/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.9388829]

What is /lit/ doing for a living?

[Anonymous No.9388836]

>>9388829
Living, obviously. Only morons work.

[Anonymous No.9388853]

I'm a database administrator, specializing in Oracle systems.

[Anonymous No.9388854]

>>9388829
Nurse.

[Anonymous No.9388857]

I work in a record store. It's a crab job. Ever since used vinyl got popular I'm reduced to an antique dealer. Nobody cares about music, I make all my buck from hipsters who hang shit on their walls and insane collectors who pay 1500 dollars for records nobody likes because their autism force them to buy everything released on the Vertigo swirl label.

[Anonymous No.9388865]

Collecting NEETbux

[Anonymous No.9388871]

I'm a butcher

[Anonymous No.9388875]

>>9388829
Leech of me nan

[Anonymous No.9388878]

NEET for 10 years

i want to fucking die

[Anonymous No.9388879]

>>9388871
>tfw my butcher gives me free bones and carcasses to make stock with

Also, bone marrow is fucking tasty

[Anonymous No.9388896]

>>9388879
Good on you, man. I'm actually the guy working behind the scenes boning carcasses and such so I rarely interact with clients.

[Anonymous No.9388900]

>>9388829
currently unemployed

[Anonymous No.9388905]

>>9388829
Grade tests and TA.

[Anonymous No.9388909]

>>9388829

Translator.

[Anonymous No.9388917]

>>9388871
I was a pastry chef until the place I worked went under and I was laid off
Now I basically work part time cooking at a bar & grill, it's not bad, but I want to bartend for a while again

[Anonymous No.9388925]

Schizophrenic with Major Depression living on disability - $740 a month, no job. I can't complain, and the medication is free. I have enough money for books. No car. But it's a decent way to live if you're just into reading, writing, and books.

[Anonymous No.9388930]

>>9388896
>boning carcasses

[Anonymous No.9388936]

Line cook at a French-Canadian restaurant. We do 500+ covers on a good night.

[Anonymous No.9388942]

I work in management consulting

It's a pretty stressful job with few upsides besides the cash, but at least I get to be around smart, well-educated, snobby qts all day

[Anonymous No.9388960]

MOS 12B

[Anonymous No.9388963]

>>9388930
Yeah, I know, English is not my first language so I don't really know how to explain the concept ahaha

[Anonymous No.9388966]

>quite school last year
>can't even get a job at McDonalds

Ebin.

[Anonymous No.9388971]

>>9388871
>>9388879
>>9388896
>>9388930
>>9388963
>>9388960
samefag

[Anonymous No.9388983]

>>9388925
how old are you?

[Anonymous No.9388990]

I'm a cop you idiot

[Anonymous No.9388999]

>>9388983

14

[Anonymous No.9389005]

>>9388966
Literally me.

[Anonymous No.9389012]

>>9388971

[Anonymous No.9389017]

I'm on disability benefits because of OCD and long-lasting depression. I used to be diagnosed as psychotic but I have to wonder whether that was a misdiagnosis or not. Maybe not.

I'm managing my problems nowadays tho, trying to get my upper secondary school finished and get into an university.

[Anonymous No.9389022]

>>9388925
At least you have a major.

[Anonymous No.9389029]

>>9388829

I am an administrator in the oreography department specialising in transmedial relationship therapy for people with acute diaphonic incapabilities. Got the job through dad.

[Anonymous No.9389042]

I work at Barnes & Noble and I hate it. Probably going to off myself soon.

[Anonymous No.9389051]

>>9389042

Elaborate, what is it that you don't like, how long have you been working there, how did you end up there? Things like that.

[Anonymous No.9389065]

>>9388829
35 year old NEET Army veteran. Trying to decide between:

getting a shitty federal job for 13 years with only a HS diploma and retiring

sitting in a college classroom for 3-7 years, THEN starting a shitty federal job for 13 years (or maybe becoming a writer).

getting older sucks. i wish i could still hit on college aged scarf/uggs/coffee qts.

[Anonymous No.9389071]

>>9388925
why are there so many schizos on this board??

[Anonymous No.9389076]

>>9388925
wtf I want to be schizo now

[Anonymous No.9389078]

Screenwriter. It's pretty cool I guess. Lotta bitches.

[Anonymous No.9389080]

>>9389065
11B?

[Anonymous No.9389081]

>>9389080
No.

>inb4 muh combat arms

[Anonymous No.9389082]

>>9388925
>>9388865

Here
collecting for schizoid personality disorder and MDD w/ Psychosis

[Anonymous No.9389086]

Zookeeper. Lions cheetahs giraffe etc

[Anonymous No.9389091]

>>9389082
>>9388925
I was diagnosed schizophreniform 6 months ago how do I milk it for disability?

[Anonymous No.9389101]

>>9388925
OCD/depression/ex-psychotic guy here,
I get ~1200 euros a month.

Half of it goes to rent but it is liveable. The most important part compared to regular unemployment/social security benefits is that there's paperwork only every couple years, plus the amount is a bit higher. I'll need to submit a new statement from my doctor in like the beginning of 2019.

[Anonymous No.9389111]

Trying to decide whether to go into management consultancy or be funemployed for awhile.

Career decisions are basically philosophy decisions. I could definitely do the high status thing, but I'm not sure if I want to be ambitious. I won't take it with me.

[Anonymous No.9389112]

>>9389086
Aren't you afraid of getting mauled? Have you ever fucked the animals?

[Anonymous No.9389117]

> tfw i could easily get diagnosed as depressed and live on neetbux but choose to pursue life in spite of it

[Anonymous No.9389137]

In a month I will be working at a hospital/clinic doing ultrasounds.

>>9389117
What are essential Richman albums besides I, Jonathan?

[Anonymous No.9389170]

>>9388829
Studied ancient Greek and Latin, I work at a call centre now. Don't fall for the pursuit your dreams meme, kids.

[Anonymous No.9389184]

>>9389137

Rockin' & Romance / Its Time For are my favourites.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLkBSFirwg4

[Anonymous No.9389185]

neetu desu

[Anonymous No.9389194]

Graduated from welding school, currently looking for work in this sector and in manufacturing working in receiving at the moment

[Anonymous No.9389228]

At university, hating it and failing

[Anonymous No.9389232]

Teaching english

[Anonymous No.9389233]

Poetess

[Anonymous No.9389249]

>>9389194
how long was that school anon? welding / metal fab is relevant to my interests.

[Anonymous No.9389256]

>>9389249
took me about a year just for the welding program itself.

[Anonymous No.9389257]

>>9389233
>ess

[Anonymous No.9389262]

>>9389228
Learn to love it. It's better than having a job. You'll regret being such a pussy when you drop out without finishing and have to work twice as hard for twice as many hours at the barnes and noble cafe.

[Anonymous No.9389263]

>>9388829
I'm an architect

[Anonymous No.9389264]

data management cuck

[Anonymous No.9389265]

>>9389022
Kek

[Anonymous No.9389267]

>>9389263
How is it? Planned to go to an architecture school

[Anonymous No.9389284]

>>9389267
It's okay. The enjoyment really depends on the people you work with, but from time to time it's the greatest thing I could possibly imagine doing. At other times it's just a plain office job.

Architecture school was 90% fantastic though. If you don't mind having almost no time for social stuff.

[Anonymous No.9389300]

>>9389284
So... what kind of stuff do you render?

[Anonymous No.9389311]

>>9389300
renderporn is the cancer that's killing architecture tbqh

[Anonymous No.9389319]

>>9389311
Well, do you render by hand (pen and paper) or 3D PC

[Anonymous No.9389325]

>>9388829

professional neet and all in litecoin

[Anonymous No.9389336]

>>9389319
I use Artlantis, mostly because you really can't get anywhere without complying to the render-based architecture. Employers want it, professors wanted it. I had the most fun at school on the asignments where rendering was prohibited though. It often gets the wrong image across and focuses on what it looks like in stead of how it works.

[Anonymous No.9389364]

Book editor and translator. Studying to become a diplomat.

[Anonymous No.9389366]

unemployed

[Anonymous No.9389405]

>Tfw a few people told you "being a writer" meant "teaching" but for some reason you were really good at ignoring them.

I want to go back.

[Anonymous No.9389420]

>>9388829
Roleplaying while attending education desu ne

[Anonymous No.9389422]

>>9389071
Self diagnosis means anyone can be anything. What a world. I'm OCD and have hysterical mesothelioma myself.

[Anonymous No.9389430]

I've been NEET for 5 years and it's only getting better desu

would recommend

[Anonymous No.9389486]

>>9389051
I graduated uni with a useless journalism degree last August and was NEET until December due to clinical depression and other shit I was going through. I applied to Barnes around Thanksgiving because the idea of working at a bookstore was intriguing, so I was pretty happy when they called me in for an interview.

Fast forward to now, I'm completely disillusioned and hate the job, but I lack the motivation and social skills to find another job at this moment. For one, I hate the customer service for obvious reasons. Also, all management cares about is selling the stupid membership. I can go one, but I shouldn't turn this into a long rant.

tl;dr: The novelty of working at a bookstore dissipated quickly and now I realize it's a dead-end shithole like any other retail job, and I can't imagine mustering up the balls to leave any time soon.

[Anonymous No.9389500]

>>9389422

If you collect money you aren't self diagnosed

[Anonymous No.9389526]

>>9388829
I study physics at uni.

[Anonymous No.9389533]

Leeching off my parents, still prole so I'll have to get a job sooner or later

[Anonymous No.9389538]

I inherited a large sum of money.
I just live from day to day alone.
Sorta like Lovecraft.

[Anonymous No.9389574]

>>9389112
Nah, all the extremely dangerous animals are no-contact and have to have at least 2 people check the locks before going into their areas to clean. Some less dangerous animals we go in with who could still fuck you up, so you have to stay aware of their temperment, mood, and personalities. Injures can and have happened, but usually are avoidable and are the persons fault.
And no i havent ever even wanted to fuck the animals

[Anonymous No.9389598]

>>9388990
Had me in tears

Well played sir, well played *tips*

[Anonymous No.9389611]

>>9388829
I'm 31, single, and teach a painting class funded by the government

[Anonymous No.9389616]

>tfw been a depessed neet for 5 years but don't get neetbux for it because there is no way to get it without my family finding out
Have just been living off student loans that I'll be shackled to forever with nothing to show for it
Feels fuckin bad living in futureless poverty and isolation but at least I never have to talk to anyone or try to improve my situation

[Anonymous No.9389649]

>>9388878

this except the wanting to die part

[Anonymous No.9389688]

Working a physically demanding job while trying to maintain focus on the depths of my mind so I still receive a sense of beauty towards the universe. Feeling like a shitty useless cunt, with the immensely strong desire to challenge the world and achieve something ambitious in the face of poverty, death, and the remnants of failed souls in the wake.

[Anonymous No.9389710]

>>9388829
Full-time Community college student living off of loans and grants. I'm aiming at a BA in linguistics and gradschool for whatever has caught my attention by then. I've already accepted that i'm eventually going to become a professor of nonsense at bullshit university, but hey, at least I'll be able to afford to pay off this debt.

[Anonymous No.9389742]

>>9389710
very hard to get professor jobs these days, the industry is kind of imploding and transitioning into a slavery model

after having already been really bad job prospects (read: vast majority of phds didnt end up becoming professors) for many years, its actually WORSENING

sadly one of the only predictors of job prospects is where you do your BA and grad school, and if you are in a CC now you will find it hard to get into the top tier grad schools necessary for having a shot at really working in academia

not trying to bum you out, just saying, if you want to do this, you should know the risks, the odds, the state of the industry, etc

[Anonymous No.9389749]

Merchant seaman for a north european shipping company. The pay is good and i have a lot of free time to read.

[Anonymous No.9389771]

>>9389742
I'm familiar with how competitive the industry is and just how many incompetent failures are flooding up the industry. The thing is, I actually read. I've always actually read. I don't care what I teach, I'll be qualified to teach several subjects, and I don't care where I teach. I'll find employment somewhere with many a translator gig on the side.

[Anonymous No.9389778]

Cashier with a college degree seeking any full-time position that will accept me.

[Anonymous No.9389812]

Currently work at a college bookstore despite being a dropout. It's pretty chill because I basically read from whichever textbook I want to.

[Anonymous No.9389824]

>>9389812
I had a similar gig at a print and copy store outside of ASU. Apparently rather than textbooks, a lot of professors designed their own course readings and we cheaply made them into packets on construction paper, bound them in all the cheapest ways imaginable, then sold them to the students for $170 dollars. I had to deal with the look of hatred from each and every student like it was my fault the place I worked at was ripping them off, but hey, I got to read the course readers for everything I was interested in.

[Anonymous No.9389836]

>>9389771
i'm doing phd at an ivy league and the first thing we heard when we got here was "most of you aren't going to get jobs in the industry"

one of my letter-writers recommender told me "you really have to know what you're going into, for instance i know stunningly uniquely brilliant people who haven't been able to get jobs for 4 years and are still effectively unemployed in their late 30s or 40s"

one of my best friends was a brilliant phd holder who had been working as an adjunct for ten (or more) years

the industry's not just clogged, not just filled with incompetents, it's got five people who are scary smart and scary competent for every position that opens. it's fucking unimaginable

>I don't care where I teach

at the community college tier university where i went, a complete laughingstock and dead end, one of my professors told me that a position opened up and it had two hundred, literally two hundred applicants, most of which were highly overqualified and had previous academic and tenure track postings

at a CC, you're going to have a hard time even reaching the platform that most rich prep school kids get by default because of their parents. i only got into ivy horseshit tier schools because i lucked out and accidentally sucked the right dicks at the state level.

it's good to be unrealistically ambitious, that's a good thing, but you should continually expose it to the full harshness of reality if you want to benefit from it. unrealistic ambition is just naivete if it isn't tempered by reality. it's supposed to lead you into realms where less ambitious people wouldn't dare to tread, progressively making you reach greater heights. it's not that your will is lacking or deficient, it's that you need to scramble for opportunities to do that sort of thing ASAP, or you'll come across a sheer insurmountable wall of "Nope, sorry" at some point - probably during your grad school applications

people here are disgustingly intelligent by default. all the people who just have perfect brains seem to percolate to the ivy league. most of them aren't ambitious, most of them are jobbers, most of them plateau and atrophy, but you're still in competition with them, and at the undergrad level they are effortlessly doing mediocre work with a mirror polish, and recognition for their precocity by relatively well-established professors who can write them great letters of recommendation. at a CC, even if you're the next einstein, you won't be able to effect that level of polish, most likely. no matter how exceptional your work, it will be lost in a sea of shinier sub-ivy/ivy-prep mediocrities. just be careful dude.

[Anonymous No.9389842]

Nothing, mommy gives me everything I need.

[Anonymous No.9389854]

>>9389771
>hey everybody i'm special because i actually read!

yes, at community college level most people don't read, but when you get into even top 20 tier schools every reads just as much as you do, chugging through the western canon on summer vacation is not special, these kids read all the shit you did, and had paying gigs in a local jazz band, and came in third in a rock climbing contest, and helping children with poilio in the mountains of ecaudor for six weeks in the summer or whatever...if you're only claim to claim to fame is "hey man i fucking READ" well that's not going to get you far, every fucking reads, look at all the fuckups and tards on this board, guess what, we all read.

[Anonymous No.9389861]

>>9388857
That sounds comfy as fuck dude

[Anonymous No.9389871]

>>9389824
The college sells it's share of construction paper textbooks at my store. The whole thing is a ripoff if you ask me.

[Anonymous No.9389872]

>>9389836
Alright alright you've made yourself clear and I have no desire to argue with any of it but I do have two responses:

1. Even though I'm only in CC at this point, I'm absolutely confident that there have been several professors who's jobs I can do better, so that gives me some hope.

and 2. The only thing in this life I can imagine showing up to work every day and feeling good about, is teaching. I don't mind being a highly overqualified high school teacher either. I'll get my bills paid and i'll do it doing something I can feel good about. All i've done for years is read and learn how to construct and deconstruct ideas and learn just how unwilling the general population is becoming to subject their own ideas to an adult level of scrutiny. All I'm good at is reading and thinking and engaging in discourse so no amount of odds stacked against me is going to change that that's the path i've chosen. All I know in this life is that my face is going to stay pointed at books until I die.

[Anonymous No.9389873]

>>9389871
Indeed.

[Anonymous No.9389875]

>>9389742
also, at the pleb level enrollment is actually down at many schools. the economy is good so people that don't really care about academic shit and are just stemfagging it up for a job can go get a job as a driver at amazon and be lower middle class without memorizing math formulas and churning out asspained papers for four years, and kids are wising up to the debt trap and don't want to go for it unless it's an outstanding school that can really add value to their career. but why should you care about pleb schools, you're special, you read, you're not like all the other dumbasses. well you should care because low ranking universities and community colleges employ a lot of adjuncts and a decent amount of tenured people too. the air seems to be coming out of the education bubble starting at the low end. it's a shrinking industry. bringing in a bazillion bourgeois chinese kids to fill our degree mills has kept the mid tier schools going for now, but that's the next level to fall apart.

[Anonymous No.9389880]

>>9389854
Like I said, I don't care where I teach, and at my community college, half of my professors are jokes. I could do any of my english or psych professor's jobs better than they do for two reasons:
1. I've actually read the sources they cite badly
and 2. I'm not trying to feed off a mythos of academia veiling my opinions. I actually want to teach.

I didn't say I was special, only more qualified than many. That's not saying much about me, only about how many lazy and useless people make it as educators.

[Anonymous No.9389884]

>>9389872
>1. Even though I'm only in CC at this point, I'm absolutely confident that there have been several professors who's jobs I can do better, so that gives me some hope.

last time i was in a starbucks there where baristas whose jobs i'm sure i can do better, what's your point

[Anonymous No.9389895]

>>9389880
did you ever think the reason those adjuncts don't have a deep knowledge of the shit they are teaching is because they actually have a background in a different subject but when some dean called them up and said "hey i know you're background is in faggots, but could you teach this intro to trannies class over the summer session?" they're going to be like "oh sweet, i'll be able to pay my rent for another three months, fuck yes i'll teach it!"

try getting some life experience, you don't know shit, no offense.

[Anonymous No.9389901]

>>9389078
How did you get into the job? Asking because I wouldn't mind doing screenwriting

[Anonymous No.9389904]

>>9389884
That was a response to someone telling me that there's many people who are overqualified applying for every position. The point being that people either much less capable or much less willing to effectively teach make it where I am, so I don't consider it impossible odds that I land a job at some point as a professor of nonsense at bullshit community college.

[Anonymous No.9389906]

>>9389880
>>9389872
the problem is that being more qualified than professors (not rare, most are retards) is not the criterion of whether you get hired, it's luck + whose dicks you sucked

it's really really incestuous man, i'm just telling you that you might be the most well-intentioned plucky guy with the sincerest quest to be a teacher, and still get fucked, still be shit out of luck because the system is broken. you have to learn the brokenness to some extent.

an example might be: the way you currently think, maybe you'll apply for grad schools and be heartbroken when you don't get anything good. but what if knowing the odds and the risks made you think about safeties and backups - what if because you had faced the harsh reality of how shitty the industry is, you thought "well, i should apply for a few MA programs, even some mediocre ones, as a backup plan. and hell, an MA at a state school will put me in a much better position to apply for a PhD at a great school!"

i'm not trying to take the wind out of your sails - your story reminds me a lot of my own because i went into academia, with a snowball's chance in hell, to escape poverty and a meaningless life. that's exactly why i want to help you out.

[Anonymous No.9389914]

>>9389895
You don't know me or what I know. You asked a question and didn't wait for an answer because you wanted to be indignant about the answer you assumed you'd get. Nobody cares what you think.

[Anonymous No.9389923]

>>9388857
>I work in a record store.
How do I find a job in a place like that? Is it in any way similar to that High Fidelity movie? What kind of music are you into?

[Anonymous No.9389925]

>>9388857
And that's a bad job because? Sounds pretty chill.

[Anonymous No.9389931]

>>9389906
You're not taking the wind out of my sails. You're also not telling me anything I don't know. I don't even see what the point of your post is. We've all already established that I know my limits, I know what i'm capable of, I know what stands in the way, and that's not going to keep me from aiming as high as I can, trying as hard as I can, and being fine with however low I land as long as it pays the bills even if I take my masters in linguistics and become a middle school spanish teacher. I don't even see why we're still having this conversation other than 4chan is filled with contrarian shitlords who want to tell me i'm wrong anyway because they've assumed based on nothing that I don't know what they know.

[Anonymous No.9389939]

>>9389101
>$2400 canadabux a month for nothing
What the fuck, I should have been faking a mental illness years ago. Here I am wageslaving away like a good little goy, getting shat all over on by entitled assholes for barely more than minimum wage.

[Anonymous No.9389940]

>>9389931
>aiming high to become an esl instructor

lol

most kids at top schools aim to be ceos, supreme court justices, or win the nobel prizes...

if you're so ambitious why don't you study business or finance or something where you can actually make an impact on the world

[Anonymous No.9389948]

>>9389940
Because I enjoy languages and literature and I want the world to read.

[Anonymous No.9389949]

I'm a carpenter currently building tradeshow exhibits and corporate event scenery. The hours are excruciating so I'm hoping to go back to school next year

[Anonymous No.9389950]

>>9389925
because it probably pays less than working at a coffee shop

[Anonymous No.9389969]

>>9389950
As long as it pays enough to pay for rent, food, etc.

[Anonymous No.9389973]

>>9389948
well last word of advice ill bother with, there's always a few kids in every batch of community college bottom feeders who think they are fucking geniuses because they actually did the reading and can do some calc 1...then they go to the big state uni and realize they are not special even at a trifling level like that, and that the ivy even just top 20 schools are why beyond their league...i mean if you value education and love reading and literature so much, why didn't you pony up the cash to go to a real school with half-way decent professors? because you're a fucking pleb deep in self-denial, half a nice day

[Anonymous No.9389977]

I'm homeless.

Hoping to have a friend let me stay a night or two so I can tidy up for an interview.

It's tough.

[Anonymous No.9389982]

>>9389973
>If I were smart I would have cash

Nice parting argument, dipshit.

[Anonymous No.9389986]

>>9389071
They're all the same one.

[Anonymous No.9389987]

>>9389969
well i hope you like living in crime infested neighborhoods and never having enough money to have a family

[Anonymous No.9390006]

>>9389987
Live in a first world country and no don't have any plans or want for family, so it's all good.

[Anonymous No.9390008]

>>9389982
ever heard of a student loan fuck head? yeah, you're not that smart.

[Anonymous No.9390014]

>>9390006
first world countries still have black people in the low end neighborhoods that faggots who work at record stores have to live in

[Anonymous No.9390027]

>>9388853
is it comfy? been working with databases in my CS courses and really like it

[Anonymous No.9390031]

>>9389931
>I don't even see what the point of your post is.

well i came from a very similar situation, with very similar goals, and i'm a few years older and wiser and closer to your ultimate goal. my point is simply: your ambition is good in making you reject humdrum "reasonableness," but it's necessarily blinding you to humdrum realities.

that's why ambition has to be a dialectical process, incorporating harsh cynicism in one stroke and then redoubling the desire to overcome it on the other stroke, again and again. if you stay on either side for too long, you stagnate there - ambition easily becomes naivete.

just food for thought anon.

[Anonymous No.9390034]

>>9390008
Read the thread, I don't have time for this retarded shit you worthless dipshit contrarian troll. Community college credits transfer. I'll get there eventually.

[Anonymous No.9390038]

>>9390027
i hope you're indian cuz that's all oracle uses, the execs are all jewish and workers are all indian, it's a dying company that totally missed the shift to cloud services and are trying to play catch up buying mediocre offerings

[Anonymous No.9390045]

>>9390034
well then stop your fucking whining about how the professors at your walmart tier school suck, you get what you pay for faggot

oh god, this sweater i bought at walmart is all scratchy and fits weird plus looks like shit, clearly this makes me qualified to work for gucci

[Anonymous No.9390047]

Tradesman. I was smart and realised that it's easy as fuck to retire young if you a) don't go into higher education unless you know there will be good paying jobs for you, b) never having kids, and c) get a home away from major cities which can literally save you up to 90% of a mortgage. I'm going to be semi retired by the time in 35 and fully retired by the time I'm 40 with enough money to take year long holidays to wherever I want. The beatiful part about being a tradesman is there will always be work for you in every big city and you can literally walk into any firm as a short term contractor so if anything unexpected happens you can easily make great money again.
My only regret is the years I spent as a NEET. If I left high-school and went straight into a trade I would be semi retired right now and owning a home with no mortgage and only a year or two away from retirement.

[Anonymous No.9390050]

I'm a librarian. I really want to move into academic librarianship because I fucking hate the public library.

[Anonymous No.9390053]

>>9390031
Blinding me from what realities? I acknowledged them. I only said that I would still try and accept that I may land lower than I aim. It seems to you, the only acceptable answer to your posts is "Okay I guess I don't want to be an educator in any way shape or form"

God damn you people are fucking retarded contrarian little shits. Let's tell me the same shit I already know a fifth time and then tell me I'm "rejecting the truth of it"

[Anonymous No.9390055]

>>9390050
What's bad about babysitting the homeless?

[Anonymous No.9390056]

>40k a year on grants

jus' chillin tbf

[Anonymous No.9390059]

>>9390055
It's not the homeless that bother me, they're usually polite. It's the fucking disabled people and creepy old men making weird sexual comments towards me, and of course the opinionated middle aged ladies and their stupid Chakra books and crystal healing and "Mindfulness".

[Anonymous No.9390072]

>>9390053
maybe it was lost in translation, but the reality (e.g.) that getting a cool job requires having letters of recommendation from well-situated people - which means you need access to well-situated people. so you need to be thinking of transferring, about an extra year in undergrad or an MA before PhD as time to schmooze with those professors, etc.

those kinds of plans aren't ideal, they are cynical and realistic, so they aren't as exciting or comforting when you are reflecting on your present situation. but in the long run they might take you closer to your real goals.

you should calm down in general though. your us vs. them mentality will insulate you when you hit the painful realisation that most of your competitors aren't only scarily competent, they're genuinely good people, and your "AT LEAST I'M THE ONLY ONE WITH HEART!!!" self-understanding collapses into itself.

[Anonymous No.9390078]

>>9390053

the point is for all the jobs you could "be ambitious over" or "struggle for" this is a fucking retarded one, if you want to teach at a shit tier school work on your networking skills and how to kiss the asses of deans and bureaucrats because that's what matter, not if you can transfer to a mid tier state school after u finish baby college

[Anonymous No.9390083]

>>9390059
your homeless must mostly be the white vietnam vet time not the schitzofrenic black crack head type, those guys are always wackin it to pornos on the public computer, creep city

[Anonymous No.9390090]

>>9390083
I'm Australian. They're just the meth addled dole bludger types. Toothless and tattooed. We do get some aboriginals a bit like you described though.

[Anonymous No.9390093]

>>9390090
>Australian femanon

Sit on me IRL.

[Anonymous No.9390094]

>>9390059
meanwhile stacey's getting fucked by chad and you're missing out.

diddums

[Anonymous No.9390110]

>>9390093
>Being attracted to the worst of all English accents.

[Anonymous No.9390120]

>>9389017
Good job anon, keep it up :-)

[Anonymous No.9390145]

>>9390110
Yeah, I honestly feel we've been fucked over in every way possible by being born Australian. The most anti intellectual western country, shitty internet, everyone hates us, bad accents, terrible climate, lots of deadly spiders and snakes, massive influxes of immigrants.

It sucks.

[Anonymous No.9390149]

>>9390094
Not even going to dignify that with a proper response, but here, have a (you).

[Anonymous No.9390151]

I stock shelves at a library.

[Anonymous No.9390237]

I'm a journalist for the biggest media outlet in my state. I write stories, edit copy, shoot photos and take video.

I'm not going to share where I work though, because I'd rather not be identified on /lit/.

>>9389486
>Journalism
>Useless

Maybe if you don't have a passion for it, or don't want to work in the media.

[Anonymous No.9390275]

I buy steel...

[Anonymous No.9390279]

>>9390145
>Highest minimum wage in the world
>38 work week before overtime kicks in
>Overtime is 1.5 for up to three hours and 2 times after that
>Many industries pay extra for weekend work
Stop whining, you live better than almost anyone else on the planet.

[Anonymous No.9390302]

>>9390279
Yeah but we've lost the overtime and penalty rates recently and our internet is worse than the 3rd world.

[Anonymous No.9390313]

>>9390145
>everyone hates us
all the aussies I ever met were cool

>bad accents
meh, everywhere has grating accents. Ever seen the movie Fargo? or the bongs and basically every accent of theirs other than Received Pronunciation sounds really crap.

[Anonymous No.9390353]

>>9390313
>meh, everywhere has grating accents.
Yes but not all of say American accents are bad. There is literally no a single good Australian one. The very best of them are at best bad, at worst worse than everyone else.

[Anonymous No.9390391]

>>9390353
I think you're being too hard on yourself.

[Anonymous No.9390406]

>>9390391
I'm not Australian nor would I ever want to be with their terrible accent.

[Anonymous No.9390415]

>>9388942
Can you describe what management consulting is exactly?

[Anonymous No.9390438]

>>9390237
I enjoy writing and I'd love to work for the media, but I lack the social skills to find work in that industry--let alone thrive in it. I'm thinking of going into editing while will probably be a tad more comfortable. I also have no connections in this area. I've noticed a lot of those media/journalism jobs are gained through nepotism.

I'm pretty hopeless right now. Hopefully things change for the better.

[Anonymous No.9390445]

>>9389771
Sigh. I remember when I wanted to be a professor or ESL teacher. Reality catches up with one quickly.

[Anonymous No.9390452]

>>9390438
which*

A lot of my problems are self-inflicted though. At one point during school, I was writing for a fast-growing hip-hop outlet and I just lost the passion to produce content for them due to clinical depression. I haven't written for them since April and they're continuing to skyrocket. It's a shame because the editor really liked my work and believed I had the skills to go far in the business.

[Anonymous No.9390462]

>>9389948
You poor, naive thing.

[Anonymous No.9390469]

>>9390445
your fault, retard. If you were worth a thing, you'd be somewhere.

You're lazy. Stop trying to make up for it

[Anonymous No.9390473]

does anyone have any experience with copywriting? is it worthwhile?

[Anonymous No.9390476]

>>9390473
I did it in high school.

Fun, learned a lot of lingo for the newspaper, made me a better grammarian

[Anonymous No.9390501]

>>9390438
>I enjoy writing and I'd love to work for the media, but I lack the social skills to find work in that industry--let alone thrive in it.
I'm introverted as fuck, but force myself to do everything I do. If I could wax for a bit, being a journalist isn't just about social skills. It's about the love of a good story. It's about grammar and spelling and clarity and presentation, but it's also about strong writing.

>I'm thinking of going into editing while will probably be a tad more comfortable.
Start learning AP style if it's news writing.

>I've noticed a lot of those media/journalism jobs are gained through nepotism
Top lel. you're not wrong. My first journalism internship in college got me hooked up with the town paper. Then from there I was the only 20-something-year-old with actual experience in a news room. I like to think I was an easy hire.

>>9390452
YOU GOTTA STICK WITH IT MAN! Media's not dead, but it's changing drastically. Up and coming things like that are what publisher want to get their grubby hands on

[Anonymous No.9390503]

Working with dogs and treating trees for pests, though not simultaneously

[Anonymous No.9390514]

>>9388930
When I read this I literally did a beavis laugh for several seconds

[Anonymous No.9390527]

I'm on disability for mental health. Sucks to be a drain on my country, but at least I have time to work on my poetry.

[Anonymous No.9390549]

I work in a library

[Anonymous No.9390559]

I've been living for the past 5 years with a bohemian-esque group in Brooklyn.

Not necessarily hipsters, although I could see how easy it would be to associate that with us. We have been searching for Pynchon in Manhattan for quite a long time. We've never come across him. We all participate in poetry groups, a couple of us work at a local library, two got to NYU, the rest of us (3) work as freelance writers/journalist for papers.

I spend the majority of my days intoxicated or high on heroin. We are all unfortunate junkies to some extent. The NYU's are in the depths of an opioid addiction. Most days their lives and happiness depend on if they manage to take a shit or not.

The library workers usually stick to weed and are chronic smokers. They stay stoned all the time.

A dear friend of ours died recently. He committed suicide by leaping off the Brooklyn bridge. His mom's had a hard time with him and his father are basically disowned him. He flunked out of uni, became an alcoholic, and eventually disappeared for a week before leaping to his death.

We make it. I'm currently working on a pretty steady column. My reputation is building although my professionalism is poor.

I'm about to make a call to do a pick up. My stash is about to be empty. All I can think about is heroin if I don't have enough heroin. After I get back home with that new stash everything is fine. Once I snort or shoot up, everything is fine. But right after that I am back to worrying about getting more heroin. It's the only reason I write anymore.

I expect to be dead by the end of the year.

[Anonymous No.9390563]

>>9390527
I just try to help people in a similar state, that's enough. (Schizo here.)

[Anonymous No.9390571]

>>9390559
Sad!

[Anonymous No.9390573]

>>9390559
come on dude if you want to write about junkies in the 2000s you have live the life in a rural area, or if you want it to appeal to bourgeois dickheads, maybe a little new england town with an expensive private school stuck in the middle of it, you dudes sound highly inauthentic being presumably white junkies in brooklyn in 2017, give me a fucking break

[Anonymous No.9390580]

>>9390563
Good on you, friend. People like you make a big difference.

[Anonymous No.9390588]

>>9390573

Why would I want to write about junkies?

I've just been writing about food and restaurants for a paper. I don't care to write about junkies. I'm just answering a question as to what I do for a living.

Yes, I am well aware that the severity of the opioid and heroin crises is focused on middle-class white surburban families due to the over prescribing of opioids to patients for minor injuries and undiagnosed issues.

[Anonymous No.9390593]

>>9389895
Lol you're 12 or just socially retarded. Congratulations on your first job, you'll eventually get over the bitterness that comes from realizing you're inferior to everyone despite what mommy told you.

[Anonymous No.9390597]

programming video games. my life feels like i'm a corporate wageslave in a post-cyberpunk novel. desu i don't even like video games anymore. i should have majored in english and been a high school english teacher.

[Anonymous No.9390598]

>>9390593
read the thread nerd, some fag thought he was a genius become some shitty adjunct at his horrible community college didn't have a deep knowledge of whatever entry level shit he happened to get teaching that semester and i was just letting him know he is not in fact a genius, his school just sucks.

[Anonymous No.9390601]

>>9390469
>I bet he thinks he'll teach in Japan.

[Anonymous No.9390602]

>>9388829
N-NEET

[Anonymous No.9390606]

>>9390597
anyone who isn't a fucking retard knows the video game industry is just constant death marches, did you not read anything about the industry while you were in college?

[Anonymous No.9390611]

>>9390601
>maybe if I play it off by insulting him I'll look like I was merely ACTING serious ;)

[Anonymous No.9390617]

oh shit watch out everybody future ESL Professor coming though the thread, what out everybody, this guy just got an 'A' in English 101 at Cumquat County College in Idaho, so step aside plebs! His destiny is to teach ESL and he knows it! Just because you don't have the will power to dream that big does not mean he can't make his big dreams a reality!

[Anonymous No.9390620]

>>9390598
Yeah, he's an idiot, but you're an embarrassment.

[Anonymous No.9390622]

>>9390620
t. adjunct and proud

[Anonymous No.9390628]

>>9390617
Fucking LMAO. This. Plus the fags who read Stoner and want to be professors because it's "comfy."

Go into data entry.

[Anonymous No.9390644]

>>9390622
I knew an adjunct who just cleared 20k in a year. I don't care how much you love something that's not worth it.

[Anonymous No.9390645]

>>9389065
>getting a shitty federal job for 13 years
It must be nice being basically guaranteed a make-work job in the civil service. I would give a tooth for a permanent position giving people passports or checking bags at the airport

[Anonymous No.9390651]

>>9390549
Hey, me too. Sucks right?

[Anonymous No.9390655]

>>9390602
And what does the emperor of arguably the most power emperor on the planet at the time have in common with a NEET?

[Anonymous No.9390656]

>>9390606
of course i did but i wanted to pick a career that was economically viable but still let me """follow my dream""". i picked a safe fucking option instead of having the balls to live cheaply for a few years and make a video game of my own. now the indie game bubble has burst and there isn't a point financially unless i have massive connections with social media / journalists. also, i guess i didnt realize that the aaa game industry in general doesn't legally permit you to release entertainment software while you work for them. its a conflict of interest.

i knew how bad it would be going into the job but kind of blinded myself to what that meant in a day-to-day sort of view.

that said, i'm starting to wean myself off of my materialism (which was the cause of all this pain in some sense). i'm gaining progress on paying off my college debts. maybe in another 5 years or so i can quit and have a little free time before my next job.

[Anonymous No.9390663]

>>9389065
I'm 45, in continuing education for fun, look like a Lego man, and I still fuck them.

You can do anything if you believe.

[Anonymous No.9390668]

>everyone says being a professor is a pipe dream
>nobody goes for it
>spread a bunch of lies and false stats to scare people

Thanks for the job.

[Anonymous No.9390671]

>>9390501
They drilled AP style in our heads in journalism school so it's pretty innate at this point, but I should probably buy a new AP Stylebook since mine was published in 2004.

I had to force myself through the social interactions and interviews during school and my time working at the university newspaper, but I was still able to produce good content. Thanks for the little spark of inspiration. I might start applying for jobs again this week. Maybe with an updated resume and different direction in cover letters I'll be able to find better results. i just wish I had more writing samples. Most of my good ones are before graduation and the recent ones aren't worth sending. I just phoned in those pieces. Nothing that would make readers go "fuck, this is awful," but not nearly as good as work I've written when I actually cared.

[Anonymous No.9390674]

>>9390656
yeah, i feel you, the thing is though a lot of programming jobs suck so working on a product plebs on the street actually heard of must be kind of cool, i like programming but i'm trying to avoid any kind of high stress impossible deadline crap which is not easy, now matter what area

[Anonymous No.9390675]

>>9390415
Making power points presentations about how companies could improve if they fire some people basically.

[Anonymous No.9390691]

>>9390501
Not the guy you're replying to, but conditions where your output fluctuates between 4-story-a-day-manic and can't-even-regurgitate-a-press-release depression really doesn't help when your competition is hypercheerful superachievers. Yes, you can get a lot out of it, but for a lot of people it's highly forced and you will burn out.

I myself have given up on making it as a career - I do have a book coming out next year but the offers are so spotty that I'd have to devote my every waking hour to pitching if I wanted to make more than min. wage.

>>9390438
Don't worry dude - you're far enough in that you could probably secure a PR or marketing job with your portfolio. The nonprofit sector in particular is booming.

[Anonymous No.9390731]

>>9389538
the dream
>>9389771
>>9389872
gl m8, but you are missing a huge blindspot, it's not a meritocracy

[Anonymous No.9390764]

This thread genuinely scares me. I'm attending a top 20 university, but poorly. I got a suspension, my GPA will never be recovered, and the worst is that I will be almost 25 by the time I finish my first year, despite entering at 21.

I have too much anxiety to claim any kind of mental issues to a doctor, let alone participate in school.

I've been clinging onto the idea that I've worked through enough of the anxiousness to at least read and hand in papers.

Is there any hope for me? If I make it through my undergrad with good grades in 3/4 years, do I have a chance at a good master's program?

Should I pursue something else and save myself the time? I have zero connections or social, so I know I will never have access to anything above entry level positions.

[Anonymous No.9390772]

>>9388942
>Attracted to ignorant yuppie scum
I bet you don't even write

[Anonymous No.9390791]

>>9388905
I'm graduating in two weeks, opted not to teach a course this summer because "of course I'll find a job right out of college," now I'm not sure what to do. I'm taking a vacation for three weeks, and hopefully I can land some interviews while I'm gone, but I'm worried I'm gonna get stuck teaching for 30k per year or something equally mediocre.

[Anonymous No.9390798]

>>9390764
how bout you just get your shit together first. If you got into a top 20 school you can certainly buckle down again and get that degree.

[Anonymous No.9390799]

Collect tips by working as a Doorman at a boutique hotel.

Not bad/10

[Anonymous No.9390802]

I work as engineer, but I'll probably be going to get a PhD in physics after this year if I get into a highly ranked place. Work was a mistake. At least I never had any debt and get a good salary.

My job prospects might be worse but real jobs fucking suck. It's like 10 hours a day pissed away that could be spent on something more interesting.

[Anonymous No.9390812]

Wow these threads always depress the shit out of me. Currently debating between going through with a Math degree or switching to Literature. Both would take me too long to complete. My ultimate dream is to write novels but I really don't have clue how anyone does that while maintaining some standard of living anymore. I get good grades but I'll never be good enough at math to do anything special or important with it. Kind of sucks. MFA programs seem so horrible too. There's a dead end at each turn... committing is so damn hard

[Anonymous No.9390823]

>>9390812
Majoring in any humanities field alone is a bad idea financially without the Ivy pedigree.

[Anonymous No.9390840]

gay prostitute not even memeing

[Anonymous No.9390845]

>>9390812
Consider that most writers in the past also kept day jobs. Even the big ones.

[Anonymous No.9390846]

>>9390840
nice, i'm always tempted to get into that line of work but then wimp out

[Anonymous No.9390870]

Fuck, I don't know what's worse, the fact that wageslave life is so shit or the fact that we'll live just long enough to see Universal Basic Income become a thing in about 20-30 years and have wasted our decent years being a wage slave when no one else ever has to deal with it again.

[Anonymous No.9390878]

>>9390870
lol who are these people with full time jobs? everyone i know does random gigs and shit to survive, i'm hella jelly of any fucker with full time job and there aren't many

[Anonymous No.9390899]

>>9390845
I have no problem writing after coming home from a day job. I've actually done it before (only halfheartedly though, I was 20 at the time). I'm just more afraid of not even being able to find a day job if I major in Literature. Does anyone know how difficult it is to get a job doing technical writing?

[Anonymous No.9390907]

>>9390045
>oh god, this sweater i bought at walmart is all scratchy and fits weird plus looks like shit, clearly this makes me qualified to work for gucci
lol

[Anonymous No.9390921]

I have no skills and am socially phobic and would like to read all day. Where should I apply?

[Anonymous No.9390933]

>>9390812
same im probably gonna kill myself in a few yrs

[Anonymous No.9390952]

>>9390870
don't worry. with the way things are going, world war 3 will come soon enough. then we'll all have a driving purpose in our lives

[Anonymous No.9390953]

>>9390846
You could call me an "escort," but it's tomayto, tomahto. I've met some interesting, successful people across a wide range of backgrounds. At this point I can be picky, imo it's best if you have a few people with whom you can build rapport. it won't last after youthful glamor fades though.

[Anonymous No.9390997]

>>9390953
tfw you'll never find a /lit/ qt to rub your feet for free

[Anonymous No.9391000]

>>9389500
What if he only thinks hes collecting money?

[Anonymous No.9391005]

I'm Spider-Man

[Anonymous No.9391023]

>>9390145

I live in Scotland, but I lived in Melbourne for 3 years. You have no clue how lucky you are. You have a great economy, healthcare, weather and pretty much no crime apart from abos. Try living here and you will see how little culture makes up for dreary, relentless depression.

[Anonymous No.9391039]

>>9390878

I remember called laid off from working at Morgan Stanley. I should probably be moving on with my career and getting full time work at another investment bank, but everytime I think about full time work I want to put my head in the oven. I don't think I can do it... I just wanna write and live comfortably enough.

[Anonymous No.9391065]

>>9391039

Fuck I got two posts mixed up there somehow. * I recently

[Anonymous No.9391255]

Work in a textbook Shop

[Anonymous No.9391272]

>>9389500
Not doubting you, but a good portion of people claiming to have a mental illness might not be diagnosed.

[Anonymous No.9391278]

Bouncer.

[Anonymous No.9391322]

leeching off my parents because I refuse to accept taking the dole and I similarly refuse to work at a supermarket. I intend to find myself employment that doesn't make my pride bleed when I am no longer a student

[Anonymous No.9391330]

Script memer
/Laugh at yanks

It's okay but the people are idiots

[Anonymous No.9391339]

Factory line worker.

[Anonymous No.9391359]

I'm a Software Engineer at one of the "big four" tech companies.

[Anonymous No.9391392]

Radiologist.

Love my job. It does take up a lot of my time, but I still have plenty of time to read every day. I just get tired too much.

[Anonymous No.9391395]

hustler

[Anonymous No.9391396]

I'm in online marketing.

It's everything I imagined a comfy office job would be, the only downside is I have to interact with clients.

[Anonymous No.9391398]

Amateur theif in the 3rd world.

Keep travelling in my R.v across many different countries. Stop every once in a while when I gather too much. Steal just enough to keep me going and follow my passion, the acquisition of knowledge. I'm incredibly lonely, and I feel shit morally.

[Anonymous No.9391405]

>>9391398
/lit/ as fuck brah

[Anonymous No.9391431]

Stuck in a shitty, dead end, low paying, boring job.

I seriously can't take it anymore. What should I do?

[Anonymous No.9391453]

>>9391431
quit your job or pucker up
that's all you can do given the information

[Anonymous No.9391464]

>>9391453
>you should either quit or not quit!

good advice my man

[Anonymous No.9391467]

>>9391464
the third option is to kill yourself and I encourage you to take it

[Anonymous No.9391468]

>>9391431

Just quit man. I worked a shit job for two years then quit when I got a much better one. I got laid off the better one after 3 months but it made realise how pointless it was have to have put up with the shit one. Happier on the dole now.

[Anonymous No.9391482]

>>9391453
>>9391468
What do I do when I quit? I'm not particularly qualified, and finding a better job will be very tough.

I've flirted with "quitting the system" but it just seems like a romantic fantasy.

[Anonymous No.9391483]

I left uni early cos I hated it and am now a prison officer.

[Anonymous No.9391498]

>>9391398
Elaborate

[Anonymous No.9391518]

I'm a math major doing horribly in linear algebra and physics 2. After reading tons of these threads, and realizing that im basically retarded compared to the rich kid elite group, kind of wished i started a trade earlier in life, im 27.

Is the academic industry really that fucked up and hard to do anything in? DESU should have been an English major working at Starbucks and living the /lit/ life am i right?

Should i pursue the degree? at this point the only thing i know for sure i can do is become a math professor at a low level school if im lucky.

Can i get advice from an anon that attends a good non CC school please. I literally have no one to ask questions, im stuck in classes with people you guys have been discussing the "im to smart because im getting better grades than everyone here" type people at my CC, that or the polar opposite "fuck smart people im part of the cool crowd" i hate life desu, because it sucks so much but i keep telling myself its worth it.

no job, 27, spent my life trying to get tihs degree and i still havent transferred yet. help pls?

AMA

[Anonymous No.9391528]

>>9391482
What are you working as? The obvious answer is to gain qualifications, maybe learn a trade. No one gains from sticking around in retail

[Anonymous No.9391539]

>>9391498
>got orphaned when I was 11
>ran away from the orphanage at 13
> lived as a peddler a few years.
>got incorporated into a child gang
>was taught how to steal
>I loved reading books, so I used to steal a few every time we raised a house.
>backstabbed the gang when 17
>been on the move ever since, as a mobile library.
>not a stable source of income
>start stealing

I hate it. I'm gathering money for a house and some land, so I can raise my own crops and live a peaceful life.

[Anonymous No.9391583]

I teach math and science at a junior/middle school.
The pay is ok, 60.000 $ a year.

[Anonymous No.9391611]

>>9391539
Write a fictional biography when shit settles if you can stomach it, normies would eat that trash up

[Anonymous No.9391629]

Doing my master thesis and work part time at a media agency

[Anonymous No.9391632]

Review opera and ballet.

[Anonymous No.9391633]

>>9391518
With a math degree you should be able to do plenty of things. The easiest would be to teach yourself a bit of programming and go into IT. In some fields, like machine learning, your having a math degree might even be seen as a plus.

[Anonymous No.9391678]

>>9390047
What trade? I was thinking of electrics for a while

[Anonymous No.9391682]

>>9390275
Then what

[Anonymous No.9391686]

>>9390503
Living the dream, what tree pests do you deal with

[Anonymous No.9391688]

>>9391518
Do you even like math? You know, doing it and all that?

[Anonymous No.9391721]

>>9388829
Literally going to be putting resumes out today. Only looking for a simple job, full-time, minimum wage is acceptable. Just something to pay the bills, put some food on my plate, and let me drink from time to time. All the while I'll continue writing. I'm making a LITTLE bit of money, and as I continue to write I will continue to make more. I figure I can be a full-time author in 1-2 years. I don't have much in the way of expenses; I could literally live quite comfortably on $15,000 a year. That's $1250 per month or $625 bi-weekly, which I think is probably LESS than minimum wage. That's living well. I can easily survive on less than that. So with a minimum-wage job along with the small additional income of my writings, I'll definitely be saving money. Makes a big difference in being a non-smoker. All I really do is drink, or have a little toke if others are smoking pot around me. I don't even drink as much as I used to. The way I used to drink, I probably wouldn't have made it to 50 years old if I kept going that way.

[Anonymous No.9391722]

I work as a paralegal in the prosecution's office, no degree.. Thinking of doing a law degree because I would love to be a prosecutor, but I'm worried it's too late

[Anonymous No.9391772]

92Y
Used to pump gas. Now I'm manager-kun to independent contractors that deliver drugs pharmacies

[Anonymous No.9391780]

92Y
Used to pump gas. Now I'm manager-kun to independent contractors that deliver drugs to pharmacies. Spend half the work day writing science fiction after everyone is gone to make their rounds

[Anonymous No.9391784]

>>9391780
Cozy.

[Anonymous No.9391881]

State policeman. Great job, fun, meet some scum, meet some great folks.

[Anonymous No.9391927]

>>9388909
Literary translator?

[Anonymous No.9391937]

>>9389611
Sounds pretty comfy

[Anonymous No.9391971]

>>9390791
You should have taught it at least for the experience/extra CV padding.

[Anonymous No.9392028]

>>9391482

Why will finding as better job be hard? If your current job is really bad it shouldn't be hard.

[Anonymous No.9392054]

NEETbux. Autism, OCD, agoraphobia, panic disorder.
>tfw leech
I just want to live. I hate myself for being defective.

>>9389017
<3

[Anonymous No.9392067]

>>9390008
loans are the worst idea. I think you're the dummy here, anon

[Anonymous No.9392118]

>>9389538
how is it? I kinda I could live like this but idk

[Anonymous No.9392156]

>>9389977
You in Melbourne?

It must be tough....

[Anonymous No.9392160]

>>9392118
Despite maintaining a stable revenue,I'm really anxious about losing the money.
And the family keeps nagging me.
Otherwise it's pretty nice.
Except for the nightmares I have.

[Anonymous No.9392168]

Recent graduate. I'm probably going to teach abroad and write in my free time. After that I'll apply for graduate schemes or bite the bullet and become a teacher, hopefully for a comprehensive.

I feel like I'd be happy working a mediocre job so long as I get published in some capacity

[Anonymous No.9392170]

>>9389986
Underrated as fuck.

[Anonymous No.9392171]

>>9392168
>comprehensive
I mean *grammar school

[Anonymous No.9392186]

>>9390559

kys

[Anonymous No.9392190]

>>9390691
>conditions where your output fluctuates between 4-story-a-day-manic and can't-even-regurgitate-a-press-release depression really doesn't help when your competition is hypercheerful superachievers. Yes, you can get a lot out of it, but for a lot of people it's highly forced and you will burn out.

Yeah man, this is exactly what I'm going through. It's hell. It's one of the reasons why I want to still stay in the industry but switch to editing. A PR or marketing job would be nice and cushy and it seems like even those are saturated with hypercheerful superachievers who employers would prefer over me.

[Anonymous No.9392196]

>>9388829
IM UNEMPLOYED, BITCH

[Anonymous No.9392221]

I pretend to study at a university

[Anonymous No.9392262]

Peace Corps volunteer living in the Madagascar countryside. Have the ability to read for hours on end every day and still get my work (agriculture and health promoter) done. Shame it's only a two year program

[Anonymous No.9392287]

>>9391721
Oh yeah. I'm a scaffolder by trade but I don't want to be at that. VERY physically demanding, I'd be driven to exhaustion most every day, typically at least 50 hours a week, great paying but it would really cut down on my writing.

[Anonymous No.9392303]

>>9392170
But schizophrenia is not – in spite of the common belief – the multiple personality disorder.

Hence it’s just a so-so post.

[Anonymous No.9392305]

>>9390663
You're yellow and blocky? I can think of one girl who'd like that

[Anonymous No.9392333]

>>9392303
I'm probably the only one. I just post a lot, because I have no job.

[Anonymous No.9392366]

>>9391780
Looks like the set of my favorite porn, Casting Chair

[Anonymous No.9392405]

>>9392366
Wow. Didn't think anyone would notice.
Come on in. Have a seat. We have many positions available

[Anonymous No.9392522]

>>9390145
kill yourself

[Anonymous No.9392540]

>>9390302
for what? call of duty? fuck off

[Anonymous No.9392570]

I manage a mail order pharmacy. I work for an hour or two and read the other 6 hours of the day.

[Anonymous No.9392603]

Physician, working with junkies and mental patients. Trying to get into a psychiatry residence and if that fails, at least get a master on psychology.

[Anonymous No.9392608]

>>9389500
LEL
>you can't pretend to have a mental illness! Psychs have this eyes called the sharingan that can actually SEE the mental disorder of people, No kiding!

Lel, lel and more lel.
All those faggots should be diagnosed with identity problems or drug addiction and then be left to die instead.

What a way to wastes society resources, on the self-centered idiots who lie to themselfs to appear more interesting and avoid facing the fact that they're not only parasites, but grey, plain, delusional characters that no one will miss.

[Anonymous No.9392631]

>>9388936
Quel coin? Happy to encounter a bro.

[Anonymous No.9392637]

>>9388942
My man

[Anonymous No.9392652]

lol this thread makes me feel way better about myself thanks /lit/

[Anonymous No.9392658]

>>9389264
Ayy are you forreal or are you trying to bait me (/lit/'s resident datacuck) into replying?

[Anonymous No.9392675]

>>9390237

Yo, my man wanna hook me up with a job? I've spent time writing about games (ie reviewing actual review copies for shitty blogs) but I'm at a dead end. Currently working in marketing for a creative agency but I'd much rather work in the game industry.

[Anonymous No.9392678]

>>9392570
Sell me drugs

[Anonymous No.9392685]

>>9390656

>now the indie game bubble has burst

I'd love to get your opinion about why that is. I've been thinking about it quite a bit recently. I mean, what the fuck happened?

[Anonymous No.9392687]

>>9389538
interested in letting a qt trap steal your money and heart?

[Anonymous No.9392710]

>>9392678
Pretty difficult to get something worthwhile. C2s will end up getting me fired. C3s are easy but don't have anything fun.

[Anonymous No.9392725]

>>9392675
I don't know how I'd do that, dude. We don't really cover vidya. We're just general news. If you have a passion for reporting, and are decent with multimedia (InDesign, Photoshop, Premiere), then you're already ahead of most journalists.

Get yourself a camera, a job at the local paper and cut your teeth on local news. That's usually how journalists get into big news rooms, you work your way up.

Maybe brush up on your PR skills as well, which I'm sure you have if you do marketing. This ain't a one trick pony show anymore, as I'm sure you know.

[Anonymous No.9392752]

>>9392725

>Get yourself a camera, a job at the local paper and cut your teeth on local news.

Good advice but I don't think it'll happen. I did some work experience for my local paper shortly after university and they'd already culled more than half their staff the week before I started. Made it sound completely cutthroat.

I admire anybody who makes it in the game.

[Anonymous No.9392768]

>>9392303
Shut up, it's still funny

[Anonymous No.9392776]

>>9392752
>I did some work experience for my local paper shortly after university and they'd already culled more than half their staff the week before I started.

That's the way many local papers are going, unfortunately. They'll subsist, but with half the staff doing twice the work.

>I admire anybody who makes it in the game.
The business is cutthroat as fuck right now. I mean, it's always been incredibly competitive, but not like this. That's why you have to be a multimedia journalist these days, and not just a writer or a photographer.

There's still room in this world for good, solid journalism, it's just we're being crowded out right now by small outlets and shit heads.

Also, the pay is surprisingly good if you can be that one trick pony.

[Anonymous No.9392862]

>>9392303
i thought the implication is that the schizo is you and you're just imagining it all.

[Anonymous No.9392875]

I´m studying psychology after spending 2 years on Civil Engineering and failing miserably,
I see no future in Psi, since i have zero motivation for it. I just enrolled to please my parents.
Iñ want to drop out and go to another country to teach a language. Or killing myself. The latter seems to be easier.

[Anonymous No.9392881]

NEET since being fired from my last job.
Dropped out of uni a few years ago.
I've got an interview for railroad conductor job later this week.

[Anonymous No.9392898]

Postgrad in Urban theory. I don't even get replies from employers begging for people in my field. Stuck in a call centre with other depressed people who can't believe they ended up here

[Anonymous No.9392905]

>>9392898
What the fuck even is urban theory?

[Anonymous No.9392922]

>>9389986
Kek.

[Anonymous No.9392926]

>>9392905
City planning essentially. It has applications, I'm just too mediocre to find a career in it

[Anonymous No.9392929]

>>9392926
Oh right, I thought it was studying ebonics and hip hop

[Anonymous No.9392930]

>>9392875
thats so strange i knew a person just like you who I had a suspicion browsed /lit/. If you are that person, and even if you're not, dont kys anon. Choose life.

[Anonymous No.9392934]

>>9392926
Well shit, I rub elbows with your types all the time in my line of work (journalist). City planners, civil engineers, etc. God do I hate writing about zoning.

>>9392929
I actually thought this too

[Anonymous No.9392942]

>>9392934
how the fuck do i get a job in journalism? is it worth it? im in school for it but I keep feeling like ill graduate with no job prospects.

[Anonymous No.9392946]

>>9390953
How much to drag your balls across my back?

[Anonymous No.9392978]

Just finished Uni in December. Have been adhering to a strict alcohol regimen ever since. Working on getting a job building cell phone towers with my cousin.

[Anonymous No.9392987]

>>9392930
I doubt i´m that person.
I´m practically in a dead end now. The only way out is to start from scratch far from where i´m now, but it all seems too far-fetched.
And i´ve tried suicide before and felt nothing. Only frustration that it wasn´t working

[Anonymous No.9392996]

>>9392942
See >>9392725

Another piece of advice I have yet to give is this: Internships, internships, internships. I cannot stress this enough. Get a camera, start working at your campus paper, take some photos, go to your local paper and say: "I was wondering if you have any openings for interns? Here is my resume, cover letter and some clips."

What I'd do, to get a leg up on anyone else trying to get a job in the media your age, is to start attending municipal government meetings. City council, work sessions etc. Read the news as often as you can and start writing your own stories. That'll shine up your clip file. Start learning to write press releases and other PR bullshit.

You also NEED to be able to work InDesign, Photoshop and other professional programs. It's not just about being a writer or a photographer anymore, unfortunately.

>is it worth it?
That depends entirely on whether or not you have a love for the craft. Like most professions, the hours are long, the pay is shitty (depending on where you work) and people don't like you the minute you tell them you work for the media.

But if you love concise prose, the chase of a good story, the rigors of grammar (and AP style), the art of presentation...then I think you're good to go.

[Anonymous No.9393013]

>>9392934
I'd love a job like that, it's mind numbing but at least it's away from the dregs of socety I normally have to engage with

[Anonymous No.9393023]

>>9392710
I need Gabapentin but can't afford a doctor anytime soon

[Anonymous No.9393024]

>>9393013
In city planning? I have no doubt it's good work -- good money too. Hell I was just about to call my cities planner for a story I'm writing.

>but at least it's away from the dregs of socety I normally have to engage with
Kind of, yeah. You'd still have to go to city council meetings, and spend weeks preparing the most bland proposals to expand the city or reclassify parcels of land. I'd imagine it's the type of work where you get really into your hobbies after 5 p.m. hits.

[Anonymous No.9393027]

>>9389137
listen to the modern lovers it's pretty good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujwAUbRa4cs

[Anonymous No.9393034]

>>9391682
just admire it usually

[Anonymous No.9393087]

>>9391722
theres a couple of 30-35 year olds in my class.

t. 1L at T14 school.

[Anonymous No.9393115]

>>9392946
nothing unless ur fat

[Anonymous No.9393120]

>>9391583
do you teach in a wealthy or poor school district?

[Anonymous No.9393126]

>>9391359
how intense is your job? all of the people I know who work for google or facebook are high functioning workaholics but they have chronic stress

[Anonymous No.9393178]

>>9390921
Night security guard.

[Anonymous No.9393192]

Retail cuck

I have no degree/skills, so i'm stuck. Honestly don't know what to do. Been doing this for two years and don't know how to get out, or even if i could get out where to go. Every career i've researched seems unappealing.

Wish i could get on neetbux

[Anonymous No.9393244]

>>9388829
Unpaid intern at a major news organization in my country. I also do have a part time security gig, but I barely get hours so I don't really consider it a job. Hopefully I can get something in the industry out of this internship, even a casual position.

[Anonymous No.9393307]

>>9393192
teach yourself to be a mediocre programmer and get a web developer job

easiest way to make a decent living without a degree IMO

[Anonymous No.9393380]

>>9392687
No

[Anonymous No.9393510]

>>9393307
Which languages do you recommend?

[Anonymous No.9393603]

>>9393510
Javascript for webdev
Java and C++ otherwise

[Anonymous No.9393837]

>>9391688
yeah i do, but i hate how teachers are basically failing you because you do not learn it their way. I have a current professor who is (imo) outrageous with the way he teaches that im spending more time trying to learn how he wants me to learn the topic instead of learning the topic itself. Very frustrating, people in the field of math can get really pretentious sometimes. It's like chill man you're no Isaac Newton.

>>9391633
>The easiest would be to teach yourself a bit of programming and go into IT
I've heard this a lot and i guess there is no way from getting around it, math is just handcuffed to IT. Might as well, if it will give me better chances to landing a job. Getting a comfy job in IT would be okay i guess, i just do not want a job that consumes my life, just enough to eat and live with the basic essentials, i do not need a super fancy house or car. Time, now that's what i want lol.

how to time travel /lit/?

[Anonymous No.9394648]

>>9393510
if you learn this:

HTML & CSS
JavaScript
either Java or PHP (personally I would go for Java because PHP is trash)

You will be able to get a web dev job pretty much anywhere.

[Anonymous No.9394656]

>>9394648
to clarify the Java/PHP is so you can do backend as well as frontend―this will make you a lot more desirable