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What are the most /lit/ jobs?

For me, it's therapist.

>> No.12542185

economics, but only if you're not a neoliberal.

>> No.12542190

>>12542180
doctor

>> No.12542197

>>12542180
janitor

>> No.12542204

>>12542180

Porn star

>> No.12542222

writer or academic
there are no other /lit/ jobs

>> No.12542254

>>12542180
For Nabokov, it's the rapist.

>> No.12542259

fruit farmer

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>> No.12542552

Advertising. It is the only way to be read, and obscure; to be a wordsmith and a hack; to write, and to live.

>> No.12542595

>>12542180
low level nameless civil serf
neet
janitor
anything nameless

>> No.12542609

>>12542222
being a writer as a career is not /lit/, being an academic is not /lit/

>> No.12542630

Barista
I'll have a tall blonde, by the way

>> No.12543458

soldier

>> No.12543498

student, if that's a job

otherwise any minwagecuck position will do

tfw i'm a fry cook

>> No.12543533

>being a menial wage worker is so /lit/, I know this because I work at mcdonalds
I will never read a single word of your "work"

>> No.12543545

>>12542254
How do I get paid for rape? asking for a friend.

>> No.12543560

I'm a tutor. Really grinds my noggins when teens don't get references from classic literature and misuse memes in front of me.

>> No.12543564

>>12542190
Med student here. Which residency will best prepare me for my intended career as a nationally cherished essayist and novelist?

>> No.12543566

>>12543545
salsa teacher

>> No.12543574

>>12543564
Cancer or neurology.

>> No.12543591

>>12543564
>nationally cherished
Go psychology and learn that this goal is childish

>> No.12543592

>>12543591
>psychology
that shit is in the same league as tarot cards

>> No.12543623

>>12543592
medical doctors don't do psychology anyway. I would have to go back to undergrad to get into psychology.

>> No.12543626

>>12542552
If you haven't read George Gissing's New Grub Street, I'd highly recommend it.

>> No.12543628

>>12543592
No, there's logic in there, and overall it's based on experience of your own and others'

>> No.12543636

>>12543628
so, not evidence based.

>> No.12543667

>>12543564

Honestly, psychiatry. Alternatively maybe general surgery but it's more competitive to match into. If you went to an international med school don't even bother for surgical residencies.

>> No.12543680

>>12543667
Ready to get your mind blown?
Sit down for this.
Psychiatry is more competitive than gen surg these days.

>> No.12543731

>>12543636
Of course it's not, the only evidence is if it just works. 'Psycho' literally means 'soul' or 'mind' and how can we even measure something like that? Science and western culture in general is still not sure whether there's a soul in a human due to this problem.
On the other hand, sciences like chemistry may hardly give you as many answers about the mind of a human being (which is the main if not the only thing that lets us see ourselves separately from the rest of the animal world) as psychology, and it doesn't matter whether there's public evidence of some psychological hypothesis being legit, you can check it yourself using your mind and decide whether the hypothesis is bullshit or not.

>> No.12543739

>>12542180
Being that weird but cool guy doing odd jobs on Craigslist and traveling everywhere on whimsy.

>> No.12543751

>>12542180
smoker

>> No.12543753

>>12543731
dude stop, I know psychology is a useful field. I fucking love behaviorists. I just like talking shit on 4chan because psychology students are so easily triggered.
The proof in the pudding for psychology to me is it's applications for advertising

>> No.12543755

>>12543545
rape by contract, working at rape firm

>> No.12543759

Night shift security guard

>> No.12543766

>>12543545
go to /ausneets/ and ask to see the NEET king, he will initiate you

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>>12543628
So as the I Ching. They have much more population and longer history, so it must be more accurate experiences.

>> No.12543810

Engineer

>> No.12543815

>>12542180
>What are the most /lit/ jobs?
The most /lit/ job is not having a job, so really there is no most /lit/ job.

>> No.12543823

>>12543753
Amazing bait. well done.

>> No.12543932

>>12542190
>>12542180
>>12542185
>>12542204
>>12542254
>>12542552
>>12542609
>>12542595
>>12542630
>>12543560
>>12543566
>>12543574
>>12543591
>>12543592
>>12543623
>>12543667
>>12543739
>Not going full homeless hermit and dedicating 100% of your time to literature.
Never gonna make it.

>> No.12543935

>>12543932
this

>> No.12543939

>>12542180
barnes and noble retail worker.

>> No.12543977

>>12543939
sounds comfy

>> No.12543982

>>12543977
especially if you have a useless liberal arts degree.

>> No.12543995

>>12543982
How is a liberal arts degree useless?

>> No.12544030

>>12543995
more like liberal farts lmao

>> No.12544037

>>12544030
haha lmao

>> No.12544068

>>12543995
the joke being its not a real course and just something a B-grade community college threw together for extra bux

>> No.12544115

>>12544068
Is this American humour?

>> No.12544414

>>12543932
i've not ironically thought about it

>> No.12544517

>>12544030
ok now THIS is basedpill'd

>> No.12544530

>>12544068
>liberal arts
>academic subjects such as literature, philosophy, mathematics, and social and physical sciences as distinct from professional and technical subjects.
Social sciences maybe but the rest seem pretty /lit/ if i'm not mistaken.

>> No.12544535

>>12543680
this

>> No.12544663

>>12544030
haha

>> No.12544684

>>12542180

>therapist

man just imagine talking to people all day
a lot of different people and you get to know them all on a deep intimate level
but they're not really your friends and you're not even supposed to talk about them to anybody else but I bet you wouldn't be able to resist that is if you even felt like it which I bet you often wouldn't
that would be weird huh?

>> No.12544922

3rd world cop that has way too much education for his station

>> No.12544937

>>12544684
I view the job as being a mind detective

They give you problems and you tried to feed them solutions based off clues.

OP here and I genuinely think about becoming a therapist and think I'd find it fulfilling but it takes an incredibly long time to become one.

>> No.12544951

>>12544937
It's more like you go along on their path as a kind of partner for reflection and correction that is healing if anything destructive.
If you give advices as a therapist you just don't achieve anything except keeping your client dependent on authority.

>> No.12544955

>>12544951
You're right anon

What the fuck am I going to do with a 4 year english degree dude

>> No.12544957

>>12544937
Better to help people connect their own dots, to find the path to their own solution, than to give them your solution. People respond more positively that way.

t. psych student

>> No.12544965

>>12544957
>route to becoming a therapist
>4 year degree
>2 year ma
>3 years to get license
>then pay off around 70k in debt
>then you can start private practice

Is this correct
if so, fuck being a therapist

>> No.12544969

>>12542180
Engineer and making a comfy wage while dedicating all my free time to art and laughing at all the English major NEETs, baristas, and burger-flippers who thought school would've taught them how to write (it doesn't because it can't teach you creativity or talent)

>> No.12545217

>>12544965
pretty much, man. plus you need the grades. In Australian though after the full 7(?) years I’d be an APAC accredited psychologist, I think therapist down here refers to a slightly lower level of qualification.

>> No.12545323

>>12542180
>>12542185
well both of these make it up as they go along, so probably the closest to being a writer

>> No.12545344

>>12543636
If psychology isn't evidence because it asks people how they feel, then psychiatry isn't either. How in the world do you think practitioners assess whether or not a therapy has worked? Anything to do with human wellness inevitably gets entangled in some level of ambiguity, which layman scientism-ists seem to be incapable of wrapping their heads around.

>> No.12545348
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Librarian. Your work with books and when you get back home you can keep reading.

>> No.12545410

>>12544969
>engineer
>creative
>artistic talent

All the engineers I've met read genre fiction and couldn't grasp metaphors that were a little bit subtler than a hitting a wall with a sledgehammer.
Plus, comfy living doesn't a good writer make. Comfiness breeds mediocrity. About what can you write, with sufficient depth and power, if your life is essentially wageslaving without interrims?
Sure, you may shit out a bestseller eventually, but give a century and no one would remember, let alone read, your "masterpiece" born out of boredom, sexual frustration, and stale tropes fed to you by popular media since childhood.
As an engineer, your task is to make the life of everyone else comfortable. That's your dharma. Go fulfill it. Leave the arts alone - they've already been spoiled by your, literal, autism too much.

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for me it's reclusive bodybuilder writing from a house innawoods

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>>12542180
>What are the most /lit/ jobs?
>proceeds to post a virgin clinical psychologist in his image so as to imply that career is /lit/
Yikes, Cringed, and Bluepilled.

>> No.12547106

>>12544030
Truly ebin

>> No.12547136

full time NEETdom is the only legitimate /lit/ lifestyle. anything short of this is never gonna make it.

>> No.12547175

>>12542180
My therapist gave me shit book recommendation

>>12543932
Unironically this

>> No.12547187

>>12546288
Even with Petersons meme philosophy I am sure he has improved lives

>> No.12547189

>>12543680
>Psychiatry is more competitive than gen surg these days.
That's because it's /comfy/. Too bad pseuds too ignorant of psychopharmacology are entering it. Anyone who says "pharmacology is hard" needs to be withdrawn from medical school and should not be practicing medicine, period.

>> No.12547201

>>12545348

>> No.12547210

Librarian

>> No.12547334

>>12543680

Whaaaat, actually? I'm in Canada so here gen sx is waaay more competitive but that is really surprising to me. Where are you from?

>> No.12547426

>>12545217
Good luck anon
I believe in you

>> No.12547485

Monk

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>>12547210

>> No.12547782

>>12547187
That may be true but a clinical psychologist is infinitely less /lit/ of a career choice than a psychiatrist.

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>>12547210
To the contrary, librarians are some of the least /lit/ individuals in the entire world and most certainly are the biggest pseuds—as a career, it may damn well be the least /lit/ out of all.
>DAE like books xD!!!!!!
>#SAVEOURLIBRARIES
They're the janitors of the book world. In encompassing the governance of everything concerning the written word, they get absolutely nothing out of it and only offer to passerbys useless trivia, suggestions and other banalities. Yet, at the same time, profess themselves to be wise and experts and opine on all matters because BOOKS DUDE! They are charlatans and if you cannot see this, you either have a few cubic cm of brain matter missing or, even more culpable, are one yourself, seeking self-affirmation and a pat on the back. You shall get none from this crowd.
Truly, librarians not only are useless but dangerous individuals because they seek their own self-preservation at the expense of reality. Being on the front lines of book dispersal and re-acceptance, they have a puffed up view of this process and more importantly, their own role in it. For this cause, they are subject to extreme delusions of grandiosity, and ignore technological progress and facts when confronted with them. They have the wrong presupposition that everyone likes libraries and the whole institution and career should be respected. They get none from me, not one single ounce of the stuff. I can only give my scorn and disdain, and convey my absolute hatred and disgust of their inefficient, pseud breeding and obsolete institution and profession.

>> No.12547945

>>12543564
Oliver sacks made an entire career out publishing his medical notes with another historical cases similar to the ones he was dealing with

>> No.12547986

>>12547782
"/lit/" isn't just things you like and dislike. There is an objective way to measure what is less and more /lit/

>> No.12548046

>>12547782
>primary aspect of the role is to prescribe medicine to patients and regulate brain chemistry
>not helping them attempt to confront and navigate their own mind first, helping them identify where they stumble in their thinking patterns
Yes, psychiatry is truly far superior

>> No.12548051

>>12545344
These plebs thinking psychology is only "human wellness"
Psychology is exploring the darkest depths of the psyche you nerds, it's the science above all science because it tackles the observer in his purest form.

>> No.12548073

>>12543545
They say there are positions open in Romania

>> No.12548105

>>12543458
underrated post. Your work, your war work is to cultivate your talent.

>> No.12548108

>>12543564
sadly, nutrition/dietary science

>> No.12548166

>>12542180
professor
writer
diplomat
doctor
psychiatrist
priest

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>>12543932
This

>> No.12548404

>>12548166
>>12547485
>Monk
>Priest
Not really

>> No.12548453

>>12547334
Your superior southern neighbor my friend

>> No.12548695

>>12548453

>Superior

Nope

>> No.12549275

>>12542180
Surprised no one has said Journalism although shitty pay for the first couple years if you intern b4 you finish school you can really climb and branch out to all types of things

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Gas station attendant

>> No.12549721

>>12548404
Cringe