What does the life of a /lit/zen look like?

I'm a night-shift security guard. I just sit in a room full of monitors and read for eight hours. It's comfy but the pay is garbage.

>>24494047 (OP)
i'm reading a book that i shall return to the library tomorrow.

>>24494057
How audacious.

>>24494047 (OP)
>That's a sharp-ass tanline

>>24494047 (OP)
Basically Slacker by Linklater but not as interesting. I write for few hours when I wake up and then i spend the rest of the day wandering around, reading and looking at things.

My life is deeply depressing to me but very comfy from the outside looking in. I have a meaningless do-nothing job at a college and I own a small farmhouse cottage outside of town, so most days I wake up at like 8 am or 9 am, sit outside or by the fireplace with coffee and try to at least read emails and news until about noonish, putz around the garden or do any chores until 1 or 2, try and fail to nap around 3 or 4, then do whatever with the rest of the day, usually errands, going for hikes, or just doomscrolling and shitposting.

>>24494460
Oh and I like to read before bed but really just read whenever. I’m not a regular reader and like to read in bursts. I’ll pick up a book and if I’m into it I’ll just read it as much as possible whenever possible.

>>24494047 (OP)
Going to work and then the gym. Teaching myself new things and putting it to practice in my life and writing.

>>24494056
but u need to walk all over the place & swipe a card in a dozen readers, once per hour?

>>24494047 (OP)
ooooh, she has a knife

>>24494533
>she

>>24494553
lol i didn't notice his jaw at first

>>24494466
>>24494460
Sounds cozy
What would make it better? Gf? That's all?

I'm on the dole.

>>24494047 (OP)
Hanging out in my room, taking walks around the urban decay of my town, maybe go to the local pub with my mate, occassionally have sex with a female. I rarely read.

>>24494530
I, too, watched Naked (1993)

>>24494460
This sounds pretty good, anon. You should learn how to cook complex meals, will take up any surplus free time you have and it sounds cozy eating but the fire.
>>24494760
The true /lit/ way.

>>24494460
>reading the news
sounds hellish, couldn't be me

>>24494047 (OP)
Why does her leg have a circumcision scar?

>>24494047 (OP)
Work three-to-four days a week as a barrister in a sleepy circuit on the south coast of Ireland. Mostly crime and some domestic disputes. Rest of my time spent reading, perfecting my cooking and looking after my mother, who lives with me due to a severe brain injury. It's fine, all things considered.

>>24494586
Idk. I don’t really care about a gf. I think I’ve just realized that while I always pursued a comfy life because my early life was kind of shitty, what I really needed most was some adventure and purpose, which is pretty much at odds with comfort.

>>24494924
I do a few times per week usually.

>>24494047 (OP)
Basically Henry Cavendish but in the modern world. I haven’t really spoken to another person at work in a month maybe.

I'm a plain old NEET

I manage a small chain bicycle store. Most days I wake up an hour early to read, make breakfast, tidy up the room I share with my gf, and walk from our apartment 15 minutes to the shop.
The work itself is ok. I dislike the entitlement and attitudes of the public, but fixing things can be satisfying, and I get to travel around the island sometimes for deliveries.
When I first moved to this country a couple of years ago, it was with a woman who was trying to get away from her boyfriend, who didn't know she was sleeping with older men for money. I thought this made her interesting, but as we grew closer I realized how much like everyone else I was, in that I couldn't maintain a serious relationship where both of us were sleeping with other people. I broke up with her, joined a football club, and began swimming in the ocean, which was right outside the flat I was sharing with a self-made millionaire Maori man and a couple of recent university grads.
I met another woman, who had also moved to this country, and who's visa was expiring at the same time as mine. We moved into a modern, sterile, industrial apartment together that I come home to in the evenings. I like to spend that time reading, writing, and talking with her, or else cycling in the hills.
Lately I have become unsure about our plans to move to yet another country, together. I dream about cycling through the desert, with everything I own strapped to my bike, and this is what I'll probably do in October, for three months on the Arabian peninsula, then Egypt, Morocco, before finding another country to live and work in. I have planned all this in my head, but not how I will break up with her.
What matters to me most is reading and observing and then writing about what is happening, otherwise things just get quiet in my head and I start to feel (even more so) that I'm not really existing at all. I may cite this as a reason why I must remove myself from her. I don't know what the truth is, so any explanation I can come up with feels fine.

>>24494530
No, I sit in a room and unlock doors electronically. I also do a bit of paperwork for the last hour of my shift.

>>24494047 (OP)
I’m trying to get an accounting job right now. Harder than you might think. Good thing I have some savings to coast on for a few months.

>>24494047 (OP)
I’m a career criminal and unix terrorist.

>>24494056
this is the job i want, but you have to pay for your own training and a liscense, and besides id probably get rejected anyway even with that because im skinny

>>24497013
What country do you live in?

>>24497058
Maple Leaf America, so America that its literally in America, but arbitrarily has a border around it to pretend its not actually literally in America

>>24497067
In America you don't need a license to be a security guard. The pay is probably better than what you make too. Have you considered moving?

>>24497077
>Have you considered moving?
Nigga im a broke 23 year old whos a failure in almost every respect. Im such a failure that im technically still in 1st year uni despite having been in school since 2020. Theres absolutely no way I can move, even if I wanted to.

>>24497095
>Nigga im a broke 23 year old whos a failure in almost every respect.
You'd fit right in in America.

>>24497097
I'm already in Canada man. It's just shittier America...in some ways, and obviously more convenient...I think in other ways. I dont imagine the differences would be significant enough for my life to be better there.

>>24494047 (OP)
I work a dead-end restaurant job at 23 because I dropped out of college due to depression and alcoholism when I was 20. Now I barely drink and am doing better but I'm too broke to go back to school myself, my parents refuse to chip in to help because I fucked it up the first time, I can't seem to get hired literally anywhere else in the current market despite sending out like 5 airball applications daily, and I spend far more time than I probably should ruminating on the fact that I'm wasting my life serving greasy ass brisket to greasy ass fatties, leaving work every day reeking like a charnel house, and being too drained from work to read anywhere near as much as I'd like other than days off or attend to my old workout routine. Honestly a humiliation ritual of an existence with no clear path out. Anyone reading this, don't you ever work in a restaurant.
Thanks for reading my blog, to keep this /lit/, my favorite author is Lermontov.

>>24497103
>I'm too broke to go back to school myself
Have you tried online school? It's pretty cheap compared to a actually going to college. I'm getting my English Bachelor’s degree part-time while I work.

>>24497108
NTA, but for me, having ADHD, online school is borderline impossible to put myself to.

>>24497112
What's nice about online school is that you don't have to sit in a classroom and listen to lectures all day. Most of my studying resources are e-books and I study while lying in bed. It's not that bad, really.

>>24497108
Yeah, that was actually my first attempt, I graduated HS in 2020 and had to try that because all campuses irl were closed. I botched it horribly because I'm too much of a terminally ADHDbrained retard to pay attention to a zoom call. NEETed for a bit after, then started again when I could go in person with more success, but still ended up having a nervous breakdown after a while for some reason anyway despite it all having gone well up to then, not being able to get any work done, and essentially self-sabotaging everything. I fully recognize that I'm the only problem here, not my circumstances, and I like to think I'd probably do better if I tried again, but maybe I'm just not cut out for this shit.

>>24497108
>voluntarily getting an English degree
Why? I mean I did this too but I got an accounting degree recently because the first degree was useless.

>>24497124
How many classes were you taking at once? If the problem was the courseload why not just take one or two classes a semester? Even if it takes you eight years to get your degree at least you're moving forward.

>>24497127
Worst case scenario I'll just teach highschool English or become a paralegal. Either option is better than what I'm doing now.

I'm a sophomore literature major. I was an early reader. First novel I read was The Secret Garden at age four. Consistently read throughout childhood. I'd read Asimov, Tolkien, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Kafka, Kay, Blake, Huxley, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Spenser, Chaucer, etc etc before reaching 18. Always enjoyed literature and reading, and I spend time here to discuss it.

>>24497123
Im able to listen to the lectures, but its this dichotomy where I will only read the lectures when the urgency of an upcoming test is dawning, but dont like doing any of the assignments or work that require massive massive prep.

So instead ill just listen to audiobooks on or by related authors or important contributors to whatever subject. I can do that without the pressure of urgency. But not if it feels like its for work.

>>24497130
Bro have you seen the TikTok’s of gen alpha? Imagine teaching them. Imagine dealing with smartphones in high school. I guess I could teach English too as a fail safe.

>>24497124
>Yeah, that was actually my first attempt, I graduated HS in 2020 and had to try that because all campuses irl were closed. I botched it horribly because I'm too much of a terminally ADHDbrained retard to pay attention to a zoom call. NEETed for a bit after, then started again when I could go in person with more success
Kek, im the Canadian Anon. Borderline had the EXACT same experience. I think covid that year just destroyed me mentally and productivity wise. Id always procrastinated and been a "poor" student. But I always passed classes anyway with decent grades in highschool, even enough to make honours, because I actively participated in class (my way of being engaged enough to pay attention).

But during first year of uni, online classes plus the general "freedom" and unstructuredness of Uni just broke my mind and I was so lost, and hopeless on doing anything of note. It wasnt just school, it was that year that i developed the habit of not even wanting to eat or take baths. Id legit just either go straight to sleep or stay up listening to music because I couldnt sleep.

Mentally it didnt feel that bad of a year, like I was numb most of that year so I didnt feel bad or sad. But looking back from where I am now, probably one of the most disastrous and worst years of my life.

>>24497140
Dude, American high schools are such a joke that I literally did not do a single assignment after school turned online, showed up to like one week of zoom classes turning my camera off occasionally to sip a beer or hit a weed pen before just going AWOL, and they still passed me at the end of the year because I wrote a disingenuous essay about how sad I was over George Floyd. I know foundationally I only have myself to blame for never developing a work ethic, but they certainly didn't do much to encourage one to be built lmao. At least makes a funny story to tell the high schoolers I work with who just view me as irl mordecai from regular show or something

>>24497128
4 class course load at the time of the breakdown, not super light but far from as heavy as some of my friends were taking. You're probably right, and my parents encouraged the same thing, but in my view both then and still subconsciously to some extent now, I just wanted to get everything done as fast as possible so I could stop being viewed/viewing myself as a manchild failson.

>>24497135
I'm sure it won't be easy or fun, but at least it is somewhat adjacent to my interests.

>>24497152
>I just wanted to get everything done as fast as possible so I could stop being viewed/viewing myself as a manchild failson.
Even just taking one class a semester is better than nothing. It won't be too expensive and you'll be slowly moving forward towards your goal. You'll never be happy if you just sit around and stagnate.

i agree with everything in this thread

>o woe is me i'm 2x and never completed college
>look at how retarded i am
>my life is over
>feel some pity
many such cases

>>24497237
Not completing college pretty much guarantees you're going to have an unfulfilling life.

>>24497112
If you can't study alone, you're probably not meant for any curriculum, even on-campus.

>>24494047 (OP)
I genuinely can't tell if that's a male or female

>>24494460
fuck you for being unable to enjoy that

>>24494047 (OP)
I have a full-time corporate job but with a lot of autonomy, remote work and liberal access to paid leave so I can read quite a lot and I managed to get a master's degree while working with online classes over the past years. I wake up around 5am to shower and work a bit while getting a coffee, then some reading time in train, and as soon as I'm home in the evening, I study. It doesn't leave a lot of free time, I'm a bit sheltered. Lunch with parents on Sunday, going out with friends once or twice each month. So far I do enjoy it. I'm considering dropping my career to start a PhD.

>>24497304
>remote work and liberal access to paid leave so I can read quite a lot and I managed to get a master's degree while working with online classes over the past years.
Wow that's literally what I want to do right now. I'm 23 I just landed a fully remote job and I want to do a master's degree in philosophy. I'm from Europe and I'd really like to attend KU Leuven but I'm not sure they offer fully online learning.

>>24497326
I'm from France, I enrolled in an online bachelor's degree with the university of Bordeaux. The remote program for the master's didn't exist so I made direct arrangements with each professor to only show up a few times a year and follow courses from afar. I know however that such remote degrees are commonplace elsewhere, I did want to remain there to write my dissertation under the direction of a specific scholar.

>>24497348
Interesting. Do you think it's risky for me to apply to a uni with the same purpose, since if the professors refuse to allow me remote study I will be fucked? Did you have assurance before you applied that this would be possible?

Head of department at a big all boys catholic school. Studies of religion. I only have to teach one max two lessons a day and the rest of my time is spent reading and making curriculum.


If you live in Australia - get a job as a secondary teacher in one of the many elite inner city schools. It’s comfy AF.

>>24497358
Since the bachelor's was an online program, I got to know most professors and establish contact before asking to attend the master's remotely, so I would say it's pretty risky in your case. You should consider another university that offers dedicated online courses, for the first few years I don't think it matters much which school you attend. Regardless, you should find the person responsible for the program and ask them directly, they are usually very supportive, especially in humanities.

>>24497375
Thanks mate, you are living my dream life btw.

>>24497370
what's the dress code like?

>>24497379
Don't mention it. My advice, make sure to know as early as possible what you're considering for the future, and plan accordingly. I enrolled in classics with the expection to improve my crude command of Latin and Greek, without disturbing my career, and ended up obsessed with switching to full-time scholarship. In the meantime I took a loan to buy a house, which is incompatible with such a desire. If you have the slightest feel that you might want to become a teacher, or a writer—and this can quickly be attractive once you alternate between thriving studies and a menial occupation—then make sure to prepare upfront, save money, and avoid any financial commitment.

>>24497256
if you are spending money on college in 2025, the year of llms and ai, you are lost

>>24494047 (OP)
I'm actually in a good spot now. I wake up 5:30 am and go to gym, I don't have a god physique but I was obese 3 years ago and it's really so nice to be that anymore. Then I have cappuccino with my wife after gym. After that I start working, I've got my own company but me and my wife are the only employees. It's an IT consultancy (me) / clothing brand (my wife), just being able to work from home/whenever I want is a huge blessing as well. That's it I'm also really into chess and wrestling although 3 weeks ago I completely broke my arm so I'll probably need a new hobby till the end of the year.

>>24497416
How did you start your IT consultancy. I made a software business (it's a saas for restaurants) but it's hard to find customers. Did you just call people to advertise your services

>>24494530
>watch Naked for the first time two days ago
>see this post
Based.

>>24494404
>bikers tan

Old, NYC, published here and there, plenty of friends and GF, but no meaning to life. Currently working recruiting but studying for the LSAT so I can feel alive again.

>>24496873
I don’t know what to say other than you’re interesting if nothing else.

>>24497095
If you want to work in security and are a college student, try to get a door security (bouncer) job at a college bar. It’s actually really easy. It’s 90% scanning IDs, 9% asking people to leave, and 1% talking people down when they get confrontational and being asked to leave. Getting beat up isn't really a concern unless you work by yourself and your clientele blacks. Then they’ll gang up on you and throw bottles at you and shit if you tell them to pay their bill. Otherwise, the only people that get asked to leave are drunks who are too drunk to really put up a fight anyway. But basically you just refuse to fight and it simmers down.

Once you’ve done this for a while, actual security companies will hire you.

>>24497103
What about the military, merchant marines, police, trade school, etc. ? You might not be into any of these but man if you want a career more dignified than being a line cook at 30 you’re just going to have to sacrifice your principles a little bit.

>>24497294
I’m sorry. I do know how lucky I am. I just don’t know what I have to do to make it make me happy.

>>24497370
Private school jobs are pretty good across the Anglophone world in my experience and if you’re remotely smart or ambitious and have the right pedigree and education, becoming a headmaster is not at all a pipe dream. The hard part is getting into the prestigious private schools. Public school in America is hell.

I read my Kobo at the front register during downtime at work. I read my Kobo at the pool while tanning. I listen to Malazan on my runs like last night. I work nights and smoke the mornings and the late nights. I stare at the stars and told the Moon herself that I would rather Stand Alone than live within Fear, Doubt, or Regret. Left a lot of friends this year that's just how mid twenties goes. Can't keep up, me or them? It's both everything just off pace.

>>24497103
You truly are a hero of our times. They’ll read about you in my three volume philosophical lit fic novel in the style of Musil years from now.

>>24494063
i got another one btw

>>24494056
same but in nursing and i also basically dont need to do anything for the most part except like 2 hours of actual physical work and paperwork. i also spend my time just reading but i will admit that i find myself gaming a lot on my laptop which is definitely not good. it is on company time though so its better than doing it at home for no money

>>24494047 (OP)
i didn't bathe today,or maybe since last week idk.
i received a call from old parents floor: "room smelly, clean it by noon". that doesn't mean anything. might have been last week.

>>24495073
Nice the gardaí don't investigate much so you have time to make up for the HSE not doing much either

I take care of my mom and read and write all day. Or sometimes take care of my mom and get trapped on the computer all day.

Wake up at 615, run ~25 min. Get to my STEMcel cage at 8. Read on my lunch hour either at the beach, in my car, or in a corner of the office as dictated by season and weather. Get to gym by 530, lift until about 7/730 (M-F), then about ~30 min bike cardio and home before 8. Watch an episode or two of seasonalslop anime over dinner, read until bed ~1030. Laze around house on weekends watching anime, cooking, reading a little writing a little. (25yo KHHV STEMcel by training and occupation who desperately wishes he had done Lit instead) (I haven't spoken with a girl my age since senior year of highschool)

I work at Tim Horton’s as an assistant manager. High school dropout but got my GED. On the weekend’s me and my boyfriend drive around to old buildings and steal copper from them, I get 150-300 extra a month that way, mostly it’s fun and edgy. I rarely read, mostly troll and insult people, even if I don’t know anything about the topic.

As a neet retard
>wake up at 9-10
>body hurts coz sleeping on the floor
>curse myself for waking up
>apply for some jobs
>go for a run
>shitpost
>play vidya
>go to sleep
I have the time to read but no motivation

I'm 30. I work an entry level administrative job at a medical school, mostly from a laptop at home. My life is mundane and cloistered, which would be fine if I only wanted to read, but I want to write, too. I've published one short story; I got some money. I might apply for an MFA program this year, just to break out of the miserable white collar cycle and give myself more time to write, even though I think most MFAers write like faggots. I write before work, in the morning. I read at night. I waste a moderate amount of time doomscrolling and abusing ADHD meds. I fell asleep from age 27 to 29 or so, and I'm terribly self-conscious that my life is heading toward the mediocrity I tried so desperately to avoid.

>>24499209
>wishes he had done lit instead
No, you don’t, unless you wanted to hear about how great mediocre minority authors are and how evil white men are while gritting your teeth and pretending to be okay with all the hate and vitriol spewed towards you without so much as a second thought by those neoliberal freaks put in charge by the inane California freak show we call the UC system.

>>24499254
Are you gay? I find it hard to believe that a gay man would steal copper. Just doesn’t add up. You’re defying all stereotypes if so.

>>24494047 (OP)
I have a bullshit office job that I try to be good at. Apart from this I read a lot in other languages (english being one for me and german). I rarely do anything else, I don't watch movies nor series and I don't doomscroll either.

No friends no gf. I know I must be wasting my life but I had a normal one before, with a girlfriend, friends and family, and while I was happier it is a time long gone now. I am not happy nor sad. I'd enjoy the company of another human being if I could but I am picky and I plan to leave my country in the coming year.

>>24499380
If I had done Lit I would have gone someplace like Baylor, not a shitty state school in a shitty state.

I was a teacher, went crazy, lost my job and now a fry cook.

>>24499426
>UC
>state school
Lol, well meme’d, my friend!

>>24494047 (OP)
I am a 21 year old autistic NEET that lives with his parents that is probably completely fucked. I have no prospects and no future and don’t really believe in anything and think I will live a terrible life and die a terrible death assuming a don’t commit suicide first. I am completely blackpilled about everything. The only reason I’m not depressed all of the time is because I’m autistically rationally disconnected from my emotions and can’t feel them like normal people do. I feel completely alone and have nothing in common with anyone in my life. I wake up, shower, eat, maybe do some chores, make dinner for my family, doomscroll rightist twitter and 4chan, waste my time watching YouTube videos I don’t even like, coom, maybe read, self loathe about being useless and wasting time, and then go to sleep. I used to have a part time nepotism job at a factory where I would do random odd jobs but lost that due to automation. I hate myself for being weak and useless and a failure but never do anything.

>>24494047 (OP)
>wake up at 330am for work
>arrive at work at 430am
>work 10 hours
>come home
>do more work around the house because lazy women
>sleep

I used to read 2-4 hrs now i barely scratch 1 hour and am slowly working on regaining that skill

>>24499481
I know literally nothing about UC or West coast colleges. I went to a state school for my engineering degree which was what I meant to reference.

>>24499546
I'm realizing I should have said state school OR in a shitty state lol

>>24494460
Life might be missing a gun and/or dog

So many depressing lives in here, you guys almost make me forget about my own hoplessness.

>>24499617
my life sucks ass due to my own bad (cowardly?) decisions but i didn't feel depressed about it until i smoked weed 90 minutes ago

>>24494047 (OP)
I’m a 23 year old college dropout who works in a restaurant flinging shit out the window all day as the topsoil years of my life are spent slaving away for Jews in this hellworld which America has become. I was forced to drop out of college because I spent all day smoking weed and drinking after an extremely traumatic betrayal from a friend group which I considered myself closer with than with my own family at a point. Now that I’m somewhat over that I can feel my grip on myself slipping day after day. Despite that I feel myself as being smarter and healthier than that time where I was smoking vape shop weed literally all day I feel like the chances that my life will amount to anything are slipping away. When I was a teenager I wanted to be a world historical figure. I wanted to have my name etched in the memory of my time forever. Then my dreams started to slip into wanting to be a minor historical figure. Then they slipped into just wanting to quit weed and maybe have a farm and a wife. I would have killed myself a couple of months ago if not for the fact that I anticipate a violent revolution in one form or another in the years to come. Not that I’ll be a commander or even involved or anything. I just want to be there to see it happen. Maybe I’ll get lucky and there’ll be a comfortable low level functionary job there for me in the new government and I can spend my withered potential doing something actually worth waking up to go do for once.

>>24499646
lmao i had a strong chuckle off that thanks dude i needed that lmao

>>24499649
What was funny about it?

>>24499659
it's like u had a writing assignment from a writing workshop to get into the mind of a deranged loser it's kinda too perfect plus the seinfeld pic gave it away still funny tho

>>24499663
It’s not a workshop. I am just a deranged loser