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8925557 No.8925557 [Reply] [Original]

What's your day job, writer-kun?

>> No.8925834

Sitting at home reading.

>> No.8925839

Getting fucked by lots of nigger dicks.

>> No.8926095

>>8925839
He said job, Milo, not hobby.

>> No.8926243

neet

>> No.8926257

something better than installing wheelchair ramps and then fucking the old disabled ladies for money, or whatever the hell it is your shit writing ass does.

>> No.8926259

I work reception at an art museum

>> No.8926320
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>>8926257
>manager at a small company

>> No.8926325

I work in a slaughterhouse

>> No.8926332

>>8926320
wow, so you ordered people to stack all those?

Damn fine work.

>> No.8926371

>>8926332
I knew there was a reason I blew 40k and 3 years on college.
"Put that box there!"
(Cashes paycheck)

>> No.8926373

>>8926371
Yeah, now all you got to do is write something passable, and you'll be set.

>> No.8926437

>>8926373
3/4 of the way there.

>> No.8926441

I work in a homeless mission in LA. Im there right now. My grandpa founded it nearly a century ago now

Normal jobs make me miserable since I get tired of dealing with regular people and feeling like a loser. I want to have a passion for something but too scared so instead I help junkies every day.

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8926443

I work as an editor and I am getting my master's in statistics
>actually trying to make your living being a novelist

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8926486

Veterinary assistant at a cat hospital

>> No.8926521

Junior Electrical Engineer

>> No.8926575

I use money to acquire more money and so on.

>> No.8926619

>>8926486
should've just euthanised it

>> No.8926672

>>8926521
What do you write?

>> No.8926675

>>8925557
seriously the only jobs available where I am right now is either baristas and dishwashers. It's so fucking draining.

>> No.8927405

>>8926675
Not so draining you can't write, correct?

>> No.8927440

I do experimental drugs for money

>> No.8927488

>>8927405
not him but have you done a job like that?

i used to work retail in a shit part of town. only thing i could do after a 11 hr shift of serving junkies and other assholes was mindless escapism like computer games, watching series, meeting friends and getting drunk

i'm sure there's people who are driven enough to pull that off but i couldnt

>> No.8927504

>>8925557
did you just assume my honorific

>> No.8927614

I'm a librarian and a part time clerk

>> No.8927646

>>8927614
that sounds nice. i hope i can get a job like that. i was thinking book store but those are closing one after the other ... except for the big walmart style ones but fuck working at one of those

>> No.8927650

I work in an office at a towing company and am a full-time student. I would really love to quit, but I basically get paid to sit around every day and read for eight hours.

Anyone have experience teaching ESL? I'm minoring in it and it seems like there are some decent job opportunities out there.

>> No.8927656

>>8927405
Tough to do with any sort of face-to-face retail job, especially when the dread of the next day is always in your head during off time.

>> No.8927875

>be homeless
>work 2-3 shifts a week in food service to cover food expense
>sit in coffee shops and libraries all day writing or reading

Running from cops and pissing in alleys I guess. I have no regrets.

>> No.8927912

>>8927646
I got in at the uni I go to. Being a librarian is great if you can get in, its easy and rewarding work

>> No.8927953

>>8925557

NEET.

>> No.8927991

>>8925557
criminal defense attorney.

sadly i'm more attorney writer than fiction writer these daysbut . this Saturday going start my full length. i swear.

>> No.8928020

>>8927912
Are you actually a librarian or do you just work in a library?

>> No.8928036

chick-fil-a

>> No.8928092

>>8926486
Let's say there's a really heavy cat. Like it's pretty fat. Except you don't realize quite how heavy. You pick it up, but your arms are tired, your back hurts. What do you do?

>> No.8928113

Construction superintendent. A thankless job where everyone you deal is a sub 70 iq imbecile. I hate it. Pays quite well though.

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>>8927991

How do you keep your job if you're a criminal?

>> No.8928233

>>8928020
I just work in a library, but I have some "librarian" duties. Definitely low man on the totem pole

>> No.8928241

>>8928117
im a really good criminal. shitty attorney though.

>> No.8928362

>>8927650
Just have experience in china, which may not be what you're looking to do exactly.

Was there 2 years, had a great time. Got to travel a lot.

I think even if you are teaching ESL in your home country it will be rewarding. Learn about other cultures, languages, etc. Students typically want to he there and are grateful for your time.

>> No.8929078

currently in school for woodworking. but when i finish i will be an apprentice harpsichord builder.

Would be wonderful if i can make it my job, listening to classical all day and devoting all the time necessary to every fine detail, with no pressure at all.

>> No.8929098

>get up
>shower
>eat
>drink coffee
>go to work or class depending on the day
>come home
>drink
>do school work
>get 3.8GPA
>never write

>> No.8929134

>>8927991
I'm also a lawyer, but of the big firm variety.

>> No.8929173

>>8925557
technical writer

>> No.8929369

>>8926575

Go on. Daytrading?

>> No.8929384

I'm a government contractor at the DoD

>> No.8929394

Is Gaskun the male Butterfly?

>unironic shitposting
>reddit tier tastes and posting style
>cutely naive about it all
>old as shit

>> No.8929404

>>8929394

I think he's just so used to complete ridicule that he doesn't notice it anymore.

>> No.8929419

Grip

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>>8929404
One grows a thick skin in an environment such as this.

I think we must hang here so much because we know we're brighter than a lot of you. Though we do try to help your snippy little selves up

>> No.8931007

half neet

>> No.8931051

>>8926441
Does charity work pay in Burgerstan? I'd be more than happy helping the homeless or what have you if it helped keep a roof over my head. Unfortunately I have to work a shitty retail job I dislike most days to not starve.

>> No.8931076

>>8929760
I can't speak about you because I tend to ignore your posts on the grounds that butterfly is a number of people all pretending to be some lesbian who may never have been here but
>we know we're brighter than a lot of you.
If you're putting your own intelligence on par with gaskun's then you're straight up retarded. Gaskun is undeniably special ed.

>> No.8931095

Archivist for a government agency.

It's cool. My boss does not really know what I do so I can just read & write half a day and nobody cares.

>> No.8931115

freelance bookseller

i buy books for $ and sell them for $$ or $$$

>> No.8931118

>>8925839
Fuck off, Yiannopowitz.

>> No.8931144

>>8931115
Fuck off, Goldstein.

>> No.8931185

centrelink

>> No.8931191

>>8929760
>we're brighter than a lot of you
I doubt it

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8931196

I used to tell my mom about butterfly actually, and how I sometimes would imagine us meeting in a chat channel for a new /lit/ book or something and we'd eventually start dating, first online then in real life.

I had to "work it out" with my color organization tray.

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>>8931076
According to that logic, writing, finishing and selling a bunch of books makes someone retarded.

I need a minute..

>> No.8931377

>>8929078
What is this program called exactly? Is it heritage carpentry at community college?

>> No.8931417

>>8931268
You'll need more than a minute if you think what you just said is logical.

>> No.8931424

>>8931377
I go to something akin to community college, studying carpentry (building furniture). but I acquired an internship at the harpsichord builder by myself.

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>>8931417
>person creates literature and posts about them in literature section of a Burmese pet trading website
>another person calls former person retarded for creating literature
>internet logic

>> No.8931631

>>8929173

hire me pls. there are opportunities all over the world if you have technical writing experience.

>> No.8931670

I guard my mommy's house while she's at work.

>> No.8931693

>>8925557
Work as a game designer/project manager of a small mobile game company focused on girly games.

It's leaving me soulless.

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8931732

>student
>want a job as a SMAW gunner in the reserves so i can still be a student
>never write

>> No.8931773

>>8925557
Attorney in matters of real estate.
I studied Philosophy and later Engineering before I went on to Law. The job market is a fucking battlefield. Don't fall for the STEM meme.

>> No.8931782

>>8931602
that person is retarded because they use a trip code on an anonymouse taiwanes animal carpentry dildo forum from which it's obvious to deduce that they spend 23 hours/day posting and have no fucking life

f a m

>> No.8931795

>>8925557
I'm an actor of sorts;
I get paid to work as a nigger. I shout at people at bus stops and help perpetuate ideology, AMA:

>> No.8931853

>>8931602
>Gaskin's writing
>literature

>self-publishing on Amazon
>published

>giving away free books in a desperate attempt to make anyone interested in your anime-styled YA podracing garbage
>selling books

>you
>bright

>> No.8932245

>>8926325
Hang in there, anon

>> No.8932257

>>8931095
How does one get a job like yours? Currently at uni, what path should I follow?

>> No.8932293

cashier halfheartedly searching for something i can make a career out of

>>8931095
just applied to a position like this

>> No.8932308

>>8928092
I lose myself in the music, the moment

>> No.8932343

>>8931853
This. Yes he wrote a lot but it doesn't take a genius to sit down and write piles and piles of crap over a decade or however long it took him. Self-publishing isn't much of an achievement either.

>> No.8932407

All of you /lit/ NEETs, why don't you become psychotherapists/analysts of some stripe?

A lot of people on this board complaining about being unable to turn their love of literature into an actual job

Pick something more touchy-feely than full blown psychiatry or CBT or Transactional Analysis or whatever.

Choose a path along the lines of psychoanalysis, Jungian analysis or existential psychotherapy.

This might be a way to justify all the bullshit you've read and you will never be short of angsty quotes from Kafka or whatever to illustrate your therapeutic points with.

Instant money man

>> No.8932411

>>8932407
How can a Sudaca poorfag turn into an analyst?

>> No.8932417

>>8932411
Get a pleb job, whatever it takes, save up enough to study for a qualification, get a cushy psychotherapy office and fill all the walls with all the books you've ever read to intimidate your clients the minute they enter, ???, profit

>> No.8932437

>>8926675
is what the dishwasher would say ..

>> No.8932537

>>8931424
sounds fucking awesome to be honest

>> No.8932558

Shitty retail job right now, hoping I can weasel my way back into a better uni deal by way of test scores and tantric rituals

>> No.8932561

>>8932343
Are you a writer?

>> No.8932604

>>8925839
This. It helps me as a writer if i have a large cock in my ass as i read and write in my moleskin.

>> No.8932618

>>8927875
Living the life
Mobile posting and charging it in libraries I assume?

>> No.8932622

>>8932343
have you ever read his stuff? Do you have a link where I can find said crap? How much is there?

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>>8932343
Andy weir self published.

>> No.8933545

>>8932630
Yeah...but his stuff was actually popular even when he self published it. As a matter of fact, it was popular even before he self published it, as it was originally a serial on his blog.

Note the big word Popularity in this post, and think of how that applies to gas-can

>> No.8933546

>>8932561
I've also self-published crap and shitposted about it here. I know firsthand that it's not some sort of impossible task.

>>8932622
He posted about it for years. It's some kind of scifi YA thing called "star epic" I think, I've seen it on Amazon before. His main claim to "fame" here is posting a photo showing a stack of boxes full of his manuscripts, so he wrote several books of it before there was any interest (not that there's all that much now).

>>8932630
Weak b8

>> No.8933559

>>8932622
Found it. It's called Fusion Heart. Star Epic is the series title.

>> No.8933574

>>8933559

I thought that was the sequel to Crazy Heart. In this one Bad Blake becomes an alcoholic cyborg.

>> No.8933581

>>8933559
Star epic?

Was space epic already taken?

>> No.8933583

>>8925557
Currently, installing and maintain the devices people get into their car when they get a DUI. I imagine the experience is a quite a bit like Muchos at the car dealership. Get to meet some interesting people so maybe it will help with the writing.

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>>8925557
Logger in the Fall, alcoholic in the winter, sugar for maple syrup in the Spring

>> No.8933667

>>8933546
I saw that picture. If there's a book in every one of those boxes, there's like 10 or 11 volumes

>> No.8933673

>>8928233
in what way is it rewarding?

>> No.8933744

>>8933581
>>8933574

That was the best he could come up with.

>> No.8933750

>>8933673
it's cringy and naive, but I like helping people find books because it makes me feel like I'm making the world a (better?) place, and I like shelving books because I have a childish sense of ownership concerning the library I work at. I'm a cog in a machine I find worthwhile

>> No.8933768

>>8933744
Kind breaks your heart a little.

>> No.8933787

>>8933768
Have you read it?

>> No.8934093

>>8933787
Not into sci fi really. Definitely don't have high hopes for something called: Fusion heart: pt.1 of star epic.

>> No.8934440

>>8934093
Same. If someone thought that was a good name for their book/series I definitely don't have any hope for their writing itself being much better.

>> No.8934454

>>8934440
The original title for A New Hope was retarded nonsense too, and the concept title for Beastie Boys seminal album 'License to Ill' was originally 'Don't Be a Faggot'

I shouldn't have to tell someone on /lit/ not to judge an etc. by its etc.

>> No.8934512

>>8931631
i don't work in hr

>> No.8934551

Human Resource

>> No.8934564

>>8934454

Yeah...and it was dumb, so they didn't go with it.

So you see you can throw away dumb ideas and use better ones.

>> No.8934600

>>8933652
What's being a logger like? What do you do?

>> No.8934609

I work in a warehouse moving heavy shit around.

>> No.8934618

>>8934454
Having a shitty working title isn't the same as going with a shitty title. And it's something he deliberately chose so I'll judge him for it as much as I want.

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>>8934600
Honestly, its great and probably the most /lit/ job I've had.

Basically the forester comes through the woodlot at the start of the season and marks the trees to be harvested. Absolutely no clear cutting is allowed.

Then, before it gets too cold and people start needing firewood, we start harvesting. The forestry crew I work for primarily harvests for firewood and posts. None of the trees we cut are large enough for planks and if there are any in the woodlot, we typically leave them.

Besides the odd retail job, I've done manual labor since I was 14 working carpentry for my dad. I love manual work, but I'd rather work in the great outdoors.
Besides carpenters either leave the business or become oxycontin addicts by age 50.

>> No.8934766

>>8926443

>pic
>"Ugh, like, can you not? GoD!"

>snake masculinity so fragile

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I know what I'm gonna do tomorrow and the next day and the next year and the year after that. I'm shaking the dust of this crummy little town off my feet and I'm gonna see the world. Italy, Greece, the Parthenon...the Coliseum. Then I'm coming back here and go to college and see what they know and then I'm going to build things. I'm gonna build air fields. I'm gonna build skyscrapers a hundred stories high! I'm gonna build bridges a mile long!

>> No.8935712

>>8934754
I'm a mathematician but I'd like to get into forestry since I much prefer the outdoors. Any advice?

>> No.8935904

I play bass in a whitepower band

>> No.8935933

>>8935712
apply your mathematical knowledge to geography?

>> No.8935947

>>8932245
yeah, we hang lots of animals there

>> No.8936486

>>8934618
I read book 1 and I liked it. The first chapter of the second book was at the end and based on that I read the second one. There's a big plot shift between the two.

>> No.8936499

>>8935712
Get into surveying, my brother just finished his diploma and is making about 70k/y and is travelling to Thailand, the U.S and other countries, it requires a lot of mathematical work and is quite relaxed, I'm sure you'd enjoy it

>> No.8936506

>>8927650
>experience teaching ESL
I'm currently in Korea doing one of those Hagwon jobs. I work 8.5 hrs a day, 5 days a week, and spend the rest sleeping and drinking. But I'm a fucking weird-o. The other teachers seem to love being here.

>> No.8936533

>>8925839
Hello Pynchon.

>> No.8936602

>>8925557
>job
>implying

>> No.8936649

>>8925557
I work in a little bookstore around my town.

>> No.8936819

>>8936486
Is there really pod racing in it?

>> No.8936902

Should I go to law school, /lit/? I don't know what else to do with my life and I can probably get into a good one. It's not a subject I'm particularly passionate about but I feel like I need a challenge in my life right now, or at the very least some direction.

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>>8936819
It's closer to the game Wipeout XL. Not great but not awful.

>> No.8937130

>>8932618

I have a laptop. Can't write novels on a cell phone. Well, I guess japs do, but they're just 'tards who can't into computer. I live in a vehicle specifically. Ironically I don't like libraries because hobos clog them up with filth and disrespect. Most of them are mentally gone and they make a racket or spread disease.

I didn't write much before going homeless route. I had a draft that sat for over a year and was barely written out as a shitty outline. As soon as I evicted myself from the last apartment, I began writing relentlessly. I've done 10k words in a single day. I put down 80k words in about a month and now the draft is almost finished. I think the comfort of an apartment is too much a distraction. I plan to continue this lifestyle and try to get my wordvomit published. As long as I can write and not need worry about a corporate career I am satisfied.

Am I vow-of-poverty sage-mode yet?