>so you're paying me enough to live comfortably by myself and own a car while barely do any work?
>WTF THIS IS LITERALLY SLAVERY

>>211350796 (OP)
I gotta go sit 10hrs in a dark office tonight (watching TV from my home server and playing with generative AI on my home PC) and I'm dreading having to do it. It's so mind-numbing...

>>211350796 (OP)
Gen X was a much worse generation than boomers change my mind

I got a job at an office, everyone else who works there is like 50+ years old and just coasting towards retirement. I have a cubicle so massive it's basically a private office. The downsides are it's incredibly isolating and lonely, it's making my agoraphobia worse. Literally none of the people working there like my presence I can tell because I look so young, no one has initialed talking to me, I've literally gone the past 6 months without interacting with the people in cubicles like 6 feet away from me.

Also I'm getting paid dogshit under 50k, so I'll have to leave this job before long.

Still it's pretty neat working at an office, I used to be an amazon warehouse slave and this is like the peak of existence in comparison.

>>211350796 (OP)
I do part time office work and its still too much. Why cant we all just live in permanent hedonism??

>>211351484
I saw your post on /adv/ yesterday
Just try and get one of the old boomers jobs when they retire.

>>211351466
in a way you're right

the boomers sucked up all the resources and are now clutching onto it for dear life because they realize what they have and dont want anyone else to have it

the gen xers still had a chance to get in on what the boomers hadnt sucked up yet but they hated the idea of a nice life so much they wandered off into the woods to die of starvation

>>211350796 (OP)
I’m currently in my car on my break from work, where I have been killing time half the day. The boredom is unbearable, that I have to be here for even two more hours is painful to me. Even when it’s 20 minutes left I’ll feel trapped

>>211350796 (OP)
currently WFH doing nothing at all btw

>>211350796 (OP)
if you've never worked in an office, you aren't allowed to talk.
its the most soul-draining, meaningless existence imaginable.

>>211350796 (OP)
This is literally me right now, minus the overtime and moronic boss and Jennifer Aniston. But I'll fucking kill myself before I have to start working in construction.

>>211352066
Same. WFH is honestly pretty insane. I work in sales for a massive company, but it's for a basic essential service that every home needs. I just wait until a customer-facing frontline agent transfer me a sales lead, and close it. Maybe like 1-2 an hour?

Salary + great commission (six figures), benefits, constant kudos from management for hitting targets. But 90% of my day is just 4chan, YouTube, playing guitar, cooking.

I've gone through spells where it starts to get at me. It's obviously not very fulfilling. But I see my friends struggling, abusing their bodies trying to make ends meet... I'm literally lying on my bed with a laptop right now. Waiting for a notification of my work computer.

>>211350796 (OP)
>live comfortably by myself
He had a roommate.

>>211350796 (OP)
everyone was about to be downsized

>>211352474
I thought that was his next door neighbor on the other side of the wall?

>>211350796 (OP)
because its like getting the carrot at the end of the stick, then realizing it still tastes like a fucking carrot

>>211352066
Same. Could get a job that paid more, but man, is it cozy waking up at 11, doing 3 hours of work, then working on hobbies.

>>211352066
>TFW getting paid a salary and you just spend the days making AI porn

office space is a movie about a guy about to be fired for the incompetence of his eight managers by people his company paid to tell them how to stop wasting money

Paper thin walls though

>>211351544
most people were working in shitty factories which are equivalent nightmare jobs though in addition to being back-breaking so is that really true

What would be a non-soulsucking job? And when have they ever existed? Don't say shit like carpentry, it's just construction-adjacent

>>211354637
factory work paid better than most any job you can currently get

>>211354678
>don't say shit like [building shit with your hands and seeing tangible results of your labor]

in order for a job to be soul-sucking, you first need a soul.

>>211350796 (OP)
Imagine staring at a monitor for 8 hours every day with nothing to really do. It's not like now when you can visit 4chan or something and waste some time, you literally had nothing to do except play snake or something.

>>211354842
the job was manually patching bank code written in the 70s, on computers from the 80s, in the 90s, so the code wouldn't shit itself in the year 2000.

I’m of the way of life to suffer through the dogshit work now in planning for early comfortable retirement.

But I completely get to enjoy your work now. It’s just another way and I chose mine because typically way more money

>>211350796 (OP)
>while barely do any work
didn't his boss make him work Saturdays a lot?

genx in a nutshell

>wait a minute im not a rockstar???

How do I get one of these soul-crushing office jobs? Where do I find one? I will gladly crunch numbers for 8 hours if it paid me more than literal poverty wages I make as an adjunct professor.

>>211354993
Anyone looking to get a job/change a job right now is a hopeless fool. Whole world is on a huge downturn with job availability. I’m not going into why the /pol/ idiots will spam the thread

>tfw got out of neetdom by working in entry-level shit like warehouses or supermarkets, taking an age just to land one of those jobs but then seeing how people who were way smarter and competent than you were stuck there and hating their lives
If they can't get out, I have zero chance. And now I'm running out of cash after having fucked up the last job and gotten fired. Name one reason one shouldn't just off onseself.

it's crazy just how little work is actually asked at an office. I've had jobs with literally 1 hour of work, but I've been stuck in a cubical for 8. It's amazing how much work-from-home changes these jobs. They go from soul crushing to a minor inconvenience on a great day. Wish more jobs were work from home, it would make a lot of wage slave lives better.

>>211352328
Any advice for getting something like this?

>>211355063
Losing your job is not a valid reason to off yourself fucking hell

>>211354842
You could type random stuff into Yahoo.

>>211355063
You could tell the doctor you are suicidal. Might get NEETbux.

>>211351484
All my coworkers are in their fifties too. They look at me with revulsion when I bring up Twitter or video games. They still think video games are in the NES era and only for eight year old boys.

>>211355093
They want to keep you in the office on purpose so you don't get any funny ideas.

>>211353720
It was.

>>211355198
>>211355063
don't do that it makes nerve gas

>>211355118
I tried really hard at a warehouse job, and I didn't get to keep it because my productivity was too low. And before that I worked elderly care which almost made me want to off myself and I just can't go back to it. And every time I look for a job I have to explain why I have so many years of nothing and little to no experience, and unlike what people say it doesn't get easier, I just get more tired and my resilience is just shot to shit, it's like I'm perma-burned out. I worked a soul-sucking office job for three years through nepotism before they had to let me go because they were downsizing and the roles were redundant. But the experience from that jobb gave me zero skills and no way to land another one of those jobs. I dunno man. Thanks for reading my blog.

> Distant work starts
> Literally everyone starts posting that they work 2 hours a day and want 125k starting coding jobs
> Gone in a few years

>>211355281
jews did this

>>211354993
I had the same idea: just want a comfy office job.
Managed to get it, working from home. The basic road map was:
>get 2nd degree in accounting
>4 year program, but went year round so did it in 2. Not getting any younger after all
>graduate, get a part time finance admin gig based on degree
>bounce around for a few months before stumbling upon a random small company with work from home
>jump on it though the pay sucked
>work there for 6 months until they know me well enough to make me salary
Kind of a 2-3 year process, but man, did it pay off. Check out finance. Many will say it's dead due to TurboTax and AI, and they're right in regardless to tax gigs and becoming a CPA. However, when it comes to the cashflow, the vast majority of business want a white/Asian hand cutting those checks. Chatbots and AI are great for checking order status of Amazon packages, but business owners want a person to supervise a $15,000 invoice.

Best of luck. I sincerely want more guys living cozy stress-free lives.

>>211354963
Most office jobs you're not really doing anything. You spend 30 minutes doing something, send it off to someone else, then sit around waiting for them to get back to you or for someone else to send you work. You aren't constantly working like you would for other jobs like physical labor.

>>211355371
what are these mythical jobs? most of the ones I've seen are administration stuff and you literally have to sit all day double-checking entries until you start seeing double.

>>211355371
>You aren't constantly working like you would for other jobs like physical labor.
Yeah, it's a weird concept and took me years to figure out. I always felt I was paid for 'doing nothing' but that's not really the case. I'm paid to be on retainer. It's not that they need me working 24/7, they just want to know that when they need a job done, they have a guy to do it. I still feel kind of guilty about only working a few hours a day, but then again, if they were to higher someone every time they needed this job done, it would be crazy expensive. Best to just have the guy for that job and use him when you need him.

>>211355434
Most jobs in banking are you learning a specialized task and then you are refered to it whenever a need to solve such an issue arises. Most of the time its trivial stuff you learn.

I've been unemployed for 3 years. I've made some money off stocks, and really dont want to go back to work, because my agoraphobia. I was an alcoholic for 10+ years, got sober, had a hypomanic break, lost all of my friends, and now have absolutely nothing. I think about how pathetic a person can be, how a person can be so without ambition or motivation, and I look within. Nothing would make me happier than to go drink right now because Im just a fucking fiend.

>>211355346
Meanwhile my wagecuck job has me on my feet, rushing and multitasking for 10 hours a day. All for my boss to say I’m too slow and need to be accomplishing more in those 10 hours. AND it’s working with the public so I have to put up with kids screaming and babies crying throughout the day. That’s why white collar movies like Office Space and Fight Club ring so hollow to me.

>>211355487
Well I sincerely wish you find something decent

>>211355536
I feel that. I worked in warehouses and fast food before the 2nd degree. I remember working at Amazon:
>4 hour shift scanning packages in huge warehouse
>average scan-rate something like 3.2 packages a minute, though don't exactly remember
>need to use restroom
>walk 5 minutes to the front of the huge warehouse, piss, walk 5 minutes back
>get back to scanning
>30 minutes pass
>a 19 year old fat kid rolls out on desk with wheels
>"it looks like your scan rate dropped from it's usual 3.2 to 2.7 a couple of minutes ago, is everything alright?"
>Yeah, just had to use the restroom
>"Ok, well try to do that before your shift"
>quit the same day.
Fuck off~ Going back to school with the sole purpose of getting an office job was one of the best decisions I've ever made.

Stay strong out there, man. There's gotta be a way out somewhere.

>>211355063
Join a cult.

>>211355487
if you were an alcoholic fiend, odds are people know you were drunk and fucked up. People are much more willing to forgive in that situation. I don't know your specifics, but your life is what you make of it. Have some humility and try to make peace with the people you pushed out. Really. It's the only way to get your life back, as somewhat of an alcoholic myself, having people that you don't want to let down are my strongest motivator to stay sober.

>>211350796 (OP)
I dont think people understand how oppressive isolated life was before the internet. it's like being in a cage. even the fact that I can shitpost 24/7 with my anons is an extremely liberating fact.

he should've just shacked up with a lawyer, it's incredibly easy, there's so many 6/10 femcels in law

>>211355708
Let me clarify. Everyone knew I was a fiend. They still kept me around for some reason. It's how I behaved when I got sober than horrified them.
>>211355597
2 years ago I tried drinking myself to death and almost succeeded but my dad found me and rushed me to the hospital. Part of me wonders if I actually did die that day and am now living in hell. I have not experienced a joyous moment since then.

>>211354993
My boring office job is "Civil Engineer" but sometimes I visit work sites. We also have techs who only draw in AutoCAD all day and never leave the office (We all WFH hybrid now of course). Municipal jobs like mine are a good place to look.

>>211355093
>it’s another I do an hour a day worth of work and get paid 80-120k anon epicode.
Sure, sure you do kid, sure

>>211355886
>get paid 80-120k anon epicode.
Never said that, but ok.

>Electrician
>Spent 10 years doing residential and commercial work
>Crawling with spiders and dead rats in crawl spaces and attics
>Standing on the top of 12ft ladders to put in lights because boss is too cheap for scaffolding
>All for $30 with numerous denials for raises because bossman doesn't "make any money on these jobs" he says as he brags about the pig roasts he's hosting and the brand new truck he's buying in cash while our service vans fall apart
>After years I get a call from an Industrial plant looking for Electricians they are willing to train on instrumentations and PLC
>$50/hr, full benefits, paid vacation, union, close to home
>Downside is I need to work nights every other shift and it's 12hrs
>Fuck it
>Boss rages that I am leaving
>New job is a dream
>Get my own office
>It's all troubleshooting so I only work when shit breaks
>Shit post here all shift
>Buy a gaming laptop and play Total War Games for the entire shift
>Started painting minis
>Work doesn't care so long as it doesn't stop me from working
>There is a pond in front of the plant some older guy stocked with bass
>Fish out of it while getting paid
>I work with dumb fucks who complain about how hard this job is (they have only ever worked at this plant)
>Latet performance review was all top marks
>Old boss constantly messages me months after accepting new job wanting me to side work for him
>No
Suffering those 10 years was worth it. Worst that can happen to me now is ending up like one of those Factory Chinks in those LiveLeak videos but safety at this place is pretty tight.

>>211355949
Well you implied you made a living wage.
So what, no one believes you that you do an hour of work atpnd make 50 k either

>>211350796 (OP)
I swear these threads are always made and replied by NEETS that have never had to deal with an office job and all the shit that comes with it. I also love how these faggots assumw everyone was getting paid a good standard of living while doing soul crushing work

>>211356294
>Well you implied
I didn't 'imply' shit. Didn't even mention salary or pay. Just said work from home makes office jobs more bearable.

Man, you are projecting so hard and for no real reason. Get some help.

>>211356293
>Worst that can happen to me now is ending up like one of those Factory Chinks in those LiveLeak videos
Just make sure your boss shares the footy with us so we can mastur- i mean mourn your passing

>>211355886
That's me except I make $121k base. You did learn to code, right, anon?

>>211355886
>he doesn't know
lol

>>211356450
I already have it in my will that if I die at work and if there is footage of it I want it posted online to the Loadsamoney song.

>>211356637
based. Godspeed

>>211356362
they're made by browns who can't comprehend first world life

>>211356673
It really is crazy how uniting hating Indians are. Hell, at least the Chinese are mostly stuck on their CCP sites. Indians just invaded everything.

>>211356293
Hell yeah nigger.
Unions are gangs though. The safety there might be okay, but you could get killed by an accident caused by some faggot who should've been fired like 10 times over.

>>211356764
I know what you mean by unions being gangs. This one I am with is pretty good. The "We'll break your legs if you don't pay your dues" are long retired now, Covid killed them off." As for safety, I have had no issues, yet, Union guys sus it out really quick. Staff guys have been the biggest offenders and we really drag them through the mud for it. But the worst they have done is put their hands on work that isn't theirs.
We did hire jeets briefly and they didn't last a month. 90% of them clearly lied on their resumes and the others were just too much of a liability.

>>211350796 (OP)
Working in a cubicle is a humiliation ritual. Things have only gotten more humiliating since then. They have taken away all the walls so they could cram more people in the room, and now you have to see and hear all the ugly people working for 40+ hours a week.
>Do you like hearing some faggot talk on the phone everyday? On the brightside, you do get to hear half of their personal calls to their spouse. This might be the highlight of your day!
>Do you want to hear his gay chitchat with coworkers everyday? Did you see the niggerball game last night? Jamal was unstoppable...
>Does he shake his leg all day? I hope you like the vibrations.
>Do you enjoy dumshits having small talk with you?
>We are going to place you by the breakroom, I hope you like loud fucks talking about stupid shit.
>Office meeting. Here is some goyslop, now you have to waste your unpaid lunch break listening to our bullshit.
>Office gossip? I hope you like that shit.
And it is worse than that because you are their 40+ hours a week trying to actually get work done.

>>211357008
you're brown

>>211354765
You can fetishize this because you don’t have to destroy your body doing it.
Any workman who has felt decades of labor ravage their body would gladly take the do-nothing desk job.

>>211358849
>physical activity destroys your body

only if you're doing it extremely wrong.

>>211350796 (OP)
TBF, if I had work in an office 8 hours a day without some form of audiobook/podcast to listen too while waging on my computer I'd go insane. His particular job was nonsense work as well. Literally sit their without anything to do for 39 hours a week. Working in an office now is much easier. If he had noise cancelling headphones and a smart phone he would've held onto the job.

Haha imagine coming home from your 8 hours of staring at a screen and then watching kinos and playing vidya for another 8 hours
Who would do that

>>211357008
Invest in noise cancelling headphones.

>>211360728
Then I can't even hear my coworkers standing behind me, catching me fapping

>>211351544
>They had no idea the rich would keep taking and destroy the middle class
>Except that's what they always do and the banks have been trying to rollback the GI bill before the ink even dried.

>>211351484
Try zyns. That'll make the day go by.

>>211354993
>if it paid me more than literal poverty wages
one problem

>>211360685
>there are 16 hours in a waking day
>work for 8
>that means I should have another 8 to myself

>every weekday, I feel like I get 5 hours max if I'm lucky

this shit doesn't make any sense