Spent 9 months looking for a job for 8 hours a day

Just had this exact feeling while filling out an application for a second job the other day. Like, I want more money but I really, really don't want to work more than I already am. I'm already miserable, why would I think working more hours would make me less miserable? Fuck this life I hate being poor more than anything.

It's so fucking weird to want something so badly every day for almost a year and then as soon as I get it I immediately don't want it anymore.

>Spent 9 months looking for a job for 8 hours a day
Either a LARP or you must really really suck

Yeah I guess I fucking suck.

Your "why" isn't strong enough.

If you just go to pay the bills or keep your wife off your case etc, you are not living for you. What do YOU want out of life. if you want to retire early, then fucking do it. But you know the only way you can do that is by investing like a beast or building a sucessful business.

You're not married to the shitty company which hires you, and you have to discard that mindset of job security and working for money. Rich people do not work for money, in fact rich people do not work, but before you get there, you have to find a better reason, a better "why". I hated my jobs until I decided I was not going to work for money, but work for opportunity. ONLY take jobs where you will learn a skill which will transfer to your other goals, whether thats learning more about building your own business, learning more about investing, etc. And maybe you need money for rent or something but you have to let go of this mindset, if you are tied to your meager pacheque that just gets you by then YOU ARE A SLAVE. You cannot negotiate. You do as your told or else.

So when you stop working for money, then money has no power over you. Fuck it, live in the gutter, its a bad life in a different way but at least then its your life. When you work for skills to help you achieve your goals, suddenly the shit job doesn't seem so bad anymore, you get a bit of money, and you learn some skills to help YOURSELF in YOUR OWN financial endevours. And when you get bored or stop learning just walk out. You are in control.

But you need to decide what you want, write it down, and then decide what you need to get there, whether that is capital to start your own business and work for yourself, or to study something you like and be self employed, or learning how to raise capital to get other people to invest in your businesses, etc. WHAT do YOU want? WHY do you want it? HOW are you going to get there? Now think about how the job helps you achieve that.

Easy.

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I have about 250k in savings, own a house outright in a foreign country far away from this job, a wife, and kid. You're right that I'm literally just looking for a job to keep paying for bills because I don't have nearly enough to retire. I've worked for years training for this job and I'm only half-sure I even want it. Basically I just want it long enough to get to 1 or 2 million and then I figured my investments would generate enough passive income for me to quit.
I'm 25 now, but I'm so bad at investing that my savings and net worth have been roughly the same since I was 21.
I genuinely just want to live like I do now, unemployed, but with enough money coming in not to worry about it.

What foreign country is good to buy a house in?

I got it as sort of a "gift" from my wife's parents, in the middle of Seoul, South Korea. It's not that I invested my own cash in it. The 250k was all my own doing though because I had a nice stack of cryptocurrencies from mid-2016 until the end of 2017 and sold it, but haven't really invested well at all since. Sorry I couldn't give you better foreign real estate advice.

I appreciate your advice, really.

I can relate. I have been at my current office job for 3 years, making 72k. I applied for a job in a different city making 93k-118k depending on experience. I kind of knew I wouldnt like the job because it's doing only one aspect of my current job which I'm both not good at and I'm not interested in. But the money was tempting. I just got an email to interview for the job and legitimately do not want the job anymore. Now that I have an interview, all the negative aspects of the job are coming to the forefront of my mind.

Yeah it's weird how once something is achieved it doesn't seem so great.

This guy is right OP.
It's great to see some actual useful content on Zig Forums

imagine if you had spent 8 hours a day building an online business for 9 months lol

>23 yo General contractor
>make $15/hr
>today painter says he cant find ANYBODY willing to work for him
>says hes offering $25/hr to start and i have some painting experience
Not gonna do it because the crew he runs is a bunch of freaks and they work long hrs doing shitty work

>weak brainlet

When you’re lacking conviction, just go back to your list of why’s. Or just fail now and repeat the process like a good gainjin who’s fathered a mutt. In despair, your wife will divorce you, and you can complete your journey to the dark side of the force by sucking jamals bbc.

>checked id
That FeeL

Dude, just fucking buy LINK before the morning and ask yourself that "why" question the other user was talking about.

I was similar to you several years back. This ride has opened up my eyes. My "why" isn't working for a shit company for decent money. I know i can do meaningful work/have meaningful experiences that don't have dollars attached to it.

Do you? If not, you can take the ride and find out, or you can merely observe it from afar as is necessary to survive society.

That's great bro and we all want that to some degree, and you are starting pretty young so if you believe in yourself you will definitely get there. But think about whether that will truly make you happy. Remember that an easy life is not an option.

You must choose your suffering and choose your sacrifice, because if you do not choose, then it will be chosen for you by the government, the society, the media, etc. You have to accept that all life is suffering for everyone, even if you have money. If you were unbelievably wealthy beyond your wildest dreams and you never had to work and you sat around all day smoking weed and fucking hookers and playing videogames and eating cheeseburgers and just doing whatever the fuck you felt like, it would make you miserable. I've done it.

"Reitre and just chill" is not a reality. If or when you achieve that, you will become so depressed with your empty life that you will want to fucking kill yourself. I've seen it happen.

You have to change your mindset away from "seeking comfort" to seeking other things with higher meaning or more worth, because comfort is a lie and leads to your own slavery, people are not supposed to live this way. Do you ever wonder why rich cunts like Musk and Bezos etc never retire? Because if they "just chill" they go mad. It's a pipedream. Doing that will ruin your life, you'll get fat, sad, lost, distracted, depressed, angry, etc.

So you have to work towards your goals and when you reach them get new goals and look for new challenges, and you have to embrace suffering. Comfort is what makes you weak, broke, depressed, lonely, etc; it's avoiding risk, avoiding pain, and so forth which ruins your mind and body and your finances. Forcing yourself to suffer and endure sacrifice makes you stronger, smarter, fitter, and richer. So flee from comfort and dive into suffering.

It's a certainty you are going to die; so die in the spirit your grandfather would be proud of. Get addicted to suffering.

user. i want you to know that this response is incredibly fucking based.

I have been working for the paycheck, i took the job for the paycheck, and i let it control me.

From now on I'm working to pay off my student loans and get out of debt. After that, I'll figure out my next goal.

Thank you user

nice id

>Do you ever wonder why rich cunts like Musk and Bezos etc never retire?
Yeah this confused me when I turned 18 and started college because it was the first time I oriented myself towards a career instead of just school grades.

These are by far the best and most useful posts in this thread.

How are you applying for jobs and how long did it take the company to get back to you after applying?

>t. unemployed 32y/o who quit his job in Feb to take a really poorly timed sabbatical

Yeah man, once you get the job, just keep the job, make sure you do everything you can to keep it. I've had a really hard time finding work since I quit my last gig (part time selling watches) in 2013, haven't found legitimate W2 work since then until Amazon Warehouse just hired me, first day in 5 days. Keep it if you've got it. Hello $16/hour for 40 hours and $23/hour up to 60 additional hours a week. All they ask for is a drug test and a background check.

Do it, Make it, Keep making it.

Alright so the one thing I did realize, which worked for me, was to start cold-emailing a short letter and resume to people way up in the companies and having them send my resume down. I used LinkedIn to find people and Rocket Reach to get their emails. Like way the hell up the chain of command. I started messaging Senior Vice Presidents of Fortune 500 companies and Senior Executives instead of the lowest people in the company who may or may not send it to their managers. Executives actually bothered to respond most of the time, since most of what they do is just emailing people and making decisions, and sent my resume down the pipe all the way to directors and then down to hiring managers so they would actually pay attention to it and give me interviews. I only did this for companies which I knew (through LinkedIn) were actively hiring though. So when the Senior VP says "I'll see if any directors have a hiring manager who is hiring" I already know they are and where. I got a surprisingly high response from doing this. Simply applying through HR for positions with virtually the same job title didn't work at all, so it seems it really was all about who I spoke to.