ASPIRING WRITERS, Show us a picture of your day job digs and tell us your project or genre you write in. Gas-kun

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Anonymous Mon May 18 07:33:48 2015 No.6556026 [Reply] [Original]

ASPIRING WRITERS,
Show us a picture of your day job digs and tell us your project or genre you write in.
Gas-kun

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 07:34:34 2015 No.6556031 >>6556026 hey Gas kun how are you buddy

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 07:42:23 2015 No.6556052 File: 2.07 MB, 3264x2448, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6556031 Gassing these motherfuckin' trucks.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 08:02:31 2015 No.6556098 Do golf balls ever get hit into your work area?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 08:08:50 2015 No.6556110 File: 418 KB, 1536x2048, werk.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] zubwei. right now writing character sketches and short scenes inspired by public transportation and the sketchy folks that ride the bus in my city.

Anonymous Mon May 18 08:30:56 2015 No.6556163

>>6556110
I've artisted a few sandwiches in my day. Some of the most interesting people I've ever met in my life worked next to me at subway. Got the job when I was 15 because I was already 6'3". There was a guy who was 27 and had suffered a nervous breakdown and only spoke when something important needed to be said. I'll never forget one time I was rambling on about a band or something and he said "I envy you, you're young and have no idea what's going on."
There used to be this chick named Amber and I wanted to take her out on a date but didn't have a car. I bribed the land whale asst manager to drive us to a restaurant to take us out. Amber ALWAYS wore long sleeves under her subway shirt. The night we went out she was wearing a sleeveless dress. HOLY FUCK she was a "cutter" and her arms were sliced to shit. I played it off and still talked to her and took her to the arcade and blew like an entire fucking paycheck to win her a bear or some shit. Everything went fine and landwhaleoppttimus dropped us off at home. Next day at work she tried to kiss me and when I acted surprised she hit me, pulled a kitchen knife on me, told me to keep away, and locked herself in the deep freeze until her mother came and got her. The rich Indian owners 13 year old daughter constantly cornered me and blew me in the store room. Subway was fucking weird

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 08:37:45 2015 No.6556181 >>6556026 did you upgrade your phone Gas kun? The pictures look better.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 09:59:54 2015 No.6556450 >>6556026 I'm a butcher, no photo because I'm home. A 3 generation family story from the end of ww2 to 2008 placed in my corner of the world.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 10:01:32 2015 No.6556456 I'm a prostitute. My johns and janes don't let me take pictures.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 10:04:42 2015 No.6556463 >>6556163 The adventures of Tyrone Slothrop in subway.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 10:21:51 2015 No.6556510 >>6556163 >"There was a guy who was 27 and had suffered a nervous breakdown and only spoke when something important needed to be said." Damn this sound like me. I already do the latter part.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 10:22:51 2015 No.6556512 >>6556163 Is this you Gas-Kun?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 10:25:02 2015 No.6556517 Retirement services call center

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 10:42:05 2015 No.6556549 I do landscaping. Is it bad that I actually kind of enjoy it?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 10:44:09 2015 No.6556557 >>6556549 Enjoying anything in life past the age of eighteen is bad.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 10:45:15 2015 No.6556559 >>6556557 What? Man, the shit you write must be boring as hell.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 10:45:29 2015 No.6556560 File: 1013 KB, 1680x1050, 1431269697559.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This is a drawn representation.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 10:46:06 2015 No.6556562 >>6556512 Yup.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 10:46:27 2015 No.6556566 >>6556559 Works of art dismissed as "boring" are almost always the pinnacle of artistic success.

Anonymous Mon May 18 10:48:45 2015 No.6556570 [DELETED]

>>6556562
Dude WRITE REALISTIC FICTION

Stop with the jetpack shit. Read some Atticus Lish, read some Donald Ray Pollock and learn to articulate emotional experience in a subtle and entertaining way. One thing you have that most people, including Tao Lin and that kind of writer, is life experience. If you don't use that to your advantage and continue writing about goblins on the moon then you are literally cucking yourself from being published.

>>	Muck J.J. Bulligan !!ryE2gEjGbpu Mon May 18 10:51:22 2015 No.6556575 File: 25 KB, 780x114, Screen Shot 2015-05-17 at 3.10.01 PM.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6556026 i'm a nanny, so just read the phrase "back yard" and whatever you imagine is where i spend most of my time

Anonymous Mon May 18 10:51:49 2015 No.6556577

>>6556560
Hikkikomori? I've developed an interest in those lately. I was never given an option of being a NEET. High school was almost over and my dad was like, "you're almost 19 (January birthday started school a year late) so you need to decide what you're going to do with your life after graduation. I hear the army is giving away college money."

Anonymous Mon May 18 10:52:55 2015 No.6556583

>>6556566
>thinking being boring makes something good
Boring is only acceptable if there is some other reason to appreciate the work, be it a philosophical idea or it being boring for some thematic reason.

Being boring is not a good trait but it is an acceptable byproduct of some works.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 10:53:27 2015 No.6556585 >>6556026 No pictures but English teacher in super rural japan. Bad poetry, alright prose. I like reading poetry more than prose, but it's harder to write well.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 10:56:16 2015 No.6556592 No one is posting pics

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 10:58:04 2015 No.6556597 >>6556570 >literally cucking A double word misuse combo!

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 11:39:08 2015 No.6556692 >>6556026 I'm a dishwasher and I am paid to operate a dishwasher. I'm pulling my first poetry collection together since I started frequent poetry writing this time last year. Trying to write a prose poetry sci fi novella which I'd publish as a chapbooj

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 11:42:44 2015 No.6556699 >>6556585 Daily reminder that teaching English abroad is a form of neo-colonialism.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 11:44:00 2015 No.6556702 File: 111 KB, 640x570, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6556592 >>forgot the photo >>6556456 >baiting so hard you forgot to say what you write Nice

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 11:48:34 2015 No.6556720 >>6556702 What happens if you lay down and go through the machine on the left? inb4 bainposts

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 11:50:32 2015 No.6556723 >>6556702 Thanks, guy!

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 11:50:35 2015 No.6556724 >>6556720 The water is 192 degrees and is 8% caustic chemicals I don't think good things

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 11:50:47 2015 No.6556726 >>6556720 its scalding water, so no memeing but yea it would be extremely painful and your shit would get burnt

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 11:54:03 2015 No.6556735 File: 1.27 MB, 3376x3688, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6556720 Show you think the dishwasher ish your ally? I wash raised in the dishwasher, scrubbed by it and didnt she the shun until I was already a man.

Anonymous Mon May 18 12:06:02 2015 No.6556760

I'm a faggot 18 year old who writes little things in class when I'm bored.
I really like it though. This morning I played with a little spider for twenty minutes and then wrote a story about her all while the philosophy teacher spoke to us about Nietzsche.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 12:06:05 2015 No.6556761 >>6556570 this, life gives you lemons and you're trying to build a fucking house, you dumbass.

Anonymous Mon May 18 12:08:17 2015 No.6556765 [DELETED]

I'm 19 years old.

I am handsome, smart, athletic and virile.

I have a novel that is in it's final editing stage, and a creative writing professor at my college has read the first draft and thinks it's saleable.

I have a girlfriend who is confident, articulate, playful and spontaneous.

I have a small group of interesting friends from different social and academic backgrounds, and I also have many other acquaintances who see me as a reliable source of humour and good company.

Both my parents are alive and in good health.

I have no regrets.

I have already experienced three existential crises, the latter of which was described as having the depth and profundity of a man twice my age.

I am a passionate lover, a sharp thinker, and a trader of witty repartee.

I am not self-pitying, meek or needlessly humble.

I will live a good life at your expense.

Anonymous Mon May 18 12:10:50 2015 No.6556767
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>>6556577
Life is pretty strong with its feedback, the less you do the less you're able to do. It's pretty horrible and eventually it's harder to leave the house to buy groceries than to leave the atmosphere. I've gone a day without eating because I just couldn't tolerate the idea of people seeing me.
I hope my experience inspires others to be better people but that would requiere people knowing I exist and that's luckily impossible.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 12:11:19 2015 No.6556768 I won't reply to the post above me. Don't also.

Anonymous Mon May 18 12:21:00 2015 No.6556791
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>>6556761
(Op)That makes no sense.
I do know about making the best of things. I once had to spend three weeks in a solitary confinement cell while being held at a U.S. Marine prison in Camp LeJune. Hot like an oven, no air circulation, can't turn the lights off and no window. Had to sit in the middle of a cell in a child's school desk. Had a pad and paper. Started drawing to try and keep my mind right because solitary will fuck you up if you let it. I started with little squiggles and then started filling entire pages with a single line twisted and turned as many times as possible. I turned it into "single" line art. I later developed this style into more complex shapes and images and had an art show. Sold almost everything. Pic related. 30 second sample

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 12:24:39 2015 No.6556802 >>6556791 You could had been writing about your experience instead, silly gas-kun. why do you take the less out of your chances?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 12:27:16 2015 No.6556809 I work in a grocery store. I don't have any pictures, but you all know what grocery stores look like. I'm doing a novel-in-stories about an impending nuclear holocaust. I also write poetry.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 12:29:19 2015 No.6556814 >>6556802 My autobiography would be filed under fiction. No one would believe it.

Anonymous Mon May 18 12:33:48 2015 No.6556829

>>6556814
I could also write about my aging Jew roommate who was so lonely and desperate that he would cruise homeless shelters for guys to fuck in the ass. He'd feed them and then fuck them. How bad is that? Your homeless and possibly a junkie and this guy is trying to cornhole you over a meal? Isn't life hard enough? We don't use his name anymore, we just refer to him either as "the Jew" or " "the cockroach" true story.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 12:34:21 2015 No.6556832 >>6556760 Retard, listen to her

Anonymous Mon May 18 12:34:31 2015 No.6556833

I work at a Hospital.

Don't wanna say too much, patient privacy rights and all.

But I have two "original" world-based stories: One is set in a dark-fantasy world of warriors and wizards. Pretty generic, but hopefully I can find something unique to throw in.

The other is set in post-apocalyptic America and stars a college-age couple that travel the world as cartographers and make maps of the new convenient after numerous, powerful earthquakes, massive meteor storms, and tornadoes. Heavily inspired by Kino's Journey.

Anonymous Mon May 18 12:37:18 2015 No.6556836

I work in a 'highend' fashion boutique owned by rich French Jews in a city heralded as the pinnacle of economy.
I get paid nothing, I do next to nothing, and it makes you feel as if you are nothing.
It's awful and I am moving country in two weeks.

At the moment I'm writing something that initially began as just a writing exercise because I hadn't written in a while and then turned into something more, quite naturally so. It entails a man who is/was a spy who is sent to Japan to learn of the Japanese and their customs but instead flees and lives with a Japanese family before traveling to the south of the country before winter begins.

Anonymous Mon May 18 12:37:31 2015 No.6556837
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I'm enrolled in university but I went a bit mental for a bit and stopped going in so now I do nothing except get drunk and shitpost. I've been writing mediocre poetry lately, at the encouragement of my friends. My short fiction seems to be a sort of surreal magic realism at the moment.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 12:38:39 2015 No.6556842 >>6556833 >convenient also I don't think tornadoes would fuck up america too much (why is it always fucking america?)

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 12:39:14 2015 No.6556847 File: 1.14 MB, 3264x2448, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6556760 Oh shit, get off my brainwave. I played with a bee for about 20 mins and then conceptualized a children's book.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 12:39:58 2015 No.6556848 >>6556837 your room is pretty cool tbh post some more pics

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 12:40:09 2015 No.6556850 >>6556814 it's not autobiography, it's non-fiction, and it would be much better than your fction.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 12:40:52 2015 No.6556855 >>6556837 Stay in school. Keep writing that poetry.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 12:41:55 2015 No.6556861 >>6556850 >implying you've read my fiction

Anonymous Mon May 18 12:44:45 2015 No.6556869

>>6556110
God that dining room is ridiculous. Mine is like 18x30 squares. I clean the bar though because even if I sweep well my manager is a cunt about it.
Currently writing a novella inspired by my favorite Greek myth and writing sonnets to fuck around with vocabulary and meter.

>inb4 loser
I'm 18 and graduate next month

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 12:45:51 2015 No.6556873 >>6556869 Noice

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 12:48:40 2015 No.6556883 File: 970 KB, 4048x2912, room.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6556848 There's not a lot to see and my phone camera is dicks. It's just a dorm room. >>6556855 I'm applying to go back.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 12:56:35 2015 No.6556904 File: 29 KB, 751x902, 1417604304127.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6556765 >tfw on 4chan enough to recognize pastas >tfw I oughta get outta here already

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 13:08:12 2015 No.6556931 Im a professional brewer got a couple of non fiction projects going and then my fiction book has been sadly neglected

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 13:23:41 2015 No.6556970 >>6556931 Pics?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 13:32:07 2015 No.6556996 File: 376 KB, 1732x3456, 49.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6556026 >day job poor gas-kun, become a neet already >project nonsensical alt lit and outsider poetry

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 14:02:55 2015 No.6557109 Janitor, probably the most pathetic fucker in da thread. Outlining a short sci-fi story, action-oriented and hyperbolic, I'm afraid the human element will be insufficient.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 14:03:15 2015 No.6557113 >>6556996 Gas kun is the antithesis of NEET.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 14:20:37 2015 No.6557181 All the wannabe writers of /lit/ will realize at roughly the same time that they're never going to make it.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 14:35:04 2015 No.6557239 >>6557181 but you will, right?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 14:37:43 2015 No.6557249 File: 1.52 MB, 2448x2448, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Gonna keep writing... Everything is shit in the first draft. That's why they're called first drafts.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 14:41:05 2015 No.6557259 >>6557239 I'm not a wannabe writer.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 14:48:54 2015 No.6557297 >>6556996 Cool pic, dude.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 14:56:02 2015 No.6557338 edumacation my story is based on a violent antihero who enjoys bad shit

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 15:20:38 2015 No.6557459 >>6556026 Gas-kun, you have mail. How old are you, Gas-kun?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 15:42:45 2015 No.6557604 >>6557259 OK, son.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 15:56:06 2015 No.6557669 File: 37 KB, 240x814, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6557459 Just got it, thanks! I'm a supple and delicious 39. But I have that weird gene thing where I don't age as fast as everyone else. Pic related

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 18:15:56 2015 No.6558358 >>6557604 Bamp

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 18:20:37 2015 No.6558373 >>6556833 Yeah, HIPAA is a bitch, dude. I'm a CRA and I know these feels.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 18:25:36 2015 No.6558393 >>6557669 You are one creepy mother fucked

Anonymous Mon May 18 18:26:31 2015 No.6558396

>>6556026

I teach math to underprivileged urban youths (poor black kids). Working on my high school ELA certification.

I write short stories, mostly for fun. I don't really know the genre. Mostly realistic, but with some psuedo-magical elements, or something absurd, or something fantastic that the characters don't necessarily react to as fantastic.

slip-stream maybe?

Anonymous Mon May 18 18:29:46 2015 No.6558408

>>6556026

I've worked at two gas stations in my life. The first time, for about 4 months in a college town, from 10:30 pm till around 7 or 7:30 depending on when the manager decided to roll his fat ass in.

The second time was last year, after I got laid off, working the late shift, but not overnights.

During both stints, I worked alone. I started keeping a notebook of the weird ass shit I saw, and the weird ass people I talked to. Unfortunately the notebook from college is lost in the ether.

Has your gas station experience been the same?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 18:29:54 2015 No.6558409 >>6558396 Pic?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 18:30:32 2015 No.6558413 File: 148 KB, 423x814, rebuilt stronger.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6558393 using state of the art meme graphics technology i've created a speculative portrait of him

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 18:31:05 2015 No.6558416 >>6558408 It's semi's run through fleet services. I see the same people every day

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 18:31:40 2015 No.6558419 >>6556767 This sounds like crippling depression. You know that's treatable, right? Even without drugs, long term therapy is an option. Maybe try that.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 18:40:46 2015 No.6558451 >>6556510 >Damn this sound like me. I already do the latter part. Not really, your post was unimportant. Now shut the fuck up.

Anonymous Mon May 18 18:43:15 2015 No.6558455 [DELETED]

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>>6556026
>military
>live in a on-base dormitory
>take 30 days of leave (time off)
>only ride bicycle
>only leave to chainsmoke and eat at the dining facility
>too afraid to speak, or make noise
>too afraid to use the shared bathroom
>shit into trashbags and hoard trash in my closet
>closet gives birth to flies and other creepy crawlies, so i tape it shut
>cockroaches in my fridge
>extremely paranoid of a surprise room inspection, but unable to do anything about it
>crossdressing fetish
>order lingerie by the truckload off ebay, impulsive online shopping
>faggy tumblr account updated daily in hopes of attracting someone interested in a boytoy
>unable to sleep
>write poetry
>steal panties and other articles of clothing from the communal laundromat downstairs
>go out at night and raid the other dormitories laundry rooms' panties

i'm acquiring so much life experiences right now
i'm so sad

Anonymous Mon May 18 18:46:45 2015 No.6558464

I work in a tax office where out phones are confiscated to make sure we don't take any photos of confidential information, so imagine a big grey room with rows of desks where people sit for 6-8 hours reading and typing up tax returns. It's a cross between that famous shot from The Apartment and the descriptions from The Pale King and if I don't find anything better in a few months, I'll try and kill myself because it's so boring and lifeless. Anyway, I write crime thriller screenplays and the occasional short story. Novels seem too hard to develop.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 18:49:01 2015 No.6558472 >>6556931 Post your fiction book.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 18:49:31 2015 No.6558477 >>6558455 Time to write that book, soldier. Btw, 670-1 doesn't condone panty

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 18:52:36 2015 No.6558487 >>6558464 >corporate drone >"thriller" screenplays Such a cliche. Sounds depressing as fuck to view life from your perspective.

Anonymous Mon May 18 18:58:32 2015 No.6558512

I work as a file clerk in a doctor's office. The "in" part isn't necessarily true, since I'm never there while patients are being seen. I come in when no one is in (usually weekends or late nights) and do all the admin work that needs to be done to prepare the office for the next week's worth of patients. I wish I could write about the hidden people who the rest of the world never sees, not the demigod business mogul ruling the world from the throne of a shadow corporation, but the lowly clerk greasing the wheels of the system to keep everything running smoothly, but I feel like I myself don't know enough about other's experiences to adequately represent the same feeling that I feel about my work. You never hear their story, but I don't feel apt to be the one to tell it.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 18:59:31 2015 No.6558518 >>6558477 jokes on you, since that was 3 years ago and i've fully degenerated into a neet caterpillar.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 19:02:46 2015 No.6558527 >>6558518 Your CO will not see it that way.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 19:08:03 2015 No.6558545 >>6556699 How is it?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 19:11:21 2015 No.6558552 >>6558416 Ah, different experience then. Still must be some interesting folks though, right?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 19:13:41 2015 No.6558563 >>6558409 can't really provide a pic without showing my school. I will tell you it is in the st. louis public school system.

Anonymous Mon May 18 19:23:04 2015 No.6558586

>>6558487
I like to think I'm not a drone. I don't talk to anyone else who works here and commit to working the fewest hours - there were layoffs a few months ago and I'm the smallest expenditure for the company so I was kept on and a few of the ones who were let go have been here for decades and were weeping on their way out. Also, what's wrong with thrillers?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 19:26:41 2015 No.6558599 >>6558487 >lives with mommy >acts superior on a Slavic cartoon discussion board Your life seems to be turning out well.

Anonymous Mon May 18 19:27:15 2015 No.6558600

Manage a upscale bar and restaurant in London. Probably going to be fired this week for having a coke fueled lock in on Saturday night with a mob of friends. Romance novel currently being worked on, also pumping out lots of shitty poems that everyone says are great.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 19:31:58 2015 No.6558616 >>6558600 My nigga. You have my respect sir.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 19:58:08 2015 No.6558715 >>6557249 you're gona need an engineer for dat laptop champ

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 20:12:02 2015 No.6558757 >>6558715 It's easy to use at work. Netbook FTW

>>	Anonymous Tue May 19 02:42:34 2015 No.6560165 >>6556570 >muh realism Lmao fuck off retard.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 19 02:47:18 2015 No.6560174 >>6556570 Nah, he can do what he wants. Let him. Most people don't want to transfer their life experiences into fiction. Creating new things is more fun than simple translation of the real

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>>6556767
Lmao I got so fucking mad one night that my friend was able to convince me to get a job after three years of laying around doing nothing after High-school. I still have it today and it's shit.

I'm a kitchen aide at a Nursing Home. I wash dishes and make dessert for the residents while assisting the cook and what not, but it's pretty cool in that though it pays like shit (I live with my Grandparents and use money for books and weeb-shit while helping them out because they're getting older) you get tons and tons and tons of downtime to read on the job. I read and sometimes write (No electronics thanks to HIPPA or whatever) on the job. It's pretty neat.

More free food than you can eat too. Just fucking annoying as shit since you have to literally worship the old folks (they're nice most of the time if you ignore the ones that've lost their minds or complain about everything) and have to put up with incompetent CNAs that make your job harder. I like the people I work with too much to quit.

Anonymous Tue May 19 02:58:30 2015 No.6560200
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>le in my living person's coffin man

just read all day in my cubicle while putting on a convincing show that i m not wasting tax payer dollars. when inspired i ll crap out a short story; currently have two sketched out and ready to be fleshed out...feelzgudmang

>>	Anonymous Tue May 19 03:00:29 2015 No.6560205 >>6556570 You can do all that with non-realist fiction you fucking idiot lmao. What matters is how well whatever you do write is written not if it's fantastic or not stupid.

Anonymous Tue May 19 03:01:53 2015 No.6560208
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>>6556026
Hey!
Is this second one you?
I wrote the first one but absolutely loved your continuation. I like the 'cluttered' way you write:
'donkey banging'
'overturned wok'
I thought it went a bit far with the whole 'dark one' thing but still entertaining and well written. (aside from spelling here an there, but i presume you wrote it on a phone)

Anonymous Tue May 19 03:05:16 2015 No.6560214

NEET/quasi-hermit. I am writing at least four novels and a bunch of short stories because I can't seem to focus on one thing for more than a week at a time. I spend most of my time composing music, because it's what I love, but it isn't a viable source of income and writing stories is only 1% more likely to be, so I'll probably be dying in a cardboard box on the periphery of an urban centre, nursing my decaying body and mind with cheap vodka, by the time I'm 35.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 19 03:30:30 2015 No.6560285 MFA student. Get my stipend for teaching basic comp. No debt. Not gonna make it, but could be worse.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 19 03:39:29 2015 No.6560307 >>6560214 interesting how are you surviving?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 19 03:59:47 2015 No.6560342 unemployed piece of shit picture a basement writing fantasy

Anonymous Tue May 19 04:05:03 2015 No.6560351

I work a menial warehouse job for $10 an hour
I'm currently working on a short short story about a sentient gun and a guy who uses him to kill an ex lover. I have a full novel idea about a man made of glass who's a real asshole but winds up getting used by a bunch of different people for political gain and he loses all sense of his identity. The novel ends with identity losing all meaning and America collapsing.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 19 04:54:24 2015 No.6560447 >>6558599 >2015 >not living with mommy >not eating delightful food each day >not remaining chaste and pure >not interpreting your inability to succeed in the world and make friends as a sign of latent genius Sucks to be you fam

>>	Anonymous Tue May 19 05:58:47 2015 No.6560536 >>6560208 Yup. Wrote that on the phone. trying to write on a phone and fight the autocorrect is like fighting a damn octopus

>>	Anonymous Tue May 19 06:00:39 2015 No.6560538 >>6560351 8/10 wold read

>>	Anonymous Tue May 19 06:08:10 2015 No.6560546 >>6560351 so it's like america goes full 4chan? does it collapse because people start to just shitpost all day?

Anonymous Tue May 19 06:56:04 2015 No.6560602

>>6560208
I also have "racing thoughts" so even when I think I'm laying out words in an organized fashion it comes back as cluttered. It's like thinking you've made your bed perfectly and as soon as you blink the whole setup looks like a kid has been jumping on it for an hour

>>	Anonymous Tue May 19 07:00:01 2015 No.6560606 File: 151 KB, 1024x683, 1.%20BT%20Call%20Centre%20-%20Doncaster%201[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Not my actual workplace, but I work in an identical one elsewhere in the country.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 19 07:00:41 2015 No.6560607 >>6560606 That's pretty Kafkaesque

>>	Anonymous Tue May 19 07:04:27 2015 No.6560613 >>6560607 I once had a customer email me to thank me after I solved an issue that had been ongoing for quite a while. She thanked me for saving her from a "kafkaesque nightmare", it amused me.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 19 07:04:33 2015 No.6560614 >>6560606 It looks like the set of a terry Gilliam movie

>>	Anonymous Tue May 19 07:07:11 2015 No.6560618 >>6560614 That's what a British Telecomms call center looks like, 5 days a week, I'm there, helping people with asinine technical problems.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 19 07:18:24 2015 No.6560641 File: 48 KB, 480x480, humantrash.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6560606 jesus

>>	Anonymous Tue May 19 07:24:44 2015 No.6560656 >>6558512 what qualifications do you need to do your job ? how have you gotten it ?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 19 07:26:03 2015 No.6560658 >>6560618 You could be all, "u w0t m8? 12 bong it is, time for tea and a biscuit b4 Queen mum starts listening to new order records like a cunt" Just kidding, I like English accents and new order. Congrats on the new princess!

>>	Anonymous Tue May 19 07:39:37 2015 No.6560677 >>6560536 Hey man, it's Ok to take the compliment. You did good, no need to deflect it with an irreverent remark about how hard it is to type on a phone. be proud of yourself. You are loved.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 19 07:55:23 2015 No.6560706 File: 55 KB, 400x500, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6560677 Thanks, guy! Take this as a token of my appreciation.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 19 07:56:38 2015 No.6560710 >>6556767 this post makes me wanna hold you tight and never let go

>>	Anonymous Tue May 19 07:56:49 2015 No.6560712 >>6560613 Did you introduce her to Descartes?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 19 07:58:04 2015 No.6560714 >>6558512 Read a book called "Working" by Studs Terkell. Really opened my eyes to the perspectives of the "average" working person.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 19 07:59:22 2015 No.6560720 >>6556052 >>6556026 How very funny, I just finished the pupil. By Harry that is.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 19 08:00:19 2015 No.6560722 >>6560658 Thanks I guess, I don't really follow Britishness though. >>6560712 I don't think I replied to the email, it was some old lady.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 19 08:02:08 2015 No.6560725 The dole. Thank you based Nordic welfare.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 19 08:28:24 2015 No.6560780 >>6560725 Pic?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 19 08:46:54 2015 No.6560830 File: 48 KB, 479x720, 1380697092809.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The edge is strong with this thread.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 19 08:53:59 2015 No.6560854 >>6560830 Fuck your shitposting sir. Fuck it right in the ass

>>	Anonymous Tue May 19 08:57:59 2015 No.6560873 >>6556699 >implying what I do is actual work I usually show up and someone vaguely tells me what they want me to do. Most of the time I read or play with the kids.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 19 09:15:00 2015 No.6560926 >>6560873 I should change jobs

>>	Anonymous Tue May 19 09:24:26 2015 No.6560952 >>6556699 thank god im a spanish teacher in florida.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 19 09:26:21 2015 No.6560956 >>6560952 Post pics

>>	Anonymous Tue May 19 09:26:26 2015 No.6560960 >>6556847 >played with a bee nigga are you fucking insane?

Anonymous Tue May 19 09:39:33 2015 No.6560990

>>6560960
There's quite a few wood bees and bumblebees about. If you set out a small capful of sugar water or mtn dew, they come to visit. Bees are different from wasps hornets and Yellowjackets. If a bee stings something, it dies. The others can sting repeatedly. Don't make any sudden moves and wear gloves and the bee bee-comes your friend. +1 to bee.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 19 10:55:26 2015 No.6561137 >>6560205 Thanks

>>	Anonymous Tue May 19 11:22:21 2015 No.6561188 File: 1.16 MB, 396x235, you can do it.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6556883 Best of luck to you anon.

Anonymous Tue May 19 11:40:25 2015 No.6561239

I'm the sole groundskeeper at a tiny little church cemetery where most of the headstones are over 100 years old. I mow the lawn, plant flowers, make sure the headstones are still standing upright, blow the leaves, plow the snow in the winter. I also find imaginative ways to capture/kill groundhogs and gophers like Bill Murray in caddy shack. Once or twice a year I have to dig a grave for somebody. Rarely does anyone come visit, and when they do it's mostly curious passers-by rather than living relatives of someone buried there.

It's a lot of downtime. I get to pretty much do whatever I want. My "boss" is the church pastor (the church itself doesn't really have any employees, just a handful of old women who volunteer), but he's rarely there anyways. As long as I keep the cemetery looking respectable, he doesn't even bother checking in with me.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 19 11:47:10 2015 No.6561259 >>6556765 can I suck your dick, sir?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 19 11:48:31 2015 No.6561264 >>6561239 Do you get paid in money? Sounds like an extremely depressing job and I'm pretty envious of you for having it.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 19 11:54:24 2015 No.6561280 >>6561264 no, I get paid in divine blessings from the minister of course I get paid in fucking money

Anonymous Tue May 19 11:59:19 2015 No.6561292

>>6561264
>>6561280
and it's not that depressing. the worst part of it is that it gets extremely lonely at times because I have literally no other co-workers. that's a little depressing, but I try to stay busy. I get a yearly budget from the church that I get to spend how I see fit. I come up with new gardening ideas every season. Sometimes I'll come in really early in the morning and lay down with my .22 rifle looking to pop off a groundhog if I don't have anything better to do. actually probably the most depressing thing is that, despite how much effort I put into trying to keep it looking nice, almost no one sees it. i can go over a week without seeing a single visitor. and it's on a country road so not much drive-by traffic either

pay is $20 an hour for 40 hours a week (but really I only have like 20 hours of actual work to do on most days).

>>	Anonymous Tue May 19 12:10:12 2015 No.6561322 >>6561239 the perfect job on earth is the pay follows what qualifications do you need to do your job ? how have you gotten it ?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 19 12:12:32 2015 No.6561332 >>6561239 Pics?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 19 12:15:54 2015 No.6561341 >>6561322 >qualifications formal quatlifications sought after by the hiring guy I mean

>>	Anonymous Tue May 19 12:16:26 2015 No.6561344 20 dollars an hour to do that? Damn, how the fuck would that be depressing. Seems like a great job. I'm lucky enough to work by myself and I love it, except the pay is shit.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 19 12:36:32 2015 No.6561390 >>6561344 Sign me up. Pics?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 19 14:04:24 2015 No.6561720 >>6561341 Must be able to dig graves

>>	Anonymous Tue May 19 14:47:10 2015 No.6561881 >>6560720 Harry what?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 19 16:39:35 2015 No.6562312 >>6561280 How much?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 19 16:46:58 2015 No.6562352 File: 54 KB, 598x511, 1431375749111.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Network engineer. Was a hedge fund accountant. Teachers tried to push me into English, but glad I did Business. Meant I had money to write later in life.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 19 16:48:31 2015 No.6562363 >>6556026 >ASPERGING WRITERS

>>	Anonymous Tue May 19 19:51:49 2015 No.6563113 >>6562363 Ya dick

>>	Anonymous Tue May 19 21:03:11 2015 No.6563394 >>6562352 can you describe your life in a HF ? how bid was your HF in terms of staff (especially math guys) ? on what markets does your HF operate ?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 19 22:32:39 2015 No.6563790 >>6563394 HF?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 19 23:31:54 2015 No.6564049 >>6563394 hedge fund

>>	Anonymous Tue May 19 23:40:40 2015 No.6564081 File: 13 KB, 320x240, 209krdd.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I play poker on the internet

>>	Anonymous Wed May 20 00:34:57 2015 No.6564314 >>6561239 Any pics of you blowing leaves?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 20 00:46:26 2015 No.6564361 >>6556837 I'd be interested in reading some surreal magical realism anon

>>	Anonymous Wed May 20 01:04:55 2015 No.6564452 >>6557669 >But I have that weird gene thing where I don't age as fast as everyone else. iktf. prepubescent until fucking age 20. bookstore employee here. lots of downtime so i spend most of it reading and writing short exercises.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 20 01:12:28 2015 No.6564488 >>6556883 >krobergs >punk fiction my nigga

Anonymous Wed May 20 01:25:14 2015 No.6564543
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>>6556767
>tfw little brother hasn't left his room in 3 years
>parents have given up on him completely and don't care anymore
>older sister is a serious alcoholic, was kicked out of the military and had her kids taken by social services

fuck ;_;

>>	Anonymous Wed May 20 01:29:18 2015 No.6564553 >>6561292 >dat perfect job

>>	Anonymous Wed May 20 01:45:01 2015 No.6564606 >you'll never be a gravedigger hold me horatio

>>	Anonymous Wed May 20 02:09:06 2015 No.6564661 >>6556566 absolutely untrue. Sometimes something is just boring. And sometimes people will pretend to understand something boring to place themselves above the plebs who "don't get it". But none of that gives the work any kind of artistic merit.

Anonymous Wed May 20 03:21:18 2015 No.6564852
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>>6556767
I am a hikki too !

I take a stroll at nigh on my scooter. I will try to get a driving license in some accelerated course center and then I will drive even during daylight, since I have no anxiety in a bubble.
i also plan on moving near the ocean to swim at night or on the wee hours of the night. I hope that the weather will be nicer, that there will be more nature and that the swimming in salty water will cure my skin diseases

>>	Anonymous Wed May 20 03:29:07 2015 No.6564874 >>6556510 >Damn this sound like me. Nah, you're just a smelly neckbeard with shit social skills because your fat mommanever made you play with other boys

>>	Anonymous Wed May 20 03:34:14 2015 No.6564888 >>6556847 >conceptualized >sat on my arse and vaguely pondered Cunt

>>	Anonymous Wed May 20 03:39:56 2015 No.6564903 >>6560200 >currently have two sketched out and ready to be fleshed out.. So you've got literally nothing and you feel good about it you fucking pseud? I bet they love you in star bucks.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 20 07:14:05 2015 No.6565277 >>6564903 Dat grande cappuccino with sprinkles.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 20 07:21:29 2015 No.6565294 >>6556585 that sounds fun is it really pretty? post pics

Anonymous Wed May 20 07:25:09 2015 No.6565301

>>6556765
i've adapted this for my actual self

I'm 19 years old.

I am reasonable looking, smart, athletic and virile.

I wrote a short story about a man that finds a little animal living in his oven.

I have a girlfriend who is shy, articulate, distant and aloof.

I have a small group of interesting friends from different social and academic backgrounds.

Both my parents are alive and in good health but my dad's pretty fat

I have a few regrets.

I have already experienced one existential crises, the latter of which was not described as having the depth and profundity of a man twice my age because I didn't tell anybody about it and it was simple teenage edginess.

I am a passionate lover, a sharp thinker, and a trader of witty repartee.

I am pretty self-pitying and meek, but quite happy.

I will live a good life at your expense.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 20 08:01:07 2015 No.6565406 >>6565301 Shit posting is shit. 0/10 points awarded

Anonymous Wed May 20 08:07:44 2015 No.6565422

>>6561322
>>6561341
my dad used to be friends with the previous groundskeeper, and I would sometimes help him out when i was a kid. after he retired he recommended me for the job and I took it. was quite easy

>>6561344
it's depressing because there's no possibility of me moving up. $20 an hour isn't really that much money when you're an adult. and depressing because there's zero social interaction

>>	Anonymous Wed May 20 08:11:07 2015 No.6565432 >>6564361 I'll keep writing it then. Can't really link to it on here though, sorry. >>6564488 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf7pJWgJhPU >>6561188 Cheers, anon.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 20 08:15:14 2015 No.6565441 >>6564081 How does one get good at this? I love poker.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 20 08:34:55 2015 No.6565486 >>6565441 Buy low, sell high.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 20 10:00:11 2015 No.6565653 >>6565422 Use that free time to write something great, anon!

>>	Anonymous Wed May 20 12:35:45 2015 No.6566111 >>6565441 Get to know the other players, find out when they're most likely to be drunk or upset, then play them.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 20 12:59:03 2015 No.6566205 >>6566111 Nice trips!

>>	Anonymous Wed May 20 13:36:12 2015 No.6566322 >>6561259 lol

>>	Anonymous Wed May 20 14:21:48 2015 No.6566518 >>6566322 Double lol

>>	Anonymous Wed May 20 20:17:24 2015 No.6568025 bump

>>	Anonymous Wed May 20 20:22:11 2015 No.6568044 >>6556842 It's always America because it's a huge nation with a vast amount of differing ecosystems and nobody wants to read about post-apocalyptic France or Zimbabwe

Anonymous Wed May 20 21:58:10 2015 No.6568366

>>6556026
I'm not at work, but I'll post a picture tomorrow. I work in autism research.

Currently editing a short story about a widow who is trying to understand whether or not there was any love in her previous relationship, or if humans are capable of the complex communication necessary to facilitate a truly complete and loving relationship. She does this by examining possessions left behind by her deceased husband, and also through a philosophical conversation with her new lover.

It's at about 6k words and I have to edit it down to 4k for a competition and I don't know if I can. I might have to ship it out somewhere else.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 20 22:13:57 2015 No.6568414 >>6568366 >work in autism research so you work as a 4chan janitor?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 20 22:33:16 2015 No.6568491 >>6556566 >autistic success

>>	Anonymous Wed May 20 22:35:38 2015 No.6568504 >>6556566 >Works of art dismissed as "boring" are almost always the pinnacle of artistic success. And sometimes they are boring.

Anonymous Wed May 20 23:02:18 2015 No.6568658
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Dunno how obvious it is to everyone, but pic related is a sushi bar. It is the sushi bar where I work, except that's the side where the more experienced sushi chefs do sashimi and other more complicated shit. I'm still pretty new and work the other side just doing regular rolls. I also work in the kitchen some days.

I don't write very frequently, but when I do it's usually short stories, occasionally flash fiction, and very rarely poetry. It's always pretty much autobiographical. Right now I'm working on a short story, the first thing I've written besides letters in a couple of years.

Anonymous Wed May 20 23:08:43 2015 No.6568689

>>6568658
>first thing I've written besides letters in a couple of years

Forgot, I actually wrote a few poems about a year ago, all inspired by what was probably the most difficult period of time in my life. The first wasn't very good. It began with a neat concept of involving a huge number of allusions to Greek mythology, from the most well-known deities/myths to some of the more obscure, but the execution wasn't great. The ones after that were better but still nothing to brag about. It is the medium within literature I am least familiar with both as a writer and reader, so my poems tend to be pretty sophomoric and/or try-hard.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 20 23:14:28 2015 No.6568715 >>6568689 what was so difficult about your life last year

Anonymous Wed May 20 23:32:49 2015 No.6568772

>>6568715
Eh, bunch of things that I just couldn't handle. Graduating 10s of thousands of dollars in debt with a degree I came to realize I don't want to use, couchsurfing while living day-to-day/paycheck to paycheck, lost the only person I've ever considered even being in a serious relationship for the third (and seemingly final) time, all of my closest friends moved away to various cities, been on the outs with my father (have spoken with him twice in the past year or so), had one of my favorite professors murdered and then my grandmother passed two days later. Have also been arrested several times (all very minor, so-called "victimless" crimes). Was kicked out of where I was living several months ago, and simultaneously fired from a job, both as a result of my drinking essentially. At the beginning of this month I was arrested again (this time when I did exactly what the state attorney's office instructed to avoid further problems with that case) and then forced to leave the house I was living in, again not based on anything I did, with absolutely no notice whatsoever. The roommate I was living with also stole some of my only valued possessions. Its been a rough year. But I keep my head up, shit could be way worse, and I brought most or all of it on myself. Things have been getting better for the most part lately (aforementioned arrest and eviction aside).

>>	Anonymous Wed May 20 23:43:26 2015 No.6568793 >>6568366 >her new lover. it makes me chuckle

>>	Anonymous Wed May 20 23:47:44 2015 No.6568812 >>6556560 Whadup butterfly

Anonymous Thu May 21 05:30:08 2015 No.6569646

>>6556026
I'm a manager for a medium-sized hindu restaurant. I'm trying to write a collection of short stories about my experiences growing up in shitty neighbourhoods. It's hard though, i hear the words perfectly in my head but can't seem to put them on paper in a satisfying way.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 21 07:31:44 2015 No.6569856 File: 70 KB, 635x590, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6569646 Dat writers struggle

>>	Anonymous Thu May 21 08:27:31 2015 No.6569964 >>6557109 You work for hot pockets?

>>	Anonymous Thu May 21 08:28:38 2015 No.6569966 >>6569964 Chicken tendies and good boy points

>>	Anonymous Thu May 21 11:36:52 2015 No.6570469 >>6569646 Pics?

Anonymous Thu May 21 11:43:03 2015 No.6570491

Self employeed. I buy and sell shit. Basically, find stuff for cheap, sell it for a lot.

People always need money, and are willing to sell shit for dirt cheap so they can pay the electric bill, or crack. I buy it, sit on it forever sometimes, and sell it for a lot.

Mostly it's farm related shit. Tractors mainly. I live in a farming town, lots of rich yuppies moving in who got a hard on for farm related stuff. Lots of old bastards dying, i go buy shit from their estate sales, sell it to the dim witted yuppies moving in.

I got a whole barn full of shit. I'd take pics, but that would mean i'd have to put pants on, and go outside.

Honestly, I don't make a whole lot of money, but it's tax free...so I end up making out better than most people my age.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 21 12:00:43 2015 No.6570564 >>6570491 Imma need a pic of that barn.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 21 12:02:41 2015 No.6570576 >>6570491 I need to get into your mentality. I am literally too ornery to employ, so being able to flip stuff for a profit seems like it will become a necessary skill for me in the near future. Any tips?

Anonymous Thu May 21 12:05:05 2015 No.6570588

>>6570564
Well, the problem is the barn isn't where i live, it's at another property i own, and i'd have to drive up there. Which i don't feel like doing. Maybe later though, i dunno.

>>6570576
Well, figure out what's available in abundance near you, and what people are buying. Like i said, my town is mostly full of aging farmers who are dying off like flies, and these yuppies idiots move out here for a change of life who eat this shit up.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 21 12:06:21 2015 No.6570595 >>6570588 Do you write? If so, what? Gas-kun

>>	Anonymous Thu May 21 12:07:05 2015 No.6570601 >>6570491 >sell it for a lot >honestly, I don't make a lot of money >end up making out better than most people my age how much do you make then and how old are you

>>	Anonymous Thu May 21 12:09:37 2015 No.6570610 >>6570595 >he feels the need to sign his posts on an anonymous Croatian wifeswapping and cuckolding social network Jesus Christ just stop or if you crave validation so badly use a tripfag so we can at least filter your stupid posts

Anonymous Thu May 21 12:11:04 2015 No.6570618

>>6570595
Oh, yeah I write. Novels mostly. I write a short story every now and then but they never come out great, I usually just use them as experiments. My novels i actually like, I guess you can describe them as dark comedies. My characters are all sort of casually evil, selfish, usually mentally ill.

I got one book under my belt I'm trying to get published, writing another one now.

>>6570601
I usually break around 20-30k. Like i said though, it's all cash, i'm early 30s.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 21 12:12:35 2015 No.6570624 >>6570618 uhhh if you think 30k (even tax free) is more than what regular degree holding 30yos are making then idk...

>>	Anonymous Thu May 21 12:13:30 2015 No.6570630 >>6570610 My dad is in the same line of "work", ass for brains. Nobody was talking to you. I didn't sign the other 95% percent of my posts so you can gtfo and drag that extra chromosome behind with you out the door.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 21 12:13:47 2015 No.6570633 >>6570624 uhhh...who says I don't have a degree? Plus, yeah, I know a lot of degree holding people my age who aren't doing any better.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 21 12:15:35 2015 No.6570640 >>6570633 first job I got out of college at 21 was 45k and that's considered low relative to my stem friends.............

>>	Anonymous Thu May 21 12:18:07 2015 No.6570649 >>6570595 >>6570630 >being this mad >craving validation this bad kekekek

Anonymous Thu May 21 12:18:22 2015 No.6570652

>>6570640
well firstly, i'd ask where that job was. Cost of living is different everywhere. 30k where i live could be the same as 60k somewhere else.

You're also failing to grasp the concept of "Tax free".

But I have a stem degree also, no need to brag dude.

Also, I don't have to have an actual fucking job. That alone is worth it. You may not have noticed yet, but jobs are fucking bullshit. Being able to make some money on my own, without some fag boss alone makes it worth it.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 21 12:35:07 2015 No.6570714 >>6557181 It's better to try and fail than failing because you never tried.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 21 12:44:46 2015 No.6570751 >>6570491 well shit and it is not tax free is the income is regular

>>	Anonymous Thu May 21 13:32:23 2015 No.6570892 >>6557181 Lmao that insecurity. No one cares faggot, fuck off.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 21 13:35:02 2015 No.6570901 >>6570649 >Being too autistic to ignore something you don't like And that doesn't go for me, I love you anon.

Anonymous Thu May 21 13:43:05 2015 No.6570939

>>6570751
Technically, i should pay taxes on it, but i don't. You realize if you sell an xbox game for $20 to your neighbor, you're required to report that and pay taxes on it, right? Or if you buy anything over the internet, you have to report that and pay state taxes on it.

Nobody does of course, and the IRS can't enforce it. So everything i buy and sell, I only accept cash, and never have any paperwork attached. So technically, the transaction never happened.

You can't be dumb though. I mean, I can't walk into a bank and deposit 5 grand, or try to buy a brand new car with cash.

I knew one guy who did what I did, the dumb fucker went to the mall one day and spent 10 grand, fucking cops were waiting for him on the way out. Arrested for suspicion of tax evasion, though when they figured out he wasn't a drug dealer they dropped the charges.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 21 13:53:57 2015 No.6570975 >>6570901 what part of not using a tripcode so you can't be ignored or filtered don't you understand >trying to cultivate an identity on an anonymous forum my sides

Anonymous Thu May 21 14:42:33 2015 No.6571111
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>>6570564
Took some pics. This is just one angle of the bottom floor. All that shit on the wall sells well. I hang it up there to show how cool it looks hanging on your wall. Any time an old timer visits me, they usually end up taking one of them. I pay like $5 for those stupid wood tackle blocks, sell them for $30. Pay $25 or $30 for those seats, sell them for $100. Funny thing is, old guy buys them, brings them home, then he dies a year later and i go buy the shit, take them back, sell it again.

I got that 71 buick and that 47 8n in the backround there for free. Old guys tend to die first, then the old lady cleans fucking house. They literally just give that shit away because they're sick of looking at it. That car i could get maybe $1000 for, maybe more if i part it out. Tractor, once it's running will be $1500, just had to haul it away and put $200 in parts in it.

That 1937 silver king i paid $800 for, some guy was moving and needed it gone. It's worth maybe three times that once i get the radiator fixed.

There's three other john deere's back there too, as well as tons of odds and ends. I'll post more pics if there's interest, but not really lit related so...

>>	Anonymous Thu May 21 14:44:52 2015 No.6571118 >>6571111 Your quads tell me this is a story in itself.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 21 15:15:50 2015 No.6571213 >>6571111 Post MOAR pics! Where is this?

>>	Anonymous Thu May 21 15:29:26 2015 No.6571261 >>6571118 Those are tractors not quads you cretin.

Anonymous Thu May 21 15:30:21 2015 No.6571266
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>>6571213
More john deeres. a B, a GP, and i think an H. They're fairly valuable, but I've been sitting on them forever. Only old timers want the older John Deeres, and the ones around here aren't buying anything big it seems. An old table saw I got for $50, a lawnmower jack i actually use. I think I want to keep that ford sign, only got $30 in it. Plus there's a ton of shit i can't move in the corner there, like that wooden Scythe. Some old kid's sled I got for $5. I wanted to sell it for $50, but i got drunk and took it down a hill and knocked a big hole in it. So maybe $10. Some aluminum cans i got for free, i can get maybe $5 at the scrap yard.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 21 15:30:37 2015 No.6571268 >>6571111 I find myself enthralled for seemingly no significant reason. Also, nice get.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 21 15:45:46 2015 No.6571310 File: 387 KB, 408x800, identified Anon.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6558413

>>	Anonymous Thu May 21 17:16:46 2015 No.6571615 >>6571310 Gee, Bill. Two noses? 4/10 photoshop

>>	Anonymous Thu May 21 18:14:32 2015 No.6571908 >>6571266 MOAR!

Anonymous Thu May 21 18:24:04 2015 No.6571957
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>>6571908
I got another 5 tractors outside, didn't get any pics of them, it's raining out.

Here's some of the more unsexy stuff. Pile of wood I got for free out of an old shed. Too warped to build a house with it, but you could build a shed or something. I actually sold that stuff for $200 but the asshole never came to get it. Maybe i'll wait a few months and sell it again. There's a old corn shucker by that beam. Lawn furniture shit, i buy that for cheap in the fall and sell it in the spring, can usually double money. Old lady shit in those boxes, I don't even remember what that is. Big old hay claw, of course, maybe $100 for that.

Anonymous Thu May 21 18:27:24 2015 No.6571969
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Only real sexy stuff I got upstairs are these bikes. I don't even really know what I want for them. Only paid $100 for both.

Box o'vinyl records. When I go visit my brother at college I'll unload that on some hipsters. If you got something they're looking for you can sometimes get $30 for a record. Usually i just throw the whole box off the first $50 i get.

Anonymous Thu May 21 18:33:18 2015 No.6571990
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Beekeeping equipment. This shit is expensive! They usually want $30 for a honey box. Lids and all that are like $10 each. Extractor is $100, real old one too, that one. I always buy beekeeping stuff, newbie yuppies moving in always take up beekeeping, fail, and sell all their shit for dirt cheap, i sell it to some other yuppie for full price. I think that's a vollyball net there too....they sell in summer. Tiki torches too, golf clubs, old ladies love giving golf clubs away, some of those things can be thousands of dollars for a full set but those are all cheapies. Brewing stuff, that always sells. Some black thing, i don't know what that is.

About all the pics I took. I got more shit around, but fuck it.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 21 19:41:43 2015 No.6572299 >>6571990 Thanks for sharing. Now go write

>>	Anonymous Thu May 21 19:44:50 2015 No.6572312 >>6572299 I was actually planning on that.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 21 22:15:12 2015 No.6572954 >>6572312 Get started and post results

>>	Anonymous Thu May 21 22:31:32 2015 No.6573008 >>6568658 Are you Mexican? Every single Japanese place I go to is staffed by dubiously Asian servers and the token trio of Hispanics behind the counter.

Anonymous Thu May 21 22:38:54 2015 No.6573036

>>6572954
I'm already done with my writing. Here's some, though it might not make any sense out of context. The language is a bit simple because this girl is seriously dumb, and english isn't her first language.

Juli didn’t like television so much, but that film this afternoon was excellent. It had everything a good story should have. There was much trouble and there was a happy ending. That’s how all stories should be told, Juli didn’t know why there weren’t more like it.
There was the pretty blonde girl, maybe not so good an actor, Juli wondered what her hair would look like curled. No…no, how hideous! So her family is gone, she hides in the ship and the little bears find her. They even recognize what trouble her brother is, and restrain him so he can cause her no more problems. Quite useful, those bears.
Then, some wolf thing attacks, and they find out where their parents are. Kidnapped by some monster. Though, Juli didn’t really like the monster as it looked like a silly monkey, and if they wanted to do the story properly they would have made the father kidnap the mother, and maybe the father turns into a monster.
Yes, quite appropriate. What else was there to this film? Juli’s head was so fuzzy, it seemed like it was humming to her. Oh! Then, of course, the bears recognize the blonde girl’s importance and instead of her being an equal, they become her servants. They even provide her with an attendant, while they still laugh at the uselessness of her brother, he has a gun and he can’t even accomplish anything.
Though, the girl had no sisters. That seemed odd.
“Do you ever think yourself an attendant?” she asked.
“Attendant?” Brandi asked. “Attendant to what?”
Juli didn’t answer. No, the best servants are those that don’t realize what they are. They think they’re an equal, so they go about their day without worrying about their low status. Their simple minds are still owned, however, without them ever knowing. Just like the stupid little bear with the hat, he doesn’t know what an attendant is, much less knows that’s what he is. He’s so dumb he doesn’t even know he’s a bear. Brandi’s small and fat like the bears but also quite stupid as well, she still says that they’re sisters; the idiot.
Yes, let stupid Brandi think they were equals.
“You’ve been saying some weird shit,” Brandi said. “Why don’t you take a nap while we drive? You might need it.”

Anonymous Fri May 22 00:47:34 2015 No.6573439

I'm a box mover at a Macy's warehouse. Going to finish my degree part time come fall as well. Pay is shit but I live with my family so I have no expenses.
As for my writing I am the autist that can spend months world building and then get bored when I try to write anything and then move on to another one. Not that the fact bothers me I find worldcon very fun.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 22 00:52:22 2015 No.6573456 >>6573439 My dad suggested I get a job moving boxes in a warehouse. How does that work? Why would they hire you or me when they can get some Mexicans for half the price?

Anonymous Fri May 22 01:26:45 2015 No.6573561

I work as a labourer for a slumlord of a property manager. I've been slowly documenting my experiences with him and all his tenants for the last 13 months in order to write a satire about landlords and tenants. Even if I dont exaggerate the events that actually took pace this book would still be funny as fuck. I might not at all just to see if people believe half this shit that actually happened

Anonymous Fri May 22 04:32:16 2015 No.6573909

>>6573456
Well I live in New England so no Mexicans but quite a few Puerto Ricans. Macy's is a big company though so it's not like they can really hire illegals for 4dollars an hour. I'm making much money anyways only 11 an hour. As for the job it's a bit tiring since I do 3 12 hour shifts a week but I love having 4days off to do whatever.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 22 04:33:59 2015 No.6573914 >>6573909 I'm an autist, I've never made more than $9 an hour. Just hope I can do this warehouse shit. Thanks for the response.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 22 04:38:42 2015 No.6573925 >>6556702 damn, this setup is a million times better than when I was a dishwasher.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 22 04:41:13 2015 No.6573935 >>6573914 The first 2-3 weeks are the toughest. After that you won't feel like collapsing after every shift unless you are intensely out of shape. It's just mindless work for the most part so at the very least you have a lot of time to think.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 22 05:03:13 2015 No.6573976 >>6556450 >multi-generational story quit now dude lol

>>	Anonymous Fri May 22 05:05:43 2015 No.6573983 >>6573976 You should try Buddenbrooks. It's good.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 22 05:24:18 2015 No.6574010 >>6573976 100 Years of Solitude is one of the best books since the end of WWII

>>	Anonymous Fri May 22 05:57:18 2015 No.6574088 >>6560606 that's terrifying

>>	Anonymous Fri May 22 07:50:04 2015 No.6574279 >>6574010 Agreed

>>	Anonymous Fri May 22 08:23:49 2015 No.6574349 File: 58 KB, 800x480, 2015-05-22 15.03.40.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] im a office rat. trying to write a comic bout life of one butterfly..lets see

>>	Anonymous Fri May 22 11:37:32 2015 No.6574904 >>6574349 There's a great IMAX film out about monarch butterflies

>>	Anonymous Fri May 22 12:06:44 2015 No.6575042 >>6574349 >that thing >an office

>>	Anonymous Fri May 22 16:32:54 2015 No.6576046 >>6575042 What do you write?

>>	Anonymous Fri May 22 18:31:51 2015 No.6576494 File: 1.92 MB, 3264x2448, IMG_20150522_193019025_HDR[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6556026

>>	Anonymous Fri May 22 18:33:47 2015 No.6576502 >>6575042 pretty much this what kind of office has a rack of postcards in a corner

>>	Anonymous Fri May 22 20:19:50 2015 No.6576916 >>6569856 why is he kissing some kind of human/ape hybrid?

>>	Anonymous Fri May 22 20:24:58 2015 No.6576933 >>6576916 That's Lewis Carroll and Alice Liddell, ya herp derp Select all steak..

>>	Anonymous Fri May 22 23:35:03 2015 No.6577771 Unadorned cubicle where I fill out shipping bills. I write long prose-mostly surrealist horror-based off intermittent poetry, free writes, and research notes.

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