what do you do for work, are you financially and spiritually fulfilledI'm a school bus driver and I have basically the best job on earth, my route just got shortenedso I will have 2 30 minute routes per day and get paid 4 hours total for them, in addition, since I am the most willing to do trips and sports at my company I get a charter or multiple basically every day, so almost every single week I get atleast 50 hours, averaging 55, and my max was 69 hoursbeing a school bus driver for a company that has a lot of work to go around is incredible, as a school bus driver 50% of your time is downtime at sporting events or field trips so I play my steam deckI am incredibly fulfilled and love my life, I often have a few hours at lunch to go to the gym and I get to the gym atleast 3 times a week despite working 50+ hours, I literally don't think I could do anything else after thisI can get literally like 2 hours of sleep and still get up and perform my job easily, with caffeineI live with my mom and she only wants 150 a month, and I'm on track to make like 35k after tax this year, live in a semi rural area so I'll buy a home for like 70-80k in like 10 yearsspent my entire 20s neeting, and at 32 with a year and a half into this job my future is so bright I need to wear shades, I tell literally everyone I know that I found my calling in life
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>>61424563cool, what was your training and what kind of driver's license do you have
>>61425023RAGIE WAGIE STOMPS HIS FEETRAGIE WAGIE CAN'T BEAT NEETNEET WAKE UP AND MAKES ONE CALLRAGIE WAGIE PAYS FOR ALL 35K AFTER TAXMAINTAINS NEET'S BIG FAT ASS
>>61424563work? Turbo NEET here
>>61424563>I get atleast 50 hours, averaging 55, and my max was 69 hourscucked attitude, you should never be grateful for waging more, you should only be grateful if you get paid the same amount for waging fewer hours than normal.If it works for you that's good I guess, but that many hours sounds like a lot. Then again, if you have significant downtime I guess that's good. When you're going to the gym at lunch is that technically "on the clock"? Otherwise I don't see how you're getting 50+ hours per week. Anyway anon, I operate public rail transit. It pays barely over 20 per hour, but it's 4 10-hr days per week with 3 days off in a row, so that's nice. I rent my own apartment cause my parents annoy me so I spend nearly all of my income on living expenses. It's okay I guess
Im a professional FAGGOT
>>61424563Warehouse wagie 35k a yearLooking to switch to more forklift related positions soon
>>61425474You just made that thread days ago bro
/biz/ is poor confirmed
Clanker post. Sad to see this site succumb to clankers & schizos
>>61425206J*b is only "needed" for food and roof over your head. If you can get this without a j*b, theres no point in w*rking.
I'm very happy for you OP, I think it's also a matter of perspective, many people on this board would still be miserable if they worked your job.I'm a support worker for people with brain injuries, I find it very fulfilling.
>>61425546Another clanker post like op. Imagine having a brain injured 4channel user 'supporting' your brain injured family member.
Apprentice electrician in rail at the moment. It's okay but I definitely wake up every day and feel like I'm going to *work*. I used to drive passenger trains for a living which was probably the best job I ever had. Even though I worked 6 days a week usually because I'd try and snag as much OT as possible, going to work didn't feel tedious in the slightest and I actually kinda looked forward to getting back into it after a couple of days off.With that said I'll get paid a lot better as a sparky once I'm qualified so I guess I've just traded some enjoyment and spiritual fulfillment for a bit more progress and financial security. I kinda wish I didn't care as much as I do about money though, probably would never have left my previous gig if that were the case.>>61425446>barely over 20 per hourNever ceases to amaze me how low the pay is for rail operators in the USA is even after currency conversion.
>>61424563Sorry, I don't do this cattle dance>get up at a set time enforced by the threat of starvationsounds like school>somebody orders u aroundsounds like school>no independent thinkingsounds like school>50 hours+ of boring taskssounds like schoolARE YOU OKAY? ARE YOU OKAY WAGIE
>>61425915How do you survive with no work and no income
>>61425920I have 2 million in net assets & my own company (400k a year~)28 Keep waging, you'll get there too!!
WFH do nothing job, with the shit pay to match.If I ever lose this I will just NEET.Never again will I attend a "place of work" and give them my soul.
>>61425446But I'm literally driving half of that and not working but getting paid to play my steam deckAnd I get overtime lolI won>>61425023>>61425200Actually strong cope, I needed for 10 years straight and it isn't fulfilling, it's nice to get up, see nature and the world and driving a bus is kind of fun
>>61425546Based true brother>>61425474Do what you gotta do man>>61425446Also paying for an apartment is dumb, start leeching asap
>>61424563Well done OP. I wish I was a school bus driver.Unfortunately I was a developer and was layed off. The lady that was assigned to me to prevent me from becoming a neet told me that I cannot get into another business. It would be a waste of my experience. This means I have to work in an office until my retirement.I don't want to go back to the cubicle.
i sell crypto currencies for a fair market price. i love knowing that thanks to my offering, some buyers enjoyed a reduce the spread on their trades. there is no greater good in society.
>>61425966>I wonYou are working, you did not *win*. You did better than other slaves I will award you that.Winning is simple, there is no cope around it.You exist with CAPITAL to pay for everything via return on CAPITALISM (you) working for me (me).I understand 95% or more of the population is like you, slaving, working 9-5 or more (lol). If you don't control of these 3 things > Your time > Your mind (what u use your mind to work on) > Your future (not getting fired cause your boss made shitty decisions) you did not *Win*.
>>61425187I got like 4 days of driving training paid and passed the test cdl bThey actually cut short my training by 2 days lol because they needed drivers
>>61424563Work?
>>61426122Hey fucking retard, your parents are slaving away at their jobs to support your useless ass. Nothing in life is free, you dont get paid just to exist unless youre a hot girl
>>61424563Rural mail carrier, you get paid the same amount for the route no matter how long it takes you. I'm usually done around 2, and get paid until 430. Drive around listening to what I want to, no boss around, pretty much unfireable (don't steal and don't have your vehicle roll away while you're out of it.) Clearing 80k with OT this year, but I get OT while actually working 30 something hours a week. Downsides are bad weather, and I have to maintain my own vehicle, but those can be kind of fun depending on your disposition. It also takes a while to get a good route, it's all seniority and location based, have to game it for a while to set yourself up right.
>>61425926And how did you get everything at 28? Where did the starting capital come from?
>>61424563I make cheese in my living room basement and sell it at the local farmer's market
>>61424563Nurse, in europoor, 70k a year but only work 28 hours a week for that. I cook a lot and play with the kids. I'm a rent chad so I pay 700 for my apartment and spend all my spare time on sensible things like playing with the kids or exercise. No repairs and no unforeseen expenses. I've got 500k invested. Never buying a fucking house, they suck ass, already owned one and hated it.
>>61426181Based, at most school districts seniority is king but at my company it goes to whoever is willing to take trips and I never refuse, it's awesome
>>61426197Pretty based, but I like a house as long as it's like 100k max or less
>>61424563I retired at 46. Now I just resell collectibles on Ebay and play around with my stock portfolio.
>>61426122Coping. I get paid for 50 hours while "working" 25, my work consists of sitting in a chair and turning a wheel occasionallyMy biceps stay pumped all day, I feel good, I look good, I'm making bank playing my steam deckI won, I would say 1 percent of people actually find a job this easy and fun
I just had a 5 day weekend for Thanksgiving as wellI will have a 2 week 14 day break on Christmas with ptoThis is what winning looks likeI show up to work in a jovial mood, I like driving the bus, I was excited to get back in the bus yesterdayThis is winning
DATA MINING THREAD
>>61426355I sit at home all day on my computer playing vidya, going to the gym, baking desserts, reading books, going for walks, and do maybe 15 min of emails a day and get paid 5x as much as you.
>>61426012Brutal, godspeed brother, I could never stand school, I worked in a machine shop for a year, working inside all day honestly sucks imoThe psychological benefit of being outside and seeing nature even if driving past it is immense I believeAlso when I'm in the bus alone I sing whatever song us in my head, my mental health is in an incredible place
>>61426388Congrats, are you fulfilled though, you sound like kind of a smarmy faggot honestly, but if you're happy I guess that's good
>>61425927Is it like call center or tech support
>>61425841Tell me about driving trains, how does it work actuallyIs autopilot a thing
>>61426410I have a wife and kids and get to dunk on retards like you while I drink my morning coffee so yes I am very fulfilled :)
>>61424563That’s the sound of the man working on the chain gaaaaannnnnnggggg. That’s the sound of the man, working on the chain, gang.
>>61426456Enjoy the divorce beta, imagine submitting to a woman lol
>>61426484Enjoy your meaningless existence and failure to fulfill even your most basic biological imperative as a human being.
>>61426493You bought the top of the woman bubble lol, very smart investing skills bro
>>6142456335k seems really low to me for the nature of the work and the hours worked. I don't know what the average bus driver makes though. I thought it would be at least 50k
>>61424563Get 80k a year to work a bullshit job that I hate. My area is one of the hottest real estate markets in the country and home prices have doubled in the last four years. I'm forced to pay 2200/m for rent in a shitty one bedroom apartment. Every day I wake up wanting for it to end but there is no end is sight, just working until I die to make someone else rich. Too stupid to ever make it, I deserve my fate. I've witnessed like six black swan events but I was too much of a pussy to make any actual money. My time on this earth is meaningless and I'll die alone.
I'm an electrical engineer. I want to do embedded control systems and signal processing on microcontrollers and FPGAs, and I'm kind of doing that at my current firm, but this place sucks ass and I'm pretty sure it's going to go insolvent soon because of Trump's fuckery. I'm pretty sure a lot of small engineering firms like mine will because of the shockwaves his government shutdown caused to the contracts and cash flow to the military contractor primes>$80k pre tax (very low for the field)>1 hour commute one way>3 weeks PTO (sick and vacation combined)>3 paid company holidays>awful health benefits>extremely stressed>won't pay to train me so I have to do it on my own time>balding>401k has a 6% match though which is pretty good but it doesn't matter much since america is going to lose its hegemony and reserve currency status and so the investments will be worth less than the electricity I use to watch the values drop in real time
>>61424563Union Electrician in europooristan. 35k to 40k after taxes. Live in fully paid gf condo, save every penny, neeted ten years here before I got a job again this summer. Started with 30k networth, pumped every last penny into an etf, now six months later I have 45k and another 5k in cash (christmas and holiday gratification). In one year I reckon on having 80k, will probably stop at 120k, because that nets me my part on our property in passive income, but time will tell. I do paid overtime and work 45 hours a week. My impatience is killing me, beside that I am well off and had enorm luck in life. Later on we will inherit a house too and have together a networth of 690k which ranks us to the top 20% to 10% wealthiest households in this country.
>>61426456She will take 1/2 your shit and the courts will bleed you for the rest of your life. Have fun.
>>61426524After taxesI'm on track to make 45-50k before taxesAlso cost of living is low in my area
i'm a doctori pull in close to 300k but work way too much. i just want a 1.5mil folio and I'm out. peace. I'll live off SCHD or some other high yield tax friendly dividend stock. until then its VOO and chill
I’m a lobbyist. Financially, it’s fine. But you kinda grow up imagining change and you end up in a lucrative, but ultimately unfulfilling role. But I try to be grateful, because most people aren’t doing so well.
>>61426595>>61426653Lol yep, same thing here.>$80k salary>a salary that would’ve otherwise been decent just five years ago is now the new $50k
>>61426122If everyone was useless kike like you, humanity would literally revert back to being cavemen overnight. Every institution and service, every system in society, all actual innovation and progress, would immediately stop, and human history would promptly end. But keep coping faggot.
>>61427353What do you lobby for
>>61428006I don’t want to get specific, but basically a more favorable business environment for some Fortune 100 companies. It’s really just about tracking what happens at the federal and state level, and how it impacts them.
>>61424563Glad youre happy op, dont listen to the demoralizing faggots
>>61424563I'm a civil engineer. I can't afford a home and I hope I get replaced by AI.
>>61428326Jack me in and jerk me off at this point. I could save 60 percent of my income over a decade and I could maybe retire in the Philippines, if I’m lucky.
I was a pharmacist for 10 years. I made just under $200k during my best year. Now I'm in Asia enjoying my early retirement and figuring out what I want to do with the rest of my life.
>>61428478>>61428319Based>>61428202Intradesting>>61428326Honestly a cope homes are affordable in "small town" America
>>61428503I don't work in "small town" America
>>61424563I make more than you neeting
>>61428478Lol failed so hard he left the first world
senpai docclose to 300k a yearwork like a dogalmost all of my after-tax income is thrown into vanguard index funds or S&P mirroring mutual fundsonce i get to 1.5 - 2mil I'm switching my allocation and sticking with dividend producing funds
>>61428552>this dork no longer has to sell his time and labor for money!Can I also fail like him?
>>61428587He doesn’t live in desirable place in the first world
>>61426152>>61427928Wagie cope as normal, always boils down to one of two things> must be a neet> if u don't contribute then life is worse for everyone else!I am neither, not a NEET as I said before. Own business, millions in assets ect.I took huge risks in my youth, so I provided more to society in a few years than you will do in your lifetime. Fucking wagies need to pipe down, I swear.
>>61428675I would rather live in Southeast Asia fucking women on the cheap than saving half my income for retirement for 35 years.
>>61428717The only based kind of wagie.
>>61428724What sort of business do you do? Feels like it’s really capital and labor-intensive to get started.
>>61428552>>61428675Not fully. I still have my house in America and my Bangkok condo was just finished less than a year ago. It's called Reference Sathorn-Wongwianyai if you wanna look up the pictures/reviews.
>>61428738It's in the gaming industry/pay-to-win systems. That's all I'll say.
>>61428709Ur old. Go kiss your post wall wife.
>>61428743Not really. Where is your house in usa? Top 5% area?
>>61428804Are you the zip code guy?
>>61428808What is that?
>>61428832Some autistic dude on /biz/ always talks about his zip code, and how living there makes him better than everyone. I think you’re that guy, there’s maybe a hundred active posters here nowadays.
>>61428804I don’t want to dox myself. Median household income is $110k and median house value is $640k in 2023 for my zip code.
>>61428796I'm 27
>>61428876well 28 in about 3 hours, ugh I have two girlfriends, but I know now it sounds like a larp. One at home, and then a company side hoe (she knows). That isn't uncommon with business owners, I'm sure wagies have seen it happen many times over.
>>61428844If you live in a top zip code, you are better than everyone.
>>61428865Why does the income seem so much higher than the housing values?
>>61428865Why is the income higher than the area?>>61428844see this post? >>61428865This is why zip code is so important. He area income is 110k median income but the area is only 650k median price. Location location location.
>>61424563>works 50 hours per week>makes $35k per year>brags about itso you make like $13.50 per hour? wtf is this thread. I've had a job that paid $100k per year and I was able to nap for like 4 hours per shift if I wanted. It was 100% better than any other job but it was still awful. Glad I invested and escaped.
>>61428996This thread is full of seething wagies
>>61428962>>61428972My bad, that was including townhomes. According to city-data.com, the median detached-house price is $740k while it’s $400k for my state. This makes more sense since I see most of the new builds going for $1.5 mil and up in or near my neighborhood. But median household income for houses/condos with a mortgage is just under $200k.
>>61429116How can you dox yourself? lol. Better me knowing than some dumb leftist janny or mod that has your ip anyways. Okay read your post. Seems like your state is experiencing gentrification.
software dev in easter europeabout 4K$ net a month which may not be much by burger standards but my living cost are like 1.5K$ at most living very comfy
>>61428520You fucked up then bruh, don't know what else to say, that's like choosing to be tortured>>6142899635k after tax in a semi rural area to sit around doing nothing for half the day, reading comprehension not your strong suit?
>>61428536Do you have a thick 7 inch piece of meat and 130 iqYour temporary situation does not equal your stock in life
Handyman for vacation rental company. I have a trunk with tools, company card, and given a list of random things to fix or investigate. Im really good at problem solving and a Techpriest Engineseer. I like to fix things and help people. In the summer I get a lot of tips from rich guests.
>>61426355You're literally like 260 lbs. Nothing about you is "pumped" except in the fat sense, McDonalds boy. There is nothing physically demanding about driving a school bus unless you're battling the children.That said, I make $37/hr driving a 5-ton and delivering photocopiers and other various heavy medical and electronic equipment. Take heavy things up stairs, drive forklifts, multi day out of town trips, though not much of those anymore since having so many kids. It sucks, I'm a slave but I'm a good slave. Best at my company year over year, which is only because everyone else is so shitty. Im going back on paternity soon fuck this
>>61427036Holy fuck you people are retarded
>>61426595Sounds like Canada.
>>61429973If my arms aren't considered pumped in your own opinion surely you are sporting 19 inch pytons like me??
Bong doctorThere is literally nothing good about my job. Not the pay, not the environment, not the hours, not the training, not the security, not the benefits, not the co-workers, not the prospects. I mean it quite literally that I cannot think of a single praiseworthy aspect of my job. I honestly 100% preferred when I did door to door cold netflix or lovefilm or whatever sales back in 2008
>>61426186What flavor
>>61430506How much do you guys make
>>61425966>But I'm literally driving half of that and not working but getting paid to play my steam deckYes I understand but you aren't explaining properly. When you're at the gym during lunch, are you on the clock? Are you getting paid for that? If not it sounds like you're just away from home/at work all the time. Clocking out at 10am when you're done taking the kids to school and not clocking back in til 130 or 2pm and working like barely 4 or 5 hours a day but then taking overtime days where you're working like 15 hours straight just sounds awful. Please explain your schedule better. I looked into being a school bus driver here but I didn't go through with it precisely because of this. Yeah they get a little over 20 an hour here, I think sometimes close to 30, but they're really only working like 4 or 5 hours a day, maybe 20-30 hours a week maximum. How are you even working more than that?
>>61425841>>barely over 20 per hour>Never ceases to amaze me how low the pay is for rail operators in the USA is even after currency conversion.It's insane, most parts of the world, people who operate public transit, whether they are bus drivers or light rail/streetcar/subway operators make a little more than the average income of the country. Even in the USA if you count subway operators and light rail operators in the mix, the average wage is something like 60-70k per year (granted in NYC or San Francisco that's still shitty). But here I am in the midwest driving a train through a city making $20/hr. Hundreds of lives are in my hands every day but I basically get paid the same amount as someone driving a forklift in a warehouse, often less. Oh and yeah I can be randomly drug tested at any time for any reason so I can't even get high on my days off
>>61430523Depends on 'banding’ based on rota but when I started as F1 base pay was £26k. Think with all the endless nightshifts and weekends it escalated to about £40k. Now im on £60k after a few years.
>>61425976>Also paying for an apartment is dumb, start leeching asapI'm not hot enough to leach off a femanon and my parents are annoying. After graduating in college in 2013 I have had two separate stints of "moving back in with my parents". Once in 2015-2016 and once more in 2020-2021. I couldn't take it. My parents are good people, not assholes, and they don't make me pay for anything if I live with them, and the house isn't tiny or run down, but I just can't stand it. They have two dogs that bark all the time and are annoying as fuck. I don't get to control the thermostat if I live there. So in the summer I have to deal with the "a/c" set at 78F and of course it gets hotter upstairs where my room is, so it's fucking miserable. And my parents are the overprotective type. I can't just leave the house at 10pm on my day off and go to the bar and get drinks with my friends and then hang out and come home around 2 or 3am like I would normally. My mom will be freaking out the whole time and stay up texting me practically crying and begging me not to get in an accident or overdose or something. I live a more nocturnal lifestyle and my parents can't stand that. Like if I was living at home with my parents and I decided randomly to get in my car at 1130pm and drive to taco bell to get something they would freak the fuck out and be genuinely very concerned my well-being. I just cant deal with that kind of stress and oversight into my life. I'd rather spend half my income to rent an apartment and not deal with that
I collect autismbucks, rent out my basement and deliver pizza, will probably clear 90k CAD this year.
>>61430557Jesus manIm a family doc in the USA. Come work here you'll make 3x easily.
>>61425575nigga I work for a non profit organization.are you implying I'm a LLM? are you saying there is a moralization psy-op? my nigga you are schizophrenic
>>61430665Apparently if you aren't a business owner making 4 million a year while working 5 hours a week(like so many on here ofc) you're just a clanker
>>61430535I work for a company that serves every school in a 20 mile radius, we also have another branch in a metro an hour away and I also do trips for themFor instance today I had my morning and afternoon route, 1 hour of work paid 4 hours, no field trips today so I had 8am till 12 off, did my 30 minute route then I had varsity bball in the metro, so I drove out there, on the clock at 2 ended at 1130, so I got 13.5 hours todayActual driving time like 5 hours
>>61430557That's absurd>>61430565My mom has 2 chihuahuas but saving over 2k a month to put into investments is worth being annoyed from time to time, I am also a loner and I don't drink, I like solitary time
>>61431072Meh more like 6 but an easy 6
i hate working so fucking muchi work from home, maybe 20 hours per week, make 100k/year, easy job, but im just so fucking sick of waking up to an alarm, and dealing with all of the bullshit from middle management
>>61431127i blame myself for selling the crypto that i bought in 2016should be a multi millionaire doing whatever the fuck i want at this point
>>61431127Your sleeping schedule is shit. Go earlier to bed. Ive never wake up through my alarm clock, I am already wake one hour earlier.
>>61430582Considering it. Have to take the USMLE but would easily be worth it. Generally exploring abroad options.Im currently not even working, took some time off for my baby and haven't even applied for a new post this run because I can barely see it being worth working those hours. It's fucked when even being a doctor is arguably not worth going into work for the money.
WFH, drug safety study stuff.Pay is good. If I said what it was you'd probably say I was lying, so I won't say it.The work is fairly hard (and people are difficult) but I don't work too too many hours. I wouldn't say I'm spiritually fulfilled but I don't think my job is the primary impediment.
site reliability engineer slash major incident manager for a large japanese childrens brand
>>61431127AHAHAHAHA just today as I was stretching waking up from a deeply restful sleep, I was praising how I never have to wake up to an alarm.
I manage a garden center. It's a family business that I'm in line to inherit soon. Have done this for about 5 years and expanded and improved things a lot from when my dad was operating it himself. It's starting to turn a decent profit. Managing has been very stressful because I've been doing tasks at every level from the bottom to the top, but I've finally got good, experienced employees who work hard and I'm getting better at delegating, so I'm starting to remove myself from the day to day work so I can focus on the overall business. The spring season is most important and it's like planning a big event. There's a lot of preparation starting in the previous fall to make sure everything goes right. Watching the plants disappear in the spring and the money roll in is incredibly rewarding. The summer, fall and winter are depressing and slow, and by summer I'm burnt out, so I'm getting my employees to handle that part of the year more and more. Overall things are going well. I'm still limited a bit because my dad still owns the company. He's a complete boomer who doesn't even own a cell phone so it has been a constant battle trying to modernize things. I'm persistent though, and manage to wear him down. The changes I have made speak for themselves and he doesn't fight me much anymore. We've got an appointment with the lawyer coming up to talk about transferring the company so things are looking up.
I'm a 19 yo in community college and I have no future
I do software stuff for a mega corp. Its fine, gotten more stressful over the last 2 years or so but its mostly remote and I mostly like my co workers. I make around 80/hr counting bonus and stock, full bennys, 401k match. Investing around 100k of that, wife does another 50. We're probably to the point we could FIRE but it's not bad, we'd both rather make hay while the sun shines. Who knows what 10 years down the road will look like. It's not unreasonable that there's 75% less tech jobs because of AI, that'd be a big problem for the economy.fulfilled? jobs aren't meant to be fulfilling, that's what a partner, kids, friends and hobbies are for. I certainly like my life, change it if you don't, everything is hard, might as well take the hard that keeps you fit and rich.
I am a drug dealer selling noids, delivering packages and collecting money all day. And when I finish with that I go fuck sluts or get coked out of my head. It's a chill life
>>61424563close your browser and never come back. you're peering into a toxic, bottomless cesspit. get too close and you'll in. turn back now. your optimism is making us sick
