.

>>15380042
>27
>The Denial of Death - E. Becker
>clinical psychologist in training

>28
>Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal
>Hydrogeologist

>>15380042
Why is head on floor?

>>15398268
>NOOOO YOU CAN'T JUST ENJOY YOURSELF AND DO NOTHING YOU MUST BE A WAGESALVE LIKE ME

>>15380073
>23
>Opthalmologist

Bullshit

>>15380042
>28
>bhagavad gita
>3d artist
>>15398315
crossing is super good, in his top 3 imo, rarely discussed here

>24
>The Savage Detectives
>engineer

>>15400439
>>3d artist
Did you go to school for this?

> 27
> Storm of Steel
> Budget Analyst

>>15381896
Me too.

>>15400496
I started out with modding and then freelancing in my teens but after high school I did go to a college for it yeah. My parents were very insistent that I get a degree, or else I wouldnt have

22
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Just 'graduated' university, I've got an IT development job lined up from an internship last summer

>>15380042
>28
>Grapes of Wrath
>Studying foodchemistry, working in a laboratory at the side to pay stuff

>>15400535
Interesting. I just wonder about art related stuff like this because I always had a natural talent for drawing and wanted to go to school for it and do something professionally but I never did and honestly put it on the back burner for other stuff entirely so I haven’t even done it as much as I should. I’m actually working on going back to school and changing my field but I sometimes wonder about studying something along those lines.

>>15394930
Cheers bro, also fuck you. This site sucks for banter

>>15380042
Age 23
I'm reading Dune, last book I read was the Analects of Confucias
I'm a massage therapist

>45
>lolita
>primary school teacher

>>15380784
I’m just a “data analyst” but that’s what I do with 90% of my time when working

>>15402436
lol

>>15380042
>28
>Blindness by José Saramago
>Social Worker

>>15380042
>19
>Ralph Ellison-Invisible Man
>Currently in Education

>>15380042
28
Winesburg, Ohio
Janitor

>>15383947
Bit late to reply but I work in supported housing in England ask me anything if you need to lad

>>15380042
>31
>The Corrections
>railroader

17
Odyssey
Fast food soon
Any tips zozzle

>>15380042
>30
>the complete sherlock holmes
>carpenter

29
Winesburg, Ohio
ABA therapy for kids with autism

>>15380042
>37
>Moby Dick
>Manage a bunch of accountants and clerks

>19
>Leonard Cohen poems and songs collection
>Studying to become a teacher

>>15398947
Cope, loser.

>24
>Kissinger, On China
>Bank of mummy

>34
>Neuromancer
>Assistant Language Teacher

>22
>Fathers and Sons
>student
Quit my job and live in an old farm house rent free

>20
>secrets and spellcraft
>fire controlman

>>15388910
Dunno how far you are but if you're not past power school, would recommend getting out. That's the most trash program in the navy and I'm so glad I got out. But hey, if you're one of the wierdos who likes it then go for it

>>15380042
>24
>lord of the flies
>I don't, my parents do until i have my mathematics degree

>>15405132
Possibly the most based post yet

>>15384900
UNDERAGE BANNED

>>15383991
How was it? It's on the christianity chart but some people here told me it's shit and I hardly get past the fact that was written by the guy who wrote Narnia.

22
Band of Brothers
Progammer / sideline making hacks for obscure games

>>15380042
22
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
Programmer

>>15380042
>20
>The Funhouse
>Welder

>>15398301
yes i am making a point to shame these neets as much as i can.

>>15398947
you call it wageslavery, i call it providing an income for my family

>>15407326
>tech bro that got into stoicism since it started being shilled as the ultimate manly self-help philosophy to earn more money
lol walking cliche.

>19
>Alas, Babylon
>SysAdmin

>29
>Anabasis by Xenophon
>Engineer transitioning to PM

>>15400505
Ayyy good taste

>>15380619
If my English teachers browsed 4chan high school would have been a much better experience for me.

>>15406471
I do not recommend it - it wasn't academic enough for me. It really didn't cover enough theology. He throws in theology at the end of the book/lecture and begins with "Ok ok now I know we all think theology is boring, but it's necessary, so allow me to talk about it for a bit"

>>15407715
gross, have fun PMing. what sort of engineering? I'm considering going back to pure technical. things are more easier to work with than people, I hate to admit it. maybe I just have shitty customers that a) don't know what they want b) absolutely fail to respond in a timely fashion and c) ask When will it be done??

>>15380042
20 reading the memoirs of Cassanova

>>15380042
>23
>Cathedral, Forge, and Water Wheel
>NEET

>>15380042
>21
>Infinite Jest
>Camera Assistant

>>15380042
>27
>Roadside picnic
>physicist

>>15387687
It is essential reading for post modernism.. I speak greek (my native language) as well as english and russian which was my major in college. With the covid situation, and my country's horrendous economy I am kind of condemned into NEETland right now.

>>15380042
22
Voyage to Arcturus
Student

>>15380042
>23
>Journey to the end of the night
>Student / kitchen help

>>15398947
Do you, friend. Your journey may differ from others, but don't let that dissuade you. The people here are just as lost as you. Best of luck.

>>15380042
>18
>The Undiscovered Self by Jung
Also about to finish Moby-Dick
>Bus driver at my uni, where I study physics and mathematics
I'll probably go for a PhD and then spend the rest of my life bartending, writing, or teaching.

>>15380042
>18
>What the Buddha Taught
>I don't pay the bills

>>15402906
ee

>22
>Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
>Bartender

>>15410422
How is it being a bartender? Is it shit or do you at least get to talk with some interesting people?

>>15410477

I love it. The business of a full bar on the weekend means that the time flies by. With every customer or every night, I get to put on a show and be a different version of myself: confident, funny, and there to entertain them.

I've met some amazing people working behind the bar. You gain a lot of regulars and a lot of friends that would give you the shirt off their back because of the things they confide in you. I've served on local celebrities, tattoo artists, broken hearts, rich and successful alcoholics who are barely keeping it together, and many other characters. The money is good and the sense of fraternity between fellow bartenders is amazing.

I'd be a bartender for life.

>29
>The Savage Detectives
>leech off a neurotic mom

>>15392170
I posted >>15410266, we both recently read Jung and are studying math. How was Psychology and Alchemy?

>>15410272
based I am reading this now. it's pretty neat and straight-forward but the author injects so much of the what-I-believe-to-be Pali language and words into it. I guess there aren't great translations for some of this stuff

>>15410004
How is it? I'm studying physics and math at university right now, kind of want to go into theoretical but I'm afraid my job would end up being plugging away on a computer with virtually no pen-and-paper math.

>>15380042
>18
>The Plague
>Nothing now that I'm quarantined

>38
>Keri Hulme, the bone people
>University lecturer

>28
>the big nowhere
>medical scientist

>21
>Whatever by Houellebecq
>CS student, part-timer

Honestly makes me feel better that most of you guys are like me. I flunked out of my first uni which was pretty prestigious. Ended up transferring to a shittier public uni. Took me a while to get my own self-respect.

You are all pretty smart. I feel like I'm not getting close to what I really should be, but I can be bothered to muster the energy. Dunno where to start either. I don't know if I want to be code monkey after college, but what else is there. Just reading and writing to keep myself distracted.

>>15380042
>25
>Perfume by Patrick Süskind (it's very good imo)
>Businessman

>25
>don quixote
>teach and tutor english