What's the point in studying...

Are you happy? If you are, are you more happy than when you had friends?

This just seems so superficial and fake to me though, and I can get women anyway

there isn't any point in anything
but given that for most of human history, most people managed through their skills rather than by luck
and given that in order to get certain things you need to know about certain things and how to do certain things
and even still in order to not get killed in these harsh enviroment you must be acquianted with some information regarding how to survive in said enviroment
I think the point of studying is quite obvious, but overlooked as meaningles

That's not sustainable. You aren't looking at all the risk you have. You rent, they could kick you out and you won't have cash for another place. Your car blows a head gasket and you don't have the 2k to fix it. You get sick with something bad and can't take 2 months worth of sick days. You meet some chick that you finally feel like you could fall in love with. You can't take her anywhere and she starts fucking me on the side because of how comfortable I can make her. I could go on and on

The only things I want are cheap and affordable

I'm the happiest I have ever been. I started to visit my old bros. I'm automatically VIP when I show up because I'm so much better than all of them.

good for you, I'm trying to do something similar and I wanted to know if it had made you happy

Speaking as someone who's done this for nearly twenty years, I can tell you, unreservedly, yes.

It gets old. You get old. Doing it because you want to is one thing, but doing it for the rest of your life because you have to is another. Having no assets and no pension becomes scary. Stuff starts to hurt. Sixty-hour weeks stop feeling like doing a bit of extra work for some pocket money, and start dominating your free time on either side.

Twenty years from now, you'll wake up in your house on a Saturday morning and think "thank fuck I don't have to go to a shitty job like I did in college".

That isn't true. Unless you like being homeless at the drop of a hat see

Not OP, but I'm in a similar situation although not in the world of business. Happiness is a feeling that comes and goes, just like sadness. I can say that I've felt more fufilled these days and in turn this has made me a more positive person who people enjoy being around, thus making me happier in the process.
The friends I had in the past were only keeping be back from being my best by wasting time by smoking weed, drinking, and other means of bullshitting time away. With my newer friends I end up getting drinks at the end of the week or a busy day, making the drugs feel more like a reward than a habbit. Also this tends to be true.

Just having a job in retail isn’t enough to support you. You need a degree to hopefully get a job with a higher salary so you can save enough money for retirement. Working minimum wage until you’re old will not help you

>I'm automatically VIP when I show up because I'm so much better than all of them.
Yikes.

I get it might be a bit brash, but regardless of how he worded it, the message would have been the same: success has resulted in him being viewed highly by others.

True I felt that happyness at the start of the year but I've lost it now. Working hard does make you happy

But does it really matter what others think?

Oh it's not something I bring up or anything like that. I just always have some new toy or thing going on. Or I say screw it let's hit that new steakhouse overlooking the water, my treat. They are still my bros, they just know I'm more important to what's happening than they can be. I'm trying to teach them it's not too late too. I'm 35 btw.

Depends. If the way others think about you makes them treat you better and results in a fun time, then yes. However if you only care about what you do and never socially interact with others, then no.
I've met people who act a certain way around others to maintain an image for their own gain. But personally I follow the philosophy of always being myself and not being a kiss ass, but not to a degree of being a dick and putting myself above others (i.g. randomly shitting on someone at a social gathering becuase "I'm just being me."). This makes me an easy person to work with and gain the trust of others, an important quality for my field of work.

It does in the context of friends vs job. I brought up that I went without friends for years to focus on job. Now that I'm successful I am back in the group and everyone is still where they were at before I left.

What do u do?

Not gonna go into the specifics, but I'm involved in science research.

How did u land that?

Then kill yourself you useless sack of shit.

Nah I enjoy life too much

Realizing I was wasting my time. Became honest. Taked to advisors and professors. Replaced time once spent smoking, drinking, etc. with studying, useful socializing, and showing my professors I knew my shit through grades and research positions. The rest fell into place as time went on.
The first year or so I got dirty looks around my department, many doubting me. But I acted friendly with everyone, regardless of how they felt about me, and let my work speak for me. Now I'm colleagues and/or keep in touch with many of those people. I don't smoke weed anymore, but I do have occasional drinks with people.

I don't smoke weed, but I'm just failing to see the point

I make between 140-180 each year at my current job. My goal is to reach 1,000,000 in savings then i'm finding a small piece of land and growing crops. I'll sell the crops at the local farmers market for some side cash. My expenses will be super low. Being poor as fuck and not having enough to eat isn't appealing to me.

I'm not trying to make a pont. Just answering a question.

Shit happens. And that shit is more expensive than you realize.

IDK where u live but I can still afford to eat lol

send me 50 dollars please, i want to join a cult

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