/lit/ - Literature

Just reminded me of this pasta, thanks OP

>>14075887
lel, that was a fun reread

as for OP, shouldn'ta swallowed the stempill. Lit grad student here, living the good life (while it lasts)

>>14075895
I was told by everyone engineering degrees were one of the best ways to get employed

>>14075701
after months of applying for random jobs i finally got an interview as a cashier, my life is over i can feel it, i won't have time to read and i'll retreat into mediocrity slowly but surely, i hope i get the job because i need money so bad, but also damn this is this end, i wish i was born rich so i can be a NEET for life

I’m the reverse. You’ll hate me, but I’ve gotten a fair amount of job requests (none terrific, math tutors, assistant teachers, analyst at provincial companies), but I don’t want to work at all.

>>14075920
that's your problem, studying to be employed, and believing the money hype. Do you have a passion for engineering, or is it nothing more than a job?

>>14075950
I don’t care. I despise almost everything except reading, writing, getting drunk, eating, and watching movies.

>>14075701
Im in the same boat, anon. I had a few interviews this summer but have stopped getting them since. I force myself to send out at least two or three applications every day, but its so dishearening. I know every application I send is just going to get tossed in the trash. A Smith and Wesson sandwich is starting to seem real tasty.

>>14075962
You’ll be fine. Plenty of unqualified idiots have great jobs. Just trying and make some friends or present yourself well. Apply for jobs your unqualified for, invest, write erotica, think outside the box. Funeral directors make over 100k a year. Anon, don’t give up on life. You’ll be fine

>>14075961
Same. I recently resigned being a manager for the reason of I can’t fucking even think about other things.

>>14075971
I was just being dramatic, I'm not really gonna neck myself lol. But yeah I know I need to broaden my horizons when it comes to a job search. Months and months of rejection start to wear on the psyche, you know?

>>14075961
i'm assuming you're 22. it sucks shit for a few years out the gate. what you really need to do in your mid 20s is find what you're passionate about. What is going to be your contribution to this world? For me, it's writing poetry.

I have a bachelors in neuroscience and been unemployed since Nov last year. I want to kms every day because my mother wont let me NEET in peace. LIKE FUCK I JUST WANT TO READ MY THEORY AND DOSTOE ALONEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>14075985
Not op. Too bad there’s no money in poetry. I’ve had a literary magazine online for some years now, just for shits, but I’ve met other people that have emailed me through it that make me believe I can really make something in print. Again, there’s no money in it, but if you do what you love, money will come, I believe.

>>14075985
I’m 23 and I can’t buy into that. I love writing, but I’d rather my works not be read, because I don’t need a bunch of cackling seals or intellectual bureaucrats picking me apart or unduly praising me. I think that’s best to be unnoticed. I’d like to have a kid or 2 and a nice wife in a quaint New England or European town though, so that’s something I could hope to achieve.

>>14075980
Yeah rejection always hurts. I’d be dissatisfied if I were you too, but you’re probably not an idiot so barring something unfortunate you’ll be fine

I finished my degree in EE in December 2017...took just a little over a year to find a ""real"" job with actual decent pay/benefits. Hang in there fren

>>14075701
>be me
>poor
>immigrant
>first generation college student
>go to one of the few undergrad programs in the usa that costs 5k tuition a year
>get scholarship and financial aid moneys
>make net income cause tuition is super cheap
>get master's in philosophy
>tuition is free and i get stipend moneys for the two years
>start phd in philosophy
>tuition is free and i get even higher stipend moneys for the next five years
>haven't worked a single summer in my life
Even if by the time I finish my dissertation I can't land a job as an academic philosopher, at least I got to learn philosophy without crippling debt or having to work. It's fun. I get paid to do it. I haven't really dealt with serious depression since high school. I mean if you could get away with ten, eleven, twelve years of free paid education while making money off it, would you take it? Not everyone would but I would. I don't care for surplus money, I just care that I don't starve or have crippling debt, and get to do what I want otherwise. Worst case scenario my life can't get much worse since I've always been poor and I've always managed. Best case scenario my life becomes much better. What's there to lose?

>>14075928
>cashier
Bro just go part time. You'll have plenty of time.

>>14075985
I love poetry too, but I also love cartoons. I've experimented with combining the two in the past but I haven't been drawn in a while. Mostly reading to build up my influenced and working. I was unemployed for like two years and homeless for one of those years.

This has got to be one of the funnier “general” names I’ve ever seen, especially funny that you chose to post it on the literature board when you’ve got a STEM degree

>>14075701
welcome to the nhk

I have got a degree but I don't really know what the hell I will do. Honestly I would prefer to just be a NEET but that's not an option now that my father is dying of cancer.

>>14075962
what are you studying?

Where do you guys live? Here an EE or Mech E degree from a top-3 university (nationally speaking) is pretty much a job-guarantee.

Talking about Chile btw

>>14076167
it's all Americans here, their college system is fucked and their jobs are fucked too

>>14076167
Contrary to popular opinion, every sector in America is more saturated than it should be. The country has far more people coming in and wanting to come in than it can sustain, far too many corporations outsourcing jobs either overseas or to visa workers, and far too many companies running on recession mode. We can debate endlessly on all the causes, but this is the situation.
Plus, America has a glut of engineers, and it's only getting bigger. If you compare the proportion of new engineers per year compared to other countries, it's huge. The demand wasn't that high, it was just at a regular level, but in certain fields it's getting saturated, and especially with mechanical, a lot of places expect you to get your feet wet first.

buddy I literally graduated from UC Merced in EE and found a good job before graduating, and I had zero internships.
did you not make any friends that could refer you?

>>14075887
Infinite Jest isn't the greatest work of fiction, that post is

>>14076284
>make friends

>>14075701
been unemployed for a while now, I willingly quit my job which wasn't bad by any means, just because I wanted to take some time off and decide what I wanna do next with my life

>>14076326
I miss being a near-NEET so much. I miss those days of getting up with no task but to pick which episode of Star Trek to watch or which video game to play. If only I had anime as a hobby, then.

join the military lads

>>14076408
I did. It sucked. It was the easiest job I ever had, but it was so fucking pointless.
Now I'm out and getting paid to go to college.

>>14076386
>Star Trek
Yikes.

>>14076408
Can’t, I have officially diagnosed high functioning autism so I’d be disqualified even if I felt like I could deal with becoming an order taking robot.

>>14076492
And I was officially diagnosed with major depressive disorder. Lmao they don't actually check your medical record unless you give it to them, my dude.
I can tell you I've met my fair share of high functioning autists, too. Y'all aren't uncommon in intel and signal.

>>14076500
>my dude
>Y'all

>>14076504
>phone posting

>>14076458
who's paying you to go to college?

>>14076516
Post 9/11 GI Bill.
It pays for my tuition.
I get a stipend for books and supplies.
It pays out a certain amount (tied to the cost of housing for the zip code the school is in) for rent. In my case, I went back to living with my parents. They've refused to take my money for any rent, so I'm living there for free and pocketing all the money the GI Bill hands me.
Oh, and on paper I'm poor as fuck so I get the Pell Grant from FAFSA too. Tie that in with working a cush part time job, and I'm not doing so bad.

>>14076530
Good on you bro, you’ve got a good future ahead

>fucked around after high school, spent years doing nothing
>don't know what interests me, if anything
>don't know if I should just pursue a comfortable job and focus on having as much free time as possible, or focus on finding something I like, despite that starting to seem increasingly unlikely
>don't know what I want out of life
>even if I did find something that interested me, there's no guarantee that I'd be able to make a stable living out of it, considering how fucked the job market is and will continue to be in the foreseeable future
>sometimes just want to be a neet and passively consume media I enjoy
>feel lost and stressed
I don't know what I need to do.

>>14076776
try LARPing. give yourself stats. then max them out and choose random goals. Relationship: Type X. Job: Type Z. House: Type Y.

>>14076797
I'm autistic btw, if that matters

>>14076797
I don't need much, though. I'm not interested in relationships, and I'd like to live in a small apartment, I don't like big houses. The only incentives I have to pursue anything else than a dead-end job is the fear of precariousness and unemployment, wanting to have some degree of financial independence, and the fact that I would like to own a home as opposed to having to piss away money on rent.
But that doesn't help me, I still have no idea what I want out of life in general, and while I waste time shitposting and worrying about such things, my prospects are getting more and more restricted.

>>14075980
All good lad. I recently failed a huge job interview that I stressed about for 2 weeks. Completely fucked it, I was super depressed but life goes on. Just sending more applications out now. Honestly if you can get into making "To Do" lists, you start to program your brain to love the feeling of checking shit off, so I just add "At least 1 application" to my daily list and it's an easy win for my lizard brain that also gets results.

>>14076809
That's your class. Now you need a species, and some weapons.

>>14075701
this is the thread for m3

>>14076815
pipe dreams of some sort. that's all our Generation can afford.

>>14076815
I feel you 100%

Nothing seems to hold any appeal

>>14076823
Seeing where things seem to be heading, the idea of owning a small apartment already seems like a pipe dream anyway.
Financial stability, just a little bit of purchasing power and independence, those things are actually something you have to work very hard to obtain now.
Unless you're one of the few who managed to be intelligent, motivated and focused enough to land something like top tier law or engineering, medicine, or banking, you're pretty much nobody and you're fucked. That's how it seems to be in Europe, at least.

>>14076828
That feeling of not belonging anywhere, not knowing what to do with yourself and pretty much just existing is really depressing. I envy people who truly know what they want from life and have the drive to work towards it.

>>14076818
thanks for the chuckle anon

>>14076851
The idea of even renting one is inconceivable for many. Who has $1000+ a month to spend? I struggle to afford adequate nutrition, in calorie intake alone.

>>14075961
Those are quite a few things, non? Maybe you should tone down your edginess a little, because it sounds like you have quite a few engaging interests.

>>14076019
If this post is satirical it's pretty good hahahah.

Early-twenties guy waxing philosophical about the surely immense volume of writing under his belt to best go unnoticed by the horde of pseuds just waiting to circlejerk about him. 10/10 hearty chuckle.

>>14076865
Yeah, choosing to be in a big city means you're either well-off or ok with having the living standards of a rodent.
But some aspects of the countryside suck as well, and it's even harder to find jobs there.
I honestly don't know what we're even supposed to do. Accept a min wage soul-sucking job and live in a shoebox for 60 years, doing nothing else than working because you can't afford anything anyway, and then die in a workplace accident because retirement won't exist anymore by the 2080s?

>interviewed back to back to back by 5 different people
>went fucking great, everyone told me I seemed like a good fit, didn't sperg out once, was actually excited
>go to lunch with 3 boomers who didn't interview me and the 3 other job candidates
>got rejected a week later
>asked hr guy why
>according to the 3 boomers you weren't engaging enough
didn't get a job because I didn't talk about the fucking joker movie at lunch enough

>>14076884
Why do you need to be a literal whore and do your best to wear a fake personality just to get a job? What happened to just being qualified, getting hired, and simply doing what you're getting fucking paid to do?

>>14076884
Post the email correspondence they transmitted with names/emails/contact information omitted. If they said anything about more qualified candidate, you have legal recourse to at least discover who the candidate was and his actual qualifications. If they said anything about you not being engaging in text, they fucked up big time.

>local company needs a switch hitter
>phone in immediately
>come in on zero notice, zero experience
>work like a stallion for big money
Take the highvis pill, there will always be hard work around if you sniff it out. Changed my life for the better. Work a different job every couple months and come out a new man

>>14076887
People are fucking retarded, like it's challenging not to become a full misanthrope.

The reason is outsourcing and immigration.

Companies can outsource all or some of their work or alternatively bring people in from other countries and pay them less.

What that means for you and me is that companies can then afford to fuck with you. They can afford to put 90 IQ Stacys in charge of hiring and throw shit test after shit test at you. They can complain that you're overqualified, or that the color of your tie gives the wrong vibe, etc etc. For the simple fact that there are hundreds if not thousands of people who are perfectly capable of doing your job and will work for less and for shittier work conditions.

>>14076887
>just being "qualified"
That's part of the problem too, considering qualification boils mostly down to memory and intelligence. Credentials, work experience, etc, really aren't proof of anything for most fields. I've met division presidents who had very low IQs. Indeed, I went through their emails and saw they weren't intelligent. Their texts, banal boring. Their life interests, stupid. If I could slip into their skin, I could assume their role without any training and do a better job.

>>14076917
nut up or shut up, whiteboi

t. 3rd worlder