How To Live Life

Oldfags,

was hoping some of you could illuminate those like me who find themselves looking at the life ahead and seeing nothing but bleak grey.

I personally do not consider myself depressed. I'm disgusted with the aimless millennial culture I find myself in and hate to feel like some indecisive leech. I want to be productive and benefit society.

I just haven't found "it" yet, if it does even exist.

>Should I go the college route?
>Trade School?
>Self-educated?
>Skip education altogether and enter the job market some other way?
>What kind of job to take?
>Should it mix with my passions are simply be a means of income?
>Marry young?
>Have kids young or wait a few years into marriage?
>Will I ever really find happiness in any of these facets?

These are the questions I wrestle with - and I'm positive there are countless other autists on this board feeling the same way. Just hoping for some wise red pills from some of the guys that have already walked that road.

Deus vult.

You have one life.
It is a gift.

Really it doesn't matter what you do, so do whatever makes you happy. And not in the shoot up heroin way but in the what would make you proud way.

Who do you look up to and respect? Try to be like them.

Figure out something moderately useful to do like learn a language, go to gym, go to college, etc... while you are trying to find your "purpose". Don't idle away.

Know thyself. If you know you aren't book smart, you might be better off going to trade school. If you struggle with motivation, you gotta put yourself where you'll be forced to perform. Join the army or some shit, I don't know.

Just remember that most people aren't even born, or are born in 3rd world shitholes or without arms & legs or shit like that.

>Skip education altogether and enter the job market some other way?

do this

find a place that has room to grow and you can tolerate

college is a worthless racket right now

Not always. If you can STEM master race without going $100,000 in debt it's not bad. Double plus good if you do your first 2 at community college.

Any ideas on what that might actually look like? I know people make it without college I just don't really understand how outside of people like Steve Jobs.

I am not Steve Jobs.

Do you mind telling me your story? Briefly if you want?

Success isn't being like steve jobs. It's living life on your own terms the way you want to. steve jobs is a fruit eating motherfucker.

Did STEM master race. Learned to make things and learned I enjoyed it.

Now currently not doing STEM shit. I guess you could call me an artisan. I make unique things that people like. I'm not a billionaire but I just bought a house last year so I'm pretty happy.

Kek I know. Just saying the guy had a knack for figuring out alternative ways of living life is all. Not trying to get rich just survive doing what I love...hopefully.

What kind of stuff do you make? Are you a math/science/engineering type person then I'm guessing?

I studied engineering but what was important was learning to work with wood, metals, plastics, etc... I could have learned that somewhere else but I didn't. I don't want to dox myself because what I make is pretty unique.

Also I'd like to add that you can't really "plan" your life. Your like a leaf in a river or some shit like that. You can move a little bit on your own, but the current moves you more, so you gotta see where the current is going and take advantage of it. "You can't adjust the wind, but you can adjust your sails"

So what do you think about the prospect of me going to trade school for something like carpentry or metalwork/welding and then trying to carve my own career out that way? Doing artistic freelance work instead of being a union shill. Is that a real way to make a living or am I some hipster faggot trying for a job with no demand?

It'd be a roll of the dice. You get a good idea and you can work hard and make it happen. Shit ideas and you might as well be sitting in a drum circle. You can adjust your probability of success through hard work, doing research, talking to people to find out what they want, etc... Still a roll of the dice.

You could also go electrician/plumber/welder, it's a good gig but then sometimes everyone gets laid off.

become a mechanic and breed young.
daily reminder that 1488 is success in life. remind your future children

Aren't trades supposed to be the most secure jobs around or is that some meme?

Depends if you're any good at it. I'm pretty happy knowing I could work odd jobs if I had to, although it's nice to make easier money sitting at a nice quiet desk.

Also if you're thinking about having kids, definitely jump right in and do it early. I know exactly zero people who have regretted it.

Are a lot of people able to take it off in their own direction like you have? It just seems like so many people get into the assembly line mentality. Nothing wrong with that I'm just curious. At some pointI'd like not to be breaking my back every day from 7 to 6.

My current job wasn't really my own direction. I needed a job and a friend put in a good word for me. Turned out to be something I could be good at.

Now that I'm not poor anymore I'm starting to think about jumping to something different that I actually would look forward to doing instead of something that's just nothing to complain about.

...

I am 27 and have worked at like 15 different places over the past 9 years. Unless you find a path and stick to it or have rich parents there isn't going to be a bright future.

Just watch out for self fulfilling prophecies, fornication/fornicators, pornography, being a fat fuck, and most of all stop asking Sup Forums for advice you faggot

Similar field?

Thanks for answering all these btw

Beats me. I need to go through the process of hunting around to figure out if there is actually anything I'd wake up looking forward to doing. I'm highly unmotivated, so it's likely that I'll decide it's more realistic to stick to something similar enough to slide into based on my fancy resume and degree.

Problem is fun jobs don't pay as good without putting in a lot of work or owning your own business.

Get a trade
Self-Educate
Get a Robotics Degree After working in your trade
Marry Young to a Good Christian Girl
Have Kids ASAP (after starting your job in Robotics)

Why kids ASAP?

bump

The longer you take, the higher a chance for a birth defect or genetic disease, plus who wants to die before seeing their kids have kids?

Some would argue not having kids is a better route.

I personally do not have an opinion yet

Speaking of, this fuck literally just ranted on a blog after highschool and Alex Jones read it one day and signed him on with a contract. Talk about having it easy. Sometimes I wish i was just a little but more unhinged. Doors would open for me everywhere

Also everything is easier when you're younger and you have more energy. And then that way you're not hunting around for old maids to settle down with etc. And then the kids become the new anchor for meaning and drive in your life, somehow you make things work out no matter what, and then getting old doesn't become such a fixating vexation.

I do know people who have regrets about kids. They are the people who kept putting it off for later. I know some who waited too long and now they're pretty well shafted unless they want to adopt at old age.

Go fuck yourself.
For once OP is not a faggot and you pull this shit.

Actually the reason why is because a woman will get bored and be more likely to spend more of your money, complain more and CHEAT.

Since Technology has made many household and family chores and needs obsolete.

(farming, herb farming, laundry, cooking, canning, taking care of farm animals, taking care of the home, etc.)

Without children, women probably won't even feel they are married or in anything more than a BIG SERIOUS relationship, lol. Women don't even educate children any more.

IMO, sending your children to public school is worse than not having kids at all. You are "raising" and paying for kids so Shlomo MindStealBerg can raise your kids on his United Nations, World Gay Peace ideology full of Judaistic double speak and disinformation.

Basically taught wrong as a joke.

I have more respect for somebody that doesn't have kids than I do for somebody that lets their kids watch tv/reddit and go to public school.

The highest level of respect is held for those parents who raise their own children on their homestead with their traditional, honorable, loyal wife.

A far second is those parents who can afford to keep their kids in private christian schools and then send them to private christian colleges out of the grasp of Schlomo GoyDebtStein.

I'm 35, still a lot to learn in life but I've had some success so far.

Went to college but never finished, decided it was a waste of time.

Ended up taking random jobs in construction-related industries (painting, framing, roofing, drywalling, etc.)

After I learned enough, after 2-3 years, started my own painting company, just my brother and two of our friends in the beginning. Did a bunch of advertising through the local papers, craigslist, flyers at grocery stores and whatnot. Ended up getting a decent amount of work, all four of us were full-time busy. Ended up hiring a bunch more people (slowly at first, 2, then 3 more, then 3 more, etc.) ended up with 16 employees spread across 3 towns (the one I was in and then the next nearest towns on other side) where I was taking a personal cut off each job.

Eventually switched over to drywalling, a bit shitty at first getting things rolling but got established fairly quickly, ended up with about 25 boarders spread among a bunch of different jobsites, I would get paid a lump sum for each site contract and then pay my boarders by the sqft. Once you've got tons of people out doing the work like this you literally don't even have to leave your house if you don't want and you can live comfortably - this, I would say, is the initial goal you want to strive for but it takes some commitment and willingness to risk failure.

If you have the time and the means I'd also recommend trade school (although I didn't go) but it would give you more credibility. For something like painting or drywalling though it's fairly easy to just learn the ins and outs by working for someone else for a couple years, it's really not particularly nuanced.

I wouldn't worry about "passion", just try to make money, especially in the way I described where you can achieve a position where you're having other people work on your behalf and generate income for you passively. That way you're free to do whatever you want with your time.