im a 29yo software developer and i've been working my first ever job for just over a year now
i still cant find myself talking casually with my colleagues and i seriously have troubles relating to them
i literally cannot understand how they cant be tired all the time and how they can be so fucking casual and happy about everything
most of them even seem to enjoy work and i have no idea why
during coffee breaks all they can talk about is something they did during the weekend (golf, hiking, biking, family stuff) and it feels like the same conversation over and over again
>i did this and those normalfag things during the weekend
>"how nice, i did that and some other stuff with my family, it was great"
>yeah how about these things eh? did you see that one special thing?
>"oh yeah it was weird, *funnyjoke.mpeg*"
i dont get it
i dont get it at all
How the hell can you grow accustomed to working and your workplace
They're institutionalized. Like men who've been in prison for so long that they can never leave.
One could say same about you. Stay in all freetime and isolate your self from other people. Never getting out from comfort zone.
Are you thinking about murdering any of them?
yeah i guess, but even the newer employees are like them, a newly graduated retard was hired just half a year ago and he fits in just fine
myself, mostly, if this is how working life is
That's a silly fetish.
no
read and watch iya na kao sare nagara opantsu misete moraitai if you want to understand why its a high test fetish
agreed, high test as fuck
You're probably autistic. Not even memeing but if you can't even make small talk with your colleagues after a year of working together then you're probably somewhere on the spectrum.
no wonder, you're an animefag, you've lost touch with your own culture and people
Source on the artist?
I'm a freelance software developer, same age as OP. I work in offices, I work from home, I travel if it pays enough. But you're right, any lifestyle can become its own prison. Stagnation is the "outside" that frightens me. I must always be workin on something.
40hara drew most of them i think
yeah i get what you mean
did you always be a freelancer and if not do you prefer being a freelancer
im thinking i should maybe become one or become a consultant
>>i did this and those normalfag things during the weekend
... and what do you do over the weekend? furrythings? meth? anime? axe murders? play with explosives?
watch whatever anime aired during the weekends that im watching, read manga or LNs if new any new chapters or volumes, work out, work on my hobby projects
I worked in an office at first and had a very similar experience. The normie atmosphere is too claustrophobic for me. Eventually I got fired for an asperger moment when I inappropriately corrected my boss during a staff meeting.
Freelance is different. They don't treat you like a member of some corporate cult, it's more like an indentured servant. They give you a contact for questions and put you to work on the task. You finish, get paid and move on.
These days it's mostly working from home. If you want to get started, call up some of those corporate recruitment assholes and tell them you want that kind of work.
Last year when I was in college, my classmate used to ask me every monday, how was your weekend? What did you do?
Was tiring answering everytime
thanks ill definitely look into it, i dont think i'd be able to work like this indefinitely
yes, my colleagues have stopped asking me that, they still ask me if i have plans for or what i did during vacations though, which is tiresome
>watches anime and reads manga all day
>w-why cant i relate with my coworkers who carry normal well adjusted lives
Just save as much as you can and then retire asap
I'm from Europe and I always say you dumb amerifags that with 150k you can retire in Europe (if you invest those money)
>Eventually I got fired for an asperger moment when I inappropriately corrected my boss
Could you tell us the story?
Jesus, you literally just summed up my workplace. I'm the youngest developer pretty much in my entire office which has like 400ish people working in it total. Everyones mainly 40+ except me which I'm 25. I've been doing the job for 1.5 years now and its not bad really I make it through each day but all this shit I can totally relate. The coffee drinking, the repetitive weekend discussions. I really hate when I get asked what my plans are if I take a vacation of any sort, like I don't understand why they care. Another thing thats annoying is these people also really like to talk about politics and tons of other annoying and dry shit all the time and I avoid that completely.
Another thing I've noticed too is I work with a large amount of boomers who have had their houses paid off for like 10 years now. What the fuck are they still working for? It seems like no one is an investor either, I daytrade while writing code cause I'm trying to get the fuck out of the office faster than later. I work with some people who've been here for 35 years now and I just can't imagine going all that time sitting in an uncomfortable chair and doing the same fucking work over and over, week after week, decade after decade. Its insane desu.
>It seems like no one is an investor either
So they have no savings? What do they do with the money?
Why are these girls all so angry about showing off their panties?
Most people think they need to save up a whole hell of a lot more for retirement tha they actually do. They're driven by fear that comes from not having work as their safety net.
>current year
>anime still not real
...well if they don't invest their money do they just keep it in the bank?
Because they have disdain for you, spending your time on here like this
yeah
good to know theres other people who feel similarly about it
they feel nothing but disdain and disgust that you would even ask to see their panties and literally think you are a piece of walking garbage
I'm 35 and 11 years in to the job. Just recrntly cut back to part-time after getting fucked over on a promotion. I never got used to it. The only saving grace is that i work alone outside the office most of the time. And it pays okay.
Devote considerable time and effort to working for yourself. The wagecucking is garbage and always will be.
Im a software dev manager.
The secret to enjoying life is to quit video games.
Seriously. When i was playing video games i was dangerously addicted and i didnt want to believe it was affecting me.
I was like you. I couldnt wait to go home to play more... Even if it was boring.
Since i quit i enjoy life so much more. Suddenly IRL shitposting is a kek. Drinking after work with collegues is extremely enjoyable.
Semi related. Why is making money so hard? Wageslaving takes forever, literally years of your life, and the pay is mediocre in the end because you have to cover living expenses during that time, you only get to keep like 20%-30% of what you make. And because it's IRL wageslaving, I'm chained to a high cost of living area. the job could be done entirely online but they won't let you. It should have been the norm by now. I don't want to be here and I don't want to pay this ridiculous USA rent when I could be somewhere way fucking cheaper. I hate this country so much.
All non-illegal or non-risky money making is total garbage pay for shit work. This blows. I'd literally sell my asshole if it were legal. 1 hour for $300 versus 8 hours of wageslaving for $150-200, gee whiz.
>29 years old
>First ever job at ~28 years old
kys OP you are a worthless fuck
Hiking is very nice actually. Removes brain fog and makes you content.
Boss was explaining how he wanted a new project to work, which demonstrated his lack of understanding about how Google's search rank algorithm worked at the time. I blurted out the correction without even thinking about it, he seemed shocked at the interruption but thanked me and continued with the meeting. That afternoon I got an email that he wanted to see me. He fired me and handed me my last check right there. My workstation was gone by the time I got back to my desk to collect my things. They literally removed the computer from the office. It was humiliating, but I had my eyes opened and realized that freelance would be a better fit for my "personality type."
They're unconscious, most humans aren't real people, they've been made functionally unconscious
I think his problem is anime but what you said still applies
I made friends with some guys at work who were into videogames and we mostly just mocked the surrounding NPCs.
Im sure one of the other devs might have share some common ground with you. Be it games, crypto, anime or whatever.
>How dare he have a non normie hobby.
>anime
>2018
>non normie
You were 100% in the right. Your boss is a cuck.
>most of them even seem to enjoy work and i have no idea why
They don't. They laugh and joke as a way to make the time at work beareable
>go watch a thing to hypnotize yourself into thinking that women being disdained for you is high test
nah mate I'll stick to not saving and sharing soft core porn and actually visualize myself doing whatever I want with someone.
I want her to step on me
Porn is even worse than video games. Way worse. Just from OPs story and the anime pics he posts I can already tell he watches way too much anime porn. No wonder he's fucked up.