Don’t you fucking tempt me
To quote the article,
just do it—do it right now.
Ok fine. Wait I don’t have a PS5 and now I don’t have a job. Dang it.
You can come use mine and I’ll use you as inspiration to quit.
You can come use mine and I’ll use you
🤔
There are stranger way for two people to get together. And bump-intos with coffee cups and piles of paper are worn out.
If I did literally nothing else and limited myself to only the barest essentials, I could do that for the rest of my life.
Because you commit suicide after 2 weeks?
What are you waiting for?
Well, some like a little bit of comfort. Just sitting a cold house all day and drinking only water is not for everybody.
Well look at Mr Money Bags over here with access to clean water.
And a house!
A cold house at that! Where I am it’s 30 degrees C in September and everything’s on fire so you can’t even open the windows. I’d love to be in a cold house right now.
The cold is legit pretty nice. The cold is such an infinitely easier problem to fix than warmth, you can just put a coat on or use something like an electric blanket (or central heating but in Europe that is not affordable atm lol) and the issue is entirely solved.
I tend to run pretty hot anyway, so anything over about 25C means I don’t function very well lol. And here it’s been over 25C since about the end of May so I’m really looking forward to the winter at this point.
Why confine yourself to earning a living through wage labour? There are countless other ways to make money
Please tell me how to make money without wage labour.
Selling a product or service on your own without going through a company. Not easy, but hypothetically possible.
In an incredibly basic sense: buy low, sell high. As we live in a capitalist society, this is the way things work.
Those who choose to slave away as workers are only generating profit for their overlords
What do I buy low and sell high?
Other people’s labor
You simply need a diversified portfolio of assets, then you do shorts but don’t do puts or something.
I actually have no idea what any of that means, but I have a friend who does stocks stuff and that’s the sort of thing he says lol.
Drugs.
Bananas
People really do say some dumb shit
Do you have any examples?
What level of FI/RE is that referred to as?
Probably PovertyFIRE (retiring at or below poverty line expenses)
You don’t even need the essentials for the rest of your life!
Look at Mr./Mrs. rich over here
Please don’t tempt me, I am barely holding on.
I’ve made it 9 months since I quit.
Lotta chicken and rice but I thought I’d take my retirement before I die in the food wars
Bruh, I aim to the water wars. That’s starting next year, I believe.
Hmm that’s an interesting chicken or egg problem. Which will come first, the food wars or the water wars?
There are ways to purify your own water, as long as the contaminants aren’t from something like nuclear, biological or chemical warfare. Subsistence farming is a LOT harder.
Especially with increasing effects of climate change. Unexpected droughts, floods, etc can decimate a subsistence farm very quickly
Are you my roomate?
I knew a guy who did something like this, just not with video games.
He got really into BJJ, so he would work for about a month delivering pizzas, then quit and do nothing but train. After a few months he’d run out of money, so he’d go deliver pizzas for another month. Rinse and repeat.
This guy was able to deliver pizza for a month and live off that money for a few months?!
Wtf is this shit 1990s
Gtfo here boomer
He rented out a single room and slept on the floor. He had nothing and he ate mostly free pizza they the place was going to throw out.
yeah when i delivered pizza i barely worried about groceries or food because i had infinite supply of the best food
Living in absolute frugality to pursue his passion. I can respect that.
Sounds like the dream if I didn’t have a wife and dogs to care for. Maybe I should make that call to my therapist
Lol, you couldn’t do that in 1990 either. You could barely afford to pay your portion of the rent on the 2 bd apartment you split with 4 people from a part-time pizza delivery job.
It’s Brasilian Jiu-jitsu. Saved you a Google search.
I don’t understand why everyone in the internet thinks people will understand their niche subcultures’ acronyms. US military people are the worst culprits.
Thanks. I thought it was blow jobs with extra emphasis on the jobs part
Blowjob Job? Intriguing…
There are still positions available behind the Wendy’s dumpster.
As someone that does BJJ, I wonder how sustainable this is. It’s not particularly great on the body, so the idea of training when you feel like it, and then taking time off to rest through work sounds nice in theory, but the reality is that unless you’ve got incredible genetics or are just starting out in that white belt beginner phase, you’re going to just end up hurt.
Don’t get me wrong, I see it all the time, but it’s not sustainable in the time it takes to get good. Ultimately you just end up as that poor twenty-something blue belt with the knees and hips of a fifty-something, still getting smeshed by higher belts.
I knew a guy who loved to travel. He would work for 1 year abroad teaching English, and then live for about 5 years off his earnings, while traveling the world. He managed about 12 years abroad before getting killed in a motorcycle accident in SE Asia.
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How do you justify a burnout break in interviews? I expec them (interviewers) to be as inhumane as possible.
I’m autistic as fuck and could not get employed for years.
You have to lie. Lying is the secret trick to getting a job. Get help lying from people willing to lie for you, and lie about your work experience. Fuck bourgoiuse ethics, you deserve to live and these fuckers gated it behind this kafkaesque song and dance, so just lie to their faces like they’re lying to yours so you can get paid enough to live indoors.
It’s never OK to lie to a business. Don’t do that.
I dont think people are reading the username here lmao
It’s never OK to lie to a business.
why not?
How are they supposed to make an informed decision to hire you or not if you’re just lying about everything? Maybe you should start your own business and see if you like people lying to you when you’re trying to find good help
can’t tell if this is a bit or a boomer
How hard is it to tell the truth? When I got my first job I walked straight into the place I wanted to work and stuck out my hand to the boss, I said “Uncle Mike, I’m ready to work” and he hired me on the spot. I was able to save up a few hundred thousand in the first year working there and after that I made some good investments, now I’m a successful landlord and business owner. Today’s kids don’t want to do the leg work.
Trained other skills.
Don’t mention it was gaming skills, lol
Im tired, boss
So tired…
Volunteered abroad. Good luck with them checking.
In foreign nations, all virtual ones
Honestly, I don’t have a technical background at all, my background is social work and physical security. I have always gotten approval by telling people I got a lucky hit in the stock market and used that money to float while I looked for other opportunities. It is true, but about three jobs ago. Still works though!
What the software?
I’ve been jobless for around 2 years now because of depression and shit, finally got back into working and I hate myself for not starting up my world of warcraft career back up. I could be a wow king by now 🙃😂
As someone who is currently neglecting their offline life again becausenof that game (Classic Hardcore goes brrr) - be glad that you didn’t :D
I’ve done that before. When I quit I stood in Orgrimar and gave out 10,000 gold to everyone who asked. That was a shit load of gold back then, although it might not be now. But I completely changed the Azeroth life of a dozen or so people.
If that doesn’t work there’s always plan b: drinking yourself to death
Following in smashmouth guy’s footsteps, brave
Hey now
You’re an all-star
Get your game on
Party till you’re homeless
Definitely do this, except replace playstation with heroin.
For real. Who has money for a PS5?
I’ve seen for my PlayStation 1 backlog to get through
Por que no los dos?
Because depressants will make you suck at video games. You gotta get into stimulants to combo with gaming. On the plus side, if you get into meth or crack, you’ll have the energy to hold down a part time job and full time gaming addiction for a few months before you start to come apart! Then you’ll have a few more months of just cracked out gaming after you get fired before you’re evicted. If you’re lucky and steal some wifi, you could eek out a whole year of 40+ hour gaming weeks of erratic, aggressive high level play. You’ll set random records. You’ll birth new slurs to yell at children. You’re not gonna accomplish any of that on heroin. You’re really gonna let people down on heroin.
I used to have a few meth heads come hang out at my house when I was 20, the quietest they were, was when I would ask them to finish a game for me so i could just fuck around in the world, didn’t matter what game, they’d finish it in no time.
This comment was wayyyyy too palatial.
The comment resembles a palace?
i did this last winter; i firmly believe everyone has and needs slovenly unemployment periods to remind you of the perils of not working [but in equal measure, the bliss of not working and the amount of luxury you can just coast on]
I’m doing this right now. It’s the first time in 10 years I haven’t had someplace I needed to be 5 days a week. It’s really changing my perspective on what I need out of a job and what I could be improving in my life if I weren’t spending that time working.
Ugh I wish… been working since I was 15 and I guess had the luxury of never not having a job? 25 years now and the longest break I have ever seen was 3 weeks for the birth of 1 of my children. The other was only 2 weeks. I can also count the amount of times I had 2 weeks off which was 3 times. The rest has been the normal 1 week off twice a year with a few other days here and there… I’m so tired.
This is horrific. I complain at my 5 week a year allowance sometimes because I feel It’s not enough to avoid burnout at some points in the year… My productivity drops substantially after around 2 months with no break. I still output of course but if I take a two-three week summer break I come back dealing with issues that almost destroyed me before the break within hours or minutes and I can manage my team far more naturally. I think 8 weeks per year of holiday would genuinely boost my output overall.
Holy Christ I’m not the person you replied to and I am lucky if I take a total of about 11 days off throughout an entire year…
I feel permanently burnt out and would happily put a gun in my mouth just to have it be over with.
I also forgot to mention the current place I have been with is 24/7 and have been here for 17 years now. Since we’re 24/7 we only provide the bare minimum federal holidays a year which is 6. I also am technically always on call so if the stuff I support has an issue i can be called anytime any day even on vacation, which has happened the past 3, although not this year! I will say over my time of being here emergency calls are far and between these days thankfully. I almost can’t wait for the day they fire me, I am so trained to be stressed I don’t know what the other feels like anymore.
Like damn I’m in the exact same boat. Same number of years on the job and everything.
I always considered myself lucky to not be unemployed, while all my friends got laid off over the years due to the .com crash, housing crash, and COVID.
But maybe they were the lucky ones?
If only I had a PS5…
So I can quit my job and play PS5 for 15 minutes?
I could go back in time???
Literally what I have been doing since last month. I made it a bit more challenging by going on a vacation for a week too.
The guy in the picture is not playing FIFA. If he was he’d be frowning and smashing his controller
I don’t think anyone playing any game has that expression on their face while playing.
You have never seen someone play Animal Crossing or Stardew Valley have you?
Nintendo Australia has captured the face when playing perfectly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIJODMsYbkc
The silent pain of existence.
The real TotK experience is spending 10 minutes creating an overcomplicated vehicle with the slightly fiddly controls, before accidentally hitting it and watching it zoom off into the distance…
