I used to work in public accounting. Not as bad as Investment banking, but I spent large portions of the year working 70+ hours per week. I agree, not worth the money. I left in January for a cushy WFH email job. Left for same pay but my yearly raises will be smaller and I have less room for advancement. But I do 10 of real work a week, so I'll take it.
What kind if wfh email job? Im in manufacturing engineering rn and trying to transition into wfh that doesn’t require too much technical skills cuz Im kinda moronic. I just want a wfh job where I just zone out in useless meetings and send a couple emails a day
Because they're basically slaves until they quit their job.
There's two anons on this board that do investment banking.
One is a DYEL neurotic mess that is always saying something about retiring in a few years with millions in the bank, and gets irrationally butthurt whenever someone calls him a larper or laughs at him because he thinks he'll make up for his lost youth with money.
The other one is basically a slave of his manager to the point where he worries if wearing something other than a suit after work might offend his boss and projects that everyone around him is a poorgay lmao.
Investment bankers are just slaves of their work, they get chewed up and cope and seethe 24/7.
>wearing something other than a suit will offend his boss
Kek holy shit I remember this homosexual, he got buttblasted after some anon pointed out the guy who owns his ass wears pajamas until noon
Most of my uni professors at law school were also managing their own law firms, working government jobs and making research/science material at the same time. It's the type of people that are reading their clients' case files on christmas morning. Very good and very active lawyers are just a special type of insane.
Lolz, I can barely squeeze out 3-4 hours of productive work per day working an office job for the county government. I just can't handle putting real substantial effort into le work because I need energy left in the evenings to do important things like fishing and making music.
It’s worth it if you understand it’s just the fastest way to front load money in your life. If you knew actually knew anything about investing you’d be able to retire at 35 to invest your 80hr/wk savings and coast for the rest of your life.
You just invest in whatever the government regulates to make money. They ban natural gas and oil and promise subsidies you invest in windmills and batteries. They start a war with iran you invest in lockheed martin. They set the fed fund rate back to 0% you invest in the ponzi scheme tech market and housing.The market isn't real.
I worked a security job earlier this year that was also +80 hours per week. While the money was awesome it was literally work and then sleep. I wish I could find a gig that was +12 hour shifts on Saturdays and sundays and I had the rest of the week to myself.
Black person I work at a LO Hedgefund , I know about investing.
Care to elaborate? Legitimately curious.
everyone on fit is either a software engineer, investment banker, lawyer, or doctor. not sure which one works more though.
I’m a lawyer. I haven’t seen it too often here. I feel like the job used to have more prestige. Before it conjured up images of batemanesque guys driving sportscars and being absolute dickheads. Now I’m not sure what the image is. It had way more glamor when it was a job for high test white males. Btw it sucks
Most lawyers don't make a lot of money. You have to be really good or have really good luck to earn a lot as a lawyer these days, which is ironic considering how hard law school is in most places.
Only good jobs in law these days are govt jobs, which provide stable pay and constant employment regardless of workload.
The prestige associated with a law degree is a boomer meme, a thing of the past.
You'll earn more money and have more luck in the workforce if you just learn a trade and open your own company.
t. lawyer
I just finished my law degree a few weeks ago. There's basically no work for me within a 15 mile radius, and almost all the jobs are minimum wage. I could earn more money by doing construction.
Even public administration doesn't look for lawyers, you'll have better luck landing those jobs with a sociology degree or HR experience.
My life is pain, I don't know what the frick I'm supposed to do and where to look for a job, I looked everywhere at this point.
An IT job near me requires 5yoe and pays $12/hr. That south park episode was right
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Which episode?
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The newest one. It jokes that all the tradesmen are better off now than college boys because we can outsource and ai replace most information jobs now and only physical labor guarantees jobs.
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>we're going back to the times where you have to do slave labour to earn a living
ohohohoho looks like there's going to be a lot of hungry mouths around soon
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Anon you do realize all those "jobs" were fake right? It was just ponzi schemes built up on the 0% interest rates. The MOMENT the federal reserve went to 2% (it is now 5.5%) everybody started firing people.
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Administration, services, law, banking, etc. aren't fake jobs and tradies also get laid off.
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>tradies also get laid off.
I fricking wish. They will keep any useless POS so long as he can swing a hammer.
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Yeah as grunts earning pennies in exchange for a ruined spine and joints at 40 years old.
Are you in the U.S.? I can't speak to non-U.S. lawyers (as I've heard they're all undergrad degrees anyway), but if you're in the U.S. you would have to be remarkably incompetent or unlikeable from a back-alley law school to not have a reasonable job ready within a few months of passing the bar. Shoot, I didn't even go to a t14 or have a ton of connections (I'm here after all) but I worked reasonably hard and had a nice law clerkship lined up within 3 months of my passing the bar.
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>I can't speak to non-U.S. lawyers (as I've heard they're all undergrad degrees anyway)
A law degree in most euro countries is a master's degree.
Equally useless as a chiropractor certificate tho.
Depends on what department they're in. Could be muni bond arbitrage, could be derivatives like options and all that shit, could be FOREX. Money doesn't sleep and neither do investment bankers. Unfortunately, they're insufferable
shit man I used to work 60 hour weeks for lousy pay (like, $15 an hour) and that shit was nowhere near worth the cash I got. Frick, starting from the bottom sucks so much ass.
I used to work in public accounting. Not as bad as Investment banking, but I spent large portions of the year working 70+ hours per week. I agree, not worth the money. I left in January for a cushy WFH email job. Left for same pay but my yearly raises will be smaller and I have less room for advancement. But I do 10 of real work a week, so I'll take it.
serious question. what do you guys actually do for 16 hours a day? make spreadsheets?
I hate working yet I have a neurotic need to work hard for what? the approval of my bosses? Because I never felt the approval of my parents? what ever I don’t even care my life is a hell of my own creation
You can't expect morons like this to appreciate nuances like that.
I have no idea why you're saying the "inflection", tone is tone, it's a well defined word. Inflection is different.
But yes, if you lowered your tone you would be attempting to be the dominant and aggressive person in the conversation. This is a common thing where the dominant person adopts a low tone in a conversation while the uhh... "submissive" I guess person adopts a higher pitch.
>100 hours? They got you doing the easy shift huh, cupcake? I just got out of a 250 unpaid shift of crushing my legs in a hydraulic press. You got soft buttocks, brother.
This kind of profile picture is always paired with comments justifying murder either for brake-checking or hiking on a trail that happens to pass through their 2000 acre unproductive forest property
>comments justifying murder either for brake-checking or hiking on a trail that happens to pass through their 2000 acre unproductive forest property
Ok but are they split 50/50 on israel and palestine or do they support the banker state?
>Lower your tone IST
I feel like the rest of the morons meming this don't realize that lowering your tone means to make your voice deeper, which the opposite of what he wants. He means lower your voice, as in volume, meaning to speak softly, like a b***h, not like a man.
Always love when working class people value the quantity of hours they worked rather than the actual quality of their work. Zoomers can make millions of dollars these days with only twenty hours of work every week while this guy's body will be beat up and rendered unable to move once he becomes 45
>work 90-100 hours a week as a surgeon >own 3 penthouses on 3 different continents and a vacation villa in european ski resort town >large swaths of land again in multiple countries >multiple cars
I abuse substances to get through my days and jack off to trannies daily. My wife is probably cheating on me but who cares. I regret going down this path but my ego won’t let me quit.
Imagine if you were able to quite the substance, stop with fapping to trannies and either leave or fix your broken marriage. You would have everything you need to live your best life.
In the guy's example it seems his wife is alone at home all day, knows her husband is a depraved workaholic which lead her down the path to cheating. Unironically find an autistic girl with functioning parents that serve as her foundation. Best decision i've ever made.
imagine dating someone that works 90-100 hours a week, is an alcoholic and probably cokehead, jerks off to trannies, and is an egotistical homosexual. the fact that she hasn't left and taken half is a testament to her character honestly, he doesn't deserve her
i'm a currently med student and can't imagine the mental illness that makes one want to be a surgeon. sounds like actual hell. money isn't worth all that working
Never understood this mindset. Isn’t the goal to not HAVE to work so hard? Like, earn more money with less hours? Why brag about working MORE hours to earn the same pay as someone who worked less?
I respect hard working men, but there’s more to life than working yourself to the bone.
Then you aren’t really working a consistent 100hr/week then, are you? You might work that for a week or two, but if you do that and have the next month off then what’s the flex?
Also idc how proudly blue collar, old school, cheap beer drinker you are. No one can consistently work 100hr weeks for an extended period of time. You physically need sleep. Everyone does. No amount of telling someone “suck it up, buttercup” takes away from a biological necessity. Only exception is if your job pays you to sleep at work, like firefighters. But if that’s the case then kinda disingenuous to say you work 100hr weeks then.
Depends on where you live. Here it's a matter of x number of hours before a half hour or longer break, with a minimum time between shifts. No restrictions on days in a row worked though.
it's not like I'm clamoring to post about my pathetic job working at a mini putt arcade where I spend the night handing candy to children. All for minimum wage as I live with my parents. If I had a high paying job I'd be posting about it too but the reality is there's more poorgays like me than there are of the richgays.
These kind of homosexuals and prostitutes who humblebrag by saying if you dont X lower your voice are worse than boomers when they say they only had sticks and rocks and jerk offd with their hands full of nails when they were kids. Fricking idiots, its not my fault your life is shit.
I technically work 40 hours a week but I barely do actual work for an hour a day. I logged in almost four hours ago and in this time I've spent like 15 minutes fixing other peoples mistakes from yesterday and then I watched NHL recaps and worked out and now I'm wondering if I should go out to read a book for a while before tennis and snooker start.
Because I'm not some landlocked soft loamy piece of moronic shit that likes to fondle colored balls. I get outside once in awhile but good to know there are other ways to slap balls around on a green table.
I've worked >40 hrs/wk for a moderate pay >70-90 hrs/wk for 3x overtime and 4x weekends bloated pay >4 (maybe?) hrs/wk for a below market pay
So far I VASTLY prefer the latter. It's not even close. NEETs know what's up. There still are corpo jobs that allow you to do this but I'm not giving any tips.
The less I work the happier I am. I get the freedom to >never use the Clock.app >sleep till 11 (occasionally) >do a midday/morning workout (I still prefer the evenings) >never have to commute >never interact with people on the roads/public spaces/shops during peak hours >actually catch some sunlight during the day in these long European winters >etc
It's more valuable to me than some taxed to hell europennies I'll spend anyway to recover from interactions with normies.
This.
I worked a corpo rat job that paid REALLY well for 4 years and decided to quit when I realized I had zero time and energy for myself after work. I was working overtime half the time, regularly had 60 - 80 hour work weeks, which gave me chronic headaches from looking at screens and paperwork all the time and got me hooked on painkillers. At some point I was literally waking up tired after 10 hours of sleep, with eye pain and a headache.
Then got a desk job at my country's border patrol, best decision of my life. I literally get paid for lifting at my workplace gym and I get to train at the shooting range once a week, my job is also 20% fieldwork so I go out for patrols and check stuff with the other sometimes. I almost never exceed 40 hours a week, except for the occasional 12 or 24 hour shift which gives me 3 days off right after. The pay is alright, I got insurance, I don't have to worry about a manager throwing me out because I didn't meet draconian company quotas for the month, I don't feel like a zombie after work and I actually like the people I work with, which is much more important to me than a few extra shekels.
If an anon is reading this - don't waste your life just for a bit of extra money if you're already living comfortably. You'll only look back at your life and be disappointed that you wasted your time and energy working your fingers to the bone for basically nothing in return.
>he needs to work 100 hours per week to just barely make six figures
I work like twenty or thirty hours per week, remote with one or two days of travel, and we probably make a similar amount at the end.
Excuse me?
While you were working your low class job till your bones ache and your body breaks down I was mastering the sword
You lower your tone, mortal
>be me >have ruined and wasted all the important career building years at a worthless wageslave job where I do nothing >literally want to commit suicide every day I go because of how humiliated I am about how I’ve ruined and wasted my working life and thinking about how everyone spent their 20s developing skills, job hopping to get more money and new skills, etc. while I have done nothing >the thought of quitting and doing a job interview terrifies me and I don’t even know where to go or what to do, especially now since I hear about how horrible the job market is after 2 years of “the best job market in history” where I still did nothing >don’t even want some “idealistic” career like a person working from home for an hour a day while making a quarter million dollars a year like everyone on fit has, just want a regular job that I somewhat enjoy or at least don’t feel humiliated going to that takes the hours from the day where I don’t have to feel severely depressed and suicidal like I do now
At this point I’m basically indistinguishable from a person who wasted all of their 20s being a neet. There’s not even any job or career that I even want to do and if there was it wouldn’t matter because I have zero confidence I can do anything requiring any brainpower or responsibility whatsoever. Every day I’m hoping that I drop dead of a heart attack
All you have to do is start in a clerical position and work your way up! I went from assistant to vice president by staying at the company for 36 years. When I got hired in 1987 I was only making $18,000 a year! You kids are complaining about making $30,000 to start??? It's ridiculous. When me and my wife retired we worked HARD our whole lives and EARNED a 1.6 million dollar home. We bought it for $400,000 and sold because we were SMART and HARDWORKING. Kids these days don't want to WORK and keep leaving the company every year. Well let me tell you I did some hiring and I DONT WANT NO JOB HOPPER. You gotta PAY YOUR DUES and wait 5 years before you get promoted or a raise and DON'T YOU EVEN TRY negotiating with me because I'll just fire you on the spot. I EARNED my 3 rental homes we retired with and we were SMART when we signed at 3% interest in 2002. My mortgages on then are only $500 and the rent I charge is $2,100. And don't even THINK it's easy, I have to pay handymen to fix the drier or pull out a tree like once every 3 months on EACH house. Let me tell you covid almost busted me on that rent stuff but we made it through. Still can't believe I fell for that vaccine stuff be me and her got the two plus one booster before we caught it anyway....
Anyway you kids need to learn what HARD WORK IS. I'm glad that there are immigrants who know what it is to work. I can't BELIEVE how lazy you are.
My aunt and uncle are fricking loaded.
They have a multimillion dollar house and they have huge 6 figure pensions because they worked high level jobs in the government
Even so they made my cousin paid rent, and even raised the rent so much he had to move out
Boomers truly are the worst and should all be killed
I'm so glad I had eastern euro gen x parents.
Completely sympathetic to my struggles, allowed me to live rent free in their house as long as I needed (provided I was working or going to school).
I feel bad for the bros that had to endure the boomer wrath.
I heard this homosexual was unironically called for several safety regulations. one of them was literally filming at work also while wearing earbuds. there were other things to but I forgot. now he works 0 hours per week.
>Have comfy office job >Have my own office space, coworkers are in other rooms, in fact they have their own offices aswell >Coworkers are good guys >Work is chill, no stress at all, doing small projects and you can take your time >Can go for a walk during lunch break or play darts with colleagues
I guess I'm blessed with this comfy job, life's alright now
>Comfy office job, not much work >COVID hits, start WFH >Script all my tasks, even easier with chatbots helping write the scripts >Bosses are all mid 40s+. Have no idea my job is vulnerable to automation and are just happy my work is done >2hrs work a week tops for 40 hours pay
>Get second job for accounting firm doing inputting for client time sheets/invoices >Even older bosses, not computer types >Same shit happens, script everything >3 hours work for 40 hours pay
Neither job even involves my in calls anymore.
I've just setup notifications for them when my scripts run so it looks like I'm communicating.
There's a real chance this could last decades.
>working more than 10 hours a week
lmao literally imagine
I beat off during my meetings while wfh
My FIL is literally building his house during the work week
Bros I've been applying for fricking barista jobs, I have 2 years of experience and applied to 15 places, not a single one called me back. Applied at a bunch of clothing stores and shit too, no call backs
>wfh >probably make more than most of you >work maybe 12 hrs a week
but keep telling yourself you're winning. manual laborgays are the human equivalent of a donkey. i'm set to retire by 40. you'll be lucky to not need a cane by 40
>work 40 hours a week >as casual >no benefits >no sick leave >no vacation days >they can fire me for no reason >still went in and did my work well >today i felt extremely sick >shidding and farding and vomiting >still did half a day >tell them i have to go home >they say don't come in tomorrow and they'll call me when they need me
So that's it? Working for that many hours in a manual labour job and when I get sick they just throw me out? Fricking hell
>working a shitty as job >actually competent and take it seriously compared to the others that have burned out >go to the restroom for the first time where I actually have to take a shit >finish up not even that long >get back to my place >hey supervisor wants to see you >huh >'anon are you ok, do you have problems, are you sick, you shouldn't be going to the restroom so much.'
Man frick you. That was the moment I quiet quit.
>work 40 hours a week >as casual >no benefits >no sick leave >no vacation days >they can fire me for no reason >still went in and did my work well >today i felt extremely sick >shidding and farding and vomiting >still did half a day >tell them i have to go home >they say don't come in tomorrow and they'll call me when they need me
So that's it? Working for that many hours in a manual labour job and when I get sick they just throw me out? Fricking hell
>work in the trades as an electrician for 4 years >go in thinking it'll be a great career field and good money with no degree >happy and optimistic >everyone i work with is a depressing c**t >alcoholics, substance abusers, shit marriages and kids, morons at their jobs, shit health >there comes a period you WILL be working 6 days a week, 12 hours/day on every site >you are the company you keep >progress from being happy and optimistic and cynical and jaded >develop an alcohol problem myself >come to realize the more responsibilities i get, the worse life gets >no happy journeyman and sure as shit no happy foremen >quit and take an office job >oh wow people here aren't c**ts and actually nice >it's data analysis for a tradie company >all the techs are morons who love causing internal drama >but i don't have to deal with them lolol
Don't fall for the trades meme. The """people""" are 50% of the reason why the job sucks.
>data analysis on exel
Well at least you have the title on your resume now. I mean there are decent business analysis tools in exel and you can do some optimization with it. But you might want to read a couple books on python and tableau to prepare for the next job.
>But you might want to read a couple books on python and tableau to prepare for the next job.
Way ahead of you, anon. Once I get settled in more I plan on dicking with SQL or Python. The company seems pretty chill and if I could wiggle my way into a salary I like and possible WFH I'd be in heaven. Still, just being able to be in a heated office this time of year is a benefits in itself.
Sql is just part of the stack, you'll want python and then a dashboard of some kind. Get some no starch press books like automate the boring stuff with python and one on data analysis. You might want to read the one on R because it's also a quick statistics rundown
somehow ive found my ideal job. Its only 24 hrs per week, its really easy work and everybody is friendly and kind. I can schedule whatever hours I want on their app (employgig)
>get jealous of how all anons on IST have extremely lucrative white collar careers and are all rich homeowners in "a poor economy and the most oppressive housing market in history", many of which have them while proudly proclaiming how they do little to no work for all their income >wish i could have such a thing as a everyone else here has instead of being an autistic shut-in wageslave wasting and ruining my life where i can't evn be proud or excited to go to work every day >remember that i have absolutely no goals or ambitions, no desire to have a family, no desire to own a home, no desire to save money for traveling, no care whatsoever about retirement, barely ever buy anything outside of food and have no desire for any expensive items at all >lose any chance of motivation i had to improve my lot in life
Congrats, you are now on the same level as the wageslaves or neets larping as techiebros working for bay area money from their comfy home. This is what they want and don't get too discouraged. Ask them for proof and 95% of the time they'll inspect >edit their bank account or provide nothing. Same thing when someone you see criticizes someone else and doesn't post their body. It's just shitposting and demoralization all the way down.
I will tell you that objectively your life will literally not get better if you don't try to make it better though.
Most of those posts are LARPs. Every anon is a white collar gigachad working for 250k+ a year with an 8 inch dick on IST, but when they snap back to reality, they're just some wagecuck earning less than 100k with a 5.5 inch dick that they measure by pushing a ruler into their belly, daydreaming about the life that they don't have.
If you never have to worry about putting food on the table and whether you'll have a roof over your head and you don't have to count money for your simple pleasures in life, then you're doing better than 90% of humans unironically.
>guy i knew who worked 100 hours a week dies of heart attack while on the job
Don't overwork
Frick this shit, you can't bring your material posessions in Heaven
>people say not to idolise tyler durden >he's the one that says you are not your job, you are not your possessions
now that REALLY activates my almonds
Any tradies do this? >bust ass work hard taking every bit of overtime that I can get, easily pass 60 hours a week >save all that extra money >1-3 months out of the year don’t work, just vacation/travel and relax, barely burn through any of my savings due to all the OT, still able to grow it further each year
I hate working but I don’t have much choice. I did notice most guys frown upon this and consider it lazy but I think that’s more an envy thing and having to do with the moronic mindset of how it’s actually a good thing to slave away for someone else how it’s a bragging point to say you’ve had no days off for the last 5 years. Frick that, if I have to work for the next 50 years I’m going to take advantage of this opportunity to be able to relax and enjoy some of my time.
I frick your wife for 68 hours a week
Good morning sirs
Damn. That's crazy. I make $85k and do an honest 12 hours of work per week.
It's the apple macintosh team shirt from the 80s
Bet the shareholders are very proud of him
I used to work 80hrs average when I was an investment banker. The money isn't worth it.
Really?
Yes, neurotic seniors and clients.
Life was hell.
No I made it up
I used to work in public accounting. Not as bad as Investment banking, but I spent large portions of the year working 70+ hours per week. I agree, not worth the money. I left in January for a cushy WFH email job. Left for same pay but my yearly raises will be smaller and I have less room for advancement. But I do 10 of real work a week, so I'll take it.
Big 4?
It's basically your life.
What kind if wfh email job? Im in manufacturing engineering rn and trying to transition into wfh that doesn’t require too much technical skills cuz Im kinda moronic. I just want a wfh job where I just zone out in useless meetings and send a couple emails a day
Why do investment bankers never shut up about how many hours they work
>Why do investment bankers never shut up about how many hours they work
Because it's the only thing they have for the first 10-15 years.
Because they're basically slaves until they quit their job.
There's two anons on this board that do investment banking.
One is a DYEL neurotic mess that is always saying something about retiring in a few years with millions in the bank, and gets irrationally butthurt whenever someone calls him a larper or laughs at him because he thinks he'll make up for his lost youth with money.
The other one is basically a slave of his manager to the point where he worries if wearing something other than a suit after work might offend his boss and projects that everyone around him is a poorgay lmao.
Investment bankers are just slaves of their work, they get chewed up and cope and seethe 24/7.
>wearing something other than a suit will offend his boss
Kek holy shit I remember this homosexual, he got buttblasted after some anon pointed out the guy who owns his ass wears pajamas until noon
to make up for how fraudulent their job is
I used to be a lawyer, same. Maybe if you make enough to retire in your 30s or buy a house or something, but it's not a long-term career.
Most of my uni professors at law school were also managing their own law firms, working government jobs and making research/science material at the same time. It's the type of people that are reading their clients' case files on christmas morning. Very good and very active lawyers are just a special type of insane.
They taking adderall or what?
No, they're just insane.
Every investment banker is on adderall.
I once had to spend all day Christmas working on a motion, and that was when I realized I needed a new career
Lolz, I can barely squeeze out 3-4 hours of productive work per day working an office job for the county government. I just can't handle putting real substantial effort into le work because I need energy left in the evenings to do important things like fishing and making music.
It’s worth it if you understand it’s just the fastest way to front load money in your life. If you knew actually knew anything about investing you’d be able to retire at 35 to invest your 80hr/wk savings and coast for the rest of your life.
Black person I work at a LO Hedgefund , I know about investing.
homie you are a banker. If you were an investor worth a shit you wouldn’t count money for the big boys.
You just invest in whatever the government regulates to make money. They ban natural gas and oil and promise subsidies you invest in windmills and batteries. They start a war with iran you invest in lockheed martin. They set the fed fund rate back to 0% you invest in the ponzi scheme tech market and housing.The market isn't real.
I worked a security job earlier this year that was also +80 hours per week. While the money was awesome it was literally work and then sleep. I wish I could find a gig that was +12 hour shifts on Saturdays and sundays and I had the rest of the week to myself.
What negative effects did it have on your health anon? At least I assume it would.
Care to elaborate? Legitimately curious.
I’m a lawyer. I haven’t seen it too often here. I feel like the job used to have more prestige. Before it conjured up images of batemanesque guys driving sportscars and being absolute dickheads. Now I’m not sure what the image is. It had way more glamor when it was a job for high test white males. Btw it sucks
I associate lawyers with female prostitutes
Most lawyers don't make a lot of money. You have to be really good or have really good luck to earn a lot as a lawyer these days, which is ironic considering how hard law school is in most places.
Only good jobs in law these days are govt jobs, which provide stable pay and constant employment regardless of workload.
The prestige associated with a law degree is a boomer meme, a thing of the past.
You'll earn more money and have more luck in the workforce if you just learn a trade and open your own company.
t. lawyer
>Only good jobs in law these days are govt jobs,
It's like this in every field at this point
I just finished my law degree a few weeks ago. There's basically no work for me within a 15 mile radius, and almost all the jobs are minimum wage. I could earn more money by doing construction.
Even public administration doesn't look for lawyers, you'll have better luck landing those jobs with a sociology degree or HR experience.
My life is pain, I don't know what the frick I'm supposed to do and where to look for a job, I looked everywhere at this point.
An IT job near me requires 5yoe and pays $12/hr. That south park episode was right
Which episode?
The newest one. It jokes that all the tradesmen are better off now than college boys because we can outsource and ai replace most information jobs now and only physical labor guarantees jobs.
>we're going back to the times where you have to do slave labour to earn a living
ohohohoho looks like there's going to be a lot of hungry mouths around soon
Anon you do realize all those "jobs" were fake right? It was just ponzi schemes built up on the 0% interest rates. The MOMENT the federal reserve went to 2% (it is now 5.5%) everybody started firing people.
Administration, services, law, banking, etc. aren't fake jobs and tradies also get laid off.
>tradies also get laid off.
I fricking wish. They will keep any useless POS so long as he can swing a hammer.
Yeah as grunts earning pennies in exchange for a ruined spine and joints at 40 years old.
hold the pickles, extra mayo
Are you in the U.S.? I can't speak to non-U.S. lawyers (as I've heard they're all undergrad degrees anyway), but if you're in the U.S. you would have to be remarkably incompetent or unlikeable from a back-alley law school to not have a reasonable job ready within a few months of passing the bar. Shoot, I didn't even go to a t14 or have a ton of connections (I'm here after all) but I worked reasonably hard and had a nice law clerkship lined up within 3 months of my passing the bar.
>I can't speak to non-U.S. lawyers (as I've heard they're all undergrad degrees anyway)
A law degree in most euro countries is a master's degree.
Equally useless as a chiropractor certificate tho.
What do you even do during those 80 hours? Bang hookers and do coke? Like what do you actually do
"Muh numbers" yes what do you do with the numbers, WHAT YOU FRICKING DO
Depends on what department they're in. Could be muni bond arbitrage, could be derivatives like options and all that shit, could be FOREX. Money doesn't sleep and neither do investment bankers. Unfortunately, they're insufferable
It's funny, investment bankers in London work such long hours for no extra pay that on average they barely earn more than minimum wage.
shit man I used to work 60 hour weeks for lousy pay (like, $15 an hour) and that shit was nowhere near worth the cash I got. Frick, starting from the bottom sucks so much ass.
serious question. what do you guys actually do for 16 hours a day? make spreadsheets?
his boss got a brand new lambo!
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Yeah I miss tumblr screenshot threads. That was soulful.
>proud slave
>not working 200 hours of unpaid shift
Soft hands, brother
You got soft hands
i would burst out laughing at such moron.
Very IST thread homosexual.
this guy killed his girlfriend
Sounds like somebody didn't lower their tone...
yeah didn't this wagie snap? Makes sense that a wage doing that to himself would snap.
Unless you spend 168 hours a week locked up, lower your tone when talking at me.
Imagine working 100 hours a week just to get cheated on
What happened?
He killed his girlfriend
>about a hour’s drive
Fricking texas
Why couldn't she just lower her tone?
heh
She probably didn't lower her tone.
Deserved. Fricking high tone b***h.
>blue collar
>DWI
>truck
the unholy trinity
Date the coal shoveler, pay the toll, governor.
You'd have to be moronic not to expect it.
link on the story?
I hate working yet I have a neurotic need to work hard for what? the approval of my bosses? Because I never felt the approval of my parents? what ever I don’t even care my life is a hell of my own creation
Seek a therapist and read "No More Mr. Nice Guy"
Shouldnt it be lower your volume? Tone is like the inflection not the loudness?
Autism
You can't expect morons like this to appreciate nuances like that.
I have no idea why you're saying the "inflection", tone is tone, it's a well defined word. Inflection is different.
But yes, if you lowered your tone you would be attempting to be the dominant and aggressive person in the conversation. This is a common thing where the dominant person adopts a low tone in a conversation while the uhh... "submissive" I guess person adopts a higher pitch.
lower your treble and bass frequencies when talking to me
A good goy
I am a complete victim. I am a complete slave.
Pic related is me btw
fricking lost
saved
old school lel
>lower your tome
10/10
Top zozzle
>100 hours? They got you doing the easy shift huh, cupcake? I just got out of a 250 unpaid shift of crushing my legs in a hydraulic press. You got soft buttocks, brother.
what piece of genetic code compells the american to put on sunglasses and take a selfie in their truck to use as their social media profile picture?
It's a tough guy thing and the seed of inspiration was shows like American Chopper and the like. Side effect of the electric israelite not built-in
>le new generations buy starbucks thats y they can't afford houses: the aesthetics
This kind of profile picture is always paired with comments justifying murder either for brake-checking or hiking on a trail that happens to pass through their 2000 acre unproductive forest property
>comments justifying murder either for brake-checking or hiking on a trail that happens to pass through their 2000 acre unproductive forest property
Ok but are they split 50/50 on israel and palestine or do they support the banker state?
Hard support for Israel
>Our greatest ally
>LIBTARDS
>Trump gonna win in 2024
>Joos are the chosen people
>Greatest ally
>muh Ford F150
>Black personball
...
???
>lives in a suburb
Imagine wasting your life to make money for someone else and having your heart give out at 50 and thinking you're better than anyone.
The guy whose life strategy involved voluntary slavery wants me to talk to him like a person?
>Lower your tone IST
I feel like the rest of the morons meming this don't realize that lowering your tone means to make your voice deeper, which the opposite of what he wants. He means lower your voice, as in volume, meaning to speak softly, like a b***h, not like a man.
He got arrested btw
>I give my life to Mr. Sheklestien and I'm damn proud
What a moron
what is "lowering your tone". native speaker here
Always love when working class people value the quantity of hours they worked rather than the actual quality of their work. Zoomers can make millions of dollars these days with only twenty hours of work every week while this guy's body will be beat up and rendered unable to move once he becomes 45
>Zoomers can make millions of dollars these days with only twenty hours of work every week
how
onlyfans, mostly
1. Put a head in a toilet in gmod
2. Make a video about it
3. Gen alpha loves it
4. ...
5. Profit
>work 90-100 hours a week as a surgeon
>own 3 penthouses on 3 different continents and a vacation villa in european ski resort town
>large swaths of land again in multiple countries
>multiple cars
I abuse substances to get through my days and jack off to trannies daily. My wife is probably cheating on me but who cares. I regret going down this path but my ego won’t let me quit.
Imagine if you were able to quite the substance, stop with fapping to trannies and either leave or fix your broken marriage. You would have everything you need to live your best life.
The working 90-100 hours per week is the root cause of the rest of that shit. He won't be able to fix anything until he fixes that first.
Why do you homies attract cheating wives? How do i avoid cheating wive
In the guy's example it seems his wife is alone at home all day, knows her husband is a depraved workaholic which lead her down the path to cheating. Unironically find an autistic girl with functioning parents that serve as her foundation. Best decision i've ever made.
imagine dating someone that works 90-100 hours a week, is an alcoholic and probably cokehead, jerks off to trannies, and is an egotistical homosexual. the fact that she hasn't left and taken half is a testament to her character honestly, he doesn't deserve her
i'm a currently med student and can't imagine the mental illness that makes one want to be a surgeon. sounds like actual hell. money isn't worth all that working
Timestamp from penthouse or larp
>another thread for everyone on fit to brag about being millionaires while working 2 hours a week
i hate this fricking place.
Back to work wagie. Nobody fricking cares
Never understood this mindset. Isn’t the goal to not HAVE to work so hard? Like, earn more money with less hours? Why brag about working MORE hours to earn the same pay as someone who worked less?
I respect hard working men, but there’s more to life than working yourself to the bone.
You can work 6 months a year with this grind.
Then you aren’t really working a consistent 100hr/week then, are you? You might work that for a week or two, but if you do that and have the next month off then what’s the flex?
Also idc how proudly blue collar, old school, cheap beer drinker you are. No one can consistently work 100hr weeks for an extended period of time. You physically need sleep. Everyone does. No amount of telling someone “suck it up, buttercup” takes away from a biological necessity. Only exception is if your job pays you to sleep at work, like firefighters. But if that’s the case then kinda disingenuous to say you work 100hr weeks then.
>Then you aren’t really working a consistent 100hr/week then, are you?
Legally you cannot work longer than 20-22 days straight.
Depends on where you live. Here it's a matter of x number of hours before a half hour or longer break, with a minimum time between shifts. No restrictions on days in a row worked though.
What third world country do you live in?
everyone on fit is either a software engineer, investment banker, lawyer, or doctor. not sure which one works more though.
it's not like I'm clamoring to post about my pathetic job working at a mini putt arcade where I spend the night handing candy to children. All for minimum wage as I live with my parents. If I had a high paying job I'd be posting about it too but the reality is there's more poorgays like me than there are of the richgays.
What is it with tradie morons bragging about how much they work? Frick work, I do as little as possible
These kind of homosexuals and prostitutes who humblebrag by saying if you dont X lower your voice are worse than boomers when they say they only had sticks and rocks and jerk offd with their hands full of nails when they were kids. Fricking idiots, its not my fault your life is shit.
HAHAHAHAHA work harder wagie
Holy shit this one is underrated as frick
10/10 anon lmao
I work 0 hours a week 🙁
>I'm moronic on purpose, where is my respect???
americans
>Makes every effort to make his boss money chucks him
>Le man
I technically work 40 hours a week but I barely do actual work for an hour a day. I logged in almost four hours ago and in this time I've spent like 15 minutes fixing other peoples mistakes from yesterday and then I watched NHL recaps and worked out and now I'm wondering if I should go out to read a book for a while before tennis and snooker start.
What the frick is snooker?
It's a white male thing, you wouldn't get it.
I'm a white male so feel free to enlighten me
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snooker
Play pool. Got it
How the frick do you not know what snooker is.
Because I'm not some landlocked soft loamy piece of moronic shit that likes to fondle colored balls. I get outside once in awhile but good to know there are other ways to slap balls around on a green table.
less than 100 hours a week
*fewer
I call bullshit on the "Muh 80 hours weeeeek!" larp ITT
What do you even do, you don't do anything. You look at a graph filled with RNG numbers.
Runescape players work harder than you.
I've worked
>40 hrs/wk for a moderate pay
>70-90 hrs/wk for 3x overtime and 4x weekends bloated pay
>4 (maybe?) hrs/wk for a below market pay
So far I VASTLY prefer the latter. It's not even close. NEETs know what's up. There still are corpo jobs that allow you to do this but I'm not giving any tips.
The less I work the happier I am. I get the freedom to
>never use the Clock.app
>sleep till 11 (occasionally)
>do a midday/morning workout (I still prefer the evenings)
>never have to commute
>never interact with people on the roads/public spaces/shops during peak hours
>actually catch some sunlight during the day in these long European winters
>etc
It's more valuable to me than some taxed to hell europennies I'll spend anyway to recover from interactions with normies.
This.
I worked a corpo rat job that paid REALLY well for 4 years and decided to quit when I realized I had zero time and energy for myself after work. I was working overtime half the time, regularly had 60 - 80 hour work weeks, which gave me chronic headaches from looking at screens and paperwork all the time and got me hooked on painkillers. At some point I was literally waking up tired after 10 hours of sleep, with eye pain and a headache.
Then got a desk job at my country's border patrol, best decision of my life. I literally get paid for lifting at my workplace gym and I get to train at the shooting range once a week, my job is also 20% fieldwork so I go out for patrols and check stuff with the other sometimes. I almost never exceed 40 hours a week, except for the occasional 12 or 24 hour shift which gives me 3 days off right after. The pay is alright, I got insurance, I don't have to worry about a manager throwing me out because I didn't meet draconian company quotas for the month, I don't feel like a zombie after work and I actually like the people I work with, which is much more important to me than a few extra shekels.
If an anon is reading this - don't waste your life just for a bit of extra money if you're already living comfortably. You'll only look back at your life and be disappointed that you wasted your time and energy working your fingers to the bone for basically nothing in return.
>If you refuse to get taken advantage of by your work place lower your tone when talking to me
>he needs to work 100 hours per week to just barely make six figures
I work like twenty or thirty hours per week, remote with one or two days of travel, and we probably make a similar amount at the end.
only asian kid slaves work that much
Excuse me?
While you were working your low class job till your bones ache and your body breaks down I was mastering the sword
You lower your tone, mortal
>be me
>have ruined and wasted all the important career building years at a worthless wageslave job where I do nothing
>literally want to commit suicide every day I go because of how humiliated I am about how I’ve ruined and wasted my working life and thinking about how everyone spent their 20s developing skills, job hopping to get more money and new skills, etc. while I have done nothing
>the thought of quitting and doing a job interview terrifies me and I don’t even know where to go or what to do, especially now since I hear about how horrible the job market is after 2 years of “the best job market in history” where I still did nothing
>don’t even want some “idealistic” career like a person working from home for an hour a day while making a quarter million dollars a year like everyone on fit has, just want a regular job that I somewhat enjoy or at least don’t feel humiliated going to that takes the hours from the day where I don’t have to feel severely depressed and suicidal like I do now
At this point I’m basically indistinguishable from a person who wasted all of their 20s being a neet. There’s not even any job or career that I even want to do and if there was it wouldn’t matter because I have zero confidence I can do anything requiring any brainpower or responsibility whatsoever. Every day I’m hoping that I drop dead of a heart attack
All you have to do is start in a clerical position and work your way up! I went from assistant to vice president by staying at the company for 36 years. When I got hired in 1987 I was only making $18,000 a year! You kids are complaining about making $30,000 to start??? It's ridiculous. When me and my wife retired we worked HARD our whole lives and EARNED a 1.6 million dollar home. We bought it for $400,000 and sold because we were SMART and HARDWORKING. Kids these days don't want to WORK and keep leaving the company every year. Well let me tell you I did some hiring and I DONT WANT NO JOB HOPPER. You gotta PAY YOUR DUES and wait 5 years before you get promoted or a raise and DON'T YOU EVEN TRY negotiating with me because I'll just fire you on the spot. I EARNED my 3 rental homes we retired with and we were SMART when we signed at 3% interest in 2002. My mortgages on then are only $500 and the rent I charge is $2,100. And don't even THINK it's easy, I have to pay handymen to fix the drier or pull out a tree like once every 3 months on EACH house. Let me tell you covid almost busted me on that rent stuff but we made it through. Still can't believe I fell for that vaccine stuff be me and her got the two plus one booster before we caught it anyway....
Anyway you kids need to learn what HARD WORK IS. I'm glad that there are immigrants who know what it is to work. I can't BELIEVE how lazy you are.
I fricking hate boomers so much bros
Truly the most selfish generation
My aunt and uncle are fricking loaded.
They have a multimillion dollar house and they have huge 6 figure pensions because they worked high level jobs in the government
Even so they made my cousin paid rent, and even raised the rent so much he had to move out
Boomers truly are the worst and should all be killed
Government workers don't have real jobs. Parasites.
No that's NEETS
Cope welfare queen
I know this is satire and all but there are actually millions of boomers who think like this
Day of the diverse staff nursing home
Boomers really destroyed the system for all future generations so they could profit in the moment, truly the worst people
I'm so glad I had eastern euro gen x parents.
Completely sympathetic to my struggles, allowed me to live rent free in their house as long as I needed (provided I was working or going to school).
I feel bad for the bros that had to endure the boomer wrath.
I literally work for this guy, except he also inherited his position from another family member
Jealous of this guy. He could drop out of society at any time with his massive savings.
>tfw i work 35h a week and union wants to lower it to 32 with the same pay.
>tfw i only work like 10 of those 35hours.
>tfw if i do overtime i get 25% more pay
I heard this homosexual was unironically called for several safety regulations. one of them was literally filming at work also while wearing earbuds. there were other things to but I forgot. now he works 0 hours per week.
>Have comfy office job
>Have my own office space, coworkers are in other rooms, in fact they have their own offices aswell
>Coworkers are good guys
>Work is chill, no stress at all, doing small projects and you can take your time
>Can go for a walk during lunch break or play darts with colleagues
I guess I'm blessed with this comfy job, life's alright now
>Comfy office job, not much work
>COVID hits, start WFH
>Script all my tasks, even easier with chatbots helping write the scripts
>Bosses are all mid 40s+. Have no idea my job is vulnerable to automation and are just happy my work is done
>2hrs work a week tops for 40 hours pay
>Get second job for accounting firm doing inputting for client time sheets/invoices
>Even older bosses, not computer types
>Same shit happens, script everything
>3 hours work for 40 hours pay
Neither job even involves my in calls anymore.
I've just setup notifications for them when my scripts run so it looks like I'm communicating.
There's a real chance this could last decades.
Gonna use the money to learn to sail next year.
>le programmer automates his job ez pz and gets paid to do nothing all day
I hear this so fricking often. I hate this shit.
It's true and does happen, my friend does it but you have to get lucky. 80% of those posts are neets larping anyway so take solace in that.
>working more than 10 hours a week
lmao literally imagine
I beat off during my meetings while wfh
My FIL is literally building his house during the work week
Bros I've been applying for fricking barista jobs, I have 2 years of experience and applied to 15 places, not a single one called me back. Applied at a bunch of clothing stores and shit too, no call backs
shouldn't you be working and not on tiktok homosexual?
i would rather kill myself than work more than 36 hours a week
I used to work 70 hours a week as a nurse. Now i work 32 and make more money
>wfh
>probably make more than most of you
>work maybe 12 hrs a week
but keep telling yourself you're winning. manual laborgays are the human equivalent of a donkey. i'm set to retire by 40. you'll be lucky to not need a cane by 40
Are you a time traveler from 2 years ago?
>work 40 hours a week
>as casual
>no benefits
>no sick leave
>no vacation days
>they can fire me for no reason
>still went in and did my work well
>today i felt extremely sick
>shidding and farding and vomiting
>still did half a day
>tell them i have to go home
>they say don't come in tomorrow and they'll call me when they need me
So that's it? Working for that many hours in a manual labour job and when I get sick they just throw me out? Fricking hell
>working a shitty as job
>actually competent and take it seriously compared to the others that have burned out
>go to the restroom for the first time where I actually have to take a shit
>finish up not even that long
>get back to my place
>hey supervisor wants to see you
>huh
>'anon are you ok, do you have problems, are you sick, you shouldn't be going to the restroom so much.'
Man frick you. That was the moment I quiet quit.
Tell them your coming in for your normal hours and if they have a problem with it they can fire you. Swing your dick around a bit anon.
Yeah you need to learn to talk back.
why is that wall made out of a weaved basket?
yeah why? got tired of your higher ups yelling at you all the time? get back to work b***h you got shit to do
>work in the trades as an electrician for 4 years
>go in thinking it'll be a great career field and good money with no degree
>happy and optimistic
>everyone i work with is a depressing c**t
>alcoholics, substance abusers, shit marriages and kids, morons at their jobs, shit health
>there comes a period you WILL be working 6 days a week, 12 hours/day on every site
>you are the company you keep
>progress from being happy and optimistic and cynical and jaded
>develop an alcohol problem myself
>come to realize the more responsibilities i get, the worse life gets
>no happy journeyman and sure as shit no happy foremen
>quit and take an office job
>oh wow people here aren't c**ts and actually nice
>it's data analysis for a tradie company
>all the techs are morons who love causing internal drama
>but i don't have to deal with them lolol
Don't fall for the trades meme. The """people""" are 50% of the reason why the job sucks.
You don't fall backwards into a data analytics position anon
Like I said, it's for a tradie company. The bosses are boomers who said, and I quote:
>if ya wanna learn excel, watch some tiktoks
>data analysis on exel
Well at least you have the title on your resume now. I mean there are decent business analysis tools in exel and you can do some optimization with it. But you might want to read a couple books on python and tableau to prepare for the next job.
>But you might want to read a couple books on python and tableau to prepare for the next job.
Way ahead of you, anon. Once I get settled in more I plan on dicking with SQL or Python. The company seems pretty chill and if I could wiggle my way into a salary I like and possible WFH I'd be in heaven. Still, just being able to be in a heated office this time of year is a benefits in itself.
Sql is just part of the stack, you'll want python and then a dashboard of some kind. Get some no starch press books like automate the boring stuff with python and one on data analysis. You might want to read the one on R because it's also a quick statistics rundown
Ty fren.
WORK 100 HOURS AND THEN SCREAM AT ME
somehow ive found my ideal job. Its only 24 hrs per week, its really easy work and everybody is friendly and kind. I can schedule whatever hours I want on their app (employgig)
oh and its well paid and the supervisors dont really know their ass from their elbow and just leave you alone all day.
What is this weird american thing of making fun of food workers but at the same time using their services?
>get jealous of how all anons on IST have extremely lucrative white collar careers and are all rich homeowners in "a poor economy and the most oppressive housing market in history", many of which have them while proudly proclaiming how they do little to no work for all their income
>wish i could have such a thing as a everyone else here has instead of being an autistic shut-in wageslave wasting and ruining my life where i can't evn be proud or excited to go to work every day
>remember that i have absolutely no goals or ambitions, no desire to have a family, no desire to own a home, no desire to save money for traveling, no care whatsoever about retirement, barely ever buy anything outside of food and have no desire for any expensive items at all
>lose any chance of motivation i had to improve my lot in life
Congrats, you are now on the same level as the wageslaves or neets larping as techiebros working for bay area money from their comfy home. This is what they want and don't get too discouraged. Ask them for proof and 95% of the time they'll inspect >edit their bank account or provide nothing. Same thing when someone you see criticizes someone else and doesn't post their body. It's just shitposting and demoralization all the way down.
I will tell you that objectively your life will literally not get better if you don't try to make it better though.
The stories and information posted here are falsehood. Only a fool would take the information here as fact.
Most of those posts are LARPs. Every anon is a white collar gigachad working for 250k+ a year with an 8 inch dick on IST, but when they snap back to reality, they're just some wagecuck earning less than 100k with a 5.5 inch dick that they measure by pushing a ruler into their belly, daydreaming about the life that they don't have.
If you never have to worry about putting food on the table and whether you'll have a roof over your head and you don't have to count money for your simple pleasures in life, then you're doing better than 90% of humans unironically.
>ah yes I love being a wage slave
>guy i knew who worked 100 hours a week dies of heart attack while on the job
Don't overwork
Frick this shit, you can't bring your material posessions in Heaven
>people say not to idolise tyler durden
>he's the one that says you are not your job, you are not your possessions
now that REALLY activates my almonds
you missed the point by idolizing him chud!
i work 70 a week plus school mainly because I am awful at managing free time and genuinely get more done without it.
Very punchable face
I've been working every day for 12 hours a week since march. Not worth it. The money is good but I feel my life draining away.
Any tradies do this?
>bust ass work hard taking every bit of overtime that I can get, easily pass 60 hours a week
>save all that extra money
>1-3 months out of the year don’t work, just vacation/travel and relax, barely burn through any of my savings due to all the OT, still able to grow it further each year
I hate working but I don’t have much choice. I did notice most guys frown upon this and consider it lazy but I think that’s more an envy thing and having to do with the moronic mindset of how it’s actually a good thing to slave away for someone else how it’s a bragging point to say you’ve had no days off for the last 5 years. Frick that, if I have to work for the next 50 years I’m going to take advantage of this opportunity to be able to relax and enjoy some of my time.