Loving technology: after-basement life

Hey Sup Forums, I wanted to talk to you about how much you still love and value computers and related tech after being thrown into real life with its struggles and responsibilities and constant lack of time.
I personally was a big fan of tinkering with hardware and software, rooting phones, multi-booting etc, until I got a job.

For those who stilly study or enjoy NEET life - a job (not always, but more than often) is a way of life when you spend, depending on various factors, 8-12 hours working at a remote location and commuting to that location. It consumes most of your decision making, creative and mental resources and then you go home.

And even though the things I do at work are incomparably more complex than the hobbyist stuff I entertained myself with a couple years ago... and I "like" my job... I don't feel the same excitement when becoming familiar with a new project, framework or programming trick, like i did when I was doing the computer stuff for fun. And I don't believe the office managers with their cringey strategies to improve working atmosphere can help.

How does one deal with this feel?

>tinkering with hardware and software, rooting phones, multi-booting etc
how long did it take to google up the buzzwords

Those are just some of the most common things basement fellas entertain themselves here. Don't be a dick.

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same for me
I'm 25 and recently started to work at a normal 8 hour job. A few months ago I built a PC but now it's useless because I don't even use it anymore. And even when I do, only for watching videos and things like that.

>Want to do nothing but study all day and read scientific journals.
>Use to spend hours just studying whatever the fuck was interesting.
>Learned alot.

Fast forward one year.
>Forced to get a job or be homeless.
>Simple job for Apple Tech Support.
>Still have passion for learning, but no time.
>Never went to college because was poor.

I'm doomed to a life of worker-bee status. The tech I deal with is so low level it's painful. And how to deal with it? Well I purchased a Glock two days ago so I'm considering my options.

I have enough money to build virtually any computer I want, the problem is I won't use it, and 90% of my internet usage for personal things is done on my phone.
use my 4 year old PC, which was once capable of running GTA V, for programming, google docs and reading news.

You are doing it wrong famalam. You do tinkering during your job, and tell the project managers that it's something necessary if you even dare to question you. You just have to make up for the time "lost" by being better than everyone else at your workplace.

I feel ya, just got a job that forces me to spend almost 12 hours elsewhere leaving me with almost no time to tinker with technology.

I recently rebuilt my PC, but the process was not enjoyable because I was on a fucking time constraint due to my fucking job, so I had to rush everything instead of taking my time.

me too user iktf
>built i7-4790k rig and last year upgraded the gtx680 gpu to a gtx1080 fast forward a few months ago and started work at a warehouse for 6 to 10 hours a day when I used to be a jobless neet now gaming pc is gathering dust 24/7 turned-off and I use my RN3P phone all the time for internet and stream anime instead of torrenting it.

>How does one deal with this feel?
You don't

>I'll have to eventually take a job

No please, send help.
Where the fuck is my universal income check?

user please, there gotta be the next step.

>Hey Sup Forums, I wanted to talk to you about how much you still love and value computers and related tech after being thrown into real life with its struggles and responsibilities and constant lack of time.
>And I don't believe the office managers with their cringey strategies to improve working atmosphere can help.
>How does one deal with this feel?
Here's my personal deal user.
I recently (about two weeks ago) got a job as a high school teacher in a rural area teaching a module called ICT (Info and Comms Tech). Since I'm given free reign on how I teach the module (there's just "goals" on what students need to learn) they I crammed whatever I felt like so I'm teaching programming, video edition, sound edition and digital arts.
I do have to deal with all the nuisance of working on a school (retarded staff, retarded students, poor equipment, etc.) but I'm just an elitist fuck with no regard for talentless people who aren't willing to an effort into it, which annoys everyone. How do I deal with this? Zero fucks given. I'm aware I can be fired any second, but that's the way I want to live.
Also I'm not exactly a NEET. I'm an engineer with a masters I did overseas.

That's literally it user. You wanna deal with it, that's on you.
You always have the option to leave. Or plan how you're gonna use this chance to build a better CV.

just become unemployed and enjoy the fruits of the welfare state. after all the alternative is to work and get robbed blind by income taxes and health care contributions. if the feminist left wanted the welfare state so hard - why not enjoy it? it's going to collapse anyways and your fancy job and accumulated money will be worth shit once a new system arises. and by being a tech tinkering neet you will have valuable skills for the new order to make a fortune.

>not just getting autismbux and living life on a free ride while autistically tinkering with electronics

There's literally no way my Eastern European country will become a socialist paradise anytime soon.

Yet we still getting robbed by all sorts of taxes.

You have it good in that case, in eastern europe there are no migranst so you can actually get a job if you want.

I'm in Spain and there are no jobs here because the degree market is saturated and the migrants took al non-university jobs.

At least you have summer

>he thinks heat is good
I hope you are kidding, you don't know how good people living in rainy and cloudy and low temps have it. The feeling of being put into an oven gets old real fast.
Guess it must be a meme in the north but it's fucking shit.
Scottish/Irish climate is the White Man's biome.

What new order are you imagining where a strong work ethic and cash savings are worth less than knowing how to install the best anime streaming distro

>no point of owning/wearing white clothes; I mean you can try, I hope you like washing your shoes and pants every day
>enjoy getting cold and sick even when with the healthiest lifestyle 1-4 times a year
>A car is a must. I hope you can afford Taxify (local Uber) unless you really like getting to work covered in dirt

I honestly would rather chill in the shadow of some coffeeshop during my 4 hour siesta, amigo

Dude, I bet you have never felt that humid oven feel of being at ~45ยบ celsius in the shadow. I was born for cold, people here wear jackets and heavy clothing in the winter and I just wear a think sweater, I'm very insensibilized to cold.
What I can't stand is heat.

Also on your side
>computer can be cool even with stock cooler due to ambient temps
Come on.

>I'm very insensibilized to cold
I think we both underestimate the extremities of the climates in each others countries.

That might be. There must be a middle comfy ground.

>implying having a job means you have strong work ethics
how's that facebook browsing from the office computer doing?
most modern jobs are: do this shit in this way. only few jobs let you enough creative headroom to come up with your own processes and solutions.
in a world where there is no one to tell you what to do, when to do it and how to do it your average office drone will be running around like a headless chicken.
people who are able to learn on their own, to improvise and don't fear unknown shit will be able to thrive.
and here I have more trust in your anime streaming distro installing neet than in your average worker bee who does what he's told to and spends 60% of his work time on plebbit and facebook.

there is: west Germany. we have mild wet summers and mild wet winters. most summer days are rainy and most winter days are rainy. winter temps are around 10C and summer temps are around 25C. only few days have extremes like -3C or 32C. rest of the time it's spectacularly boring.

There is a middle ground and it's comfy.
Come to Croatia we have a beautiful sea. You should go on your vacation next summer to Zadar and stay at hotel Ravija. If you ever come ask for Borko and tell me that you're from Sup Forums.

Sounds comfy as fuck, I love rain. The smell rain leaves in the air really makes you feel alive.

Shame about the rape arabs and sjws though.

I can't find the hotel Ravija online, thanks for the invitation. Don't back out if a guy ever comes asking for Borko hahaha.

Yeah, I couldn't either. Neat idea for a vacation though.

np
we still don't have a website or anything on the internet but it is nice believe me
t.croatianshill

I like computers but not as much as when I was NEET

1733 annual hours of sun in my city, get on my level

I am my own boss here where I work. I'm only responsible for the result, no one bothers me during a sprint, I deliver. I don't fuck around too much, maybe spend about 1 hour a day in group chats but that's it. If I ever run out of work I clean up my code, read some books/work-related articles, etc.