"How should I enjoy the grind?"

[@Draxsem]

16 views in 2 minutes brother fell off

[@bobbysauer7826]

its 10am on a tuesday sir

[@thegamergriffin2910]

F in the chat boys. There is no coming back from this...

[@bigzed7908]

For a second I had to check I wasn't in Destiny's comments section. 😂

[@Salmacream]

​@@bobbysauer7826 It's also a time in everywhere else.

[@Draxsem]

​@@bobbysauer7826it's currently 2pm in England and 3pm for me sir

[@MarcoMeatball]

im enjoying these insights into your brain, Josh. You're pretty cool.

[@unita4084]

Oh awesome, Marco is a fan of josh too! Your thoughts on music are great to hear, man

[@methanolfortheblind]

This is going straight into the Six Degrees Of Kevin Bacon google doc

[@123Baxter321]

'Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but nobody wants to lift no heavy-ass weights.' - Ronnie Coleman

[@seyproductions]

Life is pain and suffering. Gotcha. Gotta choose the goals whose resulting pains you are willing to suffer.

[@Voskos]

Without the bad parts in an expirience you cannot enjoy the good parts.

[@ggadams639]

You don't think of it when you have a goal

[@asemov2707]

So I’m of mind that online mmo’s don’t need every aspect of something to be fun. Sometimes you need to spend 20+ hours grinding for something, RuneScape for example you’ll spend hundreds of hours over the span of years doing things you don’t enjoy to make things you enjoy more enjoyable.

[@darthalex97]

Big mountaineer here. Can confirm that I am consistently in 'I don't wanna be here mode' going up the mountain, but when you get to the top it feels awesome. Then when I come down I'm just like 'can I get to my car any faster.'

[@robert7100]

the thing is, climbing a mountain is 10000000000x better than going to some retail job, having to hear bs from coworkers, take shit from bosses and customers, and then you don't even feel good when the paycheck comes in.

[@jonhaasnoler]

@@robert7100 Well that is because you dont want to be there and beeing there does not take you further to your actual goal. It only steals energy and time so it is logical that it is 100000000x worse.

[@Hotshot2k4]

For physical activities with set finish lines, the analogy is great. Unfortunately it seems like a lot of people who have more career-oriented or life event-oriented goals, especially over long stretches of time, they often don't feel much at the peak of their mountains. And then they start looking towards the next peak and hope that next time, next time they'll feel something. I'm not sure what the special sauce is, for getting a "sense of pride and accomplishment", but far from all difficult and monotonous activities will lead there. Maybe the immediate lead-up needs to be something extremely challenging or complicated or persistently time-consuming.

[@electropig5000]

@@Hotshot2k4 I agree with this. I read something about the word patience having two meanings. The first one lines up with the mountain peak analogy, it takes time and effort but after a certain number of steps it will happen. Same as high school or university, you have to put in the effort and do the right, slowly the days turn into years but eventually its done. The second meaning is more like the job promotion. You put in the hard work and do all the right things, but you have no idea when or if it will actually pay off. Because they don't have to promote you in 1 year, or 5 years or ever really. But you still need the patience to work hard and do the right things. I feel like the second meaning of patience is harder but probably more important to life after school. Careers and love don't really have easy to measure progress. I don't know anyone who doesn't feel the "doing the right thing but still waiting" burnout.

[@reachthezora1912]

@@Hotshot2k4 Me doing art: "Oh, I can finally draw a hand... now I just need to learn all the other parts in the body, next Light, next composition, next... and so on" until you can actually draw something that you actually envisioned in your head. Well, I suppose you need to find that peak in every single step, but It's just hard not to get discouraged when you think of the bigger picture, that bigger picture you realize is even bigger the more you feel like getting closer, you need to arrive to the point where you are fully aware that the grind will probably never end, and still choose to do it because is worth it, that's probably where you break trought. Nah, I don't mean to discourage anyone, we need to keep doing it anyway, it's okay to vent sometimes, I just wish I could started my journey when I was younger and didn't care for the "End goal", just doing art for fun, though I don't even know if I could keep going even then, I've always been too self-aware. Nowdays I look at the kids at the workshop I assist and I just love how they joyfully make what they can, with what they have, while having fun. Kids really are like a mirror for your past self.

[@delilahdiscord3383]

Reminds me when my last therapist introduced me to the concept of Radical Acceptance. It's like, you can have parts of your life that you aren't satisfied with and want to change and you absolutely should work on changing them if/when you can. But in the meantime you can accept the reality of your situation for what it is rather than constantly railing against it knowing that it won't last forever. Struggle is mandatory, suffering is optional.

[@HeyLookItsThatGuy13]

"Struggle is mandatory, Suffering is optional" that should be on a shirt! Love that

[@candlestyx8517]

Accepting that you often have to do the boring and uncomfortable things is crucial for self growth and maturity. "You gotta do what you gotta do"

[@satanic_rosa]

You don't, actually.

[@alvejado]

@@satanic_rosayou have, actually. You will never "just have fun. " No job works like that.

[@satanic_rosa]

@@alvejadoI don't work. No need to.

[@Frank_Costanzas_Lawyer]

​@@satanic_rosa...

[@satanic_rosa]

@@Frank_Costanzas_Lawyer Why would I?

[@wusscake]

I once applied to be a bank teller for PNC about nine years ago. Told me they pay 9 bucks an hour and required a MINIMUM of one year cash handling experience. 9 bucks an hour + required experience for a job where I am responsible for people's finances, and can potentially get robbed at gunpoint? Eight years before that, I was getting paid $7.15 to work at McDonalds. I'm good. The audacity of the employers to offer slave wages and crappy benefits for jobs that require experience, awful shifts, and possible hazards amazes me.

[@chaosgyro]

Name checks out

[@TykoBrian7]

@@chaosgyrobootlicker. 😂

[@fishrechaun6425]

To be fair, the McDonalds was probably more likely to be robbed than the bank.

[@zephyrwayfarer]

​@@chaosgyro I'm confused. Please explain to me how the name checks out?

[@GeoGyf]

@@zephyrwayfarer I am guessing the implication was that he 'wussed' out of the bad paying job? You arent going to get your answer, it is obvious it is a bad joke/insult that fell flat on its face.

[@hockey1973]

But see Josh. . if you skip the coffee AND the avocado toast. . . you can have the down payment in only 9 years, instead of 10!

[@poffogo5348]

But see Hockey1973, if you skip the coffe AND the avocado toast AND you account for inflation you can have the down payment in only 15 years, instead of 10!

[@fattony75]

Being an adult is perfectly summarized by that Futurama Poster of the man in a hard hat giving a thumbs up "You gotta do what you gotta do"

[@wytho3751]

"Pizza goin' out; C'MOOOOONNNN!"

[@Pi1203rate]

"I could pay an editor hundreds if not thousands of dollars" Instead you pay visa a bowl of cereal a month. With milk if they did very well.

[@HydroHUN]

Don't forget about the jar of mayonnaise

[@torylva]

Ah man, I remember learning that 30 years ago my parents house costed 50.000 euro (equivalent) and is worth today 350.000 euro. Happily, my parents are under no illusion that this was something like "Oh, we worked hard!" and they are outraged by the housing prices today, the pay for jobs failing to even keep pace with inflation while basically every necessity price has gone up by 30% in four years. My parents opinion is basically "So yeah, our generation really did a number on the world and I don't envy what is coming after..." But hey, I don't blame them. They fought the system as much as they could, and they still do.

[@mandowarrior123]

The issue was millennials didn't do anything except make things worse hollering on climate change and other expensive issues with no concept of how economics costs lives.

[@spaghidiot]

Okay boomer

[@Brian_Gawl]

The goal isn't 100% enjoyment 100% of the time. Without the bad or mundane, the enjoyment part would lose it's luster and become meaningless

[@gdbluefirre6749]

But what if you enjoy the mundane and grind it for enjoyment?

[@brocksteele7475]

I fletched 2,000 maple shortbows to fletch 2,000 maple longbows to fletch 3,000 yew shortbows to fletch 10,000 yew longbows to fletch 1 Magic Shortbow. The pride I have in my little bow is impossible to overstate.

[@winniethewhor]

On the other side of the coin for this conversation, I am a person who pursued the job he thought he wanted to do, went to college for it, got several jobs doing it, and *hated every second of it*. I'm in my late 30s and all of the effort I put into my career is a waste because I find the job so discouraging and unpalatable that I'll never get a job in that industry again. You can't know what you don't know, but don't let that discourage you from trying to find a job you like doing. I now have a job I enjoy, but I make a quarter of the money I did previously. I chose the general happiness of my everyday life over my paycheck.

[@HeyLookItsThatGuy13]

Good for you! Happy to hear you're happy

[@BM03]

Visa you FOOL this video was like four amazing stories. FOUR. Could've been so many clips! It's too late, I've consumed and enjoyed all of it now!

[@fergclan5898]

As a uni student who has been looking for a tech internship for the past two years with no success, I can confirm that the process of looking for a job sucks.

[@Edzter]

10:15 I had the same experience. It's like getting a weight off your shoulders. As much as people hate the idea of "I suffered therefore you should too", modern job hunting is something everyone should experience before complaining to anyone for not having a job.

[@TahuRaisao]

"You don't have to enjoy the whole process." That's how it be painting miniatures. The end result always pays off.

[@jimmmybacon9043]

you dont, just quit

[@iomegaman72]

A successful music producer I follow was one asked what his process was for making good music and being so successful. His answer was "Just do" he went on to explain that a lot of what he writes is shit but the small amazing bits that creep through show up in the finished product. Gotta accept the uninspiring moments and keep trying to reach the accomplished payouts

[@Jolfgard]

So you have the jobs that have an interesting part to it, but are terrible in every other aspect, and then you have job that are just terrible in every aspect.

[@nahuel3433]

"Reaching the good part" there is looking for a new job that you find enjoyable while working the current one

[@TheDool]

There is a misconception that maximizing joy leads to happiness. Its not true. Whats more fun, 1h of exercise or 1h of watching youtube? KZbin is more fun but you are happier after 1h of exercise.

[@Qamikace]

But there is a world of difference between a challenge you set upon yourself, and society setting you up for shit jobs just to make ends meet.

[@TheDool]

@@Qamikace You can always change your perspective so you realize your actions create value for you and the people around you. instead of "i have to do the dishes" it is "I want to create an environment where dishes are always clean and available". Its a very simple example but you get the idea. I helps having a job that contributes towards society or your goals in any way. unless you are a scammer or something unethical, there are people counting on you that youre job is done correctly.

[@A.A.47]

… I exercise while watching/listening to KZbin (ok not the actual point but felt unreasonably and personally called out) 😂

[@zephyrwayfarer]

I think the issue with people giving up too easily and struggling to accept discomfort might at least in part come from not having had support to feel comfortable in that. At least that was the case for me. Im still learning now that i have that support i need but it should be noted that very frequently people who can't handle that sort of thing aren't taking that view out of pure laziness or pleasure seeking.

[@mhjmstultiens]

This, absolutely. I believe in discomfort lies the key to personal growth. And conversely I also believe the search for all encompassing comfort will eventually lead to personal stagnation or even regression. However as a human being you need to get over that initial bump when you challenge yourself. For example the fear of failing, letting yourself or others down. Or the fear of the unknown. There are more fears like that, most imagined and only few real, that hold us back. But in that discomfort grows the seed of our learning experience. You just need to pick out the bits that have healthy influence on your personal growth. I hope that through personal experience you now understand the search for personal growth is always worth it, no matter the discomfort. :)

[@memitim171]

I saw a guy leaning out of his car window, pointing at his map and talking to a passer by the other day and it just cracked me up.🤣

[@madmaxxing1006]

Literally this tho. I'm in gamedev and every few months I get the project I work on changed. The one I've loved the most? Making weapons. But I've been in shithole metaverse & NFT projects, I've been in handpainted projects that I'd usually adore but they're shitty props with choking estimates. Rn I'm in the process of getting into a mobile company. I still do what I overall like, which is 3D modelling. If I can lower the pace at which I grind, I might just have energy at the end of the day to do personal projects of things I actually wanna do.

[@CoolSs]

9:32 i hate modern job hunting

[@RevoltIsTaken]

Thanks Josh applying this to my 99 runecrafting grind

[@thenewelite4628]

10:29 Oh lord. Speaking as a life-long antique dealer, a year old listing (or any active buy-it-now listing) is barely going to be relevant in the current market, let alone 20+ year old reference books. The market for most niche collecting areas have been cut to a single digit percentage of what they were 10-20 years ago. And that's not even considering that so many collectors/dealers are out of business or dead, there's almost no market for any middle of the road to low end pieces. The top 1% will always sell, anything else will be a struggle. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

[@TheAkrillion]

Modern Warfare Zombies. A Call of Duty game that's $70 and has a PvE only Zombies mode similar to the free to play DMZ mode as part of that $70 deal. . People who've gotten EVERYTHING done are already bored, because typical $70 AAA game moment. I genuinely enjoy the mode and HOW do I make the grind enjoyable? I just take my time with it. I haven't played for the entirety of Season 2 of MW3, until maybe 2 weeks ago and I JUST finished the BP but also got the entirety of the story missions up to Act 4 done. All I did was take breaks and go at it on my own time and at my own pace. EDIT: I just realized this is about job grind. Shit, idk, I'm mentally broken now due to my previous job and physically can't go outside for more than 2 hours, otherwise I'll have a panic attack which causes me to hyperventilate. All I do now is just work on my models and animations to make a game.

[@koltonkulis4763]

This is good advice. A good work ethic does not mean loving what you do at all times. A good work ethic means you push through the mundane and work hard even when it is tough.

[@GiblixStudio]

that is what you learn in school. it isn't about the topics... it is about learning to force yourself to time management and do the crappy homework. those who struggle the most will be able to do and achieve more in the adult real world. those who cut corners and never did the grind ... they never learned the traits needed to survive in the real world. and as you get older it becomes more difficult to learn/unlearn traits. also people really need to re-learn that you can't have good things in life if you're not willing to do the bad boring things to earn it.

[@Gloomshimmer]

"you play games all day and talk into a camera, thats why you have no house. I swam trough shark infested water to school, 30km every day, twice and worked 20 hours after school in a coal mine. Youre just lazy. Oh and i bought my 500 squaremeter house with 50 acres of land for 3 apples and a handshake. Why i dont have grandchilds? I want grandchilds. Why do you dont have kids? Youre selfish" "because i have no house where they can live mum\dad"

[@_BROVIA_]

Thought i would be told on how to enjoy rpg grinding for xp points instead i got something more useful

[@suunnz]

I feel like if you are finding problems with the grind you aren’t doing what you actually want to do. Just me though

[@TheGiggleMasterP]

Drugs are usually the answer. 😅

[@mofire5674]

Pain is intrinsically understood to be good when it is willingly taken on to achieve something you both want and believe is possible. A lack of hope or feelings of powerlessness is what causes people to pay more attention to the things they dislike. I find that the advice of "Understand pain is part of the game" is somewhat irrelevant compared to the issues people face for that to even be a concern in the first place.

[@LaylaSpellwind]

I thought this was going to be about video games. ... I enjoyed the video anyway, thank you Josh.

[@krucialFPS]

Didn't know I needed to hear this, thank you for the motivation Josh! Been really struggling with doing the work I know should be doing because I'm scared all my effort will go to nothing. But I'll never get where I need to be unless I embrace the suck.

[@HunterTheShady]

Don’t hire an editor Josh, I really like your videos and am willing to wait for the quality!

[@scvnthorpe__]

The key is to find aomething where theres a chance itll pay off and you can see results. It sucks just struggling *if* you get nothing in return, which sadly occurs a lot because of exploitation or incompetence. This is where having an actual audience or knowing what the fuck youre actually doing is so important.

[@thatradiogeek]

Do you just keep wearing the same vest and shirt or do you have a whole closet of them like Batman?

[@Sk0lzky]

You can start enjoying stuff when you get good at it. It's weird but it's like with motivation - it appears after you actually start doing it. Also sometimes you're gonna totally HATE what you usually enjoy. And that's when you should especially keep pushing because no amount of extrinsic reward (vision of eating a pizza or going to gym with the money you earn after work) will make it suck less because your engagement with the activity is based on the intrinsic one (liking what you do/satisfaction from doing it). Trust me on this one, I've been an absolute failure for many years and had to really work my way out of misery and poor performance, I'm not one of these "enjoying the grind" or inherently motivated people lmao

[@humbleheart1063]

12$ a month for a panera subscription for infinite-free coffee/tea/soda

[@TheClintonio]

Maybe I'm crazy but when I climbed Fuji I felt amazing at the top and happy at the bottom. I enjoy my work bar my current job which is an outlier. I work on my side projects which are also similar to my job and enjoy it more than relaxing. I feel blessed in this way. Not in other ways, but in this way.

[@Gehab]

Man I can't believe how hard you spit sometimes Josh!!! A lot of people really need to hear this!

[@ghostswinter]

In Avatar the Last Airbender, there is a recurring lesson here, they call it "Bitter Work"

[@joe6pak14]

“Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration,” Thomas Edison

[@mikeyn1986]

its funny hearing you talk about the medical roleplay actors i had to do an assessment with them when i was trainning at uni, one of them was an older bloke who made 4 people cry asking what would happen to his dog when he died (oncology related job)

[@ninjaguy8519]

5 POUNDS OF COFF- oh wait I'm American

[@ToaOnichu]

As a fellow American, that threw me off as well.

[@kombuchaman01]

love how the talk went from a different type of "this is the reality". From enjoying (or not) a proccess to the house market, and then the UK Driving Atlas vs GPS.

[@superiorgo2368]

I have a hard time with this stuff. I don't know if it's boomers posing bad arguments or others only sharing half of the argument so it's easier to dunk on. I've never gone longer than 2 weeks without a job. They are everywhere and I've gotten a lot by going in person. The thing is I just maintained connections so I was never walking in blind. I could go in saying I know the owners brother or I'd have a previous employer send an email first. Sometimes I'd just chat up the person at the front for 20 min and turn it into a job. I was told growing up that you had to do it that way and then worked flawlessly.

[@MALITH666]

Also another thing is , and this is for general rule of thumb - Never ever do your favorite hobby as your job, despite what influencers say so. Do the Job you like, but not the hobby. Because you will learn in time, Jobs suck. And there will be extra suck-ass days. You need to have a hobby to return to at the end of the day or weekend. Something good to look forward to. The influencers and education system fuck this up. They say - oh yeah you are going to live your amazing ideal life that you dream of when you grow up. No. Sure you get some agency to decide on things, but it will never be perfect, sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do. There's a few LOTR quotes i keep for my down swings - “I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

[@pedroscoponi4905]

It's good to keep in mind that different people have different thresholds for how much motivation they can get from extrinsic rewards. If your own threshold is lower than average, even things that seem like a no brainer to most people, like, oh, I don't know, studying for a test you KNOW you need to do, are going to be excruciatingly difficult and at times basically impossible. The _good_ news is that this stuff is a skill you can practice. Also if that's you please talk to a psychiatrist ASAP. Don't wait until you're 25. Just sayin.

[@TheBeholder333]

the cv rant hit me so hard on the point, i laughed, but it hurts how real it is.

[@AspiringWallflower]

Well thanks for the nice, concise summary of coffee expenditures, letting me know how much I'm saving by just not being a coffee drinker in the first place. It's not "buy a house" levels of savings, but I'm sure a lot of people would love to have an extra thousand pounds at the end of the year.

[@kristiandevil]

True, a few months ago I was making shitty skibidi toilet mobile games, now I work on developing apps for LEGO

[@matt1871]

I absolutely needed to hear this, Josh. Thank you

[@BM03]

"I not gonna say 'I told you so', but I will help you fill out the online CVs" What a goddamn gent.

[@Mourning_Brew]

I take timestamps in what I work on, because numbers don't stick in my head very well BUT in the rare occasion that I don't (like something I'm currently working on) I speed up the video by x2 or x4 to skip travel bits (just had to increase the video by x10 when I crossed the map). I've been able to watch 5 hours of footage in roughly 1-2 hours and edit it down to about 10 minutes for every hour.

[@edwardweaver6869]

As someone who does A LOT of sandbox work in OpenRCT it’s not just MMOs. Games even things you enjoy will have aspects you don’t like. I dislike having to place every scenery piece individually. I hate the trial and error associated with getting shoestringing working; it’s genuinely frustrating when you’re trying to merge tracks or add vehicles to another and you crash the ride 20+ times. It’s frustrating and annoying designing your ride supports; BUT and here’s the BUT. When you’re done, being able to hop on my train ride or a rollercoaster and just enjoy the visuals of the park I built; it’s all worth it. Every bit of frustration and annoyance melts away when I see what I’ve built. I spent 10 hours yesterday building bridges; that’s it. Building BRIDGES.

[@WingOfTheMad]

The problem is not generations, but education which makes people undisciplined and not want to to work. I used to think my generation was very lazy, my own, but no, I just matured a bit more before people. Has it gotten worst? Yeah, but it's because a lot of young people nowadays have the, ILL NEVER BE UNDER ANYONE, mentality so they don't have the motivation/discipline to work while expecting to be paid amazing hours. Plus the fact that some of have been raised by seeing OF and twitch popping off so they all want that cool-looking bread. It's how I see it because it has gotten worst from after my generation that was already undisciplined to the core. #Someone that his tired of training people who give up after 3 days because it's a physical job... In a workshop... People Istg.

[@marcusfromoz7066]

Boomers don't say that, politicians say that boomers say that. Divide and Conquer matey.

[@ivanchizhikov9939]

i have a question for americans... does US have... like... an industry of any kind? like... at all? every time i watch videos like this on job topics, its' like... people only have to options: McDonalds/some lackey job, or to be a lawyer / heart surgeon / hollywood star / programmer / working in gaming industry - so a "dream job". like... there's nothing inbetween, lol) i work as a crane operator, love my job. -i don't work like a zombie -no toxic environment, nobody ever shouts at me -my payment is not correlated with a "quality" of a product or service - i literally lift mass. -there's not much mental or physical fatigue... like, at all. and actually, i have a lot of time to think and... meditate, in a sence. there should be a plenty of options in industries of different kinds. of course, it would be somewhat physical, and you will have to have some level of experties... but, come on. what happened with jobs of pressing buttons and pulling levers? hello?

[@irtehdar2446]

What Josh you telling us you didn't absolutely love every second of recording your worst mmo ever series? My worldview have been shattered 😆 There was some old Greek guy like 3:5k years ago who said "today's youth are lazy, lack self discipline and don't respect their elders." Every generation starts saying this around the start of their 40s. I know I've caught myself having those same thoughts afew times.

[@ahvin4764]

The "don't have 5$ coffee" makes sense when you think of it this way. If you remove consistent excess in your life, you would end up with a larger amount of savings. Using the toast and coffee example Josh brought up, assuming coffee is 5 and toast is 10, you would end up with 450$ more per month for the mortgage, which if you get a decent place is anywhere from 20-25% of that expenditure covered just by removing said excess, which then means that the total salary you would need to afford that house is now a good portion lesser. It's not that by removing just these you end up with the house, it's the mindset of not excessively indulging in overpriced goods leave you with more money to spend on a house, which is the objectively right mindset to have. I don't know what breadtube has with taking quotes they don't like literally but Josh is severely infected by their idiocy on this topic.

[@allgomesareevil6121]

But isn't Visa doing exactly that 18 hours to make clips of gold? For Joshies brand 🤔

[@Cheezitnator]

The struggle makes the goal worth it. Josh is the guru we didn't know we needed. Lol

[@sleepysera]

I think it comes down to the question of "Are you enjoying the process OR is the end result worth doing it even if you don't enjoy the process?" Because if you aren't all that invested in the end result, then there's no point in enduring something you don't enjoy in itself just to get there. Like, if someone is passionate about acting, the bad times between jobs are worth enduring because you really live for those food moments when you do get to be in a production. But if you are, for example, only becoming a lawyer because your family wants you to, not because you yourself like even ANY part of the job, then is the harsh path through law school even worth it? Especially with videogames, I find that people often do content just because it exists. They don't care about what they get in the end and they don't enjoy the things they have to do to get it. And I think it's important to self-evaluate and make more concious decisions about what to put effort into.

[@harambe3363]

thats my biggest grip with saving is in todays economy and the culture of tech and other things you actually need. Saving for big purchases, if itll take over 5 years i'd scrap the idea of even getting that thing. Just leave it up to fate when you have the money then think about it but don't go planning for it. Take your opportunities in stride. A lot can happen in a year alone. Once you hit that 5+ year mark projection. Bro you might not even be alive 5 years from now God forbid. Early in my art career I used to not hang out with friends because I had an idea and I feel obligated to work on my shi. Bro its been years nothing has popped off for me yet, ive rebranded countless times you know im young gotta figure out what I really want. I should've just hung out with my buddies. Even if I was older. I'm trading certainty for uncertainty. That's not healthy for a fulfilling life imo. Sure think of your future but remember the distant future is uncertain even in your most certain moments. Live now, pay attention to right now. You have nothing to lose focusing on working with your cards you have in the present moment

[@mediumrare779]

Sadly I have way less goals that I want to achieve, in comparison to things I don't want to do. There were times in which I really "grinded to get there". But now it feels kind of pointless to do again. And I'm only 27. Like wtf why can't I find real interests in the world.

[@iiMEiii]

I'm not a boomer but the amount of people I know who spend $30-40 on door dash for $15 of restaurant food and $5 of home cooked food is to much. That said after covid food is like 2x the price and interest rates are almost 40% so I understand why no one give a shit.

[@gungan5822]

Taxing and menial jobs are a problem now? Those were called entry level jobs for decades. The other option is to get back in the coal mine, dig some ditches by hand, maybe shine some shoes in the subway station. Operate some textile looms or something. There is a drought of entry level jobs for teenagers and young people in general, and the cost of school keeps going up because everybody thinks a degree will get them a better job, but when everybody has a university degree, it just devalues the degree. Bachelor of literally anything to get a job in an office mail room. Enjoy.

[@randomdeliveryguy]

I don't think Josh understood the avocado toast mentality. It's not about not buying one 5 bucks thing a day, it's about spending less on doordash, starbucks, anything that is not necessary to save up for the future. Ofc you are not buying a house anyways just with that, but it will help your life.

[@lakkakka]

I just quit everything that forces any form of grinding on me. Especially when I pay for a game and am forced to grind. Fuck all that noise.

[@Nelsathis]

''I hate editing'' Can i just give you some props? For a time now i am at odds with people streaming and then uploading parts of their streams onto KZbin, cause it seems like a really lazy double cashgrab. But somehow you doing that thing never bothered me. And i can only guess why that is. There is very little nonsense in these videos, like weird emoting, loud twitch noices, bots, alerts, thanking subs and all this nonsense that has no place in a video. And now that you said you hated editing, i first noticed this. Cause either you do edit things like that out to constrain it to the actual topic at hand, or you are really good at pre-planning. With you, the twitch experience actually seems to add to the video, cause people in the chat give you things to talk about, or go more in depth.

[@randomrandom450]

I've been making games for almost 20 years now and I started making boring kid movie tie-in games that nobody wants to work on. It wasnt a dream, it wasnt great, those games were either destroyed or ignored by reviewers, but they were great stepping stones. Nobody starts big and if you want to start big, well you'll probably just never start.

[@anoobplays386]

What got me over the whole, have to do crap jobs or crappy things sometimes to get to what you want and enjoy, was reading the subtle art of not giving a fuck. Sometimes you have to accept where you are is shit, and that’s ok.

[@otz6408]

Why would i want to go through a proces which has things i don't enjoy? if i don't have the ambition to do anything is that really an issue? i create things and dumb games for me and my friends, but if i don't enjoy it or my friends don't then i'll stop and not try and fix it.

[@JohnnyMaverik]

I'm giving up my £5 a day coffee, thanks Josh. See you in 12 years suckers.

[@lineriderrulz]

"We're very lucky that nothing has been built in the UK since 1996" Not a single house

[@LucidVisions]

This is basically the tate philosophy without all the extra nonsense. Great to hear someone so level headed explain that, doing something meaningful isn't always fun and nor should be for so many reasons.

[@ryanclemons1]

Im going to just ay how I feel before watching. First is I feel there is good grind and bad. Good grinding makes you feel the improvement and is fun to do. Bad grind is not fun, and you dont feel like it's worth the grind.

[@greateststam1]

I've always wondered how content creators rely on hired editors to make videos for them. How can they possibly know what to put emphasis on in terms of highlights of humer or a serious point? I feel like there would be too much disconnect between the content creators vision and the editors.

[@asmosisyup2557]

11:40 why is there a busted TV from the 80's in morrowind? at the same time as discussions about job hunting in the 80's?

[@diamondhamster4320]

Imagine that you could be working a soul-crushing sh@tty meaningless job instead of playing a video game, listening to chill tunes and grinding in an MMO.

[@mvargasmoran]

the best part of the video was the coffe and the boomer advice vs reality vindication. Rename the video.

[@solomani5959]

Even if you love your job there always parts that are “thorns and thistles”. So long as that’s less the joy part you are doing ok.

[@zackr.7628]

Okay but is Josh gonna multistream on youtube now? He's got to grind for live content on youtube too, not just twitch

[@plebisMaximus]

Just sucks if you're in a rough patch in life. When even doing stuff you like becomes a big task, doing stuff you don't like to get to the good stuff just doesn't work.

[@Ephelle]

It really sucks when your brain is wired wrong and you just don't get that feeling of accomplishment at the end.

[@DragonElixion]

I love my dad and my dad loves me but the number of times he's told me I just need to "hit the pavement" and "go into businesses to show them I exist and I'm interested" is high.

[@2headedsnail]

It's about the mentality that goes with spending $5 on a coffee

[@SSgtJohnEP]

Be careful, doing something you love as an occupation will cause you to not enjoy it anymore.

[@TheNamelessTO]

The moment I realized the process isn't always need to be fun is when getting a haircut

[@ryandavis4936]

i think he was just asking about the experience playing WoW

[@satanic_rosa]

So you just have to be someone who has the vibe of being someone who'll do well eventually. Cool, gotcha.

[@Wineblood]

This was a fun video but the coffee/avocado bit was just wrong.