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I need some career advice. I don't know if this is the best place for it, but here goes. I'm currently at a school with a top 10 journalism college where I'm studying advertising. The thing is I don't think I really want to be in advertising, being involved in the glamorization of material things.
More recently I have been meditation and reading books about buddhism and its teachings. This is part of what led me to my change of heart I believe. I want to travel, and be able to experience different cultures. I graduate next may with my degree in advertising,...
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Doing what you love is something that they teach you in kindergarden. In real life people become fry cooks and work on automobiles not because they love it but because they need the cash.
If you get hungry enough you'll do anything for money. Regardless go be a teacher in japan since you can probably qualify for the JET program if you have a degree if you want a different job.
Also hey you could advertise dog food. Dog food isn't a bad thing to glamorize because I do like doge commercials.
>>17259196
Thanks for the input, Japan is a place I've really wanted to go to for a while. Is that something I need to learn japanese for? I mean I know it would help me in the country
>>17259187
Take a gap year after graduation. After travelling, you'll want to settle down and really get to work on a career, that's what happened to me though I didn't get taken in by some weird ass Buddhist teaching. There are plenty of jobs that just need any degree to get into like federal government jobs and in banks where I'm from.
>>17259209
JET is only for a year I think. I've been to Japan with high school level Japanese (forgotten...
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I want to buy my boyfriend a promise ring, but I'm a little worried that it'll come off as strange or weird for a female to buy a male a ring. Opinions?
If I was your boyfriend I would totally let you buy that ring in the picture
>>17259178
Does he normally wear jewellery? Like necklaces, chains, etc.
If not then I wouldn't.
>>17259182
He has a huge collection of necklaces and bracelets.
existential dread inc.
so lately i've been thinking over the idea that (similar to Andy Weir's "The Egg"), i could be the single form of consciousness in the world and everyone else is just a reincarnation of myself and all that jazz. that, combined with ideas of existential nihilism make me think that i'm literally alone in the universe and everything else, and it's an incredibly lonely feel.
how can i convince myself otherwise? because i'm very fixed on this idea and it sucks pls help
i don't mean to sound pretentious...
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>>17259175
Pic related is the creator of conan the barbarian.
You did not know that until right now.
Happens sometimes. Maybe you're just a figment of my mind, whatever. Just enjoy the reality you have and don't think about it too deeply, you're probably going to die so, enjoy that shit.
>>17259175
The bigger picture to consider is Heisenberg's uncertainty principal. Position and momentum can not simultaneously be observed. At the lowest levels of elementary subatomic particles, fields, and waves... information becomes contorted, disrupting it's state.
This is powerful information.
I'm a Discordian. All hail Eris and join the Church of Chaosophy.
hey /adv/,
I am not sure how many of you are into Wiccan spells, but I have been trying some of them out. I do believe that the mind is an incredibly powerful thing, and if you concentrate on certain things, you can indeed change your life around.
I have already done a lot of these things subconsciously in my life, and some of my problems have resolved on their own.
So, in the past few days I have been casting white magic spells on an ex of mine, whom I haven't seen in 6 months. [I have used this time to recover.] After doing the spells I have gotten...
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confirmation bias and coincidence, you stupid fuck
So, I additionally while concentrating on the candle spells I've been doing, I feel like I was able to communicate with my ex on an extra sensory perceptive level and sort of empathize with his thoughts and feelings.
They weren't the most positive, but I've let it go since then. I've been focusing in a powerful, magnetic, self sustaining energy during the spells, over all, and its been working on people who I am currently in contact with.
I am hoping that this energy will eventually reach my lost love, and will compel him to reach out to me...
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>>17259171
No, seriously. It's confirmation bias and coincidence. I'm sorry.
>Don't want to work ever
>Just want to get a job where I can be wage thief and play video games 7 hours a day while making 20k a year.
Help me /r9k/
My High-school gym teacher would sit around all day and play Bejeweled. How do I achieve his success?
IT
>>17259137
Its actually really easy to find chill jobs. You just won't know til you have worked them for a bit.
Over night security guard. Literally all I did was sit at a desk and play civ 5 or xcom on my laptop all night.
Hello /adv/, i have a request for each and everyone of you, if you have a second. Do you know of any stories about outcasts, losers and other pathetic persons that in the end managed to become great and/or successful? Could you post them? I'm a pathetic kissless virgin jobless fat shit and reading stories of people who became something from zero somehow boosts me up.
>>17259108
There's the guy with the golden voice for example
>>17259108
The guy who founded Second Cup in Canada. Frank O'Dea.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_O'Dea
The original Papa Franku
Recently I discovered that my mind is somehow preventing me from achieving erections. I used to fap 5 times a day for the past 2 years. When I try to force it I feel slight pain in my head. I think it stems from anxiety of me fearing that I may want to fap to animals, kids, or fat men despite never actually wanting to do so. How can I gain my easily accessible boners back?
>>17259100
welcome to getting older OP.
>>17259104
But I'm an 18 year old newfag with ocd rituals and anxiety
>>17259100
Wtf ?
Stop fapping for 2 weeks. You'll cum to vanilla porn in no time.
Are there any dentists here? I just want to know if this is normal.
>Had a minor cavity between two teeth, resulting in two fillings.
>It became painful after the fillings, so the dentist redid one side with a silver filling.
>The pain hasn't gone away after 2.5 months since the original filling.
>Dentist says I'll need root canal if the pain doesn't go away on it's own.
Is this an unfortunate thing that can happen...
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umm i had something similar happen to me a longe time ago
6 years ago i had a cavity which required the dentist to drill close to my nerve. A little while passes a get excruciating pain.. he sends me to a specialist who said there was nothing wrong with my tooth and could not explain the pain... 2 days after i visited the specialist the pain magically stopped... fast FW to today and that same tooth has died and i require a root canal reason being the original dentist that worked on the tooth most likely clipped the nerve.. i have no idea how long the tooth has been dead...
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>>17259099
Sorry to hear about your tooth. So it was your dentist's mistake, basically? I'll keep an eye out for signs of infection, but it looked like the drilling didn't get near the nerve in the x-rays.
o and a little bit more info u might want to know if u do get the root canal. Since the tooth will be dead the bone will gradually dry out and crumble/crack so there is no guarantee how long you will actually keep the tooth. Ask the doc if the location and the amount of use that tooth will endure be ideal for a root canal rather than some other option.
My gf caught me jacking off to granny porn. Is that worse than being caught jacking off to other porn? Shes asking all kinds of questions. What do?
>>17259011
nah. Every woman eventually has to come to terms with the fact that men fap. And sometimes its weird stuff. Just be chill about it.
>i think old ladies are fukken hot, thats why im dating you
tell her that
What type of granny porn? Share
okay, /adv/. i have asthma.
it's generally not that bad, but on saturday i started coughing really bad and feeling overall icky and gross. i thought it was just a cold since i had gone swimming in a really cold pool the day before, but on monday i realised i was just getting worse. my mom made me a doctor's appointment yesterday and i found out i have strep throat AND bronchitis. so ive been spending the past 5 days sitting on my ass in bed because i thought i had a cold and it's been bad enough, and now i have to spend the next 9 days sitting on my ass in...
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>>17258921
Video games. Watch movies. If you play any instruments, you can practice in bed. Draw. Write a short story. Ultimately, you're only limited by yourself.
Hope you're feeling better soon. Take it easy bro.
Fap
>>17258921
turn based games or watch shit tons of science videos. Make sure they are shorts.
I am 6 weeks into a part time work placement in a kitchen. It's nothing major or even taxing, it's just cut some carrots here and wash some plates there for several hours a day. Four weeks from now it """may""" lead to an actual paying part time job. Today I pretended I was sick and called off the rest of the week.
The last week has been pretty shit. I basically got kicked out of the only personal community I've been part of for years, partly because I'm a shitty negative person and partly because a woman being a woman....
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>>17258913
also I should add; this feels like my last chance to actually make something of myself. I just...don't care.
finish ur work placement bro, youve already spent a few weeks doing it, once you start getting paid if you dont want to do it anymore then fair play. might aswell finish what you started and itll give u something to put on ur cv
>>17259076
You misread. I am a man. She's a massive bitch.
is your skin randomly starting to bleed then scab up all the time a sign of skin cancer?
Sounds like psoriasis to me.
Post pics.
>>17258907
yes, but i would check diet, hygiene and location before jumping to that conclusion.
>>17258911
its hard for me to take a good pic because its on the back of my shoulders
my shoulders are covered in lumpy jagged freckles
I have had a lot of bad sunburn on my back
How do you lower your standards when it comes to dating? I never get the interest of someone I'd like and I just can't stomach settling for someone who'd like me.
Would the person you want to date, ALSO want to date you? What can you offer to a relationship, and what sort of girl would realistically be interested in that? I really hope you're not a basement dweller who only wants to date jennifer awrence
>>17258899
Guy.
I'm a bald ugly LGBT clusterfuck who'd like to date a normal guy who isn't the ~Tumblr~ kind of stupid.
I don't really know how to answer that since I've never been in a sane, normal relationship. I could offer affection, love and support, sex within reasonable measures and for the time being probably pay for most of the dates. Not that that'd mean dinners at 5 star restaurants with a limo, but reasonable things.
And I don't have a gag reflex. I'm...
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>>17258922
>I'm a bald ugly LGBT clusterfuck
And what kind of a person is into that in the first place?
Anyone have experience with getting a loan with shitty debt?
My credit is getting torn apart by 3 maxed out credit cards because I'm a moron. I work 40 hours a week and I'm just barely getting by.
I've searched high and low but I keep finding shitty loan scam companies, anyone know of a solid, reputable place?
My debt isn't the worse, but it's going to be if I don't take care of it now. Currently about $8,500
>>17258811
there are load consolidation options offered by some places. Though you would need to research them yourself.
Basically they would pay everything off and you would pay them in a more manageable pace. To reiterate. Research it.
The guy good news is that now is a good time to be in debt. Look for places that offer debt conciliation and such. Maybe see if your bank offers help with debt repayment?
You need to do what you can to lessen your financial pressure. What's your living situation?
does anyone else self-insert when consuming media? I like to imagine myself being as badass as my musical heroes, or Darth Vader, and other fictional characters.
>>17258719
Everyone does to some extent, you're not unique.
I used too, especially when I was younger and just got into anime. I ended up just watching to see the main male character get the bitches and wreck shit and not seeing the actual merits of the work, so I kicked that habit.
>>17258719
This is what most producers of media are aiming for. That's why so many comics, games and movies are basically a power fantasy.
