Frankly, I don't understand how. Sure, there are bounds to accepted behaviour in any community (like, most groups do not accept murder and thus install institutions to prevent this), but I guess that's not what you mean.

How can we be of help? What exactly are you trying to jumpstart with 500 EUR? What options did you explore, and why did they not work out?

Feel free to PM me if you don't want to post all the gory details publically. I'm willing to pitch in/help out, but I too need something more substantial than "I need money but don't want to (can't?) take a job".

Yeah! My software developer job *with a broken back* I still only made $25,000 a year. It was practically criminally underpaid, I couldn't afford the meds I needed to fix me, and I wanted to die every night because for all the pain I still couldn't pay all my bills. ... But you know what? After three horrifically painful years, it got my wife and I to the point my wife could go back and finish her college. It took my psyche years to recover--I was dead inside. I had spend more than four years without the natural desire to singing or humming--I had no joy left... so when I started again it blew me away at the realization how bad it had gotten. Like a caged bird that no longer tweets. It blew my mind and scared me how I could relate to a woman I saw in a Rwandian Genocide documentary, she said "I have no more tears left." I couldn't understand how someone could literally run out of tears... until I experienced it. Your brain becomes so numb, so closed in to protect itself, it doesn't let itself feel anything anymore.

Now things are world apart. We still don't live great. But we live better by leaps and bounds and we appreciate every penny, every restaurant we have the privilege of spending time together at. We no longer worry whether we'll even be able to eat. I still have tons of health problems and can't even afford to fix most of them. But I'm still alive, and being alive is a chance.

If RmBeer2 applied at every job (every restaurant, every retail, anything) near where he is, how many would call him back within two days? A paycheck beats dying. Who cares how life "is supposed to be" because guess what, all those expectations were a lie. Life has no requirement of making sense or being fair. When the dice roll sometimes you get screwed. Sometimes you get screwed over and over--far more than most. But the dice keep rolling. And sometimes they'll come up golden.

Let go of "what I think I deserve", and focus on the long game of "this is a bad spot but where I'm going in life is more important in that." What really matters? That you eventually flourish and follow your dreams... or that in every individual situation of your life you get what's "fair". Heroes go through suffering. Period. It's what they accomplish that matters.

I don't have any money to give. But I can tell you for sure, my advice is worth thousands of times more than what you're asking for. You're not speaking to some 14 year old Redditor. You're talking to experience.

My last post stands either way.

Really. How can they think like that? At first I thought that everyone thought they were leaders and that no one wanted to participate in any of my projects. But now I understand what everyone's problem is.

Nobody really gives a shit about anything other than working for others like a slave. And they cannot even consider the possibility that there is something different, as if all the others were equal to oneself.
Already a few times I have made it clear to them over and over what my limitations or problems are and they don't seem to understand.
All they do is say "Join us! Come! Everything here is good!".
And so and everything they do everything wrong. Idiots who take jobs paying as low as 24k a year, then complain that their job is exploiting them. That's your fault, not mine. You are to blame for accepting a low-paying job, making many accepted jobs low-paying, and making it the average low-paying job to coerce future low-paid workers.
Here in Argentina it is worse, all the jobs are 12 thousand per year and they don't even think that they are being exploited, they are all happy. All hot foreign companies that can find cheap labor in this country. They look like vultures gone mad for a bit of carrion.
They don't want to get out of there and force or advise others to do the same, they don't care if everything goes wrong and they end up suffering like a bitch, and they want to force others to suffer the same.

Well, I'm also going to give you some advice:

Quit all those stupid jobs that exploit you, and if you can get one above 80 thousand per year or find better opportunities.
If you can't do it, then suffer and die, or kill yourself if you don't want to experience the agony of bankruptcy, all those who committed suicide because of bankruptcy are heroes and deserve respect.
If in any case you are going to suffer until you agonize and die, it is better to do it the way you want and not the way others want, because 20 or 40 years from now, thrown in the trash with pure suffering and pain, there is not even a promise of retirement fulfilled. What do you do or did you do in your whole life? Pure asshole paper. And you think you're wise advising the same shit to others so that they can also be a victim.

My projects:

- An Online Games Server.
- Hosting services.
- Certificates (encryption) Online.
- Discount Card System.
- Database using the InnoDB engine. (Free software)

They are one of my many projects that were rejected by everyone for their own idiocy. Because they believe that the best option is to work, suffer and be tortured for others for a false sense of gain, without any valid reason for such action.
That stupid and absurd insatiable mania of wanting to be tortured and exploited. Not only for working for others in low paying jobs, but for steam, gog, itch.io, unity, discord, google, and other untouchable rotten shit, what a disgusting fetish. Ajjj!

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En serio. Como pueden pensar asi? Al principio creia que todos se creian lideres y que nadie queria participar en ninguno de mis proyectos. Pero ahora ya entiendo cual es el problema de todos.

Realmente a nadie le importa una mierda todo lo demas que no sea para trabajar para otros como un esclavo. Y no pueden ni siquiera considerar la posibilidad de que exista algo diferente, como si todo los demas fueran iguales a uno mismo.
Ya unas cuantas veces les he dejado en claro una y otra vez sobre cuales son mis limitaciones o mis problemas y no parecen entender.
Todo lo que hacen es decir "Unetenos a nosotros! Ven! Todo aqui es bueeeeno!".
Y asi y todo lo hacen todo mal. Idiotas que aceptan trabajos de pago tan bajo como 24 mil por año, y luego se quejan de que su trabajo lo esta explotando. Eso es culpa de ustedes, no mio. Ustedes tienen la culpa de aceptar un trabajo mal pagado, hacer que muchos trabajos aceptados sean mal pagado, y volverlo el trabajo promedio mal pagado para obligar a futuros trabajadores mal pagados.
Aqui en Argentina es peor, todos los trabajos son 12 mil por año y ni siquiera piensan que estan siendo explotados, son todos felices. Todos empresas extranjeras calientes que pueden encontrar mano de obra barata en este pais. Parecen buitres enloquecidos por un poco de carroña.
No quieren salir de alli y obligan o aconsejan a otros a hacer lo mismo, no les importa si todo les va mal y terminan sufriendo como una perra, y quieren obligar a otros a que sufran lo mismo.

Pues yo tambien les voy a arrojar consejos:

Abandona todos esos estupidos trabajos que te explotan, y si es que puedes consiguete uno por encima de 80 mil por año o buscate oportunidades mejores.
Si no puedes lograrlo, entonces sufre y muerete, o suicidate si no quieres experimentar la agonia de una bancarrota, todos aquellos que se suicidaron por sufrir una bancarrota son unos heroes y merecen respeto.
Si de todas formas vas a sufrir hasta agonizar y morir, mejor hacerlo bajo la forma que tu quieres y no como los demas quieren, que de aca a 20 o 40 años arrojados a la basura con puro sufrimiento y dolor ni siquiera hay una promesa de jubilacion cumplida. Que haces o hiciste en toda tu vida? Puro papel de pelotudo. Y te crees sabio aconsejando la misma mierda a los demas para que tambien sea victima.

Mis proyectos:

- Un Servidor de Juegos Online.
- Servicios de Hosting.
- Certificados (encriptacion) Online.
- Sistema de Tarjetas de Descuento.
- Base de Datos usando el motor InnoDB. (Software libre)

Son unos de mis tantos proyectos que fueron rechazados por todos por su propia idiotez. Porque creen que la mejor opcion es trabajar, sufrir y ser torturado para otros por una falsa sensacion de ganancia, sin ninguna razon valida para tal accion.
Esa estupida y absurda mania insaciable de querer ser torturado y explotado. No solo por trabajar para otros en trabajos mal pagados, sino para steam, gog, itch.io, unity, discord, google, y demas mierda podrida intocable, que fetiche tan repugnante. Ajjj!

Having a job is a blessing. Every day you get to come home and think "at least I worked hard and made money today."

Be unemployed, disabled, or retired for awhile. You'll find out that a man's self-esteem and testosterone are directly linked to being considered useful. And men who retire basically lose all their bone mass and drive from lack of testosterone. They basically die from lack of being useful. Countless men retire... and then get part-time jobs so they can feel needed again.

You'll often find out that when you finally have "free time" to do things... you no longer want to do any of those things you thought you wished you had time to do. Because they involve OPTIONAL hard work and self-motivation. COVID shutdown gave plenty of people a glimpse of that. All a sudden people had time, and most people did nothing with it save for a few hours here and there trying a new hobby. Most people aren't self-motivated. That doesn't mean nobody is and that it can't work for you. But the facts and science clearly show the average person ends up like this.

Oh, and as for women. Grandmothers are beloved. Evolutionarily, they help take care of the grandbabies and give the parents time to recover. Grandfathers, are basically Muad'dib in Dune Messiah. The second you can no longer provide for your tribe, do the tribe a 'favor' and walk out into the desert and die to spare them the need to provide for you.

You can google dozens upon dozens of research articles on male testosterone and retirement. Or talk to any old dude working as a Wal-Mart greeter (before COVID probably removed the job) and ask them. My next door neighbor was a high-end engineer at a chemical company, he retired and did nothing. Three years later he was working at Wal-Mart. My Dad is retired... he has literally dozens of projects that need doing (including no HVAC at the house), and all the skills to do them. He won't do anything but sit around and watch TV. It turns out yelling at us and us needing him to help us fix our cars was the only thing that kept him moving in the first place.

The humane psyche is built around one thing. Suffering. And the energy and work expended to remove that suffering. Once you have no suffering, you have no reason to exist. You can watch TV, but why? Why pick one TV show over another? How do you pick anything over everything else, when you have no idea where you're going?

"Whats your vision of retirement?"
"Sitting on a beach drinking margaritas"
"That's not a retirement that's a vacation poster. Okay, so what.. you're gonna do that forever? Some fat drunk with sunburnt skin after 6 months? How long can do really do that?"

If you want to be Emperor you gotta crack a few nuts. Sure work sucks, but its better to have at least some money from employment. But you've got to look for the right jobs and go where they are. You need an english website that details your services, provides an example of it and sells your software system through secure communication protocols. I think you have a lot of great ideas, but start smaller. Sell your drawings / paintings / etc... in a touristy area. Make stuff. Sell it. Work a small shitty job just to get paid enough to move somewhere better. Don't think of work as some awful thing, think of it as an opportunity to find somewhere better. Why stay there if you're dying? Don't die. That sucks. Seriously, MOVE out OF your "*shithole"* country. Buy a plane ticket and get a work visa. Get your green card. Do whatever it takes to get OUT of THAT place.

You should meet me on IRC

Feeling useless leads to depression and loss of self worth. What is my purpose? Cannot Compute.

@Chris Katko life is indeed somewhat about suffering however you humans are suffering with things that have no real reward for your suffering.
humans are should be decoding the understandings of Reality and the more you understand is related to how long you live also how wise and powerful you become as a life form.

this is what bring true enjoyment to life and will keep your attention for eternity

I'm sure it's much different in other countries, but in the USA if you are a good programmer but hate your job (underpaid, overworked, etc) or are unemployed, then you might just need a life coach to help improve your soft skills.

Prior to the explosion of remote work, I'd give people a pass who live in economically challenged regions and are unable to realistically move elsewhere. But now, "all" you have to do is apply to remote jobs. It's a lot of work that requires dedication and a good attitude. (But those are the same qualities that would make you good at your job...) And you have to be not afraid to apply to jobs that you don't qualify for because quite frankly 80% of requirements in terms of skills and experience on job listings are bogus.

I know someone here who has almost quadrupled her (previously vastly underpaid) salary by switching jobs three times in four years. She never stopped applying for jobs throughout that time because she knew she could do better. It's not a fun process and interviewing every three weeks only to get rejected is demotivating but I guarantee you there's a good remote tech job out there if you have the skills and proper attitude.

This 100%. This is how you get your career in modern times. Changing jobs every 6-12 months. If you have problems with it, get over those problems.

My wife changed jobs 6 months ago, got a raise. I convinced her to look again and within a week she got a callback and multiple interviews and may get a >$5 /hour raise for the same job. She may be going from "just enough to pay the bills" to an extra grand a month. Just because she bothered to apply. And, it turns out that particular job is VASTLY SHORT so they're hiring 5 different positions for that job title. This new company NEEDs her whereas her current company takes her for granted--and they're willing to pay for it.

Never climb the ladder of a company. One guy at her last job was going to leave for a new job his company all a sudden they were like "we'll give you double your current pay!" But before he was going to leave they wouldn't give him like a 5% raise. He was so pissed--because he spent years not getting this kind of money--he left the company anyway.

It's just like insurance companies. There is no advantage (other than being a moral human being) to giving good drivers discounts. They use discounts to attract *new* customers. They already HAVE you as a customer, why give you anything? If you want a good insurance rate, you have to apply to new insurance companies. Nobody is going to just give you a good deal. The same applies to most working companies. There's no benefit to them for giving you a huge raise even if you're worth it. It's in their best interest to make you think you're not worth your actual, free market, worth.