/dep/ - Depression

>>300876
>autist
>here's me doing drugs at work, feeling sad that I'm alone
Words have no meaning anymore.

>>300857
>imageboards are the hate machine
I never said or thought it

>>300888
>gatekeeping being an autist
>smoking a cig at work makes you a normalfag
Words have no meaning anymore.

>>300920
Oh, you're one of those "There are only AUTISTS and NORMALFAGS. If you're not one, you're the other!" Redditors.

>>297063
is she the one who fired anon for "needing too much supervision" or something like that?

I feel bad for construction workers, every day there are plenty of injuries and fatalities, the whole experience of working at high altitudes sounds hellish

I'm watching as my entire shift burns around me. I'm the only standard employee working on the shift, my colleagues don't dare to come in on their day off, and the other shift workers don't want to help out, meanwhile despite the attempt of trying to get more people on the shift they usually either quit or get fired less than a month or so.

The shift I work on is cursed I swear to God.

Imagine placing a frog into a pot of cold water, then slowly turning up the heat. At first, the frog remains calm, barely reacting to the gradual change. It quietly adjusts its body temperature, slowly adapting to the warming water, thinking, “This is still okay. I can handle this.”

As the water continues to heat, the frog tolerates the rising temperature, convincing itself that it’s still bearable. It adapts little by little, accepting discomfort bit by bit, believing it can survive whatever comes next.

But here lies the danger: when the water becomes unbearably hot, too hot to endure, the frog finally recognizes the urgent need to escape. It realizes, “Now, I must jump out to save myself!”

Unfortunately, by this time, the frog has already exhausted its energy simply enduring the increasing heat. It’s too weak, too depleted to make the leap to safety. Despite its desire to escape, the frog is trapped. Slowly, it succumbs to the boiling water, unable to save itself.

The truth is, the frog didn’t perish because of the water’s heat alone. It died because it failed to act early, failed to make the decision to jump out when it still could.

This phenomenon is known as the “Boiling Frog Syndrome.”

This powerful story mirrors many of our lives. We often endure injustice, neglect, or hardship step by step, telling ourselves, “I’ll tolerate this for now. I’ll deal with it later.” We accept small pains, dismiss warning signs, and adapt to worsening conditions, hoping things will improve.

But what starts as manageable discomfort can grow into overwhelming suffering. By the time we realize the severity of our situation, our strength to fight back, to change our circumstances, has often been drained. We lose the courage to stand up, to speak out, and to protect ourselves.

The lesson here is clear: Never allow yourself to reach a point where you lack the strength to break free from toxic situations.

When you sense discomfort or injustice creeping in, take action immediately. Set clear boundaries, raise your voice, and defend your dignity before it’s too late. Your mental and emotional resilience is your greatest ally, nurture it, protect it, and never let it be drained by slow, creeping harm.

Remember, life will often test your limits, but you hold the power to decide when to leap out of the boiling water. Don’t wait until your energy is gone. Act now, protect your peace, and choose survival on your own terms.

Because no one deserves to become the “boiled frog,” someone who wanted to survive but was too late to save themselves.

>>301178
But what if I was that frog in the center of the ocean and all around me is nothing but endless miles of slowly heating water? Where to jump to?

>>301186
That's like asking "But what if a meteor crashed down on the frog as he was making his escape?". It's impossible. There's always a place to jump, even if you're too scared of what other dangers you imagine to be on that surface.

Is there any way to make 100$ per month online?

>>301190 maybe try this
>>>/wiz/218184

We can never recover time but have at least the potential to earn more in the future.

man this monday morning is rough, barely any motivation to work

My fucking company literally imports all of its shit from china. I don’t know how they aren’t laying people off yet.

Bitcoin > working

For years I dreamed of finally making enough money to escape. I have my own place now, learned how to drive, have my own car. I make enough to not stress much or go hungry like I used to. I have a job that is at least tolerable enough for now. Still find myself hoping I sleep and don't wake up. It was every bit as amazing as I'd dreamed of at first. No roommates, no external stress, no one to bother me. No being forced into situations. Only blissful solitude. The novelty is starting to fade after about a year. It's nice but I guess now that I have nothing else to work towards I kind of don't care. If I made more money it'd make no difference to my lifestyle besides more cushioning for emergencies. My lifestyle wouldn't change short of winning lottery and never having to work again. Now ahead is the huge abyss, the massive gulf of time. Waging for years and years and years and years as health fades, as sanity erodes further. I guess this is the endgame.

I wished trumps tariffs actually did something. Company STILL isn’t laying people off.

>>301366
It is impossible to take action without having a goal to do it for. At least you have reached the correct conclusion. You have achieved your independence, your standard of living and you aren't fooled by all the bait that is out there to make you increase the speed on the endless treadmill. This is it. There needn't be anything more. I think for people like you the only thing that remains now is finding inner peace or whatever and maybe then you can truly find moment-to-moment enjoyment in the present. I don't know. But I like that idea.

On today's episode of "my job serves adult children" the plumbing at my job has shit the bed because some retard flushed a diaper down the toilet & clogged up our pipes.

I genuinely hate these fucking cousin fuckers that I have to serve at work. Fuck this place I want it to burn to the fucking ground.

>>296974
what is the work pill?
what is the relationships pill?

>>301366
I feel this as I go through the same routine every morning and every weekend with my job. On the one hand I like the stability but on the other I can imagine I will be doing this till the day I died. It's quite a transition going from youthful optimize to realizing there is no improvement from here on out.
>>301432
I've met people who are hesitant to drop toilet paper down the toilet, but who would think its a good idea to put a whole diaper in there?

two more days saar

So tired. Once you go on the wagetrain there is no getting off. I mean, this is it? What the fuck? I hate all the people, all the fakeness, all the pretending, all the poison. Forgive me, my 30 year old past self but you ran far enough, you had to wageslave. No other option. The rope or wage. That's it. And we choose the wageslavery. Deal with it..right?

I accidentally fucked up a chance to get a better job. Something that paid almost 10-fold better. Shit.

The next chance will be years down the line, if it ever comes back. I'm old, past the halfway mark.

I can't stand this fucking convenience store job. The customers here smell like they haven't showered in fucking decades & we just got a coworker that looks like she pays bots to subscribe to her special website, like she's that much of a bitch.

I had a customer lose his cellphone. Told him to check with the front desk. He wants to know what we're all going to do now. I dunno, learn a lesson from this? Not gonna stop working to look for your phone bud.

>>301638
>I accidentally fucked up a chance to get a better job. Something that paid almost 10-fold better. Shit.

OOF

>The next chance will be years down the line, if it ever comes back. I'm old, past the halfway mark.


I kinda accidentally got a 6-figure job, though, kekw

(I man, they were looking for an errand boy to errand quite a business)

Im going to quit my job I don't care anymore if I get evicted or my car gets repoed. I don't care. I would literally rather shoot myself than do this fucking job anymore. I've worked a lot of awful jobs in my life but this is a special kind of hell on earth.

i need to revisit every single moral principle i have adopted as a habit, getting rid of the excessive, pointless rules i have created for myself is proving harder than i thought

doesn't help that waging made me less capable of deep introspection. it is simply much harder now in my 30s than it was in my 20s when i was unemployed

>>298023
your punishment for the humblebragging

>>297944
I literally took a loan to buy bitcoin


and then everyone was like "A LOAN?! U CRAZY GTFO"

>>296811
Physical labour, paper flipping, stamping documents, jack-of-all-trades manager here. AI seems to improve my life here and there.

By the way.
Massive layoffs means lots of unemployed youngsters. Wizards, for now, can be proud for not making this mess even worse.

>>301800
I used to werk 16 hours a day at some crappy warehouse


70 workers

e.g. 69 stupid stags and 1 wizard trying to survive there

I bought nvidia in 2 different batches somewhere around 2016-2017. Put in 4000 twice. Sold for 100k in 2022. That same amount would be worth over a half a mil now. 1000 worth bought in 2013 would have been 600k today. I bought my first nvidia gpu in 2008. It's just crazy to think about. Bitcoin was never worth anything so I dont think about it that much. Never bought it. But nvidia was always a company I believed in. It's just hindsight but still crazy to think about.

>>301940
Been there for a couple of months now. It's pretty alright if you can follow basic guidelines and deal with retard customers. My coworkers probably think I'm a weirdo because I have nothing to say to them whatsoever and they never shut the fuck up about what goes on in their lives or about shit no one cares about. They're doing me a favor by not talking to me.

Had 2 weeks vacation and enjoyed it. I think there might have even been a few days where I didn't think about suicide. Now it's back to work, and the mindset of work.
At my shitty, repetative, body-breaking, mind-wrecking, soul-crushing warehouse job
Where everyone hates me and treats me like shit
And everything is LOUD ALL THE TIME from the machinery to NORMIE CHATTERING. HAVE TO YELL SO EVERYONE KNOWS YOU'RE A BIG ADULT HAVING A BIG IMPORTANT COVERSATION ABOUT HOW COOL YOUR PICKUP TRUCK IS
But I'm weak and stupid and weird and I cant do any better so I guess I deserve it
Fuck a*erica, fuck capitalism, fuck gynocentrism, fuck society, fuck humanity, fuck conciousness, fuck life, fuck the demiurge

>>299593
So I managed to finish the retarded internship. It's been over a month and I have yet to receive my certification form that workplace to hand in at uni so I can get the credits for doing it. Can't reach anyone by mail either. I don't even care anymore. I am just going to coast on easygoing jobs for the next year until next fall and try to apprentice in some technical trade. Or so I thought. The job I got now is some corpo IT gig and I wake up with dread every single morning I have to work. I even have trouble falling asleep on the nights before work, this feeling of tension in my muscles like my body wants to run. This is my third week here and I'm looking for other jobs. Today I'm feeling disoriented and a bit unstable standing up. I just want to get out of here but I wasn't even able to get manual labor gigs when I applied for jobs a month or so ago. I just can't do office work anymore, that shit breaks my soul.

I work pizza delivery. Not a hard job and can be enjoyable but I hate the shit pay. I get paid 7$ to drive but 12$ to stay in the store and do nothing. Isn't that ass backwards?

>>302343
what about gas money?
do they pay you $$$ to refill your Chavrolet?

do they provide you with a pizzamobile to begin with?

I know this is very common, but:
>Work Monday-Friday
>Spend all week eager for the weekend
>Weekend finally arrives
>A portion of the weekend is spent running errands or doing household chores
>The rest of the weekend flies by
>tfw it's already Sunday night and I have work again in the morning
I hate this. I feel like Friday was just yesterday, Saturday didn't happen, and Sunday was only half a day. I hate how much of a person's time is consumed by work. It's not even just the work itself, but also the time used up with commute there and back plus the preparations (showers, packing lunches, washing clothes, etc.) for the work week, and of course the stress and anxiety of knowing I have to go and can't just flake out of it whenever because I have bills and other expenses. I feel like I never really get any actual rest. I know that this was all done by design to contain and oppress the masses, and I hate that I'm too stupid and unmotivated to achieve self-employment or true financial freedom, which leaves me stuck in this dystopian loop and I'm all the more miserable for it.

>>302440
I am currently dealing with a different problem with my weekends.

>I hope to get a good weekend of sleep
>I just cant sleep in

<turns out I am dumb enough to sleep with a synth-wooly blanket; NOT a thin cotton blanket I bought years ago just for the summer

(I live in a well-insulated apartment also)

So, lemme share my experience with your setting…

>>302440
>A portion of the weekend is spent running errands or doing household chores

I have a trick for washing machines. Nearly every washing machine has a times. You can load your machine in the evening and the machine will do its loudest part - tumbling - somewhere after the time your alarm strikes and you wake up.

Besides, you can get a cheap 15$ foldable dryer to hang your washed stuff to dry indoors. This will reduce your "chores" weekend time expences.


regards, >>302446

>>302440
>(showers, packing lunches, washing clothes, etc.)

Smart multicookers with "slow cook" func with WiFi and smartphone apps are rather cheap now, under 100$ for a device. You can pretty much set up your morning cooking on times and throw the leftowers into a plastic containtes with latches (not just "tupperware", since the TupperwareTM tupperware actually suxxx)

besides, you can get a disgustingly cheap Blueetooth/MP3 player thingy (under 10$), wrap it into a iplock/an A4 file for water protection and blast some music while you shower.


regards, >>302446

>>302440

>I know this is very common, but:

>for the work week, and of course the stress and anxiety of knowing I have to go and can't just flake out of it whenever because I have bills and other expenses

You know, this is why I am into cooking, but not a chef - I just try to save a buck by frying some eggs on a teflon-coated pan instead of using a microwave dinner. Besides, real eggs are healthiner than slop (pun [not] intended).

AI investors on suicide watch right now

>>296915
Is this a joke btw? LLMs are just parrots repeating, we are at 0% intelligence when first LLM came out, and we are still at 0%

But we should have the answer within the year then I suppose, or will the bubble burst?

>>302447
>>302448
>>302449
Cool tips, thanks wizzies.

i made this

>>302567
Accurate. You forgot that the cashier is being replaced with a self-checkout machine that has a "NO CASH ACCEPTED" sign that no customer ever cares to read