In the 1940's this guy named Maslow came up with a basic framework for what a man should work toward. I wanted to comment on this today because it feels like too many of your asshats are stuck on the first, "physiological" tier, which isn't so much a goal to strive for as it is your basic needs as a human being. It is outlined (in summary) as Shelter, Sleep, Sex and Snacks. This means you have a roof to lay your head under, someone to bounce on and enough food and water to keep you from dying. What bothers me enough to comment on is that you Goat's have these things and you pretend to be grateful, but you aren't securing them. You're renting when you should be buying, your dating who you should be marrying and you're driving around for fucking Uber when you should be getting your ass to trade school.
Let's start with the first thing, where you live. Buying a home is not a small decision to make. It is a pain in the dick with just the paperwork alone and that's AFTER you find a place that you don't want to burn down and piss on the ashes rather than look at. But you HAVE TO DO THIS. If you don't own your home you are still living on someone else's terms. You don't get to choose who lives in the unit next to you, above or below you. You'd be better off living with your parents again, at least they would ostensibly give a shit about you. The banks have been fucking over the public because the majority of boomers and Gen X'ers where too slow to stop the obvious scams from becoming "the way it's always been done", but a few of them made headway and established certain programs. The one I went with is called NACA. You'll have to attend a meeting and listen to the dumbest mother fuckers in your city ask the same question six different ways. Then they will put your through hell with paperwork. But in the end, to buy a house with no money down and no PMI bullshit, it is the greatest feeling ever. You will OWN something. You'll be cutting YOUR grass and shoveling YOUR snow and paying YOUR taxes. If something breaks it's on you to fix but that means you're not waiting for the property manager to pull his dick out of his secretary long enough to call a plumber.
Next let's talk about your relationship. Why haven't you married her? Is marriage your end goal or are you just wasting each others time? There is no such thing as a purple squirrel. But guess what? After you catch the squirrel you can dye her any God damn color you want to. She can't cook? Why can't you? Cooking classes make for fantastic couples dates. Is she out of shape? Are you? Good news! Unisex gyms are the norm now. People improve the most when they have motivation, no one will motivate you more than your wife. I'm going to segue here and say that MGTOW is NOT a political movement, it's a phase. This is the point in your life when you realize that women are not magical fairies and that they are more or less the same as you. Don't get stuck here. Move on from this.
The career thing is the one part of this site where you people don't constantly disappoint me. But those of you who do know who you are. Why are you stuck where you are? Do you think its pride? Pride is something you earn, what you are feeling is shame. Shame is something to over come. You shouldn't be folding shirts or stocking groceries past 25 unless you own the damn place. I know dick all about welding, but I know they are always hiring. So are HVAC, Plumbers or Electricians. You'll start out as an errand boy. It's up to you to decide if that's worse than where you are.
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[–] GenderPronoun 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
This is interesting you say this and it's true in a way. We find comfort in things for a while but to really survive we need to evolve. The fact that people rest in these cultural marxist valleys of struggle becomes parasitic if we insist on letting such struggles define us.
I recommend a great book I once read called Tribal Leadership. They define types of leadership as a spectrum and describe how one must move "through" the spectrum to get to the higher levels. It was quite interesting for me and what I learned from it was that without bearing witness to true despair (the bottom rung), one is not really capable of high level society moving leadership (the top rung).
The people who started the company Zappos said they liked the book so much they bought the audiobook rights for free download to anybody, which you can find here.