How do I make enough money to live? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by TargaryenTKE@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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Yes, I do have a full-time job, and I even enjoy it, but it doesn't pay enough to survive in this hellscape of a world we live in. I lack the college degree required to get almost any decent-paying job (plus my last job hunt took MONTHS to get a lead), I don't have the skills or originality to become an online content creator, nor the artistry or patience to create and sell trinkets on Etsy (plus, that would require an initial investment which I simply do not have). Should I set up a GoFundMe? OnlyFans? I wouldn't really be offering anything except a charity basket/collection plate so that feels dishonest at best. Idk, I'm quite literally having a breakdown because I'm probably going to lose my car soon, and then my job, and then my apartment, and then my life. Any help at all would be appreciated. Thank you

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[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

water/wastewater treatment careers,

I been saying this for almost as long as I have been in the all-things-waste sector. If you don't know what to do with your life consider this. It's a huge field from air scrubbers, to ground water remediation, to industrial scrap, to feces, to recycling, to solvent recovery, to chemical waste processing, to trash incinerators, to pulping equipment, and heck even regular HVAC falls under it sometimes.

Everyone shits and everyone makes garbage. As long as humans are still around someone is going to have to deal with that fact. And if there aren't humans around you won't have to worry about a job.

Every working day of my life I choose to make the world a slightly cleaner place, I am harder to fire than a normal civil servant, get paid well, and always have the most badass stories of my friend-group. Most people can't talk about the time they came up with the ideas to fight a frozen shitberg with a blowtorches for example.

There are a lot of ways to break in. If I was starting fresh I would probably apply for government jobs at a facility, start entry-level, and let them pay to train me. I came in as an engineer at a small contractor.

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