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>>17272625
25 year old NEET, former web dev here. I did web dev for 1.5 years. I have now been NEET for 10 months...

How long have you been NEET for? I'm guessing a lot less time than me.

>I am a temporary NEET. I am 24 and have 1-2 years working in a service/IT environment in regards to fixing customer PCs, order/ticket management, sales, team leading/department supervision, etc. from a certain large office supplies company and many, many years of pre-college schoolwork and personal work involving fixing, building, and refurbishing PCs with some [stale] electronics engineering experience fixing game systems, audio products, cellphones, etc.
>I'm trying to find a help desk job, albeit I'd rather it be internal IT work than customer focused; I am GREAT with customers and communicating with them even in stressful scenarios, but it's really tiring. I hope I can get a job where it isn't overworked anxiety hell like my previous dead end endeavors...
That all sounds like fantastic experience, in fact the first part could be the opening to your CV / cover letter.

>Is learning how to program worth it? Is web development a nice joke to milk? I feel I can definitely learn, but I want to learn what will PAY and commonly so with lesser effort.
It depends if you want to do it man. I quit because it was getting to me, but also because I'm a very stupid person and I didn't deal with office politics properly (I should have stood up for myself when people were adding to my workload. I didn't because I'm a pathetic sack of shit.)

As for pay, I was on £25k/yr ($36k/yr but I think American wages are higher so just using the exchange rate like I have probably isn't accurate). The average UK salary is £26.5k/yr so I was only just under that. So it was pretty good pay in my eyes. I started on £17k/yr though ($24k/yr), then I shortly went up to £18k, then after 10 months of time there, £25k.

Hang on I'll continue this in another post...

>>17272625
>>17272651
Continued:

>Should I get into networking? Databases? Maybe just focus on IT? What certifications/paths are the best balance of easily milked/good pay/easy to find a job with?
Networking stuff is completely different. I've never learned anything about that. I assume you mean as like a network engineer, which is obviously a hardware role rather than a software role. You probably know much more about networking than I do to be honest. I think things like CompTIA are popular for networking jobs, but I have no idea. I've just seen it mentioned on /g/ quite a lot.

>I'm considering making a LinkedIn and posting my virtual course progress on it as I go through them
Do you mean like your progress on Codecademy and things like that? You could do that. I would recommend making a LinkedIn anyway because it's a great tool for selling yourself.

>Anyways, let's say I want to avoid college but want to carve out a path in something like IT or programming/web development, but I currently lack certifications and my 3 USD checking/savings balance isn't making it easy to get more immediately
Right I'm going to come back to this bit. What you could do with savings is go to one of these coding bootcamp things. Bear in mind, I have no experience of them. You could say they're a rip off. I don't know. But they will teach you what you need to know for modern web development. It will look good to employers, probably better than just teaching yourself. And I honestly believe that being taught is better than teaching yourself. Others will disagree and there is certainly a lot you can teach yourself, for sure.

(Gonna continue again in another post...)

Three fields:

Development
Admin
Support

Pick one. You don't need to program for a helpdesk role.

Fuck it, I'll just go ask and see what happens

Have you tried asking /fa/?

>>17272614
Why not just wear feathers and a headband?

Anyone?

he can lie about it but if that lie interferes with patient well being than he can be sued

>>17272649

I just need to know if he ever received it and /or when. I remember telling my last medical professional if the new professional that I was planning to see wore a very specific type of attire and at one point diagnosed me with a specific diagnosis to label me as psychotic, to cover themselves that it could cause a panic attack reaction out of me. After seeing them a few times they wore this type of attire. A strong panic attack was created. I was later diagnosed with the mentioned diagnosis.

But till this day they deny ever receiving medical records.

I just need to verify and know the truth.

Not to sound like a pathetic whiny bitch(which I am well aware that I do) my life is particularly pretty fucked up.

>>17272464
Why don't you give her your D? That way you won't feel so bad about it.

>>17272464
I see no milfs there.

>>17272464
Which hot piece of milf snatch did you come from OP?

>>17272457
Don't bother, you're better off cutting relations with such toxic people in your life.

I can't speak from personal experience, so I'm sorry for overstepping, but fuck no.
If anyone in your life shows you nothing but how shitty they are, then you don't need them in your life. You don't need that negativity.
Are you close with your mom? If you love her, call her and you can both bitch about your dick dad.

>>17272457
Without going off on a rant, short answer don't call.

I had similar experience. Dad in and out of life. Last saw him when I was probably 15. Called me once when I was i think 18 and I hung up immedietaly. Adds me on facebook, and I've now deleted my account. He was a horrible father. No money for support. Alcoholic. Bipolar. And what have I accomplished since I saw him? Graduated high school. Graduated college. Gotten Jobs. Learned to drive. Taught myself how to shave. First date. Basically all that Will Smith on Prince of Bel Air scene.

He's a toxic person. You might always want to reconnect, but it seems to do more harm than good.

>>17272455
trust your gut

>>17272456
What if it ends up being the one that got away or whatever and a dumb mistake?

>>17272455
there must be other reasons besides your fat gut

list them

>>17272336

it happens. sometimes there are reasons. sometimes there arent. you could eat too much and drink coffee and just not exercise enough. could be more sleepy than you realize but had a 'second wind' to keep you going. could just be twitchy.

my eye does it a lot. sometimes other parts of my body but its been nothing to worry about.

>>17272342
I eat regularly, don't drink coffee and exercise, though i haven't slept well this week because of the dog.

The pulses happens randomly while the twitching happens once every 2/3 months.

>>17272366

i wouldnt worry about it too much. if i had to guess those random twitches are on your more 'off days'.

and please note that even an hour of exercise isnt considered healthy. humans are meant to be on the run. an hour is what they recommend as a minimum of exercise,m and its supposed to be cardio, not lifting.

just saying. you'll still be fine, but the twitches sound random for me. if you are concerned see a doc.

>>17272331

id take the job and see whats up, depending on my current situation. i moved to la from delaware so yeah.

what is the current job?
whats the new job?
what is the pay difference? its in a small town so i imagine you could save a lot yeah?

worse case scenario take the job for six months then come home

>>17272335
both jobs are mechanical engineering, but new job would be much more in line with what I like and am good at. new job also 25% pay increase. i would be able to save a lot, that's a big factor. but I think it will be really hard to be living there and I might get depressed or something. I also have a gf that I would either have to break up with or go long distance for almost 1 year until she can move

>>17272361

you sound whiny, so maybe done go. adventure is not for the puss of heart.

>>17272301

what are you trying to achieve by meditating? traditionally its simply clearing your mind entirely to let a godly presence into you. but more recently it coudl literally be just a time you sit and think and no one cares. does it matter if you play with your cat at the ame time? i mean isnt quality time with the animal you adopted kind of more important then sitting aroudn thikning?

the closest i get to meditating is in the shower. no music, no tech, no lights. just me, fetal position, with hot water for a half hour. washing away the grime of the day helps me feel like im sleeping almost. it recharges me in ways that even sleep cannot. i just let my mind wander where it eneds to. its there for a reason, but the hot water stops me from being all anxious and overthinking

>>17272301

As a practicing Buddhist with a lot of other beliefs (because strict dogma is shit) Buddha once said before he died, to follow your own path, to follow that which brings you peace, and that there is no one way to enlightenment.

In this matter, find what brings you peace. Meditation doesn't have to be the kind of thing practiced in temples and stupas by laymen and women. It can be simply what meshes with your heart and mind.

If you feel the want to improve, go for it. Meditation has no true form. Only you can find what makes you feel at peace and happy.

>>17272301
I did when I was in the Army. If you want to get good pick up some books and read various techniques. I prefer to lay down to mediate. My favorite technique was focusing on passing "light" from one part to another after channeling it to my forehead. After a while you only feel the "energy" and not your body and feel like you are floating in the air as a ball of light.

every YOLO normie feels the same way even thought most of them aren't as self-aware as you. if you experience pain your mindset will probably change

>>17272398
What kind of pain? Physical or mental?

>>17272449
both. if you suddenly got cancer your "dream" would seize to be enjoyable. all the npcs would continue living their lives unaffected by your suffering

>>17272293
You need to start using Rogaine or Minoxidil now if you want to keep what hair you have left. You should also take a DHT blocker every day for literally the rest of your life:

https://www.amazon.com/Ultrax-Blocking-Nutrient-Solubilized-Supplement/dp/B00BFFQMBA#customerReviews

This is the best one around. It might be too late though, if your scalp already looks like that it might be too late.

Get a prescription for finasteride and start using nizoral shampoo 2-3 times each week, leaving i on for 2-5 minutes before rinsing. You can get it without a prescription.

>>17272343

thanks for the rec. the before and after pictures have me sold to try this. not OP but also worrying abotu hair. can hide it quite well but yeah.

anyrecommendation for acne scars? chin only and not too bad in the right lighting thankfully but still working to be my ideal self.

>>17272272

does it matter? unless you are saying that you want to do this professionally it really doesnt. plenty of people dont start martial arts until they are adults, and competitions are done based off of experience adn weight class (if im not mistaken they wont have someone with an early belt fight someone like a black belt) so it doesnt really matter.

would you quit if people said 'TOO LATE JUST STAHP FOR REASONS GAWDDD'
?

>>17272288
Yes, it matters.
Of course I would not stop, but I'm wondering how far can I actually go, in order not to go full out on a fool's errand.

>>17272360

you will likely never catch up to those who started as kids and are still in the business.

but since you take the opinions of random strangers
>YES ITS TOO LATE WHY ARE YOU EVEN BOTHERING YOU ARE GOING TO LOOK SILLY FIGHTING OTHER MEN OF YOUR SAME SKILL LEVEL AND AGE LOLOLOL WHAT A BAKA

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Calling bait on this one

>>17272266
bro's before hoe's

>>17272266
watch out for people dropping stuff on your head.

>>17272249

I am here to beat the fucking stupid out of you.

Put that energy into MMA, martial arts, that shit

Go participate in tournaments

And you better get to the philosophical aspects to straighten yourself out.

I am a man. And in my standpoint, you are not yet a man for thinking this.

Get it out of your head and make something of yourself. Quit being a fucktard.

>>17272249

so you think that going to prison will make you anything omre than being a prison bitch? think about it, if you have no expertise fighting, which you clearly dont otherwise you wouldnt think going to prison is the only way to fight, they already know how to fuck you up, and they already have gangs.

you arent going to learn how to fight through fighting. you just learn how to get your ass kicked. maybe take a class.

>>17272249
this is possibly the most retarded post i have read all day

>>17272239
In some states you can get a teaching certification with a BA. You make around 50k a year, can retire, health benefits, and summers off.

Military Officer. Can retire, benefits, and a lot of room for upward mobility.

>>17272245
I hate kids and I've already served in the military on the enlisted side.

Thanks for the suggestions though.

>>17272248
What is your BA/BS in?