Thread 81939120

How has your life improved in the past 10 years?

Not really. After childhood life is a just a train of losses

>>81939120 (OP)
>How has your life improved in the past 10 years?
i have more money but that's really it

>>81939120 (OP)
>own a home with a fixed rate mortgage
>been promoted at work 3 times
>started investing my disposable income so I can retire early
It's all coming together

I got what will probably be the achievement of my lifetime.

>>81939120 (OP)
>improved
lol, uhhh my dick got bigger and my voice got deeper

>>81939120 (OP)
2015 was already way past too far gone.

>>81939120 (OP)
im gonna be directing the avatar spin off series

isnt that wild?

>>81939120 (OP)
>everything was already trash in 2015
>it somehow all got even worse

>bought a house
>got a new car
>changed jobs multiple times
>had a kid
Less energy than ever for actual fun so it doesn't even bother me that almost all modern entertainment sucks

>>81939120 (OP)
Is the joke that this image could also apply to 2025 and that barely anything has changed?

>>81939120 (OP)
Between 2015 and now:
>finished university
>got a job (in a warehouse, not even remotely related to my fields of study or internship)
>have had my own apartment since 2018
>had a car, but it died earlier this year, so I got a new one with significantly less mileage and better fuel economy
>kept my weight down
It's mostly been cons rather than pros, but that's about it. I guess I have more money now if nothing else. Lost a few teeth.

>>81939369
For me it's been uh, nothing really, my brain is still stuck in 2015

>>81939388
I just don't know. I was 'on top of the world' back then, thinking I'd be in Japan living and working to the best of my abilities by now. Instead, I'm busting my ass in a warehouse six days a week around adult children who are itching for the opportunity to 360 no-scope my head clean off. Things could still be magnitudes worse...

>>81939419
Hah! I feel that, Thought I would be flying the world in my seaplane by now.

>>81939429
>seaplane
oh, right; I remember what those are now. The thing about working in a warehouse (at least for me at THIS warehouse) is that time goes by so quickly that you tend to forget a world outside exists. Weeks turn to months, months to seasons, seasons to years, and it's already been 8 for me. But, I can't just up and leave because of how job-hunting is these days; something else I didn't know would be a thing 10 years ago. I just want to get away.

>>81939455
Well, best I can tell you is to save up cash and make a clean getaway while your legs still work

>>81939475
>while your legs still work
Quite, seeing as how I run just about every day to keep the weight off. Also, I don't have healthcare.

>>81939120 (OP)
>How has your life improved in the past 10 years?
>from depressed jobless neet to mostly not depressed employed cyborg

in 3 years i will really start hating myself if i'm still alive

>>81939537
>employed cyborg
I feel more and more like a cyborg at work these days. Not entirely human anymore, but not entirely machine....

>changed jobs twice
>increased my salary by 4-5x
>started grad school in engi in field of choice
>finally working in the field that I thought I desired (though it's not what i had hoped)
>worked on an important science mission - but my involvement feels hollow and limited
>lost 100 lbs
>saved 200k cash/liquid assets, invested about 400-500k
>started crypto mining and self-hosting server things
>inherited a bunch of farmland my father on a shared family farm - that I live no where near.
>obtained motorcycle license
>visited japan multiple times
>started learning japanese
>mined crypto (more in past)

how it hasn't improved
>lost all my friends due to self-imposed isolation and a sense of shame
>haven't socialized in 5+ years
>job isn't it all what i expected. my dream field that I thought I'd love as a kid has made me feel hollow and empty. feel stuck
>grad school feels like I am simply paying for a degree in worthlessness
>i had let my shitty transcripts preclude me from even applying just to get accepted easily and fly through initial classes without issue - feels hollow
>moved back home with parents to save money (unaffordable housing)
>father died unexpectedly
>feel a looming sense of impostor syndrome at every new job
>still never have had a relationship
>still have never tried dating or approaching a girl. interest that was hinted at women was never reciprocated
>turned down the only girl who expressed interest in me (coworker) due to viewing self as incompatible with her over many issues (difference of values, personality, etc). - she's nice but I cannot see her and I vibing well when we bicker ceaselessly (which is strange since I am very easygoing generally)
>no time to actually do anything any longer - work excessive shifts to save money for future I don't want to see
>Feel I don't do anything productive
>feel guilty if I am not doing anything productive on my days off
>anhedonia - cannot even enjoy vidya any longer
>tore something in shoulder

>>81939595
>half a million invested
>can't have housing
americans are so funny