Daily reminder that this is the reality wagecucks and other low IQ brainlets constantly experience. Do your best to not end up like them, even if it implies putting your morality and other "human" values (self depreciating lies to keep your head buried in the sand) at the door. Time, with your cognitive abilities, are the most precious resources you can use to your benefit. I'm just reminding you that as you're getting older, your brain is slowly but surely deteriorating. You're lucky to be born in a western society, with a near infinite amount of human knowledge freely available that you can grab and assimilate via a fucking smartphone screen.
No matter what you've found, do everything in your power to escape the hellish lifestyle, if we could call this a lifestyle, depicted in pic related.
Escape the working hell. Escape the rat race
tfw when in my country 45 h workweeks are the standard :(
imagine only having to work 40 hrs a week in 2018 must be nice
Society would probably collapse is annoying wagecucks had more time off. It's good to keep them busy.
Come on guys, I start working in 2 weeks, don't push me too hard.
fuck that shit.
I'm down 450k ath -> 50k
you're making me suicidal
That is some weakass shit.
>Be me
>Live in Asia.
>Work for an IB
>Wake at 5:30 am to catch the 1st train
>Had to make it to work by 7:30am and eat breakfast
>Thumb print scan to log your attendance
>Do mind-numbing hi-stress Work till 10pm before superiors finally let me off
>Can choose to fraternise with the superiors up till 2am for promotions but fuck me that is tiring
>No energy to gym nor jog. No swimming pools or sports facilities at this time. Become a literal zombie
>Return home at 11:30pm
>Shower
>Sleep at midnight
>Rinse and repeat
>With only a pantry salary of USD $3,500.00 a month and bonuses depending on how well the company earned this Quarter.
>For a job that required actual STEM Bachelor degree from a prestigious institution
>Only 5 days of forced rest per year
>Have to work full day on Saturdays and part-time on Sundays as well
>If on MC, have to get someone to do your work for you or you will get fucked by Upper management and backlog
>Everyone else is fucking high on caffeine or a literal zombie
>'If you don't like the job, we can always find someone else.'
>When I went for the interview for the job, there were at least 30+ applicants with the same qualifications as me.
>If the job market was not nearly as competitive and complete dogshit, I would have left years before.
This lol 40 hours is a fucking walk in the park for me
Good point. Where I live, no one knows their neighbors, everyone is isolated. No one knows what their local elected officials are doing to fuck them over on a daily basis, let alone what their names are.
Sure, everyone is pissed when the school board of 3 people "unanimously" decides to raise property taxes 20%, but they don't know where to begin stopping them because they have no time. They get mad when the state spends millions of taxpayer dollars on commercials telling people that water is wet. Apathy is the final destination.
This is the norm. A lot of people don't seem to realize and many more just don't care that they are being exploited in such a way.
>wall of text on plebbit
I work 40 hours a week sometimes less at a big bank in Australia. Shit is pretty comfy. Basically a privatised government job with bonuses lol.
I have hour long unpaid lunch lunchbreaks. I usually use that time to go for a walk and get off my white collar ass.
How do I do it? How do I break free? Everyone on this board acts like becoming wealthy and free is child's play, but I'm broke and old, and getting older. I feel the noose tightening.
And when the client becomes unhappy, he/she spreads that unhappiness to the Higher-ups.
Management will spread that unhappiness down the chain of command till everyone is feeling the stress.
Protest and you will never work in this field ever again.
I just wished the global economy will just fucking collapse already
Just 2 years in, I already want to end it all.
>5 minute commute to work
>comfy office where no one bothers me
>do one hour of work, shitpost on Jow Forums the rest of the day/read books/learn skills
>$15/hr
am I living the life?
>15 dollars per hour
no. LMAO
I used to feel exactly like this when I worked. I felt like time was the most valuable thing to me in the world, and I hated losing so much of it and having so little left. Now I'm a NEET and my time doesn't feel valuable to me at all, it's not any better
just get a job that lets you work from home bros
Yes, time is more important than money
everything is the same for me aside from 5 minute commute..
What do you do? Officially, I mean
I have to get out of here I'm slowing dying and I can feel it ahhhh
mortgage accounting clerk
I'm pretty sure if I just ask for a raise they'd give it to me. my supervisor likes me because I always look busy and offer to help resolve issues.
Jesus Christ, fucking cry about it then faggot. Move to any other uptra cheap country in Asia and do something else, don't sit here and try to brag about how your life is shittier.
>Inb4 "I have to, muh family, it'll pay off with promotions, student loans, etc."
What kind of qualifications does that require?
>wake up at 7
>meditate and eat breakfast
>get to the gym by 7:55 for unit PT, generally just lifting weights
>finish at 9 and shower then head to the 9:30 officers coffee meeting at the mess
>roll into the vehicle bay at 10, check in with my NCOs then do some paperwork
>eat lunch at 12, come back at 1 then do some sort of training with the men or help out with vehicle maintenance
>dismiss the boys at 4, then finish up paperwork and be out of the office by 5
>eat dinner, go for a run and read for 1 hour all before 7
>go for a beer with the boys or hangout with the old lady and get to bed before 12
A normal garrison day as an armoured officer is pretty fulfilling if you have good NCOs. Mind that you will also have a lot of long days that are worse than this, but if you are motivated and love your men it's not that tiring because it just feels like you are looking after your family. Also most of the long days tend to happen before deployments, so you have something to look forward to. I also get 25 days paid vacation a year and make almost 6 figures.
That's pretty good considering he does nothing all day, dumbass.
They closed the office down and went fully remote about a year ago, now I'm expected to work 50-60 hours a week and I wish I were dead.
Yea this is basically me but I still wish I didn’t have to come in 5 days a week and could work from home one day.
37.5 hours a week baybee.
t. Gov employee
This is why we frag you
The absolute fucking pussy whining about 40 hours work week when plenty of people work 80+
Christ what I would give for his job.
freelancefag here work from home and clear 50k a year
made a phonecall with client today and called it a day and went for a walk. you wagies are a sad bunch
freelance what?
ps i stay in my parents basement, have zero expenses and dump all my money in gold and bitcoin. stay poor faggots!
You sound like an american.
>love your men
fag
>work 10-20 hours a week
Now instead of clock ticks I can count pennies
Nobody cares, I bet you were waiting all day so you could brag about being a literal basement dweller
>t. ragie wagie
Wrong, I have my own business too and I'm not just a stupid freelancer. I make money while I sleep.
>he doesnt know im building a sidebiz to escape the shackles of freelancefaggotry
you still sound pretty butthurt for someone who made it desu senpai
I want off mr shekelsteins wild ride
>am I living the life?
replace some of the shitposting with actual side hustles are you're in
>t. guy whose side hustles grew enough so he can take at least a small 1 year break from wagecucking without exhausting even 1/3 of his savings
lol @pic what a fucking faggot
"they think you're a
lazy piece of shit that just wants to mooch off of others."
bingo. if you were special you'd find a way to support yourself doing what you "love." or you would at least have an escape plan. bending all your will to success and dominance of your circumstances. but no, just another complaining, superfluous faggot like all the others that thinks he's special without being able to provide one single shred of evidence in his entire miserable life to prove it.
but of course, it's someone else's fault
whats your side hustle?
Fuck it I’m doing my wage cuck day in the life:
>wake up at 6:30
>out door by 7
>take MBTA in Boston for 1h-1h30 each day
>arrive at work and grind all morning till lunch time
>quickly eat a meal then go the gym with what little time left I have on my lunch hour
>return to work and grind till 5
>take T home for another hour and a bit
>get home at 6:30ish and cook food
>it’s now 7 and I have 3 hours of free time
>take shower
>play vidya till feeling sleepy
>wake up and do it all over again
All for $20 an hour like OP
If you think you're successful you shouldn't rub it in Jow Forumsbro's faces, you should be encouraging and help people out
in the past i have posted information that would enable a braindead monkey to makr six figures a year from a laptop. bizfags called me a scammer and said its imposssible to make money online. i learned my lesson and resort to shitposting only.
1 out of my 5 niche sites (wordpress blogs). I've also freelanced (I'm a senior level software dev), although I don't do this anymore.
Also during my wagecuck job I used to translate whitepapers of shit ico-s to an obscure Eastern European language, in return for tokens. Also pajeeted my way into signature bounties on bitcointalk... Some translations paid more than 2 BTC per 1 day translation in the beginning (Aeternity, Rise, Monaco) ... Unfortunately this shit doesn't work anymore (nobody cares about ICO-s, you get $20 worth of tokens if you're lucky), niche sites made after 2018 are also a meme ... there's probably some new stuff that replaced my side hustles, but can't help you, I'm focused on my 2013 websites
I'm listening user
Needless to say, the other 4 sites were a waste of time. Also, I recommend going to "make money online" sites and sucking up ANY knowledge you can get (forums are 99% pajeet-infested, but if you're patient you can strike gold).
you know you can work part time, right?
I'm listening. Please post
This has got to be the biggest meme ever. Yesterday for the first time in my life I truly started thinking I have wasted my life. I was a fucking nerd in school I really didn’t enjoy my young years as I should, played vidya but also always had the corporate world in mind.
I landed a job in a really good US tech firm.
Salary way above average and is set to increase soon again, looks awesome on my CV, extremely good perks and benefit. But still have the same feels you do, that first wojak post is literally my life. I just want to fucking give up everything but I know that down the line I’ll regret it. Why the hell do people like me even exist, what a fucking waste.
I’m deeply sorry for all people following my path, thinking I’m an example, it is not worth it.
I even feel bad for whining like a bitch for I should be grateful for all I have.
Don't cast your pearls before swine.
what kind of side hustles? help a wagie out :(
>drugs will make it worse
Most drugs do, but I personally find I can squeeze 10s of hours of subjective ecstatic experience into a 4-5 hour period with enough psychedelics, and I don't feel any worse off the next day/week. if I didn't have harmaline-mediated longform DMT trips into hyperspace to look forward to at least once or twice a month I would probably have necked myself by now. It's a proverbial vacation in a bottle (or pipe, as the case may be).
Also lol at all these sad crabpot fucks in this thread gloating about working 50, 60, 80 hours a week. You have no idea how pathetic you look sacrificing all your time at the altar of capital endeavor, or how desperate you sound when you try to make fun of anyone who 'only' works 40 hours a week. Life is not a fucking suffering contest, for chrissakes.
>Crying about that
In my country regular work schedule goes from 8 AM to 19 PM, needless to say no one has time to live their life outside of work and the system is kept in place to keep people enslaved, needless to say the jew isn't even named here
You've got to stop using the term "side hustle." I can't take this shit seriously. It sounds like a term that my reedit-tier gig economy Gen X'er failson. friend uses, and every time I hear him say "gotta get my grind on! gotta keep hustling!" I cringe, because it's like, fuck dude, it's your life! You're in your early-thirties and you're trivializing your income with gimmicky vocabulary.
Call it passive income, side income, fucking part-time work, "using my coding and copywriting skills for personal projects," anything. Driving for Uber/Postmates is a "side hustle," though it's still cringe-y to say. A hustler is a con artist. The hustle is a 1970s afro-american dance fad. Hustler is a great porno mag. None of that is complimentary or a way you should think of yourself.
This is what happens to low iq idiots.
How fucking depressing. At the moment i Mädels work a small time job. My parents are ok with ut for now.
If link wont moon i will end myself. Life isnt worth living
>database admin
>no one really knows what I do
>I don't do much, shit hits the fan like two times a year when there's a lot of work
>work from home 1-3 days a week
>30 minute commute with comfy car when office calls
>private room in the office
>$30/h
>spend 70% of time doing what I choose to, usually listen audio books or read something interesting, learn coding etc.
I would make much more somewhere else but I'm happy now.
sounds bretty gud
Yes, lets compete in who is the better slave rather than seeing reality for what it is.
Good one
yeah admins probably live the life when they have settled in a company and are trusted by their superiors
though i feel like normies would never want that kind of work its like playing dnd with yourself
This fucking shitty logic. Retard
I've been working sysadmins jobs but I quit at the start of this month. Got about £2k cash, £20k stocks and £14k crypto
I fucking hate working so I'm taking some time off. No idea what I'm going to do when I need to go back to work
Misery Olympics over here
Freelance larping
socialism and ubi is comming. just have to wait it out. its just a matter of time. Gen Z will save us all.
What kind of qualifications do you need for this? I have an Info sys degree and have almost completed my first year wagecucking at a real job being basically the entire IT department for a health care company. How much longer do you think I should stay here before moving on?
Im listening user
as much as i hate the 40 hours work week, i hate starvation even more.
libertarianism and deregulation is the answer.
Social security and medicade for the poor are already our biggest expense, combined costing more than 3.5x what we spend on the military. Where is the money to give EVERYONE free gibs going to come from?
by actually taxing corporations like amazon and cutting absurd military spending on pointless occupations. and cut all funding to israel.
>cut all funding to israel
You live in a dream world. American politicians make sure that Israel remains our greatest ally. Taxing corporations properly will never happen because of the same reason cutting funding to Israel won't happen.
Enjoy your 70% income tax though. Gotta feed Shaniqua and her 9 kids somehow
You do everything and then the Taxman / Gestapo finally catch up with you. Then what?
By any means necessary, means living like a sewer rat, running away from attention never being able to enjoy your money.
I work 62 hours a week at a car dealership. 40 would feel like fucking part time. 40 hour weeks is for the weak and faggot 9-5ers. I fucking do 45% more work in a year than this faggot and he's complaining. Get bent.
>I just want to fucking give up everything but I know that down the line I’ll regret it.
I left my high paying job in a bank 2 years ago and I don't regret it even a bit.
During these 2 years I've been to at least 10 different countries and had plenty of unforgettable experiences, while spending very little money.
If I had kept my job these 2 years would have been boring and grey. It would have passed so fast, doing the same thing everyday.
And the best in all that is that in April 2017 I had plenty of time to research cryptos and invest in ICOs and blockchain projects. In 6 month I made 20 times my salary at my ancient job... I cashed out about 40% of all that in January, at the top.
Selling your time to somebody else is for suckers.
I wish I could be strong and waste my life shilling cars too
I don't sell the cars. And there is big money at dealerships if you're not an incel and can sell. If you can talk a girl into sucking your dick, you can work at a car dealership. It's not my dream job, but it pays well. 6 figures without formal education, where else can you do that?
I have a decent schedule with work but my pay is shit.
>Wake up around 10am
>leave for work at 10:30am
>arrive at 11am
>take tech support phone calls all day long
>alloted two 10 min breaks during day
>take 1 break at 1pm
>take 30 minute lunch at 3pm
>more phone calls, gets extremely busy between 330 til the end of the day.
>phone rings immediately upon hanging up previous call
>take break at 6pm
>get off at 7:30pm
>get home by 8pm
all for $13 an hour. I used make $15 an hour doing sales, those were the days. At least I get to sleep in now, still want to kms though
I don't care if it's 7 figures I'm not working 60 hours a week lol
is investment banking really that bad? is it just boring shit or is it somewhat enjoyable
It is stressful and not enjoyable at all. Most of your colleagues are ambitious sociopath. Only positive side is the money.
Get out of HK/Sing and move to Europe.
Workweeks are equally gruesome, but you have free weekends and you can relocate to some boutique company located in some comfy place of the continent (but stay the fuck away from Blackstones and other bulge PEs, it's basically same shit as IB but on the buy-side).
I structure derivatives, initially it was super fun, all that global markets, things you dreamed about when reading news etc, but after a few years I just want to save some money, pay the remaining debt and start some very own friendly neighbourhood business such as selling car insurance or advising people on home loans.
All that wagecucking I am doing is to acquire capital and invest, I am living frugally like a student at a time when I should be building something.
I am learning to invest and make it my life, I know it can be time draining as well but it's better than a corporate drone. Thing is, I feel it's getting nowhere.
>In 6 month I made 20 times my salary at my ancient job... I cashed out about 40% of all that in January, at the top.
I seem not to understand this, not matter what I do I lose. So far I have just been holding and am going long term. I need to find a strategy that pays enough for a comfortable enough life. Losing time is for suckers but giving your money away to markets seems to be for even biggest suckers. The only alternative is doing my own thing which I seem to be to retarded to figure out.
>comfy freelance work
>living in 3world shithole
>make 20usd/h, more than a doc
>right now watchin netflix while eating oatmeal, completely naked
Ah...the good life
Investment Banking is boring and gruelling a fuck, it also experienced a massive culture shift. Basically back in 80s and 90s it was equally boring shit and everyone knew it. They also knew you could earn a lot of money and knew how to celebrate.
Now money is limited, celebrating the way it was 20 years ago is a no-no. All the fun people who worked during that times left banking. Only people who still work in IB after 20 years are fucking psychos.
Sales and Trading was also much more fun pre-2008, but regulations came and basically wrecked the market. It's stressful as fuck. Only London keeps it somewhat real as everyone drinks there for fun.
If you have a chance to work in IB as a grad - go for it, as you learn a lot, but staying in the business hoping to be that super-rich partnet in 20 years is not worth it imho
>1 hour conmute
Brutal
>I seem not to understand this, not matter what I do I lose. So far I have just been holding and am going long term
As soon as the market as climbed for some time, and you feel like we're in a 'bullish trend', you need to start selling on a regular basis very small batches. I started selling very early and I kept selling during the climb.
Then when the trend has reversed and is bearish you start buying by small batches.
By doing that you always buy undervalued and sell overvalued, because you have an edge over the people who just follow the market sentiment.
It's very simple but by doing that you are winning long term.
user bro, can you explain in more detail in regards to crypto and how to avoid taxes?
>you need to start selling on a regular basis very small batches
Thank you, that is actually one of the few advices that sound like it can work.
I've never quite found the way to counter the "you can't time the market", been doing what you say on the downtrend which ended up losing me money (unrealized) but never on the way up. I'll try this next.
Since you've been doing banking, what do you think about ETFs and Index funds in general?
Seems like a good way of securing gains but absolutely not for earning a "wage". Should I just use this as an alternative to keeping my money in my bank?
yeah i understand theres no real careers in it anymore im just interested in making my money and leaving after a couple years
The point isn't how many hours he's spending at work for someone else. It's the very fact of wasting a major part of his lifetime for someone else and complaining about it. I agree with you though, he's a little too whiny for my tastes, but his post is making things perfectly clear and gives a really good insight on the Fresco reality.
He said that he couldn't find the time to do anything else to escape his predicament. I agree however that his choices probably lead him where he is now - but nowhere in his post he said that he was deserving anything else, he's just speaking his mind of something that's actually true. Even people who made it and decided to retire early are perceived as leechers because they "do nothing". Why do you think taxes are getting way higher for the rich in Europe?
>believing in Universal Basic Income
This may be a viable solution in the short term, but it will lead to devastating consequences for society as a whole. And unfortunately, with the alarming progress rate of AI in various sectors, even highly technical ones like medicine, UBI will be imposed by the government in response of the drastic rise in unemployment rates. You think that it will be a nice world but this will basically mean that a new (actually not so new) aristocracy will take place - people with higher IQ's/conceptual intelligence will be the ones deciding the course of your life, your thoughts and many other things, because they would be the ones engineering your technology and the ones ensuring your means of survival.
>Since you've been doing banking, what do you think about ETFs and Index funds in general?
Most of the money I invested in equity is in ETFs. They are good products to build a diversified portfolio at a reasonable cost. And that's all I want to do in equity, I don't want to beat the market, just get the performance of the market is enough to me. I'm already risky enough in cryptos.
(btw I was an ETF market maker during my time at the bank).
>Should I just use this as an alternative to keeping my money in my bank?
For sure. Keeping cash is almost always a bad option.
>how to avoid taxes?
If you live in the US unfortunately I think you're fucked. I live in Europe and in my country I only pay taxes on my total wealth, not on my crypto income.
You're spot on. I do think the pic in the OP is a little whiny, dude makes 20 bucks an hour, I've never made that much and my life would be fine if I did. I had no problem coming home from work, making dinner, shitposting for hours or playing vidya and then going to bed. Only problem is that I was a habitual marijuana smoker. Smoking pot was the only thing that made this reality bearable for me.
Since I quit smoking pot this has become unbearable. Pot was my cope, and now I can't really cope. I don't want to be a degenerate drug user or porn user but the stress is high. I have a gf now but even she seems to add more stress to my life rather than take it off. And because I'm spending all my time with her I can't seem to think properly about future goals or anything.
I really just can't imagine living the rest of my life in this manner. It would be one thing if I was making enough money to buy a house and support a family but it's not. I'd rather work odd jobs and barely pay living expenses but have free time and live frugally
>5 min walk to work
>Show up to work whenever I want
>Leave if I don't want to be there
>Can write extra hours down if I don't stay for 40 and no one notices/cares
>Leave when I want
>Work in an office
>None of my co-workers and manager give a shit
>My job requires only a couple hours of work a day on average (sometimes less sometimes more )
>Just talk almost all day with coworkers
>Have constant nerf gun fights in office
>Browse internet, drink coffee, practice juggling
>Boss drops by once a day for about 20 minutes and just play wrestles with me, shoots the nerf guns
>Everyone in the office is super conservative, complains about Muslims and liberals all day
However...
>Only making 19 bucks an hour, could be up to around 25 in like 4 years
>Im working waaay below my mental capabilities. Feel like I should be achieving more
What do Jow Forums? Should I stay or leave
that sounds incredible, why would you want to leave? I've never made that much money and I've never worked a job requiring more than a high school education, despite having a bachelor's degree. $25 an hour is a good wage