/jp/ - Otaku Culture

[Anonymous No.]

What does /jp/ do for a job?

I'm curious just to see if you are all really NEETs or not.

[Anonymous No.]

Stay at home guard

[Anonymous No.]

Wait, you mean I'm actually supposed to do something to earn money?

[Anonymous No.]

I give crossdressing lessons in my basement.

[Anonymous No.]

surgical intern

earn 70K a year as an upfront salary, work a 50-60 hour week

not all of us are slackers

[Anonymous No.]

>>7280612
True. Some are disgusting normals.

[Anonymous No.]

Independent software contractor who works at home. I'm a true NEET around 5 months out of the year when I'm not working.

[PRINNY !nLFbzB/0pw No.]

I play pretend. This year I was pretending to be a student so I could get money.

[Anonymous No.]

Security guard. Standing around all day every day doing nothing.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7280618
That sounds like a pretty fucking good lifestyle. How did you achieve that?

[PRINNY !nLFbzB/0pw No.]

>>7280623

[Anonymous No.]

Freelance contractor that make double of most people.
Because of this I am always NEET half of the time.
Will be jobless by the end of next month.

[Anonymous No.]

I am freelancing high school student.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7280624
Computers were my only escape from the brutal existence of being bullied and having no friends in school growing up, so I learned how to write software starting from a young age by trial and error. By the time I was 24, I was an expert and worked at regular software development jobs for a few years and got more experience. Then I had something of a nervous breakdown and isolated myself, but later I was able to use my existing contacts to the outside world to get myself some high-paying contract jobs.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7280633
That's actually what I've been doing for the past few years. Staying at home and taking the occasional exam once in a while, without being "in education" by the exact definition of it.

[Anonymous No.]

[Anonymous No.]

Sure wish I was a NEET. I have to do things or my mom will kick me out. For about a year I pretended to look for work though, that was nice.

[Anonymous No.]

I kill towelheads and sandniggers, then go back to base and fap to Reimu's armpits.

livin the dream

[Anonymous No.]

Did two years of law school, transfered to social planning for a year, transfered to journalism for another year then dropped out and went to a derelict art school.

Now I temp and do agency work for living money. I do a lot of proof reading and editing for acquaintances in my spare time because its pretty much my only talent.

[Anonymous No.]

I'm a clerk with the US Postal Service. I pretty much sort mail all day. I'm usually able to put on my headphones and focus on my work without really having to speak with anybody but the boss on an average day, so it's not so bad. I make a little over fifteen dollars an hour and 16.50 if I'm working overnight.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7280637
Which programming languages did you master over the years? You probably get asked this too often but I'm curious.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7280637
>so I learned how to write software starting from a young age by trial and error.

I am jealous of people whose parents got them programming since they were young or they picked it up on their own at a young age. It sucks having only started programming in university while most people in the classes have been doing it since they were 9~14 and probably know more than I'll ever know.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7280692
>It sucks having only started programming in university while most people in the classes have been doing it since they were 9~14 and probably know more than I'll ever know.
Damn, is it that bad? I'm getting into computer engineering in a few months, with the only thing I know about programming being how to print hello world in Python.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7280692
You don't really learn programming when you start young, you just fiddle a bit with things but never do anything really good.
You can't really say that you know programming until you've mastered abstract bullshite, which you generally don't understand until you're at least 16.

[Anonymous No.]

Middle school teacher here.

[Anonymous No.]

Starting quantitative development soon, basically maths and programming and big bonuses.

Yay

[Anonymous No.]

>>7280728
development/analysis* I don't know yet really

[Anonymous No.]

I go to school so my mom doesn't make me pay rent.

[Anonymous No.]

University student, 500km away from my parents.

In other words: NEET except in the month before exams week.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7280681
Started with BASIC and Pascal, but dropped those after a year and moved on into C, C++, and 32-bit x86 assembly. Later, while I was going to university, I picked up Java, C#, Objective-C, Perl, Python, Common Lisp, Scheme, SML, various SQL dialects, MIPS RISC assembly, Power assembly, ARM assembly, 64-bit x86-64 assembly.

Languages don't really matter when it comes to actually getting shit done in the field or getting a job. What matters is your ability to pick up and learn new technologies and languages quickly. I can learn a new language now in a matter of days and a few weeks to get used to the new libraries and frameworks.

Software development is a field of constant learning and constant adaptation. If you can't do that, you're not going to do very good.

I think programming upstarts should worry less about what language they learn and more on learning the underlying theory of computation. Focusing on languages is a sign of the amateur.

[Anonymous No.]

Med student.
No job while at uni.
Living at home.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7280700
I went into computer engineering knowing about that much (I'm the same guy who complained how I wish I started programming early).

In terms of classes, your lack of experience shouldn't affect your performance (if you're determined, you'll still do good and learn). The only problem is that your fellow classmates will always be way ahead of you. In my case I constantly hear about them bragging about what projects they're working on and what they're capable of doing whereas I always feel like I know nothing. But don't forget that computer engineering is more of a subset of electrical engineering with a mix of programming, so it's not like everything revolves around programming. I just really wish I had much more experience with it than I do now though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7280704
Some indian guy at my uni was telling me he's been programming since the age of 3, lol.

I've just dabbled mostly in C++ and MATLAB over the past couple years and it's been enough to get me a job.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7280692
>>7280700
My parents didn't get me into programming. In fact, they were against every getting a computer, and when I finally convinced them to, they wouldn't let me use it for more than an hour a day. They were always telling me "stop wasting your life playing games in front of that screen" when I was in fact learning to program. Now I make more than both of them combined an only work 6-7 months out of the year. Revenge can be sweet.

Anyway, I spent a lot of my time over at my friend's house, they were kind enough to let me spend a lot of time there, and they had an extra 80486 machine with DOS 6 on it, and that's where I taught myself BASIC and Pascal (with Borland Turbo Pascal 7), starting at age 12.

I was motivated to make my own games. Learned enough about control flow from an example BASIC program in the Encyclopedia Britannica volume on computers to build a texture adventure game with an RPG combat system on my second day.

Got into VGA graphics programming in DOS in Pascal shortly there after, with the help of some demo coding tutorials I got off of a dial-up BBS. This was a year before the Internet came to our town, back in 1993 I think.

Was playing a lot of DOOM and DOOM II as well back then. Good times.

[Anonymous No.]

The only programming language worth learning now that can you net a job is
-C++
-Java
-RPG (for bank shit)
-PLC
-Labview and to a certain extent matlab

And you wont learn them in school besides the basic of the basic. Everything will be self taught later once you get into the job field. Going to school is pretty useless, you are just going there to get recognition.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7280751
Holy fuck

[Anonymous No.]

>>7280768
Er, I meant text adventure game. Sorry, kind of distracted, watching a movie on another screen at the same time.

[Anonymous No.]

Let's see,
I graduated college and started working as a subordinate-developer for a defense contractor
I quit because my bosses started changing deadline and requirements randomly.

I then started working as a technical adviser for a law firm. Going through computer evidence and explaining it to the lawyers, testifying in court, in addition to handling all their personal computer and networking needs.
I got fired when they went 3 months without using my expertise.

Now I work as a freelance Russian/Spanish to English translator, Network/Software specialist and housekeeper. It's not bad but the whole irregularity of pay thing keeps me searching for a new job constantly. Also people's homes are absolute messes.

[Anonymous !wM5G0xiB/Q No.]

Comp-sci bachelor year 3 student.
Working part-time as software developer/programmer in small company.
I preffer C# as a language, but I know most of C too.
And my general programming knowledge is above-average.

[Anonymous No.]

I need to learn C# for my next job. What's the best book to learn from?

I already know the main features of C++.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7280800
I learned it by reading the language specification and learned the .NET Framework libraries from MSDN reference. The .NET Framework libraries are very similar to the Java libraries in scope.

I find books on programming languages are far too watered down these days.

[Anonymous No.]

my occupation is being sick as shit

[QuiZNo !EwrgbmG4yE!!7qo2eP0AsZz No.]

I'm a temp.

[Anonymous No.]

2nd year comp sci
I wanted to go into programming since I figured I couldn't find work in writing and figured they'd be similar enough. Took two networking classes and never really figured out how IPs and subnets work. Need those for the major, though I'm OK at programming (C#, C++, SQL (but need a lot of google)). I'm changing my major to business, I figure that if I can get an office job, I could just work in a cubicle with minimal contact, though looking back on what programming made, I might just try to double major.

[Anonymous No.]

HS graduate here. Serious question because my dad keeps bitching about me getting a job or going to a college. How do I find a job? What can I do after HS without any practice? Should I just knock to some firms and ask if they need someone to help in the storage room or something?

[Anonymous !wM5G0xiB/Q No.]

>>7280816
Isnt in your country an instutution, that manages people like that? So unless you know what kind of work do you want and places where you can find it, then go ask them.

[Anonymous No.]

I stay home and read my SICP.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7280816
Get your driver's license, and then it's not hard to get a delivery or courier job. Couriers can make like $20/hour or more, not bad for someone just starting out.

Otherwise, you're stuck with retail/service jobs that pay shit and are horrible and suck the life out of you.

[Anonymous No.]

Unemployed, and I didn't get accepted to my transfer school, so I need to find a job by fall. I had one several years back, but getting hired these days doesn't seem likely.

[Anonymous No.]

A neet since December, I'm looking for a job since march, tried to earn money with blogspot but only earned 100 bucks and it was too much work. I'm trying to code an iphone game but I'm slow as fuck, somehow this shit is nothing like my beloved C

[Anonymous No.]

That is autistic as fuck.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7280893
You're doing it wrong. You can use C/C++ and OpenGL on iOS. You only need to use Obj-C and Cocoa for the UIApplication delegate shell and your main UIWindow for handling user touches or accelerometer input data.

/jp/ - Programming/Computational Spirit Conjuring

[wtH !HELLB/V.96 No.]

im NEET as HELL, but in a few months i'll be going to college to learn how to draw in my laptop (im dead ass)

and im not saying witch college or else one of you might go and cause a school shooting or bomb the place

[Anonymous No.]

Oh yeah! You know I am doing it wrong. Lios, I am really dumb. That list makes me feel unsure; >/jp/ isn't a complete and utter shit hole like /prog/, mainly because weeaboos have double the average iq programmers have.

[Anonymous No.]

I teach language classes online, which means I work 15-20 hours a week. I'd like to work full-time but ...

[Anonymous No.]

>>7280909
It's unforgivable to program for iOS, though.

Apple Hate/General

[Anonymous No.]

>>7280925
Not, really. Many /prog/ and /jp/ posters are the same. The problem is that /prog/ has attracted some anti-infinity, anti-Jew trolls who are against practical programming languages like C or C++ and push their resurrection of Lisp machine programming environments. Plus it attracts upstart /b/ skiddies who like to flood the board with their bots.

[Anonymous No.]

united states air force stationed at Yokota (pssst that's Tokyo)

u jelly?

[Anonymous No.]

>>7280909
I'm using cocos2d so it's objective-c all day every day.

>>7280937
My first option was coding for android, but my country is not allowed to develop and sell yet.

[Anonymous No.]

People need to eat too, you know.

[Anonymous No.]

Why is programming so complicated?

Why can't they make it simpler? |:

[Anonymous No.]

I get paid to sage threads. 75cents per sage

[Anonymous No.]

laid off and on unemployment

[Anonymous No.]

>>7280962
>Why is programming so complicated?
To keep simple folk like you out of the industry.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7280964

you must be fucking rich!

[Anonymous No.]

graphic designer + video editor here. i couldn't handle a job which required me to do any ACTUAL work.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7280962
It is not complicated.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7280946
>>7280946
I am jelly. I work on computer system maintenance, and get to travel plenty. I've been to the Kansai airport to work for two weeks, but didn't get to travel around much at all. I didn't even step foot off Tajiri. I just recently finished my 4 years, as I had been working with only a 2 year degree in Electronics engineering for a while. Still made $28 an hour when I started though, which is a killing when you take into consideration that the company pays flights and hotel. My residence is in South Carolina, and starting out that high four years ago when only 20 years old made everyone really envious.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7280996
Aviation computer system maintenance*

[Anonymous No.]

>>7280996
Any tips for getting a job that lets you travel around a lot in engineering? I've always thought it sounded nice to travel around a lot for free, and it's not like I have to worry about abandoning my friends and family.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7280962
Learn Applescript, problem solved.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7281006
Honestly, I have no idea how to actually land a job. I used references from my college professors and old projects as experience, and my dad was pretty high up there already and was the one who told me to try and get the job. He also vouched for me, so that's what got me where I am today.

For my first part time job while in college, I just used a fake reference of a local restaurant that had shut down. They didn't bother to look deeper into it, and I got the job. I would have never been hired with no experience, so that was a good but risky thing to try.

[Anonymous No.]

Absolutely nothing, although I have to get a job soon. I don't plan to work for more than three years of my entire life though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7281025
What's your plan?

[Anonymous No.]

>>7280601

I work in product development for F5 Networks. In 2010 I made 123k.

I still have no life though. I'm just a bent dick mutant that works continually to distract myself from the fact that I'm a horrible pervert with no redeeming qualities.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7281006
Telecommunication
RF Engineer
Since japan got fucked by the tsunami and the earthquake, there has been a shortage of engineers.
Pay is quite good as well, as a freelance contractor you can get 10k/month easily.

[Anonymous No.]

Nothing.

I leech off of society with my fat disability checks. No regrets so far.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7280721

Yeah right...

[Anonymous No.]

I'm employed by my dad and I work 6 hrs a week from his basement.

[Anonymous No.]

Freelancer programmers: How did you find your job? Where did you search for it? Found an ad somewhere?

I know it's a really vague question but I'm a bit lost and I don't know anyone experienced in programming.

[Anonymous No.]

>work a 50-60 hour week
i don't think i could do that.

i'd get a mental breakdown within a week if i had to waste so much time on doing something else than sitting in front of my monitor doing nothing at all.

10-20 hours a week maybe. i could stand to sit 4 hours per day in some other place, but not 10+

[Anonymous No.]

>>7281085
If you're good, you develop contacts and friends in the industry at regular jobs, and those people end up starting their own companies or have friends who do, and they need good programmers.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7281091
Go get diagnosed with ADD or something then get a prescription for adderall. In addition to making you more productive, it also reduces the urge to eat and makes you really good and video games.

[Anonymous No.]

College

[Youmu Konpaku !MyonHUTINA No.]

University, trying to decide on whether I want to pursue a Ph.D.

[Anonymous No.]

College student. Other than it, nothing else.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7281029

Travel around homeless. Something of that sort. I don't feel as if I really fit into the job world so I want to be free.

[Anonymous No.]

Starting as an IT intern in July.

[Anonymous No.]

Black/whitesmith. I'm serious.

[Anonymous No.]

ε=ε=ε=ε=ε=ε=┌(;￣◇￣)┘まやなたなへらゆにやまにひらwww

[Anonymous No.]

I'm a US soldier stationed in Korea!

[Anonymous No.]

>>7281099
I don't have ADD, what's a better way of getting Adderall?

[Anonymous No.]

High school graduate studying for university entrance exams, no job. I really want to get in.

[(☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞ BOOF ☜(ﾟヮﾟ☜) !AWEsomEEEE!!R/52MaMCG2y No.]

I own a gunshop and work as a gunsmith.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7281154
Act like you do.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7281170
Do you have a Mosin-Nagant I could buy?
I really like myself some reliable rifles with internal magazines.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7281170

Are you banned from /k/ again Boof? I haven't seen you on there in a while.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7281128
Belive me or not, but this is fucking amazing!

[Youmu Konpaku !MyonHUTINA No.]

>>7281192
I was talking to an online friend that I'd known for a while, and turns out they're an apprentice meatcutter. I didn't even know they had apprenticeships these days still.
I wonder if that's sorta the same deal.

[(☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞ BOOF ☜(ﾟヮﾟ☜) !AWEsomEEEE!!R/52MaMCG2y No.]

>>7281191
I have a thread planned tonight.

>>7281186
Get a K31

[Anonymous No.]

I'm a sales associate.

I hate my job.

I hate working in front of a cash register for any amount of hours, dealing with people who essentially have to have their hands held.

I'm trying to learn various skills like programming and video editing, graphic design, drawing, crafts/woodworking, etc. Anything to get me out of this horrible grind of a job.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7281208
B-But it doesn't have an internal magazine ;_;

[Anonymous No.]

I've posted this an embarrassing amount of times. I was Hiki/NEET for 8 years now I work as a greengrocer at a store.

Please, /jp/, never get a job.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7281198
Where I come from, we have these two year trade schools which go directly into apprenticeship, and we got ridiculous amounts of people going into them simply because there's less of the "boring subjects". I was one of them, and I partly blame that choice for me being a NEET today.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7281198
While cuting meat isn't interesting at all i really admire craft related jobs.

[Anonymous No.]

I am actually interested in becoming an investment banker.

I am already a pedophile so I guess I am halfway there.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7281210
>programming and video editing, graphic design, drawing, crafts/woodworking, etc.
Er, wouldn't it be more efficient to just focus on one, so you can quickly get to the level where you can use it as a marketable skill?

[Anonymous No.]

>>7280816
I have the same problem it's been a year since I graduated haven't found a steady job or has the money to go to college yet

well I was trying to become a machinist outta highschool then I found out they don't take many new people and said fuck it

what I learned was to
tig weld
torch weld
use a lathe
solder
among other stuff

[Anonymous No.]

I don't have an actual job, but I mess around on eBay for a few bucks. It gets me enough for the occasional fig or video game.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7281038
>Since japan got fucked by the tsunami and the earthquake, there has been a shortage of engineers.
Will that still apply 3 years from now when I actually graduate, though?

[Anonymous No.]

>>7281225
But I can't! I'm so desperate to do something that I'll do anything! I know I can't focus, and that's one of the many problems that have led me to near NEETdom, but I don't want to go back to cashiering, I hate it so much! I hate it! I hate it! Every day I look for something to do, any possible avenue at all! It all takes too long, but not having a job isn't an option in my situation, either! I just have to waste my time and health in front of a cash register until something else comes along! I HATE IT!

That's a bit of an exaggeration, but it's more or less my situation. I hate my current position and my current job sucks up too much of my time and energy to do anything about changing it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7281238
Maybe.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7281233
I suppose that is the upside of having a job. Even though I despise my job and the people I work with, getting a bill from amiami for $350 like today, and being able to send it through with no stress makes life happier.

[Anonymous No.]

Is 21 too late to learn /prog/ shite
I feel as though I've missed all possible windows of opportunity because there are very few things that I have been studying consistently since I was a child.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7281311
I hope it's not, because that's exactly what I'm doing.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7281216

I can see what you mean. It seems kind of depressing to live only to get a job somewhere you hate working for half your life just so you can live a decent life. Some people may be fine with that life, but I'm not, and I'm neither smart nor talented enough nor diligent enough to create anything that can keep me from this fate, so I'm just going to live freely.

[Anonymous No.]

Web Development and Internet advertising. Never have to leave the house, and I make $25k a year. It's great, especially considering I'm only 19.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7281350
It is a way of life.
Make money->get the money to work for you->retire
You gotta beat the game.

[Anonymous No.]

I'm applying for my first job, a .NET developer position and going to an interview tomorrow. What should I brace for?

[Anonymous No.]

>>7281360

It is a more stable type of life, but it's not the kind for me. Others can live like that, but I don't want to. I absolutely despised school, and from what everyone tells me work is even worse. I refuse to live a kind of life I hate, but it seems as if I might not have many options.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7281350
You first have to accept that life involves doing some things you don't really feel like doing. This also goes for people who find something they're really passionate about and can earn money from, work will never be play even if you enjoy your field of work.

Once you've accepted this, you decide to find a way to minimize the amount of work you have to do in order to live a decent life. Getting an education that will get you a high paying job, cutting down your expenses (you're already miles ahead on this one if you're not planning to get a girlfriend or have kids), investing in something relatively low risk that will still ensure you of decent growth of your savings, etc.

Unfortunately I don't know enough about stuff like this to really give any useful advice, but my basic plan is to get an education and then a job in engineering, save up a good amount of money, and then move to a cheaper country and live off my savings or returns off the savings, and maybe the occasional freelance job.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7281371
You sound like me back when I dropped out of school. I think you'll realize pretty quickly that the unstable life is much tougher than you think it is. You're most likely a middle class kid who has gone through life never facing financial struggle, much less homelessness and starvation, so you take all your luxuries for granted and underestimate how horrible life will be for you without them.

You probably won't listen to me now, since it's easy enough to continue living inside your dreamworld where things will just work out somehow, but someday you will regret not having your priorities straight and focusing on such fleeting ambitions.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7281374

I already dropped out of college on my first year. There's no motivation for me to go. There's nothing I'm really passionate about that would get me working and enjoying it. I can understand doing things you don't like in order to get what you want, but it seems as if I'm putting in tons of work just to go exactly where I don't want to go. I don't expect free money or anything like that, I just don't want to have to work the vast majority of my life for barely any gain.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7281392
What I'm saying is that if something is inevitable, you should attack it head on instead of waiting for it to fuck you over later.

[Anonymous No.]

Dropped at my last year of mechatronics and now I'm in my 1st year of literature. I do some simple webpages and publicity from time to time but I'm still leeching from my parents that hate me (mainly my mother, my dad doesn't give a fuck).

[Anonymous No.]

>>7281386

I don't expect anything to work out. It's just that I know people that lived like that and they seemed extremely miserable. I don't want to be forced into a life like that or any kind of life, even if it means dying alone on the streets chasing something I'll never obtain.

>>7281408

It's already too late for that. Chances are I'm screwed one way or another. It'd be better of someone with goals but without support could change places with me, they could take advantage of what I had better than I could and did. I simply don't know what to do anymore.

[Anonymous No.]

I make various useless electronic devices. Doubt I could live by myself off the pay though.

[Anonymous No.]

true NEET reporting in

[Youmu Konpaku !MyonHUTINA No.]

>>7281413
>Dropped at my last year of mechatronics
What! Why? That sounds rather cool.

[Anonymous No.]

Withdrew from college in the middle of my second year.
Like >>7281392 said, it was like I was putting in tons of work and money into doing something I didn't even care about.

Now I'm just a shut-in NEET, leeching off my parents. To keep student loans off my back, I'm going to take some class come summer, but it's looking to be an online class so I don't have to go outside.

I'm honestly just living each day doing random meaningless things that make me happy while waiting for the time to come to kill myself.

[Anonymous No.]

I wonder what Remijam or Hong are doing for living.

Does anyone know?

[Anonymous No.]

>>7281444
Remi probably killed himself.

[Anonymous No.]

Computer tech for a point of sale company, train in an MMA gym after work, go home and listen to touhou music/browse the web for a couple of hours, sleep, repeat. Oh and on weekends drink/smoke myself into a coma.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7281446
Don't you know?
Remi is posting again. He's preparing for the next doujin music dump

[Anonymous No.]

>>7280601
I get money from the Australian government because I'm in university, also get scholarships etc. Also because I rent, I get renter's help. I get about $350 a fortnight from the government for living expenses and $1500-2000 per semester for books/fees, etc.

This kind of shit makes it really hard for me to get a job... I've saved up enough to go to Japan for a month from June... That's okay I guess...

[Anonymous No.]

>>7281448
weed 4 lyfe 420 esck dee ALPHA AS FUCK

[Anonymous No.]

Just about to be finished in high school. Don't know where I'm going to work or even something as simple as how to drive because I fail at everything in life uncontrollably. For now nothing unless a family member possibly hooks me up with something I can manage to do.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7281432
It was. I was already leading a research group on humanoid football playing robots called robocup. I was actually really good and I was planning on doing masters degree in Japan.
But there's a catch! Mechanical engineering is a very discriminatory field of work. You can be as "geek" as you want, not take a bath ever or whatever, but if you ever stray from the path of masculinity, you're pretty much fucked up. Let's just say that my head teacher (the one that led a research group on japan and that was going to help me get in a japan university) always questioned me about my sexuality in a very awkward way. As if he were saying "you better not go there". That guy didn't even know me!
tl;dr I was allowed to be as NEET as I wanted if I kept away from the thought of being the little girl. I couldn't do that, so I quit.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7281462
Why does such an inconsequential thing make me feel so happy?

[Youmu Konpaku !MyonHUTINA No.]

>>7281480
>I was already leading a research group on humanoid football playing robots called robocup.
Oh, cool, I know of that. Wasn't on my school's team myself, but I was in a group that was related to it.

But how did that subject even come up? Was it not possible to keep your work and private life separate?

[Anonymous No.]

used to be a hiki now i work at mcdonalds, its ok i guess but barely any money so I wish I could've continued my lifestyle. I'm jealous of a lot of you techs

[Anonymous No.]

>>7280601
... i don't have any "big diploma", so yes i deal with it

[Anonymous No.]

>>7281462
Yeah Remi was super helpful and gave me a link to all the piano sheet music for touhou/umineko, such a great guy.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7281497
A female member of my team found some compromising videos of me on the internet. She didn't tell anyone, but it was a bit scary.
I was already having many problems with other people not related to my job. But, to tell you the truth, I just got tired of trying. I usually take very important decissions without a second thougth and that was one of them.So I choose the one other thing I'm kind of good at, which is writting. I'm trying to write VNs and shit, but maybe I'm taking my life too easy now that I'm not working all day on those silly robots. Literature curricula is way too relaxed compared to mechatronics.

[Anonymous No.]

I wonder what it takes to get a job as an editor.
I can proofread if nothing else.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7281532
>A female member of my team found some compromising videos of me on the internet.
But when that happens, she's supposed to use it to blackmail you into becoming her sex slave.

But seriously, she must have been pretty perverted herself to be looking for such things on the internet.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7281532
You mind posting the videos? They're already out their on the web, why not share with /jp/? At least share what kind of videos they were.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7281465
I'm sorry my post upset you.

[Anonymous No.]

I've been going between being a NEET and working. Usually doing admin work.

Right now, I've been a NEET for about 4-5 months. But, I'll be going to college once the new term starts up.

[Anonymous No.]

I'm unemployed, living of savings that I got from my parents. I'm almost out and can't even find a shit job because people prefer hiring immigrants.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7281555
>she's supposed to use it to blackmail you
I don't know why that didn't happened. She kind of implied it, but I just said I didn't care what she did and kept cool, so I guess she just gave up.
>>7281559
>They're already out their on the web
Not anymore, I hope. Still, they were not nudes or anything, just me crossdressing. They were on youtube, if you care about it. But as I said, not anymore. You're not missing much anyway.

[Anonymous No.]

so many here with successful careers. I suppose they would be the most vocal ones though.

People like me and poor >>7281243 don't want to talk about retail hell.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7281366
>>7281366
NET guy, I think each company make their own exams. They fucked me up last time because they asked me a lot of theory that I never bothered to learn. There were 5 questions of SQL and the rest were theory about what does this library do and what this command is for, also they asked me to make a connection to a database Which is fairly easy but I never remember how it looks like because you keep that in a file which you create once in the life of a project.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7280751
Four-year college dropout taking classes at what amounts to community college and edging on failure grades all the time.

Trying to achieve readmit so my parents don't kill me.

[Anonymous No.]

Dropout from a four-year university taking classes at what amounts to community college and bordering on academic failure all the time due to motivational problems.

Working towards eventual readmit so my parents don't kill me.

Now offering email help in all math or physics HS or undergraduate subjects if anybody else happens to be on the edge of academic collapse like I was.

[Anonymous No.]

Dropped out of high school, bummed around in counselling that didn't do anything except make me feel worse about myself. Tried online home schooling for a while but I couldn't keep my motivation up.
Im going to try for my GED in June and try to get a job.

[Anonymous No.]

/jp/ - CS/IT General

[Anonymous No.]

I'm having one of the worst jobs in the world, customer service. I have customers yelling at me day in and out and since I'm bad at talking back I usually just end up listening to them and hope they stop.
Been stuck at this place for about 2 years, it's not like there is another job for me, the government has prevented me from living on welfare too.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7281733

Sounds like you're just fucking lazy and not willing to do better.

[Anonymous No.]

Dropped out of university burnt out. Got a job as sysadmin in a foreign country one week later.
Could be worse, actually. Spend most time waiting for something to happen that actually requires my attention and code or do some other stuff in the meantime that's remotely work related. Still, I miss the time I was basically doing nothing 18 hours a day...
Pay's 22k€/year now (33k$), but I'm still in trial, so it's probably getting up soonish. Or I'm getting fired. Oh well.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7280601
Traffic safety officer at a local police department.

Best job ever.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7281761
how did you find a job like that

[Anonymous No.]

>>7281804
To be honest, connections. Acquaintance of me worked there, so... yeah.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7281815
so no chance for me but ty

[Anonymous No.]

>>7281820
Well, you'll have to socialize at least a bit (emphasis on "a bit" – The boss yells at me more often for not going to lunch/taking breaks with the others/coming to work at 6 a.m. (because the office is so peaceful and quiet then)/overworking than for doing something wrong).
If you're too autistic/shy/whatever for socializing, well, it's going to be tough. Even if you get a job, you probably won't enjoy it.

[Anonymous No.]

Actual NEET now that I've graduated. Scheduled to take my Driver's Test in two weeks, after which I can actually start looking for a job. I did MechE, but I honestly don't see too many entry-level positions out there.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7281830
thats why im a NEET but money would be a good thing to have

[Anonymous No.]

Currently working for the equivalent of your Social Security, I believe. Doing it wrong, right? Instead of getting them to pay me to stay alive or something, I'm helping it's attorneys to solve all the shit it does.

Might be getting a job at a great office, with one of the big guys, if everything goes well. After college is over, I plan on becoming a judge.

I hope we will still be having these threads in a few years. I want to tell /jp/ that they can trust on the Law.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7281877
Will you be a bro like Judge Weinstein?
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/22/nyregion/22judge.html

[Anonymous No.]

US Army officer

[Anonymous No.]

I work as an unemployed piece of shit.
I'm pretty fucking good at it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7281899
Nice shit stains.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7281884

Of course! Just remember to say where we met, and I will see if I can do even more for you.

[undine !C/kl8M82oE No.]

professional welfare receiver
800 euros a month

[Anonymous No.]

This is the kind of thread people should have the wisdom and humility not to reply seriously to.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7281920
lol, Kentucky clay is the meanest shit stainiest stuff this side of the states.

I did ROTC during college, kept my power levels low the entire 4 years except when I hanged out with my other weeaboo friends. Was a hikki for like 6 months while waiting for orders.

Money isn't bad (neither is all that TRICARE coverage), can be pretty exciting at times, but sometimes you feel bad about how restrictive and regimented your life has become.

You also get to meet a lot of fucking crazy people.

[Anonymous No.]

I work at a warehouse and am going back to school for an Education degree in the fall. If I drop out again I'll probably kill myself.

Warehouse work isn't bad though, if you need an entry level job I'd highly suggest it over retail or service jobs.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7281970
This is twice the combined income of my family. I am jealous.

[Anonymous No.]

Left a decent part time library job to try and get a degree. Spent a few semesters at CC and didn't get accepted to any school I tried to transfer to. Guess I'll follow in my mom's footsteps and go to culinary school. Does rich /jp/sie want a live in chef?

[Anonymous No.]

>Soldiers on /jp/

Part of me is surprised and part of me isn't.

I ship for Army Basic in October

[Anonymous No.]

>>7282020
Why would no school accept you? I've never heard of a Community College student having trouble like that. Was your GPA terrible?

[Anonymous No.]

>>7282026
I don't understand what could possess you to join the army.
Maybe the free shit, but it forces you to lose your freedoms. No loli, no shota, no traps, no anime, no VNs, no Vocaloid, and you're forced to live, sleep, shower, and shit in close proximity to men who have failed high school.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7281970
Socialist utopia.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7282043
It's like vagina dentata, you go in thinking it'll be nice, not knowing much better, but by the time you realize how undesirable it is, it's impossible to get out.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7282043
I don't know, the prospect of committing genocide in some third world country seems somewhat attractive to me.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7282054

This is one of the most awesome comparisons I've ever heard.

[Anonymous No.]

yuih,j,bhjuyi,huk

[Anonymous No.]

>>7282043

lol that sounds like basic, I think its a pretty common view that its basically like being in prison when you join the army (which is what basic and OCS to an extent felt like lol).

When you get out to the force after BCT its really not too bad. Most barracks are like nice dorm rooms, and some of the nicer ones in Fort Lewis or the new ones at Fort Benning are pretty slick since you get your own rooms with a full kitchen.

As an officer or NCO you get to choose to live off base too if you want. (BAH money rocks)

Lol I dunno, I did ROTC cause I needed money and I kind of got swept up in the whole thing.

4 years later i'm an armor officer pissing off the side of the 30 year old Abrams missing most of its armor skirt while laughing with other officer students about how dirty and tired we all are.

As for traps? Well we just had that 30 minute death by power point about DADT repeal.

>>7282026
What MOS are you looking to get?

[b.b.hood !ponpOnMgkc No.]

/jp/ Library crew.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7282090
I would love to be a librarian. Reading Kafka on the Shore makes me have such dreams~

[b.b.hood !ponpOnMgkc No.]

>>7282102
Working in a private library in the likes of that novel sound romantic. I doubt I'll ever do such a thing ( ;_; ) but you should consider it anyway.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7282087

I'm set up for 68W

I'm actually looking forward to it despite the initial total loss of freedom.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7282043
More important than that, how can you entertain hopes of being trappish if you get all muscular?

[Anonymous No.]

>>7282121
Lol a medic eh? I'm assuming you're going to either Fort Jackson or Fort Benning for BCT. Hope you're good at doing saline locks and issuing out ibuproefen.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7282087
I was just in for a year of compulsory service (for a few days before I basically begged them to get out), so I'm not sure how different US officer training is, but at my camp, masturbation was banned, and it's not like you'd find any place to do it either, because there was no privacy.

[Anonymous No.]

Right now I'm a NEET until I start comp sci courses in June. Before this I worked for a year as a video game tester. I'm sad that I'll most likely never be able to get such a good job again.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7282134

Actually they said they're sending me to Fort Sill.

I'm sure my training will prepare me for dispensing ibuproefen.

[Anonymous No.]

Remember this?

>In the military, there are buff men who haven't jerked off in days. They see the new, girly /jp/ recruit, with his soft skin and shoulder length hair. They watch him constantly, his round ass bouncing through training, and always help him. They haven't seen a woman since the start of their 4 year career. One day, they all gang up on him in the shower. One of them grabs his tiny penis between his thumb and forefinger, and he instantly goes weak in the legs from the touch. He falls back into their warm, hairy embrace. They lift him to their face. 'W...Why?' he asks, sounding almost like a girl. They don't answer, or at least, not with words. He feels a penis, larger than he ever thought possible between his ass cheeks. Holding him and moving him, they fuck him in between his ass cheeks, the heat of his shaft rubbing his tight, moistening anus. When the man is about to orgasm, he sprays his seed all over /jp/. Another man grabs him, this time turning him over. /jp/ struggles but cannot resist. He slowly enters /jp/ as /jp/ moans with ecstasy, his virgin penis spraying clear liquids all over the floor. Another man quiets the moaning by ramming his 11 inch penis down /jp/s throat, fucking his moist throat. Eventually he orgasms into his mouth, milking the last drops of delicious semen into /jp/'s stomach. The man behind /jp/ orgasms too, filling /jp/ with warm seed, making his belly swell. /jp/ collapses, the men around him circle up and start jacking off, showering him with warm seed. Where does this story end? JOIN THE ARMY.

[Anonymous No.]

I go to a college two days a week. I'm supposed to have classes 9am-5pm but I skip the afternoon classes and sometimes skip whole days. They're gunna shout at me soon, I think.

In October, I'm going to University to study comp sci, but I don't enjoy it, nor am I interested in it. I know I'm going to have a shit time in University because of my course, but changing it would require ANOTHER year of my life.

I really want to do Geography and travel around, but I didn't get accepted into that course. I should also move into dorms to meet people and stuff, but I chose not to and I'll probably regret it.

At the end of my first year of University I hope to study abroad in France for a few months, not sure how realistic that is.

I used to work in retail but did not enjoy it and left as soon as I had enough money to build a PC and buy some figs.

polite sage for /soc/ thread on /jp/

[Anonymous No.]

>>7282137
No mastubation? We two guys who were going to be 88M at BCT trying to out do how much they could spank it like some kind of Olympic competition in the latrine.

Officer course gave you alot more freedom. I didn't have to do OCS cause I was ROTC commissioned. My course was basically all tactics and book oriented. Death by power point followed by lets play cowboy and indians with Tanks, Strykers, and Humvees in the world's shittiest mud pit.

Favorite thing I do though around post is sound off my cycling Touhou playset ring tone. Its like a beacon for people who knows whats up.

Had that thing ring up "Wind God Girl" while I was in the motor pool replacing armor plates on the tank. A filipino SFC looks at me and nods knowingly lol.

[Anonymous No.]

being gamma t!er at an university. my blankets smell like piss and ijdgaf

[Anonymous No.]

I teach english in Japan.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7282033
14k people applied to transfer, they had room for 4k. My gpa was actually really good, but I had 0 extracurricular stuff.

[Anonymous No.]

Never had one.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7282193
is that you forza why are you on /jp/

[Anonymous No.]

Graduate school. PCR PCR PCR Western PCR report results to advisor PCR PCR Western repeat with intermittent "ow cell culture got contaminated" and "new symposium, time to get the attendance certificate and see if there's anything interesting going on" once in a while. I'll be happy if I can get a few papers out of this, and it's looking mighty fine in this regard. Or at least it would if I actually spent time writing them instead of browsing /jp/ all the time.

I don't care much for money and scholarships cover most everything anyhow.

[Anonymous No.]

If the armed forces of my country were more like Americas I would join in a heartbeat.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7282241
Was the first part of your post supposed to make any sense at all?

[Anonymous No.]

I went to university, made no friends and kept to myself, returned home and then became NEET.

[Anonymous No.]

Community manager for a MMO company in Europe. Shit is pretty cash.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7282259

Only if you're a molecular biologist. PCR is kind of easy though, which is a good thing. Kind of boring though having to always sit and wait for your reactions to complete. Molecular biology is all about waiting for shit to happen.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7282259
PCR = amplifying DNA, Western = protein detection. He could've been clearer.

[Anonymous No.]

IT asset remarketing / Data security Ontario Goverment..


I got in 3 mos ago..feels good man

[b.b.hood !ponpOnMgkc No.]

>>7282301
Ontario government crew.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7282268
>Kind of boring though having to always sit and wait for your autoclaves

That's more correct in my experience. At least when running a gel you have the looming suspense of whether you'll obtain the result you wanted, you don't even get to enjoy this when you run out of plates or notice you don't have a particular medium and have to wait two hours to continue, for the former you can't even forget about it and do it next morning because the agar solidifies. Same with autoclaving fermentors, which are a pain in the ass because you're going to haul them around and they weigh quite a bit in addition to being fragile.

And one of our autoclaves loves to spill water all over the place once in a while, so it's double the joy.

[Anonymous No.]

So /jp/ is comprised of white collar slaves , entry level bureacrats, computer programmers, a middle school teacher, a couple of military guys, and welfare hikkis posing as students

[Anonymous No.]

And apparently some molecular biologist

[Anonymous No.]

>>7282341
and a few NEETs.

Not bad, overall.

In my case, starting uni in 7 months. Engineering does sound like the main stream career down here.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7282341
Also freelance programmers, NEETs on disability, and NEETs with no income at all.

[Anonymous No.]

A NEET for a skip year, a student for 4 years after that.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7282354
I hope I'll meet some people with /jp/-related hobbies when I get into engineering myself. The odds sound better than in any other field of study, but I'm preparing myself for the disappointment when it turns out everyone are douchebags and I should just hurry back home to my dakimakura after each lecture.

[Anonymous No.]

On my 3rd year as a NEET.

[Anonymous No.]

Software engineer in the defense industry. I can't comprehend how it is financially possible to be a NEET.

[Anonymous No.]

Programmer at a radio observatory (we look at stars, galaxies, etc. using radio waves instead of optical light).

[Anonymous No.]

>>7282431
>I can't comprehend how it is financially possible to be a NEET.
You don't have parents?

[Anonymous No.]

The reason why azns are less ashamed of their waifu collections than in the west is because parents like it when their son shows an interest in girls-having a son with 200 pictures of hatsune miku his bedroom, to the parents, just means he's got women on his mind and will likely end up producing grandchildren once his life reaches that point lol where he starts socializing with women openly and dating.

[Anonymous No.]

NEET here with Aspergers and social phobia. I just get checks from the government every month, and don't go outside.

[Youmu Konpaku !MyonHUTINA No.]

>>7282443
Neato. What kinda programming jobs do you work on?

[Anonymous No.]

I have a job interview at a bank on Monday. I'm so nervous. ;_;

[Anonymous No.]

architectual draftsman

not much work, for what i do. if you don't mind the whole drafting things for hours without end on a comp.

[Anonymous No.]

a pharmacist

[Anonymous No.]

>>7282497
I'm a biomedical engineering student. I was thinking of switching to just pure math, but I promised /jp/ I would find a way to make us little girls, and because I have no other ambition, I intend to keep that promise.

I live a home, ride my bike to classes, and live off of 200$ a month that my parents give me in exchange for not talking to any other family members.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7280778
>Now I work as a freelance Russian/Spanish to English translator

You're living my dream.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7282570
BME, fuck yeah!
I signed up for this major because it sounded badass.