How do you guys get up to face everyday...

oh well we're better off without your genes continuing then. better luck in reincarnation!

is it not a legitimate want?

I want something that isn't just a cog in the machine, slaving my limited life away to fill the pockets of the guys at the top with more money.

Figure out a way to monetize on twitch or something. Other people have done it, so you can too.

Then make something and sell it. Or use your talents in a way that someone will trade you money for it. If this sounds broad, it's because what you want is broad. There are many people who live a happy existence trading their time and talents in a way that provides them a consistent pay check. Others do it in a more direct yet more risky fashion. Take your pick.

Currently, the prospect of finding a partner keeps me going but even that is extremely difficult because working nights and being "on call" completely destroys any chance I get. I think about walking out everyday but I know how unrealistic it is and if I actually did, I'd be back to square one and drowning in debt.

As well as proving to my father that I am a hard worker and I can get out of my own difficult situations because he still thinks I'm a fucking loser for some reason.

I'm becoming an alchololic though.

Bitter face
Frida Kahlo, the Costco remix
you're a case
all you got though: free shit
what a waste
how can you not know?
so which is it: love or hate?
you'd rather not know why shit won't lit
fucks hesitate

It wont lit's a Rubik's cubicle
for the new cog to chew off
to sulk with
and flask on
how the sick with it put my mask on

You have a goal and you move toward it.

Idk. I feel more anger than sadness at this point.

Frankly, call me a lazy or whatever, but I think the way we organize ourselves and our production at this point is ridiculous. Most of my life was spent just doing what it takes in order to function socially. A decade of schooling, which took a third of my day away plus the extra time doing homework, studying for tests and a nation-wide entrance exams we have in my country. 90% of what I learned I could do without, but that doesn't matter.

Then there's college. I spent four years pursuing a degree, and I think I read maybe a total of not even 800 pages of pure, textbook shit. Me and everyone I know could learn all that well in a year, one year and half tops. There were certain classes who didn't need to exist. Others who may have to exist, but they certainly didn't have to be presencial. But that's the way things are, so I did it.

Then there's work. 8 hours a day, I work 2 hours a day tops, doing everything they tell me to do and doing it well, and I'd do it better if I could do it at home. But that's the labour laws, so I need to go there and spent a third of my day away doing fuck all for most of the time. Of course, extra work hours in order to not be evicted are taken as granted.

If you take away gym and other things I do in order to function properly socially, I've always had maybe a few hours a day to be "me". So I'm 26, and I don't know what "me" is. I didn't have time to pursue shit other than what I had to keep myself alive. I could easily have not learned math or physics and have had more time to do this. Or maybe I could work 6, 4 hours a week, or maybe just work four or three days a week. The results would be the same. I wouldn't be any less "useful" to society than I currently an. But I'd be happier. There would be less suffering, less stress, less ennui, less boredom, more me. I'd have lived instead of done what I was told to. But that's the way things are, so I have no choice.

>6, 4 hours a week

I mean day.

Did for a while. Got stressed, depressed & lost gf

Do drugs (those that don't do damage, especially long term), find what works for you. Weed, dextroamphetamines, modafinil, benzos (in moderation !!)... whatever it takes, user. Not everyones brain and body works the same, especially not us faggots

Not real sure at this point broseph, I just kind of do it.

Wake up every AM at 4 to get to work at 6, work 'till 6, drive home. Rinse and repeat basically every day. 23 more consecutive 12 hour days looking me in the face before I get some time off, probably gonna wind up snapping at someone again and ruining a relationship but oh well.

This is the second time I've done a long stint like this and he last time I did it I for sure lost a small amount of sanity. Not to mention the loss of gains.

Shit I forgot some of the better ones: acid & shrooms. Microdose that shit, it's craycray.

Faith. I'm depressed and unhappy, trying to figure out how to socialize after being off the market since I was 18 (soon to be 33.)

Divorce was the best. Blood pressure dropped back to normal after hitting 140/100. Down to 190 from 265. All good things. Doesn't do a god damned thing for knowing how to socialize now.

I have faith in myself. Faith in the fact I'll figure it out. I managed to be not so fat, raise my income considerably in 5 years, slowly learning to cook. So I guess I have faith everyday I wake up I'll learn something else that might make me not such a social ruhtard.

I enjoy what I do and have a good chance at a really decent life. I left a job I had no passion in because medical and just been pushing for things I like doing. If it all goes to hell I have back up plans and worst case scenario I'll get tortured to death somewhere.

Great tits

Ornithology is a pretty good hobby.

Sometimes I feel like making money and banging chicks is all there is to life.

I'm tired of playing video games, working out doesn't seem interesting anymore, even talking to people is a chore. The other things besides food, sex, sleep and money that I cared about have kinda faded away.

Not sure what to do there.

I just wish there was more to life but I'm an asocial child in an adult's body so maybe the issue is me.
I just can't deal with it no matter how hard I try, everything is uninteresting to me.

You use meth/ecstasy growing up?

No, just lots of caffeine for a while until I stopped cold turkey if that counts. I did do EC stack for a month but that's pretty short term I think.

You think its desensitization or something?

I just know a lot of people that used it at the weekend (every weekend) and now they're physically incapable of enjoying things. Wondered if there was a link.

Yeah don't quit your day job buddy. That rap career is never getting anywhere.

Let's not kid yourself, if you had more "you" time you'd just spend it all shitposting here.

CHAD is working 4 hours a day and getting BLOWJOBS from his secretary wearing ARMANI SUITS while you have to SLAVE AWAY in the company ladder

well, i still live with my parents but i work from 7am to 5pm every week day, and its hard as fuck, i'm living with my parents because its cheaper and i'm saving for my own apartment, i'm struggling more and more to lift regularly and to eat clean

>I want something that isn't just a cog in the machine, slaving my limited life away to fill the pockets of the guys at the top with more money.
get a loan, open a business that you don't have in the city or in your neighborhood and become the guy at the top

i agree with you, most desk jobs could be done on half of the time, when i was studying i was hired to be a graphic designer on a event organizer company, i made about 20 flyers a week, and i had to go to work and spend 6 hours there, did most of the flyers on the begining of the week and thursday and friday i just was there shitposting here and drinking free energy drinks and eating bagels

>Why does life have to be so difficult?
It doesn't. For most of history humanity was content and despite child mortality, deformity and starvation were generally illness free (that didn't come until we started making cities), war free (that didn't come until we started making borders and defensive structures around resources) and got on with their lives

What we realised then, and what psychology and behavioural science are teaching us now is that to be happy humanity only really needs:

>Regular sunshine
>Regular exercise
>Regular social interaction with peers
>Good diet
>Good sleep
>Daily work towards targets and goals

Get plenty of vitamin D from the sun and exercise and your hormones take care of themselves.
Get plenty of social interaction with people who aren't stuck in shitty moods or shitty lives and your mind takes care of itself.
Get good food and sleep and the body takes care of itself.
Work daily towards your goals and you will gain "motivation" and contentedness- note that people often get this the wrong way round and seek motivation before working on something then get upset when they can't be bothered any more.

Meditate for bonus points but that's all you need in life. If you're still unhappy then you have self imposed insecurities that you're not dealing with- typically "I need to earn money to be considered successful" and "I need to be sought after by girls to be considered valuable and good looking" but there are plenty of others that are founded in childhood insecurity.

tl;dr Sun, exercise, diet, sleep, socialise, work = content

That cute face stands out more than her tits. Nice tits are a dime a dozen.

How do you NOT procrastinate until the last minute to rush everything? Amazing.

I feel that the only thing I learnt at uni was pulling all-nighters to complete a whole semester's worth of assignments and now it has fucked me in adult life.

Why are you here if your life is so amazing?

Speak for yourself, plenty of people on Veeky Forums that are successful and not autistic, this is one of the only acceptable boards to browse on this god forsaken site

he didn't say his life was amazing and the fact that you think a contented life is amazing says a lot about you and where you are in your life
and why wouldn't be be here?

Because I have a family to take care of. I grind through the day so I can see their happy little faces when I come home, and hopefully I will be able to nurture those little brats into good and productive citizens.

Same reason as you: boredom

Currently wasting 30 minutes with a coffee before heading off to the gym

Also why do NEETs all make the same mistake: Thinking rich and successful people don't suffer from exactly the same frustrations, failures and problems that they do. It annoys me every time because it belittles the nature of self progress. To assume that someone has an easier life than you just because they have money is the root cause of poor people ignorance

I've been poor and rich and you have exactly the same problems, just slightly bigger bills and slightly less waiting for transport and getting the bus. Money doesn't buy happiness is cliche for a reason.

>tfw have money
>tfw am happy

Any ways happiness is a choice you don't need (lots of) money to be happy lol

Just enough to have a comfortable ish life

>2 hours of classes every day
>useful major
Pick one

Money does buy happiness. Anybody who claims otherwise either doesn't have any, can't enjoy it due to physical illness, or has mental illnesses (such as depression) that keeps them from being happy.

The first noble truth of buddhism is that life comes with suffering.

Once you accept that it becomes easier; just make the best of your suffering and get on with it.

I work 48 hours a week, 12 hour days for 4 days. I get up at 5am, work 6am - 6pm, go boxing for 7pm and then go to bed for about 9.30pm after cooking chicken for the next day.

It's hard; but I do it because I know if I don't I'll be nothing but a wagecuck. I hate my job and I'm not really interested in money or material possessions; if it wasn't for boxing I probably wouldn't be alive anymore.

I used to escape with drugs and alcohol; now I still escape but it's through boxing. it's still self destructive but fuck it; find your passion and chase it.

>It's hard; but I do it because I know if I don't I'll be nothing but a wagecuck.
But you are one.

not that guy but i was the same as you in uni and since graduating have had an office job w/ barely any work to do

the difference is when you're basically trapped in a work environment and procrastinating means browsing the internet for hours whilst trying to look busy, you kind of want to do something productive

applying for phd's desu cause it seems like w/ research you can balance your own time in a less ridiculous way

I'm so much more than that Pham. Clearly you can't understand though.

Two things

1) Find something you're passionate about and pursue it

2) Find joy in what it is you're doing. And if you can't, stop doing it

My belief comes from stoicism and it has worked well in overcoming the daily grind

>work 48 hours a week, 12 hour days for 4 days.
>I get up at 5am, work 6am - 6pm
>go to bed for about 9.30pm

Lol that's the definition of a wagecuck.

by having a job you love? or at the very least a job that doesn't force you to feel suicidal

>IT specialist

BREHS

think about accomplishing something bigger in your life op. your daily grind is to help you accomplish this goal. if you think like this life gets easier.

What's you're goal?

My day starts at 6:30 AM, my girlfriend and I wake up together and cook breakfast, have some coffee and watch the news. She has to commute, so she leaves earlier than me. I walk the dog and then head out shortly after that. I usually get to work early, lunch is at noon, then I leave at 5.

I've trained myself to go directly from work to the gym, otherwise I feel tired as shit and won't end up going. After the gym I'll cook dinner, read, watch some netflix, or maybe go somewhere with my girl to walk around or go shopping.

My goal is to save and invest as much as possible so that I can be financially independent. I think that if I just had more free time I could be out living my dreams, even though the reality is that I'd probably be a lazy loser, going to the gym but otherwise just sitting around smoking pot all day.

Oh well

stop showing off asshole

Well the way I figure it is like... what the fuck else am I gonna do? I need to make money and I need to have something to do with my time. Might as well fill both needs at once.

It's simple. I'm mostly dead inside and desensitised. There are no lows as there are no highs.

what do you do?

Construction estimation

I go to /r9k/ don't post just lurk and compare how much better my life is and face the toughness of every day.

>an office job w/ barely any work to do
Bro I'm in the exact same situation as you. Thinking of leaving for another company but this is my first job since graduation and I'm afraid I've become too lazy to hold down a "real" job with real responsibilities. I have anxiety over job interviews and don't take failure easily too.

Don't know man
>wake up
>prepare for at most 2 hours from shitting to putting my shoes on
>work (software developer, cool way to say code monkey)
>is it 5 pm? gym for 1hr30min
>come back to work for another hour or two
>go home
>vidya if I'm not tired
For the past 18 months this has been my life. Some weekends I get myself drunk, just this week I was supposed to be on a 5 day leave but I had to cancel it because dumb people from business just changed their requirements for what I was working on and finished and now I have to get their shit done before this month ends.

Also in this position. I spend probably 90% of my time at work browsing 4chin and reading self improvement articles. I want to leave to make more money and be "engaged" in my job, but I really enjoy not having to do shit.

I am depression prone. I have to gamify my daily routine. I make a list of things I want to do everyday, every week, etc and give myself points for doing them.

Does mummy also give you good boy points? Sorry.

What do you do with the points?

why are her nips hard

It's cold.

she should put more clothes on then

Why is his secretary wearing Armani suits?

What do you do with the other 10%? I do spreadsheets, some paperwork and coordinate meetings. It's been 2 years. I don't know why anyone hasn't called me out on my shit yet.

I respectfully disagree.

Because he makes more than you do, too.

no homo

500px.com/david-foto

Nice.

How does a neckbeard like that guy get all these hot women to take off their clothes for him?

because almost everyone else at your job has the same workload.

the 8 hour office day is a crock of shit.

I work as tech support (emails/phone) but also do inventory management and paperwork and a bunch of other shit.
I work 630am to 330pm, and besides the calls I take which can be as little at ~10 minutes total for the whole day I spend almost the whole day on Veeky Forums, reading webcomics/comics/manga/translations.

Most office work is 70-80% downtime.

most of the girls look Russian

Get a new job, a better job or a job with decent people. Ive had 7/8 jobs so far and my current one is the only one ive had where i havent been genuinely disapointed each mornig that the place hadnt burned down overnight

What industry do you work in where you can keep job hopping without any repercussions?

not him but probably blue collar ?

Don't think, get lost in the machine. One day I woke up and realized two years had gone by. Here's to the blink of an eye and another 40.

You're 40? Why are you on Veeky Forums? It's all kids here.

Kek I'm 23 m8, just saying time flies when you're part of the grind.

How did you become okay with it what the fuck. I have been in this for 3 years and its still a struggle.

Pleb jobs really, but this is over the course of 12 years, try the job, get what you can from it bulk your cv (think of it in terms of gyming) then move on, never for less, never for the same, it must be at least slightly better.

Right now its not amazing money, but its the best ive earned so far, im trusted, left alone to do my fucking job (which is a novelty all on its own) am being offered no end of training to keep me seeing as i keep dropping hints about money, and the work gym is well equiped, well kept and cheap.

Camera, money, their low self esteem quite often.

Ukrainian, according to that gallery.

How are you anons NOT pursuing a job you would love? Why even live then?

Its not the 1970s/80s anymore. You got to take any job whether you like it or not in order to have a roof over your head and food on the table. Because if you don't want to do that job, there are hundreds of others who will.

Sounds like something someone working in labor would say, not that I have anything against blue collar workers. What qualifications do you have? If none, have you bothered to attain any?

Stop showing off, asshole. Not everybody can have their dream job like you do.

Being a collegefag is great man. I basically have 5/6 hours of classes a week and the rest I spend at the uni gym. I'm pretty much paying for my gains and some stupid piece of paper later.

I have a bachelor's degree in business but that means I can only do office grunt work.