/wiz/ - Wizardry

I'll keep working at my cushy office job until I get fired. Then I'll NEET off my savings for maybe a year. No neetbucks for me either.

I have neetbux but the gov here announced they will be cut off. I have no idea what i will do.

>>222868
What country?

>>222862
>Has anyone quit work out of spite?
Only short term gigs and odd jobs.
Usually after the person who hired for it thinks it's a great idea to get super disrespectful to people hired for their physical strength or fuck around with the agreed upon payment.

>It will be financial suicide
Actively interview for other jobs that you might like better and job hop.
Sometimes even taking a hit in pay is well worth it when it means a better work environment and a better boss.
Basically, you know you don't like it there so start lining up another job.
You don't have to tell the current job you are working for that you are job hunting. You don't owe them loyalty.

>If you don't have a comfortable wage or are unable to get a job with one, it's literally pointless to exist only to work
That's a work life balance issue. Don't work for places that expect you to do shit off the clock or force manditory over time. Instead work for places that respect that you have a life outside of your job.

>>222898
you make it sound like finding such jobs (or any kind of jobs that pay anything) is a piece of cake in 2025.

whereas in reality even manual labor jobs have thousands of applications per opening.
only a doctor is guaranteed gainful employment in 2025.

even the US isn't immune to this, many places where you could find a job within 24 hours by walking into a "now hiring" shop are now complete job deserts.
even fast food isn't hiring in many mid to large sized cities and people who work there hold onto their jobs like their life depends on it… because it does.

I've made a "fortune" of 120k in stocks and I own a shitty flat worth 170k. Made 70k from nvidia that would Have Been 350k 2 years later. I'm thinking of selling My flat and going all in on stock market. Doesnt that that much of a miracle to turn 290k to 400k or so. If it goes bust then it goes.

>>222862
>live on my savings on my own terms for 15 more months
That is actually amazing. I only have like 5 months wages saved up.
Don't do it if you can help it if you aren't a dependent as well. (I live at mom even though I'm 29 while lil sister got a kid, house, family etc. lol)

>pointless to exist only to work, so you can keep working some more. No vacations, no new car, no good food, nothing, just endless slaving.
Yeah I've been struggling with this too. I've only been working for 2 years now (total, was NEET before), but it feels so pointless.
I will never attain freedom, will never have a house with a garden for flowers woodwork stuff.
I'll at best have to move out and live as a rentslave until I get fired and never find a job again…
I don't even have real goals.
Like you mention vacations, car, food idk. I never really want to go anywhere anyways.

If you really have 15 months of expenses saved up you might as well take a vacation if that is what you need.
I can't imagine quitting as a wizard in this global situation.
One thing to keep in mind though is all that cash you got laying around is likely inflating away.
I'm somewhat worried about the EU going to war as well, so I'm spending more than I usually do on consumer stuff.

I found a lawyer in my country who’s helping me get neetbucks, but it’s not enough to cover my living expenses. I’m still far from fully detaching from material things. I don’t really work, in fact, I just pretend to and somehow get by. The last time I actually tried hard, they gave me a prize, and three months later, they fired me. So now, I’m done taking work seriously. If they fire me, then so be it.

I think I have, but it was largely out of necessity. Eventually you have to look at the cost-benefit. Employers like to make it a zero sum game. Quit and you will be black listed, you will never find employment, no one will give you a recommendation, your skills will rot, etc. But at the end of the day its like the housing crisis of 2008, do you keep paying a mortgage for a house that's worth less than when you bought it for? When are you just facing a gambler's dilemma?

I didn't see a future and I told my employer I was giving up. They would even beg me to come back and that I could change my decision, but the longer you left me in the zero sum mentality the more sure I am going to be of my choice.

I've thought about it but my current job is LEAGUES better than all of the other jobs i've had over the last decade or so. It's also incredibly difficult to find a job now unless it's assembly line factory work but thats nightmareish. I've walked out of factory jobs before but that was mostly because I was too weak and I just couldn't last the entire first shift despite trying my best. Imagine doing pushups for 3 hours straight, and after every 20~30 you get a minute of rest, then do another 20~30… that's how I felt

>>222898
I very much agree with you. This Wizzie actually gets it. I used to spend a lot of time off the clock doing shit because I thought it might give me a better chance of a promotion so that I could actually earn some decent money but nope not the case.

If your boss knows they can screw around with your work life balance then they most definitely will.

The funniest thing is that despite hating my job so much I have looked for another job and they are all shit too. I applied for one place and they were already practically trying to organise me getting trained for the role but when I told them that I wanted to not work certain times of the day on certain days of the week they immediately dropped me because I was not on my knees as a slave to the job. They demanded that I be available to be rostered 24/7.

At least at my current job if I want to take a morning off they can arrange that at the very least with notice.

>>222901
>whereas in reality even manual labor jobs have thousands of applications per opening.
I worked nights stocking a grocery store. Literal handshake and a smile. I dressed up in all black business casual and told them I see what I'm told to do and execute. I threw four pallets the first night. I got full time offered in three weeks.

I still miss it. It's such an easy job and it paid decent money, but my desk job has tons of perks that the grocery store can't match.