>tfw people the same age as you are achieving much more

I'm 25 and I was thinking about this, maybe 10% of the people I know from high school have "made it" despite that, people still don't have real jobs anymore

>>Consultant for Consultants and Company Consultants
>>Software Developer for Software Co.
>>IT guy at Pajeets

>>61088956
>not being motivated to do more by the success and wellbeing of your peers

Some small percentage, yes. Literally 2 guys out of 98 in my uni class are the tryhards who try and get As.
Thank you but I'd rather not take stress medication to achieve a useless grade.

>>61088974
I think out of 30 people in my class, only 5 people went to university or college. Out of those 5 people, there are 4 girls and 1 guy, me being the guy.

Also out of those 5 people, only 3 of us have jobs relevant to our studies.

>>61089036
>Tryhards who try and get As

so silly that you actually think that way. Speaking as someone who had no problems getting As in uni without working hard for it, those people are most likely just smarter than you.

>>61089089
No, we're all on the same intellectual level, some people just enjoy putting in the extra effort. I'm in the best university my country has to offer, and getting an A has diminishing returns for effort.

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>tfw people the same age as you are actually doing something they really enjoy

>>61089119
How would you explain that to a future employer?

>>61089130
It's a small country and most of the talent, tryhards included, brain leaks towards Europe and America. I needn't worry for a job position.

>>61089119
>best university my country has to offer
As was I, didn't stop a bunch of idiots being in my uni class though.

>tfw people your age have moved out of home. Have a job & a beautiful 2D girlfriend.

>>61088956
4/5 of the people who started at uni with me dropped out or needed to retake courses.
There is no point in getting depressed over the 20% who also made it as I am doing better than the 80% who enrolled for the education.
I am 27, I have a master in engineering, I have lived on my own for the past 10 years and I don't have any debt.
I have two educations in fields that is unlikely to get me unemployed.
There will always be people more successful than me, but overall, I am doing fine.

>>61089119
Memory =/= intellect

>>61089141
Nice! What country?

>>61089175
Not sure what you're implying, the exams are heavily based on face-to-face interviews with each professor.

>>61089159
How did you not incur any debt? Are you American? I'm thinking about going back to school to finish my degree.

>>61089183
Bulgaria. Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Sofia University.
I'm doing Informatics, the toughest in terms of subject count and material covered. It's basically applied maths + CS.

>>61089184
All you're expected to do is reproduce works other have done, but present it in a form that makes it look like your own.

>>61089198
That's what I initially thought and now I'm repeating first year.

>>61088956
Technically op is tfw doing better than people your own age

>>61088956
>>tfw people the same age as you are achieving much more
like what? who is pic related?
when did /g/ become /r9k/?
at least go on /sci/ to cry about being lazy

>>61088956
I just wanna have coffee in my hand every morning
I was never built for big things

>>61089211
The fuck? In Aus, the first year of Uni is damn near a carbon copy of year 11. You must really be retarded.

>>61088956
>Failed at school
>Snuck into university via a back door
>work hard year 1 but get meh grades, everyone else gets A's
>Go all out years 2 and 3, cut all freinds off, zero socialising. Studying becomes my life.
>90% of the rest of the class start to slip as things get tougher
>Finish with the best degree score of the year
>Many others have to re-sit exams
>get offered great engineering job with fantastic salary, car, computer phone and other benefits
>Last time I spoke to a classmate it was "caramel latte please"
>get married and have a kid
>realise freinds will only hold you back in the end.

>>61089331
We have year 12 here. And it would make sense, since I'm not from "Aus".

>>61089268
t. barista

>>61088956
>tfw people the same age as you are achieving much more
What feel is that?
Always wondered how everyone else around me feels.

>>61089347
We have year 12 as well...

>>61088956
So? It is almost invariably going to be so.

Everyone can't be the top 1%.

>>61089349
>barista
thats the name they came up to compensate their life failures huh

So, OP?

>>61089388
Has a better ring to it than "coffee bitch"

>>61089193
>the toughest
the fact that you couldn't get into the comp sci programme (the actual toughest one) shows a lot about your intellectual level, now stop spewing shit

>>61089400
Really you can call most of them Punky Brewster now.

>there's hundred millions of people of any age
>unironically believing that anyone you will ever meet across your entire life will at any point in their entire lives be top 2 "most achieving" person of all people their respective age
>honestly entertaining the thought that it could ever be you

>>61088956
>>61088956
What does this have to do with technology?
People the same age are also achieving much less. Take your autistic cuckery back to >>>/r9k/ and don't come back.

>>61089405
If you're talking about the same university, no. Comp sci is a joke and their lecturers put no stress on the students during exams. They also study less math than us and all courses are not as in-depth.

>>61088956
>I'm not a special snowflake, now what?

1, Work hard
2, Have a family
3, Enjoy life
4, Stay healthy

>>61089454
I study applied maths & informatics at TU and can safely say you don't need that much math to be good at comp sci or informatics. The maths you do need are all included in SU's comp sci course, so why didn't you get into the comp sci programme?

>>61089513
Young self took a bite too big to swallow and thought I'd just study extra hard. I did have enough points for CS, though.
I had also heard Informatics' programming lecturers are the most thorough and professional, which turned out to be true.
How's TU's programming course. What did you study and for how long?

>>61089541
It's absolute shit and I wouldn't learn anything had I not known it prior to starting the course.

>>61088956
> working on a doctorate in chemistry
> 22
Yep, people my age have achieved more than me...

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>>61088956
Meh
Many more people the same age as me, and older, are achieving much less. It doesn't really matter. People are different.

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>im a fuckup who dropped out of university and works a retail wagecuck job
>my friend owns his own hedgefund
>one of my old coworkers works for Google now
>another works for SpaceX
>we're all the same age

JUST

>teamwork assignments

Sucks ass when you're the smart one. Especially when your work is usually A's only then you get stuck with someone who barely knows anything and is usually a C student, thus drags your assignment down to a B. Happened so many times until I just manipulated my usual teamwork partners into letting me do all the work on the shit we would get graded on and made them do everything else that wasn't important and didn't get graded.

Seriously, fuck teamwork. I guess it's an exercise in how to deal with retards.

>>61089336
This.

The moment I gave up at having what was sold to me as a "normal" social life is when I started to excel at life. Instead of having to worry about committing to things with other people, I was free to jump on any good opportunities that arose, and life became easy.

>>61089130
"I prefer the challenges of real world work environments more than the classroom. I'm a much better learner with hands on experience"

>giving a fuck
get a degree, get a job that isnt shit, get a decent apartment/house, get a significant other, enjoy life.

>>61088956
there are 7 billion humans on earth and every single one has somebody to be jealous of

going down that road can only lead to madness

>>61089349
There are a lot of people who need to be programming small things, too.

>>61092713
>1 month into uni
>TEAMWORK ASSIGNMENTS
>"I'm sure you guys know eachother by now, so in this assignment you get to choose your own partners!"

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>22
>gitting gud with Linux since the beginning of high school
>drop out of CS due to health problems
>only high school on paper
>3 years of NEETing
>health NEETbux runs out
>get serious about finding a job
>land a Linux sysadmin job in a far away city
>it doesn't pay great, but allows me to rent a room and live on my own
>3 months pass
>get a job offer in a foreign country
>3.5 times the pay
>leave after the 4th month, to start working at the new company
>job is much more pleasant
>do what I like the most
>literally play with and test the latest technologies
>comfy city
>eat out everyday
>living expenses are only about 1/3 of what enters my account
>mfw it's only going to get better from now on

>>61088996
>forgetting the law of diminishing returns

>>61092784
This was the worst part of Uni.

>>61092730
Just 3 hrs socialising a day between years 16-24 wastes a year of your life. People just don't realise the time they waste and then whine that things just didn't work out for them. Freinds are career cancer. Short term validation at the cost of long term success.

>>61088956
kill yourself

>>61089125
That's the real fucking kicker

>>61089184
at retard community college, maybe

Tfw I'm the achiever

>>61089175
>not having exams with open books
Your professor is doing it wrong.

>>61088956

>low IQ detected

git gud @ life

>>61092730
>>61089336
What about the le networking meme? I have trouble believing it if you're a social retard.

>>61088956
Life isn't a fuckin game bitch.No one cares.

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>>61093404

actually it kinda is....survive, get rich or die trying

>>61093372
>git clone gud@life/life.git
>vi README
>"Life is an illusion. Kys."

>tfw people the same age as you have 100 times the wealth of all your family for doing absolutely nothing
t-thanks capitalism

>tfw people the same age as you are fucking literal supermodels
t-thanks genetics

>tfw people the same age as you are living the dream
t-thanks chad

>>61093425
New York only looks pretty when looked from way above.

>>61088956
At least I don't look like an alien with Asperger's

its took me six years to finished my EE degree.
i fucking hate my uni peoples and classmate they are just asshole

>>61089349
what why

>>61093404
+ you level raises as time goes on (i.e. age)
+ you earn experience
+ you earn money doing quests (i.e. jobs)
+ you learn and update your skills
+ things become easier with social links
+ existence of achievements
+ existence of victory conditions
>rich, children, degree, others?

Life is a just a long, difficult and uninteresting game.

>>61089119
>No, we're all on the same intellectual level

The indoctrination worked on you lad

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>22 years old with no diploma

I stopped after a failure, something you should never do. God damn life hurts.

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>(YOUR AGE HERE) is more successful than you!
>16 year old graduates harvard and invents a new FaceBook!
>12 year old builds a quantum computer!
>8 year old girl programs a calculator to solve her math homework!
>6 year old speaks three languages!
>3 year old plays Chopin's Op25 No12 "Ocean Waves"!

Yeah, nearly all of us here have been long gone in that department.

Just accept the fact that there's always someone better than you at something. If you spend your life negatively comparing yourself to those people, it's just gonna make things needlessly depressing.

You are here because you wanted to be here. If you truly gave a fuck about doing something, then you'll give that fuck.

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No reception here
I wave my black phone
In the air like a flare
like a prayer
but no reception
I read on the Internet, baby face boy billionaire
Phone app sold made more money in one day than my family over 100 generations
More than my whole world ever has
World where house-buying jobs became rent-paying job became living with family jobs
Boy billionaires
Money is access, access to politicians waiting for us to die lead, in our water, alcohol and painkillers
Replace my job with an app, replace my dreams of a house and a yard
With a couch in the basement
"The future is yours!"
Forced 24-7 entrepreneurs.
I just want a paycheck and my own life
I'm on the couch in the basement they're in the house and the yard
Some night I will catch a bus out to the west coast
And burn their silicon city to the ground

>>61088956
>>>/r9k/

I'm a 21 year old beaner, I have a job and go to college. Haven't known of any of my peers locally that have "made it" at least not by their own means (wealthy parents); except for a friend of mine who has started a PET plastic business.

I don't complain, I've always pressured myself to do better tho and right now I feel like I can so I'm coding a little site, from back end to front end and DevOps this summer to see if anything good comes out of it (plus the experience).

I teached myself to code since I was 13 and got straight A's on everything until I got disappointed of the education system here in Mexico and stopped giving a shit, so my grades are shit but whatever.

>>61089089
I've gotten shit grades all my life because teachers were never able to explain why the knowledge would be useful.

I find it difficult to hoard my brain with information that I believe is useless.

Had aspirations of being a 'hacker' and started learning programming. I learned C, C++, Java, HTML, CSS all in 6th grade. I was interested in programming and knew there was a future in it.

I passed highschool with a shit grade. The only reason i passed was high grades in English and Computer Science (it was Java and pathetic beginner level Java at that)

Parents would not buy me a PC, but were more than willing to pay thousands for college. Got an internship at a software company, worked my way up there, used the on-paper experience to find better jobs.

I now work as an IT specialist in a high profile law firm, and earning 3x the salary than all my fuckface friends that went to college for worthless degrees.

>>61092116
>old friend enlists after college
>im working minimum wage retail
>his grandmother sees me there
>she tells me all about how well hes doing
>he dogged me in the past so fuck him but im very polite to her
>about a week later she calls out of the blue asking me asking if i had thought about enlisting (trying to get that sweet referral)
>tell her im not interested
>sighs to me on the phone
>try to sound confident and talk highly of myself
>shes not interested and basically hangs up

i didn't really care but seriously what the fuck

>>61093650
Sounds like me, but my parents forced me into college. I loved the idea of being challenged with hard coding problems until I realized teachers there are all entitled, talentless people that attend only to collect the paycheck (#NotAll)

>>61088956
>jealousy
pathetic

>>61093401
Networking can come once you get a foot in a good company. Just keep everybody as 'acquaintances'. I am not a social retard, I have zero friends by choice. I also have close to 1000 contacts in my work phone and do the company nights out etc. Prefer my little bubble with wife and kids :)

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>>61093021
>wastes a year of your life
mfw I realize I wasted 5 (five) years being a NEET

>>61089119
Topkek, you're delusional.

>>61093517
Get the degree now, failing once doesn't mean you stop trying

>>61089193
I did ECMI there last year

>>61093541
A wiser man than me once summarized your post in one sentence:
>Whatever it is you do, a seven-year-old Korean does it better.

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>tfw people much younger than you are actually doing anything besides sitting on 4chan

>>61088956
>tfw "archiving more" only means that they work their asses off but stay fucking stupid

>>61089130
>How would you explain that to a future employer?
What future employer?

>>61092827
This but 7 years of being NEET.

>no idea what I want to do
>spend 4 years taking a little bit of everything at Community College while I worked as a software engineer for a startup
>Graduate with Associate of Arts in "General Studies"
>startup goes belly up
>5 years of experience but no degree, so I'm stuck as an intern
>finally give up and figure I'll just stick in software
>transfer to university to get Bachelor's in Computer Science
>because I dicked around in CC, I'm missing a ton of pre-reqs
>going to take around 3 years to finish my degree

Don't fuck around, kids.

>>61093517
>26 and 2 semesters left
We're all gonna make it, brother.

>>61089130
>Hello Employer X, I would like to preface this interview with a clear condition for my participation. I will not accept work that leads to no reasonable goal just because someone made the decision i had to work two hours more than i would have if i did my work sensibly

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>tfw you literally don't care

>>61094761
I'm surprised you weren't easily able to find something with 5 years experience. Is it really that bad in America?

>majoring in psychology
>govt is really corrupt. University is powered by the state; university receives no funds, so they go on a strike
>there's a strike every six months that lasts from two to five months
>during strikes I study CS on my own, as well as Linux and program some stuff of my interest
>I take some classes from the official CS curriculum but I can't stand them because of the sense of the sense of obligation
>tfw you learn better and with more passion on your own
>tfw you can't stand going to college
>tfw I love to study but I hate making it an obligation so I think about trashing my major every day
>tfw analysis paralysis

>>61094972
Most employers use automated applicant screening to match for qualifications and keywords.
Probably the first filter they do is "do they have a bachelor's degree?"

So realistically, most companies I applied to probably don't even know that I have 5 years of experience.
They never even saw my resume because their software filtered me out in the first round for lack of a bachelor's degree.

>>61092827
what city, anon? Looking for a comfy city with a tech market myself

>>61092734
A pro bullshitter.

>>61095006
Argentina?

Psychology is a meme, drop it and don't look back, spend all your time on something actually worthwhile. You know this is the way.

t. psychologist-turned-programmer

>graduate high school
>Friends all go to expensive private universities
>I go to community college
>"Anon your SATs were perfect why"
>Explain to them that college courses at the base levels are all the same and that I'd rather get the same credits for cheaper from community college than even bother spending thousands at a private uni or state school for the same shit.
>"Lol you're gonna be a deadbeat loser."
>Yeah ok faggot
>Begin mining bitcoins when it was viable with GPUs (bought 4 7950s because I wasn't a poor uni student)
>Manage to accumulate about 1,000 bitcoins
>Hold on to them forever
>2 years at community college I've accumulated enough credits and have done math classes up to calc III
>4.0 gpa as well
>Best state college accepts me on a nearly full ride except room and board
>Graduate with a masters in mech engineering 3 years early (I was 23).
>While I was in community college i hung out with the stoner kids
>They turn out to be much more motivated than my sperglord previous private university friends, actually make a shit ton of money off of weed and shrooms (think pounds) and have great business oriented ideas.
>Besides selling while at public college, I'm collecting money for rent because I outright bought the house I was living in and renting it from my bitcoin money.
>I take my degree, belongings, and follow my stoner friends out to Colorado
>We now run a giant fully automated gro-op hydroponic cannabis farm that sells to 50% of the dispensary businesses in Colorado
>I still rent that house to uni kids
>My friends and i are millionaires, I'm mining ethereum now in the same warehouse where we grow our weed

It seems so surreal to me that I'm literally making a living for myself off of this, with my stoner friends, who ironically have done a better job growing up than my friends who went to private university and now do minimum wage grunt labor back in New York.

>>61088974
What counts as a "real job?" Isn't anything that gets you paid a job?

>>61089336
Okay Matt Damon.

>>61088956
>>>/biz/
>>>/r9k/

not technology

>>61088996
I'm seriously playing catch up with 1 friend. He's Jewish coming from a well to do family(his dad is a doctor). He went to a private university and majored in accounting. He's a couple months younger than I am and currently making around 60k-70k. Hoping once I graduate I can somehow land a software engineer position and make something around 90k and 100k. But yea anyway that's probably where most of my motive is coming from.

I'm 31 and I'm working a service job still.
I dunno where I'm gonna be in 10 years. Probably dead

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>>61095931

90% of jobs will be automated in 10 years.

>>61095558
>>2 years at community college I've accumulated enough credits and have done math classes up to calc III
Did you finish with an Associates? I'm planning on not finishing mine, and just picking out the classes that I know will work with a B.S. in C.S.
>>Best state college accepts me on a nearly full ride except room and board
I've been wondering lately how this process goes about. Did you just apply there first, and then they offered you a scholarship? Or did they offer it to you before you sent in your application?
This Fall will be my last semester at the local community/technical college that I am attending. My GPA is about a 3.75. I wonder if that will even get me anything, at all.

>>61095959
Damn shame I'll be dead

>>61095965
I never got an associates, I just applied for the school and sent them my credits and SAT scores. Apparently that qualified me for a scholarship that covered 80% of my tuition as long as I maintained a 4.0. I'm not sure if it works the same way for you but this was all through the SUNY system. I decided to double down on the classes I was taking in order to graduate with a masters in 4 years instead of 7. It was a shit ton of work I won't lie, but worth it in the end.

>>61096105
>SUNY
where did you go to, anon? Binhgamtonfag here

>>61096179
Geneseofag.

>>61095786
That's the funny thing though, I barely fall into the above average intelligence category. No genius bro, just didn't waste my time.

>>61095807
OP image is technology. Not OP's fault nobody wants to discuss technology.

I got a decent job out of college but have pretty much lived life on cruise control since then. Now the company I work for is going down the shitter and skills that I wasn't using at my job have gone to shit. Only 26 so not the end of the world, but I'm pissed off at myself for fucking around during my free time and not learning new things outside of my job.

>>61096307
Lol, the conversation has transcended.

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>>61088956
I'm on my second degree at 26, but i think i'm just gonna shoot for some comfy govt desk job so i can shitpost all day long on the taxpayers bill since i'm too burnt out to finish this shit in the short term.
Most of my classmates that actually went to college ended up doing worthless shit like degrees in history, history of art or philosophy and other shit like that.

>>61095558
Yet in the end you surround yourself with druggies (probably are one yourself) and glorified drug dealers profiting off society's weaknesses.

>>61097344
>Society's weakness
>Cannabis has caused Colorados economy to explode and cannabis has dozens of genuine medical uses.

Whatever makes you feel better NEET.

>>61097344
I mean I probably smoke about a gram or two a week, it's a nice weekend thing after counting my ether and checking if I've received rent from my house in New York.

Feels pretty good dude. People who villify drugs usually have shit-tier lives

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>>61097698
>using your own product
literal pleb tier

>>61097698
>Feels pretty good dude
Yes, very compelling argument for drug use. It "feels good", so it must be good! I will now listen to a heroin addict's opinion, because they feel good and thus must be right. No, the reality is people who sustain themselves and rely on drugs have otherwise shit-tier lives, or are crippled and reliant at best.

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>TFW just about all the information in the world is at your fingertips
>there's too much information and directions to go in, which is really daunting so instead of being productive you squander your life arguing with people on an Andorran symphonic music enthusiasts' forum

>>61097780
>Crippled and reliant
>I'm a millionaire, work out 5 times a week, in great shape
>I happen to smoke a few grams a week while legally producing pounds of it.

Lol you're such a clueless faggot. You sound like a DARE campaign.

>>61097780
There's a difference between drug use and drug abuse and you seem to be unable to grasp that.

>>61097780
I'd also like to mention that the tinctures I make with no thc in them save the lives of children with epilepsy and my regular product helps people suffering from PTSD better than any big pharma drug... So I'm doing plenty of good with my completely legal, medically beneficial operation.

>>61097780
>hurr durr you can never enjoy everything! weed is heroin!

>>61093574
fitter happier and more productive, a pig in a cage, with antibiotics.

>>61088956
TFW you have no idea who the fuck is that

>>61089119
>we're all on the same intellectual level
This is not even remotely true. I find this claim so outlandish that I'm very impressive somebody could say it seriously. I can only conclude that you're either a troll, or a person that's in the bottom of the barrel and therefore has never looked downed on somebody clearly inferior intellectually.

>>61092734
"You're not here to learn, that's what college was for. This is a place to work after you've learned. We'll get in contact with you if we need to; have a nice day."

>>61098749
So you're implying no college no job?

>>61088956
feels
Vitalik is awesome though

>>61098788
You need college and 2 years of experience minimum before you can get your first out of college job

I'm 29 and financially I have "made it" but socially I'm still a fuck up. I own my house outright and have a little over 80k in savings about ~$216k in my portfolio. Never had a gf, never kissed a girl, never held a girl's hand that wasn't a family member. No friends and I spend my free time with you fucks and playing video games.

It's getting lonely and stressful.

>>61101039
>It's getting lonely and stressful.
be thankful you have no drama in your life and freedom to do whatever the fuck you want (within limits)

>>61088956

>cyka skeletor who dropped out of school to make his own fiat currency is successful when a hacker emptied his wallet due to incompetence

If he didn't do the hard fork and dubiously "voted" for it, he would be nothing.

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>people your age are happy
>you are more miserable every day

>>61088956

I am a 32yo NEET. There are people my age that are already manager or bosses in a company. Some are even owners of their own business.

Shit sucks.

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>>61088956
> be vitalik
> utter and complete faggot, cant properly emote or speak english
> third-world starving children have more body mass
> women repulsed by you
> no one understands or relates to you because you are vastly more intelligent than 99% of the population
> incapable of killing self
> livingnightmare.jpg

It's whatever. Try or don't, make peace with either option and try to be happy. It's all temporary anyway. Someone out there will always be better at you at something no matter who you are. Can't worry about shit like that or you go crazy and get nothing done.

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>>61101008
>2 years of experience minimum
but how do I get those 2 years of exp before I get my first job?

>>61088956
That's alright, I've chosen to live my life a certain way, if it boils down to abilities or raw talent then I don't believe I'm beneath anyone. I'm pretty happy with life right now, if I want more I'll simply work towards that goal.

There was this guy in school that's the typical jock guy. Would bully just about every other guy not in his >muh jock status clique.
He'd ignore me. Not bully me, just nothing. Didn't seem to notice my existence.
I heard a story on the news about a McDonalds being robbed, and the cashier being stabbed and being hospitalized with what was claimed as "fatal" injuries.
The name rang a bell, so I had to look it up on Facebook, but nothing I could remember. I then recalled the name, and went to my old school yearbook from ages ago.
It was him. This dude would make fun of people at school, belittling them whenever he could, thinking he was top of the line human being, and he got stabbed at 29, working as a McDonalds cashier.
I understand that there are people that went to the same school as me that are now a lot more accomplished than me, but it makes me feel pretty good knowing I'm in a field I aspired to be as a kid, whereas he's in a hospital bed from being stabbed at 2AM McDonalds robbery.

>>61093665
Why do you feel the need to talk highly about yourself? She didn't care, no one actually cares, that's how people are, and you should be the same, who cares what other people think?

>>61101607
Community service & volunteering are 2 pretty good ways.

>>61101686
This, volunteer to work for free if you have to while you study, at least if you can afford it, depending on where you work you might actually even learn something useful.

>>61101673
fucking kek, that's every jock's life story. Be all cool n shit in high school, end up as a McD's cashier as an adult.

You know what you have to do, anon, right? Go pay that dude a visit. Bring him a Big Mac with large fries and a soda in case he's hungry.

>>61101647
>That's alright, I've chosen to live my life a certain way, if it boils down to abilities or raw talent then I don't believe I'm beneath anyone.

Fucking Dunning–Kruger right there.

>>61088996
>tfw moderately successful with single engineering degree
>almost everyone else in immediate social circle desperately trying to do better, even the hilariously successful ones
>not even in their 40s and they already look drained of life from all the stress and fatigue from juggling work + their second/third degrees
i wonder if i should just liquidate all my assets and fuck off to a mountain somewhere secluded

>>61088956
If you're paid and can watch anime at work, you're the real winner in my book.

>>61102013
Worst thing that can happen to you
Loose your anime job and you'll realise you wasted all this time while others progressed

I wish I was at the top of my field and had amazing success at a young age. I sometimes fantasize about making millions of dollars and helping my parents to retire.

But I've had some rough times in my life and right now I have a decent job that I enjoy and I'm pretty good at what I do. I'm satisfied.

>>61091548
Being good in school isnt achieving.

>>61092827
dont get too comfy anon
i had a great start in my early 20s,
doubled my salary like every two years, after i got too comfy a thought its gonna be like that if i do what i allways do. im in my 30s now, and stagnating (not talking only about money/ progress, motivation, keepin up etc). got too comfortable

20 go to college, shit happends fast foward. I'm 33 work in a warehouse, is it too late for me to get my EE degree?

>>61093504
If it's uninteresting you're playing it wrong.

>>61088956
You shouldn't compare yourself to other people. Just do you and be confident in your abilities. Some people move at different speeds.

>>61101840
Oh yah bro totally DK as fuck my man,

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>>61088956
OP, Making comparisons to others will only make you unhappy. Understand that you both were molded in very different situations, and cannot be compared. This should not discourage competition though, as competition is what keeps achievement viable and enjoyable.

>>61102137
>progressed
If you can watch anime you can also learn programming or other language, working on your own scamware while shit job cover your ass is way better than neet dreaming of becoming gamedev or burger fliper after CS.

>>61093425
>survive = get rich
This is why America is dying
t. Eurofriend

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>>61088956
Is it true this guy gave 80% of ethereum premined to his friends?

>>61088956
>tfw used to be cs student
>lost motivation
>researched ways to kill self
>found passion in human biology
>tfw too old for medicine
>became nurse instead
I may earn shit but my sass level is off the chart.

Try being disabled OP.

Want to achieve something but the current system needs to collapse so fuck supporting it just so they can tax you for nigger kids

>>61104397
lel i know this 40yo guy studying medicine and he's doing alright, you gave up too early

>32 on ACT
>friend who got an 18 owns a house and a new car

I lack any motivation at all.

>>61104534
Nurses do all the fun stuff, plus like 4 years pre med plus four med, then 20 years of training

>>61104397
>>61104534

It's not too late for him tbf. Don't lots of nurses go to medical school?

How do you go about getting into a college once you've been out of HS forever? Do you have to just go to community college first?

>>61088956

all these mad cucks on this thread, bunch of morons comparing themselves on some artificial metric

>comparisons

>>61102718

>competition
>rat race is enjoyable

I'd rather be nobody else

>>61097780
Have you ever exercised? 'Runners high' beats any shitty brain-eating drugs.

>>61104638
I went to a really good uni in my country (when I was studying cs)
And the uni I went for nursing was literally the worst ranked. So it was actually quite easy. Most unis don't care about gaps in education along as your not sitting in your ass being a neet.

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>>61092067
>>61092116
>>61093454
>>61095931
Men grow up at different speeds. We don't hit our stride until our mid 30s/early 40s.

I had a buddy of mine hop from job to job in his shitty Honda until he was 33. He packed all his shit in the Honda and moved to a state in the mid west and got a job doing IT for an electrical company. He's 40 now and makes close to six figures. Has a house with one acre of land, a wife and kid.

So don't feel too bad if you see people ahead of you. Just keep pushing and you'll be alright.

Pro tip: many states in the mid west and Bible Belt have populations where an applicant with a college degree is rare. They look at certs and experience a lot more.

Good luck, anons.

>>61104671
Running is for children

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>>61104703
I'd smash that for sure

>>61095931
>>61102234

I was an unemployed neet with no gf or friends living with my mother till age 37, now I have money my own place a nice car and fuck girls in their 20's.

if you are a neet with no prospects you should be learning full stack web dev and app dev, then looking for opportunities to make a site/app that can earn money.

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>>61088956
>twf you don't want to achieve anything but you don't want to die poor either so you do things and it turns out you're great at anything you try but you're unable to enjoy your success because you'd rather just sit around reading nihilist literature and enjoying small things in life while they last

>>61088956
> people half you age are getting laid and you don't

>>61105629
This desu

>>61089175
memory =/= intellect =/= emotional stability =/= drive =/= cultural conditioning

>be smart
>have a good memory
>be clinically depressed
>never developed the skills you are expected to have for a liberal arts degree because you were homeschooled or just a slacker - design your own ellectronics and do math like a pro but fail to write anything passable over 2 paragraphs before going full autism and just making a list of your thoughts and reasons. surprise, essays are 75% of uni! counselor tries to get you easier classes, but you don't have the money for a bunch of remedial shit. these loans are getting steep.
>fail so hard at life that you revive old memes and become an epic fail

>dumb
>so-so memory
>happy and optimistic
>intrinsically motivated
>paid attention at public school and worked on all the "useless" skills you WEREN'T too good for
>BS in business, make $80k a year

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>>61105629
>>61105665

lololol getting laid is so overrated what matters is the ppl you lay consistently half your age
senses over soul is another discussion

>>61104795
damn you actually believe that..

>>61105629
Legally it's rape, but still...

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>tfw 26 yo, depressed, brainlet, virgin, NEET with MS
>never held down a job for more than 2 weeks

I'm so far gone that I'm actually looking forward to suicide.

>>61105794
>tfw trying hard to fake happiness for your meaningless accomplishments you did half-assedly because you don't want to insult ambitious plebs that are actually trying
Get on my level.

>>61105975
you can do it anon. wait 14 years, become a wizard and destory the world.

>>61106024
This
>>61105975
Save us all, Anon.

>>61095294
Prague, Czech Republic
It's actually more comfy than a city with tech market.
I guess I could consider working remotely for some company from a country with higher pays, while staying here (or travelling).

>>61102214
That's a good point actually. I plan on getting higher, at least in pay, for now. Once I get financially comfortable enough, I plan on starting something own.

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>tfw people the same age as you are fucking up on a level you didnt think was possible

>>61104703
can anyone back this up before i go and move to redneck central

>>61101607

Internships nigger.

>>61107583
Mississippi here, it's pretty nice (as long as you're not in the delta)

>>61101981
Sell fucking everything, Go to a warm climate country with low life costs and do your engineering thing there. Remotely if possible.You will have so much money to live off and save up with less work and stress. Also nice weather. Check out Bali.

>>61095355
The best way to score a job. Bullshit your way in.

>>61088956
looking good, Vitalik!

>can't drive at 25
>shit eyesight but going to an eye doctor would basically force me to admit it
>always get butthurt when I get an answer wrong in the free online tests and ragequit
someone fucking help me ;_;

>>61093594
m8, you dont quit while you're ahead.
Why do people with good grades stop giving a fuck
I feel like its super fucking easy to stay at top grades once you're up there.
You have a very good foundation and understand new stuff well, so whats with all the people dropping off again?
At least thats my experience, literally no effort to stay good once you are

i'm on a quest to achieve as little as possible

i don't think anyone is as succesful as i am

>>61088956
Its not like that, they are achieving more, sure, but when you reach your goals you will be way ahead of them.

You see, just like when you were kids, the popular kids on the block got in prison, overdosed or died in crash accident with their new BMW while just being 18, while you had to go to school etc. Same thing will happen, you will be in your mid 30 or so, with family, great job, great life experience etc. and their business or whatever will be dying.

The later you achieve the better.

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>>61093594
>He's not driving a semi truck full of merca across the border for a thousand bucks per kilo brick
you're doing it wrong Kevin Jose

>>61088956
>horrible family life
>Shit grades at school, no qualifications
>Didn't go to uni
>Get job as QA at 18
>Move out
>Spend 3 years focusing on work
>Specialize in software test automation
>21 earning £30000 with no debt

I feel I've made some good process so far.

>>61111254
What kind of software do you test?
Do you have any hints for automating testing a bunch of unrelated system packages?

>>61111254
>>61111254
You did, I have 250k debt, making 38k/y and I am 27...
This is my 5th job so far as a C/C++ dev

>>61111313
>27
>250k debt
It must suck to be American.

>>61111308
Web/hybrid mobile app. I'm not sure to be honest, I focus primarily on automating user flows for our app using Selenium and Appium to test our app cross-platform/browser. Still very early days!

>>61111351
Not rly tho, I live nice. I have a rancho in Arizona, my cosin is taking care of it. I am thinking of when I retire at 40 to go there just you know, live the life.

>>61088974
2 people of 30 i went through private gradeschool with have committed suicide
1 was killed while dealing drugs
3 are in jail
none of them are making 100k/year at age 30

i don't feel so bad about my position among my former peers


don't grow up middle class

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>>61089119
>No, we're all on the same intellectual level

>>61112031
You obviously think you're above average.

>tfw I'm 23 and make 3.00 USD a day
>tfw uni-dropout from engineering school
You cannot be as low as I am.

>>61112339
he posted reaction image and greentext. intimidated yet?

>>61112379
Oh yeah...

>>61112339
No. In fact I'm pretty sure I'm average, and below those few exceptional individuals.

Well we never talk about all the people you outlived or that are broke either..

>>61111313
>You did, I have 250k debt, making 38k/y and I am 27...
>This is my 5th job so far as a C/C++ dev

Literally wtf? Which InfoSys do you work at that you get paid so little?

>>61088956
I just want 30k a year and a junkyard to fuck around in.

>>61093574
Mary Selmers

for those of you feeling discouraged in your career, watch this:
https://youtu.be/N2UhSnvOcaE?list=PLCFsLEtnWlNguvb2Hb9p5zHRErY5VDE32

especially 54:45 to 1:02

>>61101679
>Why do you feel the need to talk highly about yourself?
To try and give them the hint to save their unwanted advice. Betas tend to be bombarded, almost forcefully, with advice on how to live their lives, even from complete strangers. I'm not saying everybody doesn't get that, but without social skills it can be very stressful. Speaking highly of yourself helps in situations where you can't subconsciously tell them to fuck off while having them still like you, as someone with social skills can.

>>61101008
huh? all my buddies seem to be scoring jobs fresh out of college this summer. what are you talking about?

>>61088956
>tfw people the same age as me aren't achieving as much as me
>tfw people the same age as me are achieving much more
If I spent my entire life comparing myself to my peers, I'd be category one.

Category two guy just got started earlier.

>>61116493
fucking bullshit, this is the garbage thinking that makes my parents and others suggest me that i start working at companies as a janitor and other such garbage work. If i studied and have been doing software for so long, why would i fucking do 40 hours a week as a janitor hoping i would EVENTUALLY get looked at. fuck off

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>24
>graduate with a B.Eng EE at end of year
>GPA is shit because I was >>61089036 for the first 2 years and only scraped passes
>now improved with good grades, development projects and industry experience
>employers reject y resume because they use GPA as a cut-off
>tfw no graduate job

I deserve it for being a lazy shit but I'll be damned if all those rejection e-mails don't hurt.

Remember to put in effort in whatever you do guys. Coasting won't get you anywhere

>>61116889
did he ever imply that you should take a shit job if given a choice? his point, which you missed entirely was that there are people who can become successful despite being forced into adverse situations out of their control. you can never be these people if you keep your defeatist attitude.

>>61088956
>tfw everybody dies and it doesnt really matter what you did in this life because eventually everything is forgotten

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>>61117422
there is nothing more comforting than reflecting upon the heat death of the universe

>>61117094
you missed the point of my post. im specifically talking about the idea that 'all hands are good hands'.
no they arent, fuck off. and im not saying i was dealth a bad one either

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>tfw 20 and just replaced the CTO of a company

what fuck
no
oh shit

im so not redy

fuuuck

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> not dedicating life to achieving inner peace
> contentment in whatever situation life throws at you

It's like you guys don't even want to enjoy life, even if you were earning 200k/year