This is correct.

I don't lack the work ethic totally, otherwise I wouldn't have graduated with honors from the country's top university. The problem is that Russian academic courses are hardly useful in the real-job environment as they're too theoretical. I stand by my point that another problem is my mental instability that results in a severe reduction of working hours. When I'm in the mood to work, I think I do it decently.

And about money......
Living without money is generally more social. With money you have to make conscious effort to stay social and communicative and to have a network of friends. Example: moving places. If you have money, you generally just let a moving company do the move for you. If you don't have money, you have to ask friends to help and you have to help them in other situations to be able to count on them.

What co.on brings are spoiled pussy arguments. He is just scared to move out and be really on his own. It is his choice to stay in his mom's property and deal with stress that comes with it. I had my phone and my money with me in this bunk bed hostel. Nothing was stolen. Clearly you shouldn't leave value stuff just laying openly around.

His high nosed attitude towards living situation with flat mates..... It is .... I don't know how to say it nicely. Dude..... I was earning 70 k a year and stayed with flat mate, because it is more social. You co.on, yes especially you, need social.

lol@u

Not exactly. In Russian, this word refers exclusively to a worker coming from a poorer country to do a low-paid job for which a Russian native would request a much higher wage.

I don't like having someone around me who would be bullying me constantly, which perhaps the majority of young adult males would be doing, except fellow mathematicians who'd respect me for my intelligence in this rather narrow field.

And you need to understand that flat sharing is less common in East Slav countries than in Western Europe so it would be harder to find roomies.

So this is now the "Make Constant Excuses for Sucking at Life Thread", starring MLY, with a special guest appearance by c00n!

Quitting my mother cold turkey right now would be akin to leaving an Olympic final running track as a runner-up a yard before the finish line. I'm going to cross the line first and only then think about rebuilding my work ethic to improve my result at the next Olympics.

Besides, she also has feelings and she won't feel herself accomplished until she stops thinking that I'm in trouble.

it's also the place for psycho ex-girlfriends to cause havoc

Everything is voluntary.

The genetic lottery isn't.

LOL. What a freaking joke. Sorry you suck at life and are lazy?

So in your universe the best jobs in/around Russia are filled by what people exactly? I assure you that there are other people with honors in mathematics from Russia's top universities are doing totally OK and are in highly paid jobs.

You're over simplifying my point. I said once you can afford to survive and an occasional indulgence, extra money has huge diminishing returns on happiness. It's a pretty well known thing, i'm not just pulling it out of my ass.

Yes and yes.

The best Russian scientists move to Western Europe or the US but they have to work harder than the natives of those states because work permit requirements and quotas are harsh. That's the path I surely was considering but rejected because I thought, perhaps mistakenly, that online microstake poker would offer a bigger profit-to-work ratio.

Those who choose to quit science and then succeed at a real job are mostly slier than me. They know better how to elbow their ways to good positions.

C00N,

You're a big boy. You don't ****ing WANT to work but you CAN work. You can also drool over the thought of Mama's money and property but what if you used that energy toward a job?

You say 35K would make you set for life. I say you can earn that in less than 2 years doing ANY ****ING KIND OF WORK. Work or don't. It's up to you, but here's a hint: YOU ARE AN ADULT.

I mean there's lots of logical failing going on in your post.

Sure, that might be what the best Russian scientists do, but there are plenty who don't leave the country. There are jobs for people with your credentials in Russia. You opted out of that path because you're a lazy joke of a person. You'd prefer to have your mom give you money and grind microstakes poker. Now that your mom has elected not to give you money, and you suck at microstakes poker, you're in a bind.

There are jobs that are "science" and real jobs.

There are real jobs that "scientists" are well qualified for.

In general top graduates in mathematics from top universities are not people who have absurd amounts of difficulty finding jobs in large countries.

I've addressed this question above. This path would result in me taking money from people who've done no evil to me (even though I'd be servicing them somewhat, that service would likely be overpriced, otherwise the company wouldn't survive) and pardoning a person who deserves to be fined (my mother).

Besides, I don't know if I'll be alive in 10 years, and I'd much appreciate having at least 10 years of a happy life at last. I have to make the most out of my remaining years, and starting from zero artificially is likely not the best way to do it.

It will be hard for me to be happy anyway until I get the revenge in.

****,

You are pathetic. And the most pathetic thing about you is when people point out how pathetic you are, you say, "I know".

She didn't elect this. The separation of our personal budgets was my initiative, in order to gradually teach her to live without me.

Again, she has no legal mechanism for evicting me because of the way that she once used to strip me of a share of this property. The Russian law was wise enough to prevent me from being totally screwed in that scenario, to leave me with a limited right to occupy a room which would have otherwise been my property.

It's useless to state who I am. It's useful to brainstorm a few ways to make me a bit better with a low risk of killing me.

The big issue with me is that whenever I try to hold myself accountable for anything, I start contemplating suicide as a self-punishment. This is counterproductive.

start by doing 100 pushups a day

What having a job entails:

[ ] Earning your pay

[ ] Taking money from people who've done no evil to you

Which do you think is more accurate, Coontie? Taking money or earning money? You'd be providing a service.

But really, its just an excuse to not work. There are lots of things I don't want to do, but I do them anyway.

And make sure they're LEGIT pushups.

Do you succeed in "getting the revenge in" by getting 35K profit from real estate sales? I don't understand how that is revenge, but then again I'm Sicilian and our revenge is on a bigger scale and may or may not involve busting knee caps.

Yes, because that was the amount that I was stripped of, and my mother will thank me for the small scale of this 'revenge' which is just aiming to get approximately even.