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Jan. 21, 2020 - Roosh V - Daryush Valizadeh
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Help Me Decide On A New Career
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So I made a big move.
No, I didn't move out of my mom's house.
I stopped selling game and the rest of my pickup books.
I deleted a lot of game articles.
I deleted the game and travel sub forums on Roosh VForum.
I deleted some videos and some podcasts too.
I deleted all the game stuff that taught men how to pick up girls and to fornicate.
I also deleted some especially vulgar articles I wrote that were old and just flat out disgusting.
So even though I just completed game in late 2017, it hasn't been on sale for that long.
It was supposed to be my bread and butter, supposed to provide for me for half a decade at least.
No, I pulled that.
It's not going to provide for me anymore.
So why did I do this?
Once I received God's grace in March of 2018, what happened was that I began to feel a new sense of right and wrong.
That was confirmed by reading the Bible, talking to priests and monks.
The feeling I got was a new person inside me.
And a lot of the things that I did in the past, such as to sleep around, I couldn't do anymore.
It just felt like it was the wrong thing.
Again, I'm not telling you how to live.
I'm not telling you what to do.
A lot of people think that, oh, because I'm not doing it, I'm condemning you.
I'm not.
God, this puff of hair makes me look like a chipmunk.
I think I have to end that.
But that was the case.
So last year in May, I unpublished Bang, a lot of my older Bang travel guides.
And I thought that would be enough.
That, you know, my conscience was clear, but it was not enough.
I looked at game lately and every page was dripping with how to score, how to achieve casual sex.
And while a lot of men did use game in the context of relationships, of marriages, for every one man that used my pickup work to find a wife, maybe a hundred used it to experience carnal pleasure.
So I didn't want to be attached to that anymore.
And I unpublished it because in the Christian life, you cannot cause another Christian to stumble, to sin.
And my work, perhaps better than any other game guru out there, gave you step-by-step details on specifically how to fornicate.
And I was pretty good at it.
And I allowed other men to be good at it as well.
But I no longer can be that guy.
I don't expect non-Christians or those who are not walking with Christ to understand why I'm doing this.
It's just a pickup book.
What?
So what?
You need to earn a living.
You need to make some money, Roosh Bass, to buy your fur hats.
But it's much more than that.
For what is the quote in Matthew?
For what is a man who gains the world but loses his soul?
And so if you haven't experienced God's grace, and I pray that you do one day, this will seem like insanity.
And a lot of men say, Roosh, you've gone mad.
You've gone crazy.
Well, if we are living in an inverted world and you're doing what the culture tells you, are you sure that what you're not doing is the crazy thing?
I'm not saying that you are indeed crazy, but I can tell you that I was.
The way I live, I just had to briefly peruse through my previous work.
It was insanity to think that I could save myself through sex, through fame, and status.
But it's okay to be angry at me for doing this.
It's okay to not understand it.
You don't have to understand it.
I'm just expressing myself in a way so you know what's going on.
But if you are a Christian, I think you do understand why I'm doing this.
So, what does this mean?
Well, game was my biggest source of income, selling the e-book, paperback, and audiobook, various combinations, and bundled products.
And I don't have that income now.
The shack you see behind me is the kind of living standard I will be looking for after this.
No McMansion in the Washington, D.C. suburbs for me.
This is, you know, I can even maybe make a shack like this if you have land to donate to me in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
That's where I want to live.
I already got a nice truck with over 200,000 miles.
Good thing I bought an old used car, right?
Can you imagine if I had a car payment and then two weeks later, God helped me understand that I have to stop making my income from sexual filth?
I'd feel like I was in a bad spot.
But I'm not too concerned about where I'm going to get the income because I'll be honest with you, I hate business.
I hate being a merchant of rubbing my hands.
Where am I going to make my money?
I don't like it.
I don't want to worry about the money.
So I'm going to put a little bit more trust into God to take care of me.
And I have some money saved up.
I'm not totally broke.
So I'm going to live off the savings and see if I can make a living that's honest.
See if I can make an income without peddling sex, without being a sex merchant.
And I've been a sex merchant since I wrote Bang in 2007.
So for over 12 years, I've been dependent on that easy sex income.
And look, there's a reason why the phrase sex sells exists because if you're selling sex, you're going to have a lot of buyers.
But if you're selling God, I don't mean I'm going to sell God, but if you are, if your work is about pushing God, and I can't charge you for what?
God consulting.
A priest gives that to you for absolutely free.
So I don't see the income coming back in the way that it was.
And if it does come back, something's wrong.
That means I took the Joel Osteen path to heaven on earth.
Hopefully Kanye can teach him what being Christian is about, but I'm not holding my breath.
That said, I'm going to have to change how I live.
I can't be a consumer anymore.
I can't look at these as things as disposable.
I have to be a better steward of the things that I own, how I approach the world.
If something breaks, I can't just run to a repair shop or throw it away like a smartphone.
I have to see, can I fix it?
Can I understand basics of mechanics, electricity, and how to solder things?
So in that regard, I mean, I will continue to write books, but I may need to find a new career.
So this is where I'm going to suggest some possible careers that me as a 40-year-old man can undertake.
And let's see what you think.
When you suggest a career to me, please, nothing pie in the sky unreasonable.
I'm a 40-year-old man.
There's only so much I can learn at this age.
So let's keep it realistic.
That said, the first career I think I should try out is deep sea underwater welding.
I think that is a masculine job.
It pays well.
You only have to learn how to scuba dive and weld while underwater.
It takes maybe not that much training to get good at.
Like I said, I have soldered things before.
So doing it underwater with a blowtorch, how hard can that be?
I hear that they can make well over $100,000.
So you can work, you can travel, work on oil rigs.
So yeah, that would be my first choice on a new career.
My second career choice is French pastry chef because I love chocolate croissants.
So why not turn your passion into a career and make chocolate croissants every day and you can sample them for free.
So for this job, you just have to go to a pastry school and learn the art of pastry construction and then you work in a restaurant and get paid a somewhat good salary.
And what's great about this is that I live near Washington, D.C., where there's a lot of silly people who think spending a lot of money on food makes them feel extra cultured.
So I can trick a lot of people by making extra tiny croissants and charging exorbitant amounts of money and just profit greatly.
And I hear that mostly women are pastry chefs.
That doesn't take away from the masculinity of it.
But I could maybe meet my future wife in this way.
My third career choice would be lumberjerk.
I mean lumberjack.
I would be in the woods all day just chopping down trees like the man that I am.
I already have all the clothing for being a lumberjack.
I have tons of red plaid shirts.
So I really wouldn't need to have any startup costs.
I have one axe that I haven't used ever.
So it's sharp.
And I think it's called a ratchet or a like it's a smaller axe.
I haven't used that either.
How hard can chopping trees down be?
I mean, I can climb a tree with a chainsaw and trees falling down safely.
I would never get hurt.
So only thing is my body has declined over the years.
I'm not as spry as I used to be.
So being a lumberjack seems like could be a little challenging.
And I don't know if my body can hold up, but boy, I would be outdoors all day where I belong.
The fourth career I could try is being a computer programmer.
Now that's not very glamorous, but that learn to code meme, it speaks to me now because I don't have many other options left.
So I could learn to code immediately.
And I'm sure a lot of you watching me are coders as well.
You can teach me how to code.
And I'm sure I can, once I compete on the global labor market with 1 billion Indians who are learning how to code as we speak, my pay may not be as high as it could be.
But hey, as long as you live in the United States where there will always be a demand, and maybe I can infiltrate some of these Silicon Valley companies and then implement my extreme right-wing ideology into their code base.
What an opportunity that is.
Man, these geese really didn't clean up after their own doo-doo.
They're a mess.
Clean up after your crap, geese.
So the last career that I could possibly consider is being a monk or a priest.
Now, this isn't really a career.
It's more of a calling.
But one thing I've learned is that if you want to become a monk or priest and you recently converted to Christ, they're going to say, whoa, boy, walk with Christ a bit more and be sure.
So even if I were to go to the monastery today and say, I'm ready to serve the Lord in this capacity, they find out that I came to Christ a little less than a year ago.
They'd be like, come back to us in a year or two when you are sure.
An extra difficulty for me is that I am in the Armenian Orthodox Church.
And guess what?
They conduct the liturgy known in the Armenian language as the Badarak in Armenian.
So I don't know this language yet.
I'm about to start to learn.
It's not that easy.
And so for me to become a priest, I would want to stay in the Armenian church.
So I would have to conduct the Badarak in Armenian.
Well, it may take about 10 years for me to learn that language.
So I think priest may not be my calling yet.
Unless, God, if you're listening, you enlighten me by downloading the Armenian language into my brain right now.
Okay, he didn't do it.
But that doesn't mean that I can't use my own human power to overcome any obstacle and learn it, which I will.
Oh, you're still here?
Well, how about I answer some questions from viewers just like you?
Dr. Galaskiewicz, that's Polish, he asked me, Are you back in the U.S. for good?
No more traveling?
That's right, doctor.
I'm not traveling anymore.
All that traveling was just a big waste of time because, as they say, there is no place like home.
And the United States is my home.
You couldn't pay me to get on an airplane right now, to have to go through TSA and get groped again because I want to opt out of those x-ray scanners.
To have to get on taxi rides, go in a hotel, check in, check out, of meeting strangers and pretending that it's great in foreign foods that really aren't that tasty anyway.
So no, I'm not going to travel anymore.
And for those of you who are about to get married in the next year, I'm sorry, I can't travel.
You have to get married sometime in 2022 because I'm going to stay put, no more travel.
I have to go against the grain, go against what I've been doing for so long.
And that means no more travel.
XGPOSTs asks, why do you get uglier as you age?
It's true.
Unlike everyone else, I'm getting uglier as I get older.
I'm going to get uglier and uglier from this point hence.
My hair is going to turn white.
My face is going to be all foldy and wrinkly and gross.
And my body is going to look like a shell of its former pristine self.
You know, there is one place I found that people go to to look better as they age.
It's a temple.
And this temple, mostly women go to.
It's called Dermatology.
They go to Dermatology Temple.
And it's this beautiful glass temple.
Most of the cities have numerous dermatology temples.
And the women go in.
And when they come out, their face is completely new.
And it's so stretchy and like clean.
And they're beautiful.
I don't know what goes on there, but also their lips triple in size.
They're just beautiful.
Unlike me, I'm ugly because I don't know how to get access to these dermatology temples.
The weird thing is all the women who are older, they're starting to look exactly the same.
This weird, puffed up, stretched out beauty.
They even have invented something new.
It's called the vampire facial.
I don't know if you have heard of this.
This is when the woman takes her own blood and sacrifices it to the dermatology who then puts it on her face to rejuvenate.
So through this blood sacrifice, the woman can look amazing.
And I'm just too cowardly or too unlucky in order to do something like that.
Strange enough, some people, some of the women who have gotten this blood sacrifice treatment have contracted HIV.
So it looks like blood sacrifices have some downsides.
Who would have thought?
Canned Meat Salad asks, Rush is an embarrassing Persian.
Where is the BMW?
It's true.
The Persians in the United States like to flash their cash with BMWs.
Why?
Well, they tend to have left Iran, their ancestors, after the Ayatollah came to power, the hyper-Muslims, very, what's it called, it's a theocracy.
And so the Persians who come reject the Ayatollah and they reject God too because they associate God with the mulahs, the Ayatollah.
So they throw the baby out with the bathwater and come to the United States and worship the new God of consumerism.
So Persians are the most hyper-materialistic people you will find in the United States.
That's why they're so financially successful because their God is money.
And what better represents money than an over-engineered, plasticky car like a BMW?
So no, I am not Persian in spirit, only in 50% genetic material, but I will not be.
And if you offend my 220,000 mile Toyota for runner canned meat salad, I'm coming after you.
Forrest Grump and Chris Kemp both asked the same question, and that is, what happened to the Dodge truck from the road trip?
That truck was never mine.
That was misinformation to throw off antifa.
They thought I was driving a truck when I was really driving a sports car.
And, you know, that was when I wanted to LARP.
I wanted to pretend I was a bigger man than I really was.
So I posed for a picture of my friends who was actually an oil man.
I posed in an oil man's truck to make myself look more masculine than I really was.
And that's something that I wouldn't do today as a mountain man, as a genuine one, who currently lives with his mom, but that's going to end soon.
And because I got the axes, I got the beard, I got the hat.
I'm basically there.
So if you don't think I'm a mountain man, well, you're just wrong.
Cole S asks, how has this channel come to this?
How did this happen?
Through God's loving grace.
I hope that God graces you in the same way that he has graced me.
You know, online in the secular sense, transformation usually involves losing some weight or quitting coffee or not beating off for a month.
But with God, transformation is more complete.
It's not just in a few behaviors.
It's everything.
And I wouldn't have believed it if it didn't happen to me.
But it did.
And I hope it happens to you so you can understand it.
But if grace has come to you, then I think you know what I'm talking about.
Baby Turtle says, right arrow, buying a car is a lot like dating.
Right arrow.
Buys an old car with very high mileage for cheap.
Hee hee.
This is true, baby turtle.
I see myself as a very high mileage car.
I was all broken down and busted up.
And then I went to an auto mechanic by the name of JC.
And JC says, Roosh, your car is in bad shape.
You know what I'm going to do?
I'm going to swap out the transmission engine, just about everything, and leave the shell intact.
And you know what?
I'm not going to charge you at all because I made this car.
It's actually mine.
And if I fix this for free, just drive it a little bit better, huh?
Don't go crazy, street racing, burnouts, and change the oil more frequently than once every 20,000 miles.
And I said, JC, you have a deal.
So to all the women who are watching me, yeah, I have a lot of miles on this shell, but the innards have been taken out.
So I like to think that just like how I buy a high mileage car, I may have to take a risk on a woman with a high mileage body.
All right, that's enough.
So that said, that's all I have for today.
And thank you for watching.
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