Life after college

the point is to have a hobby that doesn't cost too much or take up too much of your time that makes life worth living. Or true love. If you have at least one of those things, you should be happy with your life. If you don't, there really isn't that much point to living.

yeah exactly.. to make the monotony bearable, you need a great hobby and a career you enjoy or is at least rewarding. i plan on selling pottery and hand made clothing, singing nightclubs, and doing commercials on the side of my field ecology job. (half my time will be spent knee deep in shit but i love that) also im not narcissistic, some people would say "lol vyou think you have the talent to market your hobbies" but yeah i do because ive been in a commercial, and already sold artwork so.

also i plan on skiing every weekend.

I plan on restoring a 1958 chevy brookwood wagon and/or replacing all mechanical parts until it is as reliable as a modern car. And in even more spare time, randomly playing guitar/piano (both of which ive gotten quite good at; been playing piano for 13 years and guitar for 3). Cars are my hobby. Music is my passion

This is why people created religion. They want some type of immense happiness after the boredom of life.

inb4 religious shitstorm

religion is gay

It's so sad that some people need to cling on to a lie to live a worthless existence.

Find a job that you will enjoy and will be atleast slightly different every day.

exactly! if you have a career you love, you never work a day in your life

finnaly an opinion i can relate to !

A manly opinion on fj? Something is clearly wrong.

Why can't I vote on comments unless I'm logged in? What sort of sick fucker keeps changing the rules every other day?!

Try watching that with mad world by gary jules in the background

I get it, there's no exit to the cubicle, making it seem like he's trapped.

I'm a fucking genius.

I can read more than one word per second.

I always wanted to know what that said... It was only on screen for about 3 seconds total at the beginning of Fight Club, and it wasn't pause-able because it was the opening adverts.

Funnyjunk. What have you learned?

Drugs are the answer.

Out of curiosity, what's your novel about?...I'm writing one myself.

I call it "The New World".
It's a fantasy novel based on a video game concept I had, and it incorporates several science fiction and rpg elements.

In the beginning, our universe was dark, bleak and empty. As well all know existence came to our universe, but it was never meant to be.

The story starts off with a terminally ill patient who leaps from a hospital building, no longer able to take the pain. At that moment "the event" happens. Several archaic heavily bodies never meant to meet, collide. The force rips the fabric of the universe apart. Exposing us to a realm filled with the source of all existence: the essence of reality. Everything that was, everything that is, everything came from that base energy.

Our solar system was destroyed, the galaxy was torn apart, and the essence flooded over our world. Anything the essence touched was infused with it, gaining more existence, becoming enhanced and absurdly advanced. Matter was just made up of a small amount of that energy... so being hit with a bunch of it in it's purest form really made things crazy. Our world is pulled through the tear in the universe....

The main character wakes up. Everything is different. Everything has been transformed; infused by essence. The world is now amazing. Giant wolves that roam the forest, monstrous creatures of living stone, a sky illuminated by an endless array of colors and auroras, in the New World nothing is what it had been. The laws of the old world are now obsolete. Essence created new rules. It's givens some people powers, a girl who can produce flame, a man who's now a genius. It's a wonderland and place of much danger.

Sounds complicated XD but only the explanation is. At it's heart it's the tale of the adventure, survival, and the journey through the New World, a beautiful and foreboding place with reality has been enhanced. Most of the human population has been wiped out but plenty remain. It's kinda unique, but I think it has potential.


How bout you?

Sounds interesting, keep writing.

Thanks, I sure will.

I'm aiming to write 2,000 words per day. Writing roughly 100,000 word novels, and 3-5 novels per year. That's plenty prolific.

In the 22 days since I've started working on this first novel I've written 16,000 words. Not bad, but I need to kick it up a notch. I hope to publish at least 2-3 novels this year.

This is just the beginning for me. Right now I'm going for digital publishing, for stuff like the kindle, ipad and nook. In the past few years it's really exploded as a market and shows good growth. I'll probably start out on Amazon, since it has the largest slice of the market. With the option of a 70% royalty rate I can sell it cheap (I think the cheapest is like 2.99 but idk if thats changed) making a buck plus per buy. Not a bad price and not a bad profit.

Hopefully, eventually I'll gain a decent readership, and with plenty of novels out, you know, maybe make a living. It'll probably take me half a decade for that, but I can't worry about that crap now. Writing comes first. Hard work comes first. Stress, headaches, crippling self doubt, learning, struggle, the brink of blowing my brains out, and pain come first. The rest follows.

But as with any of things important to us in life: it's worth it.

If you don't mind me asking, how old are you? Because although I'm still in high school, I write rather frequently, and I'm also hoping to make a living one day. I'm just wondering how hard writing has been for you, how long you've been at it, and things to watch out for, I guess.

I'm 19.

Technically, I've written since about 3rd grade. But only short stories, which were kinda crappy. Tried writing several books since. Spent like 2-3 years working on a nonfiction which I'm nowhere near writing correctly yet. I've written, read, and improved a hell of a lot throughout the years though.

I started off retarded in English, now I think I'm pretty damn good at it. but who knows, I have a lot of crippling self doubt. My advice? LEARN and IMPROVE as much as you can but thats not as important as the most important rule of all:

WRITE. You have to write. You have to! Write write write! Its so damn hard. Its brackbaking I hate writing, I love having written.

All I can say is take it seriously. But also don't beat up yourself up to much. Writing should also be enjoyable. Everyone is different. But if I could ever give you something, to really take to heart it would be this:

Don't let anyone put you down, and don't let yourself put yourself down. If you really want something you have to work and go for it. That' what it's all about man.

I think I just got an erection....Please don't ask me how.



The first book I'm writing is what I call 'Pre-Steampunk', and is about a brother and sister. Their village is raided and the girl is taken off to be sold while the brother is presumed to have died. The girl ends up in a brothel, where she works in a kitchen because she's to young to bed, and eventually escapes, finding herself in the presence of 'The Parliament', an order of outsiders, Thieves, Assassins, etc...who take her in in order to help her find her brother.


The other books is about an Irish teenager, in a the mid-to late eighties, who one day wakes up to find a stranger on his doorstep, who turns out to be his uncle, and has intentions to enlist his father into the I.R.A, which fails, and then his uncle tries to convince him to join the I.R.A.


Mine most definitely aren't as complex as yours, but I'm proud of them.

Well thanks mate! ^_^

I'm totally digging the Pre-Steampunk thing. I'm sure a strong female lead will lead to some pretty favorable results in this setting. It leaves me with some questions too, so it has my interest.

I'm no Irishman so I don't know much about it, but I assume its like the CIA or FBI or equivalent or something. Could be interesting, depending on how you write it.

Complicated? Ah maybe I imagine a bit too much, I do have normal ideas! I've got one actually about a man who basically is tired of living with cursed bad luck and tries to kill himself, but no matter what he does his luck keeps him alive! He ends up clashing with a man who wants to resurrect the mafia. Hes a super genius. The main character meets his daughter who is obsessed with becoming the world's greatest drug lord. Lol its pretty much a comedy/action. But who knows if I'll write it.

I know that feel bro, I've got like 3 jobs right now and it is fucking annoying working everyday, being busy or ready everytime your boss calls.


On top of that, they don't even pay me in time. They are like, fucking late. I've got trouble, but I hope into getting a better job and to be paid as I deserve it.


Anyway, from what Anime is that gif.?

That sounds rough bro. I had been trying to find work for months, but the U.S. is fucking terrible right now. Well I dunno where you live but there isn't much for me right now.

If I'm lucky I'll easily nab my drivers license and get to move to Germany. It'll be saturated with jobs where I'm going.

And true man. Man deserves to keep the fruits of his labor, but today we live in a society that is practically extortion. The developed and developed world live in both a state of inflation and mass wealth dislocation. The funny thing about that is, if a middle or lower class citizen has prices rise, it can destroy them, but even with inflation of up to 30% The rich will still be rich.

Bakuman. It's an anime made from a manga about guys wanting to write a manga they want to turn into an anime. It's absolutely amazing, taught me a lot about the manga industry, and hard work/dreams in general. Highly recommended, also... created by the creators of Death Note. I'm guessing it's based on themselves. Anyways highly recommended.