>If you want to be happy, quit your comfortable high-paying office job and switch to mind-numbing, thankless wagey labor
Is this a good idea?

>>212369930 (OP)
Yes. Having money is for chumps. Grindset is where it's at.

love this burgerpunk wagiecore kino

>>212369930 (OP)
No way that's the plot

>>212369930 (OP)
Office Space is the third opinion, and it agrees.

>>212369983
Get a personality, wimp

>>212369930 (OP)
every job is 'thankless' m8, not just customer serving roles. also yes, working a zero responsibility/low stress job can be pretty comfy. unfortunately money is a barrier to entry for everything in life and it keeps going up.

what job do you have anon?

>>212370297
why are you so mean bro

>>212369930 (OP)
About to watch this for the first time. Kino?

>>212369930 (OP)
If you're already set for life and just want something to keep you busy and maybe put a little play money in your pocket? Sure, why not.

>>212370333
why don't you stop following influencers online and mimicking them bro

>>212369930 (OP)
He had money you stupid cunt, he was reliving his youth.

>>212369930 (OP)

It's not about the low-wages. It's the minimum responsibility he wanted. Lots of people take demotions from managerial jobs because the stress of the responsibilities is not worth the salary bump.

>>212370371
it's just a meme dude
sick of posters on the chon being such buzz kills. have sex unironically

>>212370341
Let's hope you dont get filtered like op

>>212370389
Is burger punk dead?

>>212370386
Yes. I did management a couple of times and hated it. I started leaving those roles off my resume to discourage it but every job still tried to "promote" me up into management after.

>>212370399
Had to delete bc too embarrassed that im the last person to watch this

>>212369930 (OP)
Yes. In such jobs you can be on autopilot while thinking or meditating all day. In an office job you actually have to put in brainpower and you will be mentally exhausted by the end of the day, leaving you with nothing.

>>212370389
>it's just a meme dude
If there are any memes you consider "cringe" or unfunny then you are in the same boat as him. All memes are the same. No exception.

>>212370444
It probably came out before you were born, what can you do?

>>212370502
>All memes are the same.
For you.

>>212370509
True :/

>>212370559
Then I only watch what was made before I was born

>>212370559
Don't post emoticons here.

>>212370575
*again Motherfuck I can’t type

>>212370586
Edgy

>>212370602
What did he mean by this?

>>212370386
Funnily enough the managerial job that I found the most stressful was the one where I effectively had no responsibilities because corporate didn't allow you to make even the tiniest of discretionary decisions. They just sat in an office and informed you that the spreadsheet said to do 'X' and that there was absolutely no arguing with the spreadsheet. My favorite was a rack of products that sat underneath a heating vent, which ruined all of the product on that rack and you'd end up having to throw it all out. So when I took over I naturally moved the product. Shortly afterwards someone from corporate came in and bitched that the product wasn't in the correct place. I explained why and they still told me to put it back where it 'belonged'. Then a month later I got an angry phone call from the same person demanding to know why we were writing off so much damaged product.

>>212370647
Why the period? Sounds scary and domineering

>>212370674

Yikes

OP what job do you do?

>management constantly trying to promote me
It's getting harder and harder to dodge it. I really like my current position, it's low-stress and it doesn't take a lot of time to be completed every day. You can't explain to these people I don't want to be a manager, I don't want to do stupid reports to be in meetings all day or micromanage people. I don't have a wife to nag me to make more money, leave me alone.

>>212371300
Just tell them you currently feel comfortable in your position then. What are they gonna do, force you to be a manager?

>>212371354
These guys never stop; it's got nothing to do with what he wants or his happiness.

>>212371375
All he can do then is to say no to stop them in their tracks

>>212371354
It's a concept they can't understand, it's alien to them.
>What do you mean you don't want a higher position and more money???

I work as a dish washer and I like it
I don't have any ambition

>>212371405
based

I’m too much of a failure to try to get a decent job. Despite being 33 I literally cannot imagine myself in a job that has any responsibility or importance because I have no self esteem . I think about people my age or younger who have important careers or the typical high performing high responsibility jobs like lawyers engineers medical stuff etc and just don’t get it

>>212370674
lol yeah corporations just like bureaucracies the only thing that matters is the process not the end result because its all about covering your ass

>>212369930 (OP)
In the flick it wasn't a good idea. He was just going through a midlife crisis. He realised he was deeply unhappy with how with his life. He hated his job. His wife and daughter hated him.

And you may ask yourself, "How do I work this?". And you may ask yourself, "Where is that large automobile?". And you may tell yourself, "This is not my beautiful house". And you may tell yourself, "This is not my beautiful wife"

He thought about the last time he remembered being happy. And it was being a teenager. Working a dead-end minimum wage job. Getting high. Bench pressing in his garage. So, he starts doing all that again. But, inevitably. He realises that wasn't the solution.

>>212371498
That's because you're a failure. Responsibility for you is probably remembering to shower once a month.

>>212371543
the actual solution? pounding prime teen pussy raw

>>212369930 (OP)
He's futilely trying to relive his youth.

>>212370386
>Lots of people take demotions from managerial jobs because the stress of the responsibilities is not worth the salary bump.
This is why I don't wanna be a manager. It seems like actuall hell. Would rather just be an individual contributer.

>>212369930 (OP)
In this particular context I'd say no unless you fucking love customer service/making food for people. Without that it's far too soul draining. Maybe try night stocker at a grocery store in terms of mind-numbing, "thankless" wagey labor you can find peace through and make every shitty person jealous.

>>212371543
What do you think the actual solution is anon?

>>212371784
Following Epicurean philosophy? Find a truly happy person and emulate their life. I don't know. I don't think there is actually a solution. You just feel empty and unhappy with how your life is. Then, when you change it. Get a better job. Get a girlfriend. Whatever. You will realise, that wasn't it. You still feel empty and unhappy. And you do that until you get old and die. You ever watch Mad Men? That why it's so good. It's about that cycle.

>>212371976
I’ll have to. Thanks man

>>212371648
That's the exact point in the movie when he realised what he was doing wasn't the solution. He had her. Could've. But, just he thought 'what am I doing'. He got exactly what he thought he wanted. And realised, this was not it.

>>212369930 (OP)
Work friend went got the supervisor position and was buzzing. Month later he said he hated it as he was working 20 hours extra, got shit from upper and lower levels and missed having all the work banter with the rest of us. Clock in and clock out.

>>212370502
My penis is 1 inch btw, if that matters.

>>212369930 (OP)
The reality is usually much more trivial

>>212371543
the reason for mid life crisises are the final solution didnt happen. Thats why people are deeply miserable. Their very prescense in our society robs people of spiritual depth that very often they go chasing after youth or false hopes of material happiness.

>mind-numbing, thankless
This is exactly how your average office job feels.

>>212372412
super fucked up sentiment, even as a joke

>>212369930 (OP)
what a stupid post. did you watch the movie? he was chasing his teenage years. fucking retards

>>212369930 (OP)
Office work is arguably more mind numbing and painless but at least it pays. The best most of us can hope for is coworkers who aren't annoying and the ability to mildly dissociate for 8 hours

>>212369930 (OP)
in american beauty the main character is being laid off because a prostitute got a hold of the owner's credit card and charged tens of thousands of dollars to it and the owner is trying to cover it up by cutting costs at the company.

>fight club: quit your cushy white collar office job and become a domestic terrorist
>office space: quit your cushy white collar office job and do body-destroying manual labor
>american beauty: quit your cushy white collar office job and become a minimum wage fast food worker

wtf was wrong with gen x in the 90s?

>>212369983
tumblr page about burgerpunk liminal core frutiger aero

>>212374834
just heggin go to the heckin gym in spare time if wanna sqeeuze your muscle hard

>>212371784
Spiritual fulfillment through living a good, honest life. Not lying to yourself or others. Balancing work and life. Having creative outlets, hobbies and an appropriate amount of social activity for yourself. Having principles and morals and sticking to them.
Note that all of that requires discipline and sacrifice. By the time a mid-life crisis occurs it is usually too late.

>>212374834
Why do people say Fight Clubman had a comfy job?
His job literally involved poring over the mangled remains of families who burned to death and then finding legal loopholes to cover it up

It's one of the most nightmarish jobs I can imagine and 100% explains why he went fucking crazy

>>212375713
and constant jetlag causing intractable insomnia

>>212371784
purpose is always the cure for ennui

>>212371784

There isn't any. You just make up a story about yourself and then you stick to it.

WHAT A LIFE

>>212370477
keep going, you're convincing me

>>212375713
Who cares? All that matters is he stacked that paper bruh. Doesn’t matter if his job is irrelevant or even deleterious to society. Just get that money

I just got a raise but avoided a promotion.

Now I have more money but still the same amount of work, they promised me to offload a duty of mine so I didn't have to work overtime.
Now said person I was training is going on medical leave for 2 months.
Fucking leftists and their insane vacation/leave laws.

Now it's 2 more months of overtime until I get a glimpse of some relaxation. At least they passed the law to not tax overtime or tips, so I will just have to suck shit for a while until this settles.

>>212373780

fuck off, kike

>>212369930 (OP)
If you want to be happy, find a job where your labor creates tangible results that can be fully comprehended and appreciated by the deepest parts of your lizard brain. The more abstract and intangible the influence and results of your work become, the less satisfied you'll feel.

>>212369930 (OP)
Office shit is the easiest you'll ever have it , this idea is retarded.

I've talked about wanting a security job watching computers in graveyard hours for years (been a cook and pizza guy for most of my life). Finally I saw a job offer at a hotel and with a dress shirt and some minor experience as a cook at another hotel I managed to get hired and now they've been scheduling me 11pm to 7am shifts where I basically watch the cameras all night and maybe get people pillows and help them with their keycards. Shit is so cash I'm just scared I'm going to fuck it up. Some days I work the swing shift which is a lot of making reservations and checking people in but I figure if I hold it down long enough I can squeeze out more graveyards. I sat on my ass for 6 hours doing jack shit mostly reading, the other night and I had this realization I'd finally attained that "security" job I wanted and I felt nothing but pure happiness. Haven't felt that way since I was high off my ass slinging dough (pizza) with my homies way back but they all got better jobs long before me.

>>212370272
Office Space is actually right though, manual labor is much more enjoyable than cubicle computer work. I know because I've done both. Our bodies are designed to move and be active, and lack of physical activity is the cause of most of our mental and physical health problems today.

>>212369930 (OP)
The idea is having no real responsibilities and just being able to f around

>>212377771
easy but meaningless. I agree with the poster above you. Fight Club and its ilk were (still are) unironically right

>>212370309
>fast food is zero responsibility/low stress
I had my good days but back at Little Caesars man I worked mornings and if I was unlucky one of my 3 people including me called out and almost never got someone to cover so it'd be me and one tranny or methhead (preferred) to run the whole day which could be brutal and I had to stay an hour late to finish my duties all the time. At another place I worked nights and it would get so busy I'd be going mad trying to make sense of the massive amount of orders we were compiling. These jobs are only low stress for people who are such shitheads that no boss would dare give them real responsibility but I've never been able to fake that

>>212369930 (OP)
Unironically, I was happiest on minimum wage cleaning hospital surgery theatres. It was peaceful, no one interrupts you, and there's a satisfaction of a job well done.

But I still wouldn't trade financial security for it.

>>212370674
that was my life for a solid year after corporate took over the franchise I middle managed at. They had some ass probably in a foreign country watching us 24/7 and literally calling us to bitch and making a huge list of problems that would get attached to our "user" every single day. Later found out I had a massive list of complaints but we were so shit staffed that they had to put up with my constant disobedience because I was one of like 3 employees who never missed a shift. Surprisingly they never complained about me making my own pizzas to take home every other day

>>212369930 (OP)
Back in the day fast food places mostly employed high school students and other teens/young adults. The economy wasn't totally fucked so it got them a decent amount of supplemental income and work experience.

So obviously a boomer like him would fondly remember his youth as a fast food worker. It's not that he enjoys the work, it's that it reminds him of a time where he was happier. It's nostalgia.

>>212371784
Crack.

>>212369930 (OP)
Back in the 90s we didn't care about money. Things were so good and everything was so cheap, we needed very little of it. We mostly just cared about sticking it to The Man. See also: Office Space and Fight Club.

>>212378772
kek, GenX here (real GenX, born in the late 60s) this anon is right, times were good and jobs were plentiful and things including rent and used cars were cheap so we could indulge in little fantasies like this whole "just quit your job and follow your dreams, bro" genre of flicks

>>212378772
>>212379375
Pretty much this. I remember I used to get by on £100 a week back in the 90s, and that now is only something like £800 a month. Just flitting between part-time name-tag shop jobs, spending my days watching films in the living room of a rundown two-bed flat that 4 of us rented out for dirt cheap, drinking and listening to music, random girls from college turning up to chill with us, living on free pizza because one of us worked at the local Domino's, all sharing a single scrapheap banger of a car that we stole petrol for, and going to sleep when the birds started their morning chorus.

sometimes boomers and gen xer/xims just want something different

>>212369930 (OP)
He was getting severance pay from his comfortable high-paying office job.

>>212381072
>He was getting severance pay
Not exactly. He blackmailed his boss into giving him another year's salary and health benefits in exchange for his silence on the company's misappropriation. End result was much more lucrative than severance would have been for the dismissal of an under-performing employee.

>>212375767
eh, jet lag within the US isn’t hard to deal with unless no one gives you time to sleep. i flew weekly cross country for years and my biggest issue was not being worked to death vs. caring about time zones.

>>212370386
You don't get much more as a manager pretty much anywhere but where it matters
It's a resume-trap for retards

>>212370674
Endstage USSR level bullshit but i'm sure capitalism will never fail!