/lit/ - Literature

real life jannitor, yes but it's depressing sometimes

Next time you think your life sucks, remember, at least you're not that guy

>YOU NEED TO BE EMPLOYED

>>15939514
I don't work, I live with my parents, future writer

>>15939514
I share his pain.

Work in a remote call center. Still in Uni. Never gone more than a month without a job while in Uni. Somehow I haven't saved any money though, I'll try to be better.

>>15939514

I worked at Tim Horton's (Canadian coffee + donuts place) for 3 hours before I cried and ran home. I also did data entry for a couple weeks before I got into an autist rage for no reason (well, because I hated it and it sucked and I just exploded) and then got fired. That's my only job experience. My favorite author is Dostoevsky btw.

This guy is more accomplished than Butterfly, yet we insult him and she is lauded as the queen of this board.

Funny, the difference between man and woman.

>>15939548
What u studying?

>>15939514
amazon delivery driver
I am the guy who checks out your packages for shitty books. If I find shitty books I will give you that look when handing your item to you.
Also sometimes parcels just disappear...

>>15939557
No one lauds Buttefly. That chick is low iq as hell.

PhD student with below minimum wage salary.
I average around 24k a year.

am i the only guy in this whole board that has literary reasons for liking work?

>>15939585
minimum wafe in my country is 4k lol
cries in argentinian-*

>>15939557
Yes. I hope all the butterfly shills and that fucking tranny kill themselves and meet in the hell they'll share.
>>15939571
>Also sometimes parcels just disappear...
we got a nigger here

>>15939585
Consider yourself lucky. In the shithole I live in you'd be getting paid even less than that.

>>15939557
Did Butterfly study something? Has she published anything?

>>15939514
Been a few years at a boutique investment bank doing M&A stuff. Money is good, work is sometimes fun, most people are horrendous, and my hours are awful.

I wouldn't recommend this racket to anyone but I know a bunch of cunts who claim to enjoy it.

>>15939617
no because academy is "corrupt"
lol

>>15939609
>we got a nigger here
hehe, yes, it must be niggers stealing your parcels.

>>15939599
explain

>>15939603
>>15939615
>what is cost of living
shut up imbeciles

>>15939664
Candide, by Voltaire.
Actually, Voltaire in general can explain how much of a blessing work is for us.

>>15939672
>risk of being shot or beheaded
shut up kid

>>15939672
A PhD pays less in shitholes because no one sees the value in them. You'd be doing the exact same thing and it would not be payng half as much as the nigger faggot is getting at the moment. In many cases you'd be the one paying and you would not get any kind of pay. Stop thinking the whole planet is a first world contry, you dumb faggot

I have a pretty high level office job/career but I moonlight as a ghost writer and copy editor. At one point I also wrote people's university applications.

As far as careers go, experience informs your writing so I don't see deviation from traditionally academic subjects as a bad thing.

>>15939652
It's true, but people who can't play the game shouldn't stay in the field. I've been there and I didn't like what I saw so I left to pursue a career.

>>15939603
>>15939615
I need to cook my own food otherwise I would have zero saving thanks to cost of living, but I don't think I have it as bad as you guys.
>>15939699
I was the original PhD poster. Not the guy you are replying to.
Anyway you are right. I only do my PhD right now because I like some aspects of it. There are a shit tons of cons but the pros (to me) outweigh the them. Barely though.
I could quit any moment and go back to any job. I don't really care much to be honest, because if I do, I wouldn't have chosen to pursuit a PhD.

>>15939677
Also that might not be much of an explanation, so 'll just try to keep it short.
Basically, and this is the general line of thought regarding pessimists like Schopenhauer and Voltaire, life is either strife to stave off boredom or strife to stave off suffering.
Voltaire solves this issue, the issue of suffering by good work for good work provides for oneselves and good work at the same time staves off boredom for you always have something to do.
In Candide, after the main characters have been going through a lot of shit, they end the book by talking with a farmer who explains that as his children have to work the farm, they get to enjoy the fruits which their labor produces for them such as some tasty coffee and some citrus fruit (I forgot which), with symbolically, we can take it as them reaping the rewards of their work, and likewise, because of their need for work they need not be preoccupied with boredom and hence, have no need for addictions, quarrels, etc.
Work is a bulwark against civilization's ills, especially when it doesn't let you have much free time.
I feel as if Ted indirectly arrived at the same conclusion as Voltaire, and rather than technology being evil, it is instead free time which becomes unbearable for the human race.
Mind you Voltaire held a special place for geniuses, men that needed free time or rather freedom to produce their works of art, be them whatever they may be, but for the common man, that is I, I have a great opportunity to live a happy life through work

>>15939557
Most people hate that cunt. She has like four white knights that cool to her and there's like four more chapofags who like her because she adds to the "muh capitalism" shit. Anyone who's not an absolute newfag knows that KatieLovesClassicBooks is the Queen of /lit/.

>>15939514
>Substitute taught for a year before pandemic
>Tons of hours with low pay, barely could pay rent and food
>Pandemic
>Unemployment pays rent easily
Don't want it to end, Bros.

>>15939732
While you're in your situation I think it would be worthwhile for you to read chapter 1 of The Triumph of Injustice, you'll see how you're getting raped by taxes despite paying little to no income tax.

It's on libgen

>>15939774
My guy, I'd tell you to find a job, but if you can remain gettin that unemployment $ and make good writing, do it faggot. otherwise, look for a damn job you nigger

>>15939784
I will check that out. I live 1 hour away from NYC and I fucking hate the cost. The tax is fucking insane too so I kind of know how it feels.

>>15939514
I teach rich foreign kids English.
low hours, high pay ;^)

>>15939535
Correct.

Well, you can always do a foreign monkey job if you are white.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi5JEZo2KT0
Or do it like this guy and teach English >>15939801

>>15939793
I've been doing some good writing, but it's gonna end regardless. Unemployment gets cut in half next week for me. Just annoying how every job hits that "spend your whole life there and pay nothing but rent" spot.

>>15939514
student, TA for a physics class for like $10/hour

i have been a neet for so long that i don't get how people can degrade themselves to the point of serving others in exchange for cash
i would rather die of hunger or become a criminal than submit myself to the will of others

i sell prescriptions to college students

>>15939514
At a time when people are losing their jobs left and right, I get to keep mine and work from home all the time, in addition to making decent money. I can't deny it's comfy but I still feel so fucking empty. I don't know what's going on and I don't know how to fix this. What the fuck.

>>15939514

I don't have a job. But like a decade and a half ago, I worked at Burger King, making burgers and frying fries. Then I left that job after trying to get into a fight with another employee and I went back to college. I got a work/study job at the library, putting away books and processing people's items for checking out of the library, etc. After that summer of the work/study, I've never had a job after that as I relied on financial aid for university. Still in debt and asking parents for money. Still need to find a job.

>>15939832
Because we’re curious about learning

>>15939986
learning submission?

>>15939894
Where are you from and how old are you ?

>>15939514
full time neet

>>15939651
I used to want to get into investment banking (disillusioned freshman, mostly), but reading more about it I've lost all of my interest for it. I have no idea what to aim for nowadays but I still have 4 years left to think about it, I've heard that MBB work fewer hours so might aim for that but I don't really care that much for money anymore, it seems quite soul-destroying too.

>>15939726
A genuine crticism and a cope can both address a real problem.

I work in a warehouse 12 hours a day. I end up sitting around reading a book most of the day. All I can really get with a Criminal record but its better than manual labor

>>15940643
what crime did you commit, anon?

>>15939549
>I worked at Tim Horton's (Canadian coffee + donuts place) for 3 hours before I cried and ran home
Worked there for 3.5 years and wanted to to that every day.

>>15940215
Rambling response incoming but have two insights I wish I knew back in the day.

Firstly, do as many internships in different fields and positions as you can before you graduate. You want to figure out what gets you up smiling in the morning (through hands-on experience), and then land a real job doing that. Investment banking and consulting are kinda sorta similar in terms of demanding learning curve and hours, but it's not rocket science by any means (personally I've worked in both though not at MBB). However, there's a reason why these companies have shit employee retention, especially in the lower portions of the pyramid. And for the love of god, don't be fooled: Banks and consulting firms burn millions to delude into thinking that you not only want the job, but that you need it.

Secondly, trading passion for money is soul crushing in the long run, only do that if you really need the cash for something important because it'll be shitty even then (case in point: me). Otherwise you'll find yourself miserable, assuming your passion is not just making bank and buying expensive things. That being said, there are some benefits to spending the first couple of years out of college working in investment banking or consulting as they often open doors to jobs with higher pay and fewer hours. Talk to people who have done this and made the transition for more information.

Good luck out there, anon. Listen to yourself more than the campus recruiters.

I swallowed the STEM pill and work as an engineer - I program industrial computers for factories. I really enjoy it, lots of autonomy and variety. Today I was checking out a control panel, tomorrow I'm going to a chemical plant, next week I'm going to write test documentation from home. I get to see projects come to fruition within a decent amount of time (months to a year) and I get to work with blue collar / tradesman, who are generally way more fun to work with than college educated dorks.

>>15940666
The problem with this thinking, whilst I wish money isn't important, is that money is super fucking important. I mean the Coronavirus has destroyed America literally in terms of lives but has also exposed the fragility of the paycheck to paycheck lifestyle so many Americans live. I wish the world didn't operate like this but the reality is, money is important. Doing jobs you don't like is the reality for like 95% of people.

>>15940712
you sound like a really boring person

>>15940754
And just what makes you think that? What makes a person boring?

Carpenter.Its okay I guess , will damage body somewhat long term but overall I enjoy it for what it is.

Also fuck Jewish building practices

>>15940712
>college educated dorks
Is that what they think of us? I talk a lot with the blue collar folk in manufacturing but I'm better equipped for an office dealing with firmware and bureaucratic management. Tradesmen tend to be a little rough for my social taste because of my personality but I do appreciate their niche insights.

>>15940862
What kind of stuff do you work on professionally, private spaces or big building projects? My close friend is an architect and he tells me crazy stories about build errors!

>>15939838
most based occupation ITT
what country and are you a legit m.d.?

Tfw when making a comfy wage with no degree, fun job, 3 days off a week

>>15939514
I work in the Walmart Deli. I hate it. I used to be a substitute paraprofessional and I loved my work because I was helping people and I genuinely felt needed by the kids that I taught (the assignments weren't always short since there are so few one on one's. I was assigned to a few of the kids for a few months at a time, so I had become part of their daily life), but the hours didn't work didn't work with my class schedule and Walmart also pays better. Every day that I go to work I feel like I'm prostituting myself for $13.50 an hour to fill hordes of useless subhumans on mobility scooters with cheap fried food. No positive has ever come of the work I do and that hurts me.

I'm a reader for a major academic publisher.

>>15939557
>Butterfly
That tranny hasn’t been banned yet?

>>15941012
You are in class studying so there's no problem

>>15940666
Thanks for the advice, anon. I don't really have any true "passions", I like doing maths so maybe I'll end up doing something related to that, I think it's possible to become some sort of actuary or risk analyst with my degree or something - somewhat - related.

>>15940734
I get that that money is quite an important aspect for americans and I respect that, it's just that as a scandi the pay discrepencies between the high tier jobs and more standard ones aren't really that big before tax and even less thereafter, and especially for my degree and school.

>>15939557
>not filtering tripfaggots on sight
lmao

>>15939741
nice

>>15939514
I'm a Tax Lawyer. I hate my boss.

>>15939514
I was a baker pre coronavirus. I loved it,it was a tiny cafe I baked for so it was just me and my music for most of the week. I'd go days without seeing my boss

>>15941214
Fuck, that sounds awesome. More info? How old are you? What were you baking? What were you getting paid? What's your plan for the future?

I am a "Software Engineer". I make banking software. I enjoy programming, but banking software is a bit boring. I enjoy my job probably 60 percent of the time, but it is lax.

>>15939560
Political Science/Philosophy

>>15940653
Assault with a deadly weapon and possession

>>15941443
For some reason, I feel you’re not a cunt because you read and cunts don’t read. Mind explaining what happened?

>>15939514
I'm an electrician. It pretty much kicks ass most of the time.

>>15939741
That's really interesting, I'll have to read candide

>>15939557
>Butterfly
>she
kys

>>15941463
I was at a party with my then fiancée and a guy kept approaching her, eventually gropping her and then striking her in the face. I found out about it later that night after a friend pointed the guy out at a bar. I was extremely drunk and high (on weed). I went up to him, we talked and it got heated and I struck him in the head with a bottle. The way I hit him knocked him out and he was in a coma for 2 days.

I had an ounce of weed and 2 pills on me when I was arrested.

I got screwed because my defense of crime of passion was denied because of the amount of time that passed from the incident with my fiancee (that I was not present for) and the assault. As for the drugs? Thats just Texas crap. At the time I was 2 years into a classics degree

>>15941680
Shit, sorry to hear that.

>>15941733
It was a big shock to my system but now I just try to be content with what I've got. Like I said before, it could always be worse

>>15940712
>who are generally way more fun to work with than college educated dorks.
>Look at me I'm not like the other nerds
ok faggot, keep sucking tradie dick

>>15939557
>>15939617
I don’t live with parents, I am employed, but I have no degrees.
I wish him and all of you the best of luck.
>>15939652
No, because I’m poor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9a1JQi7G3k

lol i don't have a job. i get $600/wk thanks to corona

>>15941188
Transactional, or do you litigate?

>>15941981
The fact some "law" and some "people" have ability to rob you from your freedom is hilarious. We are on this planet 80 years which goes by in a blink of an eye and these systems have audacity to do this. Comical.

>>15942104
Are you actually transexual? if not will you date me I'm from Iceland; do you like Iceland?

>>15939986
This is the most retarded shit I've ever read on this pseud board

>>15939514
>Reading is not a job /lit/
oh shit, stop calling out my delusions like this!

>>15939823
interesting vid. i'd whore myself out for some chink bucks

NEET did low level IT shit, was laid off from corona and cant get a job to save my life atm

>>15942151
I am not a trans anything. I love Iceland, but I am lesbian and I am committed to this continent and feel a bit responsible for trying to bring this empire down.
I watched that Sigur Ros video where they drive a truck all the way around the country. Looks so lovely to me.

>>15940660
Ive always refused to work for them

>>15939514
Lost mt job due to COVID so now i'm a NEET
I'm 4 months from running out of money and just ending it. Won't lower my living standard which is already commoner level. Why live in filth when i can just not live?

>>15942196
Fight.

>>15942182
Yes, the country is beautiful in every meaning of the word. Lesbian? That is alright, do you still want to just be friends? I do not mind broadening the types of people I am friends with.

>>15939514
medical technician
pre comfy desu, i couldnt do a boring office job with deadlines so decided on the medical field

>>15942140
What's the most comical is that I'm branded for life but I'm told that now that I've paid my debt to society I'm free. I almost laughed in my parole officers face when he said he lined me up with a job "guys like me would kill for" which was cleaning up garbage on the freeway. Im ostracized without any chance of explanation from jobs that could actually support me. Jobs I would have never thought to do are now Dream jobs. Its a hard pill to swallow that I've peaked at 28 with a job in a warehouse checking stock solely because Im competent and willing to do whatever.

>>15942345
Something is deeply wrong with this system... I wish you the best anon.

>>15942316
>want to just be friends?
Sure.

>>15939832
You sound like Ignatius Reilly

English teacher, so I do get paid to read from time to time as part of my job.

i'm a nobody with limited intellect, and also poor

>>15939514
Civil engineer primarily working in environmental work. Used to do geotechnical work, but it was awful. No consistent hours and had to work way too many weekend days. There was even a time I was asked to work a night shift after already working a full day (Told them no).

A fortunate turn of events gave me the opportunity to slide into the environmental department. Don't regret it one bit. Better, more consistent hours and haven't worked a weekend or night yet.

I do want to start my own online business though. I haven't been consistent with it, though. Site is all set up, but I need to start making content and getting traffic.

>>15940992
Go ahead and spill the beans about what you do please

>>15941519
Assuming you're an American, any tips?

>>15942687
There really is. Thanks, I try to muscle through the best I can. Besides talking about it now I just try to keep my head down and forget about it all. No point falling inti despair over something you can't control. Reading helps with that

>>15943650
Maybe you can try writing some time. I have a feeling that you can make it. Just a hunch.

>>15941228
>Info
I had to wake up at 4am to make it in time to open for 5am. I loved it, during the summer the bike ride there was through the empty streets at dawn.
They were desperate for bakers and I applied at the right time. I'm decently well spoken and had all my shit in order so they hired me and I learned enough to be left alone in 2 weeks. They had a tinny bluetooth speaker and I was allowed to play whatever music I wanted, and I got along with the bosses's kid pretty well. I genuinely miss it but the pay is pretty low and there's not much room for advancement.
>How old
I'm 20.
>What were you baking
Baked just typical cafe stuff, the kind of things you would find in a starbucks. It was all from scratch so it made me really good at cracking eggs.
>Pay
$15 an hour
>Future plans
I'm going to uni for a meme degree after living with my parents and saving for a year.

>>15943752
I get ribbed by the guys at work over how my books coming along. I've thought about it but nothing beyond what style of book I'd write if I could

>>15942182
>>15942201
>>15942732
Kill yourself roastie whore

21 year old student
Working as a part time zoom tutor for elementary school kids. Pays 15 an hour.

Trying to write a book to appease the npcs and make me some money. My goal is to retire off of 2 million dollars and move somewhere super cheap and just train my body and my mind.

I'm thinking somewhere like Ohio would be pretty nice. Get myself a nice house and build my own home gym with heavy weights and outdoor calisthenics park.

A decent single-family house would set me back 400K, home gym and park 60K. That leaves me with a little more than a million in the bank. 4% interest and that is a little more than 60K a year guilt-free without touching my nest-egg. Probably could live off just 20K a year in a LCOL area like Ohio. Also if people like my stuff, I'd probably churn out some more books and maybe save more money and increase my expenses.

But desu, more money won't make me happier. Just don't want to kill myself wage-slaving anymore.

>>15939514

Imagine revealing to a large audience that you're a 34 yo virgin. That seems to only make his situation much harder

>>15942345

Our whole justice system is lowkey racist because if it wasn't racist, crime would be out of control. Thus it is unnaturally strict and punishes far out of proportion to the crime. The fact that it's used as a cudgel to keep blacks and hispanics under control also contributes to the profound lack of empathy we have towards criminals, as we assume that the criminal is hostile and alien, so that he's somebody like us and we would never be in his shoes

>>15944571

>so that he's somebody like us

not somebody like us*

>>15939549
Based. Dosto would approve.

>>15939514
I work in advertising and yeah I love it even if the pay is not good.
>tfw not born an aristocrat on a mansion full of books

>>15944077
Serious q - are you black? In from UK so I read stories of black people with 0.000001 g of weed getting 500yrs in prison in USA

>>15939672
I lived in US for 3 months and with minimum wage I could rent a place in a nice zone, eat comfortably and get shitfaced every other day. Even got some savings.
With minimum wage in most of South America you could probably rent a place on a zone we’re you risk getting stabbed for your cellphone, afford transport to your work and barely afford to eat.

>>15944529
> USA is the only country in the planet.

>>15942345
Is there no why you could finish your degree? Even with night schools and such.

>>15941276
Are you planning to go into academia?

NEET for 10 years, I have my own apartment. I live off disability payments, yes I am a leech and I can do what I want whenever I want. I don't know how people can get up early everyday and wageslave for more than half their lives.

>>15945024
I have convinced myself that i will find meaning in the grind. Also, i'm pretty sure i will die alone if i decide to just leave off government checks. What disability you got?

>>15945024
You're not a leech if you're actually disabled tho.

>>15939529
how many hours do you work?
are you a student too?
do you work a late shift?
I could see being a night janitor, less people to bother me.
is it gross, what you do?
I'm thinking about dropping out

>>15945061
Don't drop out, bro. Finish what you started. You don't see it now, but years from now you will look back and see that it was the best choice. What are you studying?

>>15942182
stinky yucky panties ewwww

>>15945042
>>15945045
I have reynauds phenomenon that may or may not mature into rheumatoid arthritis. My hands get discoloured and cold and they hurt after a few hours of doing something like washing dishes etc. I also get small chilblains sometimes. But other than that I can do anything a regular person can.

>>15945070
>What are you studying?
applied math
I don't really get what you mean, because in a few years I'll be dead.

>>15945168
y

>>15945168
You may but just because you are gonna die doesn't mean that you shouldn't try. are you a woman or something?

>>15945176
money
>>15945181
>are you a woman or something?
no.
i'm a nigger.

>>15945198
Then, use that to your advantage, bitch. Everybody expects you to fail and be a leech. You should flip them off and up your hustle. Read camus, faggot.

>>15945238
I only read r9k blogs

>>15945198
you do maths, you can get a big paying job wtf