• The one and only@feddit.nl
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        Well, some like a little bit of comfort. Just sitting a cold house all day and drinking only water is not for everybody.

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              A cold house at that! Where I am it’s 30 degrees C in September and everything’s on fire so you can’t even open the windows. I’d love to be in a cold house right now.

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                The cold is legit pretty nice. The cold is such an infinitely easier problem to fix than warmth, you can just put a coat on or use something like an electric blanket (or central heating but in Europe that is not affordable atm lol) and the issue is entirely solved.

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                  I tend to run pretty hot anyway, so anything over about 25C means I don’t function very well lol. And here it’s been over 25C since about the end of May so I’m really looking forward to the winter at this point.

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          Why confine yourself to earning a living through wage labour? There are countless other ways to make money

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              Easy, just be rich already!

              You know how much labor a landlord does? None! Even if you consider things like picking up checks telling people you won’t fix stuff is labor there are services that will do that for you!

              Stocks? If you are rich you can stack the deck and never lose!

              Rich people literally cannot give money away fast enough to be poor.

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              Selling a product or service on your own without going through a company. Not easy, but hypothetically possible.

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              In an incredibly basic sense: buy low, sell high. As we live in a capitalist society, this is the way things work.

              Those who choose to slave away as workers are only generating profit for their overlords

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                So gamble? The only proven way to reliably make money on investing are things like index funds, which you will need a fair amount of starting capital to make a living off of.

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                  I’m not talking about stocks. I’m talking about literally anything that people will pay money for, which is a lot of stuff. You can even make the stuff or get it for free, vastly increasing your profit margins.

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    I’ve made it 9 months since I quit.

    Lotta chicken and rice but I thought I’d take my retirement before I die in the food wars

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      This guy was able to deliver pizza for a month and live off that money for a few months?!

      Wtf is this shit 1990s

      Gtfo here boomer

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          yeah when i delivered pizza i barely worried about groceries or food because i had infinite supply of the best food

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        Lol, you couldn’t do that in 1990 either. You could barely afford to pay your portion of the rent on the 2 bd apartment you split with 4 people from a part-time pizza delivery job.

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      It’s Brasilian Jiu-jitsu. Saved you a Google search.

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        I don’t understand why everyone in the internet thinks people will understand their niche subcultures’ acronyms. US military people are the worst culprits.

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      As someone that does BJJ, I wonder how sustainable this is. It’s not particularly great on the body, so the idea of training when you feel like it, and then taking time off to rest through work sounds nice in theory, but the reality is that unless you’ve got incredible genetics or are just starting out in that white belt beginner phase, you’re going to just end up hurt.

      Don’t get me wrong, I see it all the time, but it’s not sustainable in the time it takes to get good. Ultimately you just end up as that poor twenty-something blue belt with the knees and hips of a fifty-something, still getting smeshed by higher belts.

    • SokathHisEyesOpen@lemmy.ml
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      I knew a guy who loved to travel. He would work for 1 year abroad teaching English, and then live for about 5 years off his earnings, while traveling the world. He managed about 12 years abroad before getting killed in a motorcycle accident in SE Asia.

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        I’m autistic as fuck and could not get employed for years.

        You have to lie. Lying is the secret trick to getting a job. Get help lying from people willing to lie for you, and lie about your work experience. Fuck bourgoiuse ethics, you deserve to live and these fuckers gated it behind this kafkaesque song and dance, so just lie to their faces like they’re lying to yours so you can get paid enough to live indoors.

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              How are they supposed to make an informed decision to hire you or not if you’re just lying about everything? Maybe you should start your own business and see if you like people lying to you when you’re trying to find good help

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                  How hard is it to tell the truth? When I got my first job I walked straight into the place I wanted to work and stuck out my hand to the boss, I said “Uncle Mike, I’m ready to work” and he hired me on the spot. I was able to save up a few hundred thousand in the first year working there and after that I made some good investments, now I’m a successful landlord and business owner. Today’s kids don’t want to do the leg work.

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        Honestly, I don’t have a technical background at all, my background is social work and physical security. I have always gotten approval by telling people I got a lucky hit in the stock market and used that money to float while I looked for other opportunities. It is true, but about three jobs ago. Still works though!

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    I’ve been jobless for around 2 years now because of depression and shit, finally got back into working and I hate myself for not starting up my world of warcraft career back up. I could be a wow king by now 🙃😂

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      As someone who is currently neglecting their offline life again becausenof that game (Classic Hardcore goes brrr) - be glad that you didn’t :D

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      I’ve done that before. When I quit I stood in Orgrimar and gave out 10,000 gold to everyone who asked. That was a shit load of gold back then, although it might not be now. But I completely changed the Azeroth life of a dozen or so people.

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    If that doesn’t work there’s always plan b: drinking yourself to death

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        Because depressants will make you suck at video games. You gotta get into stimulants to combo with gaming. On the plus side, if you get into meth or crack, you’ll have the energy to hold down a part time job and full time gaming addiction for a few months before you start to come apart! Then you’ll have a few more months of just cracked out gaming after you get fired before you’re evicted. If you’re lucky and steal some wifi, you could eek out a whole year of 40+ hour gaming weeks of erratic, aggressive high level play. You’ll set random records. You’ll birth new slurs to yell at children. You’re not gonna accomplish any of that on heroin. You’re really gonna let people down on heroin.

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          I used to have a few meth heads come hang out at my house when I was 20, the quietest they were, was when I would ask them to finish a game for me so i could just fuck around in the world, didn’t matter what game, they’d finish it in no time.

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    i did this last winter; i firmly believe everyone has and needs slovenly unemployment periods to remind you of the perils of not working [but in equal measure, the bliss of not working and the amount of luxury you can just coast on]

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      I’m doing this right now. It’s the first time in 10 years I haven’t had someplace I needed to be 5 days a week. It’s really changing my perspective on what I need out of a job and what I could be improving in my life if I weren’t spending that time working.

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      Ugh I wish… been working since I was 15 and I guess had the luxury of never not having a job? 25 years now and the longest break I have ever seen was 3 weeks for the birth of 1 of my children. The other was only 2 weeks. I can also count the amount of times I had 2 weeks off which was 3 times. The rest has been the normal 1 week off twice a year with a few other days here and there… I’m so tired.

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        This is horrific. I complain at my 5 week a year allowance sometimes because I feel It’s not enough to avoid burnout at some points in the year… My productivity drops substantially after around 2 months with no break. I still output of course but if I take a two-three week summer break I come back dealing with issues that almost destroyed me before the break within hours or minutes and I can manage my team far more naturally. I think 8 weeks per year of holiday would genuinely boost my output overall.

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          Holy Christ I’m not the person you replied to and I am lucky if I take a total of about 11 days off throughout an entire year…

          I feel permanently burnt out and would happily put a gun in my mouth just to have it be over with.

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          I also forgot to mention the current place I have been with is 24/7 and have been here for 17 years now. Since we’re 24/7 we only provide the bare minimum federal holidays a year which is 6. I also am technically always on call so if the stuff I support has an issue i can be called anytime any day even on vacation, which has happened the past 3, although not this year! I will say over my time of being here emergency calls are far and between these days thankfully. I almost can’t wait for the day they fire me, I am so trained to be stressed I don’t know what the other feels like anymore.

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        Like damn I’m in the exact same boat. Same number of years on the job and everything.

        I always considered myself lucky to not be unemployed, while all my friends got laid off over the years due to the .com crash, housing crash, and COVID.

        But maybe they were the lucky ones?

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    Literally what I have been doing since last month. I made it a bit more challenging by going on a vacation for a week too.

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    The guy in the picture is not playing FIFA. If he was he’d be frowning and smashing his controller