Honestly, I was fucked 20 years ago.
>49
>current-year bongland prisoner
>no qualifications (English degree)
>industry I used to work in full-time is close to dead (magazine publishing)
>lost the decent part-time gig I had a few months ago (the mag folded)
What do? I'm thinking of applying to be a trainee estate agent, as it doesn't sound too bad, plus they don't require anything qualification-wise. I know I'd be competing with a bunch of late teens/recent graduates, though. Suspect if I "learned to code" I'd be up against infinity pajeets, if my age didn't disqualify me there too. (Plus I've no idea *what* to learn.) My only asset (for now): about £70,000 worth of AAPL, which clearly I should have sold last year, even though I'd have taken a massive hit on CGT (which I'll now have to take anyway when I start selling it just to eat). Everything I was looking to buy last year is now too high.
An hero?

>>508675151 (OP)
Move to Aus, teach (or whatever else) for 20 years, pension.

I think we're doing like 20-50k sign on bonuses at the moment for teachers.

>>508675151 (OP)
Start a band

ESL?

>>508675348
Are you are retard?
he'd need to do a degree in Ed. Prob, at min a masters bridging quality
and the pension is peanuts
fucking retard

>>508675151 (OP)
Paint your skin brown, change your name to mohammed, and sign up for gibs. Foolproof plan

>>508675151 (OP)
You can work as a laborer in any sort of manufacturing or logistics industry. The worst one would be construction, as its mostly picking up heavy objects in the heat. In a factory setting at least theres shadow and sometimes air conditioning (not in europe).
Besides that, theres unlimited do-nothing office jobs everywhere, i never know what these people do. Some have legit jobs like accounting, thats like 1% of people in offices

1 post from this ID

- main character

>>508675151 (OP)
lol imagine working
just get NEETbux for your autism

>>508675151 (OP)
Go to China and teach English. You dumb bitch
You can even get raped there

>>508675594
Imagine going for your dream. Why would you do that?

>>508675151 (OP)
TEFL in some brown monkey shithole for peanuts until you die (as there wont be a state pension back home in 20 years)

>>508675151 (OP)
Put the 70k in a high yield bond fund. Forget coding youll be competing against 29 yr olds who know what theyre doing.
Go with the real estate and get a trade job meantime or be a neet which is supposed to be easy in europe.

The NEETs brag about being a retarded nigger on file and used by Jews to die
The wagies brag about working like slaves for Jews until they die

Never a dream though. The solution

>>508675151 (OP)
Go do work in Antarrica, they always need basic laborers with minor certifications that are very easy to get.

>>508675151 (OP)
Fucking LARPers. Like someone out of prison would visit 4chan /pol/.

>>508675768
Retards here don’t understand that

>>508675768
>>508675796
I don't think he means prisoner in the literal sense. More of a comment on the state of the nation.

>>508675151 (OP)
sounds like you don't have a wife or kids either. bleak. your jewed nanny state that hates you really ruined you. i don't have any advice on the job front, but if you go the an hero route, just make sure you go out like a pathetic defeated bitch and dont take out any of the scum who ruined your life and country.

>>508675151 (OP)
Sell your butt

>>508675151 (OP)
Your best shot at this point is to go to China, teach English, and marry one of your students ASAP

>>508675151 (OP)
>industry I used to work in full-time is close to dead (magazine publishing)
You're an idiot.
Online zines are booming for both mass publishing and solo work, your workplace just failed to adapt.

Especially in England, holy fuck you've got enough sales that people still POD and distribute for the greater London area.
People eat that shit up.

>>508675151 (OP)
Fucking idiot stop crying. Go for trucking. If you move to Australia you can even make bank driving those road trains. Or you can go for a Fly in Fly out job.

>>508675579
Oh, I'm still here, reading the responses. Why'd you think I was ESL? I'm the one motherfucker who *can* speak/write English - not that it matters one jot.
>You can work as a laborer in any sort of manufacturing or logistics industry
Just turn up and give a firm handshake? I actually wouldn't mind some kind of mindless-automaton gig, as long as it wasn't too back-breaking. Would allow me to preserve some mental energy for hobbies.
>Go do work in Antarrica
Sounds kind of cool actually.
>>508675849
Yes.
>>508675862
Could opt for the Day of the Jackal ending I suppose. It's a bit harder these days, though.

>>508676175
HGV loicence here, then apply for a visa? I'd be open to that.

What about being an aircraft mechanic? Or a mechanic for a city vehicle fleet? No flat rate bullshit like in car dealerships and it should AI proof for the foreseeable future, plus potential comfy night shifts.

>>508676520
Yes that would give you some leverage during the visa stuf for sure. And you already speak English fluently ofcourse. You should also lie that you already have trucking experience. Good luck

>>508676566
Looks like it'd require 2-4 years of training…Maybe?

I guess no one thinks the estate-agent thing is a good idea, except for one guy. Maybe.

>>508676850
If you want something with less training (understandable) maybe look into IT certs. You just watch online courses on Youtube in preparation for a paid online test which gets you a cert if you score high enough. You could also learn to code, Harvard has an online introductory program that assumes you know absolutely nothing. There are videos of people teaching themselves to code and getting decent gigs, see YT channels like Dorian Develops. Some of this shit could be a total meme but it may be worth looking in to

>>508675151 (OP)
I'm 41 but dual citizen was thinking coming to bongland since I just got divorced here and Australia is fucked
No chance of ever buying a house here now maybe I could get a council flat eventually there though since I'm a Brit I'm a half half

>>508677493
>Australia is fucked
>Moves to the UK

What the fuck dude

>>508677493
>I'm 41 but dual citizen was thinking coming to bongland since I just got divorced here and Australia is fucked
oh my god ah ha... hahaha holy shit

>>508677493
Fuck off (we are full)

>>508677375
My impression re coding is that it's a young man's game - and even young guys are now struggling to find work. Could be wrong, though. I'm not averse to the idea, if that ship hasn't sailed.

>>508675151 (OP)
>English degree.

Immigrate here, and become an english teacher.

>>508677493
>maybe I could get a council flat eventually there though

>>508677493
why dont you two faggots marry each other and move to france

>>508677805
Correct, the time to get into coding was 15 years ago or more.

>>508678149
Figured as much.
>>508678118
Sounds like a decent premise for a sitcom.

> goes to jail (retard alert)
> is a nahtzee
good riddance faggot
you fucked your own life now deal with it

>>508675151 (OP)
You're 50, grandpa.
Stop posting on 4chan with the 20 year olds and do some parenting, your kids should be 18 by now ready to leave the nest. Fucking geriatric loser.

You're 15 years away from retirement complaining about jobs like a fucking college graduate lmao

>>508678509
See >>508675849

OK, based on the responses so far, I'm thinking I should stick with the trainee-estate-agent plan (I was hoping some estate-agent anon could give me the low-down on that, but hey) but have the HGV licence - with a view to working in Australia - as a strong Plan B.
>>508677910
I'm guessing even for Turkey I'd need some kind of teaching qualification first. And desu I'm not sure I have the right aptitude for teaching.

CELTA + Brit passport = English teaching job in Shanghai. Sarary wage starts at about $3000/month in your case. Not much, but it's Shanghai we are talking about where money grows on trees so there's no limit to how much you can earn there eventually.

>>508678969
You have 70k and are 50 years old, you have a few farts left until you die.
Go to some shithole like Vietnam you can coast with that money (and fuck bitches) until you turn 66 and are eligible for a state pension.

In fact if you sell all your assets I bet you can easily get $100k which is enough to soft retire in Romania for 10-20 years depending on lifestyle.
Then there's Vietnam, Thailand etc. You're just stupid that's all hope you die of a heart attack at work and never retire kek

wagie wagie sad and ragie

>>508675348

This is probably his best bet at this point. Things are going to get a lot worse here in Bongland in the next 9 months to a year. Maybe take some bullshit TEFL thing to allow him to teach, then escape this hell hole before it is too late.

As for being an estate agent, let me tell you a secret. UK GDP figures run month to month, and they show that _already_ there is a housing market crash in-progress. You will not see these in the house price figures yet... it takes 6 months for them to work through the system, but they are already in the monthly GDP numbers. So this is how i know things are going to get much worse.

Government knows it too, but it is politically unwise for them to say.

>>508675556

m8, the UK does not and cannot build anything. We celebrate when 1 medium sized new building manages to get constructed somehow. A new rail line takes 20+ years. A new runway 25+ years. A simple tunnel a similar amount. So there is no building work. Meanwhile the government plays fantasy targets with "building 3M new houses this year" (so far zero have been built or will ever be built.

As for industry, our electricity prices are 7x Russias, 5x Chinas, and 3x USAs, so there will be no new industry.

>>508675151 (OP)
> mag publishing
> posts on /pol
Follow the path of other successful right-wing publishers, have a fickle edgy audience, move domains often, juggle crypto for groceries and watch 95% of your population behaving like retards they are.
IDK, man. Moving to Eastern Europe with a vision of having a piece of land while commuting to your daily English Classics 101 in a nearby city is a pipe dream.
70K is nothing wrt nonNPC future. Granted, it's more than average Joe has, but then, you're not one when it comes to needs and dreams.
In your situation, I would take copious amount of entheogens while praying to machine elves for an unbiased view of your innermost self. You see, answers are almost always there for those brave enough to ask.

>>508675151 (OP)
Work, as structured by modern society, is a trap. Your labor is taxed, your savings are eroded by inflation engineered through central banking, and even attempts to escape through investment are undermined by capital gains taxes. The system is designed to keep you struggling, playing a game rigged from the start. Many seek solutions within this same system, but that only leads back to deeper control. The truth is, you can’t win a game built to exploit you. Modern life—fiat currency, corporate markets, mass media, and even democratic processes—functions more like a psychological prison than a path to freedom. Real liberation begins when you stop playing by their rules, reject the illusion of status and wealth, and recognize the system for what it is: a mechanism to extract your life energy for the benefit of those who rule it.

I've never worked a single day in my life.

>>508679867

70K pounds today is not much in Bongland. He is 49 years old.

When he was 24, in the year 2000, if he had £25,000 then that is about the same as £70,000 in 2025. It doesn't buy you that much although it sounds like a lot. And inflation is going to remain high now for decades.

It's like less than 1 years wages back then.

>>508679673
Fair points -and yes, I've read that London properties aren't selling. Still leaning towards the trucking idea rather than teaching, but I guess I shouldn't rule it out.

>>508680169

Good luck to you whatever you do, but if you are going to "break out" then it makes sense to do it sooner rather than later. No matter what you see announced by the government here (any government) so long as they basically seek to keep things as they are with regard to the system... there will not be a change in fortunes for anyone. They are tinkering with minor nobs and expecting big changes, it wont happen.

>>508675151 (OP)
Hahahaha. You’ve already been replaced in the workplace and demonstrated your retardation by coming here—the board of retards, bots and terminally online faggots. I’ll never believe any of these posters replying to you, or yourself—are even real. So fuck off and disappear for good. lol

>>508678832
settle down fag. 4chan is a millennial site. 20 year olds are only here because not a single zoomer knows how to build their own website

>>508679770
still capable of buildings aircraift carriers and submarines though

>>508680321
(you)

>>508680307
Cheers. Yeah, things clearly aren't going to improve here.
>>508680321
Another vote for "an hero", I guess. Thank you, leaf :)

>>508679890
> lim x/y for x-> inf, y-> 0 = inf
My autistic desire to cave your head in with a shovel is limitless and yet the probability of this happening approaches zero. Nothing personal.
Crypto is blood money. It has its uses and I'm glad it's there, but speculating on it while knowing that the money behind it comes from desperate anons and gullible NPCs is the most jewish thing to do, including Soros & Bank of England hijinks.

>>508680163
Yep, I was trying to convey that message. Talking about debased currencies and inflation here is hopefully preaching to the choir.

>>508680492

Dude, neither of the aircraft carriers work properly. The propellors dont go around.

https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/hms-prince-of-wales-shaft-failure-investigation-results/

The type 45 destroyers dont work in warm water.

https://www.navaltoday.com/2016/06/08/royal-navys-type-45-destroyers-cannot-handle-warm-waters/

As for submarines, the astute "class" are just 5 different boats, all custom built. They work differently so cant share crews. There are long periods where none of them work:

https://navylookout.com/why-are-no-royal-navy-attack-submarines-at-sea/

>>508680408
Most people here are 20-30 yo.
If you're still here after 30 you should feel old.
Being here at 50 is lmao tier especially when asking about careers like a college grad when you're one step away from retirement/death

Go to China. China is the future. Who knows what opportunities will open up for you there as an Englishman.

>>508675151 (OP)

Become a merchant marine.

>>508680597
Another vote for an hero for ignoring the best life advice you got ITT.
Go back to work or kys eternal wagie, you'll never retire either way.

>>508680745
Most of us who were here from 2005 have no where else to go. It's not our fault this shit hole turned into reddit2.0
You're worse than trannies that invade a hobby then demand it be changed to suit them

>>508680917

I've been here since 2005, almost at retirement age now. There is nowhere else.

>>508680732
i have heard about how the carriers actually suck before...
well that's pathetic, you guys are absolutely useless. i hope your intelligence is at least reliable still

>>508675151 (OP)
>I based my career on a dying industry. Should I learn to code now that programmers are also getting laid off? Maybe I should open a Blockbuster?

>>508680913
What advice did I ignore? Your "move to Vietnam and fuck bitches until 66" advice?

>>508675151 (OP)
Start gambling on shitcoins and copy trading insiders on the stock market to make money

https://x.com/unusual_whales/status/1923725439719117079
You can buy and use unusual whales to copy trade stock market insiders who make millions of dollars off of options trading

Or you could buy access to a discord that'll post trades from unusual whales so you can have someone else do the work of finding insider trades for you to get in early on
This guy catches insider trades using unusual whales and posts them in his paid discord, its like $20/month
https://x.com/AnthonySandford/status/1929534258487374296
This dude does as well but he's jewish
https://x.com/thisisorlando

I'd recommend using axiom.trade for trading shitcoins

Below are some telegram call channels where an AI will post coins it thinks will perform well, you can make at least 40% profit on over half of them I'd say. Quite a few have been posted that end up doing over a 10x, I've seen a 100x recently as well

t . me/solearlytrending
t . me/pfultimate
t . me/ai_agent_solana_0xbot
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This is a telegram group where people post coins. Quite a bit of decent things get posted in here, there's been a few ones posted recently that ended up doing at least a 10x
t . me/SKULLSCOMMUNITYGEM100x
(Remove spaces)

Here's 2 more telegram call channels that are ran by actual people instead of an AI, they've posted quite a few coins that ended up doing well
t . me/DegenSeals
t . me/veigarcalls
(Remove spaces)

This telegram channel posts notifications when call channels make calls that do at least a 2x, it's where I found the above 2 channels. You can find a bunch of new callers to follow in here
t . me/walloftrophies
(Remove spaces)

I'd recommend trading with a 1 second candle chart, and using indicators such as bollinger bands, MACD, and stoch RSI. There's plenty of vids on YouTube where you can see how to trade using them. Spend time learning what scam coins look like before buying anything.

>>508681047
Pay no attention to these clowns
>Fuck off old man
Same person is in other threads saying
>I'm an oldfag , fuck off newfag
If there was anywhere else to go I'd be there. The cripple had a chance with infinite chan but fucked it up so I returned here unwillingly

>>508675151 (OP)
>70 000
>fucked
pick one you useless faggot, or better yet, kys

>>508678832
>>508680745
>t. seething cancerfag

>>508681160
Yeah it's 100 times better than going to motherfucking Australia to become a wageslave yet again for 15 more years.
Do you old losers have a fetish for never being able to retire or what? Who knows if you see 66 I bet you didn't have a healthy lifestyle.

>>508681169
>You can get rich like these guys if you pay them 20 dollars a month
Lmao
Nice story faggot. It's like all those ebook sellers
>I'm a billionaire and for just 99 cents I'll share all my secret
If you're a billionaire you don't need to sell 99c ebooks my nigger

>>508681292
just have sex ffs

>>508681169
Here's some crypto accounts to add to a list on Twitter that post good info on coins you could make money on
Off the top of my head some good projects I've learned about on Twitter that I may buy in the future include Peapods Finance, PinLink, OpenLedger, and Morphware AI
https://x.com/the_smart_ape
https://x.com/eli5_defi
https://x.com/thedailydegenhq
https://x.com/0xSalazar
https://x.com/dontbuytops
https://x.com/thelearningpill
https://x.com/YashasEdu
https://x.com/RubiksWeb3hub
https://x.com/defi_mochi
https://x.com/PinkBrains_io
https://x.com/BitQua
https://x.com/satinvictus
https://x.com/CryptoGideon_
https://x.com/TradesJayGann
https://x.com/TimeTrades1
https://x.com/Mars_DeFi
https://x.com/DeFiMinty
https://x.com/0xTindorr
https://x.com/Axel_bitblaze69
https://x.com/CryptMoose_
https://x.com/crypthoem
https://x.com/0xDeFiDevin
https://x.com/563defi
https://x.com/Defi_Warhol
https://x.com/rektdiomedes
https://x.com/jkrdoc
https://x.com/Karamata2_2
https://x.com/Moomsxxx
https://x.com/cryppinfluence
https://x.com/phtevenstrong
https://x.com/0xCheeezzyyyy

>>508675396

>>508681062
Made me kek, even though you're implying I didn't suspect coding is now a non-starter. (Also, the decisions that caused me to drift into mag publishing were before the Internet really took off.) And, look, what the fuck should I do? This is the saved game I'm stuck with.

>>508681427
This isn't about sex dumbfuck.
You can move to SEA to save money I put the bitches part in a paranthesis as an added bonus. Janitor fucked your ass instead of teaching you Engrish? ESL scum

>>508675151 (OP)
i tried to go it myself for my entire life but after 34 years i was continually getting shit on - graduated into the 2008 global recession, then trudeau was elected right after i found work in the oil patch and it caused the industry to stagnate for a decade, then covid hit when i was buying my first house and the housing market went insane meaning i could only afford a tiny shitshack. i have officially said 'fuck it' and accepted nepotism as my only path forward - my mother got me a job as a property manager at her real estate brokerage and i intend on using her established connections at every opportunity. so i guess that's my advice: use every unfair advantage you can possibly find because that's what everyone else is doing

>>508675151 (OP)
49?

Retrain are you mad?

Start a magazine or use your experience to teach, or team lead or something like that.

>>508681589
>hurr durr I'm a prisoner in the UK
doesn't want to move
>already has the money to retire until pension
doesn't want to retire
>what should I do?
You should kill yourself.

>>508681661
No one saves money in SEA you third world retard. It's expensive as fuck now post chink flu

>>508675151 (OP)
Don't rope
Its the last resort. Try to have some hope. Unironically, seek Jesus and try to have some solace

>>508675151 (OP)

Come work for Boeing here in the US. Washington State, westcoast. They just started hiring again for the most basic of mechanic/electrician jobs (job code 30104 (elec) 30304 (mech), which you don't need shit for qualifications for. Tailor your resume to include personal experience with working on your car, running cat-6 around your house, building/repairing computers, etc, and there's a decent chance you get an interview.

You'll start at about 25/hr, which is shit for seattle area. 50c raise every 6 months. But it's a 6-year max out time, and at 6 years, and including the remaining 3 years on the most recent contract, you get a GUARANTEED 140k/year BEFORE overtime. Work 1 weekend per month of overtime /(1.5x sat, 2x sunday), you'll be making about 170k or more a year. Amazing health insurance. Huge 401k match. And there is generally a new contract every 4 years, so that 140ish/year is not even considering what the next contracts will increase. This is also based off the starting job at a Grade 4, it's easy AF to get higher grade/paying jobs.

People meme about Boeing being shit and failing, but it never will. There's Boeing and Airbus, and Boeing is too big to fail for the US. The WA State factory, and overall puget sound union, is 30k+ people. Easy as fuck to get a job. Easy as fuck to climb once you're in. They just started hiring again for the base jobs, and will MASSIVELY hire in the next 6 months or so as the 737-Max line spins up in the main factory. They often will pay for your relocation if you're moving from afar. You will train for like 3 months in a dedicated classroom/lab setting before you even work a line/plane.

If ANY of you boys are feeling lost, consider Boeing. 24 year old dudes working 40/week with no college degree making over 120k easy. 60 year old dudes who just started a year or two ago who will be making 180k/year with a bit of overtime by the time they're 65 who were lost AF and no prospects.

>>508675151 (OP)
Convert to Islam and groom underage girls into sex.

>>508679673
intrestin

70k would buy a flat that's not a complete hovel outside of big cities.
Assuming living costs are what you're worried about covering, I'd be inclined to liquidate the aapl, buy and live in a flat and get a part time job doing something undemanding to pay the bills. Full time jobs are hard to find here but part time stuff is plentiful at least in Scotland. All assuming your aim is max comfy minimum effort that is, if you want career progression you're going to have to get lucky or suck someone's cock.
I paid 85k last year for a decent ex council flat. Ugly on the outside but nice on the inside. I could probably live on £500 a month if I weren't into cars and drugs

>>508682104
Nah, I think if I was going to rope I'd have done it already. I'd rather follow the gypsy poster's suggestion than do that. (Which isn't to say I think it's a good idea.)
>>508682260
Probably great advice... for another guy. I have zero mechanical skills/qualifications. My dad might well have taught me some stuff if he hadn't died when I was young.

>>508675151 (OP)
>Suspect if I "learned to code" I'd be up against infinity pajeets, if my age didn't disqualify me there too. (Plus I've no idea *what* to learn.)
Wouldn't even bother mate, AI is absolutely killing the entry level market there already.

>>508681052

Engineering and procurement fuckups aside (and you could write many books on that, UK MOD is useless). We also have no sailors.

For the aircraft carriers I have colleagues in the private sector, who retired from the Navy years ago, who are getting large offers to come back out of retirement to run the systems aboard the carriers and destroyers. They are needed for their technical and engineering know-how and because no new sailor has any experience at all on long deployments at sea.

There is nobody to staff these ships even if we built the ships we need.

Funnily enough Mohammed and Ngubu and the women arent signing up.

>>508681589

Dont suppose you worked for Future Publishing in Bath did you?

>>508682661

You don't need any, is part of my point. There are grade 3 jobs (literally $1/hour less than the jobs I was referring to) where you literally sit in a toolroom and just hand out tools and re-check-back-in tools that mechanics need. Even the jobs I mentioned you don't really NEED any actual experience. You'll spend 2-3 months in classroom training every single tool and work you'll be performing. And then you'll spend another 3 months on OTJ (on the job training) shadowing somebody who does your exact job, barely doing any actual work yourself. All fully paid. Unless somebody is a complete fucking retard, you will learn your job completely from scratch, and ALL the tools that you'll ever use on the job, before you even start actual work. People sleep on this job/company because they don't realize that just about anybody is qualified for the basic jobs unless they're complete fucking morons.

AND on top of that, once you work there for a while, you'll ACTUALLY be knowledgeable in tools and have the basic skillset for a mechanic. All paid for.

Just trust me when I say you don't need ANY qualifications other than not being a retard for a grade 3/4 job, which is the most plentiful and the most often hired for. I'll answer any questions from anybody that wants to know more

>>508682448
Highly doubt I'd have enough left to buy anything livable outright due to the CGT, but I may have to go down the part-time route if all else fails. Until recently that's basically what I was doing (just without having bought a place).

>>508681170
> unwillingly
Look at this terminally online double redditor.

>>508675151 (OP)
>he fell for the writing/journo scam
Lol. Lmao. Learn2Trades I ‘spose

>>508683268
What were your gains? CGT doesn't apply to the whole sum just the gains.
Even if you're only mentioning the value of the gains that still leaves you some 59k after tax
At my age, I'd get a small mortgage on the remainder for something modest, banks will bite your hand off at that LTV even if you make shite money
Bit of an issue at 50 though.
Shacking up with a woman would be another plaster, but that is conditional to a bunch of shit obviously

>>508683101
Without getting too doxxy... maybe :)
>>508683112
OK, you've convinced me I could do it. I'm not convinced I could convince Boeing's HR I could do it, though. I'd have to completely lie on the résumé, and even then, would they hire some old white bong?

>>508681938
Go to Romania then it's not expensive at all and much safer than the UK idiot.

>>508683679
>Without getting too doxxy... maybe :)

I remember the early 90s. It was a great time.

>>508683506
Long story, but yeah, basically. At 16 I had the best exam results in my part of the country, and that and some other things caused me to become complacent I guess.
>>508683579
It's nearly all gains, alas. Yeah, I could probably get a mortgage pretty easily if I landed any full-time gig. Could probably have moved in with some girl from HK a few years ago, but I figured it wouldn't end well.

>>508675151 (OP)
Move to Vietnam and teach English. Or any other SEA country for that matter. Move from one country to the next untill you find a place that is comfortable enough. Buy a home. Learn the language.

>>508683864
I got in just as the party was ending. There were still a few "lads' mag" moments to be had, but, yeah. Terrible timing.

>>508683805
And be surrounded by gypsy's and third world pieces of shit no thank you

>>508684215
>Just move to Asia
>Buy a home
>Teach English
None of that is possible you dumb cunt. What's with all you eastern europoors being so fucking stupid
1. To teach you need a degree now, plus Vietnam is getting rid of all white pig teachers as we speak
2. You can't buy a home in SEA, grow up you faggots. Foreigners cannot buy land! No land no home!!!!
3. Asia is no longer cheap. A beer in Bangkok costs more than a beer in Sydney Australia , hookers are cheaper in every single first world white country than in gookland now

>>508675151 (OP)
You had at least 20 fucking years to find a non-retarded field to work in. How the fuck does this happen to people?
Serious question, I'm a programmer and I'm already working on secondary and ternary skills in case I'm out of job (electronics, welding), and I have a homestead so i don't starve to death if I'm out of a job.

How the FUCK do people not do this instinctively?

>>508675151 (OP)
You'll figure something out, pitybro.

Don't know about the uk but here people in their 50s can pivot, get a forklift ticket and work in a warehouse or something. You could maybe find an office admin job. Or send the 70k to me then rope :)

>>508684632
I could make some excuses, but you're right, man. Apparently I'm a nigger when it comes to forward planning. Dwelling on it is pointless, though. Old Me dealt me a shit hand, and that's the hand I have to play (unless I an hero).

>>508685005
Sorry, mate - I'm probably going to need every penny of it :) But, yeah, something like that.

>>508685162
See you sort of answer the question. You thought I asked for excuses, or externals, but no. I asked for your internal state of mind as you were going through with this, year by year.

I realize it's wrong because that's precisely the point, you don't think, you're just a low agency individual who goes along with whatever the fuck choices you made decades ago, hoping for the best and never doing anything that would actually be a course correction.

You even post in an anonymous board looking for advice. You are doomed, you should be out there slaying it but instead you are worse than a lemming. I'd recommend you end yourself but you can't even buy a gun in bongistan, so good luck with that.
Your suicide note will claim it was the inescapable circumstances but we all know better

>>508675151 (OP)
There is a window open to you anon, move to India and become an English teacher to prepare the next wave of H1B's.

>>508686162
> telling a Windrush faggot to go back
Based.

>>508675151 (OP)
Write a novel. I wrote one and my degree isn’t even close to English.

>>508685774
Funnily enough I anticipated a lot of insults alongside posts from anons genuinely trying to help. Anyway, you're right and wrong. I have been low-agency, and tended to blame external factors and old decisions way too much. But I can and will course-correct.

I'll go ahead with the estate-agent thing, but also look into HGV training. Can quickly switch to that if the housing market is indeed fucked - or it isn't yet, but they won't touch some oldfag. (I've also been pursuing a couple of part-time things, but those alone aren't going to cut it.)

>>508675151 (OP)

retrain in cybersecurity, unironically Rishi did me a solid with that campaign over lockdown. Went from £12/hr wageslave to £60k/year comfy WFH job.

Only had a bachelors before with random as fuck work experience.

>>508686963
>>508686890
Write a novel or become an editor. A lot of writers need editors

>>508684589
Australia is basically a SEA country now. I'd personally much rather live in Siberia than in your disgusting shit hole. You reflect your fauna in ways almost surreal - poisonous, unnecessarily large and smooth-brained. Now please, go and tell your obnoxious compatriots to stop coming here, not just tourists, but the faggots who moved there 60+ years ago.

>>508675768

It's a metaphor DIPSHIT

>>508686890
I was, but I'm stuck on it atm - and that's a long-short, spare-time thing anyway.

>>508687098
*long-shot

>>508687098
Took me two months to write first draft of mine. I know everyone is different in that department. Since you’re not working just make sure you write 2-3000 words a day.

>>508675151 (OP)
Ask charles to help you out, peasant!

>>508675151 (OP)
>49
In that case the best years are behind you and you'll be dead soon anyway. You only have to survive for another 30 years and that's if you don't get sick and die before then. It really doesn't matter anymore as your life is basically over. Just find something easy and stress free that gives you enough money and try to enjoy the rest of your remaining time.

>>508687023
Interesting. What training did you do?

>>508675151 (OP)
Don’t learn to code, the market is hard enough for actual young uni CS grads, you’d have no shot right now. The times when you could do some js boot camp and get job offers are over, and besides that it’s just genuinely not a good fit for most people. If it was a good fit for you, you would already be doing it.

I’d try think about how your skills can be applied elsewhere, like, why couldn’t you work for the marketing or social media team of some company, It’s basically the same thing but digital. Do you have management experience? You can apply that to a different industry. There’s some software adjacent things that might be interesting to you too, try looking at release manager jobs or technical writing

>>508675151 (OP)
Go to Ukraine.

>>508687272
Fuck off zoomer.

>>508680745
>>508680913
You sound like a bitchy woman. You don't have to act all faggy just because you're on your period. Based on your statements about age I'm going to guess you're just a little kid still so stfu and let the big boys talk dumb faggot whiney bitch

>>508675151 (OP)
It's tough anon, not denying it.

I'm not skeptical about learning to code. It's a very hard field and everything changes there too quickly, you have to learn on your spare time or you get behind. And yes, the pajeets are infinite, but if not for them, it's AI.

You don't seem like a tech guy anyway, because why would you pursue english major if you were.

I suggest you keep relying on your strong sides, no matter if it pays ok or not. That seems "communication" related jobs.

Def not hero. But if you decide to, make it matter, instead of just offing yourself with no impact on society.

>>508682260
Would they help you with getting a visa and everything needed for moving to the US? Will they hire me as a 21 year old with 3 years total work experience in IT and no degree?

>>508687325

I did a bootcamp called Capslock that you get a bunch of certifications/qualifications out of, and they're pretty well connected in the industry too, I know they have a partnership with BT now which they didn't when I was doing it.

Can do part time or full time variants with a bunch of options for paying, including deferred income share agreement which is what I did. It's not easy, but it worked for me.

You dont even need to be super technical and good with computers, my current role is more legal/compliance and I was specifically hired because I had work experience outside of cybersecurity.

Worth exploring for sure, it's definitely a huge gamble but one that paid off for me at least.

>>508687869
>why couldn’t you work for the marketing or social media team of some company
Suspect my age would *really* count against me there, and I've applied without success for that kind of thing in the past, but might be worth firing off some more applications on the side.

>>508675151 (OP)
Get into a job where you have control of nuclear weapons

>>508688307

Get back to datadog.

>>508688463
bruh it's '25
grow weed you mongoloid boomer
4-8 plants is largely unnoticeable, even if you got literally swatted by a random retard or smth you'd probably be laughed at and your case wouldn't even make it to court past the queue of 50k stabbings, 20k murderz, 800k rapez and whatever the fk zoomers zoom about
top it off with some welfare and/or neetbux and ur cruisin

>>508688307
Thanks anon - I'll look into that too. This anon >>508688270 is correct in his assessment that I'm not a tech guy, but a long time ago I was very good at maths, so perhaps I still have that capability.

>>508688813
Is there really that much money in weed? I wouldn't know the first thing about it.

That’s what you get for voting Brexit. You fat gammon.

>>508676175
Do the trucking thing. My cousin Shawn is obviously autistic and he was a drunk that couldn’t keep a job until he started driving semi trucks in his 40’s. Now he has a house and his own truck and he drives and travels and sleeps in his truck or a hotel and he’s sober and he loves it.

>>508682260
>>508683112
Tell me more but lets up the ante, I am a seasoned av engine mech with a degree in aviation management.

>>508688844

no worries, thought I'd at least attempt to balance out the troll responses

also when I did it, there were people of all ages and backgrounds on the course. I'd say the average age was probably around 40, and full of people who had no technical background who wanted a career change, or just something more stable, so you're not instantly going to be made obsolete by some zoomer.

There's a lot more to cyber than just attacking/defending from hackers as well - with an english degree and good grasp on maths you're pretty well positioned to pivot into lots of areas in cyber imo.

Good luck anon, hope you find something that works for you

>>508689608
Thanks mate.

How much does the dole pay in the UK? Is it like Burgerstan where you have to have kids to even get money? I'm ready for NEET life but need to pay off debt before I can start dumping money into high dividend shit to fund it.

>>508689075
it's not necessarily about the money, although you'll be making enough, but think about it like a platform to grow yourself while growing
h y p o t h e t i c a l l y
takes 3 months or so from seed to flower, as you learn more about it you get better yields
aiming for 1 kg per 4-8 plants is adecent starting point
pass that off to some locals (you find these easy enough) for 2,5/3k per kg
all your workload per 3 months is 10-20 hours a week in gardening and plant maintenance, then 1-2 hours socialising and finding some contacts
assuming you'd get 3k / 3 months as a noob farmer, top it off with universal credit which is 350+rent, if you have health conditions look into applying for pip (long process since globohomo kiked the assessments, you'll have to tank applying, getting denied, and appealing to tribunal)
>register as self employed and get an accountant, have no income when starting, when you get to 2-3k a month start registering an income with said accountant (have something like 6-700 a month coming in for minimal tax, first 12k is untaxable, as you get more income go higher)
screencap as guide mby and glhf ;)

>>508689848
forgot to add -
join online growing communities to learn about it and find guides, there's also pdf's and books galore, even facebook grow groups, all social media has em, you can even ask questions off burner accounts to troubleshoot your grows

since workload is low and you'd be looking at 2-3k a month in 6 months to a year, use some of your time to grind some extra courses and qualifications, and in 1-2 years you could be adding an extra income off a part time gig there
maybe look into degree apprenticeships, construction related office stuff, whatever floats your boat, pick something you've had a passive interest in over the years for best results

>>508675348
D0 TEFL in Asia

>>508675526
kek

>>508675151 (OP)

You can do handyman stuff. I know a guy about your age who paints houses. He didn't get any certifications he just learned on the job for a couple years then started his own company.

I know another guy who builds fences. Again, no certifications required. He just worked for a fence building company for a while, learned on the job then started his own company. Started as a one man operation but he got successful enough that he hired some assistants and now he mainly supervises them and deals with clients.

>>508682260
This anons probably not here anymore but are they possibly looking for mfg engineers, PMs, estimators, etc and offering to pay for relocation?
>t aerospacefag with all of the above experience

>>508675151 (OP)
>I'm thinking of applying to be a trainee

yes most people are forced to switch jobs/careers in their lives, there is nothing wrong with you it happens to most.
I switched job paths three times (cook, painter and now i am in IT) as a adult it usually doesnt take more than 1 or 2 years at most to get certified in other jobs.

>>508689798
Unemployment is pathetic, I've been out of work for months but didn't bother claiming because I'd rather use my savings that have to deal with some useless 'coach' at the job centre.

You can get a decent amount if you manage to get approved for spacker bennies though

>>508690840
also you are in a western european country so most of the training for a new job will be paid for by social services you just have to tell them you want to switch job careers.

>>508690898
>I've been out of work for months but didn't bother claiming because I'd rather use my savings

i did this once too and regret it (at the moment i didnt care and had no regrets)
dont do that you just damage yourself in a double way, first you use up your money and second you dont get the money you are entitled to, basically you cut yourself financially two times for no reason. Again you are entitled to social services and money (for which you have already paid in via taxes, its your money they are giving you back).
Dont just skip out on help/money just because of misplaced pride or fear that they will be dicks to you.

>>508690338
>handyman stuff
>no certifications required
>started his own company
Fucking leafs simply don't understand how good they have it roflmao

Why would you study english unless you were prepared to be poor?
You gave up on being a writer so now just un-give up. Easy.

>>508691367
>Fucking leafs simply don't understand how good they have it roflmao

Why? You need a loicence for that in the EU?

In Canada you need certs for actual trades like plumbing, electrician, etc. but there's lots of trades/construction related jobs that don't require anything

All right, anons - thanks for the advice (those who didn't just call me a fucking idiot, which, I know). I've bookmarked the thread and I'll check back later in case anyone has any more suggestions. May post another thread in a few months to (hopefully) update you on my progress. Need to prove that Hungarian wrong, even though he'll likely never see it.

You can put your skills to work for the drug cartels in Mexico. They need better publishers for their competing torture porn. If you're really good at it, you'll take a fake name with both groups, and compete against yourself. Just remember to never use your own address or car to deliver.

>>508679770
The country is full of industrial estates with businesses related to manufacturing or supply chain logistics.

>>508675151 (OP)
Can you do graphic design? If you designed the magazines surely you could design the websites or the logos of companies

>>508679673
All I hear is good news the brits need a housing crisis like the dutch because it makes all moderates go rightwing

>>508693185
Out of general interest what do you guys make over there

>>508693131
i recently read the most fucked up thing i have ever read about cartels kidnapping random hundrets of random civilians and putting them in secret locations with the sole purpose of being tortured to show and teach new cartel members how to torture in the most painful extreme way possible.

>>508675151 (OP)
>be publisher
>require useless degree for anyone to work
>entire industry brought down by the internet, which doesn’t even require a name
Kinda funny when you think about it

i am connected. what kind of job do you want?

>>508675385
I have no idea why this isn't more upvoted. It's the best idea here.

>>508675151 (OP)

Also excavator operators make good money and always have work. The training/certifications are only a few weeks. After that your pay is based on experience and what projects you've worked on.

Plus it's not physically demanding like other construction jobs or constantly changing like tech jobs so your age probably won't work against you.

I worked on an oil pipeline for a couple years. Talked to the excavator operators - they told me they were making $70/hr plus per diems for working away from home.

>>508680917
True words anon, thank you.

>>508688463
You seem personable. Why not try selling cars? Get on a pitch and work on commissions.

>>508689350
Lorry drivers get paid shit in the UK.

>>508687325
Careful with it. The reason why cybersecurity went up is bc of the ukrainian war. Basically, Putin told all his hackers that it's a free for all on preying on western companies with ransomware.

After the skirmish is over he's going to go tough on them again and these "cybersecurity" schmucks will be laid off.

Not to mention that AI is currently replacing them right now.

Not to mention that they higher only niggers, females and female niggers.

>>508695987
> AI is replacing anyone in IT
lol
lmao

>>508675151 (OP)
move to japan and become an english teacher.

>>508675151 (OP)
Go to South Korea as an English Teacher, marry a beautiful Korean girl have kids.
You're welcome.

>>508675151 (OP)
Go to the nicest hotel you can find to apply for work. On the way in slip and fall down the fucking stairs. Use the system against them.

>>508675385
This
electronic music is easy to make
You won’t attract any women unless your a nigger but it helps pass the time while you wait to die