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I worked at the warehouse for last summer in between college semesters. Full time.

They only had the overnight shift available so 1-10am. Monday through Thursday. Now I like the 4 day work week so that was the only good thing ngl. I was also paid 23 hr while in college that was the best I could get.

But what people say on social media they are not lying bro, you basically don’t get a break at all throughout the shift. The break room be on the opposite side of the warehouse so when you get their you have max 5 minutes.

And of course rlly repetitive work , mentally challenging after a while but physically not so bad.

And just the feeling of dread everywhere man, everyone is mad depressed 😭

UPS is way better than Amazon I’m not lying on that.

Edit: do yall not know what a exaggeration is

As a business owner (window and power washing company) and my experiences with meeting other business owners it’s definitely a real pattern.

I went to college for mechanical engineering , I got my degree but my grades were terrible and no internships. It wasn’t because I was lazy but I had a very hard time with course material and barely passed all my classes.

Nevertheless I didn’t get a job.

After graduation I promised myself I’ll wait 6 months for a engineering job and if I don’t get one I’ll do my own thing and in the mean time work landscaping.

So 6 months went by , no job. Started my business and now life is pretty good for me I’m fine.

When people mention that “saying” you have a ton of different reactions , some agree some don’t. Some bring up how the big shots like bill gates dropped out of Harvard to combat the C-D student thing etc.

But the legitimate truth is choice, a lot of business owners were bad students and became business owners because they didn’t have a choice.

It’s either start your own thing or shitty jobs - unemployment. Even if I did get lucky and landed an engineering job I wouldn’t progress like everyone else. I more likely than not would be stuck at a dead end position because I can’t retain information as fast as I need to.

Now some business owners were obviously very good students , some bad and every other scenario. But if you surround yourself in a room that had money, I bet you most were likely shitty students.

At 18 I went to college for mechanical engineering, I simply wasn’t ready for college and was lazy but I knew I wanted to be a engineer.

Failed almost every class first semester because I didn’t try, put on academic probation so I worked hard my 2nd semester.

Got decent grades so they let me stay in school. Sophomore fall worked my ass off and got decent grades again (mostly B’s and C’s.)

But I was still on probation basically because my gpa was still so low due to first semester.

The spring is when you rlly start hitting the harder classes, worked my ass off way more than before and passed 4/5 classes. 3 A’s 1 B and one F. I failed that class due to miss communication I didn’t know the final got rescheduled on a different day and missed it.

Went to CC for a semester , came back and now my schedule is weird but I’m a junior that has to do a 5th year.

I wish I wasn’t so stubborn, I should’ve knowned that engineering wasn’t for me because I don’t have a nack for it. I just work extremely hard for mediocre results and now I probably won’t get a internship and with a lower gpa I’ll probably won’t get a job.

I knew in the back of my head mid sophomore year I should either drop out or change majors, but I invested debt into this and wanted to prove to myself I’m worth something.

I’m going to ride it out since I’m technically a junior but if I could go back I would have done something else.

Less of hard work or strategy but simply timing.

Recent example is the boom of AI near 2019-2020. Of off the past few years there have been many people-startups that have fully generated AI apps that take 1 hr to make and made millions.

The market got saturated really quick once people caught on.

Now that’s just an example but it makes me think if people think about business wrong.

Instead of putting tons of hours in or strategy’s should you just sit around for the correct timing?. Like something new pops up eventually and you think it will be big so you start a ripple based off of that.

But then it depends on market obviously, if you start a landscaping business you will likely get customers but pretty unlikely if you randomly become a huge landscaping business due to nationwide competition. (There’s a lot of landscaping companies).

What do you think?

I’m going to use terms such as active and inactive benefits.

Active benefits are things you have to do on the job while in your resume, inactive are things in your resume that you don’t have to do on the job.

For things that are inactive lie and pamper up with research backed , so what does that mean. Let’s say you need a job say for engineering.

You lie about a big project on your resume you did in your free time, say it’s a design of an engine bay through solid works. You research the process of how to make it and certain aspects of solid works to make yourself sound legit. If you’re really dedicated you could even buy a link to something similar or a pdf explanation.

It saves you time and a talking point in an interview.

Another example is excel or something that you would use on the job. If you know the start date is say 1-2 months away then lie and say you know it well. Spend the next month or 2 studying and using excel so you atleast know what your talking about even if your not a master yet. It will be good enough.

Guys, the job market is bad for every field. Sometimes you have to do what you have to do to get a job. Because getting that job could be the best decision you ever made.

I believe the term is called larping now but it’s very real. How do you think some of these younger people get big roles.

It’s better to chew on too much and figure it out on the way.

After I graduated college with my engineering degree. I didn’t get a job and had poor grades, I mean I barely got the degree lol. I was unhealthy and depressed 24/7.

Even since I was 16 until 22 I just hated my life so I was like fuck it. Imma give it a year, I’m going to work my ass off for an entire year no exceptions and just see what happens.

Got a low paying job as a CNC operator , started to hit the gym , ate well and never went out (honestly extremely difficult for me). And said hi to a different person every day.

All I did, at my job I focused 100% and tried to learn as much as possible as fast as possible, constructed a good enough gym routine and either after work or on weekends I’d go into the city to literally say hi to people.

Felt like a loser but here’s the results.

After 3 months I did good enough for a higher up to notice me , he learned I had a degree so he gave me an engineering spot that just let up and tripled my salary.

3 months in the gym, felt better and stronger but didn’t look much better. After 3 months of talking to random strangers I had a bunch of small talk conversations nothing meaningful, and a couple “fuck offs” lol

6 months. Still working the job same old, body started looking better finally I was actually a little happy about it. And I made 2 friends in those 6 months of talking to strangers (I was extremely awkward at first and off putting I guess).

1 year , today may 10th.

Just got a promotion at work with a 15% salary increase , hitting new prs I never thought I could do and I think I look good. Got a girlfriend off of a dumbass pick up line on a sidewalk. Made new friends and went to concerts and such with these people.

Now it sounds generic but if you truly lock in for a year , just 1. You can make your life 3-5x better than it is now.

I actually like getting up in the morning now.

At 18 I went to engineering school, it was quite literally the only thing I wanted to do and could see myself be happy.

After sophomore spring I was kicked out of school, academic probation. The reason why it hit me so hard was because I wasn’t lazy , I did what I was supposed to do. Tried numerous study methods , would stay at school for 12 hours etc and still failed.

Went into a depression and got a full time job and they let me do some part time online classes. Got a entry level machinist job at 18 hr , but since I was working full time my dad made me pay rent so I wasn’t seeing most of it due to other expenses as well.

Barely paid off any debt and such. Still struggling in classes to fix my gpa , got a gf for about 5 months and got cheated on with her ex.

Want to go back to school for the fall but I honestly don’t know , because again it’s not like I was undisciplined the first time I couldn’t understand the topics we were learning at the pace we were going.

I went to the gym this morning before work and just broke down for real for the first time. Like I’m having a hard time composing myself now. I still get paid dick, don’t like anyone around me. Failed in school and even if I get a different major it’s still gonna be atleast 3 more years.

It’s just fuck man give me a break let something good happen. I’m not lazy , I eat right , I exercise , I have a job , I still try in school, like fucking give me something Jesus

Finishing up sophomore year of college and didn’t land an internship but still want to work full time in summer.

I currently have a weekend job and applied to a local Texas Roadhouse to work during weekdays.

Set up an interview pretty quickly, and my interview was legitimately 2 minutes. Seriously I walked in 3:55 and walked out 3:57-3:58.

She asked me 2 things, availability and do I either want to work as a busboy or server. I said any hours available during the weekday and either position is fine.

I tried to ask her small questions but she said another interview will take place. (Drove there for a 2 minute meeting I was annoyed but whatever).

Dressed nice , got a haircut etc etc.

I got the number of the 2nd interviewer, texted her to set up an interview, ghosted first day. Yesterday I called her instead and she said they hired someone else.

The reason why I think it might have been looks is because I wasn’t even given a chance, my interview was 2 minutes and I tried to think if I did something wrong but I don’t think I did.

I mean like wtf man it was a weird experience. Like I just need a consistent basic job

Edit: also said to my face they needed a weekday employee so I already fit the bill in that

At this point with rapid raising of prices for everything I think it would honestly just be a better move to make my own garden?

Buy a few pallets / planks , soil and seeds and just start that shit. Of course it takes months for something to be fully ripe and ready to harvest but if I plant enough that could maybe last me awhile since I live by myself.

What do you think? Because say I grow enough food for 2 months for myself. That could drop my 500-600 monthly grocery bills for a little bit atleast

29M , my wife of 5 years cheated 3 months ago and we didn’t sign a prenup so half of my shit is gone.

Moved out the house got a shitty small apartment because I have to rebuild my whole retirement fund again. I still have my job but I’m basically capped.

My salary only increases with inflation and have to wait for seniority to get into management, I’ve tried to job hop but it’s the same money different company so I don’t pull the trigger. And I don’t want to change fields and start from zero again.

Oh and let’s not forget my ex wife aborted our kid in which we were planning to have. I have almost 0 contact with my day 1 friends because of location and a few still in the military.

But the worst part about all this now, it’s the fucking boredom man. I’m am so fucking bored.

Been at this job for 10 years, no one to come home to , little contact with friends and living under my means again. Only thing I enjoy as of rn was watching the nfl draft and excited for college football im a fan. And I still go to the gym but I’m not “excited” to go it’s just discipline.

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