i am experiencing a strong psychological need to WORK and actually be paid, what now?

[ryoko]

What are you guys whining about 20s. There's no peak higher than yours 20s. Take all the risks you can.

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Risk doesn't mean fucking up your life irreversibly😂. 

 

[Hojo]

@Joseph Maynor You dont die its always quantum immortality. Literally aliens will come and stop ageing and heal everything before you get sick and die.

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[integral]

A friend of mine works as a English teacher for Japanese kids. It's very popular. It can be done from home

Edited June 1 by integral

[Judy2]

6 hours ago, integral said:

A friend of mine works as a English teacher for Japanese kids. It's very popular. It can be done from home

would you mind sharing what company/organisation she works for? 

[integral]

8 hours ago, Judy2 said:

would you mind sharing what company/organisation she works for? 

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1. NovaKid – Specializes in teaching children (roughly ages 4–12) and is popular with families in Japan. Lessons are play-based and structured.
2. Rarejob – One of the biggest in Japan; has a dedicated kids' track. Well established.
3. DMM Eikaiwa – Huge platform, teaches all ages including children, hires teachers globally.
4. NativeCamp – On-demand model, many young learners, very flexible scheduling.
5. Cambly Kids – The children's branch of Cambly; conversation-focused, minimal prep, popular with Japanese families.
6. Global Step Academy – International school-style online program based in Japan, works with kids.
7. Kids Star / GLOBAL CROWN – Japanese-market apps aimed specifically at children learning English.

 

I think it's one of these, unfortunately I don't remember!

[Judy2]

@integral  thank you!

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[LordFall]

On 5/30/2026 at 8:14 AM, Judy2 said:

@Majed it's so annoying being in my twenties. by the time i'll live in a beautiful apartment, work in the job i love and have some stability in my life, i'll have wrinkles and will have to start dyeing my hair. but i can't enjoy my youth or be present, either, because i constantly have to worry about the future, make decisions, figure out what to do and where to move. i hate it.

Anti aging is starting to boom quite well so you might never get wrinkles and end up biologically immortal sooner than you think. 

 

On 5/30/2026 at 11:46 AM, Judy2 said:

is it bad to generate a website using AI? it looks alright to me, but i do not have a clue about these things and maybe there are some caveats i wouldn't be aware of?

Yes you should. It takes about 30 mins to an hour to get something decent put together. Buying a domain name is like 10 euros. Stop overthinking and do it, you deserve independence.

Create an instagram if you don't have one and start posting on it. A website is nice but it won't get you leads. I would buy the first 2 books of Alex Hormozi, he breaks down business better than anyone else I've seen. 

Do that and come back with more questions, asking more questions without taking action is a bit redundant. 

No matter your personality you should still be able to make 5-15k euros online within a few years of applying yourself. The personalities with massive industriousness are more meant to do multiple millions and billions but no reason you can't build a sustainable life doing something you love even if you aren't super money motivated.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mst4hreQYl0

 

[PenguinPablo]

I experienced so much of this in my 20s. 

Tbh not committing hard to a decently stable path made my life 100x worse.

I tried doing a lot of the sales stuff but I just don't have the personality for it and morally was nearly impossible to manipulate people non stop.

But it did make me less afraid of knocking on doors and starting conversations. While those sales jobs were low leverage and 99.99% of the time resulted in instant rejection, I can easily tolerate that ambiguity in a more calculated way without burning myself out. Getting a few NOs here and there is worth it if sometimes it results into opportunities.

Anyway, wasting my 20s jumping around from different degree programs, from engineering to psychology to computer science, was a big waste of time. Job market changed a lot BUT at the end of the day I can't predict everything. 

I made some bets and they didn't pan out the way I thought. Partially because I didn't know myself well enough. Partly because I had this sort spiriitual mumbo jumbo, law of attraction wishful thinking that it would all work out some way.

But it doesn't. 

Instead I found myself physically depleted, unloading boxes out of trailers at a warehouse on a graveyard schedule only making $300 USD a week and a broken circadian rhythm.

And a bunch of other crappy jobs including janitor which was actually the easiest and chillest. Regret leaving that job as it gave me a lot of free time and was not physically spent after work like at the warehouses. But I was certainly embarrassed but it beats doing back breaking warehouse work.

I changed the strategy. Now I am purely as practical as strategic as hell. I think there is an element of letting things work themselves out but I think let my mind wander too much in my 20s. 

Now I try to be meticulous and rational about income goals and making sure whatever career I do now and whatever I do in the future meets certain criteria rather than just my naivete and optimism. Because this is my future on the line and I don't want 10 more years of whatever the fuck my 20s was doing bullshit jobs that were soul-crushing and wasted time being paycheck to paycheck. 

I wish I'd realize this in my 20s. I wouldn't have wasted time exploring or "trying" to find myself at the expense of my future. Good luck finding yourself. I'm still trying and not sure I will ever get there LOL.

The reality is I didn't get a second chance after my 20s and now I have to work hard to dig myself out of the hole I didn't realize I was digging.

Financial aid in my 20s and a couple small subsidized loans would've covered it all.

Anyway, once you have that financial foundation, you can easily build up the rest of your life tbh. 

Just my opinion.

And this is just one perspective among many other. It’s reflects where I am currently at. How I’m choosing to respond to current conditions based upon my reflection on the last 12 years or so. My adult life essentially and the corrections I feel would correct and mitigate previous mistakes

Edited Wednesday at 03:58 AM by PenguinPablo

[Joseph Maynor]

Get a resume together, it will make you feel good just to get that done.  Apply for many jobs and just get something.  Each person you work with is a potential reference for more work.  The way I work is by reference sales or relationship-based sales, which means each person I connect with is a potential source for referrals to me.  I have a couple businesses and this is how I operate.  I think it is good to just start somewhere rather than wait.