it just feels pointless going to work each day to a job you hate knowing we won’t afford a home can barely afford to have fun so we go to work just so we can afford to exist till we die. Makes me depressed how do you guys mentally accept this life as a positive
u 1. "it just feels pointless going to work each day to a job you hate" Who decided that you should accept and remain at a job you hate?
2. "knowing we won’t afford a home" No, you probably can't buy a home if you are working at a hamburger joint or bagging groceries somewhere. However, plenty of young people are buying homes. What are you doing to put yourself into a more lucrative career?
3. "can barely afford to have fun" How much money is necessary before you have fun?
4. "so we go to work just so we can afford to exist till we die." What are you doing to make changes in your life?
5. "Makes me depressed how do you guys mentally accept this life as a positive" I have never heard anyone say that the picture you painted is positive. The biggest negative about the situation is that you portray yourself as a victim of life rather than as an ineffectual participant.
If YOU are not in charge of your life, WHO IS?
1. Plan to work hard and be useful to others.
2. When someone asks you to vote for something and they're making you a bunch of promises, BEWARE! Far too many people get tricked into voting against their own best interests because the marketing sounded good. You must do your own investigation, and never believe the marketing either way.
3. Don't expect to have at 20 what your parents worked 30 years to earn. When my dad was in college, he still worked 6 days a week, and my mother 5 days a week, and they lived in a tiny, old studio apartment that shared a single bathroom with 5 other apartments. Expect to start at the very bottom and work your way up. Live under your means, and put your extra money to work for you (i. e., invest).
4. Be extremely skeptical of any and every attempt to raise your taxes or give taxpayer money to others. There's no such thing as a one-time tax - the government wants to constantly grow, and it can't do that without taking more and more and more from YOU. Every penny the government spends on anything is going to come from you (and me), the tax-payer. Every time the government borrows money for things, that causes inflation which dilutes the value of the money and wages we have and earn, so they don't need to "raise taxes" to steal your money.
5. Recognize that society lies to you, and is VERY good at convincing you to do things against your own best interests. They do it to everyone, and most people fall for it. Learn to use your own brain and not be influenced by "society" or the media.
6. Be VERY slow and cautious about moving a girl in with you. You will be tempted to do this sooner or later, but you need to make damn sure you've carefully vetted her, focusing on her morals and values and life-goals, before you do.
1. Get a decent career that gives a steady income
2. Invest in stocks/etfs, start yesterday
3. Start a business, ideally one that can be remote or become a freelancer
4. Buy a house in a cheaper country or in a remote area
Somewhere along the line acquire a partner that has similar outlook because the above will be easier to accomplish when there's two of you.
It's difficult these days, but it's just a different type of challenge. You have to adjust to the changing world but if you can do then you will be successful.
By not making dumb choices that lead to that result. Honestly, it really seems like most people screw themselves into that situation. Go get training/ a degree in something that actually makes sense and makes money, while living with your parents until you have enough money to start out on your own. That's what our grandparents did. Because it works. Literally just do stuff that makes sense
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This song sums it up.
Helix Lyrics
"That's Life"
You say you got your troubles
Well, I got mine too
That's life
Got that right
That's life
Work your fingers to the bone
To get some money saved
Everyday you're closer
One step closer to your grave
Everybody wants some
But I just want a taste
It's hard to make a living
In this day-today rat race
Everybody's got their hand out
But as far as I can see
I'm giving and their takin'
Another piece of me
That's life
Hard to believe
That's life
Who said it would be easy
That's life
Work your fingers to the bone
To get some money saved
That's life
The whole world's goin' crazy
And there's hardly room to move
And every time you turn around
You step on someone's shoes
People to the left of you
And people to your right
You're stuck in the middle
Not a very pretty sight
And the fat cats just get richer
All I want's an even shake
And every time I turn around
Somebody's on the take
That's life
It'll bring you to your knees
That's life
Squeeze ya till ya bleed
That's life
Don't look now but I think that
Big brothers watching you
That's life
Huh! Ha-ha! Yeah!
Nothing for nothing
That's what you get
N-n-n-nothing
Without a little sweat
That's right
That's life
And you hate the place you work at
That's life
And your boss is one big jerk
That's life
Gas, ass, or grass
Nobody rides for free
That's life
Yeah, yeah, that' right
That's life
Stranger than fiction
That's life
Oh shit happens ya know
That's life
That's life
Change your career to something that will make you happy and earn you more. It's easy to stay where you are and complain. Use your free time to learn new skills and pursue a new career. The worst that can happen is that you will still be where you are now.
Homes will not stay this expensive forever. The boomers are dying. Migration is drying up -- economic opportunities in other countries are getting closer and closer to what they are here, if not exceeding. And the home building industry has picked up a lot in the last half decade or so.
If you work on a career -- that is, the kind of job where experience makes you more valuable over time -- then by the time the housing market turns, you will actually be ready, unlike most of your peers. And then you can be the one who owns all the houses that everyone else bitches about.
It's a mindset that helps me embrace the unexpected and unpredictable nature of life. I trust that whatever happens with my strokers, whether they get misdelivered or hidden in unexpected places, will ultimately lead to a satisfying and pleasurable experience for me. Even if the "deep thrust and rotation" feature is disappointing for me, I can still enjoy "realistic smooth texture". This attitude allows me to approach each situation with a sense of excitement and anticipation, rather than fear or frustration of a pleasure device gone wrong. It's a philosophy that helps me stay positive and focused on the end goal, no matter what @_pig_droppings_ I may encounter along the way.
What future? You work for us and that's democracy. Only when you become a majority, and we die off, can you take what's left. It's the democratic cycle.
It's why a lot of this LGB+ whatever this week, are coming to the fore to change the political landscape like a virus. They don't want to wait for their turn in the democratic cycle. They would rather be thought of as gays and mentally ill fools but get their share now.
What they don't realize is that they are going to condemn themselves and everyone else to serious political and financial problems. All due to their pride, haste and arrogance.
Don't do a job you hate, do a job you love.
If you are employed by someone, don't accept shitty paycheck amounts, if they refuse to pay you properly, quit without notice, if you cannot find a decent paying job, start a business.
Do not work in the service industries that are legally allowed to ignore minumum wage laws like restaurants and such.
Do not pay more than $400 in rent before you buy a house. If need be, split rent with another person/other people, or live with your parents and pay no rent, this rule should apply no matter your income.
Don't get a car if you don't need one, if you do need one, get the cheapest car you can.
Don't use/buy alcohol or drugs.
Pay off your house immediately and retire early.
While there are real problems caused by Government regulations inciting building of enough choices and flooding the low skilled labor market with cheap competition thou immigration and trade.
1: You will make more money as you get more experience.
2: Not every where are houses beyond reach. More rural places and places like the Rustbelt has a lot of good affordable options still.
You may be behind, and will never go as far as your parents could but your still better than 90% of the worlds population and men in 99% of history economically speaking.
The real problem is securing a woman willing to accept reality as it is and start having kids now. While you as a man can afford to wait a little longer for theses things she can't. Meaning marry older or accept less.
You probably wasted your time with booze and drugs when you were young and now you are looking for sympathy. Just work more hours to make more money. Invest in the stock market instead of snorting everything you earn up your nose, you crazy coke machine. 🤪
Literally never done drugs and I stopped drinking at 21 I’m 26 so nice assumption dumbass no I’m saying people have wrecked this world through economy and other uncontrollable things
Okay.
I go to university to study what's been my passion all my life to in four years maintain an occupation that'll secure a good paycheck. I spend my nights writing stories that I'll one day publish, texting people who make me grin from just their words, and planning social events that I'll document so they'll never be forgotten.
If you hate the now, you'll hate the future. Your mindset is wasting the prime of your life.
The same way every generation has done it before you. Life is about survival. You can either lay down and die, or fight every day to stay alive. What I find difficult is not the fight. It's the rules therein. Now there are obvious rules. You can't go around killing people or breaking people's legs (society frowns on that). But you can do the monetary equivalent. You can short somebody's company into oblivion and destroy thier livelihood. That is completely fair game.
Basically what I'm saying is you have to live at least a somewhat moral life. All the while knowing that those morals will cost you repeatedly. So the most successful typical learn how to either fake having morals. Or learn how to bend thier ALMOST to the breaking point.
Good luck dude!
Okay? Work towards a job that you can afford to still have fun and get a job you DON’T hate.
That’s just what being a responsible adult is. Each generation has their own difficulties. It’s not always rainbows and sunshine and no one said it was easy.
A house is entirely attainable, but accept that your first home is rarely your forever home. You buy small, make a profit in equity, sell and get something a little bigger and so on.
Jobs suck - careers don’t. Invest time and effort in obtaining the certification, education, or training that open a door to you having some satisfaction in a career you choose.
Lastly, life is often what you put into it.
This makes me depressed too, what's the point of doing our best if society wants us just to: sleep -eat -work and repeat till we die? This society wants to make us quit all our passions and interest and manipulate us. Most people just live for money nowadays and don't even get to know and understand their true-self
Exactly it’s like a prison
That’s why people don’t want to have kids, I mean even if you come from a good family the world is getting worse. Capitalism and empty people dominate
This is the future that most millennials wanted. flooding your country with migrants will thin out resources the amount of land stays the same but demand for it rises hence so does the price. White people make a great country and also fought and died for it and your generation destroyed it.
Right?
The job market's a sad joke. Nobody gets paid sufficiently and nobody wants to hire anymore even with years of EXP and academic degrees.
Learn of ways and methods to double your money. Allocate and spend your money on investments e. g. swing trading with brokers, ETFs, buying and selling cryptocurrencies, whatever.
Then retreat into a monastery and embrace a life full of God. Not everyone is fit for living a "normal" life. You will have plenty of time to pray and read and make your life meaningful. You will have to give up on marriage and 'fun' such as sex, drinking heavily and other pleasures.
Matthew 6:33
''But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.''
You will feel that way when you are carnally minded but there is an entire world you're not seeing that impacts your physical one.
You young folk are the last hope to RADICALLY remake America into a decent country instead its current greed-and violence-infested dystopia. It's promising that there are 11/3 times more self-identified LGBTQAI Generation Zers than REPIGLISCAM (28% LGBTQAI, 21 % GOP [" Goobers, Oddballs, Popinjays"]), but you must also realize the DUMBOCRATS aren't the answer for a better society.
What i say, change your mindset, it's all about the mind, easier said then done I know, think about it this way some people don't have arms and legs but still swim, how can we complain knowing the things we take for granted. Yea life is hard but we are made to best it, now let's act like it.
The same way every previous generation did: by getting a job you DON'T hate. If you're willing to live a more humble life, you can get by with working less at an easier job.
Previous generations could afford a house though and save money so it’s not really the same. My parents went out 3 times a week on a basic job now you can barely go out once a month
So you wind up renting instead of owning, and possibly living with someone, or someones, else. Like I said, living more humbly. This isn't the first time we've seen an economic downturn.
Works survive DEPRESSING
Then don't merely "survive"- LIVE. Not everything worth doing is difficult, time-consuming, or expensive.
The anomaly here is that nothing much has changed for us old timers except the younger are looking for self gratification as a pleasure seeking process of entitled articulate sinearios for themselfs only. Rather pleasure isn't a thing of entitlement , it's a reward for goals achieved which incidently produces confidence throughout self achievement. Being busy elevating up from below isn't boring at all.
I think about colonial times. The winters were tough, there was hunger and diseases. To survive took a lot of manual labor. People had to be tough or die. And there was no internet.
I don't but I strive to make it positive for my lineage and I must say I successfully did that. No one descended from me will have to worry about money for at least 3 or 4 generations.
"Surrendering" already?
Start yourself off by giving yourself an ambition.
What you describe had been a reality for most people during centuries.
Have "we" softened up?
Yes but back then you worked hard and got to have a family and a home now you work hard just to afford groceries not the same
I am odviously older than you, But I feel the same way.
I think the only thing we can do is new things that we enjoy instead of doing the same old things and make smaller achievable goals I suppose.
Well another recession or Great Depression is coming, world war 3 is coming and everyone’s busy either scarfing down food on social media, showing what they have or how beautiful they are or dancing to some dumb song…yep the world is doomed.
Exactly how am I supposed tongonto work and enjoy when we’re literally fucked
well think of it this way man, we all are essentially then, not just you. People are waking up to the BS of the banking system/government system/politicians with their semantics.
Then why are you even doing a job that you hate? If you can't afford anything and have nothing else to lose, take a bigger risk. Unless you wanna stay like that for the rest of your life, it's up to you
I try not to make it complicated cuz reality is already tough
I have a plan n working to make it come true while wishing for better days
By not victimizing yourself and having ambition.
You are only confined to the places and type of work you allow. You control your education, your path, your career, and where you live.
Frankly your not. The world your inheriting is frankly fucked and has been fucked since long before you were born.
see that’s not something to strive within
My generation is hopeless 😭😭 We're all going to dooky
We have to take back control of society, because currently, it's run by the people destroying it, and they're all in cahoots with eachother
Buy and resell drugs.
Is it risky? Yeah. Are you going to make a shit ton of money for minimal effort? Fuck yeah.
The biggest difference between today's generation and those of the past is lack of work ethic, character and determination.
But look my parents worked hard and guess what could go out multiple times a week travel and buy a house at 29. We work the same and can’t afford to do any of that so it’s irrelevant
You talk about your father and yourself as if you are they same people but in different times. Are you? I myself am 29 and I feel like I'm in good shape. I have a good career and a solid job and I own my own home (with a fat mortgage though). But it didn't just happen. I have worked my ass off for it and tried to make good choices all of my adult life, just like my dad did. But the truth is, he probably sacfrificed more than I have had to. He didn't grow up in a time when everyone had a car and a smart phone and felt entitled to a nice place to live and nice clothes. Today's generation thinks differently, to their own demise.
I’m gonna marry rich but until then I’ll enjoy my solitude 😂
Just keep going, I make £500 a monthandcknoe I'll die in my 50'd but I just carry on
join a commune
so for real
Vote for Trump 2024
Gain a skill and get a better job. Pretty simple.
Every day is an opportunity
You can move to mars
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