What should I do about my pointless life? - /adv/ (#33417915)

Anonymous
7/26/2025, 12:11:56 PM No.33417915
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I'm turning 27 this year, and I think that my life in general is pointless, because I can do nothing beside my college's teacher job. Even at the job I do things just to stay on this job, not to be a good teacher and stuff, because I never had any idea and now I still have no idea where else to go, and my uni diploma in Telecoms is useless, because I haven't worked a day in this field and vacations in this filed are low-paid shit. And don't get me at plans, motivations and goals - I never had any, even as a kid. My parents, some friends and TTRPG playbuddies are the only ones who keep me going and do stuff like my job or TTRPGing, but I know for sure that wouldn't be enough and I wouldn't be able to hold onto them forever.
I have no real skills and talents, and even if I get hyped to do something and do this, this hype just withers away in 2 or some more weeks or months, even if I do this regularly with some kind of plan in my head. It feels like I don't really want to do anything but just burn my time by consuming content and watching everything around me change and/or die.
And even in consuming content I do a half-assed job: I just play and replay the same videogames, rewatch the same movies/series/videos on Youtube, and that's all what I do for now. I just have no interest in new stuff, even if it's in the same genre that I like: I consume it after wasting a lot of time to just read or watch anything about it and then I get to consume it.
So what should I do with this pointless life of mine? I don't want to spend all of my years like this before death takes me, but I fear to quit this kind of life in any sense, and this fear just paralyses me and doesn't make me do anything.
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Anonymous
7/26/2025, 12:17:25 PM No.33417926
>>33417915 (OP)
You should try giving some of your time to other people. Volunteer on something you care about (reading to kids, soup kitchen for the homeless, animal shelter, whatever makes sense to you), your life can be used to greatly benefit others
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Anonymous
7/26/2025, 12:37:24 PM No.33417964
>>33417926
>You should try giving some of your time to other people
And how it's gonna be different from my current job? I'm already giving my time and energy to random people, they don't really care about it, and I don't really care about it too. And I doubt that any poor random people or animal would care about giving them time and energy for free beside being all thankful on the surface, so why should I care?
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Anonymous
7/26/2025, 12:43:46 PM No.33417972
>>33417964
You asked what to do with your life, you should do charitable works and help people or animals or clean up a park or whatever. It is a better thing to do than all of the other stuff you don't care about
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Anonymous
7/26/2025, 12:55:46 PM No.33417998
>>33417972
> It is a better thing to do
How exactly it would be better for me if I don't really care about charity and stuff?
Anonymous
7/26/2025, 3:28:10 PM No.33418291
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>>33417915 (OP)
I won't read a wall-of-text laundry list of woes that is like a diarretic gusher dump on the reader. Ask about one thing next time.
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Anonymous
7/26/2025, 9:59:04 PM No.33419506
>>33418291
> I won't read
But you read that, you stupid bot.
Anonymous
7/26/2025, 10:26:48 PM No.33419642
i mean you seem to be living pretty well given the premises you set. if there's nothing you want to do, specifically, then obviously you are going to have to live in the manner that best mitigates fears about poverty and starvation. and that's basically what you are doing.
best you can do is either work on yourself and try to become a more active person, or look for things that you may possibly want to do. but i don't think that you are doing anything wrong right now either, per se.
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Anonymous
7/27/2025, 1:01:44 AM No.33420308
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>>33419642
> look for things that you may possibly want to do
That's what I can never understand. How do people look for those things? Do they just do them one by one to see which one would be more desirable to do further? Do they logically deduct one or more things to do? Or do they listen to their own feelings about this or that particular thing?
From my childhood and through my teenage and early 20's I was fine about just reading, playing and watching whatever visual media I could get and I never got to do anything more creative, active or difficult, because I didn't really want to and no one, even my parents, really made me do that. I've tried learning drawing and programming, but I've stopped, because I couldn't keep myself up to do them regularly, and I haven't tried anything else like this yet.
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Anonymous
7/27/2025, 1:22:19 AM No.33420412
>>33420308
>How do people look for those things?
i actually think that's kind of determined by fate. what the thing is, when and how you discover it, can be pretty random.
for example, i discovered my passion by hanging out in a forum on relatively general topics. someone mentioned a moderately obscure author. i looked into him. became a huge fan. months or years later, i saw a youtube video about that author. checked it out. one of the people in the video worked what would become my passion for a living. looked more into that person. looked more into the thing they do. realised i simply MUST know how to do it. learn it. encounter other things through that thing. learn them.
now i have a pretty obscure set of skills and am a small part of a small community of fellow travellers. and i have things that i know i wish to do, learn, and improve in.

but yes, you have to go to new places, hang out, keep an eye open, be willing to explore, and even to try things out. you can also logically deduct things, starting with your personality, tendencies, passions, talents etc and seeing what other things may suit you well.
i think you probably struggle with a history of neglect, which can make finding motivation difficult. i can relate on the drawing and programming stuff. in my case, i tried to learn both of these as well. one in order to make money, and the other because i like pretty drawings. but i didn't like the process of either of those. so i couldn't crack it. it's impossible to get good at something you dislike doing without a ton of discipline.
>From my childhood and through my teenage and early 20's I was fine about just reading, playing and watching whatever visual media I could get and I never got to do anything more creative
for some people this works out too, though. one of my friends read web novels forever. eventually, he wrote his own and proved successful. this was his passion for web novels. another fell in love with shakespeare at college.
Anonymous
7/27/2025, 1:43:51 AM No.33420490
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>>33420308
> Do they just do them one by one to see which one would be more desirable to do further?
Yes.

Most people do it when they are kids but people have also successfully done it as adults.