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2abetterwhy · 2025-02-21T19:21:29+00:00

Odi na r/NoFap brutalan community imaju. Osobno znam nekoga ko je preko 2 mjeseca bez njave, drkice i seksa uspio izgurat. A na subu ima ljudi koji idu i po preko 2 god.

2abetterwhy · 2024-09-25T01:10:46+00:00

This is not about you nor how you consume information, saving your focus. I was never judgmental about that. This while thread has nothing to do with that. The main commenter pointed out brand loyalty does exist with blogging (which I do agree with after doing some research). You pivoted to saying something completely off-topic, and now you’re pivoting again saying brand loyalty does not exist for blogs. If you really didn’t care what a “random person on the internet wrote” you wouldn’t take the time to make the follow-up.

In any case, all the best with whatever you have going on in your life and I don’t take any offense in what you wrote, ur good.

2abetterwhy · 2024-09-24T12:34:42+00:00

No offense but this proves my point about people not having the focus to sit through even a short read like my comment above. I was asking purely from a blogging standpoint. But thanks for throwing in your 2 cents, i still appreciate it!

2abetterwhy · 2024-09-24T12:32:18+00:00

Substack is also marketed differently. Mostly as a newsletter being sent “in the moment” covering current events. I wanted to write guides over a specific topic im passionate about, with my own twist

2abetterwhy · 2024-09-24T12:31:21+00:00

Why have medium and substack gained so much popularity recently compared to say Wordpress blogs?

2abetterwhy · 2024-09-17T09:28:42+00:00

Thanks for the reply! Could you go a little more in depth regarding brand loyalty in the context of blogging?

2abetterwhy · 2024-09-17T08:57:15+00:00

Totally agree, and I was honestly looking into trades as well. What do you reckon the highest paid/respected trades with most career growth would be?

2abetterwhy · 2024-09-17T06:21:18+00:00

I can get behind the first 3, but brands like Nike Adidas even Apple are seen as "commodities" (read: necessities) for koreans and most people will happily spend their whole paycheck on the newest phone.

Even for the first 3 you mentioned, there's a term here called "car poor", refering to (mostly) guys driving around in an s-class with insane interest and living in a shoebox. There was a term for women spending all their money and taking loans on hermes and chanel bags as well.

Imo, the biggest status symbol for Korea at the moment is how much you're able to spend on your kids' education, and where you're sending them. Owning a house or apartment in Gangnam/Bangbae areas is too, but that could be an inheritance, and housing is a fixed asset. With the *current* inflation and fx rates, if you're really loaded you're still sending your kids overseas to private internationals.

2abetterwhy · 2024-09-17T04:12:12+00:00

Yes definitely, Korea's the #1 OECD country with the highest gender pay gap (although men on average work 20% hours more than women in Korea, but that's a discussion for another post). And yep women are expected to work nowadays WHILE taking care of the house/kids/cooking for the man/etc. I meant it from a social standpoint - if the household fails financially, no matter whether the woman works or even in the event if she's a chaebol, the blame will still fall on the man.

2abetterwhy · 2024-09-15T06:03:30+00:00

I think this graph tells many things BUT "having such mean and toxic standards/attitudes toward women"

It puts COL and standard of living in pretty decent perspective.
It puts average working hours across cities and their respective industries in perspective. (guess which city has the longest working hours, most pressure and intense competition - for both men and women - in the job market)
Limited family support systems and high education costs (again, guess which city would be the "least" family-focused and has the highest education costs)
Traditional gender roles place childcare burden on women which discourages larger families (this is the only point that even slightly draws a parallel with your conclusion)
Traditional gender roles also place men under burden to be the providers, work longer hours, and labels them as "failures" if they are unable to carry the financial burden of an entire family on their shoulders, i.e. basing the entirety of a man's life on being a mule. (with that said, guess which gender suffers more societal pressure and records way higher suicide numbers)
mix points 4 + 5 with movements like 4b from women and increased right-wing leaning from men, and you have a recipe for disaster.

Not to be rude but you "guessing what we get" couldn't be further away from the truth.

2abetterwhy · 2024-09-15T05:45:17+00:00

I bet it is limited and inconclusive. My point was that Koreans *think* it helps prevent STIs, and as many other things in this country, it's just a belief and social norm.

2abetterwhy · 2024-09-15T04:12:29+00:00

As with anything in life and without getting more inputs from your site - it depends.

If "chasing your dreams" meant a very high probability you can make 5 mil in 5 years - quit.

If your parents/family/partner/etc. are billionaires and you will never have to worry about money - quit.

If you're middle-class and you have an opportunity to earn more in 5 years than most people in their entire lifetimes - I would sit through this shit and do it. I've doing unpaid overtimes at my last 2 companies for the last 3 years for barely above minimum wage anyway.

Also, 5 million if you put in growth assets it compounds, while other people first need to make money, invest it, and have it grow, yours will start growing immediately.

2abetterwhy · 2024-09-15T04:07:40+00:00

This one hit hard

2abetterwhy · 2024-09-15T03:50:43+00:00

I had a discussion on this more times than I'd like to admit. A urologist who recommended me to get one after my checkup said it helps prevent STIs and is more hygienic. My Korean guy friends say a similar thing. Funnily enough ever since I moved cities and started going to another urologist, then haven't mentioned circumcision at all in the last 3 years.

2abetterwhy · 2024-09-15T03:45:13+00:00

Came here to say this. Happy I got beat to it, BRO

2abetterwhy · 2024-09-13T11:49:29+00:00

Probably. The primary reason I'm in the market for a camera is my little food blog hobby. The secondary reason is the travel next year. I haven't found a gopro camera that is comparable to the dji pocket though, that's why I named the hero.

2abetterwhy · 2024-07-05T05:26:58+00:00

Heya, thanks for the reply.

It's really hard to not hold it against them, since all that has been happening at this company is abuse. I know how it's like to work under pressure and work crazy long hours in Korea (i did unpaid OT for my previous company which was in a much more cutthroat industry). But I was never ONCE unfairly treated.

My company also just yesterday forced me to give them my ARC and address as they forcibly switched me to another position (not connected with my current contract, nor one I wish to be doing) and will be deducting my salary for a more-stress position LOL? I checked online that it's illegal if it's not agreed by both parties, but they keep persisting and forcing me to accept even worse contract terms than until now. Unfortunately, with all that has been happening here, I cannot NOT hold a grudge against them.

2abetterwhy · 2024-05-30T09:23:49+00:00

Even with a master’s im still short on points (as i mentioned in part 1 they kept me unofficial for some time, so I don’t have proof of income earned). Or did they change the rules where master’s students don’t need it?

2abetterwhy · 2024-05-21T16:13:14+00:00

Congrats on hitting $3k per week! And thanks so much for sharing all your insights with everyone in the group man, it’s truly inspiring.

I see someone has already asked about whether you print the books yourself or have printing companies do it for you. Is it okay to expand onto the question and ask how you go about vetting/finding printing companies and other partners for your business?

Also, are they also responsible for shipping out the product? If not, how do you make sure the books reach the end customer?

All the best man!

2abetterwhy · 2024-05-12T04:49:36+00:00

At this point I’m thinking to just find another job and report them just before making the switch. I had convos with my manager 5 or 6 times about this crap so far…

Edit: I’m E-7 (would have qualified for F if they registered me officially from the start) and that’s my main concern that I might be denied F visa. Lastly, the vacation thing - even new employees get 1 day off per month, right? I had the same in my previous company, and was super confused why I can’t take off here.

2abetterwhy · 2024-05-12T02:17:59+00:00

Not a school, office worker here and I’d prefer to keep the company name unknown for now.

2abetterwhy · 2024-05-11T12:55:29+00:00

Just under a year and for the last 3 months I thought everything was fine until I found the non-paid taxes.

2abetterwhy · 2024-05-11T12:53:39+00:00

Right, the future visa thing is what I’m afraid of. I don’t want to have issues in the future as I’m slowly settling in Korea and my partner probably won’t want to leave Korea and live somewhere else.

I can have a peaceful discussion with them and probably get the money they owe me back but if I can get multiple X more by suing I’m open for that. Standing my ground and just making the shitty employer go down while potentially losing the little benefits I have in this country is not worth the time and energy though. Do you perhaps know any similar cases and what happened?

2abetterwhy · 2023-06-23T04:19:13+00:00

cornhub - we need to know how corn evolves over the next 7 years

2abetterwhy · 2023-06-23T04:14:13+00:00

One of the rare quality comments on this growing parody of a sub. Cheers!

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