I was also unemployed for 7 years. graduated hs and went full NEET mode, it was great. Nobody ever asked me about the 7 year gap between high school and my first job, but then again, every job I've ever had has been a physical labor job with a high turnover rate anyway, they were all desperate to have someone who would show up on time.
I quit my job 6 months ago and haven't really done shit since. Thinking of going to Japan on a student visa just as an excuse to be there for a year or two, not sure what to do with my life. Thanks for reading my blog.
I have a friend who did lived in Japan for 2 years on a student visa. He said it was the most stressful time of his life and the reason he started smoking cigarettes.
What was stressful about it? I was there for a month holiday and remember thinking I could live there.
He said study/work culture in Japan is very intense, it's a much bigger deal to fail a test or anything like that there. Also he couldn't work because of the student visa so he had to try to find jobs getting paid under the table and hope to not get caught and kicked out of the country.
What was stressful about it? I was there for a month holiday and remember thinking I could live there.
To be clear, I don't think he regrets spending the two years in Japan, but he said it was definitely stressful going to school there. I think if you just don't know what to do with yourself for two years, there are better things you can do with your time than go to Japan on a student visa.
>Smug woman bragging about doing the bare minimum at work
She's the reason the hard worker at her job has to stay and work overtime and probably not get paid for it.
naw
you moron pull your self up from your boot straps and work till you die mentality are just cucks
you rather work to death than live life
please have a nice day so normal people can LIVE
>working in porn sucks
Not for some of them dudes I trade places with Jmac, Mr. Bootleg, the russian dude in all them videos with the necklace, jordi, jimmy michaels, rocco etc.
Sorry Jmacs job doesnt suck
Employers uses to offer bonifications for the people who worked the hardest. People did work hard and their bosses started taking it for granted, so they stopped sponsoring benefits and promotions. As a response, workers stopped bothering too, and now the bosses can't seem to understand that they've retired all incentives.
Hard workers are rewarded with more work. >You completed your task ahead of schedule? Here’s another one! >You stayed late today? Can you do it again tomorrow? >Thanks for coming in on your day off. Now I know you’ll do it again!
Reminder that as long as you can save up 500k, you can live off of 4% of it indefinitely - i.e you can pay yourself $20k a year and never run out. Shit's so easy I'll become a NEET forever soon.
Viable as long as you own your home, live very frugally, have no wife or kids, the economic doesn't shit itself, you don't drive and you have no unexpected medical crises. So basically not.
>save up $500,000 >$20,000/year to live on
what kind of moron logic is this? 4% interest is awful and inflation will frick you every single day for your entire life
take the $500,000 and use it to buy two homes, then rent them both out for $2500/mo and live in a van.
I don't think you have a grasp on how things work. If you live off of exactly $20,000/year your entire life, that $20,000 will be worth less every year. Inflation dissolves cash savings, dissolves debt, and enriches property investments. If you use the $500,000 to get mortgages, the system will work with you instead of against you.
No, you dumb frick. The returns are 7% a year, the 4% number is in today's dollar's. Obviously it doesn't stay at the absolute 20k a year - but it's $20k in today's 2024 dollars. Have you never taken a basic finance course?
>No, you dumb frick. The returns are 7% a year, the 4% number is in today's dollar's
sure, sure. What kind of investment are you talking about, anyway?
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The S&P 500 has averages 10% nominal returns over our lifetime, 7% real. The 4% SWR rule is the standard, fincel. Read the trinity study.
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Also I am sorry for calling you a dumbfrick if you genuinely didn't know, I was too hasty and don't actually think you are a dumbfrick.
500k wouldn't be enough to cover literally one medical incident, so if you break even just one bone one single time you can wind up needing to get a job again. Retirement simply isn't possible at this point unless your retirement comes with a pension that guarantees some kind of health care. You will literally lose everything as you age.
Bro, you go to the ER get a cast then NEVER PAY THEM. are you fricking moronic, I had all my teeth fixed for 160 five years ago, I just paid the upfront and fricking dipped.
This. I'm almost 2 years in, it's glorious. I love to think how my holdings of index funds means wagies working for publicly traded companies are working for me while I contribute nothing to society.
I pretty much did this a couple months ago. But Im collecting a military pension, so money wont be too tight. I have been drukking a bit too much...gotta be careful cause neetbux wont cover copious amounts of beer and then the dumbass decision to order food when blasted all the time
The options offered to blue collar folk in America are a disgrace. Especially compared to the past.. we are quite literally a slave caste for Walmart nowadays. It’s amazing to me the boomer mentality that still prevails that working at Walmart is somehow still a bad or shameful thing.. that tells you how schizo this country has become, because for a lot of people Walmart is the only option. Seems like that’s one of the big unspoken things in America today. Their workers are horrible mistreated too
Learn some marketable skills instead of whining and asking for handouts. Hell, take the job at wal-mart and gain some experience or work your way up to store manager.
But you won't get paid and you won't be able to buy food and you'll starve and become homeless and then die as a result! It's a cognitive dissonance quandry!
this is going to sound like some corny first-world problem shit, and it is 100% is. I ask for no sympathy, I simply use this space as a sounding board outside of my head.
With total compensation + yearly avg bonus, I make about $150k a year. I live in a high cost of living part of the US, so I'm not exactly rich, but I live an incredibly comfortable, easy life. I work on average maybe 3-4 hours a day, mostly WFH. I have the odd day where I don't do any work at all. This was my first job out of college and I got promoted several times in rapid succession and have been here ever since. No matter how much or little work I do, I receive constant praise and positive feedback.
I sometimes wonder what it would be like working somewhere else, but it seems like everyone I know either gets paid total shit or absolutely hates their job. I could easily clear over $250k with my resume working somewhere else, but I can't see how that money would meaningfully make my life that much better, especially with the risk it posses of putting me in a job I hate or have to work much harder at for diminished work-life balance. I believe this is known as the 'golden handcuffs' phenomenon.
I worked my ass off through school and interning to get here, but now that I'm here, after overcoming challenges all my life, it feels like I am already in retirement in my late 20s. All I feel is empty inside, and I fear all of the comforts are making me physically and spiritually weaker as a person. All the personal aspirations that invigorated me when I was younger now feel hollow and pointless. I've been turning towards experimenting with drugs and impulsive behavior to deal with the nihilistic ennui and I desperately search for a healthier outlet.
>I believe this is known as the 'golden handcuffs' phenomenon.
Correct >I fear all of the comforts are making me physically and spiritually weaker as a person.
They are. >All the personal aspirations that invigorated me when I was younger now feel hollow and pointless.
I think this is one of the sadder parts about growing up. >I've been turning towards experimenting with drugs and impulsive behavior to deal with the nihilistic ennui and I desperately search for a healthier outlet.
You have tons of money and free time. Take up a new hobby/skill. Try martial arts, work out more, learn to ride a motorcycle if you can't already, try your hand at woodworking or archery or any random activity really, idk. Take a trip to a golf course and see if any old retired geezers have any advice for you. I steam clean carpets for a living and am in plenty of old peoples houses, trust me, running into a person in the same predicament as them but 50 years younger is their absolute dream. They'll tell you anything and everything you'd wanna know if they're able to. From my own experience as a much less successful late 20s american, boredom and comfort are the most dangerous things that can happen to a man. I started smoking weed and eventually it got to the point that any time I had some free time I'd just get high. I'm glad I quit.
Thanks for the earnest reply. Good on you for dropping weed. I'm more into psychs myself, which are naturally harder to abuse, but I had been experimenting with substances to find an alcohol alternative, because alcohol fricks my body up badly. I actually did make it a priority a year or so ago to get my health in order after putting on pandemic weight and get into the best shape of my life. Still not at my goal but down 60 lbs. It's been a good outlet, but at the same time I fear the growing attention I've received is making me become more vain. I was always pretty passionate about writing when I was younger, so some naive part of me hopes I can try and channel and bottle all of these feelings into something worth reading, but I ultimately just end up lacking the motivation, and the world is already plagued with enough nihilistic garbage out there. I just want something to be a true passion again, and not just ultimately feel like a time-wasting distraction that isn't furthering me in some way. I can barely play video games anymore because every minute I spend, I just feel sick to my stomach like I'm bleeding away prime time of my life.
Get married and have a kid. My wife and I just had our first child. Both WFH, together we clear $100k living in the midwest in a low cost of living area so we do alright and have a bit left over for savings.
Having my child feels like it's given me new purpose in life and filled the empty void that I felt before that I filled with weed and vidya. Granted, I still use my one hitter in the garage some nights and play for maybe an hour or two but it's whatever
Literally me
I haven't had a job in almost two years.
Rocked it for 4 got a young fiance out of it.
Same, I'm coming up on 2 years but I will probably go to work again before I actually reach it.
Seven years for me, I'm wondering how I'm going to explain it when I start applying for jobs in a couple months. "I was uhhhhhhhh"
literally lie
"i tried to start own business a couple of times, both failed, but i learned a lot, such as yada yada yada"
no one cares
I was also unemployed for 7 years. graduated hs and went full NEET mode, it was great. Nobody ever asked me about the 7 year gap between high school and my first job, but then again, every job I've ever had has been a physical labor job with a high turnover rate anyway, they were all desperate to have someone who would show up on time.
tell them you had a job with homeland security and it's classified
You signed an NDA. Simple as that.
I quit my job 6 months ago and haven't really done shit since. Thinking of going to Japan on a student visa just as an excuse to be there for a year or two, not sure what to do with my life. Thanks for reading my blog.
I have a friend who did lived in Japan for 2 years on a student visa. He said it was the most stressful time of his life and the reason he started smoking cigarettes.
What made it stressful? I was thinking of going to a language school out in Tokyo.
He said study/work culture in Japan is very intense, it's a much bigger deal to fail a test or anything like that there. Also he couldn't work because of the student visa so he had to try to find jobs getting paid under the table and hope to not get caught and kicked out of the country.
To be clear, I don't think he regrets spending the two years in Japan, but he said it was definitely stressful going to school there. I think if you just don't know what to do with yourself for two years, there are better things you can do with your time than go to Japan on a student visa.
What was stressful about it? I was there for a month holiday and remember thinking I could live there.
I did the same thing, now I've got the chilliest work from home job ever and see my super friendly supervisor once a month.
What kind of job do you have?
boomer/gen x fantasy
>I wish I didn't have a job
millennial/zoomer fantasy
>I wish I had a job
Pretty much. Would be nice to be able to support myself in a fairly comfortable existence without having to jump through 20 HR hoops.
But unemployment is 3%. Bidenomics is working
>Smug woman bragging about doing the bare minimum at work
She's the reason the hard worker at her job has to stay and work overtime and probably not get paid for it.
No, the cuck "hard worker" is responsible for that.
naw
you moron pull your self up from your boot straps and work till you die mentality are just cucks
you rather work to death than live life
please have a nice day so normal people can LIVE
>sunday scaries
holy fricking cringe batman
>not doing 'bare minimum everydays'
>normies are just catching on to phoning it in early in the week
>this is newsworthy on a major publication in the current year
millennial/zoomer fantasy
>I wish I had a job having sex or playing video games
on the flip flop, everybody already knows working in porn/vidya fricking sucks.
>working in porn sucks
Not for some of them dudes I trade places with Jmac, Mr. Bootleg, the russian dude in all them videos with the necklace, jordi, jimmy michaels, rocco etc.
Sorry Jmacs job doesnt suck
Yo wtf that's Lewis from Band of Brothers! Haha what's he doing there
quiet quitting is the stupidest thing ive ever heard
>nooo, what do you mean you aren't going above and beyond for no extra pay?!
Employers uses to offer bonifications for the people who worked the hardest. People did work hard and their bosses started taking it for granted, so they stopped sponsoring benefits and promotions. As a response, workers stopped bothering too, and now the bosses can't seem to understand that they've retired all incentives.
Bonuses with metrics that aren't set up too israelite you really do motivate you.
When you get a lump of cash to buy a new car outright from your hard work its easy to stay late salaried
Hard workers are rewarded with more work.
>You completed your task ahead of schedule? Here’s another one!
>You stayed late today? Can you do it again tomorrow?
>Thanks for coming in on your day off. Now I know you’ll do it again!
This, always keep the bar low.
Sad but true. I think Metallica wrote a song about it.
Reminder that as long as you can save up 500k, you can live off of 4% of it indefinitely - i.e you can pay yourself $20k a year and never run out. Shit's so easy I'll become a NEET forever soon.
Viable as long as you own your home, live very frugally, have no wife or kids, the economic doesn't shit itself, you don't drive and you have no unexpected medical crises. So basically not.
>save up $500,000
>$20,000/year to live on
what kind of moron logic is this? 4% interest is awful and inflation will frick you every single day for your entire life
take the $500,000 and use it to buy two homes, then rent them both out for $2500/mo and live in a van.
it's after inflation, dumb frick
I don't think you have a grasp on how things work. If you live off of exactly $20,000/year your entire life, that $20,000 will be worth less every year. Inflation dissolves cash savings, dissolves debt, and enriches property investments. If you use the $500,000 to get mortgages, the system will work with you instead of against you.
No, you dumb frick. The returns are 7% a year, the 4% number is in today's dollar's. Obviously it doesn't stay at the absolute 20k a year - but it's $20k in today's 2024 dollars. Have you never taken a basic finance course?
>No, you dumb frick. The returns are 7% a year, the 4% number is in today's dollar's
sure, sure. What kind of investment are you talking about, anyway?
The S&P 500 has averages 10% nominal returns over our lifetime, 7% real. The 4% SWR rule is the standard, fincel. Read the trinity study.
Also I am sorry for calling you a dumbfrick if you genuinely didn't know, I was too hasty and don't actually think you are a dumbfrick.
just put everything in tesla stock while it's cheap bro
I have $730k and wouldn't feel comfortable doing that with less than a million, and that's only if I'm not supporting anyone besides myself
500k wouldn't be enough to cover literally one medical incident, so if you break even just one bone one single time you can wind up needing to get a job again. Retirement simply isn't possible at this point unless your retirement comes with a pension that guarantees some kind of health care. You will literally lose everything as you age.
>his insurance doesn't have a maximum annual out of pocket
Bummer man
>500k wouldn't be enough to cover literally one medical incident,
American is literally hell on earth lmao
Bro, you go to the ER get a cast then NEVER PAY THEM. are you fricking moronic, I had all my teeth fixed for 160 five years ago, I just paid the upfront and fricking dipped.
>500k wouldn't be enough to cover literally one medical incident
What kind of absolute hellscape do you live in, anon?
Future Walmart greeter at 60
How long do you think it'll be before they remove the walmart greeter type of positions?
Nah, as long as you don't live in America avg expenses actually go dramatically down after 60.
This. I'm almost 2 years in, it's glorious. I love to think how my holdings of index funds means wagies working for publicly traded companies are working for me while I contribute nothing to society.
I'm from the European country with the worst rate of youth unemployment and I studied a meme degree. It is so over.
just move to Thailand and become a lady boy, eurobro
With a degree, even a meme degree, you can teach english in east asia
Why the frick did you waste your time and money on a meme degree?
It was dirt cheap and I had been held back a couple of years in high school because I was depressed and moronic. Now I'm just moronic.
Not pretty enough, and too bulky.
Ngl, I've considered it.
>Spent thousands of dollars and years of your life to go to college for memetic telephony
>Still came out moronic
>Somehow not depressed about it
only go in to flirt with my crush atp
But your job is to kill enemies who threaten America.
You have to go Rambo
jews can't seriously be thinking nonstop about these things can they?
>His job was literally just "get paid to change lines of code to have a 4-digit year instead of 2-digit"
the horror
I pretty much did this a couple months ago. But Im collecting a military pension, so money wont be too tight. I have been drukking a bit too much...gotta be careful cause neetbux wont cover copious amounts of beer and then the dumbass decision to order food when blasted all the time
How do you do this without getting evicted from your house?
The options offered to blue collar folk in America are a disgrace. Especially compared to the past.. we are quite literally a slave caste for Walmart nowadays. It’s amazing to me the boomer mentality that still prevails that working at Walmart is somehow still a bad or shameful thing.. that tells you how schizo this country has become, because for a lot of people Walmart is the only option. Seems like that’s one of the big unspoken things in America today. Their workers are horrible mistreated too
Tradesmen are just modern serfs. Other than the bubble of the 1940-1980 time period they've always been poor laborers.
>the bubble of the 1940’s-1980s
Talk about rewriting history. As if Americas economic success was just an accident of history
Learn some marketable skills instead of whining and asking for handouts. Hell, take the job at wal-mart and gain some experience or work your way up to store manager.
You’re employing free market cliches talking about a company that wouldn’t even exist without being ran from the top down by Uncle Sam you naive fool
Everwhere all the workers are mistreated
But you won't get paid and you won't be able to buy food and you'll starve and become homeless and then die as a result! It's a cognitive dissonance quandry!
this is going to sound like some corny first-world problem shit, and it is 100% is. I ask for no sympathy, I simply use this space as a sounding board outside of my head.
With total compensation + yearly avg bonus, I make about $150k a year. I live in a high cost of living part of the US, so I'm not exactly rich, but I live an incredibly comfortable, easy life. I work on average maybe 3-4 hours a day, mostly WFH. I have the odd day where I don't do any work at all. This was my first job out of college and I got promoted several times in rapid succession and have been here ever since. No matter how much or little work I do, I receive constant praise and positive feedback.
I sometimes wonder what it would be like working somewhere else, but it seems like everyone I know either gets paid total shit or absolutely hates their job. I could easily clear over $250k with my resume working somewhere else, but I can't see how that money would meaningfully make my life that much better, especially with the risk it posses of putting me in a job I hate or have to work much harder at for diminished work-life balance. I believe this is known as the 'golden handcuffs' phenomenon.
I worked my ass off through school and interning to get here, but now that I'm here, after overcoming challenges all my life, it feels like I am already in retirement in my late 20s. All I feel is empty inside, and I fear all of the comforts are making me physically and spiritually weaker as a person. All the personal aspirations that invigorated me when I was younger now feel hollow and pointless. I've been turning towards experimenting with drugs and impulsive behavior to deal with the nihilistic ennui and I desperately search for a healthier outlet.
>I believe this is known as the 'golden handcuffs' phenomenon.
Correct
>I fear all of the comforts are making me physically and spiritually weaker as a person.
They are.
>All the personal aspirations that invigorated me when I was younger now feel hollow and pointless.
I think this is one of the sadder parts about growing up.
>I've been turning towards experimenting with drugs and impulsive behavior to deal with the nihilistic ennui and I desperately search for a healthier outlet.
You have tons of money and free time. Take up a new hobby/skill. Try martial arts, work out more, learn to ride a motorcycle if you can't already, try your hand at woodworking or archery or any random activity really, idk. Take a trip to a golf course and see if any old retired geezers have any advice for you. I steam clean carpets for a living and am in plenty of old peoples houses, trust me, running into a person in the same predicament as them but 50 years younger is their absolute dream. They'll tell you anything and everything you'd wanna know if they're able to. From my own experience as a much less successful late 20s american, boredom and comfort are the most dangerous things that can happen to a man. I started smoking weed and eventually it got to the point that any time I had some free time I'd just get high. I'm glad I quit.
Thanks for the earnest reply. Good on you for dropping weed. I'm more into psychs myself, which are naturally harder to abuse, but I had been experimenting with substances to find an alcohol alternative, because alcohol fricks my body up badly. I actually did make it a priority a year or so ago to get my health in order after putting on pandemic weight and get into the best shape of my life. Still not at my goal but down 60 lbs. It's been a good outlet, but at the same time I fear the growing attention I've received is making me become more vain. I was always pretty passionate about writing when I was younger, so some naive part of me hopes I can try and channel and bottle all of these feelings into something worth reading, but I ultimately just end up lacking the motivation, and the world is already plagued with enough nihilistic garbage out there. I just want something to be a true passion again, and not just ultimately feel like a time-wasting distraction that isn't furthering me in some way. I can barely play video games anymore because every minute I spend, I just feel sick to my stomach like I'm bleeding away prime time of my life.
Believe it or not, there are WFH jobs out there just as easy as yours, but at the $250k+ mark. You can find them if you look.
Get married and have a kid. My wife and I just had our first child. Both WFH, together we clear $100k living in the midwest in a low cost of living area so we do alright and have a bit left over for savings.
Having my child feels like it's given me new purpose in life and filled the empty void that I felt before that I filled with weed and vidya. Granted, I still use my one hitter in the garage some nights and play for maybe an hour or two but it's whatever