I actually hear news from the company I was supposed to start at in November that my job offer has been pulled due to the conditions of the market. In other words, I am back in serious job hunt mode and have practically till end of year to find an offer.
That's bad man. You're in a tough spot. I've been there. I've been there twice. I graduated from my MBA program in the 2007-08 school year. My graduation date was mere months before the shiit hit the fan with Lehman Brothers in September 2008. The Classes of 2008 and 2009 were probably the worst years to graduate from either college or an advanced level degree since the 1930s.
Things were getting bad in the employment market as far back as Fall 2007. In Fall 2007, I was experiencing prospective employer ghosting before there was even a commonly accepted term for that. The one thing I must clarify here is that the recruiting/hiring of new MBAs is different from regular job openings. When big companies hire MBAs, they often plan their new MBA hires a year in advance. If you're interviewing in Fall 2007, you're interviewing for openings that are starting in May-June 2008. I saw a lot of my MBA classmates getting ghosted or having prospective employers telling them about hiring freezes during Fall 2007-Spring 2008.
Graduating into the 2008 mess was a very dark period of my life. That was an awful job search. I ended up taking an offer well below what a new MBA should make. The late 2000s-early 2010s was a great time for employers as they could pick up a lot of good talent for a fraction of regular market price.
Later in my career, I was one of the first layoffs when the pandemic hit in Spring 2020. My 2020 job search was also stressful.
Earlier in this thread, I shared Roosh's definitive guide to getting laid while unemployed written in 2011, in the aftermath of the worst recession since World War II. No seducer, past or present, ever wrote an article about getting laid while unemployed.
Getting Laid While Unemployed And Living In Your Dad’s Basement
Here's the thing that no one tells you about the relationship between your job and your woman life. It's very difficult to de-couple those two things. I found it difficult to seduce women and retain relationships in both the periods I described above. While I was less red pill in 2008 than today, I wasn't a completely pathetic blue pill simp in 2008 either. I was at least purple pill and had read about game and seduction by then.
A lot of men's SMV is tied up in their incomes and/or net worth. If you're unemployed as a man, you need a net worth in the millions to compensate for SMV perception hit. A situation like
@Jesse Pinkman's is foreign to most women in their 20s/30s who have bachelor's degrees or higher. Most women don't understand how to evaluate attraction for a man who is jobless, not rich, but not necessarily at risk of being immediately homeless. It's too much work for them. When someone has to do too much mental work, they don't do it. Also, women experience preferential treatment in hiring processes so if they are ever unemployed (rare), they get new jobs fast. It's worth pointing that in white collar layoffs, companies do everything they can do retain their female and minority workers. If you're a minority female, you have to be really inept to get laid off, even when a company is doing poorly and macroeconomic conditions stink. White females are also in pretty good standing. White males are first to get laid off when companies are in poor shape. Female solipsism never takes any of this into account.
If that gut punch wasn't enough, the girl from the date texted me yesterday saying it is not going anywhere since I didn't pay for her coffee.
Even if you were employed, she would have taken off anyway. Women have it great with the dating freebies. If you don't pay for her dates, someone else will. There are so many beta males out there willing to pay for dates that women expect it unless you are super good looking and have the right attitude. Even if you pay for her dating costs, it's considered a bare minimum. Women can get freebies online easily. There are simps everywhere online. While many women get freebies on OnlyFans for doing what they enjoy (showing off their bodies and getting attention/validation), a woman doesn't even have to take off her clothes online to make money online. Women tell sob stories on GoFundMe and get some freebies that way too, both from men and other women.
If you want to date, you need to pay for dates, both your own costs and her costs. Women have engineered a good system where they get to earn money yet get all their dates for free. That's awesome.
If you're broke but 6'0"+ with a tan and a six pack, you might be able to get away with not paying for dates. If you're a tattooed dirtbag deadbeat working a manual labor job at best and dating non-college educated women like retail cashiers, you also might be able to get away with not covering the whole cost of dates.
if I don't fap today, tomorrow will be day 4 or nofap for me and then Friday ideally day 5. However, it is set to rain all week in Miami which means the bar I love going to with a great outdoor marina vibe to it will likely not have a lot of people in it. F-ck this week so far.
Rain just ruins life in Miami big time since it is an outdoors city with a god awful indoors bar scene.
Keep nofap and no porn going. Would you do some indoor approaching in a mall, grocery store, or bookstore if it is raining outdoors?
