I have a friend that moved to Japan when he was in his twenties to work in a blue collar job. The pay was good, but he had to work a lot of overtime, sometimes 12, 14 hours. These jobs also often offered a place to live nearby the factory. Somehow it seems very similar to this, the difference is that he got an actual apartment and not this sad excuse for one.

One day he got sick of it all, so he started to just apply for these jobs, get free housing, and never show up to work. He could live rent free for a month, sometimes two in the time between getting fired and finally evicted. When that happened, he would move to a different city and then do it all over again.

In the meantime he was studying Japanese and doing side gigs. After doing that for awhile he landed a job as an English teacher in a school and he doesn’t have to do that anymore.

As a noisy crotch rocket bike rider, I agree completely.

My stepson announced that he was going to save money to buy an iphone, and these are incredibly expensive in Brazil. We don’t even have that blue/green bubble nonsense here, because everyone uses whatsapp and teens use discord or twitch or whatever when they’re on their pcs.

Anyway, we give him a 50bucks allowance per month, so I said ok, good luck saving your lunch money for two years to get one if you want it so badly.

gracias a diós nasci en latinoamerica

same. slashdot to digg, digg to reddit, now reddit to lemmy.

i’m seeing a lot more content here recently, which is why I keep coming back.

por que no los dos?

Google in 2004: don’t be evil Google in 2023: turns into Dr. Evil

don’t you dare bad mouth old.reddit…ah, who am i kidding, idgaf about reddit anymore.

early shakira songs in spanish are the bomb though, look up her mtv unplugged album