what advice would you give a young and impressionable 18 years old who's just now about to face the real world? share us your wisdom anons

>>81678369 (OP)
Kneel on a pillow so you don't fuck up your knees

Suck as many older men cocks as possible

>>81678382
keep that shit to yourself faggot thx

>>81678369 (OP)
Dont touch psychoactive substances at all

>>81678369 (OP)
lots of bad folks out there who will use you/abuse you, keep your wits about and stand your ground

>>81678369 (OP)
Stop visiting this board. It's bad for you.
Look where we all ended up.

>>81678569
wasn't planning to, furthest I've gone is smoking and I still didn't enjoy it
>>81678597
pretty basic advice but still solid, thanks anon

>>81678369 (OP)
1. Don't waste all your time chasing women focus on school they will destroy you Plato was right passion for soldiers head for intellectuals and philosophers

2. Never ever touch drugs unless they are alcohol or weed socially or mushrooms. Mushrooms are the truth and they gave me divine intellect though still be careful only do like 2g most first and I wouldn't recommend ever doing a heroic dose like 5g I usually just vibe at like 3.5g-4g and do it with a trusted friend in a good headspace and shit never do more than 6g ever ever because it can raise your serotonin to neurotoxic levels :)

3. Stay in school/pursue a trade invest in yourself also try to read every day 99% of normies now don't even read so if you just read a book once or twice a month you will gain a shit-ton of knowledge and automatically be smarter than 99% of people

4. Online dating is awful for guys (and gals too...but for different reasons) if you want gf then the most important thing is exposure to women certain workplaces or college is good for this.

5. Stay away from 4chan it will destroy your brain

>>81678622
>basic advice
funny thing about out there, anon, is that common sense is not actually common
you'll meet a lot of idiots

Do women pursue you? Since you're here we know the answer. Don't pursue women. Also learn how to cook if you don't know how to. Cooking is possibly the most important skill you could ever learn.

>university is a scam
>talk to every woman possible
>stay out until 2 am every day
>smoke weed and drink alcohol
>learn to ride and buy a motorcycle
>remember that you find the kind of people you go looking for

>>81678369 (OP)
Don't waste your money on frivolous shit.

>>81678369 (OP)
Now that you finally turned 18, it's time to start pretending that you're a 30yo oldfag and cursing zoomers on imageboards.
>>81678640
>Since you're here we know the answer
Lol, based.

>>81678369 (OP)
Make a lot of friends in college because it becomes nearly impossible to make new friends once you graduate.

>>81678699
>go to college again
>???
>protip

>>81678369 (OP)
GET A JOB AS SOON AS POSSIBLE AND DO EVERYTHING IN YOUR POWER TO KEEP IT. i quit my job years ago and have been NEET ever since.

>>81678369 (OP)
start manifesting your lesbian bff who will save you by forcing you to talk about your feelings. if you start now shell knock on your door in a few years!

don't waste your time doing meaningless shit
if you go to uni take it seriously or else you'll end up regretting it for the rest of your life

>>81678369 (OP)
Avoid debt

>>81678369 (OP)
If you want something in this life, reach out and grab it.

>>81678629
>they gave me divine intellect
Nothing in your post is divine intellect

>>81679126
>If you want something in this life, reach out and grab it
Keep grinding, keep hustling, never get up

Pick a useful major

Life ends at 20

>>81678369 (OP)
You have no reason to believe me but I was a married, home owning, college graduate at age 23. I'm 27 now. I'll write out the advice I give all of my friends and be available for questions for an hour or so.
>inb4 normalnigger
I was browsing this board when I was 14 in 2012. Anytime I had a question about anything I'd make a thread about it and navigated my life that way. Anywho, as an 18 year old
>Get a secure credit card
For $500 you can go to Discover and get a secure credit card. You give them the $500 and they give you a $500 credit limit card. Sounds stupid, but you can use this to build up your credit score which is necessary for anything worth doing.
>Money
This will shock you to learn but money is the hardest thing in the world to accumulate when you're just starting out. Save money. All the money. Discipline yourself like a 1700s slave, only subsist on shit you can barely tolerate for most meals & treat yourself once a week. Yeah it sucks eating dry cereal or toast for breakfast, you're supposed to eat like shit when you're younger.
If you're living at home rent free, ride that train as long as you can.
>Get a job
This is the #1 thing I see young adults and robots fail at. GET A FUCKING JOB NIGGER. ANY JOB. MCDONALD'S. BURGER KING. WENDY'S. WALMART. WHO CARES JUST WORK
I see so many people waiting for "the right job" or "a cool job". I know so many people who wake up, browse LinkedIn, daydream about a job that fits their "vibe" and tell themselves that they're genuinely looking for a job as hard as they can when anyone can see they aren't. Yeah working at Burger King is a humbling experience, welcome to society.
The amount of purpose you will feel even with the lowest totem pole job will compel you to either get a better job or will satisfy your spiritual need for labor. Working is a 100% non-negotiable. If there is a health reason or something else precluding you from holding down a job, prioritize fixing that ASAP.
Continued in post 2.

>>81679274
Post 2
>Love
Forgo love. Be open to relationships if they crop up, but stop prioritizing finding someone. If it happens it happens. If you turn yourself into a motivated, passionate person, they'll drift towards you anyway.
>Finding a purpose in life/what to do with your time
Nobody on /r9k/ wants to read this but society actually works perfectly fine without them. Robots think withholding participation in employment is somehow equal to empowerment, but in actuality society doesn't need them to operate as evidenced by the fact that we all continue to live in a society without them. It's a bit of a number to get your head around, but long story short, you live in a community no matter how large or small. You will not feel good about your life until you find a way to contribute to it.
Don't worry too much about picking the wrong thing, you have your entire life to figure it out. If you go to school for four years and end up as a teacher for the next five, you might feel like you've wasted nearly a decade but in actuality you've secured a salaried position for yourself for half a decade and hold a college degree. The important thing is to just pick SOMETHING. Pick a direction and WALK IN IT.
Robots tend to be frozen with indecision and then the years just melt away. They tell themselves they might want to try something someday, but are so worried that they're starting late that they never start at all.
>Self Improooooovement
People will dick you around and gloat that normalniggers don't need to consciously choose self improvement, that's because they had good habits bred into them with a stable household, loving parents, all that hallmark bullshit. You need to accept the fact that by virtue of being here, reading my words, you are not that person. You need to decide to be a better person. Do not feel ashamed or stupid for tracking calories, keeping a planner, a journal, having short term/long term goals, ect.

>>81679274
This guy wants OP to work at Burger King lol

>people born in 2008 can legally post here

>>81678369 (OP)
A sea monkey like me don't have any advice that I can give to a 18 years old only because I'm one year older

>>81679274
>>81679323
That's all I have for general advice I guess. A bit about myself
>27
>Special Education Teacher
>Union President
>Very unstable home life, parents agree to let me live in the house rent free until I graduate college but then the expectation was I was to be gone
>Worked at fast food the entire time I was in high school
>Work full-time hours at a retail job the entire time I'm attending college full-time
>Go to the scholarship office in person at my community college campus and string together every scholarship I qualify for
>Save up 20k, use a first time home buyer's program and get a townhouse in the city when I'm 22 in my junior year of college
>Graduate the following year, marry my best friend (a girl I met on Interpals)
>We didn't live together until we already bought the house together
To most people it's going to seem like you're speedrunning life when in reality this is just how it's supposed to work. Look at retards like >>81679335 who crab-in-the-bucket shame people out of pursuing literally any form of labor.
Yeah it's not cool to live & breathe work and school during your formative years, but they're your formative years. They are building you into the person you will be for the rest of your life. You need to brainwash yourself into acting like SpongeBob, waking up every day to tackle challenges.
The alternative is just rotting here. I can hang around for any follow up questions, but yeah. Live like a monk for four years and forge the life you want to build.

>>81679370
Bro is a retard wrangler

>>81679323
>normalniggers don't need to consciously choose self improvement, that's because they had good habits bred into them with a stable household, loving parents, all that hallmark bullshit.
Lmao have you seen the state of normalfags

>>81679382
I love my job.
>>81679387
Yeah, I work with them. When they say shit like
>Yeah, I went to California over Spring Break with my mom. She bought me 9 outfits haha
I know that we are not alike and will never be alike. These people live in different worlds than us, play by different rules than us. It's bizarre and I hate it.

>>81679274
>>81679323
>>81679370
>Solid advice well written
>Thread dies
Never change /r9k/

>>81679633
well, I mean... he answered the OP well enough. There's not much else to say.

>>81679685
Great job anon we've solved /r9k/

>>81679387
What is /r9k/'s absolute obsession with hating self-improvement really about? It isn't a good thing to be fat, lazy, tired all the time and weak. It is a good thing to lower your cholesterol, blood-sugar, be more physically active and do athletic things to the best of your ability. Why are you so insightful on every other aspect of how modern society is deteriorating the will and lives of lonely men but when it comes to things as basic as hygiene and exercise you throw a fit and act like it's the same as saying "just be confident she'll appreciate that no matter how ugly you are". Why try so hard to get people to give up on one of the only things they could be doing besides gaming, masturbating or doing heroin.

>>81680399
Only normalfags give advice, why would I listen to one

If you can afford to not immediately wageslave, try to specialize in something decent. If you can work hard, which is unlikely for this board, then STEM will generally guarantee a cushy future, maybe with the exception of basic bitch CS.
If you can't really work that hard, trades are still better than nothing. Sparky and HVAC aren't too bad.
If you can't even work hard enough to make it in trades, you better start on >>81679274's plan of eating dry cereal for ten years to save up money.
Also by "specialize", I mean actually git gud, not just get papers. Having papers is already not so bad, but being good at the shit you're doing is how you can make it even with a low-tier starting position. You can learn an enormous amount of shit from AI easily and for free, and AI is still very underutilized by normalfags, especially in low-IT-skill areas like tradies, so it's easy to get a competitive edge.

>>81678369 (OP)
Learn to do basic stuff like cooking and basically house stuff. I'm 20 years old and I feel kinda useless due to not knowing how to do shit

>>81680738
that's just my take on worldism and burgers
it doesn't need to be

>>81678369 (OP)
The fear evaporates the moment you do something and yes, it does get easier.

Everyone is a normalfag. That doesn't mean everyone is dull, that means everyone is interesting.

>>81678369 (OP)
You can't really trust anybody especially not your family

>>81678369 (OP)
All human relationships requires you to show effort, most people know this but I didnt

>>81678369 (OP)
DONT HAVE SEX WITH MEN. DONT EVEN LOOK AT MEN. DONT EVEN TALK TO ANY. Read the classics asap
>Andrea dworkin
>Judith butler
>Simone de beauvoir
>Bell hooks
>Valerie Solanas
>Shumalith Firestone
THESE ARE ALL GOOD. READ THIS ASAP SO YOU KNOW WHAT KIND OF WORLD WERE LIVING IN.

Get an education immediately. If you're a stem type of person get into engineering or get a doctorate. If you're an artist start your portfolio and start networking so you don't become broke. If you like humanities then become a teacher (sorry there's not a lot of good options here) move out and make your own money. Remember to save. If you insist absolutely on having sex with a man do not get attached and only be in it for your own pleasure, walk to the nearest fertility clinic and get an iud but it would be very best for you to not interact with any man that is not your father.

Find things you're passionate about. Read a lot and play instruments. You are the only person you can trust in the world. Save your money and get a gun if you live in America. Take care of your family and your closest female friends. Good luck

>>81681836
>Everyone is a normalfag. That doesn't mean everyone is dull, that means everyone is interesting.

Explain

I'm trying to reply to many of y'all but it keeps getting flagged as spam anybody know what's up with that?
whatever it is just know your advice has been received, thanks everybody

>>81678369 (OP)
>share us your wisdom anons
I'm 30 and think i did well for myself
>dont go out to eat
>track your spending / do budgeting
>save your money even if you dont need to save, bad shit usually happens at some point
>find something in life you enjoy doing for employment otherwise you'll hate employment
>besides saving just put a little bit in some long term savings plan
>buy second hand, shop thrifty
>don't talk about sensitive topics unless you know the person is okay with it
>keep good eye contact

mistakes i made that i regret:
>leaving her for the military. Military was a good decision but not leaving her
>not keeping in touch with friends
>lending money. Everybody i lend money to dies or they are so incompetent they never paid me back

>>81678369 (OP)
Try to exercise regularly.
Drink lots of water and eat healthy.
Do not gossip or hang around people involved with lots of drama.
Believe people when they show you who they are.
Stay away from drugs and alcohol.
If you have a passion or skill for something you enjoy. Stick with it and try to make it work.
Everything is a skill that can be improved if you spend time on it. It may seem like spending 5 years is a long time but 5 years go by very quickly.
Try not to have random hookups with a bunch of randoms.

>>81680399
>What is /r9k/'s absolute obsession with hating self-improvement really about?
I spent all my youth fat and didn't understand just how tired and lazy it was making me until it all hit all at once in my late 20s.
I thought I was a heckin' genius computer wizard that people just didn't like because the fat made me ugly.

>>81678382
>>81678380
Unironically, if you want to do this then do it now while it's still easy to look like a twink. There are twinks in their late 20s and even 30s but it's harder once your skin and hair don't naturally look as good without cosmetic products.

>>81678369 (OP)
>Connections are more important than skills. People can get you into important positions, share knowledge, do moonlighting, protect you at the workplace.
>Don't be nervous. It's perfectly normal not to know anything. Just admit when you don't know something. It's much easier than pretending to know stuff you don't.
>Spend time with yourself. Once you can be alone without being bored or lonely, you can think about getting into a relationship.
>Keep any potential trouble and responsibility to a minimum. Once you start getting careless, they will pile up very quickly.
>Don't get into debt under any circumstances.
>Seek advice from people who have already achieved what you want.

>>81681938
This is my advice if you're a woman..if you're a man then well.. I can't save you

>>81678369 (OP)
get a career
literally nothing else matters
everything will work out fine as long as you can get a career rolling
you will meet people to date at work as long as it is not shit work ie a career

Go outside and talk to people. Read books. Realize and accept that pain and suffering are a natural part of life. These are your best years. Make a few mistakes. Just don't do anything truly stupid.

>>81678369 (OP)
Be daddy's braindead whore and barely legal boywife. only if you're cute and have a babyface tho.

>>81678629
>Mushrooms are the truth and they gave me divine intellect
sounds schizo, ignored
>>81678640
i can make basic dishes but i do wanna learn more
>>81678657
sounds like the path to crackhead hobo-ism, no thanks

>>81678773
sounds tough. I'm planning on going to uni first but I'll try to find some part-time jobs and save up
>>81678833
if only, anon, if only...
>>81678881
I still don't have a stable source of income yet so absolutely gonna stay out of that one. and I'll make sure to manage my debts carefully when I do get a job too
>>81679274
>>81679323
I think I wanna take life a bit slower than that but some of the stuff like money management, not wasting time and self improvement is pretty solid. thx anon

>>81679347
hi unc how does it feel to share the same space with people who were still sucking their mom's tits when you were their age
>>81681819
good idea, I don't help with housework often so I should start with that
>>81681836
>it does get easier.
I'm holding strong to that mindset even when it feels like it's getting tougher now that I'm an adult
>>81681837
my family's been supportive thus far so idk. something happened with your family anon?

>>81681861
I'm still single but I feel like if I were in a relationship I would feel a moral obligation to put in some effort. would it hold when the time comes tho? only time will tell
>>81682207
apart from the sex with men thing the rest works for men too
>>81682063
these are all good advice anon, and I'll try to avoid the mistakes you did too
>>81682087
these are also all pretty solid points thanks

>>81682180
still not a faggot
>>81682294
or you can kill yourself chaser

>>81682365
i said be daddy's braindead little whore. i own you. slut. post bussy.

ignore all these homos. although you sort of asked for it by posting the 'omoko. a man's honor is in his asshole. if you let them fuck you, the whole story ends.

>>81682335
It does get easier but you start getting cramps.

Do not get into debt. Maybe for a mortgage for your house. But do not go to college if you aren't getting a free ride. If you are going to college, do engineering. Do not do some meme liberal arts degree or some soft science like biology. Learn a trade if you don't want to go to college. In tyool 2025, doctors are getting replaced by AI bots that can pass the Medical licensing exam. Middle manager "generic college jobs" are dead. I know a guy who is a horse farrier, his education took 4 months and cost maybe $20K, including all his tools and housing. He makes $100K/yr now and has been since his 20s. And until the AI bots make terminators, nobody is replacing a job like a plumber. Also don't get fat, whatever you do.

>>81678369 (OP)
> fuck bitches, get money
> fuck bitches, get money

>>81678369 (OP)
28 (soon to be 29) year old NEET reporting in
You want advice form ME?!
Well, I'd say to value every day you have. Make sure you are productive. Always strive towards your goals. If you don't have any goals, you need to have a serious contemplation on what matters to you in life and what you want in life and where you want to be in life in 10 years time. If you don't, time will drag you along, it keeps marching on with or without you. Don't be me. All I did was think and think and think about how i'm going to make a life for myself, I couldn't see a way and it paralysed me. But that's ok, you just start small. As long as you take a step. And then another, no matter how small. You figure the rest out as it comes

So my goal is to be self employed, to have my own business. For me, it is the only path for me. You probably have much more paths to take. You will be ok as long as you don't take the time you have for granted. It will come at you fast. Before you know it you'll be my age. Make that time count, get a head start when you are young, it goes a long long way. Seriously. It is important to live a little, to enjoy yourself, but do not spend all your free time fucking around, pissing it away

>>81678369 (OP)
FOMO is a jewish psyop.

>don't wait on things thinking things will just happen
jobs/companies won't reach out to you or give you an opportunity just because you are getting a degree. don't rule yourself out just because they are asking for 20 years of exp for an entry level internship - apply anyway. a girl isn't just going to find you and give you a chance. don't expect to happen into a relationship through a friend group, uni, or school/work. chances are you will watch everyone else you know get married, while you remain single and slowly lose friends due to different life circumstances. you have to take a risk. You have to take the action to make things happen. Rejection is better than passivity & decay.

>you cannot change the way the winds are blowing. you can point the sails.
you cannot really fight the trajectory your life is going, so you have to ride it out. the truth is that you likely don't know what the hell you want to do with your life because you don't have the data to truly know what you dislike/like until you have experienced it. don't think that your future is set in stone. aim for greener grass, but don't be surprised if the grass isn't is as green as you thought when you get there. sometimes, you have to nurture it to get it to be green though, rather than continuing the endless search for fulfillment.

>don't avoid out of shame or wallow in rumination. avoidance only begets further avoidance.
passivity and avoidance is a sure way to ensure that you don't escape a decaying situation. you might start choosing to avoid opportunities or people out of some ingrained sense of shame or lack of confidence. don't let this become a habit, as it will totally derail your life. If you don't at least give certain things a chance, you will never experience growth. If you don't challenge your comfort zone, it will slowly shrink and constrict around you. Your sense of shame and anxiety will grow. You need more data to challenge your mind, otherwise you get stuck in a ruminative loop.

>>81684871
>jobs/companies won't reach out to you or give you an opportunity just because you are getting a degree.
>chances are you will watch everyone else you know get married, while you remain single and slowly lose friends due to different life circumstances.
just thinking about these scenarios made me feel uneasy, definitely don't wanna go down that path

>>81678369 (OP)
Go out in a blaze of glory

Get at least 10 kills

>>81678369 (OP)
Don't bother with normies or normie shit unless it's for work or whatever, don't buy into their ideals cause it's all retarded nigger bullshit. Also don't hate ALL women, only normie women. Anyway get money, be active, blah blah blah just keep your serotonin up and you'll be good.

>>81685233
The retarded w**aboo faggot that drew this (traced and added an anime girl) gave her light shade HBTs but not an OD liner chinstrap clasp?

Get off 4chan
Get on benzos and therapy for your anti social tendencies and anxiety
If your parents are causing you distress cut them out of your life and dont look back or feel guilty

>>81685251
>Get off 4chan
Great advice
>Get on benzos
Nope
>therapy
Nope
>cut parents out of life
This is bait or redditorism

>>81685260
Mentally ill parents are demons who will rape your soul

>>81685251
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Font be a pussy ass bitch or a lazy fuck like these nigs on4chan.also money is everything also connections are worth more than friendship and can be both
Also have kids while you can
Islam is the devilnexceptnfor thenfew chill ones

>>81678369 (OP)
convert to female

>>81678369 (OP)
>what advice would you give a young and impressionable 18 years old who's just now about to face the real world?
don't put up with being mistreated by anyone that won't apologize and do better.
choose 2 skills that you want to be good at by the time you're 25 and practice them every day
get a good skincare routine for your face
don't skip your dentist check ups
get haircuts often enough to look sharp and care about the clothes you wear

>>81678369 (OP)
Don't leave your parents house until you have saved enough for your own house (or at least half the price so the mortgage is lower)

>>81678369 (OP)
Get a degree or certification for the career path you want to take; get a part-time job, while saving up the money you make; live with your parents for as long as possible. Bonus points of your job or parents pay for tuition. If you're ND like me, though, then it's already over.

Brush your teeth at least once a day
Statistics are not reality, they only reflect reality, and can be manipulated
Dont join any military as a job
Governments aren't your friend
Corporations (and their many shills) are parasites
If you dont know how to cook, learn to, at least for yourself. Basic meals with starch, veggies, protein, dairy. Eat some fruit, too
Conservatives are just richcunts shilling for richercunts, fascism, and slavery
Socialism is based
Fuck the Demiurge

>>81678369 (OP)
I'm 18 and it all sucks. All I want is a girl I could love but I can't even leave my house. I hate women, normies, niggers, and everyone else but most importantly I hate myself, I won't ever find love. It's all so tiresome.

People you agreed with can mean and do you harm, while people you disagree with can mean you well.
You can do everything right and give it your all, but you will still fail.
Just because you fail it doesn't mean to give up.
You never know where you will end up, your path isn't set in stone.
A good friend can be a bad influence.
Pick the least harmful vice and just stick to it.

It doesn't matter what I tell you.
You won't actually listen. And if you did listen, you wouldn't understand anyway because you're a dumb fucking retard kid that will likely grow into a dumb fucking retard adult just like every other person on this website and really the internet in general.