/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.11632785]

>he thinks he can wageslave and write at the same time

[Anonymous No.11632799]

>>11632785
>he doesn't think he can do anything he sets his mind to

[Anonymous No.11632826]

donpeople think that if they were in high prestige, high ceiling jobs theyd be in better shape?

[Anonymous No.11632836]

>>11632785
That doesn't describe me at all. That just describes an unhappy person.

[Anonymous No.11632877]

>>11632785
This image BTFO's working people.

Engineers, lawyers, doctors, dentists investment bankers, software architects, psychiatrists, neuro-surgeons, directors and professional athletes have been thoroughly BTFO'd by OP's image and will never recover.

[Anonymous No.11632892]

>>11632785
This describes me, except I'm in a good paying high profile job and I get along well with my coworkers. :/

[Anonymous No.11632899]

>>11632877
They're not wageslaves

[Anonymous No.11632902]

I can't decide on whether OP is right or not. On some weeks I think that only the monastic NEET life can give you time for greatness. On other weeks I think that anyone should be able to work a full time job and still have time to do stuff.

>>11632877

It specifically says low prestige.

[Anonymous No.11632905]

>>11632899
they get paid a wage

[Anonymous No.11632910]

get a job you like

durr

there's plenty of easy unskilled labor out there where you dont have to answer to bosses all day and youve got all day to think up your writing

[Anonymous No.11632931]

>>11632905
Not really. They get paid a *salary*, or they're running their own firms.

[Anonymous No.11632951]

>>11632931
How retarded do you have to be to be payed a wage instead of a salary in an office job?

[Anonymous No.11632956]

>>11632931
Who the fuck even pays wages unless you're an illegal immigrant? Even Walmart should pay a salary

[Anonymous No.11632962]

>>11632902

It depends solely on your job, really. If you don't have an inhuman job which makes you stay after hours or bring work back home, it's not that hard to do both, you just need discipline.

[Anonymous No.11632989]

>>11632951
>>11632956
There are laws that require income to be paid as wages depending on the type and pay of the work. In some cases wages might be more advantageous to an office worker (if they work a lot of hours that they would get t paid overtime for, which they won't if they're salaried).

[Anonymous No.11633010]

>>11632785
Who are you quoting newfag

[Anonymous No.11633017]

>>11632785
>he has to "prepare" for 5 hours before pushing out 100 words
>he can't write superior lit after pushing 10 hour factory shifts

[Anonymous No.11633042]

>>11632785
It boosts my ego seeing posts like this because I can hold down a job and I also write every day. op you're a neet and cant even handle that.

[Anonymous No.11633056]

>>11632785
If Kafka can do it then anyone else can
>>11633010
> doesn’t understand how green arrows work
ISHYGDDT

[Anonymous No.11633069]

Should I get a lobotomy? i've tried anti-depressants and they don't work.

[Anonymous No.11633144]

>>11632785
>daydreams about killing boss
But I love my boss, she's a qt and pretty much my second mom

[Anonymous No.11633219]

>get my first job as full time at factory at 18 in assembly line, standard 9-5 weekends off.
>too slow, sloppy with glue
>fired after 3 months
>complain about job to friends
>friend gets same job years later
>talks about how nice and comfy it is

I'm never working as a wage slave again. I'm depressed, low IQ and lazy.

[Anonymous No.11633229]

>>11633219
where do you live that you can just go and get a factory job as an 18 year old? Pretty neat actually.

[Anonymous No.11633263]

>>11633229
What do you mean? A lot of factory jobs aren't skilled labour

[Anonymous No.11633264]

>>11633229
I live in southern Ontario. I was manufacturing freezers. It paid 18$ an hour but they put me on overtime a lot because I didn't meet quoutas. Eventually at the last few weeks they just put me on bitch tier stuff like cleaning and painting the freezers and counting inventory so i wouldn't slow down the line. I was under the impression I could just work naturally at my own pace, But apparently I was supposed to strategically coordinate when the forklift guy gives me my materials and have 3-4 different bases set up at once to save precious moments of walking 5 feet to pick up the next compressor and such. This all must be much easier than working at ford or something based on my friends reaction.

[Anonymous No.11633270]

Having a career gives me an identity outside of writing which is incredibly freeing.

[Anonymous No.11633292]

I seriously believe I could never tolerate more than 24 hours of work a week. And i would need a compelling reason to do that like supporting a family i will never have. I have nothing I want to buy and no expenses.

[Anonymous No.11633302]

>Back in the States, Vollmann took a job as a computer programmer in Silicon Valley, and returned wholeheartedly to the world of daydream. After hours, he slept under his desk, subsisted on candy bars and composed his first novel, the mammoth metafictional fable "You Bright and Risen Angels."

GIT GUD

[Anonymous No.11633303]

>>11632899
Trust me, they're in just the same world of pain. It's not the burden of the wage slave; it's the burden of any 9 to 5.

[Anonymous No.11633310]

>>11632785
this is literally how writing feels like

[Anonymous No.11633339]

I live at home and I wageslave. Prob just gonna work here for a year save what I can and just NEET it up again. Shits torture and I dont think there honestly is any career I would honestly enjoy.

[Anonymous No.11633346]

>>11632785
I wrote all of my best work when I was doing my production line job. You think more when you're doing menial stuff like that to keep yourself sane.

[Anonymous No.11633614]

they just feel a bit more accomplished, get more money and can fish in a gold digger. It's not really the same world.
>>11633303

[Anonymous No.11633792]

>>11633303
lol pls

I work for a tech firm and my boss doesn't even live in the same part of the country as me. Pretty great, desu

[Anonymous No.11633822]

>>11633270
>Having a career gives me an identity
Why do I hate this so much, why does this make me so angry?

[Anonymous No.11633834]

>>11633822
because you wish you derived meaning from your work

[Anonymous No.11633866]

>>11633822
because it speaks to something we all have in us, this pathetic need for identity and meaning in the face of the void, and it saddens you to realize that despite how pathetic it is you won’t be able to survive without it and you’ll never transcend it

[Anonymous No.11633871]

>>11633302

>Vollman began cross dressing in 2008 and has developed a female alter ego persona named Dolores which is documented in The Book of Dolores.[12] "'Dolores is a relatively young woman trapped in this fat, aging male body,' Mr. Vollmann said. 'I’ve bought her a bunch of clothes, but she’s not grateful. She would like to get rid of me if she could.'”

[Anonymous No.11633881]

>>11633866
You'll never transcend the need for an identity but you can transcend finding it through your work.

[Anonymous No.11633885]

>>11633881
not really, a job with no meaning is soul crushing

[Anonymous No.11633891]

>>11633881
I really don’t know if that’s true. I only find meaning in artwork. Where do you find meaning anon?

[Anonymous No.11633892]

>>11633871
neat

[Anonymous No.11633914]

>>11633885
>>11633891
Poor syntax on my part.
*You can transcend the need to find your identity through your work, but you will still need an identity of sorts. My opinion.

[Anonymous No.11633926]

>>11633914
but I don’t necessarily think that’s true. your identity is linked to what you do, to craft an identity that neglects that aspect of your life is to live in denial

[Anonymous No.11635230]

>>11633264
>>11633229
>Ontario
Hey me too, I also worked in a factory/warehouse as soon as I turned 18, with an employment agency. They really don't give a fuck as long as you show up and do the work. But it was pretty demoralizing, I don't know if I could do it again (5 years later), I definitely don't want to.