/lit/ approved jobs

[Anonymous No.16196166]

Is being a therapist the most /lit/ job?

-education is very easy unless your autistic
-can work 20 hours a week for a comfy salary, leaving plenty of time to read
-get to interact with all kinds of people and are constantly confronted with different ways of viewing the world
-overall is a very cerebral field requiring you to think a lot (assuming you want to be an effective therapist)

Also, general /lit/ jobs thread

[Anonymous No.16196222]

CNC Machinist here. I get anywhere from 3-600 minute intervals of watching the machine run (usual is 6-20 per part) and no one will bother you as long as your work is good and the book never interferes. Started American Psycho at 8am, finished 40% before I punch out.

[Anonymous No.16196231]

>>16196222
OP here, before I went into therapy I was also a machinist. My runs were never longer than 20 minutes unfortunately.

[Anonymous No.16196234]

People will say lawyer but it's not you read and write and stress. It makes you not want to read. Don't become a lawyer.

My mate just quit and got a job reviewing books for a national newspaper. Now that's lit.

[Anonymous No.16196253]

>>16196234
I feel like going into law for love of reading is like going into video game design for live of video games. Just going to ruin it.

[Anonymous No.16196255]

>>16196166
How does being a therapist work how do you stop the urge to redpill your clients and turn them into gnosticism
How do you not tell them that we're here to suffer because a god binded matter to ideas in a close system how do you not tell them that time is a curse stretching through the bodies of the shapes making them suffer and stretch in agony how do you not tell them there's only one tyrant to blame

[Anonymous No.16196263]

>>1619625

If your training program is worth a shit you’ll get good at suppressing your desire to red-pill people and give advice. 99.9% of people just want to be heard so a lot of what you do is just very attentive listening. Anything you say has to be at the right time and for the right reasons.

[Anonymous No.16196271]

>>16196263
Meant to reply to
>>16196255

[Anonymous No.16196295]

>>16196263
>>16196271
so therapy is like taking an aspirin

[Anonymous No.16196303]

>>16196295
Like I said in the OP, it’s difficult to understand if you’re on the spectrum.

[Anonymous No.16197362]

>>16196166
Being /lit/ is not about the jobs that leave you with plenty of time to read But about taking time out whatever job you have to read and do it well. The point is to enhance the quality of time spent and not to make more time. Quality >Quantity. Literature is not a sport.

[Anonymous No.16197395]

>>16197362
We’re not all going to pretend we’re not glad with having like 3 hours every work day to read on our phones just so you don’t have to feel bad

[Anonymous No.16197421]

I wouldn't ever want to define myself by my work, just something that allows me to meet my needs, low-stress, doesn't exceed 40 hours a week, not so tired that I get home with no energy for anything. I could be a garbageman for all I care, as long as I have a quiet, comfortable place to read and think. I couldn't think of anything worse than being in some high-flyer job where you work 10 hours a day, your phone never stops ringing and your stomach is turning with stress when you're "relaxing".

[Anonymous No.16197432]

>>16196263
This is the value I got from therapists for sure. They're just somebody you can talk to openly and honestly who will listen and not judge you. I never realized how much I held in around family and friends until I had a therapist.

Now I just use you guys to complain to

[Anonymous No.16198875]

>>16196166
Librarian

[Anonymous No.16198935]

I work part time in health care with a disabled kid. We go on walks, talk about life, and play chess against each other for a couple hours a day.
Aside from that, I also work as a bartender at a boomer social club for retired vets/cops/firefighters. Tips are good and the atmosphere is jovial.
Between these jobs I work about 6 hours a day, 5 days a week. Stress is low, most of my "work" just involves being charismatic. In my free time I volunteer, and am trying to get a couple projects of my own going.

Previously worked as a machinist in a factory. It was very repetitive, but since I was working late nights I'd get away with listening to audiobooks while I worked.

[Anonymous No.16199049]

>>16196234
This. I'm a lawyer and this is absolutely true. You'll also be put into situations where you'll constantly deal with people that have no principles whatsover, though that might give you inspiration for a handful of characters.

[Anonymous No.16199158]

Any advice on becoming a therapist?

I have an English degree. Work in fabrication but am tired of it (I think it will become physically taxing on my body in 10-15 years).

[Anonymous No.16199185]

>>16196166
Psychiatry is much more pragmatic and actually helps resolve peoples issues.

[Anonymous No.16199207]

>>16198875
This or just working in a library in general even as janitor

[Anonymous No.16199214]

The most /lit/ job is not having a job. How many of the classics of western literature are about being a 40-hour a week wage slave?

[Anonymous No.16199255]

>>16199185
Giving jewish pills left and right is not solving a problem, Chaim.

[Anonymous No.16199268]

>>16196166
>being a charlatan

Nah

[Anonymous No.16199360]

$150k remote software engineer here. I work like 25 hrs max. Sometimes I work 40 on super busy weeks.

[Anonymous No.16199384]

>>16199360
same but 25k soon 30k doesn't help living in a boomer country programmers are still seen like leeches here

[Anonymous No.16199422]

How difficult is the work? How difficult is it to learn to program?

[Anonymous No.16199437]

>>16199422
It is difficult to learn, and doing it as a full time job can be mentally exhausting. On the bright side there are more resources for learning than ever and it pays very well (in the US)

[Anonymous No.16199445]

>>16199384
Retards don't understand how much of the world is software now and how garbage most programmers are. This is why the good ones get paid so much.

>>16199422
Programming difficult to start out since you don't know how to think like a computer.

Read the book: code hidden language of composers by petzold I think. After that, you're ready to dive into computer science.

>>16199437
Agreed

[Anonymous No.16199458]

>>16199445
Computers not composers....

[Anonymous No.16199468]

>>16196166
>largest money scam in the medical industry

Yes.

[Anonymous No.16200482]

night shift medical staff is the only /lit/ occupation

[Anonymous No.16200594]

how /lit/ is being a park ranger?

[Anonymous No.16200629]

>>16199255
Psychotherapy doesn't work more than some bullshit placebo

[Anonymous No.16200907]

>>16197421
>i just want a well paying job that doesn’t require much work or thought
Wow, what a hot take

[Anonymous No.16201132]

Army helicopter pilot

[Anonymous No.16201146]

>>16196166
The only /lit/ job is no job.

[Anonymous No.16202290]

>>16199214
Being a parasite isn't the only way out of slavery. Your shut-in video gaming lifestyle isn't worth writing about, sorry.

[Anonymous No.16202315]

>>16200594
Every park ranger I've ever met has looked like they want to kill themselves. Just become a Wildlife Scientist instead.

[Anonymous No.16202334]

>>16201146
How do I get the "no job" job?

[Anonymous No.16202563]

>>16196234
I'm almost through my first year of law school, I can kind of see this. That being said my intentions are not to become some hotshot firm barrister making big cash, I'll happily settle for a small town solicitor making a decent if comparatively modest living.
I also think it will help me write better, in that it's an opportunity to escape reality and strict legalistic writing for a moment.
Any tips for surviving as a /lit/ inclined lawyer?

[Anonymous No.16202603]

/lit/ janny

[Anonymous No.16202664]

How about a job you can just read at?

Factory I used to work at wouldn't even let you have headphones, you know, so you could hear the crane only 20 feet above you disengage if it broke so you could dodge it I guess? All of .2 seconds of warning. Thanks for forcing 2000 hours a year with no music out of me for that possible warning time.

[Anonymous No.16203729]

>>16202563
try focusing on residential real-estate law. seems like the get a steady supply of clients form agents, and the work is retarded simple in 99% of cases.

[Anonymous No.16203759]

>>16196166
I'm an exterminator and spend all my free time reading. Sucks having to work for a living. Easy to find time to read, but I find that its a lot harder to write material for my book as a wagecuck

[Anonymous No.16203768]

>>16196255
How would you help your patients achieve gnosis?

[Anonymous No.16203790]

>>16202563
>lawyer
professional paperwork filer

[Anonymous No.16204698]

Opinions on economics?

[Anonymous No.16204705]

>>16196222
You don't make very much, do you anon?

[Anonymous No.16204833]

>>16196166
Being a lone resident on an island 10 miles off the coast and being a lone caretaker of a 43 acres hotel on that island every winter. And doing large format analogue photography, writing prose and reading books all day long.

https://youtu.be/3oHhw_9bQk0

[Anonymous No.16204968]

>>16196166
Ranch hand

[Anonymous No.16205174]

I used to be a police officer. All day I was writing narratives, stories, about what happened and what I saw and what people said.
I also had exposure to a group of characters no other job comes close to providing.

[Anonymous No.16205189]

I'm an engineer, it's alright
>>16199185
>psychiatry
>resolves peoples issues

[Anonymous No.16205197]

>>16196166
For me I'm going for diplomat-slash-public intellectual

[Anonymous No.16205209]

>>16196222
do companies still use cnc?

[Anonymous No.16205234]

>>16196166
Starbucks barista is very popular among English graduates

[Anonymous No.16205240]

>>16202290
cope

[Anonymous No.16205366]

>>16196166
I'm a librarian. Can't be more /lit/ than me.

[Anonymous No.16205375]

>>16196166
neet, any other answer is cope

[Anonymous No.16205391]

>education is very easy unless your autistic
Yeah I’m sure this retard has some good points, I’ll definitely read the rest of what OP has to say.

[Anonymous No.16205429]

>>16200594
I’ve worked as a ranger, and I’ve done field conservation for three years or so (now in grad school though).

It’s a very nice life, but you need to be independently-driven to stay on top of your /lit/ education. Some of my fondest memories are living in a tent in Dinosaur national monument with no service for a month. Just bathe in the river, do your work, cook at night, and read in your tent. You typically have a crew as well. I guess this is more for conservation work than a ranger position. In truth, I liked being a manual labor grunt more than being a ranger.

[Anonymous No.16205456]

>>16205234
kek

In all honesty, the reason for this is because Starbucks is able to help troubled and edgy employees get their shit together.

[Anonymous No.16205474]

>>16204833
>tfw I was born for this
Jesus christ anon how do I find these jobs?

[Anonymous No.16205476]

>>16202334
Be born into wealth

[Anonymous No.16205528]

>>16202334
Collect disability and food stamps.

You'll rake in anywhere from $750 to $3050 a month + $200 in SNAP (food stamps).

Read Berkley if you don't know where to start. And yes, if you're on this website you are severely disabled.

[Anonymous No.16205559]

Any kind of engineer really.

Most, if not all, of my work days just involve me reading, watching films, and playing video games with my colleagues. The last time we actually had to do anything was when a sheet of ice fell of a bridge onto a car. This was the first time in this bridge's long history that anything like that has happened. That was a year ago, we made a fix and the city installed it.

[Anonymous No.16205687]

Buying and selling books. I used to work at value village and people would come in daily and buy any books worth anything. I saw someone buy basically the entire bibliography of Aleister Crowley for maybe 30$.

[Anonymous No.16205737]

>>16202315
It seems like a profession that attracts the suicidal, not one that makes you suicidal.

[Anonymous No.16205773]

>>16205476
Cringe.
>>16205528
Based.

[Anonymous No.16205800]

Outrageous amounts of cope in this thread. Quite clearly the most /lit/ profession would be a novelist, poet, professor of literature or teacher in a prestigious private school, or perhaps a journalist. Something like this

>>16204833

Could work, too. "Psychiatrists", lawyers etc are in no way "/lit" as you imagine it to be. Oh, another bugman YAWN.

[Anonymous No.16205875]

>>16205528
Tfw Canadian.

[Anonymous No.16206021]

>>16205875
Canadians have something analogous to SS disability benefits, it just doesn't pay as well. I was looking into dual citizenship before to syphon from both countries to discover there was some arrangement signed in the 1990s to prevent this.

[Anonymous No.16206031]

>>16205800
Absolute pseud posts. All those people you mention are desperately trying to appear /lit/ which goes to show they're nothing at all.

[Anonymous No.16206164]

>>16205875
Marry me and I'll get you US citizenship.

[Anonymous No.16206230]

Doctor. We have Celine and Chekov

[Anonymous No.16206280]

>>16199360
Is that working for an SV company?

[Anonymous No.16206286]

I'm a lawyer

[Anonymous No.16206309]

>>16205559
>tfw studying environmental engineering for this reason (and others of course). As long as the water is clean and safe to drink I don't have to do a whole lot else

[Anonymous No.16206435]

>>16206021
You have to convince a doctor you have mental illness, and haven't been working for like a year I think.
>>16206164
I'm a man baby.

[Anonymous No.16206462]

I'm a lawfag myself, not a lawyer yet though.

Kind of miss my engineering research, but making money and developing writing skills while not having to work that much is nice too. I'd be an academic if it wasn't such a shit field that will ruin my life

[Anonymous No.16206506]

what is /lit/? being a talentless midwit anti-socialite who reads philosophy to try and cope with his miserable existance?

[Anonymous No.16206515]

>>16204833
Man I would fuck the shit out of that old bitch oofaaaaah

[Anonymous No.16206521]

>>16205737
Why would it attract a suicidal?

[Anonymous No.16206605]

>>16196234
>got a job reviewing books for a national newspaper
This is a full-time job you can just get in one place? I thought you just pitched around to various places and sometimes, if you put enough time into pumping out enough and building up enough relationships to be able to consistently sell reviews, you could maybe scrape by?

[Anonymous No.16206663]

>>16206435
Shit, I can do that.

[Anonymous No.16206792]

>>16198935
> nice

[Anonymous No.16206952]

Don't go into management consulting or investment banking, anon. Don't fall for their lies.

[Anonymous No.16206988]

Probably starting medical school in a year (not american). I desperately want something that'll give me a feeling of purpose and worth, as I don't think I'll be able to stand life by 35 if I don't. Though I'll probably turn into Doctor Glas.

[Anonymous No.16207009]

>>16205391
Psychology is perhaps the easiest thing you could study, the only parts that might filter a few plebs is the statistics.
>>16206952
I've been considering trying for consulting some point after getting a masters in IOpsych and getting some work experience, is it that bad?

[Anonymous No.16207041]

>>16206988
This shit isn't /lit/ but at least you will be numb to the pain of death by daily facing physically sick and dying people. And by getting your daily dose of little heroism in the form a helping angel in white coat.

[Anonymous No.16207046]

>>16205528
I want to do this but honestly plan on leaving my country abd where im going wont do this if Im bit a citizen so im probably just going to wageslave for a bit until i am

[Anonymous No.16207063]

>>16207041
I always found Bernard Rieux in The Plague very admirable. I hope I'll be as respectable and dutiful as him.

[Anonymous No.16207240]

>>16196166
>-get to interact with all kinds of people and are constantly confronted with different ways of viewing the world
Not really a positive desu unless you're selective with the people you treat.

[Anonymous No.16207264]

>>16205366
Tell me how to get this job. Also, what's daily life as a librarian actually like?

[Anonymous No.16207274]

>>16207009
>I've been considering trying for consulting
If you have no idea what do or have no experience, it's a decent way to start your career. You'll get some basic technical skills and understand how to function under constant pressure. But it's a bullshit job with long hours and after a couple of years all you'll be doing is learning how to be a good consultant, not how to best help your client.

If you want to sacrifice the days, weeks, months, and years for your career, go for it. I've only felt remorse for spending so much of my limited time at work, but then again I was dumb enough to try IB too.

[Anonymous No.16207345]

>>16206521
because they work alone surrounded by wilderness
as a "suicidal" this sounds pretty comfy.

[Anonymous No.16207455]

>>16196255
You subtley let your clients find out that they are failures

[Anonymous No.16207551]

>>16206988
You have low lifes complain about peanuts because they have no concept of health or responibility and only want you for some quick fix.