>work 9-5 Monday to Friday, 8-5.30 when including commute >need to constantly iron work clothes and shave twice as often as I would otherwise because work demands a "smart" look >need to do household chores >need to exercise everyday to counteract constant sitting in a chair >need to read books or else society calls me a pleb >need to do maths or other learning in free time to exercise my brain and recover from mind numbingly boring job >job does pointless as fuck work >you have to socialise and pretend to like your co-workers or else you'll never advance >at the end of it all, you are still considered a failure by society unless you're a banker or doctor etc >zero chance of getting any female attention because I'm not a Chad >currently lying in bed at 1 am waiting for clothes in the drier >have time for just about 6 hours of sleep before the next day, as punishment for not organising my post-work free time with the discipline and structure of a CEO
This is unbelievable. I work for a "respected" employer as well. Life as a bottom 80 % male is awful in 2017.
And I live in London and the tap water tastes awful. This may sound incongruous but it has to be said.
James Taylor
>lives in London >has a steady job >complains
Caleb Bell
>I live in London
You only have yourself to blame m8
Quit your job and do something you enjoy. Life is too short for the 9-5 rat race
Lucas Moore
>he fell for the 9-5 meme
Now you're considered one of the ones that "made it." No normie will ever feel sorry for you.
Asher Foster
Its pointless, isn't it? The only means to fight it is to rebel, but symbolic rebellion doesn't cut it and in fact makes it worse.
Think about how much of your culture's bullshit you've internalised.
Think about how much of your decisions aren't yours but the inevitable result of social programming.
If you're considered a failure by society, that means you have zero incentive to play by the rules- the major reason why compulsory education has destroyed advanced democracies.
You weren't born this way, you were molded and shaped by external forces.
Nathaniel Price
thats why you FI/RE and get out in 10 years OR just go all in on pursuing passion and u either win or lose
David Lewis
>work 6-6 >work 3 days get 3 days off, work 4 days get 4 days off >tech manufacturing so office politics kept to a minimum on the floor >commute is 15 minutes each way
Sometimes wagecucking just works
Tyler Sanders
Wagecucking works when you dont.
My brother is earning about 60K a year and he sits around pretending to work. He got a STEM degree, but works with non-STEM people so by comparison he looks like a genius, but in reality he's usually shitposting on forums or reading manga at work.
Chase Roberts
Your life can be so much better.
First, move out of London. Everyone says there are more opportunities there - and they're right - but there is also A LOT more competition. It's the ultimate rat race. Sure, you might earn 10% more, but your rent is TWICE as much. You'll never be able to own your own property, and you're slowly dying from the stress and pollution.
Every time I go to London I just want to shake these people! Don't they know they don't have to live like this?
Move up North. Instantly, your expenses will be more than halved - but your earnings won't. You'll be able to BUY your own place and you'll actually have wide open spaces and less pollution.
Just move out of London and life will be so much easier.
Jackson Evans
This poster is 55 years old and got married at 22,had 3 kids before 30 and never had casual sex
Juan Price
Why?
I'm 25, unmarried
I have a 3 bed house, my mortgage is £200 a month. No stress to pay it because I have 1 years mortgage in my current account alone.
I make my money via a couple of ecommerce websites. I have a nice easy life with more disposable income than my friends from uni living in London.
I'm basically retired and can grow my businesses and assets whenever I want. Anyone could do this but instead they believe what everyone tells them that life has to be a depressing grind until 70 before a brief few years of respite from wage slavery.
Be smart and comfy. Why do you have to live in London when everything is online nowadays?
Nicholas Ross
>Having kids after 30 its like you want them to have autism
Elijah Richardson
This - unless you work for a big finance institution you can get the same job here in glasgow for just slightly less than london salary and literally half the rent. plus scottish tap water is GOAT
David Hernandez
I don't think he's a woman, user.
Bentley Robinson
>9 to 5 >not 8 to 4 which gives yourself the impression that you have more free time Maybe one day you'll learn to wagecuck as good as me.
Dominic Mitchell
welcome to hell OP
Lucas Rivera
This. I moved to a small local town. Bought a nice house for less than the price of a bare section back home. I can walk to work, I don't work Fridays, and my wife only has to work part time as she's about to pop our kid out
Big cities are for suckers
Aaron Price
The Lee Iacoca method friend, as paraphrased by Wade Alters. "You have to do everything, at the same time, all the time."
When Lee Iaccoca saved Chrysler he was asked what steps he took to save the company. He said, "What steps?"
They were doing marketing, hiring, firing, accounting, everything at once, all the time. That's how life has to be if you want to get rich.
I'm currently bulking, paying off my debt, studying accounting, and writing a novel. Don't quit bro, and keep working. We can all do it.
Ryan Reed
Meanwhile Ahmed and his obese wives with 8 rude kids gets a 6 bedroom house and $6000 monthly check on top of food programs and free healthcare.
Jaxson Price
HOLY SHIT! That last sentence about the tapwater! I live in London too...I feel you bro...Been studying there for a year now, cannot wait to leave from that Chinese Muslim shithole
What job do you have OP?
>tfw you put a bottle of tapwater in the fridge everyday because if the water is not cold af you taste the chlorine >tfw you basically solely drink tea instead of water because of the awful taste
Kayden Foster
7-330 is truly the master race of full time shifts
Elijah Taylor
You mean 100% of your income is from your ecommerce sites? Can you elaborate further
Alexander Anderson
Long. I work at a nuclear power station and take home £3650 a month, the cost of living round here is peanuts and the tap water tastes amazing.
At least tell me you have a cryptocurrency portfolio or you utterly suck at life
Nathan Smith
Please someone take the time to read my blog post:
I'm 22 and an embedded systems engineering student. I like being an engineer, but the mathematics and physics have been soul-crushingly depressing. Hence the last years were a downward spiral into depression.
I'm not sure if I want to do this for the rest of my life, but I'm halfway done and cannot throw it all away now. I'm not too stupid, I'm just a chronic procrastinator.
Also I have terrifying anxiety and panic attacks during exams. I can calculate the hardest problems with a stopwatch at home, but when I'm in exams I just cannot fucking think, the fear of failure and dropping out almost gives me a heart attack and sometimes I just bail out, calling in sick during the exam.
The prospect of working 9-to-5 and not having the time to work on financial independence anymore is my worst nightmare. My girlfriend of 5 years left me a month ago because I wasn't fast enough and didn't earn money quickly enough. I still live with my parents but I'm moving out in 4 months.
Tuition is free here and I earn enough money with crypto now that I can afford to study as long as I want.
What should I do? Do everything I can to finish studies as fast as possible? Quit now and switch majors? Continue studying, lifting and working to build my own online-empire while I still can?
I'm so fucking confused and nobody in the real world can give me good advice.
Please Veeky Forums help me from being another casualty of the rat race
Christian Edwards
Not parents. Why did I write this.
*I'm still living with my mother, who is a fucking insane, toxic person who ruined my father's life
Charles Richardson
Get a brita filter or dont be poor and drink bottled. I lived in london for a few years and i can honestly say i dont think i ever tried to drink the tap water
Jackson Kelly
>I have a 3 bed house, my mortgage is £200 a month
In which city can you get a house that cheap m8?
Justin Flores
arent you tired as fuck waking up that early?
Christopher Mitchell
>31 >no gf >no car >dont drink >small apt in the city >easy 9-5 >$200k saved
Feels pretty good man. If you avoid the roast you can have a chill pleasant life.
Benjamin Sanders
I am not poor. I just don't like to waste my money on bottled water. I refuse to spend money on goddamn bottled water and out of principle I refuse to buy a filter.
Why is the UK such a shithole.
Liam Morris
You're a fucking retard, no wonder you're complaining.
Tap water is shit everywhere you mong. Buy a fucking filter at the very least, or buy bottled water.
Carter Gray
Nyc water is pretty tasty desu senpai
Bentley Martin
hahahahaha you made my laugh cynically >saying tap water is shit everywhere >never been to the Netherlands >glorious tapwater, tastes even better than bottled >being this ignorant and probably gonna write a comeback stating that in the rest of the world it's still shit, so that somehow proves his point
Leo Rogers
>tap water is shit everywhere Speak for yourself, third-worlder.
Isaiah Rivera
Ok. Here is some advice I gave to a bunch of people that were not necessarily in a completely similar position but there are similarities. They thanked me for it, since I guess it worked for them.
1 Start working out. It will boost your confidence, dopa levels and is a natural method to combat depression symptoms. Fuck your gf, just think about moving out of the house and prepare for that. Tinder dates ma niggu. People think it's meaningless sex, it's not. There is a shitton of gf material on there.
2 Just drink more alcohol. Boohoo why do you say that user, you are stoopid for saying that. No, I disagree. I was depressed af, alcohol helped me got over some stuff. I am not saying become an alcoholic but drinking by yourself from time to time is no problem.
3 Regarding you study. I am not a 100% sure what an embedded system engineer does but I assume it is software related, so that already gives you a ton of options for the future. If you're not sure about your current degree just study another one parallel to it. With correct planning it's easier than you think, trust me I know.
4 If you have friends, get them together and talk about possible entrepreneur projects. Every single one nowadays wants to start a business and so do they. Get you heads together and brainstorm. Within no time you'll think of smth good and if you lack the skills just learn them or hire freelancer. Better start now to boost your entrepreneurial skills.
You have to understand that currently you are in a better position than a loottttt of people and I am not talking about Africa or some shit.
Since you're so afraid of exams, you can only get over it by doing more. I was terrified of flying, now I fly between LDN-AMS every to weeks. Not afraid anymore.
Cannot think of anything else atm. Will monitor.
Jordan Williams
*Sorry for the speling errors, forgot to check it beforehand.
Jaxon Carter
Thinking about a filter. I bought a total dissolved solids meter (like $10) to check my tap water, which tastes great. 41ppm on the tap water, compared to bottled water which was 44ppm :/
Checked average for London for op and it's like 350ppm, lol fuck :| I think 500 is the max legally in most places. So yeah, get a filter, they can get that shit down to 1ppm for those delicious non contaminated feels.
Lincoln Morgan
buy an RO filter
Colton Brooks
Thank m8, appreciate the advice.
Already built most of my home gym in basement. I don't drink any alcohol and I'm coping pretty well with loss of GF.
The breakup is not that terrible, the only reason I'm mad is that I wasted so much time not improving myself.
I'm just gonna try to get the degree done while building passive income, lifting heavy and eating right. Gonna make it, no matter what.
Even if I fail, I'm still young and there's limitless possibilities
Ryan Campbell
Quit your job and go work as a farm hand.
People weren't designed to sit in air conditioned offices for 10 hours a day. Your body atrophies and your mind begins to ferment.
Chase Clark
Dude don't go working out at home. Isn't there some gym nearby?
Brayden Gutierrez
Farm handing wrecks your health too.
NEET is the only healthy lifestyle
Dylan Taylor
>31 >dont drink >no gf Please share pics of your fedora collection
Xavier Rodriguez
I know that feel 100%
I literally moved out of London this week (after 26 years), to Manchester. Instead of a shitty 40 minute tube journey every morning I have a comfy 10 minute walk to work. I have an extra hour of free time every single day and you could too, we could be best friends.
Jacob Brown
I work for Morgan Stanley in UK. I live Exactly the same life as you OP, you might have well just described my day. WTF do we do? helppppp
James Jones
Be grateful you even have a job, you whining fuck.
Jaxson Edwards
Fair point.
Jacob Perry
I work in one of those public sector places. Although I (and everyone else, but myself most of all because I am lowest on the totem pole) am so remote from the results of the work my job is just generic office shit.
What is your workplace like? Is it filled with posh Chads? My workplace is a really really generic office job.
Easton Kelly
>Be grateful you are unhappy
NO FUCK YOU
That sort of "be thankful" mentality is for fucking losers.
You wanna win? YOU WANNA WIN AT LIFE? Don't accept mediocrity