>>34854354
Yeah you're right she should have just kept doing stuff that didn't pay well or make her happy because of the sunk cost of her degree.
You're also completely right that automation won't replace experts or even reduce the number of openings at all. I've never heard of a company reducing headcount to save money.
You're also dead on that laws on AI will never change at all, that never happens for a developing technology and never will.
I'll tell her to drop out of her nursing program since you've convinced me so well, thanks anon.

>>34854361
>Don't get a new major nigga, get a masters if you must.
It would be just a masters, yes.
>Your "nepowork" is small but a network is just calling random people and asking for referrals.
How does that even work? You just go on LinkedIn and spamming people?

>>34854390
Unironically yeah. I had an undergrad student at my alma mater that I'd never met reach out to me. I talked to him on the phone and gave him some advice, and he seemed smart enough so I recommended him for an internship at my company and he ended up getting it.

>>34854383
Yeah, you can be an asshole and disregard everything I said as shittalk. Clinical work is shit. It's a shit lifestyle, your gf will ride a train of dicks behind your back, will suffer a shit ton of abuse and workplace politics bullshit. I wouldn't recommend anyone but the most poorshit to do that blue collar shit, and that includes becoming a doctor. You can only thrive in those fields if you have a degree of psychopathy to dismiss the suffering, to enforce hierarchy and to whitstand the physical wear of irregular sleep.

And you have a wrong scope about the role of AI. Yeah it's a new tool, but someone will always be there performing the procedure. Companies will lobby to never be responsibilized by AI conclusions (AI can make mistakes, remember?), It will always be a human who takes the blame for it. As I said, yeah it's a good job. Performing audiometry is the same, you just plot a graph. Performing nerve conduction tests the same, they're not big science, yet only experts are allowed to perform them
I recommend physiotherapy as a more active kind of work with patient interaction.

Anyways, whatever suits her best. All I'm telling you is I'd rather not do clinic work ever again. If her dream is to become an 80h workweek maid who gives injections, she should pursue it.

>>34854348
>>34854266
SUNY Maritime and I think Texas Maritime have master's degree programs to become a Third Mate in two years. Assuming you're in the United States, that is. Loans would easily be paid off in a couple years of sailing if this interests you. Not the best job for a family man but a great job for a traveller.

Five years.
3 years you start showing signs.

Sanity, possibly forever. Language and communication skill, deteriorates after a few years. Upkeep of hygiene and health, in my experience, only a few days.

>>34854294
This. Try to sing songs and rehearse speeches or something, or talk on VR chat. If you don't use your voice you will start thinking less quickly, as you age these problems become less and less reversible, starting at 30.

>>34854279
what drives you crazy is other people. you'll be fine.
https://rumble.com/v4qz6rl-the-evil-of-the-world-is-what-makes-you-crazy.html?e9s=src_v1_cbl%2Csrc_v1_ucp_v

>>34854284
I've been talking to myself ever since I was a kid. What does that mean?

>>34847107
You're likely eating too much fiber, then.

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>>34847113
I bought some lentils, oats and leafy greens. Gonna make a sausage and lentil meal prep tomorrow using a recipe I found.
https://dishingouthealth.com/sausage-and-lentils/
Right now I'm eating cereal. My asshole is still aching but there's no blood at all. I cleaned pretty thoroughly down there with some of those flushable wipes.
God damn. I've taken monster shits before but I've never been this fucked up by one lol. Seriously felt like I was shitting a fat salami made of broken pine cones.
Thank you for the advice lads.
I'll keep piling on fibre. Haven't shat since but hopefully it was just a one time cursed dump.

>>34847180
>>34846986
Thanks for sharing, sounds like some serious shit. jk I hope you feel better, you are probably fine. Imo sounds like dehydration. poo gets hard and full of rough cracks when you are dehydrated.

>>34846986
Hermerhoid hermorrhoid whatever bleeding ripped asshole

lucus paw paw ointment or equivalent
works on cuts works on everything

>>34850430
That's the biggest pile of shit I've ever seen.

>>34845731
What the fuck is this shit?!

Now every time I go make a google search, I have to solve one of those annoying fucking picture captchas.

And they don't even work half the time when I select the right fucking pictures.

This is some grade A level bull shit man. Why the fuck is google doing this shit?

>>34845731
vpn?

>>34854759
Got any good free ones?

>>34854759
Actually you know what, now that I think about it, knowing Google, they probably know all the IPs of all the major VPNs, and Tor obviously, and will 100% do the "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot" thing on those.

>>34853645
You can still do the setting up family shite whilst in your worse financial state and well you're probably less of a manchild if you're doing more work than them

>>34853819
Oh okay I was wrong about one thing so you can disregard my entire post. You should always feel jealous of everyone for everything and be miserable all the time, my bad.

>>34853437
When you think of being envious of someone, be happy for them instead. Everybody can't be rich. So be happy someone is rich. And having rich friends is useful, perhaps you can use him to network and some money will splash your way. Instead of being immature and alienating him.
Or find some kind of weird pride in being not-rich. It seems to work for many people.

>>34853437
If he's your ACTUAL friend you'd be happy for his good fortune. There's no point in being mad that others have more stuff than you, it doesn't change your situation. Your friends doing good means you have a good social safety net, because friends help eachother.

You want to be jealous of people, be jealous of the people who make more money playing videogames on stream than you will in law.

But more importantly, money is far from everything. You're a self-conscious faggot about it because you're still a child, a life well lived >>> money. As long as you have enough to have a roof over your head, food, air conditioning and videogames, life is good.

kill your parents since they failed to provide for you

>>34854469
so you don't mind losing the job if something goes wrong?
perfect. take a deep breath and some perspective. They need you? So basically you are the one making money for them?

practice some calm confidence. You have the upper hand in the situation. you can dictate the rules. Meet the boss, tell him you will not stand this environment any longer. If they want to keep you, they have to do this, this and that.
it's a win/win. either your stance will have them open their eyes and realise they need to treat you and the company better or you will leave the shitty job and find a better one

>>34854748
Only thing that worries me about that is getting a reference for future jobs, just thinking worst case scenario and I do get fired

>>34854766
well, what kind of job is it?
you don't need to do it in a confrontational style. just politely come to the boss with "i can't take it much longer, i feel horribly bad" then explain how much stress you get from functioning in a chaotic environment that they maintain and offer/ask for solutions. if they can't be introduced, you bow politely, thank for all the good times and go take care of your mental health

>>34854786
I work in IT

I think I might tell them I only want to focus on absolutely essential things and everything else can go to shit. Then if they start behaving badly towards me I'll just leave

>>34854824
meh, IT can get a job anywhere in the world and going full remote is totally doable, i see no issues. also, nobody gives a fuck about your references,just show what you can do during the interview. idk man, this doesn't sound like an issue

>>34853180
go see the band again retard

>>34838785
Its legally considered rape if you have sex with a drunk girl, even if you're drunk yourself. You did good.

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>>34838785
Ok, I will save your life and future now.

What you did is exactly what asocial dorks do when put on the spot. They make up an excuse to try to save face, and run away. This is beceuse this situation was totally surprising and unexpected to you, and you just didn't know what to do.

You must think this through and make a decision right now:
Do you want a gf in general? Yes or no.
Do you want to have sex? Yes or no.
Do you want to have more friends? Yes or no.

Now that you know what you want in life, you must take the chance when it presents itself.
When you meet a new person, you will consider if you want to do any of those three with them.
It's great that you realized she was hitting on you. Since you're a man, this will probably never happen again.
Since you're a man, you must create the opportunities and initiate. If you meet a new person and your answer is yes to any of those three questions, then you must hang around them, keep trying to talk to them, and actively look for signs if you're allowed to ask them out. The one you mentioned here, the explicit call for sex couldn't have been more obvious, but most signs are subtle, like smiling a lot, lots of eye contact, etc.

>>34854384
ngl broski i wasnt really up for sex at that point i just wanted to go home

>>34854589
Yes, and your taxi was there too.

>>34853813
Yeah you go to recognize when she simply is not interested in you. If she ain't treating you like you are her special boytoy instead of a kid, it ain't worth it. The right girl will treat you like a boytoy. You have to be her number 1 if she is in love with you, not everything else. Yes you need to go out of your way, but she needs to as well. Apart from all of that remember you are human.

>>34851275
2nd date is over after 4h. We did the activity, had something to drink and went for a walk. Didn't go for a kiss since the opportunity wasn't there but we still had a lot of soft touches. We will have a third date.

>>34853704
>For those of you who get girls with dating profiles, what kinds of pictures do you have (no need to post them, just describe them)?
Selfies. Sure, every guide out there tells you not to use selfies, but they're easy to take and should get you likes/matches if you're at least somewhat attractive
>What kind of bios did you put there, too?
Short and sweet, list your advantages that photos can't convey (i.e. having a good job, speaking five languages etc.)
>>34854170
> We will have a third date.
What makes you so sure? I'd say getting the fourth date is the real test. Third date is the moment girls will stop to think whether they're actually interested in you or not

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>think workplace acquaintance I have to interact with 1-2 times a week likes me
>seem to have more chemistry with her than my actual girlfriend
>ask her out, and to my utter surprise she turns me down
>next time I see her she acts like nothing happened, even intensifying the behaviors that made me think she liked me
>I just start grey rocking her
First time after that she seemed sad, second time angry, and last time kept trying to catch my eyes, said good morning, asked how I am, and all that.

What's going through this bitch's head?

>>34847841
Well she said in the end that she felt like I didn't find her attractive, and that she started to have to carry conversations. Probably valid. I've never been much of a talker though, and like I brought up in another response, I was annoyed with her because of the ex thing, sleeping with the 1st guy, and generally down and distant when i found out I was sick. She said she tried to get to know me but didnt think I cared about her so she stopped trying. I dont know if thats a fair assumption from her, I tried to get us to take a trip and was at her place all the time and didnt just come to bang, I stayed for nearly half the weekend all the time, ate with her, went on dates. She said she sort of got a hint I wanted something more and that I liked her, but still felt like I didnt and was scared to ask, and assumed I was acting casual because thats how we started. I said that I didnt feel that way but it was my fault for coming off that way. I told her I didnt want to risk her ending it if I tried to overtly escalate, so I just kept acting casual like we started and thought it might get there on its own. I offered to take her to dinner and we could talk and try to understand each other because I was confused since she had told me she didnt want a relationship, but she liked what we had and now does, just not with me. She ghosted. We havent spoken since.

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>>34854173
read how to win friends and influence people. it's free on annas archive.
>one stupid trick
the gist is that people love to talk about themselves, so all you have to learn to do is ask them questions to continue them talking about themselves. then they'll like you thinking you appreciate and understand them.

>>34854183
This so much

>>34854183
"The secret to attraction is to make them feel like they're the most interesting person, not you." -Some anon, in some thread last Wednesday

>>34853569
I hear this often but why exactly is porn so bad? And what exactly constitutes as porn? If I'm jerking to swimsuit magazines does that have the same impact as gooning to sissy hypno?

>>34854073
For what i understand it shoots up your dopamine levels and gives u unrealistic exceptations of sex

>>34854098
Okay but what constitutes as porn? Does it all affect me the same?

>>34854073
>I hear this often but why exactly is porn so bad?
(part 1 of 2)
For a number of reasons. For example:

1) The more you jerk it to porn, the more your brain becomes conditioned to respond to porn instead of to actual sex. This results in you being unable to get an erection or have an orgasm when you're actually having sex; but that's just the first stage: as the problem becomes worse, porn users eventually lose all interest in having sex at all, and instead treat sex as a sort of live-action porn re-enactment where they don't treat the other person as a person at all, but merely as a prop in the scene. Sometimes sex is reduced to them watching porn while the other person pleasures them, and they have no interest in doing anything else.

2) Porn is very much like an addictive drug, in that you quickly develop a tolerance. Things that used to arouse you stop working. So you look for something more "extreme", and for a while that works, but then you need to escalate still further. Eventually you get to the point where nothing works, and you don't even enjoy masturbating any more, you just keep telling yourself that NEXT TIME it will somehow, magically be better.

3) Porn use is addictive, and escalates. You start using it occasionally, then end up using it more and more. After a while it isn't about pleasure any more: you aren't jerking off because you enjoy it, but because you feel like you have to, and can't seem to stop. You spend more and more time gooning. Eventually it gets to the point where you're missing job interviews, and passing up opportunities for dates, because you're at home masturbating. And finally you end up watching at porn at work. (See https://www.abc.net.au/news/2004-08-19/judge-accused-of-masturbating-in-court-resigns/2028612 ).

(to be continued)

>>34854747
(part 2 of 2)
4) There are a number of morally questionable practices involved in making porn, and the more extreme it gets, the worse it gets. You may start with something comparatively wholesome, but before you know where you are, you'll be watching videos of men ejaculating over unsuspecting female strangers in the aisles of Dollar Tree stores. When you're jerking off to videos of real life sexual assaults, this is a problem. (See https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jul/20/dollar-tree-sexual-assault-gooner ).

5) Porn bears about as much resemblance to real sex as a movie car chase resembles real life driving. But far too many people think it's real, and this ends up making people think that certain things are normal when they're actually extremely dangerous. For example, there is no safe way to strangle someone during sex. Strangulation during sex can lead to strokes, problems swallowing, incontinence, memory problems, depression, anxiety, and miscarriages; it is now the second most common cause of strokes in women under the age of 40. But porn has made people believe it's normal, to such an extent that men think it's normal to strangle a woman without even asking her if she's okay with it. This sometimes results in women dying.

6) More generally, it subtly reinforces other unfortunate beliefs and attitudes. Women in porn have no agency: they are simply objects that exist for the gratification of men. Men who watch a lot of porn have a tendency to start viewing women like this in real life.

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Lots of good stuff itt, but also generalization, oversimplification, and parallel talking, before the inevitable chudding out. I'll add something to the table for the lurkers, and I said it a lot in many other threads on this kazakh milk forum:
>you are either Chad or not
Remember than clown image with football chad kissing the girl? If you have to think "am i chad?" then you aren't, sorry.
>choose 2 out of 3: looks, status, speech
You need at least 2, 1 won't be satisfying, and if 0 then gg.

Those people skills, talking strategies, just being yourself only work if you can actually talk, and if you are someone. Not a millionare, but at least a man with 'something' going on. If you don't do shit, don't have shit, and don't look shit, why would a woman pity fuck you?
It works like this in the animal kingdom, and in our world as well, as it always did.

Also, knowing the knowledge and applying it are way different, if you don't know the lines on the spot, you are done. Of course, if you look like Melvin McSperg you should just focus on the grind.

Chads and jocks PUA artists will never tell you this, because they simply are incapable, that is their nature and reality. But (You), on 4chan /adv/, reading this, I have a hunch you are not the frat leader.

>>34854559
How about you go back and eat more shit, cattle?

>>34854540
So when, where, and how do you talk to women?
It's always just some vague "go outside and it'll happen" with you people.
Well, I go outside.

>>34854601
very indian coded insult, sanjeep

>>34854289
You're just ugly without any status that is it. You can be the most socially smooth and interesting character on the planet but if you don't look good then no woman will give a shit about you.

>>34853868
You're welcome boss. And congrats on the relationship

>>34853651
Don't have sex outside of marriage.

>>34853651
Hotel is fancy shit, if you have nowhere else and want to sex then just go there?

>>34853651
>Getting a hotel feels so trashy
It's only trashy if it's a trashy hotel. Get a nice hotel room. Or maybe a self-catering place where you can cook dinner. Hell, an airBnB if you want. But what's the alternative? Fucking in an alley? On a friend's couch? In a tent? In a car? Obviously a hotel room is your best option.

>>34853651
get a shaggin' wagon (van with a bed in the back)

>>34854611
>I go to gym
here, your problem mister Bravo

>>34854611
Rejections with what? Women?
Tell us about some of the most noteworthy instances in these last 2 months then, give us an idea of what exactly you're doing and then maybe people can actually help you.

>>34854638
Well it's either instant rejection with polite no thanks or fuck off, then we have cases where after 1-2 meetups she says "I only see you as friend.", "I love someone else.", "I'm not looking for relationship", "You're not my type." etc.

>>34854663
Ok, yeah, but I mean what leads up to that? You're skipping to the end of the story (which I already know) and I know nothing about what you are or aren't doing that might be leading to these end results, so how am I supposed to give advice and help you?

>>34854663
Treat this topic as any other hobby. Try different approaches, methods. Adapt. Observe more experienced people. Learn from them. Try yourself and adapt. There is nothing more human than facing new challenges and adapting to them.

>>34848106
No, it was a neutral choice based off nothing

>>34852945
Bullshit, you get female nurses when think you're nice and male nurses when they know you harass women.

>>34852945
>I like to like to sage my butt
>sage my butt sage my butt
Keep doing this shit I'll kill you

>>34849316
He's sexy without knowing he's sexy, and that's really sexy.

>>34849316
He's not funny at all.