What do you do for a living? How did you get into it?

I take home about $3550 a month so yeah I can live on my own. I don't want a room mate, shit would drive me crazy. If I had any cool hobbies I would use it on that I guess. I was a real good goy

But that's a fairly good salary. What would you rather do for a living?

that's the thing I don't know

I just want to take a sabbatical and redevelop some sort of identity, but I'm afraid if I quit I won't be able to start again (I've burned out before and it was rough).. and without my income my family's kinda screwed..

>What do you do for a living?
electrical engineer
>How did you get into it?
I applied for the job.
>How much do you get paid?
$77k/year
>Can you live independently off of it?
nope.
>Do you enjoy it?
Not really, it's basic as fuck work. All the boomers and people with grad degrees get to do cool shit.
>Can you see yourself doing it for life?
Same industry, yeah. Same job, no.

77k a year isn't enough to live independently? Are you in the heart of LA or NYC?

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>Are you in the heart of LA
Same state, but different city. I probably could, but I'd stretched pretty thin. I'm trying to pay back my student loans within a year. Once I do, then yeah, that's plenty. lol

I heard that the best way is to just accept that youre inevitably going to make shit music. Take your favorite artist, they didnt just sit down and write their masterpiece to start. That was built off of hundreds, maybe thousands of failures, but they learned from the mistakes of each one.

I have my own little farm that I inherited from my uncle. Mostly I farm lavender but have some cows, and make about 50 grand a year give or take. Enough to live on and maintain the farm. Could easily amp up the money made but I'm trying to learn to grow different things rather than just make the monst money.

I enjoy it for sure, and would be happy to do it for the rest of my life. Well, hope to be able to have a family doing it, for the rest of my life. Then I'd be happy. Probably look for a guy in a few years for that.

More info? That sounds like a cozy life.

>What do you do for a living?
NEET
>How did you get into it?
Nobody wants to hire me and depression
>How much do you get paid?
about 250 a month
>Can you live independently off of it?
nope
>Do you enjoy it?
I would if I got to live alone, I'd enjoy the freedom but living with my parents has its drawbacks
>Can you see yourself doing it for life?
No

Computer Tech with a Mechanical/Hardware specialty.
$48k right now, gonna go up soon, probably to $56k or $60k.
Yup
Meh, it's okay, and pays for all the stuff I do wanna do (within reason).
Maybe for life, I dunno man. That's asking a long way away.

javascript developer, recently got to work remote which is nice. going to Japan soon to just travel, thinking i might just go off inna woods near Kyoto and live like a bum until i die. maybe be homeless in Hokkaido and do my best Golden Kamuy impression before the cold kills me. never work robots. unless you have a gf there is no point in working as a man

hello jason
make more big room house with sick drops thnx

Get out of San Jose.

Agreed. I work but I have no social life and no romantic prospects. I think about where this will lead and it's bleak. What am I supposed to do? Just cope until I'm an old man and fall over and die in my apartment?

More info on which part? Just farm livin ovah heah

I wish I had that kind of purpose of self-assuredness. Life is a chaotic void, and it takes all I have just to overcome my fucked up upbringing and survive as lonely adult. No time to think, no time to feel.

>What do you do for a living? How did you get into it?

Financial industry regulator for the gubmint. Applied conventionally and got lucky.

>How much do you get paid? Can you live independently off of it?

Low to high 80k range, depending on annual bonuses. Last year I bordered on 90k.

>Do you enjoy it?

Nah. Shit's boring as fuck; I do enjoy that the work is absurdly easy and requires next to no engagement, and that I have set working hours that allow me to come back to my home, unlike a lot of the financial industry.

>Can you see yourself doing it for lfie?

No. I don't even see myself able to work for a direct boss/manager/director for life. This office shit, this cubicle nightmare, it hurts deep under the skin day after day after day. I'm building a financial cushion and have a decent life for a shithole idiot cyborg, but if I don't figure out a way out I'm going to hollow out.

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>What do you do for a living?
analyst for earth science research organization

>How did you get into it?
i didn't apply to internships throughout college and took the first job offer after applying for several months after graduating. didn't want to work at the job I had been working at in the summers permanently

>How much do you get paid?
50k/year
Decreasing each year because salary has been stagnant or less than inflation.

>Can you live independently off of it?
not around this area

>Do you enjoy it?
no, it is overly bureaucratic and amounts to essentially data entry. It is full of lazy federal employees that don't do any real work and they cannot be fired. The inefficiency drives me up a wall, compounded by the systematic errors that are made with some of the analysis that is done. It makes me question every model based on the data gathered. I did more engineering type work at my old job. Here, I feel like a needlessly petty bureaucrat scrutinizing paperwork when it is the underlying processes and methods themselves that are an issue.

>Can you see yourself doing it for life?
No, I've actively started looking elsewhere. Don't feel qualified for other positions though. I feel as if my applications go into online black holes, as my current work experience is limited in applicability unless I exaggerate.

Might return to my old job that I did in college summers, though unrelated to what I majored in (aerospace/physics). I need to get a masters to pursue what I'd like to do, however, my grades were shit and I have no money. After my experience the past few years, I don't even know what it is that I'd like to do. I was hoping to find a company that would help fund further education and at least push me in a direction. I've been stuck at this job for a while, and they offer no real benefits or applicable experience elsewhere.

user, could you give me some guidance how to get started? You might hate it but at this point in my life, I'd gladly be a wagecuck for 90m USD. I know it's relative, but how long would I need to study for to get into web dev?

What are the easiest jobs to get into that can be done remotely? I just wanna live in a van and make 50k/year or more.

sure

I started in HS when I had a lot of free time. I guess I got serious when I graduated HS and realized I was up against a wall and programming was the only skill I had (I was very bad, I could do HTML/CSS and some PHP.) "Getting Serious" meant that I just stayed in my room and went through open courseware computer science materials, PDFs, tutorials, reading people's code on Github, etc. I'd say it took me 6-12 months to be good enough to work for some really shitty startups on contract or part-time. First salary was 30K.

That's my approach. I was totally alone and figured it out myself, and cold emailed to get my work. But my approach was sloppy. Here's what you need to know:

1) the barrier to entry for a junior dev is very very low because companies need programmers; you don't need to be as good as you think (the juniors under me are pretty bad, all they've got going for them is that they keep trying to improve)
2) open courseware is great for foundational CS, but for practical work skills go find other developers: go to a hacker space, go to meetups, join a slack or discord group for devs in your city.. once you're talking to devs you'll learn what you don't know and what you need to learn to get a gig
3) empty your life and bust ass for a period.. if you've got money to blow and can't manage your time try out a bootcamp, otherwise discipline and setting up appropriate feedback loops (point #2 is critical, if you're socializing with other devs then they'll probably keep you on track)
4) start applying as soon as you can even if you keep getting rejected, you just need to get that first junior position and then you're set from there (you can't beat getting paid to learn)

if you're interested in frontend dev learn html/css/javascript/redux/etc, backend learn python+django/flask or ruby+rails, learn to use a unix shell, learn git etc...

that's kinda a brain splat hope it helps

and I think I hate it because a part of me wants to be doing something else.. programming I just played around with for fun, but before that I was more interested in illustration and writing

I guess there's a part of me that pines for that type of creative work instead of programming, and that conflict + the increasing demands of life is just tearing my brain apart

Up till a few days ago I was a college student. I did it because my parents pressured me to.
0$
Live with mom still
I hate my life and my meme poli sci degree and wish I'd never started it.

>Poli sci

You think about going for the foreign service exam? That's about the only known route I know poli sci works well as an avenue towards, so long as you don't mind the thought of a career overseas. It is, however, a way out of the misery of shit jobs that waste your degree.

It's just been suggested to me to go on to law school or to get ma in public administration. Don't wanna do either. I'll probably just work shit jobs lel.

Honestly would not recommend either the MA in public admin (def not this) or law school, unless you're looking into a law specialty that's in demand and interesting. Too many law school people end up in the same shit jobs that the BA people end up in, because of the glut of JDs. Something like immigration law or family law or arbitration might be alright, but don't quote me on that.

Plus you save money from not racking up law school debt.

Yeah. I am too much of a brainlet to do either anyways. And the one thing I have going for me is having no debt so I'm not about to accrue any.

Thanks for the replies user. I will definitely look more into it. I don't have a lot of free time, because I'm a poor wagecuck, but I'll see what i can do. I know you have a lot on your plate, but do you mentor people as well? I always had problem with discipline since I have no one to keep tabs on me. You already helped a lot with your answer tho.

Yeah Life's a cunt, trust me I know it as well user. You seem like a smart dude though, I'm sure you will figure things out and find what makes your life more fulfilling.

I work in IT. I make about $100k/yr. It's a job. I don't really like it but it's tolerable enough and pays well.

I still feel like shooting myself regularly just like I did when I was a NEET a few years back but now I get to think about it in a nice car and stuff.

basically cope or rope user. i wish i had something more then that, but I don't. a man's test in life is a women, always has been. hopefully you get a gf in 2019 and ascend.

I'm a receiving clerk in a warehouse, I got it from a temp agency after I was fired from 2 jobs as a machinist been at it for over 2 years now

Get paid like $15 an hour plus overtime, I make enough that I don't even know what my hourly wage is. I take home like $600 a week.

This is the least bad job I have ever had, so I could do this but I really really want to go be a farmer instead

Welder, full time, around 8000 euro a year

>dropped work as a projectionist because it fucked my schedule up even more than browsing Jow Forums did
>usually got home at 3 am and fell asleep at 6, woke up at 5 pm, cursed my life, dragged myself to work and repeat
>ending in a month
>realized that I have no employable qualities and every job offer asks for specific skills and a degree
Finna boutta off myself soon desu

unironically play vidya. I eloboost in league of legends, mostly did Plat1-D5 boosts last year. I live with my dad(im 19) and go to college "full time", but outside of mandatory classes I just stay home and boost. I make anywhere between $80-$150 per boost, and it takes me about a day to get it done, I usually do 5 accounts a week for about 500 a week or 2k a month. It doesn't sound like a lot if you just work a normal job, but for someone with social anxiety that barely gets out of bed to go to class its decent money.

I'm not gonna do this for the rest of my life, I'm planning on going into marketing/advertising and directing commercials, but thats a few years down the road.

20k per year sitting on my ass neeting it up. It's not as glamorous as it sounds. I got roped into an agreement of sorts with the government that I stay on disgusting medications or possibly go to the hospital on doctor's orders for several months at a time. I wish it was better, I do, and am dying for a way to get out, but lying is my only cause. If I lie about doing well, I can get off this mandate, that's my theory. It might take a couple years but then I'll be a free man, potentially. But I don't want to be, even then. I need money, I have dollar signs in my eyes.

Accountant for small private company.

Picked the degree that I thought would give me good odds at getting decent employment at the end of uni.

I get about $43k a year if you include 401k contributions. I also get tuition assistance for my MBA.

I can live a modest lifestyle independently in my city if I wanted to, but I choose to live at home with my parents (I contribute to the household bills and I do housework so not completely leeching).

Some days I enjoy it, other days are hell because the owners want shit done quickly on those days.

No, eventually I want to transition to something that isn't behind a desk all day, it gets boring.