ITT: /lit/ carreers

[Anonymous No.17458010]

Hello /lit/oyens.
This isn't an advice thread, but a literature themed experience sharing thread.

This year I started studying law at an applied university in NL, but because I'm an autistic I voluntarily dropped out to resume school next year.
To me there's three main career paths: becoming a compsci codemonkey mass-shooter in the making, resuming law school and getting churned by amoral gunners and finally tossing aside intellectual ambitions and becoming a KINO police officer citing passages of The Republic while hitting the shins of protestors.

Not an advice thread. Share your university experiences, share your romantic experiences (where to find smart women without studying particle physics or being 6'3") and relate how you quench your intellectual thirst as an adult, realising that jobs essentially only are for money.

Bonus theme: autodidactism and going back to school after you started working full-time.

[Anonymous No.17458019]

>>17458010
>t.

[Anonymous No.17458023]

>>17458019
wtf where did you get that picture of me??

[Anonymous No.17458038]

I studied a BS in Economics and I’ve worked for 3 years as a financial analyst. I hated and hate both, in the case of the latter to the point of suicidal ideation.

[Anonymous No.17458053]

>>17458038
So why did you stick with it?

[Anonymous No.17458076]

>>17458053
I just sort of landed in economics after switching my major several times and I felt pressured to stay in and finish University. Once I graduated, I had debt and I just needed a job. My degree and skills didn’t really lend itself to anything else. I’m trying to find an alternative right now. I just don’t know exactly what I can do. I might try teaching.

[Anonymous No.17458094]

>>17458076
And when I say “landed in” I mean I basically, just gave up. It seemed employable on the outside, at least more employable than what I came from and I just didn’t care anymore.

[Anonymous No.17458102]

>>17458076
Damn that really sucks.
What majors had you tried before?
Also teaching might be good, teenagers are probably good for the aging heart. Something about foreskins being used for wrinkle cream.

[Anonymous No.17458120]

>>17458010
Software developer ITT, love my job, try to be more /lit/ and /fit/

[Anonymous No.17458125]

>>17458102
>What majors had you tried before?
Philosophy, Classics, and Comp Lit
>Also teaching might be good, teenagers are probably good for the aging heart. Something about foreskins being used for wrinkle cream.
Uhh

[Anonymous No.17458136]

>>17458010
>getting churned by amoral gunners and finally tossing aside intellectual ambitions and becoming a KINO police officer citing passages of The Republic while hitting the shins of protestors.

This line seriously made me believe you are very immature and possibly infirm of mind.

[Anonymous No.17458144]

>>17458125
Why didn't they work out? Sorry if I'm being intrusive.
>>17458120
What assignments do you get? It's probably an autist friendly environment. I wonder if law really is good for me. I thought it'd be systemic but a lot of it isn't and last year was a lot of independence that they demanded from me.
Coding seems comfy as all hell, but it also seems really, reallly, really lazy and dull. Is it?

[Anonymous No.17458166]

>>17458136
I got churned by gunners. Law students are fierce, even if they are wildly incorrect in their statements they'll stand by them like it's their God. It might be that I chose a shitty small town university that had good ratings online, and that a big city university is a better choice, but I'm not sure if I want to try again if it'll be more of the same shit.
Atleast cops get to wave big death wands around and drive around in cathartic violence benders.

[Anonymous No.17458208]

>>17458144
>Why didn't they work out? Sorry if I'm being intrusive.
All 3 of them turned out to be thinly veiled critical theory of race and gender at my Uni. It turns out they actually advertise one of them as such on the website so I guess I should’ve done more research. In the case of comp lit, it also just became clear that it’s a bit of a nonsense field with no real prospects even within academia and I was accruing a sizeable amount debt. My mom was really materialistic and wanted me to pursue law or medicine. I wanted to rebel against that and landed in economics since it was in the same college as the others, which allowed me to keep some of my credits. I hated it immediately and pretty much gave up from that point onward. I graduated with the absolute minimum GPA one needed to obtain a degree.

[Anonymous No.17458283]

>>17458208
I hope you find out what you like doing, anon. Worst come to worst you could pay off your debts, accrue some capital and go do something you like.

For all their talk of intersectionality they seem to miss the fact that it's on its head.

[Anonymous No.17458290]

>>17458283
I don’t really like doing anything, honestly. I like reading and I like writing. What I do for a day job doesn’t really matter to me. I just don’t want to hate it. I really hate this sort of corporate office style work. I think there’s a lot of people like me who just don’t realize this right away.

[Anonymous No.17458297]

>>17458010
University:
Went to a directional school in the middle of nowhere, I got a full-ride scholarship
Was reeling from some traumatic (not like PTSD but just showing me the extreme negative range of experience possible in reality) high school experiences with an ex, also in a long range relationship with a very sweet girl from my town to whom I am now married.
Made zero friends for year one, after the hometown girl followed me out to school (against the advice of everyone in her life)
Getting good grades because I was full on prison mode- reading, lifting. Made some friends at the gym after we exchanged banter, started working out with them pretty much every day.
Once I got into the higher level classes, I made friends with a few classmates who had a similarly alienated prison-mode perspective. Got yoked, read the classics.
Ended up in a really good med school. Married to the girl that followed me out. Still yoked.
Medicine is the way to go for writers.

[Anonymous No.17458313]

>>17458297
Fuck, I'm envious.

[Anonymous No.17458317]

>>17458297
>Medicine is the way to go for writers.
A big time investment for school and work though, isn’t it?

[Anonymous No.17458400]

>>17458317
It is. You need to go in treating it like an investment with a solid vision of how you're going to use the education. The people who bitch about the cost and time usually come from soft backgrounds (it's a bourgeois career) and had no clue what the actual work of a doctor was like/ what any actual work is actually like.
They think you get the MD and you're set, often falling into the trap of academic medicine.

[Anonymous No.17458411]

>>17458400
>treating it like an investment
See, I just hate this. I explored a pre-Med track for a bit before I avoided it. Good it worked out for you but not for me.

[Anonymous No.17458428]

>>17458411
no worries.

[Anonymous No.17458440]

>>17458428
Doctor my penis has been erect for four hours and won't deflate, aren't you able to do something about it? *wink*

[Anonymous No.17458460]

>>17458440
the treatment is for them to stick a fat needle in there, but I'm sure we can find another solution baby
https://youtu.be/OF0FkVZRJzc

[Anonymous No.17458480]

>>17458460
I was thinking of a more unorthodox approach...

[Anonymous No.17458482]

>>17458010
Most people use the internet poorly. Instead of browsing it leisurely for information on intellectual subjects, we typically spend the bulk of our time online in vanity projects, social comparison, consumerism, virtue-signaling, and seeking out cheap laughs from dumb entertainment. If you're looking for a simple, stable career that facilitates your personal intellectual pursuits, no matter what job you find or don't find, you need to use the internet well.
Me? I'm a railroader. Lots of time reading in the bunkhouse and in sidings, and time to think about what you're reading (since cell phones aren't allowed to be used while on duty).

[Anonymous No.17458693]

Hey, a lawyer thread. Where my esquirebros at. How ya been doin’ you fucking sell outs. I still can’t find a job so I’m gonna start practicing on my own. Bets on how long it takes me to get disbarred for malpractice.

[Anonymous No.17459095]

>>17458010
>be me
>12yo middle school library assistant
>I'm the only kid who volunteered to work in the library, so naturally while all the other faggots were in band or computer science I just got to read all day
>over the course of 3 years I memorized the exact location of almost every category of books
>had the titty books memorized by heart
>there was a bunch of lewd manga the old librarian had bought, because she thought they were "graphic novels"
>get first dibs on uncensored big boobs
>naturally the niggers found out
>a month later my waifu would be pimped out, drawn on, with the the pages sticking together
>kids were always taking out the mangas and drawing books I had been jerking off to a few days earlier
>always looked them dead in the eye
>"so you like manga huh?"
>it always put a grin on my face seeing these kids sweat and blush
>spent most of my time reading fantasy novels for two hours with almost no one around
>10 years later and it's still the comfiest job I ever had

[Anonymous No.17459513]

>>17459095
Americans being chimplike BORG, colour me surprised.

[Anonymous No.17459535]

>>17458010
I found my wife by going back to Church. Admittedly, though I am 6'3". University is a waste of money for most people. Debt is evil, and you should avoid it as much as possible.

[Anonymous No.17459754]

>>17459535
>tfw thin 6'3" Church-goer who is both university educated and debt-free
I'm going to steal your wife bro

[Anonymous No.17459787]

I'm trying to be an architect

[Anonymous No.17459911]

>>17458010
I'm a high school senior. I cope with the fact that my grades are too shit and household income too high to get scholarships or aid from colleges or the government by relishing in the fact that everyone in this thread pays for my education and lunch for a little while longer.
Is anyone on /lit/ collegeless like I probably will be? Any advice?

[Anonymous No.17460291]

>>17459513
> Americans

[Anonymous No.17460564]

>>17459754
You'd be happier if you confessed your sins, went to Church and found your own.

[Anonymous No.17460617]

>>17460564
no, I don't think so, I think I'll be taking yours instead
it just works out better for everyone that way

[Anonymous No.17460665]

>>17460617
I was 6'3" before I went back to Church. I was university educated for years. I was debt free before I put myself into debt. I was given everything society calls privelage, and my life was crumbling. I was miserable, and everyone I knew was miserable. The more they had than I, the more miserable they were. From the time I was 13 to 27, I don't know if I ever had a single friend who had not seriously considered suicide. Several tried, and a few succeeded.

Make a general confession. It will change everything.

[Anonymous No.17460668]

>>17458010
Responding only to your pic:
Surely there are (or will be) some good ass books about insane things in Africa. Think Liberia. Kind of weird to think that there are still places in the world where you can go be a mercenary and warlord.

[Anonymous No.17460692]

>>17460668
You can do it the United States too. What do you think military contractors are?

[Anonymous No.17460749]

>>17458038
I'm very confused anon, Econ is one of the most sought after degrees in America. I graduated in Econ and love analyzing data and have no worries with employment.

[Anonymous No.17460824]

>>17460749
>I...love analyzing data
Well, I don’t.

[Anonymous No.17460827]

>>17460665
I'm not suicidal, I'm just stealing your wife

[Anonymous No.17460849]

>>17458010
I would want to be a monk but, I can't stand other human beings apparently being the big autist that I am.. and this does require being in a group. It's just not a thing for me.

Goddamn, /lit/, I wish I wasn't such a misanthrope.

[Anonymous No.17461052]

>>17458290
I'm exactly like you. Got my Bs in econ and a shitty financial analyst job after switching majors several times, though I'm a heaving retard and doubled down by getting a masters in econ. At this point I might even get a PhD despite not wanting anything to do with academia or the industry. I just don't want to go back to working another corporate job so at this point I'll do anything to delay that.

Anyway, just want to say that you're right that there are many like you, and me.

[Anonymous No.17461901]

>>17461052>>17458125
kek me too kinda. BA in Classics and English and am now working as a consultant. Finance is kinda fun ngl but I don't really care about my job. It's just something that makes money and that's cool I guess.

I'm thinking about applying to law school. Seems like that shit would be fun.

[Anonymous No.17463397]

>>17461901
Same here need advice

[Anonymous No.17463404]

Archival and Library Science, yay or nay?

[Anonymous No.17463440]

>>17461901
>BA in Classics and English and am now working as a consultant.
How'd that work? How'd you get into that occupation? My guess is slick connections.

[Anonymous No.17463970]

Is there literally anywhere online you can just write for to build up a porfolio that's not just some personal blog? I don't even care about pay or anything I'm just sick of being rejected by fucking websites and publications because I'm writing about some fucking tranny that saves the world

[Anonymous No.17464029]

I'm studying historic preservation right now. Will graduate by next year and hopefully get a job in archaeology, urban planning, or some other related field.

[Anonymous No.17464076]

I have some career paths in my mind if someone can help me decide
Becoming a clinical psychologist
Professor
Lawyer
Journalist

[Anonymous No.17464079]

>>17464076
Those are all terrible, but it's better than being poor, I guess.

[Anonymous No.17464102]

>>17464079
Frend these are what I am good for
Programming is not something I am build for neither anything science related
I am willing to work hard and play with my strengths and that's all I can do

[Anonymous No.17464335]

>>17464102
A job is a job. Look, these people have reduced our world and our economy to rubble, totally wrecked it. There’s no such thing as a vocation anymore so it doesn’t matter “what you’re good for”. I say find something you can tolerate with no other expectations.

[Anonymous No.17464345]

>>17461052
I would say don’t get the PhD. I spoke to an old professor of mine about a year ago who ended up more or less in our shoes who did go onto get his PhD for that reason. When it came up, he went on a long diatribe about golden handcuffs.

>>17461901
>Finance is kinda fun ngl
In what way...?

>>17463404
It seems like a big investment for something which there’s not a lot of jobs for but I don’t know.

[Anonymous No.17464353]

>>17464335
Realistic, sober and thoughtful.

[Anonymous No.17465210]

Any teachers/professors here?

[Anonymous No.17465283]

Ultimate /lit/ job is probably being a plumber, or an electrician.

[Anonymous No.17465285]

>>17460827
I doubt I agree with him on anything else, but Bertrand Russel is right when he says that drunkenness is temporary suicide.

[Anonymous No.17465330]

>>17465210
Not currently but I’m looking into teaching ESL abroad.

[Anonymous No.17465351]

>>17465330
Do you have any working experience as a teacher/professor?