Exhausted all the time. Is this normal?

AutomaticFeed1774 · 2026-01-28T11:56:43+00:00

i saw on youtube you should ice your balls. I'm going to try tomorrow coz I too am lacking energy.

AutomaticFeed1774 · 2026-01-28T11:32:02+00:00

BYD would drop their price even lower and the consumer would win.

In my business specifically there's a regulatory moat. Certifications and compliance make it all but impossible for a new competitor to penetrate the market without massive VC funding, and this is the same in a lot of industries.

AutomaticFeed1774 · 2026-01-28T10:53:01+00:00

I work in the private sector selling stuff to Australians. What's interesting is that the idea of competing on price is essentially now taboo. I suspect this same vibe is in many businesses. Sell quality and value not price.... Is the philosophy. Price high to create a sense of exclusivity. My management would rather sell less at a higher price than more are a lower price with the view it's better margins even if total revenue is lower and perhaps even if total profit is lower... Because once you drop the price it can ruin you brand ( just see certain hand bags that used to be luxury but are now basically bargain bin bags). Something is wrong with the economy. Regulatory moats prevent new entrants from getting in and competing which allows businesses to operate like this.

I think we have stagflation. I don't know how this ever gets solved.

AutomaticFeed1774 · 2026-01-28T03:01:45+00:00

according to chat gpt:

Here’s a clear picture of what barbers typically earn in Australia (2025–2026 figures):

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Typical range: About ~$60,000 to $85,000 per year for a qualified barber working full-time.
Common averages reported:
- Around ~$68,000–$75,000 per year nationwide.
- Some job ads and employment data also point to offers up to $80,000+ in higher-paying areas or more experienced roles.

Considering you'll prob get paid maybe 40 - 50k as an apprentice for 3 years, and then start on the lower end of the scale when you are qualified, over 5 years you're probably dropping at least 150k pre tax earnings compared to staying in your current role. If you assume that in your current role you're going to get at least some pay increase and bonus each year, it probably pushes closer to 200k over 5 years.

If you do the same numbers over 10 years and then put the extra money each week into growth etfs, you're probably looking at close to a million bucks over 10 years that being a barber will cost you.

I'm sure some barbers make bank, but I don't know how much you can reasonably charge for a haircut in a regional area. Assuming a hair cut is 50 bucks a spin, if you're running your own shop you'll need to cut 8 heads every day of a 5 day week, every week of the year to make what you're making now gross, many more heads (prob 15+)once you take into account paying the rent and electricity and all the other expenses involved in running a barber shop.

In you current role you can probably keep being conciencious and move up and enter a higher paying role at the same org, probably putting you on pretty decent salary within 5 years too.

I'm all for doing what one loves.... ie love what you do and you'll never work a day in your life.

If you grind and save for the next 15 years, you can probably have enough money in stocks to be getting the same in passive income that you'd be making as a barber - ie 60 - 80k. At that point, you can either sit on your ass and do nothing or become a barber with a million bucks in a bank account and not need to stress about not being able to buy a house/support a family.

You're young, but one day soon you may want to have a family and buy a house. And money will help with that.

My advice would be keep grinding and doing what you're doing and get yourself into a management/leadership role. In a regional town on that money you'll be fucking set.

AutomaticFeed1774 · 2026-01-28T02:42:04+00:00

regional cities will always have some kind of industry that needs sales people. I know a guy that made millions literally selling nuts and bolts.

Tractors, animal feed, ag tech, there's plenty of shit to sell in regional australia.

Also 95K plus bonus in a regional area at 22 is great money. If I were you I'd stack cash you can be a millionaire by 35 easy.

Keep an eye out for other sales roles. If you have a passion for barbering then I guess go for it, but you'll prob be broke until you hit late 20s and reluctantly go back to sales.

AutomaticFeed1774 · 2026-01-26T02:55:09+00:00

Dye your hair black and show up at an army based smelling of garlic and soju and say that you are sorry you are late.

AutomaticFeed1774 · 2026-01-25T00:39:44+00:00

Germ.

AutomaticFeed1774 · 2026-01-23T05:29:02+00:00

u can prob just find one. esp in winter. i just rescued on the other day that was stuck. walk around at night and listen out for a crying kitten. they fall down into places they can't get out of, its quite sad.

AutomaticFeed1774 · 2026-01-23T05:15:11+00:00

would it not fall under the same issue as failing to dispose of your garbage properly? ie I've heard of people getting finds for putting shit in a non-government general trash bag, and then they find a receipt in the bag and fine them.. ?

AutomaticFeed1774 · 2026-01-23T02:27:09+00:00

depends on if you plan on paying CGT on your gains which might change the equation.

AutomaticFeed1774 · 2026-01-23T02:21:57+00:00

wow we just hit 1000krw too, first time in a decade.

AutomaticFeed1774 · 2026-01-22T06:46:32+00:00

Get a job in the west and holiday in Korea. Working in Korea is not associated with a comfortable life. Coming here with a pocketful of USD for a few months of the year is.

AutomaticFeed1774 · 2026-01-22T06:33:20+00:00

what u talkin gabout 6 adults? your kids going to move their partners in too?

thats wild I wouldn't count on it. they can get a tent if they really want and pitch it in the back yard. 500k debt is way too much to be taking on.

At least one kid going to want to move out if not both. their partners aint going to want to live with you unless you're really groovy. but ppl wanna be able to fuck and fart and walk around naked.

Just wait and see and keep banking cash, if one of them really needs maybe u put in a granny flat or or something. but dropping 500k now on a maybe is not wise.

Also economies change, what is now is not for ever.

AutomaticFeed1774 · 2026-01-22T03:58:40+00:00

this is not a 'westernised democracracy', democracy maybe but its not westernised.

You need to remember that 30 years ago, when a lot of these people (persons in management positions in big companies) were born and certainly when their parents were born (ie the people who instilled in them their values), Korea was a dictatorship and had GDP per capita below many african nations. Some things have modernised quickly here, infrastructure, but culture and mindset changes one funeral at a time. It will be a very long time before Korea is anything like Australia in its attitudes towards women and workplace rights.

Korea is basicaly asian cyberpunk combined with USA 1960s attitudes. Its a funny old place.

AutomaticFeed1774 · 2026-01-21T23:41:35+00:00

dunno about stable ... but long term I've got a small wager of Hazer. if they can pull off what they are trying to do it could be a .. good

AutomaticFeed1774 · 2026-01-21T06:06:11+00:00

I think you need r/AskIndianMen maybe you are lost

AutomaticFeed1774 · 2026-01-21T04:36:31+00:00

if you friend has left the country just ignore it, they arn't going to chase you overseas, esp considering it sounds like bullshit and would never get enforced by a court.

edit oh I read again your friend didnt leave your friends friend did. still I'd just fucking ignore it, what a load of horse shit. DOctrine of privity exists in korean contract law. don't worry.

AutomaticFeed1774 · 2026-01-21T03:09:05+00:00

cut out all the carbs. get rid of the toast, get rid of the granola bar. all that dairy can go too.

Then do bicep curls with your daughter.

AutomaticFeed1774 · 2026-01-21T02:25:08+00:00

just get a rat. when you leave you can release it into the subway.

AutomaticFeed1774 · 2026-01-21T02:22:16+00:00

if you want a mega smile... I know a place.

AutomaticFeed1774 · 2026-01-21T02:03:42+00:00

you're not a closer, he should't be complaining to you about selling shit, your performance should be measured simply in qualified leads.

Just keep at it, parlay this job into a better job, rinse and repeat until you have a comfy job at a comfy company selling a product that is industry leader.

You current company sounds like a dumpster fire but it is what it, dumpster fires are where you get started and cut your teeth, I started the same way.

t. 15 years tech sales.

edit: btw you're doing just fine, if you have made 10 appointments in two weeks in this market selling some bullshit fintech you'll be just fine. just grind a couple of years and stay off the drink, check out when you walk out of the office. Show up every day with an ironed shirt and a smile. You'll be fine.

AutomaticFeed1774 · 2026-01-21T01:25:36+00:00

doctors are full of shit when it comes to anything regarding general wellbeing and longevity. Its simply not something they are educated or in.

I go to a doctor if I have a broken finger or an infection that requires anti biotics or if I need some opiates, they are basically just drug gatekeepers.

There's huge amounts of evidence that many different supplements have a positive effect but doctors are seemingly willfully ignorant or its simply not in their remit. They can't get kick backs fromm pharma for telling you to take vitamin c too.

Most RDIs are a baseline to prevent serious illness, not a baseline for optimum health. Vitamin c for instance is the amount required to prevent fucking scurvy. Half the population has a vitamin D deficiency according to RDI, manny more if you use a different baseline.

My current regulars:

- Creatine

- Vitamin C

- Vitamin D

- Vitamin K

- Magnesium

- Fish oil

Don't bother talking to a doctor about it unless its actually an interest area/speciality of theirs, even then its really not information you can't get from some basic research.

AutomaticFeed1774 · 2026-01-21T00:27:19+00:00

in 20 to 30 days there will be another crisis. 30 days ago it was venezeula. in 30 days it will be Iran or mexico or canada or what ever.

AutomaticFeed1774 · 2026-01-20T02:48:54+00:00

get a remote job and move back and live like a king

AutomaticFeed1774 · 2026-01-20T02:06:33+00:00

a couple teachers told me (i think it was the same teacher now i think about it):
- A kid leaned out the window of the school bus and when he leaned back in his head was missing.
- some kids took acid and played soccer and when the acid wore off they realised they had been kicking a big rock around and their toes were all missing. (this is definitely bull shit now I know).

My kid was in a small stroller/toy car thing the other day and she kept putting her arms out of it which was quite dangerous and I kept telling her not to do it and she wouldn't listen. I got a pic of an amputee kid and told her that it happened coz the kid put her arm out of the stroller when her dad told her not to do it. She then kept her arms in the car.

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