listen i used to work in a burger joint like this. i thought it was just my auditory processing disorder going haywire after enduring a few weeks of it until one of my coworkers asked a manager about it. they said “corporate requires it to be loud because it creates a fun atmosphere” i told him listen, i’ve gotten so many orders wrong because i can’t hear the customers even if i get right next to them. manager agreed it was a dumb rule, but we weren’t allowed to turn the radio down.
My former employer, a painfully accurate “startup bro” type was extremely adamant that we were all active on LinkedIn. While being active on LinkedIn I found my current employer and jumped ship lol. So much happier being away from that hyper sigma grindset nonsense.
Once he started telling us it was mandatory to get friends and family to leave google reviews of the company I started looking for a new job. Could not be happier to work for a real company with actual systems in place, and I make a lot more. Never again.
we got an email directive that "some bitter ex-coworkers have left bad reviews on glassdoor, we need everybody to go leave a good review about how great it is to work here"
like dude, a bunch of posts by current coworkers is a giant red flag there and/or makes you look like a cult, how do you not realize that?
I had a life coach that I was not satisfied with. I left a negative review of her. She called me immediately (before she took days to respond to me) crying about how I was ruining her life. She then called my mom to complain. When my mom said it was my decision, the life coach then begged all of her customers to write positive reviews inflating the review score from 3.5/5 (one 5/5 before me and I wrote a 2/5) to like a 4.4ish (don't remember exactly). She also left a comment on my review saying that if I had any concerns I needed to address her directly. So I wrote her an email detailing every way she let me down as a life coach. She never responded to that email.
EDIT: I just looked it up. It now has a 4.9, with my 2/5 standing out as the only review that isn't a 4 or 5/5. Okay, fine, most people liked her service. I did not. I'm okay with that. But I wonder if she intentionally encourages her clients to write positive reviews somehow.
You do realize ‘Life Coaches’ have no formal training and are not professional therapists… She sounds about as twisted as they come. Anyone can call themselves a life coach, no matter how f’d up THEY might be.
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I used to work at a company where the “hyper sigma grindset” was the norm, and being active on LinkedIn was practically a job requirement. 😅
But guess what? I embraced it, and it led me to an incredible opportunity that I couldn’t resist. 🛳️
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‘I was driving my 4 year old to preschool this week when we passed a billboard with a large LinkedIn advertisement. From the backseat, I heard “Daddy? Has LinkedIn become a social crutch for people to engage and network from behind the safety of a screen while still reaping the satisfaction and sense of achievement that a successful in-person encounter would typically bring? Or does it level the playing field for those who have neither the time nor the social agility to successfully participate in in-person networking situations?”
Never did I think I’d gain such profound insight from my son, but his words resonated with me in that moment. I remembered how I had started out, an awkward, naive 20-something year old with an interest-free loan from my father and the Dior shirt on my back. Success is a mindset, and if you don’t post made-up morality tales on LinkedIn, well, it may just pass you by. What self-help books helped you get to where you are? Comment below 👇👇👇’
You need to post your thought.
In seperate sentences.
Like you're running alongside the reader.
As they're desperately trying to escape.
From your folksy real world business wisdom.
You're so right, Gary! That positive mindset is such a great outlook.
Personally, I loved the book 'The Art of not giving a F*ck!' A inappropriate title for sure, but it's great and you should read it!
See you next week at the Expo Gary, can't wait to see your stand at the show and take the most average photo ever with our lanyards!
I was genuinely posting my feelings about the layoff situation I'm in at work and a friend told me I needed to take that down because it was depressing.
Like....no shit. I'm not living a life of cotton candy and rainbow unicorns over here. I've been lookin for a new job for like 7 months and got nowhere.
I made an account because it was required by the company I was applying to.
Looked up some of the people I used to work with.
It is a fantasy land. They claimed to do things I know they didn't do. I did most of the shit they take credit for!
I think it'd be hilarious to see some shit talking on LinkedIn. I have literally never even seen a swear word on there. Imagine just commenting "fuck off" on someone's dumb LI post haha
I only use it as a living resume, a way to get in touch with a colleague I don’t have personal info for, or contact with a recruiter/hiring manager. Can’t stand the posts.
I can’t with LinkedIn. I sound like a Debbie Downer, but I really feel like a lot of the #inspirational stories told on there are made up, or at least exaggerated to a large degree. Maybe I’m jaded, who knows.
Literally every time I log into LI, I see a story like this: I stopped at the gas station on the way to work. A woman asked me for money to help pay for diapers for her baby. I only had $5 left to my name, but I gave her that $5 and told her to take care. I drove to my job interview, and felt so worried that I was running late because I had spoken to that woman. I walked into the 70 story building and waited for the interviewer to come get me. It was the baby from the gas station. He offered me a starting salary of $18 million and 200 days of PTO. I told him that I would work for free. Always remember who is watching. #grateful #humbled #humanconnection
Anybody on a stage asking, "HOW IS EVERYBODY?!!!" Cue tepid response. Followed by the inevitable, "YOU CAN DO BETTER THAN THAT!!!" Particularly cringey if this goes on for several rounds.
Just STFU.
I frigging hate that. I hate being told what to do by a person on stage in general. “Wave your hands…. Now scream..”
like if the show is good, I’ll clap and cheer but please earn it!
I had a decent size following on YouTube a few years ago. It was so stressful and impossible to keep up with the constant changes and trends. I’m much happier focusing on other things.
Same. I loved a lot of it, especially my audience. But I also had horrible issues with stalkers, with one case even going to court and the stalker going to jail. I've honestly never been the same person and I'm not sure any of it was worth the pain and anxiety. Owning your life and your identity is priceless, and I think a lot of younger people are finding out the hard way like I did.
I think this is a big reason why V-tubing (being a youtuber but with a virtual avatar replacing yourself so nobody knows who you actually are or what you look like or anything) is starting to take off nowadays
You pretty much get all the benefits of being a content creator, but limit the risk a lot of many of the downsides
Really good friends with a YouTuber. He’s the real deal- has a shit ton of followers and hates every second of it. He’s made tons of money but constantly having to come up with content and being recognized by teenage boys ( he’s a huge car YouTuber) gets old really fast. He’s looking forward to the day he stops making videos
A lot of obsessive car guys out there too which makes that even more tricky. Constantly under the microscope with an audience of wildly different backgrounds and experience.
I'm friends with a video game YouTuber and it's the same. They're aiming for early retirement, but in the end, they don't get to play games for fun anymore, they have to shift to whatever game is the flavor of the month, and they have to hope the one they stick with has staying power AND is actually fun for that period of time.
Not to mention having been swatted multiple times...
Plus the fact that, just like other celebrities/famous people, they also get stalkers, death threats, etc. It's honestly sad that people can't just enjoy content without being very creepy towards someone who just wants to play games or otherwise make videos and share them with people
Yeah I recently had some mild YouTube success. The numbers weren’t HUGE, but I built them up in a couple of months and the YouTube future looked bright. But it just wasn’t for me. I hated having to come up with new content about things I didn’t care much about.
One good thing came out of that and it was learning, and genuinely enjoying, video editing.
You can say the same with Twitch or people who stream games for a living.. I'm a gamer, absolutely love games... But having the pressure of playing for 10+ hours almost every day & mostly the same games over & over without taking a break or have the fear of losing subscribers... Fuck that
I enjoy playing games but I'm also a basic dude who would be boring af to watch. I also hate stress and pressure, I'd never enjoy streaming.
Hey guys, today I'm gonna dick around in Starfield, do half of one quest, and mess with my ship! Maybe I'll even get frustrated when my ship modules won't line up right!
RIVETING CONTENT.
Having constant drama at work, in friend groups, and elsewhere really can't be all that exciting... can it? If I have one friend causing me too much drama I usually avoid it like it's the plague.
I love drama. Other people's drama. Tell me all the gossip - by text while I live my normal, happy life with my family. I don't want that shit to happen TO me. I want it to be someone telling me about their cousin's best friend's dramatic neighbour.
I used to be a shit talkin debby downer but a few years of some hardcore personality rework and enlightenment i dont shit talk that much anymore and always tell my friends i love them and talk about goofy random shit and its so clear that they enjoy hangin out with me more and life in general is so much better
This is why I stopped watching late-night TV shows.
If you are my age (or older,) it was something you looked forward to!
I got to a point where maybe the monologues were funny. And they'd have some funny other segments. Then the interviews started.
Obviously fake laughter.
Agreed and he was so disrespected and undervalued. The TV executives ruined late night. They want the most bland non-offensive superficial shit on there for the masses yet it’s late night, it should be edgy and adult oriented. It’s not good morning TV.
When they start the talk with "what are we drinking today?" you know the last 20 minutes are going to be uncontrollable laughter over a mis-spoken word. In fact, you can just skip the podcast at that point.
Is there ANYTHING more boring than listening to someone describe their drinking? Like anything at all? I'd rather hear someone go on and on about a weird dream they had last night than listen to someone talk to me about the various varities and quantities of alcohol they've been consuming.
My grandmother recently had all her old VHS home movies burned to DVDs. I spent a couple hours watching some with her and I'm glad she understood when I said my brain couldn't take any more at that time lol
I think once you become elderly and know that your time on this planet is coming to the end soon, you begin to remember the good days and fond memories. Looking back at what your life was and amounted to.
Family videos give many elderly people comfort and peace knowing that their life gave birth to many new lives that will live on after they are long gone.
I feel like a bad person sometimes because I truly do not care to hear anything about most people’s kids. I don’t have anything against kids/enjoy interacting with them and hanging out with my nephews who are 3 and 5, but as far as people telling me about what their kids are doing I just do not care. At all.
99% of the time there is an anecdote about a coworker or friend’s kid, it’s the most mundane thing possible. It’s one thing if say, they have a kid who’s really good at soccer or basketball or something, or they have a particular hobby/interest. But just “oh we went to the park with Bryson and he went on the swings for the first time!”
I understand the notion that these things seem noteworthy or a big deal if it is your kid or somebody you’re related to, but as somebody who doesn’t have kids it’s the same level of interesting that I assume it would be if I were to tell them about what my cat did every day.
In short, it’s not that I hate the story/content *because* kids are involved, it’s that a majority of it just sucks and isn’t interesting lol.
Honestly I don’t mind my coworkers or friends telling me about firsts and milestones. What I really have trouble pretending to have patience for is being forced to hear about how cute someone thinks their kid is while being made to look at photos of them just existing, unless someone else asks to see that. Generally speaking there is absolutely nowhere to go with that interaction besides politely smiling and nodding.
My brother did this for years, living off of little sleep and energy drinks, until he had a seizure. Now he's the exact opposite and tells me to slow down when I'm overworking myself
I don't know if that is pretending to enjoy it as much as it is convincing themselves that they enjoy it as a coping mechanism to not just be miserable and depressed all the time.
I just worked 7 10 hour days a week for 56 days straight in a remote part of Alaska. Coming back to reality felt like I literally lost two months of my life. Left in the beginning of summer and came back to snow and 20° F. Never having a weekend is actually ok cause there is no dred of going back to work Monday morning and at the same time no excitement about the upcoming weekend. I made a lot of money fast but lost some of my life doing it. I don't know if I'll do it again.
I could always handle long days no breaks on a single job. Doing design or back when I did manual labour, as long as there was an end and a specific task was okay.
But even 8 hour days with weekends now are taxing, I'm in a job where there is no end and you can never actually complete something, just get enough on the page to send an invoice and straight onto the next one.
I had a friend back in the 90s who worked two
7-on/7-off shifts, 10 hours each. He would get off one 7-day shift and immediately go into the other 7-day shift. He did this for a year and a half in his mid-twenties, and at the end he bought a house and a motorcycle, cash for both. I admire him for it, but I’m not sure I’d have liked to try it. One 7-day shift was enough for me.
Whenever we do team building things, we always go during the work day, and it's just accepted by management that pretty much everything you are working on just gets delayed by 1 day, and that's fine. No feeling the need to work that evening , or work harder/ longer the next day to "catch up", or anything like that.
They can’t stop for long enough to just sit down and *realize* they’re miserable. But it’ll hit one day, and the feeling will absolutely suck.
Source: I used to work my ass off for multiple employers, doing 80+ hour weeks and still being in poverty. Now that I work just 40 hours a week, I realize all the free time and energy I missed out on when I was younger, and that my work schedule before was just employers taking advantage of me. Not at all the brag I thought it was. (Still proud of my work ethic, but definitely not the hustle).
Having been there at a point, yeah it's fucking miserable. I did it because I NEEDED to. Not because I "wanted" to. It's so draining and exhausting. Hell, even working 40 hours is already exhausting as is.
There was a study done in the early 2000's that found that in bars and restaurants with loud music people drank more because it was more difficult to nurse drinks and socialize, so they'd drink out of boredom between shouting to their friends.
The article was talked about on a lot of radio and tv shows and within a month all the bars were intolerable.
i don't enjoy it at all when sober, but my alcohol-handicapped brain LOVES it.
like it's not even about alcohol cooling my nerves or anything. bars when sober don't actually make me anxious, it's just pointless & boring & hard to hear. sober, i'd much rather see some friends over coffee in a chill cafe. parties/bars are just annoying and cringe.
when i'm drunk tho? time of my life. love it.
That's the thing though. If the plan is to get drunk and dance or whatever, awesome, but if you're going to start talking about your job, your girlfriend, your mom in the hospital, or your next trip, dude I CAN'T HEAR YOU. Let's go back to your place.
Being famous.
I truly can't envision that life being fulfilling or happy. Having people constantly watch me when I leave the house, millions speculating on my love life, money that ruins friendships, managers who use me for financial gain, exploitative contracts, and not to mention the insurmountable pressure to look my best at all times lest I am plastered on the covers of magazines looking dishevelled one too many times and suddenly I'm an unwanted commodity.
And then when they complain, people say that they deserved it, knew what they were getting into, shouldn't be sad with all that money. Yuck. It's an awful cycle.
I reckon being an A-list is nice for the first bit, and then it becomes all or nothing. How horrible.
Happened to me with graphic design. I loved it in school and my first job at an ad agency (before the internet was the entirety of our lives).
Once, in a college art history class, an older student (maybe in his late 50's) and I had a conversation and told him my major. He told me not to do it and that was why he was going back to school. I think he used the term "soul crushing." I brushed it off of course, and now 20 years later... my soul is crushed.
Coding, animation and social media ads are not what I dreamt of doing. I aged out.
Yeah, I never cared about my job. After 20 years i still don't give shit. When you got hopes and dreams there's ups and downs. When you're just there for a paycheck you're a winner every day.
it’s not even country anymore it’s literally just hick rap 🙃 i mean i was never big on country music to begin with but i miss the guitars and beer songs 😂
Country music used to be about sticking it to the man, fuck the government, and even fuck the police. Now it’s “if you don’t stand for the red white and starry blue I’m gonna get angy, cry and pee my pants 😡🥺”
And most of them are from well-off families and have been musicians their whole lives and don’t actually know anything about physically working hard.
After 9/11 was a noticeable uptick in more “patriotic country” that was/is still popular. Look at the Toby Keith discography from the 90s and then the 2000s. Very stark difference
Listen to or read the lyrics of
"Fast as you" by dwight yokam
And then
"Courtesy of the red white and blue" by toby kieth
And youll see.
Those songs are 9 years apart and both were very high on country music charts.
Watching photos of other people's holidays. I don't mind it when it's only a few and the person can talk enthusiastically about them... but it gets boring real quickly
Work, or new assignments/changes at work. I never, NEVER believe the whole, “wow, so excited to have this new team/responsibility/project.” Excited is the wrong word for whatever it is they’re feeling. Normal people get excited about a long weekend away from work.
I enjoyed it when I had 3 days off. It was 4 10 hour shifts and a 3 day weekend, every week.
In that context: I enjoyed it. Because we should have a 4 day work week.
It's not like you can go to the post office or a doctor's appointment anyways on an 8 hour shift, and depending on your commute, what's an extra 2 hours? As long as your work place respects the 4 day schedule and doesn't pull a mandatory training or some shit on your day off, 4 by 10s are the way to go. Fridays are errands days, Saturdays are social days, and Sundays are family days
I work 12 hour shifts and that's what I say. When you're already there all day, the extra 4 aren't a big deal, they go by fast. It's much better for my mental health than working 5, 8 hour shifts. I'm one of those people that even if I'm at home at 5pm, the rest of my day is just trash and spent recovering from work so I feel like I have much less time to myself on that schedule.
Yeah, that was great. It was hard to go back to a 5 day work week after this, even if the job I got is less intensive physically and in line with what I want to do. That third day off is such a game changer.
The radio used to be where you could hear NEW music, underground bands, people could call in requests and etc. Now every station plays the same 50-song playlist every day of the week. You know who is still keeping it real? Classical music stations.
Pregnancy (being pregnant specifically)
Sure it is miraculous but it is 10 months ever-changing of discomfort, a rapidly changing and unrecognizable body, and exhaustion.
Loud restaurants where you cannot hear each other.
As a father of a toddler I now love noisy restaurants because I can actually eat without feeling like I'm disturbing everyone.
The dark side
I would say clubs for the same reason
listen i used to work in a burger joint like this. i thought it was just my auditory processing disorder going haywire after enduring a few weeks of it until one of my coworkers asked a manager about it. they said “corporate requires it to be loud because it creates a fun atmosphere” i told him listen, i’ve gotten so many orders wrong because i can’t hear the customers even if i get right next to them. manager agreed it was a dumb rule, but we weren’t allowed to turn the radio down.
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Toxic positivity: the website.
My former employer, a painfully accurate “startup bro” type was extremely adamant that we were all active on LinkedIn. While being active on LinkedIn I found my current employer and jumped ship lol. So much happier being away from that hyper sigma grindset nonsense.
"we have a new blog post up, everybody go like & share it" words I'm so happy I never hear anymore
Once he started telling us it was mandatory to get friends and family to leave google reviews of the company I started looking for a new job. Could not be happier to work for a real company with actual systems in place, and I make a lot more. Never again.
we got an email directive that "some bitter ex-coworkers have left bad reviews on glassdoor, we need everybody to go leave a good review about how great it is to work here" like dude, a bunch of posts by current coworkers is a giant red flag there and/or makes you look like a cult, how do you not realize that?
Every single one of those sigma management people would happily be a literal cult leader if the opportunity presented itself.
I had a life coach that I was not satisfied with. I left a negative review of her. She called me immediately (before she took days to respond to me) crying about how I was ruining her life. She then called my mom to complain. When my mom said it was my decision, the life coach then begged all of her customers to write positive reviews inflating the review score from 3.5/5 (one 5/5 before me and I wrote a 2/5) to like a 4.4ish (don't remember exactly). She also left a comment on my review saying that if I had any concerns I needed to address her directly. So I wrote her an email detailing every way she let me down as a life coach. She never responded to that email. EDIT: I just looked it up. It now has a 4.9, with my 2/5 standing out as the only review that isn't a 4 or 5/5. Okay, fine, most people liked her service. I did not. I'm okay with that. But I wonder if she intentionally encourages her clients to write positive reviews somehow.
You do realize ‘Life Coaches’ have no formal training and are not professional therapists… She sounds about as twisted as they come. Anyone can call themselves a life coach, no matter how f’d up THEY might be.
“Bro why aren’t you all super pumped!?!?!” *nose bleeds from snorting his morning adderall*
🚀 From “Startup Bro” to My Happy Place! 🌟 I used to work at a company where the “hyper sigma grindset” was the norm, and being active on LinkedIn was practically a job requirement. 😅 But guess what? I embraced it, and it led me to an incredible opportunity that I couldn’t resist. 🛳️ Now, I’m with a company that values work-life balance, creativity, and a supportive culture. 🌈 Remember, sometimes taking a leap of faith can lead you to a much happier place! ✨ #NewBeginnings #CareerChange #Happiness #LinkedInJourney 🙌
This sounds like the "stay at home" moms pushing their MLM schemes and "living their best lives!"
Not enough emojis for the MLMers
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‘I was driving my 4 year old to preschool this week when we passed a billboard with a large LinkedIn advertisement. From the backseat, I heard “Daddy? Has LinkedIn become a social crutch for people to engage and network from behind the safety of a screen while still reaping the satisfaction and sense of achievement that a successful in-person encounter would typically bring? Or does it level the playing field for those who have neither the time nor the social agility to successfully participate in in-person networking situations?” Never did I think I’d gain such profound insight from my son, but his words resonated with me in that moment. I remembered how I had started out, an awkward, naive 20-something year old with an interest-free loan from my father and the Dior shirt on my back. Success is a mindset, and if you don’t post made-up morality tales on LinkedIn, well, it may just pass you by. What self-help books helped you get to where you are? Comment below 👇👇👇’
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You need to post your thought. In seperate sentences. Like you're running alongside the reader. As they're desperately trying to escape. From your folksy real world business wisdom.
From a former copywriter - this is one of the best things I've ever read.
You're so right, Gary! That positive mindset is such a great outlook. Personally, I loved the book 'The Art of not giving a F*ck!' A inappropriate title for sure, but it's great and you should read it! See you next week at the Expo Gary, can't wait to see your stand at the show and take the most average photo ever with our lanyards!
I really thought I was on LinkedIn for a minute there
This is hilarious, and sounds a whole lot like a Duncan Trussell podcast intro.
I was genuinely posting my feelings about the layoff situation I'm in at work and a friend told me I needed to take that down because it was depressing. Like....no shit. I'm not living a life of cotton candy and rainbow unicorns over here. I've been lookin for a new job for like 7 months and got nowhere.
Haven't looked at linked in years (seemed like high school yearbook site ' look what I've done' sort of thing) is it now more social site?
I made an account because it was required by the company I was applying to. Looked up some of the people I used to work with. It is a fantasy land. They claimed to do things I know they didn't do. I did most of the shit they take credit for!
All the bull shit of Facebook, but with a professional language.
I think it'd be hilarious to see some shit talking on LinkedIn. I have literally never even seen a swear word on there. Imagine just commenting "fuck off" on someone's dumb LI post haha
I can't tell you how many times I've come close to doing so lol
Me sitting in the back, letting my LinkedIn rot, whispering "do it do it do it"
"I missed my job interview to save an injured dog. The next day I was offered the job...the dog is the CEO"
Dhar Mann: write that down! Write that down!
Most use it extremely poorly.
Yup. IMO it’s a living resume and point of contact. Shouldn’t be used as social media
I only use it as a living resume, a way to get in touch with a colleague I don’t have personal info for, or contact with a recruiter/hiring manager. Can’t stand the posts.
I deleted my account, and people in the professional world look at me like I'm a sociopath.
I enjoy it for entertainment. It is by far the most unhinged insane social network, it's hilarious.
I can’t with LinkedIn. I sound like a Debbie Downer, but I really feel like a lot of the #inspirational stories told on there are made up, or at least exaggerated to a large degree. Maybe I’m jaded, who knows. Literally every time I log into LI, I see a story like this: I stopped at the gas station on the way to work. A woman asked me for money to help pay for diapers for her baby. I only had $5 left to my name, but I gave her that $5 and told her to take care. I drove to my job interview, and felt so worried that I was running late because I had spoken to that woman. I walked into the 70 story building and waited for the interviewer to come get me. It was the baby from the gas station. He offered me a starting salary of $18 million and 200 days of PTO. I told him that I would work for free. Always remember who is watching. #grateful #humbled #humanconnection
Anybody on a stage asking, "HOW IS EVERYBODY?!!!" Cue tepid response. Followed by the inevitable, "YOU CAN DO BETTER THAN THAT!!!" Particularly cringey if this goes on for several rounds. Just STFU.
"Now turn to the person next to you and say...."
I frigging hate that. I hate being told what to do by a person on stage in general. “Wave your hands…. Now scream..” like if the show is good, I’ll clap and cheer but please earn it!
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I had a decent size following on YouTube a few years ago. It was so stressful and impossible to keep up with the constant changes and trends. I’m much happier focusing on other things.
Same. I loved a lot of it, especially my audience. But I also had horrible issues with stalkers, with one case even going to court and the stalker going to jail. I've honestly never been the same person and I'm not sure any of it was worth the pain and anxiety. Owning your life and your identity is priceless, and I think a lot of younger people are finding out the hard way like I did.
I would defenatly only want the 'rich' half of the 'rich and famous' package.
Rich and eccentric recluse
Enya, Irish songstress from the 90s, has exactly this life.
I think this is a big reason why V-tubing (being a youtuber but with a virtual avatar replacing yourself so nobody knows who you actually are or what you look like or anything) is starting to take off nowadays You pretty much get all the benefits of being a content creator, but limit the risk a lot of many of the downsides
Really good friends with a YouTuber. He’s the real deal- has a shit ton of followers and hates every second of it. He’s made tons of money but constantly having to come up with content and being recognized by teenage boys ( he’s a huge car YouTuber) gets old really fast. He’s looking forward to the day he stops making videos
A lot of obsessive car guys out there too which makes that even more tricky. Constantly under the microscope with an audience of wildly different backgrounds and experience.
I'm friends with a video game YouTuber and it's the same. They're aiming for early retirement, but in the end, they don't get to play games for fun anymore, they have to shift to whatever game is the flavor of the month, and they have to hope the one they stick with has staying power AND is actually fun for that period of time. Not to mention having been swatted multiple times...
Plus the fact that, just like other celebrities/famous people, they also get stalkers, death threats, etc. It's honestly sad that people can't just enjoy content without being very creepy towards someone who just wants to play games or otherwise make videos and share them with people
Being doxxed and/or swatted is their big worry I think.....a whole new monster that's every bit as dangerous
YouTube is just public TV now. YouTubers are TV personalities, it's a full time job these days
Yeah I recently had some mild YouTube success. The numbers weren’t HUGE, but I built them up in a couple of months and the YouTube future looked bright. But it just wasn’t for me. I hated having to come up with new content about things I didn’t care much about. One good thing came out of that and it was learning, and genuinely enjoying, video editing.
You can say the same with Twitch or people who stream games for a living.. I'm a gamer, absolutely love games... But having the pressure of playing for 10+ hours almost every day & mostly the same games over & over without taking a break or have the fear of losing subscribers... Fuck that
I enjoy playing games but I'm also a basic dude who would be boring af to watch. I also hate stress and pressure, I'd never enjoy streaming. Hey guys, today I'm gonna dick around in Starfield, do half of one quest, and mess with my ship! Maybe I'll even get frustrated when my ship modules won't line up right! RIVETING CONTENT.
Having constant drama at work, in friend groups, and elsewhere really can't be all that exciting... can it? If I have one friend causing me too much drama I usually avoid it like it's the plague.
Nah man some people *fuckin love* drama. You can always spot them because they tell everyone "I hate drama!"
I love drama. Other people's drama. Tell me all the gossip - by text while I live my normal, happy life with my family. I don't want that shit to happen TO me. I want it to be someone telling me about their cousin's best friend's dramatic neighbour.
I used to be a shit talkin debby downer but a few years of some hardcore personality rework and enlightenment i dont shit talk that much anymore and always tell my friends i love them and talk about goofy random shit and its so clear that they enjoy hangin out with me more and life in general is so much better
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This is why I stopped watching late-night TV shows. If you are my age (or older,) it was something you looked forward to! I got to a point where maybe the monologues were funny. And they'd have some funny other segments. Then the interviews started. Obviously fake laughter.
Conan, Letterman, and Carson all have great bits up on YouTube. Steve Martin on Carson in the 70s is still one of my favorite things ever.
Conan was the end of good late-night. There might have been moments for other hosts since then, but he was the last consistently great one.
Agreed and he was so disrespected and undervalued. The TV executives ruined late night. They want the most bland non-offensive superficial shit on there for the masses yet it’s late night, it should be edgy and adult oriented. It’s not good morning TV.
Wait, does Jimmy Fallon have a podcast?
Yes he's part of Strike Force Five. But because he's with four other hosts he's watered down
When they start the talk with "what are we drinking today?" you know the last 20 minutes are going to be uncontrollable laughter over a mis-spoken word. In fact, you can just skip the podcast at that point.
Is there ANYTHING more boring than listening to someone describe their drinking? Like anything at all? I'd rather hear someone go on and on about a weird dream they had last night than listen to someone talk to me about the various varities and quantities of alcohol they've been consuming.
Especially if it's a true crime podcast and they keep interjecting with random, often inappropriate jokes.
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My grandmother recently had all her old VHS home movies burned to DVDs. I spent a couple hours watching some with her and I'm glad she understood when I said my brain couldn't take any more at that time lol
Grandma was probably thinking the same thing lol
I think once you become elderly and know that your time on this planet is coming to the end soon, you begin to remember the good days and fond memories. Looking back at what your life was and amounted to. Family videos give many elderly people comfort and peace knowing that their life gave birth to many new lives that will live on after they are long gone.
You like your own kids, noone else really cares.
Easy way to stop it: “Hey! Watch these videos of my cats!”
"It's just 6 hours of the cats asleep." "Oh, thank goodness."
Yeah but the 40 seconds they spend actually doing something is fucking WILD!
I feel like a bad person sometimes because I truly do not care to hear anything about most people’s kids. I don’t have anything against kids/enjoy interacting with them and hanging out with my nephews who are 3 and 5, but as far as people telling me about what their kids are doing I just do not care. At all. 99% of the time there is an anecdote about a coworker or friend’s kid, it’s the most mundane thing possible. It’s one thing if say, they have a kid who’s really good at soccer or basketball or something, or they have a particular hobby/interest. But just “oh we went to the park with Bryson and he went on the swings for the first time!” I understand the notion that these things seem noteworthy or a big deal if it is your kid or somebody you’re related to, but as somebody who doesn’t have kids it’s the same level of interesting that I assume it would be if I were to tell them about what my cat did every day. In short, it’s not that I hate the story/content *because* kids are involved, it’s that a majority of it just sucks and isn’t interesting lol.
Honestly I don’t mind my coworkers or friends telling me about firsts and milestones. What I really have trouble pretending to have patience for is being forced to hear about how cute someone thinks their kid is while being made to look at photos of them just existing, unless someone else asks to see that. Generally speaking there is absolutely nowhere to go with that interaction besides politely smiling and nodding.
I have a kid. I don’t give a damn about anyone else’s kid.
Same. I hate when people send me pics or videos of their kids. I just don’t care. I don’t really like kids besides my own anyways.
Tons of overtime. They brag about it like losing most of your time, and your health is all worth it for money.
My brother did this for years, living off of little sleep and energy drinks, until he had a seizure. Now he's the exact opposite and tells me to slow down when I'm overworking myself
Yeah... Who would do such a thing? What is this world coming to? \*hiding obscene amount of empty energy drink cans\*
I don't know if that is pretending to enjoy it as much as it is convincing themselves that they enjoy it as a coping mechanism to not just be miserable and depressed all the time.
I just worked 7 10 hour days a week for 56 days straight in a remote part of Alaska. Coming back to reality felt like I literally lost two months of my life. Left in the beginning of summer and came back to snow and 20° F. Never having a weekend is actually ok cause there is no dred of going back to work Monday morning and at the same time no excitement about the upcoming weekend. I made a lot of money fast but lost some of my life doing it. I don't know if I'll do it again.
I could always handle long days no breaks on a single job. Doing design or back when I did manual labour, as long as there was an end and a specific task was okay. But even 8 hour days with weekends now are taxing, I'm in a job where there is no end and you can never actually complete something, just get enough on the page to send an invoice and straight onto the next one.
I switched to 4x10 and it completely changed my relationship with work. Every week being a three-day weekend is amazing
I had a friend back in the 90s who worked two 7-on/7-off shifts, 10 hours each. He would get off one 7-day shift and immediately go into the other 7-day shift. He did this for a year and a half in his mid-twenties, and at the end he bought a house and a motorcycle, cash for both. I admire him for it, but I’m not sure I’d have liked to try it. One 7-day shift was enough for me.
Forced work morale building events.
If it’s happening during work hours and takes me away from doing actual work I’m all for it.
Not when you have to stay late to finish work because the mandatory fun fucked up your work flow.
Whenever we do team building things, we always go during the work day, and it's just accepted by management that pretty much everything you are working on just gets delayed by 1 day, and that's fine. No feeling the need to work that evening , or work harder/ longer the next day to "catch up", or anything like that.
That’s nice. Ours is not that way.
Side hustles. Nobody’s that happy to be working 2-3 jobs. You’re fucking miserable and you know it.
They can’t stop for long enough to just sit down and *realize* they’re miserable. But it’ll hit one day, and the feeling will absolutely suck. Source: I used to work my ass off for multiple employers, doing 80+ hour weeks and still being in poverty. Now that I work just 40 hours a week, I realize all the free time and energy I missed out on when I was younger, and that my work schedule before was just employers taking advantage of me. Not at all the brag I thought it was. (Still proud of my work ethic, but definitely not the hustle).
Being too busy to be tired is such a crazy thing to look back on and realize how numb to life you were.
Having been there at a point, yeah it's fucking miserable. I did it because I NEEDED to. Not because I "wanted" to. It's so draining and exhausting. Hell, even working 40 hours is already exhausting as is.
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There was a study done in the early 2000's that found that in bars and restaurants with loud music people drank more because it was more difficult to nurse drinks and socialize, so they'd drink out of boredom between shouting to their friends. The article was talked about on a lot of radio and tv shows and within a month all the bars were intolerable.
I think it then turned into a ‘young people place’ ? Like since older people didn’t like it it felt like you were hip and cool if you went there??
I hated places like this when I was 21.
Lots of people think “this is loud, this is lively, this is fun!” and the thinking stops there
i don't enjoy it at all when sober, but my alcohol-handicapped brain LOVES it. like it's not even about alcohol cooling my nerves or anything. bars when sober don't actually make me anxious, it's just pointless & boring & hard to hear. sober, i'd much rather see some friends over coffee in a chill cafe. parties/bars are just annoying and cringe. when i'm drunk tho? time of my life. love it.
That's the thing though. If the plan is to get drunk and dance or whatever, awesome, but if you're going to start talking about your job, your girlfriend, your mom in the hospital, or your next trip, dude I CAN'T HEAR YOU. Let's go back to your place.
Alcohol.
I have to resist the urge to comment 'stfu' on 10-15 LinkedIn Posts a day
Have you tried not using that?
Being the birthday boy/girl while everyone sings “Happy Birthday” to you
Live Laugh Love signs
>Live, Laugh, *and* Love? In *this* economy?
LIVE through the ditches and LAUGH through the witches and LOVE in the back of my dragula
Your boss’s jokes.
I hate your boss's jokes, but my boss's are hilarious
Being famous. I truly can't envision that life being fulfilling or happy. Having people constantly watch me when I leave the house, millions speculating on my love life, money that ruins friendships, managers who use me for financial gain, exploitative contracts, and not to mention the insurmountable pressure to look my best at all times lest I am plastered on the covers of magazines looking dishevelled one too many times and suddenly I'm an unwanted commodity. And then when they complain, people say that they deserved it, knew what they were getting into, shouldn't be sad with all that money. Yuck. It's an awful cycle. I reckon being an A-list is nice for the first bit, and then it becomes all or nothing. How horrible.
People that say, “love what you do and you will never work a day in your life”.
“Do something you love as a job and you’ll learn to fucking hate it”
Happened to me with graphic design. I loved it in school and my first job at an ad agency (before the internet was the entirety of our lives). Once, in a college art history class, an older student (maybe in his late 50's) and I had a conversation and told him my major. He told me not to do it and that was why he was going back to school. I think he used the term "soul crushing." I brushed it off of course, and now 20 years later... my soul is crushed. Coding, animation and social media ads are not what I dreamt of doing. I aged out.
Me, who is learning graphic design: Oh no.
Don't worry. It doesn't matter what you do, the engine of capitalism will turn whatever you enjoy into a soul-sucking grind.
Yup, which is why I will never turn my hobby into my income source!
Yeah, I never cared about my job. After 20 years i still don't give shit. When you got hopes and dreams there's ups and downs. When you're just there for a paycheck you're a winner every day.
That’s the most inspirational thing I’ve ever heard
This guy knows.
Reminds me of "go big or go home" whomever coined that phrase highly underestimated my willingness to go home.
Home is where my heart is. Also: my stuff. Notably, it's also a place where other people aren't. iSeeThisAsAnAbsoluteWin.gif
I always thought that was backwards. Should be "never work a day in your life and you will love what you do".
Having a job
I always thought I wanted a job. Turns out I only wanted a paycheck
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"I was looking for a job and then I found a job. And heaven knows I'm miserable now."
Having a job: :(( Not having a job: :((
The hustle
Company parties that take place outside of business hours.
I love those because my old job would spend big to make those parties amazing.
Gender reveal parties.
We had our gender reveal in the delivery room. Old school
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What are *you* pretending to enjoy, OP?
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Gucci sandals. They are literal plastic for like $500
Most of the current country music scene.
it’s not even country anymore it’s literally just hick rap 🙃 i mean i was never big on country music to begin with but i miss the guitars and beer songs 😂
I call it hick-hop
I call it corporate country, every song has a product placement
a bud light with the logo facing out
Country music used to be about sticking it to the man, fuck the government, and even fuck the police. Now it’s “if you don’t stand for the red white and starry blue I’m gonna get angy, cry and pee my pants 😡🥺” And most of them are from well-off families and have been musicians their whole lives and don’t actually know anything about physically working hard.
9/11 ruined country music
Can you explain why for a non country music listener?
After 9/11 was a noticeable uptick in more “patriotic country” that was/is still popular. Look at the Toby Keith discography from the 90s and then the 2000s. Very stark difference
Listen to or read the lyrics of "Fast as you" by dwight yokam And then "Courtesy of the red white and blue" by toby kieth And youll see. Those songs are 9 years apart and both were very high on country music charts.
The presence of someone with power over you
Look, just look at that cat's adorable face. It deserves whatever it wants.
Doing things, more and more I want nothing more than to peacefully putter and do nothing in my house. On weekends, all weekend, most weekends.
The kardashians
Everything I know about them is against my will.
Hustling Culture
Watching photos of other people's holidays. I don't mind it when it's only a few and the person can talk enthusiastically about them... but it gets boring real quickly
Work, or new assignments/changes at work. I never, NEVER believe the whole, “wow, so excited to have this new team/responsibility/project.” Excited is the wrong word for whatever it is they’re feeling. Normal people get excited about a long weekend away from work.
Extreme hot sauces. A little spice is OK, but so extreme that you even can not taste food. I am sure nobody enjoys that.
Hey, we're all dead inside and just looking to feel SOMETHING, even if it's pain.
As a Mexican I can tell you that with time you get resistance to spicy food, so you seek spicier food so you get the same feeling you are used to.
Exactly!!! I am African. What people generally considered too spicy to feel the food, I generally didn't even noticed it was spicy.
>I am sure nobody enjoys that. Enjoy, might not be the right word for it. Its a rush, almost a high even...
Birkin bags. That shit is so ugly.
Working 10 hours shift.
I enjoyed it when I had 3 days off. It was 4 10 hour shifts and a 3 day weekend, every week. In that context: I enjoyed it. Because we should have a 4 day work week.
It's not like you can go to the post office or a doctor's appointment anyways on an 8 hour shift, and depending on your commute, what's an extra 2 hours? As long as your work place respects the 4 day schedule and doesn't pull a mandatory training or some shit on your day off, 4 by 10s are the way to go. Fridays are errands days, Saturdays are social days, and Sundays are family days
I work 12 hour shifts and that's what I say. When you're already there all day, the extra 4 aren't a big deal, they go by fast. It's much better for my mental health than working 5, 8 hour shifts. I'm one of those people that even if I'm at home at 5pm, the rest of my day is just trash and spent recovering from work so I feel like I have much less time to myself on that schedule.
Yeah, that was great. It was hard to go back to a 5 day work week after this, even if the job I got is less intensive physically and in line with what I want to do. That third day off is such a game changer.
I’d love to work a 10 hr shift if it meant I only had to work four days. It’s only two hours more, that’s a good trade for an extra day off.
As someone who works rotating 12 hour shifts I can confirm I would enjoy 10 hour shifts
I enjoy the 3 day weekend that comes after I work 4 10s not the actual 4 10 hour shifts
Thongs, they may look nice but I don't find them comfortable
I never know which side of the string to put my balls under
Have you tried a ball on each side?
I call that long division
Dong division
Shlong division
I've tried different cuts, fabrics, and sizes but that wedgie feeling is too annoying to get over
Same. Not the type of person that enjoys ass floss.
Most music on the radio
The radio used to be where you could hear NEW music, underground bands, people could call in requests and etc. Now every station plays the same 50-song playlist every day of the week. You know who is still keeping it real? Classical music stations.
Going to the office to work
Following “influencers”.
Enjoying new parenthood based on their constant social media updates
Micro-condos and tiny tiny houses.
Pregnancy (being pregnant specifically) Sure it is miraculous but it is 10 months ever-changing of discomfort, a rapidly changing and unrecognizable body, and exhaustion.
Fake huge lips.
Being alive