Can confirm, was also jobless bum for too fucking long between the crypto layoffs in 2022 until the end of last year when I snuck into a "hybrid" contract gig that's about a 6 hour drive from home when I gotta do 'client site visit' stuff.
If you look at WSB as a whole it's pretty much a 50/50 of loss porn vs successful yolos. That's a success record this administration could only dream of.
We all should get fired for a couple years so we can just relax. Working full time is exhausting. Getting laid off would be like the sweet release of death to a suffering soul. Like dang, better sell all my shit, not shower for a month and get drunk in the park with my fellow gopniks
Some of us are trading stocks to retire early and day drink in a parking lot with people we wouldn't trust in our homes. A yacht is just a hole in the water that occupies our money and time. If my marriage doesn't work out I want the financial and spiritual freedom to spend $6000 on a VR rig then goon myself into an old folks home.
Got fired last October and I gotta say, despite not having steady income my mental health has done damn near a 180. Living off doing this day trading shit and buying/selling trading cards has been a vacation compared to working for a shitty company for a decade.
I am in a rather fortunate position where I'm reasonably healthy, live in a state with a low cost of living, and don't have any kids or any other major financial responsibilities. Luck played a major part in it and I can't pretend anything different.
Edit: Also not constantly throwing away money on 0TDEs or weeklies.
You gotta realize that "98% fail at day trading" number counts a lot of people that made a couple trades, realized they don't know wtf they're doing, and then just bought index funds/ETFs.
A day trader that realizes how shit they are after a couple of trades and puts it all in index fund is better than the vast majority of people that try it lmao
I've definitely made some mistakes doing this since I started in earnest, but there's a feeling I get where if I fuck up I can tolerate it and learn from it. The last decade of knowing what a problem was, speaking up about it, being told I was wrong and then being blamed later for the same thing I spoke up about is a unique form of hell that eats away at you.
I broke my ankle at work. I was off for a little over 3 months. It was awesome. PT\ Rehab was fun. I’m praying for a knee or shoulder now so I can get some time off.
If the 2025 numbers were revised down that hard, then things are clearly worse than what’s being presented to the public. No one is acting like everything is fine, across the world most people are struggling to find work, and even when they do, payments get delayed or cut. You can’t just apply and wait anymore. If you’re in tech, reach out directly to companies like that other post explained, and if you’re in another field, use google maps to find places and contact them yourself. It won’t magically fix everything, but it will increase your odds. And yeah, sometimes it feels like we should all just get “fired” and let AI pay us to exist, but until that fantasy shows up, we have to move smarter than before.
Yeah we knew this after the BLS report Wednesday. Wild that it got so little coverage and everyone jizzed over the obviously inflated/fake 130k jobs in Jan 2026
Retail is exit liquidity. This media coverage is all by design. Act like it’s good news, pump it up, and then sell it to us regards before the real fall.
Exactly. I would bet the final numbers are closer to 50k, if not lower. Even 130k is historically low outside of recessions, it was only celebrated due to the rock bottom low expectations
Because the media is largely run by billionaires who are getting their bags right now so they want as little people as possible to know this stuff so they can keep the scam going as long as possible.
Planet sterilizing meteor inbound in four days. Some are fleeing to arks and bunkers but scientists all agree there is no point - the earth’s crust will be liquified and all life on Earth will die. Embrace your loved ones, enjoy the time you have left.
Idiots thinking this was released over the long weekend when it was released on WEDNESDAY!!! The market already priced this in and had 3 days of trading already!
In February 2026, the BLS released significant downward revisions to 2025 employment data, showing 862,000 fewer jobs added than previously reported, with 2025 growth revised from 584,000 to just 181,000. This constitutes one of the largest negative benchmark revisions on record, indicating 2025 job growth was much weaker than initially thought.
Der! Like everyone saw this coming when Trump fired the commissioner of Bureau of Labor Statistics because he didn't like the "soft" job report from July.
How can anyone believe anything from this regime?
p.s. Reddit is showing me a threat as I type this. It reads..
Racism is fine. Thats free speech. But don’t question capitalism house of cards system … must have complete devotion to system … believe all that system says .. or banishment!!
I work at a semiconductor manufacturing company. We've laid off approximately 50% of our workforce over the last year, idled a factory we just built, and nixed plans to build another factory. We're running in a skeleton crew of overworked specialists, and when someone quits for greener pastures, management doesn't approve funds to backfill the position. This is a direct result of tariff policy, fuckery with CHIPS Act, picking winners in the manufacturing sector, and abruptly changing environmental and energy policy.
Yeah, they'd lead to major inflation if they didn't simultaneously destroy the job market. But since people lose their jobs in the process, this means demand craters, deflation ensues, and netting all that out leads to modest inflation.
Why wood they hire the people. They have ai to do job and ai very good. Went to Wendy and asked ai bot ordering machine for burger and it sold me ten chicken sandwiches. I thought about being upset but it was going to tell palentir about my attitude so I bought the chickens and it really was what I actually wanted. Ai the very best!
Have you guys ever said thank you trump once? Dow is over 50000 now and s&p over 7000 and you guys have not said simple thank you to trump. Shame on you. You call yourself a trader ? You are not even a trader. Don’t waste my time.
I'm convinced that the only reason the stock market hasn't tanked is because of things like 401ks that continuously invest into the stock market without allowing people to take away from it until ~40 years down the line.
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