If the Internet Disappeared Tomorrow, What Would You Do for a Living?

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Imagine the internet disappears tomorrow. No websites, no social media, no email, no online payments.

What would you do to earn a living?
 
At this point I'd probably find a low responsibility job that hit at least the average income for my area. I'm tired, boss. I'm at a point where everything is paid off and I just have the regular monthly bills. No mortgage, no car bill. Just phone, internet, utilities, property taxes, food, and maintenance.

I say this because I've started over from ground zero enough times and know that (for me) there's a ramp up time that's strenuous. I've gone through enough rodeos and I've achieved the goals and proven myself to myself. And I also accept that I don't necessarily care about stopping work and going traveling and all the other things, so I'm pretty inexpensive. As long as I can not struggle in "retirement" I think I'd be good. I can barely stand to go a full day doing nothing. I can't imagine what doing that for a week or years or decades would be like. I'd be playing some money-making game regardless to entertain myself. Might as well be some menial bullshit job like on American Beauty, but not quite working the window at McDonald's.
 
Sales in the agriculture/irrigation industry. Or, I'd find a way to work in a corporate office in the oil industry. Alternatively, a more manual labour type of job outdoors would be nice and chill. Parks management or something like that.
 
Ryuzaki said:
At this point I'd probably find a low responsibility job that hit at least the average income for my area. I'm tired, boss. I'm at a point where everything is paid off and I just have the regular monthly bills. No mortgage, no car bill. Just phone, internet, utilities, property taxes, food, and maintenance.

I say this because I've started over from ground zero enough times and know that (for me) there's a ramp up time that's strenuous. I've gone through enough rodeos and I've achieved the goals and proven myself to myself. And I also accept that I don't necessarily care about stopping work and going traveling and all the other things, so I'm pretty inexpensive. As long as I can not struggle in "retirement" I think I'd be good. I can barely stand to go a full day doing nothing. I can't imagine what doing that for a week or years or decades would be like. I'd be playing some money-making game regardless to entertain myself. Might as well be some menial bullshit job like on American Beauty, but not quite working the window at McDonald's.
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I've been studying the super genius of the world, real intellectuals, and it's amazing how the majority of them say that they want menial jobs with low-thinking output/effort. Just pay the essentials. The goal is to save all of that energy and focus for back home; to study in private libraries, hobbies, etc. Like, they could careless about what society thinks, for they know society is just one big herd of idiots.

It's wild how I at one point was gotta have a lambo, that's the dream! Now, I don't even want one when I could easily afford one. Forget about dealing with the storage, maintenance hassle of driving into shop sucking up my time, drawing in unwanted attention becoming a target, etc. At a certain point, it's another job just to maintain your treasures. LOL, I remember buying a G Wagen, $100,000+ and all it fun for some time, but after awhile I hated the thing. It constantly broke, annoyed me to death. At a certain point, more money, doesn't make things better. Even shopping is a chore, lugging all that home, etc. Then you realize you're getting weak, too weak, when you have servants, people carrying your shopping bags, etc. At some point it's nice to just feel something, some pain, some suffering, some living... I think the real dream is to just cover your bills and check out. Never open the laptop. But even then, I'm still on here for fun and what not.

Not going to lie. Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to step away from my madness, just blend in, grey man, stocking shelves at Target or something. Just to consume more of my time. Time is a plenty. It's really bizarre watching time just slip on by, while everyone is slaving away just trying to cover that next car note... To just hop in the car with the dog at 2pm on a Wednesday for no reason. Normal people can't do that.
 
I'd go back to working on sailboats. I'd also probably get back into creative writing. Back in college I wanted to be a novelist, without the internet I'd probably have the focus to write a(nother) novel. Would be pretty bummed that I don't get to keep using AI though, because it's fun as hell.
 
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