What is Veeky Forums doing for a living?

What is Veeky Forums doing for a living?

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Living, obviously. Only morons work.

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

Nurse.

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

Collecting NEETbux

I'm a butcher

Leech of me nan

NEET for 10 years

i want to fucking die

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

Also, bone marrow is fucking tasty

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

currently unemployed

Grade tests and TA.

Translator.

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

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

>boning carcasses

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

I work in management consulting

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

MOS 12B

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

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

Ebin.

samefag

how old are you?

I'm a cop you idiot

14

Literally me.

...

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

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

At least you have a major.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

why are there so many schizos on this board??

wtf I want to be schizo now

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

11B?

No.

>inb4 muh combat arms

Here
collecting for schizoid personality disorder and MDD w/ Psychosis

Zookeeper. Lions cheetahs giraffe etc

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What are essential Richman albums besides I, Jonathan?

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

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

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neetu desu

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

At university, hating it and failing

Teaching english

Poetess

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

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

>ess

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

I'm an architect

data management cuck

Kek

How is it? Planned to go to an architecture school

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

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

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

renderporn is the cancer that's killing architecture tbqh

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

professional neet and all in litecoin

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

Book editor and translator. Studying to become a diplomat.

unemployed

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

I want to go back.

Roleplaying while attending education desu ne

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

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

would recommend

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

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

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

If you collect money you aren't self diagnosed

I study physics at uni.

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

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

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

Had me in tears

Well played sir, well played *tips*

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

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

this except the wanting to die part

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

>I don't care where I teach

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

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

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

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

Nothing, mommy gives me everything I need.

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

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

That sounds comfy as fuck dude

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

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

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

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

Indeed.

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