I'm finally starting my first full time job, will I still be able to play very long games? How do you guys do it? I love really long JRPGs
I'm finally starting my first full time job, will I still be able to play very long games? How do you guys do it?
Sacrifice sleep hours
If you play games like rpgs that have 40+ hours of play time, expect to not finish them in less than a month.
is right to a degree. If you want to play games like you used to you will have to sacrifice something.
>Sleep
>Personal relationships
>Other hobbies
You have to give them up if you want to play games like before.
>Personal relationships
>implying anyone who has a social life should be posting on here
Congrats, you just regained 2-3 hours of your day! ...sometimes. You can still forget about your 10 hour long JRPG binges.
Yeah many here do because it's being infested by normalhomosexuals from discord these past few years
People have been claiming this since like 2009, the boogeyman just moved to discord
I am a normie with a family and I've been here for a long time
long enough to download that image twice, damn
Don't do this it costs 20 IQ points
>his IQ is so low he can't sacrifice measly 20 points for not wasting hours of life
I find that I enjoy my day less when I don't get good sleep on top of being less functional, it's more of a mood thing for me.
I get good sleep because I'd rather enjoy my time awake as much as possible, even if sleeping blows quite a lot of time and I wish I didn't have to.
Depending on what his life and work are like do 20 extra iq points really matter?
Don't need iq to work or to play video games
>food taking almost as much time as sleep
I don't get this meme. Even if you insist on cooking elaborate meals every day, it only takes a 1-2 hour weekly shopping trip and 45 minutes max of prep and cleanup. You can play vidya while you wait for stuff to heat up, and also play it while you eat. If you live alone, your prep and cleanup are drastically reduced, and if you live with others, they can (and should) help you.
It doesn't take much time at all
I don't think those are supposed to be scientifically measured proportions
>I don't get this meme. Even if you insist on cooking elaborate meals every day (...)
only NEET morons state such moronation
It's meant to be an abstraction because he didn't want to have like 15 little slices called "Pooping" or "Talking to my b***h of a sister" and all that other tedious shit you have to do after work I think.
That said, it's still bullshit since if you're working a normal job, you have about 5-6 hours each night (depending on how long your commute to/from work is) to do whatever.
If you're somehow losing ALL of that 5 hours to everyday chores every single night then there's something else going wrong here (like you have extreme OCD or something and have to spend 3.5 hours sorting, checking and re-checking your pencils every night or some shit like that).
>he doesn't baby every meal in the smoker
Cringe and apartment-pilled
>not just smoking it on a fire grill on your balcony and pissing everybody off
>45 minutes max for prep and cleaning
Bruh what the frick are you making that goes that fast? Unless it's fricking eggs, it will take an hour AT BEST and more so depending on what it is and how much is it.
I buy packs of chicken breasts, cook 4 at a time. That shit takes me like two hours.
If I let it thaw a little more to where it's practically fresh, it might be like 1hr30. Maybe a bit less.
4 chicken breast takes you 90 minutes? I mostly make soup, that takes me about 3.5>4 hours. But then I freeze all my extra portions, I cook enough for like 20 meals at a time.
Also works great for homemade pasta sauces, then you just cook pasta to pair with it. Same with shit like lasagna, Shepard pie, meatloaf etc. Don't cook one, cook four or six at once depending on size
That's what I do. I cook 4 chicken breasts, and eat the proper servings with eggs and either spaghetti or rice for dinner. It can last me a bit, probably 4 or more days.
Way larger portions saves you more time. Imagine you're feeding 20 people every time you cook, investing in a big freezer is great for this. Saves a lot of time and money from bulk buying
>sacrificing sleep to play J"RPG" slop
ISHYGDDT
>his ADD brain can only light up when button mashing
Yes
>Sacrifice social hours
fixed.
Don't sacrifice sleep.
only homosexual normies like you have social hours
This. I feel terrible waking up every day but I still go to sleep at 2am.
cool dementia recipe, bro
This. Take amphetamines and stay up for many days at a time. In a few years you will have conquered your backlog and will be up to speed with vidya as a whole.
How do I get those?
Just pace it. I beat an 80 hour JRPG over a month recently. Completely doable.
^This
You have to autistically focus on one game at a time for however many hours a day you can spare, otherwise you'll never beat anything.
yeah pretty much
if you try to bounce around and do a bunch of different shit you'll never finish anything
put autistic focus into one or two things
have one game you're doing
have one other hobby/skill you're learning
rest of your time is for self-maintenance, work, and socializing
Yep, put in 50 hours of persona 3 reload, 40 in unicorn overlord so far this year and I work full time, commute like several hours a week, and work out 3x a week. I have plenty of time
You've gamed less this whole year than I do on an average week.
That's not the brag you think it is
I get like 2-3 hours a day at night. Work from 9-5 or whatever. Cook, do some chores. Maybe it is 8 at that point? Browse this shithole for sn hour, then play game until like 12?
Thats my schedule at least.
When I was working, I mainly sticked to roguelites and roguelikes, I would always play those after dinner. Now that I'm jobless, I picked up a fighting game in hopes that I can be good at it with all the spare time I have.
I used to work from 9-6, I would shower, and eat dinner. It would already be 8 by the time I hop on. I would go to bed at 10. I played with my Steam Deck during lunch at noon. Now it's just collecting dust.
Being a NEET fricking sucks. It's only been 2 weeks, and I'm already sick of being in my room. I want a job.
It is so difficult to find one. How are you supposed to "look" for that specific job?
It'll have "remote" or "hybrid" position in the listing.
>Being a NEET fricking sucks. It's only been 2 weeks, and I'm already sick of being in my room. I want a job.
I got furloughed for 3 months during the start of COVID. I was pumped to play all they vidya I could but after a week of just drinking and watching TV and gaming I wanted to die.
I've heard of lots of people like you because of COVID, meanwhile I was neet for 18 months after graduating and I'd give anything to go back.
>I was neet for 18 months after graduating
I wanted to know someone like you. Were you questioned about those 18 months when job hunting? What did you answer and how did they took that?
god i fricking hate subhuman normalgay Black folk like you who need their beloved outside and somehow get bored with all the shit you can do at home
Don't know why you'd hate someone for that. I'm a meet but I can acknowledge people are just BUILT different
>hating cattle WRONG
2 weeks?
It took me at least 2 years to even have a day where I wanted something else.
Been neeting 4 months. Didn't affect me
It'll hit you eventually, I'd say the thing that staves it off best is having strong hobbies or meaningful things you can do beyond just playing videogames or watching things, if you don't have something like that you should try and find one now.
Have been a NEET for a solid year and it was glorious. Although working my IT Job is interesting at times, I feel like if you have the grit to actually dedicate time to learning a new skill without being forced to it is way superior to working.
I hate that I am forced to work to live. I'd rather just work 2 or 3 days instead of 5.
This is the reasonable take. 40 hour work week is too much.
>Being a NEET fricking sucks. It's only been 2 weeks, and I'm already sick of being in my room. I want a job.
Depends on your job and your pay
Working a shitty manual labor job with fricking moronic misfit coworkers, having to deal with people all day, for a miserable pay, no thanks. Id rather be a NEET
Good goys
I played Persona 3 Reload on my steamdeck. We have a policy at work that if your shit is getting done they dont care about what you do in your downtime
What job do you have? That sounds cool that corporate doesn't give a shit when stuff is done.
I dont work in corporate, I work in an agency as a developer. I dont make as much as I should at my skill level but theres pretty much zero bs in my life, my manager will give me fridays off if we have nothing to do.
>We have a policy at work that if your shit is getting done they dont care about what you do in your downtime
man i used to have a job like that, i completed shit load of games on my psp and 3ds that way, and when switch released me and my colleagues used to play fifa on it. We also had bbq and tekken 5dr/6 tournaments on psp every time we had to work on saturdays
homie i played hunt showdown for 71 hours in the past two weeks, you'll be fine.
Good luck anon
Growing up, you have all the time in the world, but no money. The amount of games you can play are limited by the means to acquire them.
You then grow up. The money is no longer an issue, it's now the time. The amount of games you can play are now limited by time, not money.
Getting cheap games no longer has meaning because you have to ask yourself "are they worth my *TIME*"
>You then grow up. The money is no longer an issue
Anon has a point, the money becomes an issue if you are too much of a poorgay to maintain yourself.
>keep buying games as they release
>spend hundreds on steam sales
>never get around to playing them
I have games I bought over a year ago I haven't even started once. If I start a game to get to the main menu, that's at least some progress.
Get on my level anon, I've bought games half a decade ago or more that I have yet to touch
I swear I'll start Record of Agarest war one of these days
Priorities sleep over games. Nothing is worse than waking up for an 8 hour shift without enough sleep. You're drained just walking out the door and the day takes way longer.
I sleep 6 hours during the week and recover during the weekend. It's fine really
My work schedule is so fricked I am getting maybe an hour or two at night towards the end of the week. I hate these frickers so much and I need to find a new job.
Yes.
You just do it like I did as a kiddo:
2-3 hours a day, across multiple weeks, or rather months. It honestly feels pretty nice to have something to return to each day.
I honestly was shocked that some people binge speedrun through their games within a single week or so nowadays. Sounds like a waste.
even worse are wagies who binge through the game on easy and skip cutscenes because "they just want to see the ending".
>come home from work
>5pm
>ready to play some vidya
>sit down and browse Gankerg for a bit
>holy frick it's 10pm
>haven't even opened a game
>time for bed
why not just be a neet? you can play all the vidya you want
I was on unemployment for 1 year and self employed with almost zero work hours for 2 years but was forced back to work due to debts
Being a NEET isn't really an option for most people, and as good as it is in some respects it does come with tradeoffs depending on how you do it.
my desire for suicide was at its highest as a neet
If you become a neet, you also develop mental disorders and are more likely to off yourself. It's great for a few months but not worth it long term.
AI is going to turn everyone into a neet eventually. So we better buckle up.
>ai is going to do your laundry and feed you
worthless meatbags will just be purged, and as a neet you will have 0 ways to defend yourself
>more likely to off yourself
Even if it is true that's just because wageslaves have no determination to actually an hero.
Not everyone has an enabler.
Personally I've been NEETing for about 15 years and still have no desire to work. Shit's a scam and there is no longer a reward for being a productive member of society.
My country is slavic and we don't get comfy neetbux
I can't even fathom how NEETs are able to survive let alone afford things like Internet in the current economy. Rent alone eats through people's paychecks every single month and that's before everything else starts hitting like car payments and groceries.
Where does a NEET get the money to live by themselves and play vidya all day?
most just leech of their parents, the extra mentally ill ones get on gibs
the only thing that's mentally ill is working for a country that hates you and openly wants to replace you.
This is what NEETs don't tell you because it reveals they were already living on easy mode.
inheritance, mooching off parents, roommates, terrible low cost apartments or getting extremely lucky with low income housing, possible several of the above combined.
I was a NEET until 25. Hated my life, I did nothing but play shit like X-COM 2 for 10 hours a day. When I started taking online classes and working on myself I finally started to get it, all the stuff I did at home was just distractions from the reality of my life. I never really enjoyed games until they became a side focus instead of the primary focus of my life. Everyone should try to be a NEET for atleast 2 years so they can see the reality of it.
Sure, but there's nothing meaningful for me to do with my time but work on indie game dev, which I suck at, going to work to fill someone else's pockets and make chump change in exchange for most of my functional time is meaningless.
You don't have to work for anyone, if you're an aspiring indie dev you could easily turn that into a job. I was really interested in numbers and became a public accountant and bought an office space. Working with the public is the best thing a former NEET can do, I've made so many friends and gained empathy.
>Working with the public is the best thing a former NEET can do
Sounds like literally the worst thing I could do, I already have plenty of empathy and it's easy enough to socially drain me.
>if you're an aspiring indie dev you could easily turn that into a job
Sure, but if I'm lucky that's in maybe five years or more, I know nothing and have next to no resources and only a small handful of connections, one of which is admittedly fairly good.
I was a neet up until 22, I won't to go back. I was finally starting to become productive with my free time before it all ended
I am a 25 year old neet who has never worked and I only really realized that after I kept going "yeah nothing new to say" to my therapist every week
I literally just don't do anything, I don't even beat any games I just drop them
I need a job
all these anons talking shit about neet life when all they did when they were a neet is spend all their time consuming. being a neet is better than slaving away all your time working for some company. you literally have all the time in the world to do whatever you want. make music, art, a game, an app, whatever you wanna make you have time to learn to do it which can lead to bigger things than slave waging ever could.
You do, but you have to have a very strong work ethic or time management skills and have to be very good about getting to doing things like that up front as soon as you can or else you'll languish and develop poor habits and get to the point where you waste 90% of your time not even playing videogames or watching things. Ironically, initiative and order help a lot to bring to a NEET lifestyle.
I like how her head, hands and the shirt aren't really that detailed, but the Black person went full on realism mode on the skirt.
Unpopular opinion, but if you become depressed as a NEET, it is a skill issue. Not using it as a buzzword, but I mean it literally. You fricked up. You stopped exercising and started playing vidya and watching youtube all day instead of spending some time doing boring but productive things, but on your own terms. You failed and it's your fault. If you're not a weak-willed moron that just indulges in hedonism until it becomes boring, neetdom is amazing.
>spending some time doing boring but productive things
Why not get a job where you get aid to do boring but productive things?
And if you're freelancing, you're not a neet, you're a stereotypical starving artist
Honestly I think this is the best option for most people, but absolutely not full time. 40 hours is overkill. Even two days a week 16 hours is enough to reset your enjoyment for when you want to be a hedonist. I think it's the most balanced and worthwhile way to be a semi-NEET without the depression.
Same, to save time i also turn on you tube vids i wanted to see in the backround to games like crusader king or turn based strategies
Hell yeah brother, I do all my show watching while playing TBS/4X
>me, 27, wagie, working 9 to 6
>If i play videogames i got tired because i dont realize that is already 11 pm
>wake up at 6:30 am feeling tired as frick
>meanwhile, a younger me (15 years old) could play from 4pm to 2am, sleep 4 hours and wake up fresh as lettuce.
ageing sucks
>9 to 6
What the frick
8 hour shift and mandatory 1 hour unpaid lunch in the middle.
>mandatory 1 hour unpaid lunch in the middle.
Perhaps you should invest in a laptop
I'm just responding for them. I work from home and am playing games on the clock as we speak.
NEXT GUY
It’s been like over a month since P3R came out? I’m still only in August which is near the halfway point?
how many hours have you played though?
save file say 36 hours, the only other game i played aside from doing gacha dailies is last epoch which i spent about 15 hours or so on
Only play on weekends now.
But I didn't play all that much when I was a NEET. Something would be interesting enough to invest most of my time on for a few days, and then I'd spend a month or two without really playing anything for longer than 1 hour or 2 a day at best.
Holy frick, I'm basically exactly the same.
Either something actually really interests me or I'll only dabble in things while doing nothing of consequence for weeks.
It drives me up a wall.
Play plot and story heavy games like disco elysium or your turn to die. You obviously dont care about gameplay
I care plenty about gameplay.
The games I stick to the longest I stick to for the gameplay far after the story or whatever window dressing garbage is gone.
Your analysis is almost exactly opposite of correct, story shit doesn't last past a first play of something, it's what people who play and dump games are attracted to.
You can't play games thst have daily shit at all. They're a waste of your spirit.
I can't think of any case where daily shit has been worth interacting with even as a NEET
It is hell.
Now that I have to wagecuck (and invest some of my free time every day anyways on work as well, almost to make up for something) I'd like to play some stuff but I'm not really desperate for anything. I've been playing lost judgment and instead of taking me a couple of days or 3, it took me a fricking month.
I find it to be the opposite. I usually play star rail and do the it's dailies on the 15 minute bus ride to work and forget about the game till the next day. Then maybe during lunch or in the evening I do some progression stuff or just not play at all.
It's a comfy pace
It's easy when you have no life stuff beside your job.
Yes, but I really suggest you "rotate" between two to three games. I used to try to focus on one game for like 2-3 hours a night and I would just get burned out and drop games halfway through. So now like, Monday I'll play X then Tuesday I'll play Y, Wednesday, Z, etc.
I already have a job, 2 to 9, next Monday im going to start college 8 to 12, will I have any life for next 5 or so years?
I work from 14h-23h and the only cut I had to do was sleep less but that's cause I was used to sleep 10h/day I just cut to 8h/day and I have 3-4h free counting the shores I have to do since I live alone (like cooking) I usually have about 3h free to game (I don't have any other hobbies or irl friends) so its doable
not quite a full time job, but I'm in law school so at school generally around 6 and a half hours a day + an hour or two of reading. After that I work out for an hour, cook usually for a half hour to an hour, and play video games for three or four hours. It can work, I'm already 28 hours into unicorn overlord.
I want to return to that sweet NEET life...
How to become NEET? Just beg parents for money?
>work from home long before pandemic
>get work done early, but don't send it right away
>play vidya
>send work
>play vidya
>wife comes home from daycare with kid
>pretend I'm on a call/working late
>actually playing vidya
>log off
>make dinner, put kid to bed
>play vidya while wife watches TV or reads
I make it work
You're a cuck and that child isn't yours
She is tho. My wife is also a shut-in with one whole friend she barely sees.
I play everything. I get addicted to fighting games and RPGs the most.
Then give your wife and kid more attention your dipshit
Is it Eve online?
I still remember someone claiming here they could pretty much freely play it at work and nobody in company figured out its not the stonkmarket open.
Nice. What kind of job did you get
Of course but you will have to split it into more, short sessions. I still regularly play 60-120h long games but it takes up to 3-4 months to "finish" them. This is actually beneficial - I don't complain about lacking games to play or don't buy games in large amounts frequently, instead enjoy what I have for quite long time. It can however lead to some sort of burnout due to prolonged, repeatable actions but I can always switch genres afterwards to counter the effect.
The key is to cut your commute time to the minimum.
I don't expect anyone to do it like me but I'm 5min away from work.
It's a standards 9 to 5 with a one hour break at noon during which I use the time to do basic grocery shopping at a discount supermarket nearby.
I wake up at 8:45, jump in some pants and drive to work.
Pretty much at 5pm I'm back home and I've got about 8hrs of time before falling asleep around 1am.
I waste maybe 20minutes to cook and eat, in which I throw slabs of meat with butters and frozen veggies in a pan. For snacks it's mostly nuts and beers (yeah I know).
I go ham on weekends and according to my steam account I've got 80hrs played the past 2 weeks, so yeah it's possible. Some NEET friends I have play less than me because they waste all their day on the chan or youtube or being depressed I dunno.
Being a neet actually sucks ass and I say this cause I was one and now I'm a wagie, having something to look foward after work is a good thing and you don't burn out for playing the same game for long sessions
Didn't suck for me. Really depends on who you are. I could always keep myself entertained.
>get home from work at 6:30
>eat dinner
>play games all night until 1 am
Within the last week I beat FFVII Rebirth and Original FFVII while still working 8 hours a day
Is the director of MoriMori anime still a nazi?
I thought it was the mangaka.
>confirmed post '16 nu-Ganker is all kids and zoomers
I'm actually just graduating college and I feel very scared about going into the "adult life" stuff. College was fun, and I don't know what the future holds.
If college was fun then you are fricked in this economy. Probably a business major
The transition is hard but once I had a steady job it was infinitely easier to navigate than college. The fact that when work is done it's done and there's no homework or anything is massive.
I never even made the transition to college. Dropped out after a year and a half and went back to mom's basement. It's been nearly 20 years since then and I'm still living a prolonged childhood despite being middle aged.
Dont be a fricking pussy, you act soft you get eaten alive you stay hard you survive, get your mind right boy
OLs can be very cute.
Real life OLs are almost all middle aged catty b***hes.
Fiction has once again lied to me.
Depends on how old you are and where you work. There are definitely a lot of girls doing office jobs and some of them are very cute.
I've been working IT office jobs for the past 6 years anon.
Granted the industry has been manufacturing for both but most office roles are transferable between industries.
I'm hanging with one in Japan, she seems chill and is very kind, she went on a work trip and brought me some sweets.
The absolutely last thing you want is any personal relationship with anyone at work
People fail to grasp this simple truth and a couple months down the road they start bringing drama to workplace. Frick these people.
Very True! My mom was a cute OL, and that's why she and my dad got married.
Take the work from home pill
minimum iq required?
at least 90, but once you start it will slowly increase as you start to read VNs in your meetings
should have done software engineering
I would if I could but I got a meme degree, engineering
God I wish there was more jobs that offered it without requiring you live next door to them
>Find WFH job
>3 months in and they're already getting pissy and starting to micro-manage everything I do
Time to look for a new job.
>do nothing but jerk off, watch vtrooners and play games
>wooow why do they try to micromanage me
Yes
>Get offered WFH
>Do my shit on time
>This is somehow not enough and you MUST fill every single minute of the day with something
>Also the clients refuse to pay for extra hours and you have to finish this documentation and make X work for tomorrow
If I wanted to be treated like a child I'd have kept my previous job, at least I didn't have to worry about pretending to be doing shit like some moron.
i've phased out longform adventure games for quickplay arcade action games. i'm lucky to squeeze in an hour of gaming per day. i respect you not taking the NEET route and truly wish you the best of luck, OP.
>will I still be able to play very long games?
Sort of, but try to get a job with better hours. My current position is 3 day 13hr shifts
4x10 is probably the best composition, you still have time and energy to do stuff when you get back. I've done 12 hour days before and I'm just dead to the world when I get back.
How do you guys find jobs with regular schedules? Every job I've had has a mess of a schedule where I'm there past closing one night, have to be back by 4am the next day, get split days off, work 8-9 days in a row. Next time I go in for an interview I'm just flat out telling them I will not work unless the schedule is consistent.
I think that has to do with the profession you've chosen if it keeps happening from job to job
>there past closing
probably don't do retail shift work if you want regular schedules
It depends on your position and who you work for. Technical positions usually come with 4x10 and government positions almost always have set hours with zero overtime.
Luck. I inherited some rental properties which were low maintenance enough that I worked from home. After like 5 years I had people ask me to manage their own smaller ones for them. In the 10 years since I've bought a few more, stopped managing for anyone other than myself but now have enough tenants that I need to work 9AM - 4PM to make sure I'm available to solve problems for them
Damn, you really just hit the jackpot didn't you?
I hope you manage your properties well at least, and are conscious of the people who rely on that.
try to get a 10 / 12 hour shift job.
yes long hours fricking suck but usually you're only in for two or three days a week depending on your hours.
>tfw work 10 hours, 5 days a week
i want to fricking kill myself. i hate the way things are headed. the only reason this is becoming the norm is because these absolute braindead NPCs just happily accept being a complete fricking slave
The way things are going, especially with low income work, trying to squeeze every last little bit of productivity out of workers with no increase in pay is fricking insane. At my work they said they were going to start making people clock out to go to the fricking bathroom.
Anon, I hope to GOD you're still here and you see this, and anyone else that needs it sees it too.
It sounds like you work in a restaurant, as a line cook or a server. For the love of Christ, get out of this industry. It is taxing and unforgiving. If you must stay, get yourself into the sous chef position. The sous chef works the second least amount in the whole kitchen, and has the most stable job. When things go south, the Chef or the GM are the ones to take fire. You will still need to work weekends and evenings, but it is a much more chill position. The amount of times I've just fricked off to the office to "place an order" or "double check the schedule" for 4 hours is phenomenal. The amount of Chef's that have been replaced, while I still work doing a half-ass job, is in the double digits in my 10 years of work.
Again though, get the FRICK out of restaurants, they are abusive to workers, and not worth the time/money investment
Retail anon here. Generally, do NOT go for positions at actual retail like store associate or whatever the frick they call it, you WILL hate it. If you can help it, apply to a sales position where hours can either be flexible or the pay is really good. If they demand 10 hour shifts from you, do not accept it. It's never worth it. If you have a car, you can try doordashing/taxi-ing around, as that's the one with the most freedom, but you gotta be careful because you never know what kinda crazy person you might pick up. I've seen a lot of people with nice cars doing that stuff, so it might be worth it.
If you don't have a car, apply for a remote position doing data entry for AI chatbots. Yes, really. Some of them pay 20/hr and 30 if you can code in their language. I'm trying to learn some coding so I can try to hop on that, but then you can also try to take that skill elsewhere too. There's options, you just need to be desperate and check every corner you find.
depends on the job
Just understand that it takes awhile to finish anything. That's it.
I'm 26 and I've never had a job
ever
my dad just got fired and he's 68 with no money and hasn't even applied for social security so I don't know what to do
Stop being a leech Black person. You're making a 68 year old half dead man work his ass off.
The answer is simple, just get a fricking job anywhere. Do you have studies? If you like computers or can install a GPU or assemble a PC on your own, tech stuff should come natural for you and those entry level tech jobs are easy to get.
how do I get a job when I can't drive?
I don't know how to apply either, I don't have anything to put on a resume and I'm not wasting my time doing the adult version of a bullshit high school essay for some burger flipping tier shit
it's not my fault my dad is a fricking moron who didn't plan for his future
your dad is clearly a moron for not getting rid of your moron ass asap
>how do I get a job when I can't drive?
Get your Drivers License dude, the job opportunities will explode
>how do I get a job when I can't drive?
Drivers ed. I did 3 2 hour road courses with a driver then the test, studied the book on my own. Also you're not going to get anything other than burger flipping without experience. Take any job you can. Get an apprenticeship or apply for a trade.
I have too much anxiety over taking a test with a stranger to go through it all
even then how the hell would I get a car to actually go anywhere
The antidote to anxiety is action.
Maybe sometimes. But sometimes getting out in the world and trying to tackle your anxiety can lead to a mental breakdown.
Nothing will change until you decide it Anon.
I don't work remote, I have a job that's a 5 minute drive from where I live
>I don't have anything to put on a resume
You can bullshit stuff like "handyman" or "groundskeeper" if you have a friend of a parent that will vouch for you. Employers never call your previous employer anyway. Or say you were running your own business. Employers are so desperate for anybody right now that they'll pretty much hire anybody who walks through the door and can pass a drug test.
That's bullshit unless it's McDonald's. Where I live there are hundreds of applicants per job posting for any decent job
Work from home homosexual. You don't even need to drive anywhere.
doing what you tard
>entry level tech jobs are easy to get.
no they are not lol
not anymore
they are, job turnaround in helldesk and shiet is massive
>enjoy my time awake
does not exist
Well, it can at least be less bad than it has to be, anon. I'll take what gains to my day being enjoyable that I can get.
>entry level tech jobs are easy to get
My complete lack of job experience must be holding me back then. I've put in a ton of applications to the most basic tech jobs possible since November and have only received three responses which were declinations calling me a gay. Must be them those pajeets and 30+ yr experience veterans filling the bottom of the barrel
>so I don't know what to do
Apply to your local airport as flight line service, they'll hire anyone
>68
He'll be getting old age pension, not social security
Is there even a point to trying to fix things past a certain age? I'm 35, have no college education and have occasionally had wagecuck jobs but the last time I worked was 2 years ago. So far behind in life that it already feels ogre. I read about people going to college and working at the same time and I can barely get up before 2PM most days.
>Is there even a point to trying to fix things past a certain age?
Yes, get a trade.
>I'm 35
your last time window for fixing shit was 10 years back so no enjoy your shit life from now on
Yes, I didnt get my Associates until 27, then got my Bachelors at 31, currently working toward my Masters, working 9-5 for all of them and Bachelors/Masters being online. I also learned to skateboard last year. I'm 34. You're never too old to improve yourself, don't listen to gays like this
>falling for israeli degree scam
>fricking skateboarding
>calling anyone a gay
>not continuing to learn new skills, educate yourself further or improve your life
Yeah, you're a doomer homosexual lol
>he thinks that israeli scams matter
lmao
I got the degrees because I wanted them, not because I need them, I'm this guy
I barely need to work as being a landlord is somewhat self automated and what is going to happen, am I going to fire myself? Learning new things is interesting to me. Not all of us like throwing pinecones at the wall and making mud pies.
I thought it was ogre at 22 but literally fixed everything by the time i was 28.
applying it to you that'd mean you'd be 41 when you fixed your life.
it's only ogre when you're dead.
My classmate was a 40-year old former fireman studying ICT at uni. He graduated and according to LinkedIn he works as a QA engineer in a respectable ICT-company
You can fix your shit but it will not be easy, it will take time but if you put your back into it, you can make it. My advice is that you pull your head out of your ass and apply now to uni and work hard for the entry exams. Start fixing your sleeping schedule. I assume you dont exercise, start going for walks. Start eating healthier. I dont want to sound like a dudebro influencer but these works. Dont associate people who keep you down on their level.
t. former stoner NEET who did it all at the age of 28, degree, fiance and a mortgage
What'd you do up to being 28? Nothing?
>smoke weed and drink beer
>play vidya
>watch movies
>hangout with friends and party
The guys I used to hang with haven't changed one bit and mainly play cs or WOW classic. They're unhappy as shit. Two of them have degrees in trade but weed made them unrepairably passive do they haven't worked in years.
Nuts how that works
I don't think I could live a life like that, I'd worry about the future eventually
My weedsmoker friend who smoked weed all the time (he smoked before every exam in college because he said it helped him focus) was kind of the opposite of that, he was a pretty hard worker, got into cullinary school and got a job as a cook with aspirations to open a restaurant
you're assuming people like that care about the future at all.
when you're that genuinely depressed you just stop caring at all and hope you die before facing any repercussions for your inactivity.
People live too much in the moment and for instant gratification. It's a cliche but you really need to plan 5 years ahead
It's funny how WoW in current year is played almost exclusively by miserable people.
old game = homies trying to relive a better time
No, it's not too late, but there's some things you're gonna have to accept.
For example, if you're in your 30s and don't have a good job, your standards for women better be low or nonexistant, and even then you may still get passed over.
You'll probably never own a house.
You can still have a pretty decent life despite those things though.
Yeah you can sort this out man, you're going to be older than a lot of people getting their foot in the door but you definitely won't be alone at 35. Good luck if you choose to make an effort here in the near future.
sex with OLs
sex with anon cosplaying an OL
sex
yep. I work a comfy job, come home and play vidya. It's a simple life, but I enjoy it.
>he didn't get a remote job
ngmi
I need to get away from the computer and up off my ass for long periods. Being a desk goblin makes my back and ass hurt really bad. And getting a physical job helped me lose a lot of weight before.
>if you don't have a car you won't find a job
Do americans really?
play israelite games get israelite prises
A lot of shit in the US is far away but that doesn't stop Anon from finding a Remote Job that only requires an internet connection.
Anon we know you've been working remotely for 2 years but we're going to need you to come into the office from now on.
the closest bus stop to me is over a mile away
You can traverse 1 mile in 30 minutes. Get walking tubby.
My average walking speed is 2 miles in 25-30 minutes. 1 mile in 30 minutes is grandma speed, what the frick anons
In school they would make us run a mile and I was the slowest fattest kid. Took me about 15 minutes to run 1 mile. I was at least faster than the girls.
In Europe, not having a car is a big, but surmountable inconvenience. In the states, it's impossible to be a functional adult without a car. Their whole cities are built around having one.
You need a car to do literally anything in the US because moronic zoning laws and the worst public transport of any developed country.
Why don't zoomers want to drive?
they're brainwashed into thinking the DMV is racist because democrats want to rig elections by not requiring IS to vote
why do golems want to spend an obscene amount of money on a plastic shitbox filled with spyware electronics and fuel to waste their time moving around too far and sniff fuel fumes?
And riding the bus with a bunch of turd worlders is better?
yes, riding a train is better than standing in hours long traffic jams with same morons and sniff fumes but now for 1000x the price
You can spend your time doing something other than ragebaiting yourself or putting yourself to sleep focusing on the road, at least.
It's certainly not something I like doing, but it's way better than wasting (an obscene amount of) money on something that's a waste of my time and makes me bored.
It costs extra money and is a waste of my attention. I'd rather just browse my phone or something on public transportation, even that's better than wasting time driving to and fro everywhere because some israelite wanted to design cities so I have to buy a car.
Personally, I don't want to drive because driving in a city is an absolute nightmare.
You have small streets because cars are parked next to the sidewalk, and you never know when a moronic pedestrian will walk in front of you.
Why do you? Is commuting a fun activity for you? After living in a place with a subway station, grocery stores and restaurants all within 5 minutes walking distance I really can't see myself ever moving back to place where you need to drive everywhere.
It's all part of living in a rural are. I guess riding public transportation and shuffling around with the horde is fine for NPCs who cry when they go so far on a walking trail that they can't hear MUH HUSTLE AND BUSTLE
This i fricking hate living in America
I'm Brazil want to switch
If you know any friends in Japan I'll switch with them
Our cities are built from the ground up to only make sense or be remotely usable if you own a vehicle, it's kind of shit.
>two party system
>one party is built around wealth extraction in cities, marxism and dumping browns on your head
>people leave using their cars
Its not common, but we do have public transport, and it varies in quality heavily.
I had a ride that ended early AND the app for it lied where & when the busses go, so I had a nice 8 hour walk back with a heavy backpack at midnight. I never used a bus ever again. This shit is unreliable for work.
Unless you live in New York, almost all American and Canadian cities are designed around the car. It really sucks for people who cannot drive due to health conditions, such as myself.
same in Australia.
if you live in the country you're literally 2h or more drive away from anything
if you live in the city then your job is probably 2h away as well because of how fricked the housing market is
most people I know work FIFO (fly-in, fly-out) where they drive/fly 16 hours to their work in Bumfrickanulla for a week and live at work, then drive/fly home for their week off.
Damn, now I know why you people make jokes about your country being so terrible or out to kill you.
I can't drive either. It's fricking awful. I can't drive because I have vision problems. I have to rely on someone to drive me to work. It's fricking humiliating.
I need this
Wtf does race have anything to do with that? Are you so white you have to create things to complain about? It is such a first world problem to worry about the color of your skin. I am a "shitskin". Y le tengo que chingar más que tu pinche obeso pendejo.
>admits he is a shitskin
Way to prove anons point
How else am I supposed to make this swine understand? He doesn't know what a Mexican is.
>trying desperately to save for even a shitty used car to get to my job
>have to rely on my generous neighbor and coworkers for rides to/from work and both are beginning to lose patience
>unable to finance
>have to try to make this job work somehow because the alternatives are going back to fast food or retail if I lose it
video games
As annoying as anti-car people can be sometimes, that complaint is absolutely not an exagerration. If you don't live in one of the few large cities with public transportation (and live near a bus route) you will have to drive. If you live in a suburb or rural area, there is probably not even a bus service.
I don't want to work, I don't want to talk to anybody, I can't even get out of bed. I could work hard and get a decent job and find a wife only for her to cheat on me and want a divorce. The game is rigged, it's all so tiresome, why even bother.
Uhh shlomo goldberg needs a yearly yacht and that's awfully antisemitic and inconsiderate of you filthy goyim to deny him one. Now chop chop, go back to wagecage unless you want to starve.
I manage my free time poorly and play maybe an hour of video games per day so it takes about two months to beat a 100 hour game.
Its hard to get a job even with a degree.
how the frick are people raising families or buying a house these days?
>raising families
most white people aren't
>buying a house
inheritance or they just rentcuck
>hard to get a job even a degree
because all the jobs are in trades and you made the mistake of getting a degree.
>raising families
>buying a house
they arent. most 30-somethings are still renting and their relationships are basically just being 2 full time working adults with no kids.
All my mormon cousins are getting married at like 20-30 and just continuously pumping out kids, it's unreal, almost like a time caspule to a different era.
A 32 yo friend of mine bought a house and just had his first kid. He has a government job (he's a taxman) and his wife is a social worker. They took out a loan for the house, which they hope to pay off in the next 10 to 15 years. Same way my parents got their house.
they don't live in the USA though
Housing is totally fricked in my area, you're bidding against one of three huge capital groups anytime you want to try to buy a house. And they're happy to overpay to keep expanding.
The place he got the house in is beautiful but the mayor is a moron so it comes with it's share of cons (frequent garbageman strikes, no bus pickup for kids etc). He was lucky to land a job in a low COL of area, but then again it's a small country so people usually commute from cheaper areas anyway.
Developers driving up price sucks though, it's currently happening where I live too.
>They took out a loan for the house, which they hope to pay off in the next 10 to 15 years. Same way my parents got their house.
This is how nearly everyone buys a house. It's what a "mortgage" is from. An amortized loan. House loans are nearly always 15 or 30-year. Most people can afford a mortgage (the monthly payment), but a lot of people struggle to save up the 10 or 20% needed. With special circumstances, you can get one with less of a down payment, but you pay an extra insurance fee every month until you clear 10% paid.
So for like a $300,000 house, you would need 30K plus some change for realtor fees and junk like that.
>How do you guys do it?
Go to sleep right after work, so you have plenty of time when you wake up to at least put couple hours in. You can also play a lot more on your days off.
This is exactly what i do and it's somewhat manageable. I do only work night shifts though, so it's a "sleep in the morning, wake up in the afternoon" deal, pretty much the same as the teen years so it was easy to adjust. I'd rather be tired at work than be tired at home during my free time.
I hope to someday be placed on third shift, those guys work 6 hours but get paid for 8. That would literally add 2 hours to my day every day or 10 free more hours every week. Right now its 3-11 but will be 2-10 once I am done with my job training and nothing interesting happens at the start of the day. Most people get off work around 2 and thats when I start, so I miss most of the peak posting/playing hours
I usually only work 6-7 hours myself, unless the workload happens to be bigger for a week/month. The bare minimum for me is 2am-8 something am. It's honestly not that great place to work at, but the hours are alright and i've had worse before.
Why should I work hard when half my earnings are taken from me and given to the 3rd world hordes that are replacing me?
i play on the job
>I'm finally starting my first full time job
its over...
Doing what?
I got my first job a couple years ago stocking shelves at a grocery store. It was comfy at first until they started trying to guilt trip me into working harder for no pay increase and punishing me with a shit schedule when I refused to be in the check stand.
yeah its pretty chill but the hours can be completely moronic
anywhere in a 17 hour range
this is basically every employer ever and they wonder why their good employees always leave.
my boss refused my holiday applications SIX times and all were months in advance meanwhile every other dickhead was getting 2 or 3 weeks off at a time.
then they'll phone you asking you to cover extras on short notice.
never felt so gratifying than the day i handed my notice in.
It is
is it wrong if i want to repeatedly hit that frickugly toad face with a metal bat?
There's 0 hint of humanity behind her eyes, so I think not. My personal rule is if they have the fluoride stare you can treat them like property.
Her glassy sociopath fish eyes and faux friendly act are extremely disconcerting.
How does someone treat other people like this and still sleep at night?
How can someone be like this and not be overwhelmed by guilt or shame?
npcs don't have processing power for shit like guilt or shame
Boomers, and do a lesser degree Gen Xers, fricking despise young millenial and zoomers' disdain for work. Their lives are/were defined by wasting all their time doing prole shit and they think you should too, and be happy about it.
Even though she is a fricking freak she is right about social media. Its better to just not have one at all quite frankly. Never use your real name online.
Yeah, I've never used mine except for facebook when I was a kid. It's strange how many people do it so freely, even with psuedonyms that still have their name or face in it.
>If you want to keep a job
What possible way can a RECRUITER stop you from keeping a job, based on that name alone they sound more like people who's entire purpose is to get you hired and once you are in they no longer give a shit.
In fact, what is the purpose of a recruiter? I have never used one and simply applied on indeed or the company website.
She thinks the trades work the same way her sinecure daycare does
I've dealt with lot of HRs for my job search and the one time it was a guy I got the job
I'm starting to think it wasn't a coincidence
Look up the last name of people who are in HR. More often than not you'll find a pattern emerging.
We're never getting a second season of this are we?
>30
>No friends
>No degree
>No gf
>Just jumping from job to job, never feeling like I belong anywhere or do anything meaningful with my life
Same but slightly older. It's probably already ogre, we just haven't accepted it yet.
I mostly play on my Steam Deck nowadays. I'm playing through armored core 2, that game is fun.
The only reason to work is to get pussy and I do not know how to function with women and have anxiety so bad that I can't even have sex.
Having a full time job actually motivated me to play more than I used to. Without the monotony of the "wake up, eat, play, fap, sleep" routine I felt more fulfilled from the hours at work, and then socially drained coming home so that I wanted to regress and go into the vidya world again. I played Persona 3 every night from 6pm to 1am or 2am because it was a way to cope with the fact that more work was coming. Ironically it has made me way more content with gaming again.
Fapping should never be a part of anybody's ritual. God I wish I hadn't found porn at such a young age.
>God I wish I hadn't found porn at such a young age.
It's pointless to worry or have regrets about. I found porn at a tender age by accident and while I can say it affected my development and I would probably be a different person then I am now its one of those things that is completely pointless to wish was different.
don't do it every day like the coombrains here and it's not bad
what actual value does it have?
anyone have any job recommendations for a 40 year old lifetime neet?
>40 year old lifetime neet?
Mcdonalds.
amazon sortation center and fulfillment center jobs pays decent and its very basic at first but you can get training to go higher up. also it hurts. or overnight stocking jobs
Post office.
Find a local training initiative that'll get you certified in something. There are regular apprenticeships for some blue collar stuff that'll train you "for free" and often fast-track you to a job once it's over.
Or get some of those stupid Google Certificate courses and get some white collar keyboard monkey job.
I've heard working overnight at hotel registers is doable for people like us. Maybe night security as well.
I'm no expert on it, though.
Did your parents die? A lot of neets I know started losing their parents around 40.
Either that or his parents are retiring so the household money is about to plummet to a fraction of what it used to. Can't afford the chicken nuggies anymore.
Roulette cleaner and upholstered in Emporium online casinos
become a nurse
I'm 26 and have never had a job, is it too late for me?
Nope. Apply now and keep doing it.
Nah, got my first job at 25 and doing fine at 30 now, at least economically, I do have a degree though.
Worse comes to worse you could always become a criminal.
With enough luck and reputation, it's not too late for you at 35.
I got my first (real) job at 26 it is normal. There are 35 year olds in entry level positions.
>There are 35 year olds in entry level positions.
they are called "fricking losers" and are in those positions for years
Long games? Yes.
MMO and other time wasters? Likely not.
mmo/time wasters are literally designed for asian worker drones so they waste their hour of free time on dailies and salary on gachashit
You'll learn to cut the fat out of your life to enjoy gaming. Compared to my previous 8-5 life, I initially spent less time on gaming when I became a NEET because I fell for time-wasting traps like gacha/mmos/social-media. Just don't be moronic.
>blog thread
>200+ replies
you guys need friends/a gf
Where can I get one of these “friends/gf”
(Note: I am ugly and face is warped by high prescription glasses)
It's ok, i get it. I mean i may have friends/a gf, but i still come here.
Why? If I were you I'd be out with my friends or ducking the girl
because they are fake obviously
Mostly because i'm chronically ill so i'm confined to bed for most hours of the day. Having sex is exhausting so i can't really do it more than once a day. Same with seeing friends. It's better to limit exposure for a better experience. Coming here is a habit i haven't been able to shake for 10+ years.
ask her if she likes the sex life she has with you, I can assure you that she doesn't like you to be the limiting factor in how many times you do it with her, especially if you both live close to each other
but anon-chan is my bestest fwiend uwu
no i don't, frick people
If I had the social skills to get one of those, I wouldn't be here to begin with
I have friends, and girlfriends are just wired such that I can't trust them or take them seriously as people. I don't see the point in bending over backwards to have one.
working is for losers unironically
i'll go homeless before i ever work a job again, good thing i get paid decent neetbux because i have """mental health issues""" kek
congrats anon! you'll now have the soul drained out of you 🙁
play games on your phone via emulator at work
>tfw too autistic for work
autism is such a fricking meme non-issue
low functioning autism is a problem, sure, but if you can post on Ganker you're not a low functioning autist, you're just a b***h
Even high functioning autism is basically going to lock you to being a virgin for life for most men, as well as probably impact how you socialize in general.
Sure it's not starving to death from birth in a third world country or being genocided but nobody posting here has problems like that.
You're really just going refuse to work and leech my tax dollars like a parasite just because you're too autistic to get laid?
Yeah, deal with it.
Boohoo, I took one cent from you in particular in my entire lifetime.
Did you even try or just give up?
Yeah I tried plenty, I'm just not cut out for 9-5, nor would I even want to slave away doing so.
I may try my hand at some sort of extremely low effort night position sometime this year given suggestions from a friend, but I'm not expecting much and half the reason I'd do it is to regiment myself into using my time better and having a place to work on developing my game that I don't have anything better to do at.
As someone who had to interact with actual autists all the time as a kid, autism is absolutely a real issue, it's just that most "autistic" people online are self-diagnosed shut-ins
I don't understand peoples obsession with having some kind of mental issue like it makes them special. Having something like that doesn't make you special, it makes you defective.
People who grew up on the internet, and especially smartphones, have fricked up social skills and attention spans because of it, and rather than working on improving those things they just want a diagnose they can blame it on.
If you have an issue it can sometimes help to actually know what it is and potentially get help for it or fix it in a more targeted way than just trying really hard or ignoring it like people here might suggest.
Not everything has a way to be fixed or improved, but for some things you may as well just get diagnosed with whatever problem you have and take your medication and be a functioning human being.
Selling people medication for mental conditions is the biggest fricking scam big pharma ever came up with
I got on adderall at 31 after trying to rawdog ADHD since I was a kid (got my diagnosis in the early 90s) and it was life changing. House is clean now, I'm making progress toward long term goals, my work turned into a real career.
Meds aren't a fix-all but as someone who tried other strategies for decades with middling success, I can tell you that they are at least sometimes worth it.
You are legit giving yourself over to the israelites though.
I don't really see accomplishing nothing, being poor and living in filth as a heroicly taking a stand tbh
Are you actually accomplishing anything worth talking about?
You're probably better off in the money department but I find it hard to believe you're doing anything with your life when basically 98% of people never do, and that's fine, but don't act like you're accomplishing something with your life and have that as some sort of high ground.
I'm accomplishing my long term goals, I didn't mean I'm curing cancer.
I suppose that's good for you, but probably not something you should lord over people as if it's a big deal.
It's good that you're improving your life.
Bruh what part of thay seemed like lording to you? I'm talking about how I lived before the Adderall.
>I don't really see accomplishing nothing, being poor and living in filth as a heroicly taking a stand tbh
In response to
Which was a response to
Hell yeah dude, I've been on ADHD medication since I was quite young, as rough as some of the side effects have been I'd be totally fricked without it. Medication definitely got me through university and kept me going in my career.
He simply listed out the reality for people with ADHD.
There is merit to telling people not to be defined by them, because it just causes them to never bother trying to overcome it. If you internalize being defective, at some point you just stop trying to be better. Unfortunately this got way overshot into glamorization.
You wouldn't get it
Its just people trying to make the best of their shitty situation and be happy they have access to shit that makes their brains sorta function for a while
>be happy they have access to shit that makes their brains sorta function for a while
lol
More power to you if you got lucky enough to have no issues or few enough that you can ignore them and power through them to pretend they don't matter, but not everyone is that lucky.
This is just normal cringe rich WASP shit though, if they weren't doing it with meds they'd be doing it with something else
pharma pay piggie disgusting BS
i SUPPOSIDLY have schizoaffective disorder but frick taking the war system sustaining pharma poison. imagine being so fricked in the head you have to broadcast to tik tok you take some total pharmaceutical mind control bullshit. if there's a pill for that shit this subhuman should take THAT.
part of it is just looking for having something to blame for not living up to expectations you set for yourself or that others have set for you. Much easier to blame it on a disease you have rather than making it an opportunity to grow. (Yes this is projection)
I plan out a schedule in my head at work for when I’m going play the game, take snack breaks, take my dog out, etc. I also make myself not browse my phone. If I find a good thread on here, my evening is ruined and before I know it, time’s up.
got my evening still with decent amount of time while still maintaining a consistent gym routine. so it's fine. but i have a very generous 9-to-5 job with my workplace being right around the corner and frequent home office days so my case might be an exception.
still i really miss being a NEET. not worrying about being somewhere tomorrow morning. shit kinda sucks but what can you do.
Full time work isn't really a big deal unless your evening are also packed. I put 250 hours into Splatoon 2 in one month while working full time. Mind you, I did little else.
Come home, eat dinner, play game from 6 to 1, basically do nothing but play it on the weekends
Nowadays I'm doing night classes and working out though, and its really hard to find time to play games at all...
>250 hours into Splatoon 2 in one month
>Assuming 4 free hours on workdays and 14 free hours on weekends that still only comes out to 192 hours
Fix your sleep schedule.
I already told you it was 7 hours on weekdays lol. Still gave me time for 7 hours of sleep to wake up at 8 for my 9-5 job. This was also in 2015 or whatever.
I'm 30, still live with my parents, spend most of my time playing vidya and can't hold a job for more than a few months
Wonder what the future will hold for me
based. make sure you save and earn extra income with online or offline stuff incase of a emergency
Buddy you need to leave this website sometimes you have brain worms
You won't
You'll have a lot more money, enough maybe to buy any game you want but no time or worse energy to play them
My advice, get a second or more, hobby, because believe me the word "Burnout" will be behind you at every step and having another hobby to fall back while you recover from it will help you immensely
Finally get used to backlog being ever present, the time of being able to play a game to completion is over
Good luck
Work From Home is exceptionally rare and on the way out as it is
Whenever you see an anon bragging about WFH he's actually a NEET larping
I wfh, I make $65/hr doing copywriting
I know I'm lucky as frick tho. And I was making $85/hr last year.
Doing things like that is my dream anon, but aren't you scared with AI replacing you someday?
Yes and no. I've been in this career before that was really a conversation, so I'm riding it out as long as I can.
AI tools originally didn't scare me because as they currently exist they are absolutely no replacement for a human writer. They scooped up a bunch of web content jobs, but anyone who lets chatGPT in its current form write their annual report is an absolute moron. Since I have a senior level of experience, I have quite some time before the level of quality I can produce is replaced by AI--and when it comes to promptional materials, it makes sense to maximize the quality. Shitty advertising just means all the rest of the money you spend in your organization doesn't have the return it could.
But AI is also the reason I lost the job paying me $85/hr last year. AI can't replicate my work, but what I didn't count on was the people holding the purse strings being CONVINCED it could. In combination with how much cheaper it is, a lot of jobs really are being lost.
That's especially bad for entry level people. The dogshit SEO blog and cheap magazine article jobs I cut my teeth on are much less common right now--the people who don't give a shit about the quality are not paying, which means newbies are fricked.
That said, I know sales are way, way down at the company that dropped me. Could be for a lot of reasons, but if its the quality of their output, they and everyone else might eventually come around.
Or maybe in that time AI will improve to a point where it can actually replace me. Who knows.
Either way, still not that worried--I also have years of experience in mechanical and electronic repair so I can probably land a decent maintenance job somewhere if the industry collapses.
>the people holding the purse strings being CONVINCED it could
Kek i like that. Meanwhile people in my place keep spouting nonsense like 4.0, big data, and AI, even though the average IQ here is lower than a fricking monkey.
Yeah someome had to talk my old boss out of replacing our LEGAL TEAM with ChatGPT. Some people are just chugging the kool-aid hard.
You're just coping and trying to save your job. GPT is perfectly good for legal matters. You're actively dragging your boss down with this kind of luddite approach.
>t. literal moron who knows nothing about the law
I'm sorry I don't wanna be hostile but you have really got to take a step back and reevaluate if you genuinely believe this.
Even if we assume that GPT had a perfect representation of all existing laws and never hallucinated, a legal team's job is not simply to be a law textbook recall program. We were operating in an industry where laws were constantly changing, new regulations were actively being considered and the legal team needed to keep on top of ongoing cases to understand what was and wasn't really getting enforced in court. We needed people to be able to directly respond to regulatory organizations, review all our materials for constantly shifting compliance rules, review numerous contracts written in a dozen different languages.
ChatGPT has its place but it is not remotely capable of any of this. It is a text generation program, not a genius brain in a jar.
>Work From Home is exceptionally rare and on the way out as it is
>Whenever you see an anon bragging about WFH he's actually a NEET larping
Depends on the sector. IT is actually doubling down on WFH even more
Yup
100%
It's already happened a few times ITT
I have to be at the office 1-2 days a week but I go there more often
My sister quite literally works from home fulltime, so I don't know about that
Her husband too
>COVID hits
>With is mandated against jobs that aren't essential
>Companies throw hissy fits saying things like "NOOOOO WE'RE ESSENTIAL MY WORKERS CAN'T WORK IF THEY'RE AT HOME OUR PRECIOUS BOTTOM LINE NOOOO!"
>Literally nothing changes and everyone is happier being home
>Lockdown ends
>Businesses demand everyone come back or they're fired
>WFH is now dying
What the frick of a wrong with corporate?
Middle managers upset they can't feel important and businesses upset their mortgages on work space are being wasted because people can do their jobs from home.
It was the best of times. I dont mind going to the office, I go there few times every week but since my job is mainly checking my email, holding meetings with the team and clients and previewing and preparing contracts, working from home is pretty great. I finished the first season of Severance while working last week.
t. PO
I'm lucky I have a job where I can get done as quick as I can then go home and still get paid for a full day. Usually work like 6.5 to 7 hours a day which still leaves me like 5-6 hours of free time for vidya after chores.
Frick no. Enjoy your new life, slave.
You see the thing is that when you work, gaming feels like a chore, because you basically have to force yourself to play the games you want to play. Otherwise you'll default to lay on your bed and watch youtube videos.
I experienced the exact opposite. I look forward to playing something (vidya or board games) at the end of work, whereas I much more often found myself just wasting time when I didn't have something I had to do.
No.
I'm gonna look for my first job after tomorrow and that scares me also, I wanna play games...
I have a friend who works who still puts like 100 hours into FFXIV every 14 days though so i'm hopeful
>be me
>work shit tons of retail jobs for a decade
>self sufficient but no time for most vidya
>develop extremely bizarre and hard to diagnose chronic pain condition
>in so much pain all day ever day that I can barely leave the house
>doctors and specialists have tried everything but cant fix it
>stuck in my room most days, nevermind my house
>cant work, cant go to school, all i can do is sit in my room and play video games
>this has been going on for the last 6 years
>finished over 50 games on my backlog since then
>somehow backlog has only gotten bigger
>thought being a neet gamer would be amazing but the loneliness and being in the same room day in day out has been getting to me for a while
>would give up playing video games all day in a heartbeat if it meant going back to being a wageslave because atleast i would be around others making them smile
I never thought the day would come when i would miss being a wagie but here it is. Any other anons have health problems or whatever that keep them from going out and resort to video games to be able to experience things instead?
I have a series of fricked autoimmune disorders that make me violently ill from most food, on top of rashes, blurred vision, dizziness, headaches, memory issues, the works. It's allowed me to continue working from home even after my job is trying to tighten the noose on everyone else, but the end result is that I can palpably feel all my coworkers moving on from connecting digitally and essentially leaving me behind.
where is the pain?
It's in my dick, I have chronic no-gf-matism
I will play a JRPG over a year or so. Keep in mind I play 6 JRPGs at once.
I am NEET however.
I stopped playing long JRPGs all together, there is simply no time anymore, I just try to play short games on long weekends and play 2 JRPG a year, one during my week long vacations and the other during the end of year holidays.
What did you guys do in school when you had to be there for eight hours then come home and do homework? You were able to finish games back then, why couldn't you now?
The commute and being physically drained after a hard day of work.
Your overall point is correct but also at that time other people were probably making them food, washing their clothes, fixing their car, etc. etc.
Talked to my online friends and played some random games I liked
I lived right next to my school so I didn't have to commute for an hour.
I also had my parents paying for everything and cooking all my meals.
And I was young and full of energy so I could go to sleep at midnight and still feel good the next day.
I also remember worrying that long time ago when I got my degree and got my first proper job. The truth is that if you got things going on, you realize one day that you dont even miss it. With family, "real" hobbies, responsibilities, etc., it's amazing when one finds the time for vidya.
tldr you'll stop worrying about that eventually
>start my own business
>get rewarded with tardgf who wants to become tradwife
WFH is the biggest scam to be lazy that’s ever existed.
pretending to be busy isn't work
Eh, I work from home full time now and have done so since 2020. I still always get praise for "crushing it" and hit every deliverable I get asked for. When I worked in offices, people were always fricking around wasting time. They would hang out by each others' desks/cubes/offices and talk about their kids or hobbies, schedule a bunch of unnecessary meetings, and convince everyone to go out to lunch for sometimes two whole hours. Waste of frickin time, man. I don't work to make friends. I have the rest of my outside life for that. WFH for me is just cutting out the social bullshit and commute that offices have. 10/10 never working for a company again that doesn't do WFH.
For me its staying up an hour or two late every night, not catching up on any sleep over the weekend, and every few weeks going to bed when I get home and only getting out to briefly make and eat dinner before sleeping until my morning alarm. Low motivation right now but thats cause I need more sun.
just stop playing pedo archive
>Tell a friend I work from 8 to 6
>He's shocked I work that much a day
>Realize this isn't the norm
Is my country fricked?
That's 1h more than normal.
I work 8 to 5. With 1h for lunch.
You're basically not getting your lunch break.
That's the thing, I do have a lunch break but it doesn't count towards the count, so I'm "only" working 9 hours a day. Wish I could just skip lunch and leave an hour early.
That's the thing, you should be working 8h.
8-17h = 9h -1h lunch = 8h
So you're working 1h more than standard.
Do you work a "9-80" schedule? I used to work in government contracting, and we all did that schedule so they could shut the factory floor down one day a week. We got every other Friday off. I hated it though. Nobody was ever free to hang out on the Fridays, so I would just sleep in or catch up chores and shit.
You'll be happier if you just quit video games altogether. I know it seems impossible right now, but when you burn out on the game you're playing right now, DO NOT seek another game to replace it. Simply just stop playing video games. You'll start working out and focusing on your real life significantly more and eventually fall in love with the IRL grind as if its a video game itself.
No, you will even hate them because they are too long and with overly-complicated gameplay and you don;t have the time for shit like that, you might even appreciate the simplicity of games like Super Mario and DOOM
>work night job starting at 11.15 pm
>eat at work because free buffet breakfast
>go home at 7 am before rush hour so no traffic
>sleep until 3 pm
>play vidya till 10.30 pm
>repeat for 5 days
>2 free days each week, nothing but vidya + pizza with friends
society
I'm lucky enough to be in a situation where I can get away with only working 2 and a bit days a week (although I almost end up working an extra day more often than I don't) and it is nice but I don't think I could handle not working at all, I would feel like such a useless sack of shit, maybe if I really properly earnt the money to retire somehow but having my existing privilege but harder free me from work entirely would feel awful
all that said I think I would gladly take an extra day or 2 for less hours in each day, 8 is just too many
I play around 2-3 hours during the night on weekdays, and around 4-5 during Saturdays and Sundays. You still can do JRPG's of course but not gonna lie anon, I look for ways to skip grinding, I just don't have the time.
I don't play everyday either, the shorter the grind, the better.
>6-7: wake up
>spend 5-20 minutes formulating a bump for one of the few /trash/ threads I'm a regular of
>spend 1-2 hours scrolling and saving porn
>jerk off to my porn backlog for 30 minutes while taking 1 minute breaks whenever I go soft because I don't have an attention span anymore, or do it in 5 by fapping to my guilty pleasure stash and feel like a degenerate for the rest of the day
>10-11: have something to eat, even though I should be fasting to avoid turning into a fatass, then refresh the catalog or watch normie zoomer youtube until 1:30
>1:30-2PM: have a shower for 10-15 minutes
>save some more porn for 15-30 minutes then spend an hour meticulously tagging everything
>do more of nothing, or maybe play some vidya
>have dinner at my computer while watching more normie youtube
>9:50PM: attempt some light calisthenics but usually just give up
>10PM: go to bed
>11PM: most likely fall asleep by here
>weekends and sometimes Monday have the 11AM-6PM slot taken up by kinos
Could've published quite a few erotic stories, sent in some job applications, gone out to buy shit I need, and actually done something useful after 5 years, but I'll do all that next week like always. Getting a job will completely destroy my schedule, and because I'm an autist I'll fricking freak at the changes.
>go into healthcare
>"oh the 12 hour shifts aren't that big of a deal since i get 7 more days a month to myself!"
>four months later
>he thought he wouldn't be working near-constantly on the medical field
Haha... I had a good deal of family members on it so I guess I have the advantage of foresight but yeah that's your life man
Work work work, people are at the hospital all the time
I haven't been called in a single time but by the time the off days hit I'm too exhausted to even do basic house chores. The off time is basically just spend recuperating. It's depressing.
Hopefully you're getting paid decently for it at least.
i used to do night shift care work and got paid $140 per twelve hour shift to clean up shit and wrangle dementia spackers.
I heard a lot of bad things about the healthcare stuff, most of the jobs near me are for the hospital, even then they are thinking of closing it down due to lack of funding while spending half the budget on new condos. It's fricking weird.
I've been a NEET since highschool ended in 2020. Been trying for college through entrance exams since it's free in Hueland but I have zero motivation to actually study. I'm not even sure what I want to major, I just need something so I don't starve and have to live with my family for the rest of my life.
I'm kind of a smart guy (no bragging, for real) so I got into public college without much trouble through enem but you've been out of highschool for 4 years now, you probably don't remember much you learned from that time huh
I'd take one of those prep courses that basically go over all of highschool shit in like a 6 month period to prepare you for the actual exms if you can afford it, cursinhos I just remembered the word
Don't get discouraged either, while I was in public college (I dropped out to do something else in a private one) I had a pal who was 23 who was doing computer science as a kind of cope for not getting into medical school but he later dropped out to keep trying to get in
People do stuff at different points in life, just try your best anon
Yeah, I don't remember much from high school so I struggle to even find where to start studying. I'll try a cursinho, I'd actually forgotten they were even a thing as well. Thanks anon.
You're right, that in itself is a motivating factor. I'll try, anon. Thank you.
No problem my dude, dont give up
> I just need something so I don't starve and have to live with my family for the rest of my life.
There's your motivation. Try to find something where your interests, potential and motivation would meet, even a little. I bet your parents would be extremely happy and proud of you if you just found out that extra 30% and made it in uni. I sense thr motivation in you bit you just need to push harder
This includes trannies 🙂
Still hwite.
Don't worry, when you seethe again over bbc posting, you let me know. Race is such a moronic issue to worry about when this neet shit affects anyone. Me personally, I got a job that forces me to go out because I felt like I was going insane constantly being holed up. I have no friends and no social life and I couldn't motivate myself to do what I personally wanted for a career, so homelessness was soon bound if I didn't try to fix it in some capacity. I still don't care for my current job, but objectively I'm in a better situation. I just gotta keep clawing my way up.
Black person
finding the first job with a cs degree is so fricking demoralizing and hard holy shit. im tired of wasting my time going through 6+ rounds of interviews for a single company + take home assignments.
now with the layoffs flooding people with experience everywhere, it's rare to even get an interview.
I did what most people did, I started working where I did my internship
>will I still be able to play very long games
no, and especially not jrpg
Check'd
WHEN I WAS
A FAILED MEME
I have the same issue but the truth is that you have the time. Sure you spend a bunch of time working but if you suddenly decided to work 40% as hard there's a good chance it would make zero difference to your output. Even at a normal 9-5 large amounts of it are you just spinning your wheels trying to get things done and accomplishing nothing.
Home life is the same. Quit gacha. Quit MMOs. Quit browsing Ganker and reddit and uninstall tiktok. You will suddenly discover you have ~8 hours a day to spend on random entertainment
I do need to stop coming to this website.
But yeah the basic issue for most people is time management. Most people simply do not use their time well and waste tone of it mindlessly browsing. I know I do it constantly.
I wouldn't even say it's time management. People don't do high quality things with the time they have. It's a very deliberate choice to spend it on trash. You may not realize it's a choice, but it absolutely is one. Nobody is born doing 5 different gacha games dailies and infinitely scrolling on an app. At some point you made a decision of "this is the most valuable use of my time" and never updated.
its fine. if youre a true loser like me you can just take vacation days to no life any upcoming jrpgs, if you have a massive backlog then godspeed. it sucks and i wish i was still a neet but what can you do
Checked but you don't deserve it Black person
>Sunday-Thursday 6:00 AM-2:30 AM
Tomorrow is Friday for me my dudes, but daylight savings utterly fricked me up and I made so many mistakes at work on Sunday. I'm perpetually scared of being fired even though I'm in zero danger of starving since I worked full time for 4 years while living at home.
Either get a job that lets you do nightshifts almost exclusively or one that isn't 2+ hours away from home. Evening shifts (i think they're called that?) are absolute hell and i honestly pity anyone that has to live like that.
>get first real job as a janny in some tech company, don't even remember the name
>1PM to 9PM
>this meant that i got home at around 10:30PM
>as soon as i arrived i had to cook for myself, get my stuff ready for the next day, do some chores (not a sloppy motherfricker so basically just buy a roomba and let it do its job), etc
>i was done in an hour, but i was exhausted so i only ate and went to sleep
>even if i didn't oversleep, i still chose to wake up at around 10AM because honesty what the frick was i even going to do at 7AM? i like playing yugioh with my friends and all of them were working by now
>locals were mostly empty as well, no point on going at all unless i was buying something
>sightseeing? eating out? exercise? lol, lmao
>videogames? nope, i had to head out by 11:30 or i wouldn't arrive on time
>six months later i was completely broken, i felt like i couldn't just up and quit as my father more or less landed me the job
>then i realized it's not worth the mental anguish and just fricking quit
>didn't even tell anyone, just stopped going to work and sent out resumes to just about every company out there
>eventually my dad asks what the hell happened, tell him i found something that pays better and is 30 minutes away
>"you lucky fricker"
>i now work as a """security guard""" in a mall, aka i get paid to shoo drug addicts/urbex zoomers/Black folk away and watch anime or jerk off in a tiny shack
>doesn't pay that well but it's enough for me
I found out through some youtube comments that security guards are just there to look threatening and maybe call the police sometimes, is it true?
Yeah, as long as you're tall, have a scary looking face or are fat (but not too fat, stocky?) or muscular they'll hire you because almost no one wants to frick around with a big lad carrying either a baton or a heavy flashlight.
1-9pm is like the perfect shift for me. I get so much better sleep with a schedule like this. Allows me to go home, unwind, make dinner, go to bed, and then wake up refreshed and energized to do things before going to work.
Having work early in the morning makes me anxious and I always stay up way too late and get only a few hours of sleep.
The issue here is moreso the 1.5 hour commute rather than your job. You're working 15 hours more a week for free basically.
>work 3 12's a week
>"oh boy, 4 days off"
>what actually happens is 1 on, 1 off or some random bullshit dartboard scheduling
>still feels like I have no time
>worse because it's nights
work sucks no matter what
What manga is this
moomins
Not him but those are moomins, the fella on the right is snufkin, the fella on the left is a moomin (not sure which one as there's multiple)
Just look up moomins, it's a cool little finnish thing, it has an anime and had a game come out recently (but it's for children)
I'm working 4 11s per week and I feel nearly the same way. I thought I'd have so much more free time, but it doesn't feel like that at all. Doesn't help that my commute and chores are just long enough that I can't sleep 9 hours per day which has been my norm for a decade (I don't believe in the 8 hour meme I think it's bullshit and I'm constantly tired now)
>9 hours of sleep a day
Are you fricking narcoleptic or something?
I sleep 7 hours a night at most, which has been a bit annoying for me since I have less time than when I was younger and only needed 5-6 hours a night to feel well rested.
You're sleeping 7 hours per day because you've made it a habit and it's your default. You've never actually experienced how great a 9 hour default is and how much mental clarity you gain so you don't do it. You're not waking up after 7 hours because you're fully rested, you're waking up because you're used to it. You're not an exception and you also need 9 hours per day, especially because you're also working in a warehouse.
Circadian rhythm varies per person. 6 hours of sleep is fine for some, some need as many as 11. 7-9 are all very common, which is why you usually hear the 8 hours a day meme, it's a great average for most people
That's also bullshit and the fact that we both work night shifts currently is the proof. All humans need 9 hours minimum. You're waking up due to habit, not because it's in your biology.
I actually work a day shift, I sleep 6 hours usually, sometimes 7-8 if I do a lot physically. I don't use alarms, I just sleep as long as I want to every night because I work from home
You said "worse because it's nights"
No, another anon did. This is Ganker, there are multiple people here, Ganker isn't you and just one guy
lmao just manage
>6/7 hours sleep
>wake up and lift for 45 minutes / 1 hour
>15 minutes to get the days food ready and change
>40 minutes in traffic for a trip that typically only takes 18 minutes
>work 8 hours
>sit in traffic for 70 minutes because the one road connecting all the towns together to get home chokes like a motherfricker
>an hour getting dinner ready and showering
>study online ICT course for 4 hours to get the frick out of warehouse work
>2 hours playing vidya
bless caffeine and Ritalin.
or just dont sleep for 12+ hours on weekends and binge games then
where the frick are you finding jobs in 2024.
warehouses do mass hiring right before black friday/christmas all I did was pass a drug test and I was in
my father's multi-national company of course :^)
My friend also got a job in the government and his friends also work with him haha so lucky!
Sounds like a skill issue on your part anon, you better invest 800K on a piece of paper so you can raise your hiring chance by 5%!
I was NEET for 2.5 years, applied for three jobs and got all three. Just go in and give a firm handshake.
what do you say when they ask about the gap in the resume
>when they ask about the gap in the resume
humiliation ritual
I was busy fricking your mom
I don't even remember really, I don't even remember if they asked about it. You could just say you took personal time, were studying for school, taking care of family, etc. It doesn't really matter what you say tbh. Just dress appropriately, show up on time, and show that you are eager for the job. Most places are desperate for employees because most zoomers are fricking lazy and incompetent. Your competition is zoomers who show up to interviews 20 minutes late in sweatpants.
Also, follow up repeatedly, preferably in person. Shit like that, or knowing someone who works there is way more important than the trivial details of your resume.
It's not zoomers who are lazy, it's literally everyone
Putting in any amount of effort puts you above like 60% of the planet it's insane
The amount of times I've hired someone to do something and they just vanish or show up an hour late is nuts, people do the bare minimum most of the time
>Your competition is zoomers who show up to interviews 20 minutes late in sweatpants.
And they wonder why they lose jobs to poos and chinks, god fricking damnit
They're only good if they're FOB's, their kids have all the issues with none of the ethic. I hate being in charge of hiring
>Most places are desperate for employees because most zoomers are fricking lazy and incompetent
if that was true i wouldve gotten hired by now instead of this dumb shit where they keep telling me to apply online when i show up in person with a resume in my hand
Apply online, make your resumee sound better. Lie if you need to, just not about education or certification
hiring online IS the problem. websites like Indeed have some weird AI online shit that filters your resume or whatever. i try applying to their websites too but only ghosting or rejections. landed an interview with McDonald’s once only to be told their AI chatbot scheduled it by mistake. its not that zoomers are lazy. employers WANT lazy zoomers.
Nobody in any industry I've worked in things of these people as anything but a bane. My tip for ai algos, throw your resumee into gpt telling it to focus on specific words that they use in the ad.
There are sites for this too.
https://www.jobscan.co/
It's bullshit, but most places will automatically decline if you don't do shit like this.
Huh, neat. I throw out these types of resumes if I can tell personally, but it does save a tonne of money. Most of my peers use these types of algo's, I just got tired of all the random shitty workers I had to keep milling through
Anything with job searching is draining. You can also copy and paste the job listening into Chat GPT to get keywords and to rework your resume too. If you pay for it, you can automate it.
If you are looking for restaurant work, find a local non-chain place where the owner still works at. Those are basically the only places where the old "firm handshake" technique still works, and works well.
You can always work like a Mexican if you have trade skills of some sort, but that's only good for very short term, or to get a couple of contacts/references
>where they keep telling me to apply online when i show up in person with a resume in my hand
This is what happens when you talk to a random hHR grunt at the reception desk. You're not supposed to waste your time with these losers, you need to track down and shedule a meeting with a bigwig of some kind and talk to them directly.
I'm starting to think that's just a tactic to see if you can bullshit your way around or if you're stupid enough to be honest. Like, if you were a druggie, and you say something like "I wasn't in the best place", that hiring manager/recruiter is gonna instantly wanna know what you mean. ALWAYS lie. They can't fricking prove shit. Say you were helping your cancer-ridden mom, that you had school, that something personal happened that took up too much of your time. It literally doesn't matter. They're shitheels and will gladly kick you out if they don't like the smallest thing about you. Just lie and get the job. And obviously don't make it something that can be reasonably traced, like you were leader of an orphanage or some shit.
Unironically I did the exact same thing. Walked into non-chain restaurants with a help wanted sign, had a talk with the owner, then had a job.
yes if you have no hobbies/girlfriend. if you do literally anything else besides gaming you’ll have maybe 1-2 hours a day. more on weekends
Just take the part time pill. I work around 30 hours a week with benefits and get about 8 weeks off a year.
But definitely don't give up sleep. You don't need 8 hours, but try to average at least 7. I had months on end where I would average around 5-6 hours and I always felt like shit.
My method;
multi-player shit, comfy strategy games, fighting games, roguelike are all for weekdays.
You can put very minimal time in, and play around other stuff pretty easily
My RPG's, open world games, or immersive Sims I play on days off. They're the type of games you really need time to dig into, and it's good for story pacing. In JRPG's I'll usually do an act over a day off between chores, cooking, and exercise, beat it within a month. I'm also through Tales of Arise right now, finally going to the moon baby
There's absolutely no fricking job openings in my garbage central Florida town and after 5 years of trying to get work I hate everything. I'm starting to get gud at art but fricking AI is beginning to replace that at a terrifying rate so what the hell is there left?
been working at the post office for 4 months. kind of want to kill myself to be tbh.
Lol no you won't have the energy
You will loose track forget the control's forget where you left the story....
>this thread again
OP please dump your girls lying face down collection
It's very possible, even more so if you can work from home a bit.
For me (work from home ~3 times per week)
I can do
- 8 hour game in a day or two if it's really fun
- 60 hour game in 2 weeks
- 100-200 hour game in 1-2 months
Really depends on how much energy you have