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Just figured I'd ask, what do you do man? To feed the monkey? The odd fake kidnapping or video artist with a cleft asshole? Maybe you're an artists who's art is strongly vaginal?

Cause I got a rash, Dudes. A problem. i'm 26, I got a small bit of credit card debt I'll have paid off in a few months, I really want to quit my job and move on to something else to make the money. Or at least cut my hours. I don't know.

All I know is, there is no future in what I'm doing now. I've been passed over promotions too many times. I really don't mind the work, I'm a cashier/janitor worker. It's easy. Problem is the Boss made up her mind a long time ago about me, so she constantly bustin' me... And at this point, I've just tried to escape into Dudeism, do the breathing excersises because I know theres little point in fighting anymore. It really is a situation that, so long as I keep showing up and doing my bit, I'll have a check, it's just disheartening to have one's work under appreciated all the time.

Okay, I've darn introduce the topic enough, my question is... what line of work should I look into? I kinda feel like that guy in Taxi Driver, I really don't care much about the money. Though, I'm still living with my parents (and that's cool, that's cool.) I'd like to be able to give them some rent and start saving for retirement. The thing I enjoy most about the job I'm currently doing is, when I'm a janitor I'm more or less left to my own devices to maintain the store- The carts, garbage cans, bottle machines, what have you.

But what real job is that? A fucking park ranger? And I have like a Bachelors in English, for what it's worth. Waste of time, really, I went in with aspirations of being a professor but after 4 years of it I got really sick of the whole academia scene. I could freelance write I suppose, but honestly my heart just plain isn't in it the same way it was when I was a teen.  Maybe that's a whole 'nother issue, I don't have any passion at the moment.

Hell, this darn thing has turned into a blog post hasn't it? Well I'd certainly appreciate any advice you Dudes wiser than myself could give.

Grow weed.
It's a growth industry. No pun intended.

Do what you know, dude. Right now, I work at a putt putt course, you know, mini golf. It's my first job, and I work with a really good friend, so I like it. But I don't wanna work here half my life by no means. I plan on working here for a while but the one job im gonna try my hand at is animation.

I know, getting to be as big as people like Michael Bay or Steven Spielberg is hard, if not near impossible, but I don't care to be THAT big. I've doodled shit for as long as I can remember, and I've tried my hand at stop motion animation with Lego's (I know, I know, but it works) and im not too bad. I know that getting to be as big as some animators on YouTube, or getting in the partnership program, which pays you to make videos, isn't easy, but im not gonna give up. Just gotta keep trying, you know.

Lost my train of thought here. What I reckon im saying is do something you know, or have some experience with. That way, it wont be as hard to learn about it. That is to say, if you even NEED to learn about it.

Well dude, we just don't know. What I'm sayin is its difficult for any of us here to tell you what you should do for work. All I can say is, do something you don't despise. You hear some folks say they love their jobs, but I'm dubious on that. Take a hobby for instance. You love it, and you try to spend any free time you have doing it. But take it and turn it into a daily grind job and you may not look forward to doing it so much. On the flipside, you hear many people say they HATE their jobs and can't stand one second of them. What kind of life is that? Spending 40 plus waking hours doing something you can't stand? Not much of a life IMO. Face it we spend a lot of time at work(unless you truly are the Dude) so if you choose something you halfway enjoy or find rewarding I think you'll be fine. I you like the janitor thing why not look into that? I believe there's even a custodian union in some places(benefits, health care, retirement plan etc)
No shame in keeping the world a cleaner place dude. Good luck to ya man.

Appreciate the advice dudes... At the moment, just using up the vacation time I have until the bankruptcy judge destroys our union contract. Kinda weird to be chilling while the titanic is sinking. (I mentioned in another thread, my day job up to this point is going belly up. So ya know, great motivation to flow on)

I'll probably fall into security work for a while until I can find better means of employment.

Just for the sake of sharing....

My store still hasn't been bought... IMO it's unlikely it will. Company announced well all be shuttered by November 19th.

But I look on the positive side, hey I'll have thanksgiving off!

Quote from: Rev Nicholas Rehfeldt on June 08, 2015, 11:20:51 PM
Just figured I'd ask, what do you do man? To feed the monkey? The odd fake kidnapping or video artist with a cleft asshole? Maybe you're an artists who's art is strongly vaginal?

Cause I got a rash, Dudes. A problem. i'm 26, I got a small bit of credit card debt I'll have paid off in a few months, I really want to quit my job and move on to something else to make the money. Or at least cut my hours. I don't know.

All I know is, there is no future in what I'm doing now. I've been passed over promotions too many times. I really don't mind the work, I'm a cashier/janitor worker. It's easy. Problem is the Boss made up her mind a long time ago about me, so she constantly bustin' me... And at this point, I've just tried to escape into Dudeism, do the breathing excersises because I know theres little point in fighting anymore. It really is a situation that, so long as I keep showing up and doing my bit, I'll have a check, it's just disheartening to have one's work under appreciated all the time.

Okay, I've darn introduce the topic enough, my question is... what line of work should I look into? I kinda feel like that guy in Taxi Driver, I really don't care much about the money. Though, I'm still living with my parents (and that's cool, that's cool.) I'd like to be able to give them some rent and start saving for retirement. The thing I enjoy most about the job I'm currently doing is, when I'm a janitor I'm more or less left to my own devices to maintain the store- The carts, garbage cans, bottle machines, what have you.

But what real job is that? A fucking park ranger? And I have like a Bachelors in English, for what it's worth. Waste of time, really, I went in with aspirations of being a professor but after 4 years of it I got really sick of the whole academia scene. I could freelance write I suppose, but honestly my heart just plain isn't in it the same way it was when I was a teen.  Maybe that's a whole 'nother issue, I don't have any passion at the moment.

Hell, this darn thing has turned into a blog post hasn't it? Well I'd certainly appreciate any advice you Dudes wiser than myself could give.

I'll tell you a little secret of how I live my life now I don't know if you have a Joann fabrics but save enough money to buy a 30 $$ tie dyeing kit it's worth it and you can get a pack of 9-10 shirts for bout 11$$ tie dye it sell it to a hippie shop near you and you get pretty good after awhile you can make about 30 to 40$$ doing this obviously invest in your tie dyeing company I get half off cupons for Joann fabrics every couple weeks plus the online cupons you can easily and lazily do this for a living especially if you sell to several stores its super fun and every ONE is unique it's a very dude profession that's what I do and you know do what I did applie for the bowling alley or coffe shop wher all you do is sit behind a counter

Quote from: ProudDogWeather on September 06, 2015, 04:30:59 PM

Quote from: Rev Nicholas Rehfeldt on June 08, 2015, 11:20:51 PM
Just figured I'd ask, what do you do man? To feed the monkey? The odd fake kidnapping or video artist with a cleft asshole? Maybe you're an artists who's art is strongly vaginal?

Cause I got a rash, Dudes. A problem. i'm 26, I got a small bit of credit card debt I'll have paid off in a few months, I really want to quit my job and move on to something else to make the money. Or at least cut my hours. I don't know.

All I know is, there is no future in what I'm doing now. I've been passed over promotions too many times. I really don't mind the work, I'm a cashier/janitor worker. It's easy. Problem is the Boss made up her mind a long time ago about me, so she constantly bustin' me... And at this point, I've just tried to escape into Dudeism, do the breathing excersises because I know theres little point in fighting anymore. It really is a situation that, so long as I keep showing up and doing my bit, I'll have a check, it's just disheartening to have one's work under appreciated all the time.

Okay, I've darn introduce the topic enough, my question is... what line of work should I look into? I kinda feel like that guy in Taxi Driver, I really don't care much about the money. Though, I'm still living with my parents (and that's cool, that's cool.) I'd like to be able to give them some rent and start saving for retirement. The thing I enjoy most about the job I'm currently doing is, when I'm a janitor I'm more or less left to my own devices to maintain the store- The carts, garbage cans, bottle machines, what have you.

But what real job is that? A fucking park ranger? And I have like a Bachelors in English, for what it's worth. Waste of time, really, I went in with aspirations of being a professor but after 4 years of it I got really sick of the whole academia scene. I could freelance write I suppose, but honestly my heart just plain isn't in it the same way it was when I was a teen.  Maybe that's a whole 'nother issue, I don't have any passion at the moment.

Hell, this darn thing has turned into a blog post hasn't it? Well I'd certainly appreciate any advice you Dudes wiser than myself could give.

I'll tell you a little secret of how I live my life now I don't know if you have a Joann fabrics but save enough money to buy a 30 $$ tie dyeing kit it's worth it and you can get a pack of 9-10 shirts for bout 11$$ tie dye it sell it to a hippie shop near you and you get pretty good after awhile you can make about 30 to 40$$ doing this obviously invest in your tie dyeing company I get half off cupons for Joann fabrics every couple weeks plus the online cupons you can easily and lazily do this for a living especially if you sell to several stores its super fun and every ONE is unique it's a very dude profession that's what I do and you know do what I did applie for the bowling alley or coffe shop wher all you do is sit behind a counter

That's interesting man, that's interesting. I think I'd have to hustle to find any shops that would accept such wares though. The Long Island isn't very Dude unfortunately, McMansion's everywhere.

Though I wonder how well it would fair selling them over the internet.

This is a bit late, but your quandary reminds of something Hunter S. Thompson once said.

"To put our faith in tangible goals would seem to be, at best, unwise. So we do not strive to be firemen, we do not strive to be bankers, nor policemen, nor doctors. WE STRIVE TO BE OURSELVES... Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living WITHIN that way of life."

It's not easy for someone else to give you relevant ideas on what to do for a living, but if you can identify a way of life that suits you, you might be able to find a line of work that fits into that lifestyle.

Just some food for thought. Keep your eyes open to the possibilities and just take it a day at a time.

"Trade in your hours for a handful of dimes." Jim Morrison

Truer words were never spoken. Unfortunately, here in the good ol' US of A, we live in a society that has been described as immoral/cancer capitalist. Our level of success is not viewed through the lens of our job satisfaction or how much happiness we bring to the lives of others through our chosen employment but by how much money we make and how badly we are able to hurt the competition. Companies slash their workforces  due to "budgetary constraints" which I interpret as the top level paraquat and the investors don't think they're making enough money and every job that gets cut just means that the remaining laborers have even more work to do. Sounds like this is what's happening to you.

The other unfortunate thing is that in order to survive in this society where things like health care for all is deemed to be on the border of evil you have to feed the monkey so a job is definitely in order unless you're able to get on the dole. In the past I bitched endlessly about "those people", the ones who stay home and suck the teat of the country all their lives but I had a recent epiphany. I work as part of the night shift nursing staff in a rural hospital and we constantly see people come in who are on state run insurance or have no insurance at all. One of my co-workers and I were bitching about the situation one night in the wee hours when my mind was suddenly thrown open and a thought came in which I shared with my compeer. Had I elected to channel my energies after high school into getting on the aforementioned dole rather than in finding a career (code for making somebody else rich through my toils) I could have been on vacation all this time instead of spending the last forty six years partaking of the honor and glory of being a member of the workforce. Additionally we have the pressure of the "two car garage and a two story house" etc but that's a trap that we have been taught to step into. "The things you own end up owning you", Tyler Durden, Fight Club. I no longer believe that there is any honor in the accumulation of wealth and other collectible shit, it's the albatross that gets worn around the neck by agreement and that agreement leads us into a life of voluntary servitude. Best to stay single and own nothing. If you own nothing then that is exactly what you have to lose.

So in the end I guess what I'm blathering about is that while the workers of this society, for the most part, despise those who take the so-called handouts from the government it becomes a question of which of us is really the dummy here. So you get on a few government programs, rent a crappy studio apartment in a questionable neighborhood, do a cash business on the side (tie dyed t-shirts has a nice ring to it) and live for today with reduced concern for the future because the way this country's goin' the days of resorting to cannibalism are maybe just around the next corner.

Quote from: LotsaBadKarma on November 03, 2015, 11:06:10 AM
"Trade in your hours for a handful of dimes." Jim Morrison

Truer words were never spoken. Unfortunately, here in the good ol' US of A, we live in a society that has been described as immoral/cancer capitalist. Our level of success is not viewed through the lens of our job satisfaction or how much happiness we bring to the lives of others through our chosen employment but by how much money we make and how badly we are able to hurt the competition. Companies slash their workforces  due to "budgetary constraints" which I interpret as the top level paraquat and the investors don't think they're making enough money and every job that gets cut just means that the remaining laborers have even more work to do. Sounds like this is what's happening to you.

The other unfortunate thing is that in order to survive in this society where things like health care for all is deemed to be on the border of evil you have to feed the monkey so a job is definitely in order unless you're able to get on the dole. In the past I bitched endlessly about "those people", the ones who stay home and suck the teat of the country all their lives but I had a recent epiphany. I work as part of the night shift nursing staff in a rural hospital and we constantly see people come in who are on state run insurance or have no insurance at all. One of my co-workers and I were bitching about the situation one night in the wee hours when my mind was suddenly thrown open and a thought came in which I shared with my compeer. Had I elected to channel my energies after high school into getting on the aforementioned dole rather than in finding a career (code for making somebody else rich through my toils) I could have been on vacation all this time instead of spending the last forty six years partaking of the honor and glory of being a member of the workforce. Additionally we have the pressure of the "two car garage and a two story house" etc but that's a trap that we have been taught to step into. "The things you own end up owning you", Tyler Durden, Fight Club. I no longer believe that there is any honor in the accumulation of wealth and other collectible shit, it's the albatross that gets worn around the neck by agreement and that agreement leads us into a life of voluntary servitude. Best to stay single and own nothing. If you own nothing then that is exactly what you have to lose.

So in the end I guess what I'm blathering about is that while the workers of this society, for the most part, despise those who take the so-called handouts from the government it becomes a question of which of us is really the dummy here. So you get on a few government programs, rent a crappy studio apartment in a questionable neighborhood, do a cash business on the side (tie dyed t-shirts has a nice ring to it) and live for today with reduced concern for the future because the way this country's goin' the days of resorting to cannibalism are maybe just around the next corner.

Funny. My fellow grocery workers would bitch endlessly about the kinds of folks we'd see coming in here with new Nike shoes and buying food on EBT.

I've never been that guy though. I've always believed if one can take advantage of the system one is a fool not to do it. People forget, even Ayn Rand went on welfare at the end. When people tried to call her out on it, she flat out said "What? I should stick to my principals and starve?" if it's good enough for the founder of Objectivism, it's good enough for any of us.

Unfortunately, one of the conditions of my continued ability to live under my parents roof is I can't abide in such things... Which is fair. It is their home.

I actually landed a pretty sweet job working overnight security at a local college, and the security company I'm working for... well listen, I'm not usually a guy that drinks the corporate Kool-Aid but it so happened their Kool-Aid is grape flavored and I dig its style... So I'm cool doing the company guy thing, at least for the forseeable future. I honestly could not be more happier with my life or feel possibly anymore Dude than I do right now. In like two paychecks, I'll be completely out of debt and that's pretty far out for 26 year old college graduate. In a couple months I can even start my 401K. Just gotta unleash a bit of my inner-walter and give a shit about the rules.

Quote from: Rev Nicholas Rehfeldt on November 04, 2015, 08:04:02 PM
I've always believed if one can take advantage of the system one is a fool not to do it.

The obverse is true, too, though. Anyone paying into (as opposed to benefiting from) that system is a fool to not change it. We've reached the tipping point, however, where there are more benefiting than paying. That has obvious consequences. We're starting to see them. Just not quickly enough.

Quote from: Rev Nicholas Rehfeldt link=topic=6040.msg50421#msg50421
I actually landed a pretty sweet job working overnight security at a local college, and the security company I'm working for... well listen, I'm not usually a guy that drinks the corporate Kool-Aid but it so happened their Kool-Aid is grape flavored and I dig its style... So I'm cool doing the company guy thing, at least for the forseeable future. I honestly could not be more happier with my life or feel possibly anymore Dude than I do right now. In like two paychecks, I'll be completely out of debt and that's pretty far out for 26 year old college graduate. In a couple months I can even start my 401K. Just gotta unleash a bit of my inner-walter and give a shit about the rules. :D

I was legitimately made happy when I read this. Thats great dude! It's such a satisfying feeling when the winds blow your direction. Do what ever you need to do that'll make you happy with the least amount of hard, pointless work!

Quote from: Jianblade on November 04, 2015, 11:23:04 PM

Quote from: Rev Nicholas Rehfeldt link=topic=6040.msg50421#msg50421
I actually landed a pretty sweet job working overnight security at a local college, and the security company I'm working for... well listen, I'm not usually a guy that drinks the corporate Kool-Aid but it so happened their Kool-Aid is grape flavored and I dig its style... So I'm cool doing the company guy thing, at least for the forseeable future. I honestly could not be more happier with my life or feel possibly anymore Dude than I do right now. In like two paychecks, I'll be completely out of debt and that's pretty far out for 26 year old college graduate. In a couple months I can even start my 401K. Just gotta unleash a bit of my inner-walter and give a shit about the rules.

I was legitimately made happy when I read this. Thats great dude! It's such a satisfying feeling when the winds blow your direction. Do what ever you need to do that'll make you happy with the least amount of hard, pointless work!

Thanks Dude.