There are no jobs that I would be into. If someone is forcing me to do something it just becomes a chore.

>>155057
But if someone is forcing you to do something you actually do it, is the point. You can't force motivation on your own but if you have a reason to force motivation then maybe you can work something out.

I wanna be a watermelon.

Life must be so easy for them , sitting around all day, with their green rind...
Lucky bastards.

>>155059
*chomps*

>>155060
.. I forgot about that bit.


*Ahem.*

YEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWCH

>>155056
I changed careers into something completely different. Haruhi willing I won't be on the verge of a breakdown everyday now.

Sadly I'm already a w*geslave, but if given a choice for an ideal job, I don't have anything specific in mind but I do have criteria
¥ It's just me. no customers, no coworkers, barebones boss overhead (IE boss shows up once a week or something just to see if im alive)
¥ its a simple light physical job, not an office one (not physically tiring unless I get extra into it, can be done both seated and standing for comfort's sake)
¥ Mindless enough that I can just put headphones on and listen to whatever while I do it
¥ if i mess something up, it should be easy to fix
I'm not even really as anti-social as you'd assume after reading this, its just that if I have to work I'd want to do it quietly and not be forced to deal with people. Customers though, fuck that. Fuck that with a bomb.

I actually love work, but mental illness broke me down to the point where I'm incapable of anything - physical or mental

>>155056
I feel somewhat the same way but in particular, owning a pub or a brewery. Basically something where I get to cook and/or make alcohol but I have the ability to add my own personal touches to it. I like my current job in the tech field but the current market and where I live doesn't really give me much options to find work that's lined up with my interests, the theoretical math side of things, so I've been thinking about what ifs as of late.

>>155056
I want to torture people and perform experiments on them in an underground lab

If things were different (personality, location, perhaps even time period) I imagine myself as a baker making fresh bread and stuff for people in a small village as I make small talk with them each day. Or maybe just a gardener or florist. One of those simple things where you provide a tangible service to a group of people you know and have bonded with. Food is an obvious choice since we all need it to survive, of course. Easy to form connections and find meaning and purpose in such a thing.
Our monkey brains evolved to perform in these small settings and and not as a cog in a giant corporate machine serving an indeterminate goal to faceless customers we'll never see again. As such it's hard to find motivation for something we were never intended to do.

>>155056
>>155415
>>155420
These read bittersweet if you interpret the serving of food as some kind of longing for positive interaction with nice, likeminded people. I hope every anon will be able to realize their dream and / or passion eventually, and if it's a food place, I'd love to visit and hang out.

>>155421
Thanks for the support, hope your dreams and passions come true as well. That said, honestly, my reasons aren't that deep. I can't speak for the others but what makes a job fulfilling for me is being able to directly see the impact of your efforts. Cooking is one of the few hobbies I have that I can make a living off of while meeting that criteria so it's something I wish I could do. From a pragmatic perspective, I couldn't complain with my current job otherwise. I just wish it aligned with my interests more.

>>155420
Comfy as HELL yume.
Don't bakers need to wake up super early? It seems like it would be an easy job for a NEET to adjust to, since we're already used to being awake at ungodly hours.

>>155056
>We may hate work and think work's bad, but have you ever considered what kind of job you'd actually be into should you ever have the opportunity?
Magitech engineer.

>>155056
>We may hate work and think work's bad, but have you ever considered what kind of job you'd actually be into should you ever have the opportunity?
I'd really enjoy loli gardening.
Spending my days in a nice sunny garden and working with my hands to grow and nurture lolis. Deciding on their feeding regimen and coming up with cool and cute clothes for them to wear. Checking their feet to ensure they're still shaped correctly. When the loli is ready, she is sold for marriage, and that is how I make my living.

>>155434
one cannot but imagine that this would be an environment rife with corruption

>>155435
you mean principal-agent problems, or a different kind of corruption?

>>155434
What happens if their feet aren't shaped correctly?

>>155437
fire sale

>>155436
both, definitely both

>>155056
I love my job though.
Being a PI is pretty much the best job. Your job is pretty much "idea guy", which basically just means reading a lot of literature and coming up with things that are within your budget and your means. Occasionally you tell people what to do or help them with some stuff here and there, it's very fun and low effort. Writing is easy too!
You can show up whenever, you can leave whenever, you can work from home, nobody cares!

>>155440
>PI
congrats on your principal investigatorship

>>155441
thank you, getting there took forever, you know
But now that all I do is writing proposals, telling people what to do and complaining about their writing it's been well worth it

>>155440
whats the workload like being a penis inspector? how do you deal with the smell?

>>155069
Work in a graveyard or something.

>>155427
>since we're already used to being awake at ungodly hours
Yeah, but not WORKING all of those hours. Baking requires you to be awake 4 AM and have most stuff out of the oven before 8. And this is without even considering having to actually SELL IT to the customers. Best case scenario, you don't own a place, and instead just bake bread and stuff for another business like restaurants, bars, schools, stalls, or something like that. Dealing with just a few other owners sounds easier to me than with a lot of random people.

>>155446
Historically, the people doing the baking weren't the ones doing the selling.

I wouldn't say its my dream or ultimate goal, but I'm contemplating starting an IT business. I'm already providing informal services to four different businesses, and as far as I know there aren't any business/home installation/management providers anywhere near me aside from some small ones. I could charge hundreds for whole-home Ethernet wiring/Smart Home conversions. A dude that I called as part of a sales outreach a month or two ago told me he used to build datacenters/business networking and that making $70/hr. is realistic for someone in his position.

I think I want to open up my own food place. Not anything like a restaurant, just a cozy place people can go to eat.

Being a chef is one of the most difficult jobs as it takes years to build a reputation and seconds to ruin it by a careless mistake, or even factors outside the eatery's control.
I'm kind of interested in being a private chef, cooking for one table of VIPs (ideally some admirable people?), and one more portion for myself. I wouldn't have any issues doing all the work in the kitchen from prepping to cooking to plating. Due to the customers' locations I would be able to live in two star hotels in decent places.

>>160414
Have you seen the movie "The Menu"?

>>155446
I worked at a bakery for a short time. Didn't work out because the owner was a massive asshole. His wife ran the place and she was nice but he was a dick.

Anyway, we had to be there by 3am. We worked on baking stuff until about 8am. Then we ran deliveries until 6pm. I signed up to do deliveries but they stuck me in the bakery anyway. It wasn't hard to learn and do the job. Hated going into the freezer though.

Made the mistake of being nice and giving a co-worker a ride home one day. Didn't know they'd already decided to fire her. Got fired right along with her for being too friendly. Everyone thought I took her home and had sex with her or something.

Shoulda become competition and burned down his joint at nkght

I changed careers drastically and am now training to become a surgical nurse.

I'm not qualified to have a good enough job

>>155056
>We may hate work and think work's bad, but have you ever considered what kind of job you'd actually be into should you ever have the opportunity?

Race car driver. I'm good at it. I can consistently shave time off my lap times. If I have someone to follow I can learn their line in 1-2 laps and then improve upon it. I know the strategy. I know how to mange tire wear and fuel. I can limp a bad car/bike home. I build engines and understand everything else on the cars/bikes and how to set them up. I've been studying the game since I was 2 years old.

But I wasn't born into a rich family and my father refused to help me when I was young. All because my mother that abandoned the family when I was 6 years old was against then. Then at 6 Dad said I was too far behind the other kids that started at age 3-4 to ever catch up. He was wrong.

I will never get a chance to do what I was put on the planet to do outside of crappy little events that don't matter. So now I'm stuck building engines for other people. The closest I can get to what I should be doing are track days and riding way too fast on my bike on public roads. I only ride bikes because they're much cheaper than cars to get my speed fix.

I should be a multi-millionaire by now with multiple championships under my belt. I wanted to be the first man to win Indy 500 and World 600 on the same day. I know it's doable. I wanted to be the first man to compete in the Bathhurst 1000 while running an American series (NASCAR) full time. I wanted to be the first man to win a race in F1, Indy car and NASCAR. But my dreams are unobtainable because I'll never convince some rich guy to let me turn even 1 lap in a proper car.

I got robbed and they wonder why I'm constantly depressed. Basically, every dream I ever had get crushed by the people I live with (family and friends). They're all too concerned about safety and not taking any chances.

I had the money a few years ago thanks to my Grandfather leaving me some to take a chance at starting a new racing series and developing a new type of car that would be cheap for people to build. I wanted to start up something like NASCAR but for people like me that don't have 1 million dollars to spend on building a car. Basically, I've figured out how to build a car that can do 200mph for under 10k. If I could convince 15-20 other people to build one and start a touring series I could have gotten rich. I had the money to build the concept car and multiple tracks to test on. But I got robbed out of it by a family member who weaseled his way into being able to control everyone else's inheritance. My Grandfather left me enough money to live on for 10+ years or enough to take a chance at starting a business and/or building a house. I never got to see a penny of it.

Anytime there is a glimmer of hope in my life something or someone comes along to snatch it away. I have been put here to suffer. This is truly hell.

>>160719
The main reason why I'm good at racing/driving/riding is because I have absolutely no fear of speed. In fact, to me speed is like a drug. Everyone slows down when I'm driving at the limit. It's the only time I am happy and things feel right in the world.

I don't care if I die. I'd rather die young doing what I love than dying of old age while I'm shitting myself in a diaper and unable to walk.

I became a drug addict in my teens-early 30s because I was unable to get my speed fix daily. If I'm not behind the wheel or on a bike multiple times a week I drown my sorrows in opioids, alcohol, various other pills and whatever else I can get my hands on.

The "American dream" and "pulling yourself up by your bootstraps" is all bullshit. Without family support behind you it's impossible to make it. I mostly blame my mother and to a lesser extent my father. I love them both. But they've basically did everything in their power to shut down every dream, idea, or plan I've ever had.

The worse part is usually years later they berate me for not doing the things they talked me out of doing years ago. I don't know what it is but it's like everyone I know has a goldfish memory. I can remember most everything that's happened to me since childhood in extreme detail. They don't remember things we talked about two days ago.

Anyway, yea I'm bitter because I never got a chance to do the one thing I'm good at. It's the to the point now that I'm so angry and depressed about it that I can't even watch other people doing the sport(s) I love. I've pretty much stopped watching racing all together.

Racing a car is really easy now too. Most anyone could do it now with all the technical aids, cool suits, gearboxes and all that other bullshit that comes along with it.

When I was growing up the fields in all racing series were made up of guys that got their start on small local tracks and worked their way up to the big stage. It's impossible to do that now. You have to be born rich. Now all the big racing series fields are composed of a bunch of rich kids riding around and getting paid big sponsorship money to make social media posts. All of the major ones have been ruined with stupid rules for safety and rules to appease sponsors. It isn't even racing it's just rich kids riding around in go-karts. I know I could beat them all easily.

I've gone on too much about my regrets. I'll share something positive;

My plan for a new cheap race car/series is this. Build a 3/4th scale chassis one-seater based on the old stock car designs circa 1980s-1990s. The engine will be 1 liter motorcycle engine from sports bikes. This will allow multiple manufacturers to compete. Kawasaki, Suzuki, Yamaha, Honda and other manufacturers that want to make inline-4s that meet our regulations. Since chassis are so cheap to produce in the future hopefully they'd start making their own street legal versions.

Cars will not be open wheel and the driver would have full roll cage around him along with windshield. Engine mounted mid-ship (behind the driver) in a mid-ship configuration. Rear wheel drive with locked axle so no diff. Means both rear tires will spin at same rates and car will not have independent rear suspension. Tires will be bias-ply tires instead of radials. All of this puts the race back in the driver's hands and makes racing more skill based instead of a technological arms race.

Touring series would take place on a variety of tracks: dirt ovals, short concrete/asphalt ovals, super speedways, road courses and straight line times rally courses. This forces drivers to adapt and ensures most skilled driver+team wins series championship.

No bullshit rules for safety like modern racing series. No hans device required. Open face helmet permitted. Contact between cars encouraged like old NASCAR (rubbing is racing!). Tracks F1 and other series stopped going to would be accepted into rotation. Driver's can use safety stuff is they want but those that dislike it can race too.

Limits on how many engines/tires a team can use for a race weekend to keep costs down.

Since cars will be slightly smaller than road going cars they'll be able to go 2-4 wide on tracks that are one-lane affairs with most current series.

Pit stops would be like old NASCAR. 5 lug nuts per wheel. 15-16 inch wheels. Gasoline poured in from a can that only get gravity assist (no forced pumps). Jack man has to use real floor jack. No speed limits on pit road.

After a few years if we can get factory support from the Japanese manufactures we could start world tour races. Meaning it'd be a series like F1 except it would tour a bunch of tracks in one country then move on to the next. Holding events at famous tracks all over the world.

You know what? It can't happen. Since it'd be impossible to get the insurance companies to play ball. Them and the TV/media are the reason all modern racing series are crap.

But it's fun to dream....

I'm slowly building a concept car based around these ideas. The engine I'm using can push a bike over 200mph. The small car will be heavier but I estimate it could still easily do 180-200mph. Maybe faster since it could actually put more power down to the road with two rear tires having more grip.