Haha I did everything wrong while suffering under multiple mental illnesses and being neurodivergent with lots of social isolation and I'm in the same position
suck it normies 
Do something, lose. Do nothing, lose. Who's the smart one now? 
I refused to do schoolwork or homework my entire life, technically didn't pass middle school (they passed me on anyway because I don't think they wanted to deal with me) tested out of high school early and spent most of the next decade getting high and playing video games.
Now i got an easy certification for an easy job making as much or more as many of my peers who tried, and am planning to go back to community college
I'm being kind of glib, but I really do feel like i successfully wrestled a (long, long, very long) childhood away from the school system.
I will suck nothing.
I stayed with my grandmother for a while and she was convinced that I wasn't applying for jobs. We went out together for a shopping trip she stopped at a bank and suggested I go in to get an application. I told her that they will probably just tell me to apply online. She insists.
So I go in and they tell me to apply online. I return to the car and relay this to her, and she says nothing, gets out of the car, and walks in. A few moments later she walks out and tells me to apply online when I get home.
This was like ten years ago. I got a call from a McDonalds down there six months later asking if I was still looking for work but I was living in a entirely different state at the time since my grandmother had kicked me out.
It only works at really shitty places, like Waffle House, pizza hut, 7/11, dive bar, or a general labor job thatll have you wash the porta potties
My very first job at a freshly built, just opened Piggly Wiggly was gotten by walking in and talking to the manager. No other job in the 20 years after has been acquired this way. That Piggly Wiggly doesn't even exist anymore, and im pretty sure the strip mall that got built for it is mostly vacant.
Pro-tip. Register a business. Name yourself the CEO. Change nothing of your life and wait for 3 years. You now have 3 years of professional experience.
Also, consider lying. It's not illegal and there's no such thing as a permanent record if you get caught.
Apparently in America you can get sued for breach of contract
That implies an employment contract
I'm sure that's for like engineering qualifications, not desk jockeys.
You don't even have to register a business, just have "freelance work". Name the business. Boom
You can't go into specifics because you signed an NDA
The last few times got involved in my employer's hiring process it was over a hundred candidates every time and that's already filtered to only candidates pretty much fitting the profile.
Absolutely shit time to be forced to look for a job.
29 in 2025 is 24 in 2020. 24, roughly the age someone enters the "professional" labor market. In 2020. I thought 2011 was a shit year when I got my first post-college job, but goddamn, I would take 2011 in a heartbeat compared to 2020.
I only got my job because of nepotism, otherwise I'd still be a mid 30s barista. I am convinced every single person that works in tech was only hired because they knew someone. And this was back in early 2023, I imagine it's literally impossible to be hired as a software dev now.
This person is pretty lucky, they have a place to stay rent free. A lot of folks are dealing with this economy by splitting a two bedroom four ways (or more) and working whatever shit jobs they can manage to land.
Which really.. makes it worse 
I often think about how I'd probably be homeless if I was out there trying to pay rent
I work full time, sometimes 60 hours a week for months at a time. And I can't afford to be independent 
idk why we just can't come around and say that inheriting your parents home and living in it is still valid as an adult under late capitalism and a housing market that's absolutely fucked. Like it's bonkers to still try and hold yourself to the standards of your parents who grew up in the 50's versus the very real today.
Psychologically I wouldnt be able to stand living with my parents at 29. Id rather live paycheck to paycheck in someones garage with no future plan I just cant do it.
Every time I look at how much I spend on rent, I reconsider moving back in with my parents. Then I visit them and realize why I moved out in the first place lol
I did the garage thing for two years, improved mentally, had to move back in with my parents, and am now getting worse again
I feel you, I guess I lucked out since I don't have the same space as my dad, but I'd rather that than homelessness.
that inheriting your parents home and living in it
You haven't inherited anything if they're still alive and your living there is up to their caprice
And then they end up having to sell the house to fund their nursing home anyways
You're right, but it would be nice if more families were open to allowing the children to get the home with no strings attached because like I said the housing market is never going to get better, and it's not like anyone is seriously going to do universal housing.
yeah man, rip the poster down and redecorate as an adult.
tearing down a nirvana poster from hot topic to replace it with a nirvana poster from walmart
When I became a man, I put childish things away (replacing blacklight My Chemical Romance poster with a glow-in-the-dark Chainsaw Man poster)
That's your takeaway from this? lol
it's not my only takeaway but it's the only thing I haven't said 1,000 times already 
replace it with a printout of his piss-colored spreadsheet
I feel like that would be way more psychologically damaging than the poster, lol.
Is pain preferable to nothing? I'm too afraid to find out, so I wake up and grit my teeth each and every day as I update my piss poster. The occasional blood in my urine is the only indication I still exist. 
Just frame your posters. Instant maturity hack.
Every job I've ever had in my field has been due to nepotism and/or "connections" where I knew someone at the new job. Shit sucks.
Boomers don't actually believe this works. They just hate their children and want to shame them for not being as successful as them.
They don't hate their children*, they are just more psychologically prepared to believe that their children are fuck ups than believe that capitalism is bad
*Some of them definitely hate their children
“My child who is under 18 is struggling, must be the fault of the teachers, doctors, etc…”
“My child who is over 18 is struggling, they just be a failure and deserve to the suffering they are enduring. “
I've met a weird number of Boomer with kids who admit openly they actually didn't want kids, including my own dad, who said it openly to me and my sister.
Protip: ALWAYS LIE ON YOUR CV
You studied history? No you didn't. Just say you have a PhD in some hyper-niche STEM field. You generally don't get background checked for most normal jobs, unless your workplace is in a place that requires extra security, like airports, health sector or finance.
And even if you get the job and they discover you faked your CV and they decide to call the police, the cops usually don't want to waste time and manpower on such worthless cases and will throw it out immediately.
Lying is cool and based
Just say you have a PhD in some hyper-niche STEM field.
This will just get you more unemployed
The worry isn't that they'll call the cops. They'll sack you. You won't have references for the position. If you put it in your resume they may call up and find out when you apply for a new position, which would sink you. If you leave it off, you're missing out on possibly better paying jobs that would have hired you if they knew about all your experience. It's likely to make things difficult for you down the line.
But yeah you can absolutely lie... Just be aware that if you're trying to build a career it's likely to be more counterproductive than not. Otherwise, go for your life!
Don't ask me about this or I'll cry
I did everything so wrong my teachers let me graduate school just because they could not tolerate my presence. All while my schoolmates were bringing in bribes for the director, to achieve the same thing. 
At the same time I've only managed to get this far because I talk a lot and run into people who like me? I know it's hard to believe, but it's true!
My life is basically failing forwards 
Did you fail forwards out of a coconut tree? 
I have no idea how I am ever going to have a future. I don't have a degree and am trans. This cis (guy?) with a masters can't get a job. How the fuck am I
It's possible to get ahead on minimum wage in some states. It requires working full-time, not having dependents or expensive habits, and preferably splitting costs of housing and car ownership.
If you buy into the narrative, perpetuated by the rich, that luxuries are necessities, you will go broke trying to keep up. If instead you aim for direct production of what gives life its substance, you'll be better off.
Baseline living rates are below the equivalent of 20 hours a week in many places. Anything beyond that is your decision of what to do with the slack that life in the imperial core affords you. We are in fact not fucked, as long as we can make wise decisions amd act collectively in accordance with our values and analysis.
I am "downwardly-mobile"; it took me at least 2 years to accept that I wasn't going to have a prestigious professional career, and instead I'd be hanging out close to the bottom, doing manual and menial labor, and most of the environment I grew up in would less or not at all affordable. I had to say goodbye to that life. Yet for 3 of the past 5 years, I have sent more to my savings account than I sent to my landlord, and amidst this, I have traveled on many adventures and reveled in all kinds of communal luxury, and that feels way better than "upper middle class" ever did.
I don't want a white picket fence in the suburbs with 3 cars in a 4-person family that accumulates material possessions. I want a shared house in a commune with 0.2 vehicles per person and where people live an ecologically net-zero lifestyle and still do cool stuff.
Banned? DM Wmill to appeal.
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