anybody else fall for the go live alone in a city for a corporate job paying exorbitant amounts of rent and blowing your money on trying to get laid and be popular meme?
it's literally the natural extension of the average college experience so i can't be the only one.
at first i felt like edward norton in fight club but now that the freedom of saying fuck you to the economic rat race is fading, i'm feeling some pretty heavy existential despair.
what the fuck am i supposed to do with my life?
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Yes, and it's a waste of time getting drunk going to bars and trying to get laid. I found that out after a few months on my own in NYC.
Ed Norton's character would've been like that at first before Fight Club started. Then he became the antithesis to that sort of lifestyle.
You're not saying fuck you to the economic rat race by boozing all the time and womanizing. You're a cog in the machine.
Not be a whiny faggot and go work for your life you entitled brat
You work, yoy get money and yoy fuck.
Its how nature works, its how you and me work.
Hurr durr I make shit money and live in an expensive city waaaaaa it's society's fault.
God dam I hope all you millennial pussies die in a fire
>not blowing your disposable income in anime figurines and video games
you goofed up
You need to start having as many kids as you can. Start a family!
im not even mad cause i've literally transcended your paradigm of "money = survival" money isn't even remotely survival, it's just comfort and luxury. my dad is a near billionaire. i don't technically need to work another day in my life anyways.
right now i'm at: 50% join an amish community and 50% join the military.
what about the priesthood
I am literally in the exact same position as you. I graduated last December and moved to North Carolina for a job at a software company in the RTP area. I got a very expensive apartment downtown to chase pussy, etc.
I know exactly what you mean about Edward Norton. At first it was so fun buying nice things to fill up my apartment with, but I soon realized how unfulfilling it was. Not to mention I am basically living paycheck to paycheck.
I've been going through a pretty heavy existential crisis myself. I was always popular growing up in my home state and I have plenty of friends back home, but it's a lot more difficult to make all new friends in a new city when you're in your late 20s and you hold the kind of views we do here on Sup Forums. Most males are just too cucked and beta to hang around with and chasing females is a pain in the ass (not to mention expensive).
So basically, I go to work all day to afford the ability to come home at night and browse Sup Forums for a few hours alone before I have to go to bed and start the process over.
The big existential crisis for me has been, what is the point? What is the point of trading away 70% of your free time for the ability to live the other 30%? Especially when the other 30% is very unfulfilling.
Everyone says I just need to "get out" and "meet people", but that's so much easier said than done...
i've realized that i (and everyone else in the city) just connect with people based on whole list of meaningless criteria and create this figurative cardboard cutout of that individual in my head that i interact with. i don't even remember the last time i had a deep, personal connection with someone where i saw them for who they are and not for their salary/politics/status/etc.
Oh so your goal is to just mooch off your dad and not make a name for yourself.
I can smell you entitlement and I'm in the middle of the pacific fucking ocean
How do you just quit your job? Where do you live? How do you eat? How do you afford to buy guns and shit?
Easy there, Cyprus.
Exactly. I know what you mean. We're surrounded by people all day but we're starved for connection. The only time I have a real connection with someone it's one of my old friends when I'm back home visiting (like I am now).
>what the fuck am i supposed to do with my life?
Save six month's living expenses
Move somewhere awesome
Volunteer doing something you like/with an organization you like
Side hustles for income until "dream job" type shit materializes
Ask God to direct your thoughts and actions; leave the rest of the shit up to Him
Lift
Read
Learn to cook
Keep saving money
Learn to shoot
Source: I've pulled up stakes and moved to entirely new, sometimes rural areas, several times. It always works out.
Another moment that really made me wistful was when my grandfather was telling me about how his neighborhood used to and eat dinner together once or twice a week. My closest experience to that is as a kid going next door to ask for butter and sugar. Even that is out of the question now.
He said money isn't needed to live, it's needed for comfort, which translates to "I am a burden on my parents"
>he fell for the corpowhore meme
head to nebraska and start plowing the land with your spilled seeds
Cities where the jobs be at
>blowing your money on trying to get laid and being popular
Holy shit you are awful at the yuppie lifestyle. Not only are you not supposed to try to be popular and save your money like a jewfiend, but you're supposed to bang hookers with your money, not try to worship bar sluts.
The sluts will naturally come to you when you're ready, but you see cearly not ready because you were doing it all wrong.
It's not just city dwellers that go through it though.
I had a trade. Started out making decent money for a 19 yo. I stayed with the company cause that's what you do. Wages started to stagnate, a lot of our brands got shipped overseas and shut down, my job basically went away in 2010.
The company then started grooming me for management and to eventually take over as owner. I was stuck at $15 HR though but they basically left me to it for half of the day since they were nearing retirement.
After 4 years they called me in one day and said they were closing down the company and retiring. Thanks for all the hard work blah blah blah.
I spent almost a year looking for a new job but couldn't find anything in my trade. Even companies that I had taught some of their employees how to do their jobs wouldn't hire me. Things were shit.
I'm working on a new trade now, finally back up to making what I was.
It's a no stress job and I love it. There's potential to make good money if I work hard but in this trade it's all about your work, no competition.
The company is also international so I can move if I want. Awesome benefits despite low pay.
All of it made me realize I don't need a lot to live. Before I was about to pull the trigger on buying more of a house than I needed. I would've been fucked. Now I'm building my own home, no loans, 100% paid for.
My parents do help when I need it but that's what they are for. As long as you don't leech off of them it's ok.
>Not living in rural areas
Yea fuck that
First you get the numbers
Then you get the power
Then you get the women
Digits is where it's at my man.
>what the fuck am i supposed to do with my life?
Take the Jordan Peterson challenge. And with these simple steps attain mastery over your destiny in a new life imbued with rich meaning. srsly. ggl it faggot
>at first i felt like edward norton in fight club but now that the freedom of saying fuck you to the economic rat race is fading, i'm feeling some pretty heavy existential despair.
this is normal and wears off after a few months of not working. theres the dread of feeling like there is something productive that you should do. but theres not.
im retired at 29. middle class by third world standards and poor by first world. but I can afford my daily iced coffee and beer everyday, young pussy, and tropical atmosphere mixed with jungle cities got me not caring about whats going on in the world today.
just relax, stop thinking there is something to be done, and live. its something that most people will never have the opportunity to do.
What do you do for work?
I did home electronics repair, home wiring, and custom home theater. The industry is in turmoil right now due to wireless technology and thing just basically being easier to install.
I moved over to building maintenance. Shits chill.
All I do is fix things, which I love to do. Always have.
It's also for a church. Everyone is nice but I rarely see them. I just do my thing all day.
It gives you a feeling of accomplishment to see something tangible that you built or repaired.
Thanks for the quality bants, French Pol
I quit my office job two years ago after training to be a truck driver and I couldn't be happier.
>Ask God to direct your thoughts and actions; leave the rest of the shit up to Him
LOL
What would you guys do in my position? I'm currently applying for and interviewing for software jobs out of college.
>Try to stay in city I went to college in (Columbus) with all of my friends and near family, take a somewhat lower paying job
or
>uproot and go to another city, make slightly more, start from scratch
Sounds comfy
I had a decent office job, got cut and now I'm down to a casual position (shift work, phone operator in healthcare). I'll be lucky if I ever find a full time gig with the same pay, now looking at what jobs I can do from home that aren't $12/hour bothering people for surveys.
You're describing my twenties to a tee.
If you've got some cash saved up I'd recommend traveling for a spell. Go slow and take your time. Savour different spots and respect their singularity. Depending on your travel style (and your savings, I guess) months can easily turn into years.
The angst should wash off pretty quick once you're moving. And if it sets in again, keep to a place you find nurturing to assess your state and plan your next move.
Move somewhere with midwest rents but west coast salary. Should be possible if you are a software dev. Everything else is cucking yourself.
here's what i would have done differently
1) STAY WITH YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY AT ALL COSTS
2) AVOID THE CITY, LIVE OUTSIDE THE CITY, FUCK THE CITY
3) BE A LEADER DONT LET UR FRIENDS STRIP U DRY WITH THEIR SHITTY CITY LIFE ACTIVITES
4) DONT STICK UR DICK IN SHIT YOU DONT ACTUALLY WANNA BE IN A RELATIONSHIP WITH
5) HAVE KIDS FUCKING ASAP JESUS DID I FUCK UP HERE
>"get out" and "meet people"
Also in the triangle. I do go out and meet people and they almost always suck. Often find the only halfway interesting conversations are with some old vet at the end of the bar.
I left NYC a year ago and moved to Florida. Self employed. Korean gf. Spend most of my days getting blowies and eating delivery or working out. 28. Glad I didn't fall for the big city corporate meme.
The last 4 years at the last company I was the office bitch. I hated it. I certainly don't want to work outside all the time but I get a good mix with this.
You gotta find where you want to be. Some people like the outdoors 24/7. Some like a mix like me. Some never want to go outside at all. Just gotta try things I guess.
But you will end up at 100% wait for father to die and inherit the family fortune then die at 90 having achieved nothing
Fuck off
Become Christian and fight for truth and justice in the world.
i've achieved more @ 28 than most people do in entire lifetimes tbqh senpai, thanks for your concern troll tho
Come to the Tampa Bay Area. We have all the luxuries of Manhattan at half the price and a constant flow of young women on vacation/going to college. It's perfect. Moving was the best decision I ever made.
This
I work in IT in Texas and rent is cheap. I only pay $600/m because I have a roommate
wow I didn't even know you existed
Googled it.
literally nothing
>a fucking leaf
Currently working in LA for a company.
Rent is not a fucking joke here.
The few hours of free time I do have after work is spent working out, browsing pol, or playing vidya.
Loneliness follows me everywhere, I think people can sense it, so I mostly stay in my apartment.
I'm dating my college gf long distance. I regret moving to this meme city and not living with her.
I feel like I should be depressed but I think being a wage slave has broken me so that I just accept my life for what it is now.
Relax faggot, go earn money in the country side instead
i hear dogfucking is legal in Canadia
Your long distance gf will almost certainly be getting fucked behind your back m8
>what the fuck am i supposed to do with my life?
What the fuck you want to do, also I am living in a city paying far too much for rent but I am activity looking for work else were so the cost of living comes down now I am moving into senior territory of my job
It's all fucked my man.
I'd say spend time around your friends n shit n stuff.
I'm currently "studying" a worthless (((degree))) that will get me nowhere and it's not like I'll get any money here because there are no jobs.
Considering the military but I think I just like the memes I saw in Hollywood films, not the real deal.
Maybe I'd move to the US and learn a trade, depends on what Trump does.
This
>just get out and meet people user!
its just a distraction to help you not kill yourself. i suggest you join an bjj/mma gym and start fighting
Is your gf named Ashley?
And then what?
What do you do when you can sustain yourself alive?
Live? but what is living? It's not like I'll die right now anyways. You dont disappear, you are still here.
What do you do then?
I started exercising and being proficient at fighting.
Its all a meme.
I still dont get laid. I'm still an autist. I'm still addicted to information and the chans. I still hate crowds of people and normie things.
Nothing changes man.
Yeah. I ended up getting fucking married so now I feel more stuck than ever.
This is no life.
First, I don't believe you.
Second, why are you even posting then? If you don't like the city, go be rich somewhere else and live it up with daddy's money.
What's your problem?
Send me all those funds on paypal, money is evil my man I'll take that burden away from you.
Go live like a hermit free from sin.
Nah she lives with her parents and is too busy with work/school
Even if she did I wouldn't be devastated because as soon as I break up I'd go for the hot girls here in LA. It's pretty easy to get pussy if youre not a complete nu male cuck and have money.
What really would make me sad is if the rest of my life was destined to be a wage slave
join the military, become a real man
I did this too.
literally, COME HOME (to the country where you belong) WHITE MAN. There's nothing for you in the cities.
It actually is though.
bjj/mma is the outlet for aggression not a way to get laid
trust me. start fighting. soon i am gonna compete in bjj (tournament soon) then start striking and compete in amateur mma
fighting is what is missing from your life, this aggression is necessary
>blowing your money on trying to get laid and be popular meme?
lol why?
I play vidya and try to save my money for nice things.
Do you think you're alone?
Do you think that makes you special?
Centuries-old literature reached that conclusion ages ago, just google "Beatus Ille"
Even TELEVISION reached this conclusion already. Even the most basic bitch of television networks reached that conclusion: the CW. youtube.com
I'm sorry your existential dread "made" you quit your job. You won't be happy anywhere else. In fact, you made yourself a little more unhappy by quitting your job. What are you gonna do? Move to a small hick town where, sure, everyone is white but you're still unhappy? Move back home, where you hate your parents? You've uncovered a basic truth of life and it only took you 20+ years. Congratulations.
Dude I'm already fighting and winning, I dont have the body to be a fighter, I do krav maga and quite effectively already.
I dont feel like Jason Bourne. I'm still an autist. I'm still looked down upon by some normies and praised by some other retards, Im getting ripped but I'm still as retarded as always and I'm still circling the same routines. My dich isnt even small, nothing changes. Nothing.
why there are so many IT faggots in here? seems like 50% is CS stuff the other half is everything else
> Columbus, OH
I was there not long ago. Just kill yourself. That city should give you a gun with 2 bullets and instructions on how to kill yourself. I hated that place
STEM is for women and minorities now. Tons of us are out of work Didnt get the memo?
Women and minorities can only do civil engineering, CS, and Biology. If you studied any of those, you deserve to be unemployed.
My bro is cuz white male civil engineer and does bretty gud
Fuck that, as soon as I save enough I'm pursuing what I want to do full time
Currently have like 20k saved up, 2 more years of working corporate and I should be ready to leave this shithole
Be careful though.
If your problem is personal you wont solve anything for moving somewhere else.
Also many people fuck their lives for moving and leaving a steady income source to "pursue their dreams" which is just a meme and not real.
Whatever you want to start you can start right now while you're doing what you're currently doing as well.
Kids dumbass. Dedicate your life to creating a message worth spreading and plant that fucking seed. I got 2 growing now. Mrs and I are going for a third now.
I want twins.
Very true, in fact I'm working towards my personal goals on the side, but I really need to stop giving my free time to the vidya jew
This guy gets it.
>5) HAVE KIDS FUCKING ASAP JESUS DID I FUCK UP HERE
What exactly do you mean by this?
I got off the vidya jew a long time ago but you'll end up being a slave to another jew with time.
Our world is filled with them. The porn jew, the chans jew, the youtube jew, the online forum jew, the tv jew, the party jew, etc....
that he regrets not having kids sooner
be like Trump and start your own personal "MAKE user'S LIFE GREAT AGAIN" campaign.
maybe start by looking into having your own business, make sure you get paid top notch, find a cute gf, raise a family and bam, life's all much better.
>vidya jew
the vidya jew actually really sucks.
it was a late and desperate realization in my case though even though I love games. not doing that much at all anymore. I'd rather just have work and just socialize once I'm free. there will be a point where you'll literally ditch vidya completely. it just took me until I was 28.
Try learning a language. It doesn't require any more mental effort than gaymen, and it's rather enjoyable practising your skills with people over the Internet. It's just a great investment in time, very fulfilling.
Oh, that makes sense. I want kids so fucking bad but I'm 29 now and haven't even had a girlfriend. I've tried looking, but the women here seem to all be utterly humourless and devoid of personality, or completely histrionic and materialistic. And the one girl I liked gave me the cold shoulder.
I'm not asking for that much, I just want a normal, stable family and relationship.
Personally I found my sanity in friendship and service to my country. Desperately trying to get laid while having your entire life revolve in service of that goal is beyond beta, it's fucking stupid.
Whatever you do, you should enjoy it and it should provide you with a meaning to life. Military life has tons of benefits but you need to have your head on straight, To many guys treat it like a dead end job without any ambition
also, city life is god damn near impossible for anyone who hasn't been born in the city. It takes years to get contacts up and running. Every person that moves to a city is doomed to be a lonely cuck/catwoman if he/she ain't a social animal