87/ I bought a small house when I was 25 and moved a college friend in as a rent-paying room mate. Everyone is saying "I deserve a house, I deserve a car... LOL, work two jobs? Have a room mate? What are you, joking!??!?!" https://twitter.com/RealCoolACBro/status/1109202214998994945 …
-
-
99/ When you work a job, you work for someone else? Yes. I've worked corp jobs, I've been self employed. You're ALWAYS delivering value for someone else. Because if you're not, no one is going to give you money. There's no shame in that. Quite the reversehttps://twitter.com/FarRightScum/status/1109227073086898176?s=19 …
Show this thread -
100/ A blue collar job where "every day is humiliation"? Pretty sure that's now how my blue collar relatives see it. They are competent, skilled, well paid, and NEEDED.https://twitter.com/FreeNortherner/status/1109227901562617856?s=19 …
Show this thread -
101/ Everyone wants to be big, but no one wants to lift the weights...https://twitter.com/raptros_/status/1109228257612886017?s=19 …
Show this thread -
102/ NEET argues that he should be paid more when his boss takes a second mortgage on his house to buy better tools, bc "muh internet". https://twitter.com/JasonFashruhe/status/1109230056252035073?s=19 …
This Tweet is unavailable.Show this thread -
103/ "Boomers are wrong about everything" "Boomers told me that blue collar work is demeaning, and that's why its beneath me"
https://twitter.com/FreeNortherner/status/1109231660124512259?s=19 …Show this thread -
104/ fighting your boomer / cathedral training is hard. I know. I've been there. ...but this entire thread is about how hard work is required.https://twitter.com/FreeNortherner/status/1109232561962840066?s=19 …
Show this thread -
This Tweet is unavailable.Show this thread
-
106/ Related: you know how I got my current gig? Cold-emailing the founder and asking if there were any bugs in the codebase he needed someone to fix, open-source style, for free. (Yes, this was a ploy to get paying work. Yes, it succeeded.)
Show this thread -
107/ You know how I got my weekend gig? Cold-emailing the author of a blog I read, asking him in I could help him solve a problem he'd mentioned in his blog.
Show this thread -
108/ You NEETs want to mock as "Boomer" the idea that guts and a cold call can get you a job? THIS SHIT IS PUTTING FOOD ON MY TABLE IN 2019. Hustle, or don't. ...but don't lie to me (or yourself) and say that hustling doesn't work.
Show this thread -
109/ Me: <looks around at 5,000 square foot house on 56 acre farm, great wife, history of starting companies...all based on EXACTLY this strategy> Yeah, ok, dude. https://twitter.com/TriumphTribune/status/1109239314788032513?s=19 …
This Tweet is unavailable.Show this thread -
110/ I mean, is it LITERALLY guaranteed? No. But 99,999 out of 100,00 cases, having hustle is going to outperform not having hustle. So...choose wisely.
Show this thread -
111/ Also, lads, there's this: even if your hustle doesn't put more dollars in your pocket, it LOOKS AWESOME . Who do you think women prefer? A mopey sad sack, or someone who makes shit happen? https://twitter.com/LibertyFarmNH/status/1109240401645449216?s=19 …
This Tweet is unavailable.Show this thread -
This Tweet is unavailable.Show this thread
-
113/ Yep. Cold calling, looking for work, ASKING ... it's painful. But - as the Chinese say - you've gotta eat bitterness to get ahead.https://twitter.com/ee_elephant/status/1109240991264006146?s=19 …
Show this thread -
114/ I'm reminded of this quote from The Last Days of Disco: Jimmy : women prefer "bad" over weak and indecisive... and unemployed Josh Neff : I don't know about that. Jimmy : You think they do prefer weak, indecisive, and unemployed?
Show this thread -
115/ Many such cases. https://twitter.com/t_ancap/status/1109242295151403015?s=19 …
This Tweet is unavailable.Show this thread -
116/ Here's another onehttps://twitter.com/orthonormalist/status/1109244697891885056?s=19 …
Show this thread -
117/ Here's another one.https://twitter.com/Face_Almighty44/status/1109246094649839616?s=19 …
Show this thread -
118/ Everyone should dig a ditch, once. When I was 29 or so, I needed to reroute the sewer line on my house. Dug a 5' deep x 30' long ditch with pick and shovel, then laid a new sewer line. I never bitch (much) about my desk job. https://twitter.com/AidanMaclear/status/1109246214317490176?s=19 …
This Tweet is unavailable.Show this thread -
119/ I talk up blue collar work as honorable, and as a decent option. Yes. But anyone is going to take better paying / physically easier work, if it's an option, right? So what - if anything - Is the disagreement here?https://twitter.com/jimmyjakejohns1/status/1109249060253380608?s=19 …
Show this thread -
120/ This keeps happening. I'm saying "hard work and hustle are good", and people act as if I'm defending social atomization, tindr hookup culture, and the trilateral commission. I dunno, man, I'm just defending a very narrow thesis.https://twitter.com/jimmyjakejohns1/status/1109254835600326661?s=19 …
Show this thread -
121/ "I refuse to do things that bore me" Prima donna mindset. Disgusting.https://twitter.com/SakakiIsCute/status/1109284263357284354?s=19 …
Show this thread -
122/ You utter the limp-wristed hi-curious words "work life balance, and you accuse ME of backing globohomo? Look, this is simple. You work hard. You advance your career. You save. And THEN you enjoy the fruits of your labor. https://twitter.com/SteppeBrahmin/status/1109286312874598400?s=19 …
This Tweet is unavailable.Show this thread -
123/ NEETs are using any excuse to pick apart my thesis "hard work and hustle is better than lack of hard work and hustle". "Oh no
@MorlockP , you made a lot of money. That's not possible for normal people. Your ideas are bad." OK....topic switch... https://twitter.com/Captain_Columbo/status/1109434991883284480 …This Tweet is unavailable.Show this thread -
124/ Themodel for this criticism is "you succeeded, so you're not a good model for people who are failing". First off, that's retarded. Who is a BETTER model for someone who is failing than someone who succeeded? Another failure? That's not a role model. That's a pity party.
Show this thread -
125/ Let's talk about me 5 yrs ago * ran my own firm for 15 years. * average maybe $40k/yr * is that $20/hr? Not, it's less, because I worked > 50 hours/week. * firm shut down, I declared bankruptcy * in legal trouble for dank tweeting * massive legal bills * forced to move
Show this thread -
126/ So, me at age 40: * bankrupt * jobless * history of earning $20k * forced to sell my house and move out of state * single for most of my 30s "Oh,
@MorlockP , you're such a success, you don't know what it feels like to earn crap money and have no goth gf and be broke" Oh?Show this thread -
127/ I was in EXACTLY the same place that these 22 year old NEETs are in ... except I was about 20 years older. I differed from the NEET path in one single way: I decided to make a change.
Show this thread - Show replies
New conversation
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.