Honestly shit like this is making me a bit of a doomer about my personal life. I’m already a doomer politically but I was hoping to embrace grill-pill, but it turns out grills cost money.
I’m in my 30s now and most of the stuff I really want to do with my life requires some degree of financial stability, but the job market sucks and will likely never get better, housing market sucks. If it really keeps up like this Wtf am I supposed to do with my life? Drink and play pirates video games (that’s assuming booze stays affordable)? I’m not offing myself, I got too loving of a family for that, but what do I got to look forward to besides another 30-40 years of being broke in retail?
And before anyone says “ORGANIZE!” No. I have about as much faith in the American Working Class as I have in an expired egg salad sandwich from Food Lion to not give me diarrhea. Every leftist org in my area is a joke and I don’t have the charisma or energy to personally remake it into the Bolsheviks 2.0.
Be open minded to anything that isn’t retail or food service but the trades are a great thing to get in to for a few years. That skill can be carried over into public works of various kinds so then you’re actually doing something useful.
Trying to, but the industry I was trying to get into is now having layoffs. Most of the job growth in the economy right now is in retail and service, engineers and computer programmers are getting laid off.
I think they meant construction. Retail and services will always be ‘growing’, but thats due to turnover and seasonal hiring.
If you learn a trade you have a skill you can take anywhere and essentially be your own boss. Electrician, hvac, framing, plumbing are always needed and aren’t readily replaced by a computer.
When i travel I take my tools with me. I can save the people who let me stay at their houses money by doing work they need done, and I can fetch myself work from neighbors and friends to make extra money. I think of it as always having a way to make money on the road.
There are stores that supply every trade in your area. eg. Plumbing supply, electrical supply, hvac supply. Just go to one and ask whos hiring.
As an electrician, its obviously the superior trade.
Coding and alot of software work is very similar. I guess my main point is find a job where you are gaining a skill that you can use independently from your employer. I feel that service and retail work is admirable but your not gaining a skill that is useful on its own. Im a jerk.
I did what I was told to do since I was a kid to be a “good, responsible adult”. I went to college and got a degree. Went right into a career and have worked for the last 10 years non-stop with no gaps longer than a month or two. I make above the median income in our country but nothing crazy, but it’s a sturdy job and one that would be considered middle class in previous generations. However, I keep getting pushed back to entry level or just one step above it and there’s never any upward movement.
I had to sell my house after 2 years because I couldn’t afford the mortgage payments, I was always just barely clinging on and it was the cheapest starter house in my somewhat suburban/rural small town. Now I’m renting and rent is now almost as high as my mortgage was anyway, and the houses in my town have basically doubled in value over the last 5 years.
There’s zero hope I will ever be able to afford a house on my own. There’s zero hope that I can ever retire. There’s zero hope I could have kids and put them through college or pay for anything. I budget and am thrifty, I barely eat out or buy anything. I wear 5 year old clothes and hand-me-downs.
Honestly shit like this is making me a bit of a doomer about my personal life. I’m already a doomer politically but I was hoping to embrace grill-pill, but it turns out grills cost money.
I’m in my 30s now and most of the stuff I really want to do with my life requires some degree of financial stability, but the job market sucks and will likely never get better, housing market sucks. If it really keeps up like this Wtf am I supposed to do with my life? Drink and play pirates video games (that’s assuming booze stays affordable)? I’m not offing myself, I got too loving of a family for that, but what do I got to look forward to besides another 30-40 years of being broke in retail?
And before anyone says “ORGANIZE!” No. I have about as much faith in the American Working Class as I have in an expired egg salad sandwich from Food Lion to not give me diarrhea. Every leftist org in my area is a joke and I don’t have the charisma or energy to personally remake it into the Bolsheviks 2.0.
Mood
Get out of retail.
Be open minded to anything that isn’t retail or food service but the trades are a great thing to get in to for a few years. That skill can be carried over into public works of various kinds so then you’re actually doing something useful.
Trying to, but the industry I was trying to get into is now having layoffs. Most of the job growth in the economy right now is in retail and service, engineers and computer programmers are getting laid off.
I think they meant construction. Retail and services will always be ‘growing’, but thats due to turnover and seasonal hiring.
If you learn a trade you have a skill you can take anywhere and essentially be your own boss. Electrician, hvac, framing, plumbing are always needed and aren’t readily replaced by a computer.
When i travel I take my tools with me. I can save the people who let me stay at their houses money by doing work they need done, and I can fetch myself work from neighbors and friends to make extra money. I think of it as always having a way to make money on the road.
There are stores that supply every trade in your area. eg. Plumbing supply, electrical supply, hvac supply. Just go to one and ask whos hiring.
As an electrician, its obviously the superior trade.
I don’t think construction is good for me, my body is taking a tool as it is just working at a hardware store. Hence why I wanted to do software shit.
Coding and alot of software work is very similar. I guess my main point is find a job where you are gaining a skill that you can use independently from your employer. I feel that service and retail work is admirable but your not gaining a skill that is useful on its own. Im a jerk.
I did what I was told to do since I was a kid to be a “good, responsible adult”. I went to college and got a degree. Went right into a career and have worked for the last 10 years non-stop with no gaps longer than a month or two. I make above the median income in our country but nothing crazy, but it’s a sturdy job and one that would be considered middle class in previous generations. However, I keep getting pushed back to entry level or just one step above it and there’s never any upward movement.
I had to sell my house after 2 years because I couldn’t afford the mortgage payments, I was always just barely clinging on and it was the cheapest starter house in my somewhat suburban/rural small town. Now I’m renting and rent is now almost as high as my mortgage was anyway, and the houses in my town have basically doubled in value over the last 5 years.
There’s zero hope I will ever be able to afford a house on my own. There’s zero hope that I can ever retire. There’s zero hope I could have kids and put them through college or pay for anything. I budget and am thrifty, I barely eat out or buy anything. I wear 5 year old clothes and hand-me-downs.
I DID WHAT EVERYONE SAID TO DO AND I GET NOTHING
Yup