>was outcast in high school >now 24 years old >decide to go on Facebook to look up a few dozen random popular kids that I remember >almost all of them are traveling the world, living in cities like NYC, SF, London, etc and having fancy sounding job titles like "Investment Associate at Morgan Stanley" >the rest are in Medical or Law school >all have extremely fashionable outfits >all of them are still hot
Doesn't seem like my friends are doing much; they do a lot of shitlib talk on Facebook.
Jaxon Stewart
>living in cities like NYC, SF, London, etc >thinking they won user I...
Dominic Thompson
Wait five years user.
Jeremiah Ross
>decide to go on Facebook I found your problem.
Jack Flores
>was bullied hard in school >checked their facebooks a few years ago >pretty much everyone is working mediocre dayjobs in our hometown Not a bad end, especially when you cannot get over your baggage
Adrian Adams
checked you really have to wait til around 26-30, thats when the real survive and the weak die off
David Gomez
He's right, people only show their best on Facebook.
Hunter Parker
It's easy to be successful on social media.
Bentley Williams
>look up former classmates >theyre all mediocre wagies slaving their life away for shlomo, one of them even got divorce raped >meanwhile i rejected this slave lifestyle and living full time as a comfy neet
Gabriel Rodriguez
Social media is used to boost status for those who lack status otherwise. Social media does not require real status, or wealth so that is why it's so popular
After high school, i fell off the face of the earth. I held on to a hand full of cool people from school, 4 in which i see on regular occasions. i'm facebook friends with tons of high school friends, but i never post anything. rarely share anything. never say anything about my job, where i live. i keep it as obscure as possible without seeming inactive.
my plan is to make it and then flood my feed with all my cool shit and awesome places i will visit.
so when people actually do think "hey i wonder what user is up to?" by some very slight chance, they will look me up and be bombarded with jealousy and envy.
Nicholas Garcia
i understand where you are coming from but you're still acting form a place of insecurity and feelings of not being good enough. Your motivations for bettering yourself are flawed as they come from the perspective of wanting to get back at, one up, or "I'll show them". I feel a similar thing when I look at the range of people I've interacted with in life on social media and have dreamt about returning to a high-school reunion as the fringe badass who sets off down his own path and seems to be effortlessly successful and cool. only now am I starting to realize that that motivation will get you nowhere. It has to come from an internal motivator. after highschool I spent a year living abroad, then went to college, had a few amazing and colorful relationships, got a degree in chemistry and philosophy, and then rode my bike solo across america the summer after I graduated. And here I am working a part-time retail job with minimal savings, owe my parents a bit of money and have a few k squirreled away in cryptp.
Yeah, I have dreams and ideas of the kind of life I want to live, the adventures I want to have and people I want to surround myself with but from most perspectives my life right now kinda sucks, isn't heading anywhere and is basically stuck in an on-hold loop.
The thing that will get me out of it and moving towards my idealized life is not going to be a desire to one-up my old classmates who don't even remember me, but to realize that that's not the goal that will bring satisfaction in life and realize that the opinion and approval of others does not matter.
I went through the same thing with gym motivation. It used to be a lot of anger, self-loathing and desire to one up and be better than others but that only lasts so long before it burns out. Now my motivation is more of a sense of responsibility to my future self and an understanding of the benefits of exercise and desire to be physically capable.
Jason Bailey
Thats funny, i went back to my little town and saw some people who i thought would be big shit they were popular smart def had potential. "So what are you doing nowadays working on wallstreet yet? " tfw they are all selling vehicles or doing construction. I at least grt to work in a lab
Benjamin King
>living in cities like NYC, SF Be glad that you didn't end up in their position
Adrian Price
>a degree in chemistry and philosophy I thought science degrees were useful? Is chemistry that useless?
Dominic Fisher
Chemical Engineering gets you jobs. Chemistry alone is mostly premed failures, so employers avoid Chemistry majors like the black plague. If you get a Chem degree, youre expected to go to for your Masters/PhD right after.
Bentley Davis
>tfw parents who would be immensely disappointed and internally loathe me if I dropped Uni and became a NEET
>go on Facebook You were and still are a normie scum, you were never an outcast "nerd". You were simply a pathetic loser that tried to fit in with them
Adrian Sullivan
still in college but most of the popular kids from my school are studying psychology and making minimum wage at a fucking boutique or a restaurant.
also, living in SF = winning? lol
Leo Robinson
>my plan is to make it and then flood my feed with all my cool shit and awesome places i will visit. U need some Buddhism for ur ego buddy
Daniel Baker
post Belle Delphine, Xev, or Anime whores on your FB page user. Show those ugly girls they aren't as good as our waifus.
Elijah Jones
young people still use facebook? im 22 and facebook seemed really dead before I deleted the app last year. seems like people only use IG and maybe snapchat
Nolan Watson
>snapchat Boomerfag detected, kids use tiktok.
Luis Campbell
At least you'll die earlier because of your unhealthy lifestyle
Jeremiah Reyes
You were more popular in high school than you realized. Because kids are fucking stupid.
Xavier Cooper
This. Well said, user. The best "revenge" is to live well, not showing others you're living well
Cooper Cruz
Can confirm .. all dead
t. 31
Andrew Ward
Even "nerds" know the importance of social skills, good image, hygiene, healthy body == healthy brain.
No that user is right, I graduated 3 years ago with a bsc in general chemistry. It took me 2 years and probably close to 1k applications to get my first job, it was some of the most depressing time of my life. Im thankful now because im not working construction kr manual labor but im still only making 20\h (loonies) and its worth less now that kinimum wage was hiked to 14 but still im not killing mybody but its unfullfilling lab rat work. I could go back tk school but im not interested in furthering my study of the field and even from a monetary perspective to double my debt qnd still have no idea what id like to do with that. Bsc chemistry is a meme and nobody told me not that i wouldve listened anyway. Emplyers just want 5 years experience for min wage busywprk with no prospect for moving up other than to be a lab supervisor. That said there are still good opportunities ive been trying to get into the local nuclear power plant, also tfw i spoke to people who got jobs there 15 years ago with just highsxhool degrees and were just trained...
Adam Phillips
Um sweety, when people talk about "nerds winning" they usually refer to the quiet academically-gifted people who got perfect scores in highschool math classes, studied CS in college and went on to make millions in tech.
Not the ugly smelly incels who sniffed glue in the back of the class and nearly dropped out to play World of Warcraft such as yourself
>29 >bunch of people I knew are now dead (wtf), they started dropping like flies around 24/25 >about 1/3 are doctors and lawyers and shit >the rest look about 45 and have various fucked up lives >everyone's broke as fuck and financing their lives, except for 1 or 2 people who have their shit together I think I came out ok
Camden Parker
>>he doesn't realize most normies get debt to do that shit or ask money to their parents who use debt to give them money god i hate normies
Luis Myers
>you really have to wait til around 26-30, thats when the real survive and the weak die off holy kek
Matthew Myers
Rationalizing my way out from the desire to get society approval killed my motivation to do anything and led me to nihilist lifestyle. I think it's better to live in a rollercoaster rather than numbness, at least there's something to expect.
Sebastian Murphy
im kinda excited for people to die. i dont want them to die but its so interesting to hear who bit it. Ive known 3 people who died either during or within 2 years after highschool
Wyatt Rogers
This. Holy shit, this is what happened when I was a teen, I basically forced myself no to “fit in” or even try to because other’s people approval is meaningless. Wrong. That’s the core motivator at least when you are young. If you kill it it will kill you, you will have no drive to do anything and become a nihilistic worm.
Aaron Nelson
The only way to turn my life around was to tap into that desire, and act on it.
Jordan Walker
This. Let em bleed out, they probably can't even afford to live check to check and live on credit.
Jason Bennett
That's a step, next step is Übermensch.
Thomas Powell
Checked and redpilled.
>Working in the meme city just to be able to survive barely each month The modern slavery
Easton Peterson
>tfw could care less what anyone from my school is doing
step it up basedboys
Jose Robinson
>afraid to check social media in fear of this I was always #1 in every course I ever took, and everyone knew I was one of the smartest kids in the entire school without even trying. They're probably all rolling in bank while I'm barely surviving. Booksmarts mean nothing IRL, it's all about being normalfaggotty, because jobs hire based on who they think would be fun to hang out with all day, not who can score the highest on a test. The education system fucking ruined me. I'm still trying to figure out how to /make it/ but shit, man. All that time spent studying, I should have just hung out with chad and hoped his chaddness would rub off on me. Then again given the shithole I came from I bet 9/10 are still in that dead end town working dead end jobs and producing ugly future drug addict children, so who knows. The blessing of ignorance is you can imagine every possibility. I don't have social media so no one can look my shit up. I even got a name change to make sure there would be no way to connect my past self to my current self. I don't come up in google results. feels good man. I'm a ghost.
Aiden Sullivan
General science degrees are 100% useless in the sense of getting jobs in that field without a PhD
Ethan Wood
Or perhaps you’re just a moron
Ian Myers
>24 years old
Too early. The justice comes around 30, i promise. Especially for the girls.
Carson Howard
>had friends in high school >now 27 >almost all those friends are wasting their lives in shit jobs or became commies >I have very good degrees and a position I love >lost contact with all of them >don't know what to tell them Pretty bitter feel
Christopher Nelson
Same story. Sort of... okay not really. I know a few better off than me. One became a fucking accountant something (forgot the name of his title) and he didn't even go to fucking college. The rest tho are making shit an hr. I live in LA tho so shit pay is the norm.
Henry Myers
>a few dozen LARP detected
Leo Wright
This, 24 is nothing
Carter Evans
ChemE seems to be awful for entry level, at least for me. It fucking nirvana once you settle in an industry you like and get some experience in but before then you're delegated to doing total bitchwork. If I could do it all again I'd definitely go MechE.
Henry Thomas
I dunno, I feel bad whenever I see people from hs doing bad. Some of them were assholes but desu they seemed really frustrated and sad inside. I hope they do okay.
Aaron Hughes
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>fancy sounding job titles like "Investment Associate at Morgan Stanley" >the rest are in Medical or Law school Maybe sounds fancy, but do you realize the actual work sucks fucking dick
Ryan Hill
I'm 24, I graduated last year with a meme degree (History and Philosophy) and blew all my money on drugs and travelling. Being a poorfag NEET at home while half my friends buy property and get promoted in software / engineer jobs has snapped something in my head so I signed up to a bottom rung accounting course at college. Have I left it to late?
Jose Butler
Unless you go full CPA, which takes awhile, there's a good chance you'll hit an earnings cap. You may want to pursue administrative work on the side. I have a friend who works for an insurance firm even though he has a BS in history with a shit gpa.
Nicholas Taylor
I'm doing AAT then ACCA, I'm planning to work in drone tier data entry or admin stuff until I can get a training job for the ACCA. As long as I'm on 50k by 30 I won't kill myself
Juan Jenkins
>wtf guys I thought the nerds would win in the end
Only in movies bro.
Gavin Wright
would you trade the experience of travelling to study 2 years earlier
Andrew Price
>no willpower >feeling sorry for yourself >not breaking out of your comfort zone
I got my chem bsc four years ago and found a job a few months after graduating. It wasn't too difficult, the only issue is you're going to be stuck in contract/temp hell for a few years because no place wants to bring inexperienced chemists on permanently. I got transitioned into a salary position a year ago, but it doesn't pay that much. I kind of wish I took chem e instead, but I'm not cut out for that shit.
it depends on where you live. In my area there are dozens of places always looking for chemists. My company hired a temporary chem major with a masters degree in something I can't remember, but it didn't help his chances in the job hunt. Master's and phd programs are memes unless you know exactly what the fuck you're doing and how to use it.
Adam Edwards
Insurance adjuster / “analyst” is the absolute lowest tier of work that still requires a bachelor’s degree — those jobs max out at like $50-60k
yes. But ideally I wish I travelled at spent 3 years at uni instead of 5. I had a kidney operation and started again but in hindsight that was my ideal time to ditch fucking history and do accounting.
Michael Davis
Fuck man I want to study history but you make it sound awful.
Nolan Gray
The content is interesting but it's a complete scam to get a degree in it and the content is very politically biased (I'm no poltard, it is genuinely absurdly globalist and focused on feminist / postcolonial issues). I could have spent that time securing myself a triple figure salary doing a STEM subject but instead I had a fun, interesting but ultimately useless time there
Xavier Jackson
This
Colton Reed
I bet they don't take their financial advice from Jow Forums
Samuel Lewis
All this Schadenfreude makes you really ugly.
Samuel Allen
same here. I consider myself nihilistic and misanthropic. I hate my fellow men and he hates me.
Angel Bell
I really want to know what has happened to to the people I once knew in high school. It seemed like the once friends I had in college had never finished school and continue to waste their time away on video games and anime. It seemed like everyone disappeared and new people begin to shuffle into your life. You completely forget about them. It would be nice to see those friends again on facebook. But I know for sure the successful ones aren't going to make facebook posts anymore.