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I have been told to move to wherever jobs are but a) I like my area and my family and b) why the hell would I pack up everything and leave everything I care about for money? It just separates everything further and creates more isolation for me.

It's also worse because I'm trying to get a job and after legitimately working for myself (with a friend) for six years it seems like people gloss over my resume or something. I am overqualified for a lot of the stuff I apply for simply because I want a job with lower stress that I will enjoy and not one where I'll be stressed out all the time like I was for five of the six years.

I've also been called lazy because the only job that has been willing to take me is one where I work outside in 100f heat with what feels like 100 percent humidity doing lawn maintenance for bourgie fucks. I did that in my teens and found out I get hay fever too, so it's fucking terrible. Every time I mention this and the heat I'm just making excuses or being lazy. I hate everyone I talk to about employment.

Talking to people about jobs in general is just rage inducing.


Exactly. I feel like my Dad is actually annoyed at me for even suggesting that living somewhere desirable is a good thing. As if "go where the money is" should be the only thing to consider in where you should live.

I have on multiple occasions been told I should pursue a job that's in the ass end of nowhere just because it's for the government. Even though I wouldn't trust the government to run a bath without fucking it up, and it would take 3 buses to commute.

What's wrong, user, you not entrepreneurial enough?

URGE TO PURGE

What kind of job?

B is closely related to A. If you dislike your area and/or your family, justifying B doesn't take that much effort.

This thread is now officially /leftyvent/
Honestly, you kinda get the feeling that they just want you to be as miserable as they are.
Yes, I totally want to study for a job that I'll definitely hate and which will probably be obsolete before I reach retirement, so I can afford to buy a house in some suburbian hellhole which I'll probably have to sell off at a loss in the next recession and be saddled with debt like you fucking were. And maybe if I'm lucky when I'm 80 I'll be able to afford a house in some medditeranean island that only exists for fat pensioners like me because the rest of the economy collapsed. That is provided I don't die of overwork before that.
Not to mention our entire society will probably collapse in the next few decades, but you don't care about that because you'll be dead by then. And no matter what I will likely never be as well-off as you were because I had the audacity to be born in the wrong decade.
And you call me a lazy millenial because I think this is bullshit?
Seriously I hope the next collapse comes soon so they can fucking suffer with the rest of us

I know it's lifestylist bullshit so I pull way from these tendencies, but you ever get existential dread that your life will amount to nothing and you'll never even participate as a faceless supporter of a movement that abolishes the present state of things?

Living a meaningless life doing a 9-5 fills me with panic.

Born in raised in houston, it's complete shit. When I'm done with my degree I'm leaving for Ausitin or LA.

I'm scared because I'm doing a degree that doesn't carry well outside of Houston.

Went because I got a full ride. Just hoping it can maybe carry me to Austin. I hate this city.

To be fair user I think almost all of the country could be described as having a culture based around work and shopping malls. All of the places that were kind of unique in the past like San Francisco have now just become so gentrified that they're like anywhere else but more expensive and with more hipsters.

But then I'm a Britbong who also lives in the ass end of the country where there's nothing so what do I know. I can't imagine how much better life must be in London purely in terms of things (and people) to do. But Houston is a big city so there must be some people like you out there.

I'm also curious what this is now, Houstonomics? Steakhouse management?

It's shit. I remember being shocked at how comfy Austin was in comparison. The only thing to do here is fuck girls I meet on Tinder. I'm getting out when I can and you should too.

Know that feel fam

I'm at the Law School, bruv. The school is ranked okay (Top 50) but it really only carries regionally like other schools within that rank. I have a full ride, though, so at least I'm not taking on debt. The school is good and law school rankings are a massive meme but it matters for employment.


I love Austin mostly just for the music scene.

Fucking millennials.

Austin is better in most ways. LA might be better for me because if film production fails I can do porn. But I have to get out of this shithole.

I have a couple friends living in LA and doing the film stuff.

They both really like it but the sprawl sounds even worse than Houston. Positive is that at least there's zoning so even though there is sprawl, LA is more like a bunch of self contained communities whereas Houston is just everything randomly placed across the city.

Yeah I've got a friend there who works with a film crew and is working on a script for either a comic or a film. Part of the reasoning of going there is a reliable roommate and collaborator.

Houston is retardedly designed and grows outward like a cancer. I moved out to a small rural community a little outside Katy when I was a kid and in less than a decade the sprawl turned the farmland into fastfood and strip malls.

Guess Bookchin was right all along

Currently living in Katy, fam. Suburbia is hell.

I like my family and my entire life is here. The only thing I hate is the heat and humidity. I'd move to somewhere colder for myself (if my family could come and since we all live together with the immediate family it wouldn't be too hard honestly) but going somewhere myself in a completely new area just for money? No thanks. I hate money. I just want enough to live off of and buy the few things I want.

I don't even pay for my house because my parents paid it off and they don't even see a point in me moving at all. I don't either. My friend was telling me a few years ago I should move to be more "independent" (for reference, no one gives a shit what I do here) and then were telling me they live paycheck to paycheck. I didn't understand at all. His family was fine with him staying there but his fiancee was always on his ass because she hated her family because she's kind of a shitty person.

It was extremely annoying for someone to tell me I'd have more freedom struggling to live.

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Any of you homies live in Houston, you gotta check out Himalya. Best Indian/Pakistani food around

Reminder that it's considered 100% OK for women to find balance between work and home life. It's just men who are expected to put everything into their job.


That might be a holdover from an "earlier life" of his. My dad grew up in a pretty poor family in an immigrant community but got work in government as a manager and is "upper middle class" now. He's still ridiculously stingy even though he has more money than he'll ever realistically spend. For someone who's in a somewhat desperate situation, going where the money is may really be the only option, especially in decades gone by. These days, people have many more options than they used to re: where to live, because transportation has developed and the internet makes it easy to research and find where you want to live.
People who've self-employed are far less desirable than permanent wagecucks because you have seen what it's like to not be a wagecuck.
People who think manual laborers are lazy are dangerously stupid and should probably be euthanized tbh.

There's at least two of us here and it's bretty good. I like the Biryani.

Where the Dallasfags at?

There's an anfem who used to be a nazi and lares, so I guess she found a new ideology and he is starting hrt.

Dallas CFB fag here. Libraries now charge you money for every day your book is overdue.

Dallas city is over rated as fuck. Much rather live out in Denton but I'm not studying at UNT so RIP

Yeah, I've been doing lawn maintenance for some porkies who live off their rich dad. The pay is great and my family are all welcome to work there because my grandpa is the head worker, but whenever I see the owner's fat son who spent 10 years at a uni and still hasn't got a degree take off his shirt to expose his disgusting, pale, hot pocket filled blubber or when one of the grandchildren drive through the yard I just mowed with his noisy-ass go-cart only to chase geese into glass doors, I have to listen to some lefty songs or I'll bust a blood vessel.

Hey I live near Houston! Don't forget that it has a crime rate more than double the national average! :)

Way to kick the feels user.

Feels bad man, I remember that my parents tried to help those that worked our lawn My dad has life threatening reactions to some grass and lives in Texas lol, I was too young to understand it, but they also bought a lot of new clothes for his son. It's great to see that his son is now the valedictorian (a grade below me) in a different school and now has a scholarship.

My father is from a really poor middle of nowhere place in the mountains before he emigrated here. Sadly, he and my mother are the few non leftists in this family.

Is death the only way out of the work cycle?

I know this sounds incredibly butthurt and daddy issues tier but I think the boomers as parents are all incredibly likely to betray their kids. It's more uncommon for them not to.
t. seen them backstab everyone i know, including myself

Death or revolution, comrade
That or join the dark side and become porky, but you'll be dead inside anyway

All well and good but you still have to get a job to pay for all those nice things, if you're not a proky. And those jobs don't grow on jobbies - just moving somewhere and "doing gigs" until you land a decent job in your field does not usually work. Do you have any view towards such a job? If not, moving is a risk, and you might end up in a financial hole pretty fast.

So for all us recent grads here, what are our options? I graduated undergrad and I'm doing a bullshit 1 year free graduate program at my school, strictly bc it will give me more time before my loans begin to accrue interest.
I went to college because I didn't have anyone at all telling me that I could live without going. All the authority figures in my childhood pushed me towards college, and now here I am with a mountain of debt and no real career prospects.

We young people need to collectively figure out how to survive out here. That's the biggest thing I've learned. So how are you surviving? What can you share? What are your questions?

how old is your daddy?
asking for science.

If it makes you feel any better, he isn't part-time. He just fucks around and sucks money out of his dad so he keeps failing.

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I'm going part-time, usually pull 30 hours of work a week, and have managed to avoid loans. So I guess I'm better than that faggot at least.