/25+ General/ - Cold winter edition

"Machine operator" for a print company. They didn't include much information. I think the ad said "up to $16 hour", but since I've never had work in machine operating I'm hoping I could get $12, even minimum would be good. I have a degree in Electrical Engineering, and nearly a year of programming, but nobody has been hiring me.

29 year old just finishing up nursing school. I assumed it would be full of young girls but the majority are my age. I'll be sad when it's over, since I was a shut in overweight NEET with no friends until I was 24 and now I got a taste of being "popular" based on the virtue of just being a guy in the middle of a clamfest.

>I have a degree in Electrical Engineering, and nearly a year of programming, but nobody has been hiring me.
How is this so common? I have no degree but I worked my way around different low tier office type jobs and now i'm at 54k/year in the government
>still live at home
>no gf

You should stop trolling. $54k is more than enough to live in 99% of places, you should know how stupid you sound.

some would think i succeded in life, ive a work that's really stands out & and i like, ive a nice apartment with nice things, but i feel like ive nothing except this emptiness that i cary around all the time. Everythings useless.

My only dream ive is to live alone in the woods till i die..

gonna be 29 this year. I'm experiencing the opposite though, feel immense purpose, almost like having the world on my shoulders whilst completely anonymous, a scheming wizard in the dark. Each day my hope grows and all my assumptions of reality are being proven day by day. Into the dark of the night I will be victorious youtube.com/watch?v=Ocm8QdNR_d8

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Why does everyone I know flip their shit about the cold? I live in the fucking midwest, you'd think people would be used to it by now, but no, everyone panics when its below zero. My mom was aghast that I went out in -5F weather to a local park to see the sunrise. What the hell, it's not rocket science, you just wear extra layers of warm clothing and you'll be fine. She and my dad both spend a ton of money on that Heet fuel-additive shit that hasn't been needed since they started putting ethanol in gasoline... what, like, 20 years ago? She keeps trying to get me to use it, never mind that my car starts perfectly fine.

I'm waiting too. I doubt I'll be able to persuade any of my friends from those days to come back with me though.
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that's leafbux so it ends up being like 27kUSD after deductions.
I know and I feel like an absolute manchild; I can cook, clean, work on cars, manage money and all that nonsense but I have no personal agency. I think about ending it every week

My dad found me my own little bachelor from a friend of his that is the landlord, which happens to be my childhood hockey coach. I always wanted my own place to myself, I used to live with my sister before this.

This place is pretty old, probably like 70's. It's got a history I'd say, and more than it's fair share of addicts due to how beat up it is. Me and my mother have been deep cleaning the ever living shit out of it and honestly I quite enjoy spending time with her doing this. It's starting to feel like home.

Today I'll be scrubbing walls, a steamer works wonders. I'll be buying pictures to kind of draw any guests, or lack thereof, attention away from any tiny stains I can't get rid of.

But ya, other than that, nothing else going on, just got internet.

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>Applying for jobs online, on a job website
>e-mail week later
>Your application is unlikely to progress further
>150 other people applied for this job
Trying to get an entry level IT job is a special kind of hell. I am qualified, why can't I have a job? reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

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>signed a lease for an apartment a while ago on the assumption I'd find a decent full time job and have steady income
>lolnope, working a string of shitty jobs
>incredibly hard to afford this place
>read lease, can't find a way to break it without paying $2500 penalty
>don't want to sublet because if they break anything it's my responsibility to pay for it
>have 5 months left on lease
"Live alone" I said. "You can afford it," I said. So my next place either I can find a micro-apartment that's somehow affordable or I'm going back to having roommates. God I hate living with other people. I wouldn't mind a tiny Hong Kong level small apartment so long as it was 100% mine and was cheap. Why do fucking normalfag developers only build "luxury" crap and 2 bedrooms and all this other shit and no tiny shoebox apartments I can actually afford without choosing between paying off my credit card or paying rent?
Fuck
Also fuck the labor market

>apply to job I've literally already done before, 100% qualified, 200% qualified
>interview, they fucking love me
>get message they went with another candidate
FUFKFKASDLKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKYOU
There's no way. Like, what, they found someone with a PhD and 10 years of experience who was willing to work for 20/hour? What even is this shit. I'm still fucking mad.

Normalfaggots are retarded, -5 isn't even that cold. The average lemming has zero ability to deal with minor discomfort and inconvenience, they're overgrown children who want to lounge around in a blanket all day eating tendies and mountain dew, regardlesss of that meme being about neets it much moreso applies to normies. Slightly too cold or hot and they start whinging incessantly. Tell them "I don't use air conditioning in summer" and they lose their minds. Same thing if you skip a meal, or even eat 2 hours late. They act like it's unfathomable torture. Like, bro, you can go a few hours being a little hungry, you ain't gonna fall over and die.
I'm jealous of normies, they've obviously never known suffering. Every whim catered to, never felt any pain or discomfort, never known exertion.

I know that feel. Around here is uni area with a lot of out of towners, so they jack up the prices. There's places with like 400 sqft of space for $600/month, or you have to spend $800, $900 for anything one-bedroom, up to $1200-$1400 for two-bedrooms. Those don't even include electricity or internet.

>400 sqft of space for $600/month
I'd kill for that kind of deal. I'm paying 1200 a month for a studio and this was the cheapest place I could find. Even the cheapest room in a shared place starts at 800.
Shit is fucked. All my fucking money just goes to rent.

I'm 34. In 5 months, I'll "celebrate" my 10th anniversary of quitting hard drugs, as that's the last time I used cocaine or heroin. I feel like a fraud, though, because until 2 years ago I was still abusing prescription pills, but I rationalized it to myself that it wasn't "street drugs." Denial is a bitch. Well, at least I've been sober from everything except weed (but including alcohol -- I don't drink) for 2 years.

I'm now day 6 of quitting weed, which is the very last thing I'm addicted to. Until now, I've been doing a solid 0.5g of wax / shatter / dabs per day. I'm a bit restless but feeling alright.

I've never tried to do the whole NA / AA thing. I frequently regret that and trying to go sober alone. I sometimes wonder if I should go, but I don't know if I belong. I already have serious "sobriety time" from hard drugs. Still, I've been to a few meetings long ago and seriously "Identify" with the speakers.

Unfortunately, I still *FEEL* like a drug addict. I feel like I have something deep and shameful to hide. I have a wonderful job and a couple true friends on the straight and narrow, so I should get over it. But I can't. I think about all my numerous near-fatal overdoses every day of my life, multiple times a day. I feel like a loser. I wonder if I'll just be a broken person forever.

Where I live it's a lot of money. It's hard to find even minimum wage jobs.

I'll always judge you. I'm sure you did some pretty fucked up shit and have a child or two running around you abandoned.

>I'm sure you did some pretty fucked up shit and have a child or two running around you abandoned

Can't have kids when you never get laid, bro. Opiates also kill your sex drive.

Glad you feel better than me. Hope you're genuinely happy and everything is going well with you. Though I don't know many happy people who mock recovering addicts on the Internet.

Sure I've lied a ton, but I've never stolen a physical object, never been the instigator in an assault (though I've defended myself), or killed or maimed anyone. Those are my rules.