This isn’t terribly far away from being me, except i randomly went to an art school for a couple years. Didn’t exactly pick up many marketable skills there lmfao
Dont care if this is fake, just feel like floating some ideas in case someone fr is stuck like this.
— try volunteering with online-only things which don’t require social interaction, like maintaining a code base, maintaining a wiki (on a topic of your choice), doing translation/digitizing or other services for a library.
— do work via Amazon mechanical Turks or similar services.
— read about how to self-care for autistic personalities, or people with neurodivergent traits. Just read everything you can find on the topic.
— volunteer for non-invasive research with universities, like answering psych questions. You’ll get some pocket change. I’d advise against volunteering for clinical stuff where you inject stuff into your body or take pills, it’s too risky.
— join an online dnd group, or other game group.
— don’t talk to people about being vulnerable or lonely, unless you can tell the difference between predators (who prey on lonely people) and normal people.
— get a certification in something, whatever you like. Doesn’t have to be programming or coding related. At least start learning for it, and preparing for it in some way. Don’t spend money on training materials till you know what you want for real. If you don’t have money for training materials, do a gofundme.
— volunteer at your local library, or national parks service to clean up trails.
— volunteer with your local church or food bank or homeless shelter.
— I cannot stress this enough, don’t open to strangers you don’t know/trust unless you’re sure they’re not a predator. Emotionally vulnerable people are like moths to a flame for such people. Read about the signs of narcissistic or cult-like influencer personalities.
And idk what else, but I’ll leave it here. Don’t know if the above would work for everyone, and I am open to corrections
Holy hell. Even if it was fake, that was depressing. Even more so if real.
Of course it’s fake. A loser like this wouldn’t know how many digits is a good salary to begin with.
I know someone like this. In fact, I read this and I think it could be him. I don’t know for sure. I would reach out, but I honestly don’t know him well.
He’s good friends with my partner. They went to school together. They play games together over Discord regularly. I’ve only met him once.
😐🤷♂️
My brother in law is this guy but doesn’t care about the getting a job part. He plans to kill himself when the second parent dies and I belive him.
Being obese and being poor are mutually exclusive.
The nicest way that i can put it is that this has been true for most of human history until industrialization, let’s say that the 50’s is when industrial food starts to make poor people fat.
The less nice way to put it is that this hasn’t been true for 70 years. You are completely clueless to health food and poverty in the 20th century, let alone the 21st. Nowadays, eating nothing but the cheapest food will in fact make you fat, this is one of the main concerns of nutritional science today.
That is wildly incorrect and ignorant.
Obesity is considered low status because it shows you don’t have the resources to eat healthy. The cheapest, quickest foods are highest in fats and sugars.
Not exercising doesn’t mean you’re obese. I know a guy who could be this person. He’s very skinny. He doesn’t exercise but he doesn’t eat much. And he eats the same food every meal.
Mutual exclusivity means you can’t be poor and obese at the same time. If you meant they are independent of each other though, that I get.
Bro is living the dream.
I know all greentexts are fake, but:
- get a job at local walmart / krogers / etc. Try doing full time but if you can only handle part-time, stick with that
- after doing that for a while (at least 3-4 months, pref. at least a year) go to the local community college and ask about doing a GED (high school diploma)
- take it slow at first. maybe one class at a time. try to work your way up to 3-4 classes, OR 1-2 classes while holding down a job. keep an eye out for a better job.
- once you’re getting toward the end of your GED, talk to your counselor about your career goals.
And start walking and counting calories today. Cutting weight can happen later, you start by figuring how much you’re actually eating then slowly reducing it.
And if you start exercising by running while out of shape and obese you’re just going to be too miserable to keep going. So you walk, figure out how much it takes to get exhausted then do it every day you can. I once did 10k steps every day indoors. What was that like? 3 hours of walking in circles. But it was what I could do. From there start trying other things trying to find things that have reasonable impact that aren’t so miserable you won’t do them.
If you have to choose between dieting and exercising, pick exercising. A sedentary lifestyle destroys motivation in all aspects of life. Every other aspect of self improvement is going to take a long time to see real benefit, but it doesn’t take long to get fit enough to notice and it impacts every aspect of your life.
Also numbers are easy to overprioritize. The goal is health. Not some amount you can lift, not some distance you can bike, not a waistline size (though I’ve heard it’s a useful indicator for heart health), not bmi, and not weight. All of those numbers can help you figure out how healthy you might be, but I’ve seen people walk into eating disorders and body dysmorphia over all that and the fact is you don’t need to look like a movie star to be healthy.
- Take a 30 minute walk every day regardless of weather.
- Take three months off from video games. The first three weeks will suck. Remind yourself several times a day that this is for something possibly better.
- Don’t linger on your past mistakes beyond a reminder of where you don’t want to be. Buildingg your character is a path filled with wrong turns and mistakes. The best we can do limit the effects of those mistakes based on our setup. … Build character like you would in a rogue like if that’s helpful
- Develop emotional awareness and intelligence. That’s a book and a skill.
- Talk to people with the respect you want to receive.
- Accept the parts of yourself you can’t change. You’re 5’ 3". Stand tall and own your space.
Shittles… I need to do some of this stuff myself. Ha!
Build character like you would in a rogue like if that’s helpful
Not gonna lie, developing oneself around instant gratification and easy disponibility to make it easier for the next guy after you is surely a hell of an advice
Taking a devil may cry attitude has been particularly therapeutic, though not curative, for my sanguine disposition. People stuck in ruts need not fear if the next guy is just you again. I sort think there’s a responsibilty to that next person, set up your runs well, have fun, and grind hard. Maybe there’s instant gratification I there, but my mind doesn’t feel that.
It sounds like you’d be comfortable in prison. There is probably a Luigi to-do list somewhere you could pick a name from and then arrange to join him in a neighboring cell.
There’s not a lot of overlap in the Venn diagram between the type of person described in this text and someone like Luigi. Remember, Luigi was the Valedictorian of his class. To do what he (possibly) did requires a great deal of knowledge, planning, and skill. You’re talking about someone that allegedly manufactured their own weapon from scratch, tracked down the CEO of a fortune 500 company, plotted for a moment of peak vulnerability, and was able to escape the scene of the crime in a daring and intricately planned escape. Oh, and he also managed to do it all in a way that turned him into a beloved folk hero.
With Luigi’s alleged crime, you’re looking at the work of genuinely skilled and intelligent person. Someone like the guy in this green text isn’t going to be taking down any CEOs or politicians any time soon.
Hoenstly, probably better than being homeless. Life in prison as a local hero among inmates for deposing a capitalist.
I was homeless, and also briefly in jail for doing something others had respected; jail sucks and is never preferable, but it certainly made things a lot easier than it would have been had I not entered with respect. On my first day I was receiving gatorades, instant noodles, and muffins from people stopping by my cell. I even was given all the paper and pencils I wanted to do my art.
Homelessness was risky, but I would still choose it over jail with respect. Not to say that the sacrifice wouldn’t be worth it if you did the right thing.
Just out of sheer curiosity… What’d you do to get respected right away? Aside from merc’ing a CEO or a pedophile, I can’t think of many other things.
I really don’t want to describe too much as my identity could be found from it, but it helped that it was all over the news. Before anyone realized that it was me, people were trying to intimidate me from the cells by yelling things at me. Once people found out that the news was about me, things turned around fast.
Thanks for the insight! Sounds like you’re doing a lot better now
Better is one way to put it. Though I may end up homeless again if I can’t find some work soon. I just had a ton vet bills for a sick pet come in and I injured my leg, it’s not super great prospects at the moment. :(
I played so many games from 8yo to 22yo that I legit ran out of games to play, I emulated old consoles. I played on good hardware, I played competitive games, single player. at some point after my first year out of highschool I was like damn I’ve rna out of games to play.
I guess it helped that the game industry ran out of juice in the last decade or so and the number of games that interest me plummeted (probably because I’m older also)
Same. Nothing really seems to grab me anymore. For the past decade or so, I mostly look up last years top N games, filter for the offline ones, pick one that seems good nix of story/gameplay, and then play it for a couple of days straight (with cheats/trainers to jump the grindey parts).
Afterwards, I’m done. Back to normal schedule. See you next year, games.
Unless Anon is willing to put in some serious work, like properly going back to school or busting their ass learning (and getting good at) a trade, then their life is kinda fucked.
You can’t just crawl out of almost 20 years of NEETing into really any kind of job, especially without the charisma to at least try masking it.
Also fuck knows why Anon’s parents just let them drop out of school and basically cease to exist outside of playing videogames for best part of two decades. That’s plain bad parenting.
There is one possible route he could go.
CDL truck driving is totally possible for someone with no ties to an area like kids or wife to do what he’s asking.
You gotta be able to learn the trade, but there are schools that invite companies in to sponsor the training and then you work for 1 or 2 years for that company before you can quit it or go owner operator (without penalty, you can leave whenever and pay them for the schooling).
After that you can make 6 figs easily with otr flatbed, tanker, car hauler, etc.
The only difference for his life style is his house will get smaller and he has to drive for 11 hrs a day.
I have friends in these situations where they dropped out and they somehow hold themselves above a minimum wage job with stuff like “I’m worth more than that”, " I’m over qualified to flip burgers", and “i can’t move out on that wage”. I try to tell them they at least have to work some basic position just to prove to future employers you can actually show up each shift. Completing highschool on a resume isn’t just an education. It shows you’re willing to stick through something even if it wasnt fun or got difficult at times and can be one of the first signs to an employer that you have potential to be reliable.
I get it, it does suck making minimim wage and it might not be enough to move out of moms basement tomorrow, but after 20 years in moms basement its gonna take work to get outta there.
“I’m holding out for a management position.”
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Agreed. I NEETed for five years. Never left my apartment, sponged off my gf, terrified of going out. Even that long is hard to get out of.
Thankfully I kept my weight mostly in check and I still had some humble charisma when I needed to interact with people. This let me seek help which culminated in severe anxiety and sleep apnea diagnoses.
Let me tell you, though. Even 5 years is enough to make any sort of potential employer wrinkle their nose at your application. I had to dig hard through my grave topsoil.
Let me tell you, though. Even 5 years is enough to make any sort of potential employer wrinkle their nose at your application. I had to dig hard through my grave topsoil.
Any advice? I had a long hiatus from trying to get a degree due to depression/anxiety, and I fear I’ll also have a hard time explaining the gap away.
Be honest about it if you get an interview, but be clear that it took some time to get where you needed to be. Let them know that you’ve worked hard to get the help you needed and are more than ready to get back into the world.
When Chewy hired me for remote work, they also asked what I had done during my unemployment. They seemed pleased to hear I had been building skills in web design and UI/UX as well as becoming a professional typist at 90 wpm average. So have your accomplishments ready, no matter how small they may seem.
How hard are 6 figure jobs to get?
High School dropout NEET directly to 6-figure would probably need to involve selling drugs or something, right?
Obese, awkward, stammering, stumbling INTERNATIONAL ASSASSIN 😎
involve selling drugs or something, right?
Q: ¿What’s the difference between a prostitute and a drug dealer?
A: ¡A prostitute can wash their crack and sell it again!
Let’s be real, anon would be back in his cave within the first week. You don’t go 2 decades of not lifting a finger to being a hard worker no matter what the pay is
2 decades of not lifting a finger to being a hard worker
That’s more or less what happened to me. Dropped out of university, a year of unemployment, then I found a factory job where I could spend most of the time operating machines instead of conversing with people. The pay was extremely average, but I ended up becoming one of the most productive workers simply because I liked the job.
That was until the early pandemic supply chain issues caused productivity to implode, the veteran talent left, management doubled in size, so did overtime (well paid as it was), and I decided my health was more important.
Nah, getting a 6 figure job is easy, just make sure you are born to parents with contacts in the top leaderships of several good companies and who like you enough to give you a do-nothing-job
Meh you still need basic social skills. Even for a nepotistic job, you have to be socially aware enough to pretend that you do something. Otherwise the contacts who gave you the job are going to be pissed off about you embarrassing them.
When I was in college I got a part time job at an investment firm and they’d given a job to one of their larger client’s kid, largely simple data entry. He, however, spent most of the day playing online poker and they eventually fired him.
But you DON’T need to know how to save something as a pdf or find your downloads folder. In fact, if you can do either of those things they can’t allow you on the leadership team. It’s a tough line to walk.
That’s fair.
He sounds like he would need luck to even get a four figure salary…
Drug trade seems ill-advised if you have that little social skills. Where do you get your drugs? How do you avoid getting stabbed etc. by your buyers and the people who sell to you? A lot of these people are aggressive and carry weapons, you really don’t want to be the type who doesn’t have the social awareness to avoid pissing them off accidentally.
Maybe Darknet Markets would be an option then. You can’t get stabbed through the screen and trust becomes a matter of cryptography instead of social deduction. But you need some non-trivial computer skills and a healthy dose of paranoia.
im surprised those arent all cia honeypots already
There’s a reason two of the biggest rules of online purchasing are “never use your real name” and “never accept a package you have to sign for.” Doesn’t matter if you just bought $5k in drugs; The seller won’t require a signature on delivery.
If the delivery guy wants a signature, they’re an undercover cop and you bought from a honeypot (or they sniffed your package in the mail sorting room and intercepted it.) The UC wants you to put ink on paper accepting the package as yours, to prove you bought it. Because otherwise your lawyer can go “how do we know my client ordered it? It didn’t have their name on it! It was probably a neighbor getting it delivered to a nearby house, and the prosecution hasn’t proved beyond a reasonable doubt that my client actually purchased the drugs.”
huh, ive always heard the opposite. use your real name because a fake one will stick out for that address.
Unfortunately CIA is busy with other things, i guess.
They may be NSA honeypots though.
nothing says national security quite like selling drugs!
This is how rig pigs are born.
After being fat and sedentary for 18 years? Yeah, no. Rig pigs at least need to be fit, cuz their body is their job. This dude is in his mid 30’s and has never lifted more than a soda can to his lips.
Maybe a trucker if he can manage to stay in training long enough to get his CDL. But the dude dropped out of 9th grade, so I don’t have high hopes.
I mean they’re not hard if you’re willing to go to a trade school and then put in long hours as a welder or something.
I’m getting the feeling though that that will be off the table.
I’m assuming that would still take some time to get to that point, with training and apprenticeship
Sorry, I meant to say “not hard to find” definitely still requires work to get there!
two words for you: rig pigs
No way he’s able to keep up physically if he’s obese and unemployed for 15 years right after dropping out of highschool.
Use a voice changer and become a twitch streamer with one of those female anime avatars. Hoards of desperate guys will throw themselves at his feet to try and catch a glimpse of the real person behind the anime avatar.
“women can always just do onlyfans” lookin ass advice
Anon could sell feet pics
Did you miss the part about Anon not having social skills?
- A good anime avatar takes skill = money
- Getting people to desire your streams takes effort
Word. I’ve been watching a really good Streamer who makes her own models, she has very little viewers compared to how consistently she has been streaming for several years and how good her streams are (IMO). She has other sources of income so it’s not a big deal for her, but if you were trying to get out of unemployment with that it seems really tough.
Yeah , Twitch/YT have the worst promotional and discovery algorithms for streaming creators/entertainers. Every streamer I watch that isn’t from the early days of Twitch/Justin.tv says they had to build a content creation platform elsewhere and move them to Twitch to get any movement. And these creators still only get 500-2000 viewers at most.
Yeah, there’s a reason TikTok had so many streamers promoting themselves. TikTok’s discovery algorithm was top-notch, so people would use it to widen their audiences and convert them to twitch subs.
I was a low effort TikTok poster, and even I had over 50k followers without trying. If I was able to convert even 1% of that over to Twitch, that’s 5000 followers which is enough to at least stream regularly.
Could you drop a link? Now I’m curious :)
Sure!
https://www.twitch.tv/melonypepon
https://www.youtube.com/@melonypepon2266
For more info on the creator, since this isn’t linked anywhere on the Melony accounts (she’s generally not that good at (or interested in) keeping up the kayfabe, so it’s probably fair game to link this from the get-go): https://www.twitch.tv/cubewatermelon/about
Why? This dude has nothing but time. He was on the parents’ dime for more than a decade.
Would need $$ for equipment to get started
Would need knowledge to set the whole thing up
Would need to be able to talk and interest dudes to attract and retain clients Individual described does not seem like a genius or go-getter that could pull this offYeah, and the being funny and charismatic part is nontrivial. If you are the born entertainer already, sure. If not, well…
You could AI generate some pictures too, video requires more effort but images you can just use one of the free services to generate pictures by typing in something anon can almost understand like “hawt gurl”
How is anon going to make 6 figures with AI pictures?
I don’t know but they’ll definitely have 6 fingers
Speedrunning the NEET questline with 100% completion
https://fullstackopen.com/en/about
You’re going to need a real part time job at a local store as well, until you learn enough to switch careers, good luck.
Oh wow interesting site
Yeah it’s aight.
JS and React are way better documented than ASP dot net otherwise I would recommend learning that because C# and C++ knowledge is generally more useful than javascript.
I also don’t know if FullStackOpen covers multipage sites very well, but it’s easy to convert a site later on anyways.
Other than that 10/10 resource that can really help people like the ones described in the image.
Any decent sources for ASP? I need it for work haha
(Absolutely boned if it doesn’t work on Linux btw)
Probably not, best bet might be pirating a textbook but even then they really only have options to choose from like Core 3.1 and 4.0 so libraries used in the examples are all likely deprecated.
Clean yourself up and find a rich spouse?
Win the lottery?
Insurance fraud?
No? I got nothing.
