People Complaining About Their Jobs Sucking (In The West & Far East)

At least you have a job that can pay the necessities and even be liveable if you didn't waste so much on electronics, clothes, accessories, subscriptions, utilities, transportation, debt, and insurance. These kind of stuff add up if you're not careful and while I do have high financial potential due to what I'm doing, I currently am not really making money at all and have to look for a normie job in the meantime. I still have to live with my parents and continue with setting up my self employment venture, which will probably take me until the end of this year (I started last summer) before I can get the proper funding.

In other parts of the world, even with a job, people can't even afford stuff like the newest iPhone/Samsung or subscribing to multiple streaming platforms or buying luxury handbags or even driving a car (without paying several seasons or even years worth of their wages, unlike here where we only sacrifice a few weeks to a few months). People who are poor in the West are still quite well off compared to the people who are poor elsewhere. I'm obviously not counting homeless, addicts, extreme poverty, and abuse victims; I excluded food and living costs since I know those are caused by corrupt ppl exploiting recent tragedies (plandemic, Ukraine, etc).

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SumKindaMunster · 51-55, M

I recall distinctly having a dead end job in my 20's. I got a BA then got a professional job. I did that for 7 years, then went to tech school and got some IT certifications. I then found a job in IT and have made a career of it.

Point being, I had to work and endevour to get all this. It didn't just get handed to me. It took YEARS to do this. And plenty of people told me I was wasting my time. Plenty of people told me IT support was dead and gone, all overseas in China and India. That wasn't true.

You have to decide what you want to do and figure out how to get there. It's not easy, but it is worth it.

Perhaps you have a point, perhaps things have changed and you are screwed.

But I am telling you I experienced similar, and I ignored the naysayers and went after what I wanted.

uikakarotuevegeta · 26-30

@SumKindaMunster well you changed your life around to improve your situation, so my rant doesn't apply to you. Many people around me are trying to discourage me from being self employed in tech because of the crab and normie mentalities.

Idgaf and I'm still going ahead with it either way because in the long run, most jobs I would qualify for would become automated anyways. I'd rather be the one automating other people's jobs, over other people automating mine (although that's still years to decades away depending on what I apply/work for).

SumKindaMunster · 51-55, M

@uikakarotuevegeta Ignore the naysayers. I know ALL about that. Bitter losers will drag you down to their level, it is indeed a crab in the bucket mentality.

I strongly encourage you to continue pursuing a job in tech. It's tough to break in, but once you are in, you are in. You will be forced to keep your skills current if you want to stay employed. That will grow your skill set and experience and you can take that to your next better paying opportunity should you want to.

Best of luck with it.