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Anonymous Mon Apr 4 07:25:45 2022 No.20168454 [Reply] [Original]

Any books on the feeling of working retail or some other shitty job as a 50 year old man?

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 4 11:27:41 2022 No.20169218 I am also interested in this.

Anonymous Mon Apr 4 11:38:37 2022 No.20169256

Bukowski maybe.

And what hurts is the steadily diminishing humanity of those fighting to hold jobs they don’t want but fear the alternative worse. People simply empty out. They are bodies with fearful and obedient minds. The color leaves the eye. The voice becomes ugly. And the body. The hair. The fingernails. The shoes. Everything does.
https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/people-simply-empty-out?s=r

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 4 11:40:16 2022 No.20169265 >>20168454 Jason is that you?

Anonymous Mon Apr 4 12:11:30 2022 No.20169372

>>20169256

America used to have a Christian and vaguely white tribal-community ethos that gave people on the lower rung some dignity. The only dignity those people have left I guess is ugly entertainment media that feeds into their relatively low IQ, impulse control, and grievances about the world

Anonymous Mon Apr 4 12:14:18 2022 No.20169385

Houellebecq might do it for you but like a typical Frenchman he pollutes the realism of his writing with "and what if the character also got rimjobs from 21 year old girls miraculously because he has a job that makes him unrelateable like he's a literature professor"

Read The Outsider

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 4 12:14:21 2022 No.20169388 House of Sand and Fog

Anonymous Mon Apr 4 14:04:54 2022 No.20169824

>>20169372
All of which reminds me:
“The theories that drunkenness, laziness or inefficiency are the causes of poverty are so many devices invented and fostered by those who are selfishly interested in maintaining the present states of affairs, for the purpose of preventing us from discovering the real causes of our present condition.”
― Robert Tressell, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 4 14:07:41 2022 No.20169835 >>20169385 >Read The Outsider by Colin Wilson

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 4 15:18:31 2022 No.20170073 >>20168454 The Gum Thief by Douglas Coupland

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 4 21:29:28 2022 No.20171651 >>20169385 >and what if the character also got rimjobs from 21 year old girls miraculously because he has a job that makes him unrelateable like he's a literature professor Haeh,

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