Venting No idea what to do with my life

[Codename_Joryu]

My parents keep pushing me to go to university and get a better job, but I have absolutely no idea what I want to do in my life. Nothing is interesting to me, nothing excites me and I'm not good at anything. I worked a couple of jobs already and they all seemed fun at first, but after a while became unbearable, I also used to go to university and it was a horrible experience, I feel like I'm too stupid to go there. I have no dreams, direction or plans for the future, every job that I wanted turned out to be underpaid as fuck, and I want to kill myself almost everyday. The last thing I want is study for 3 more fucking years so I can MAYBE get a job in that field, just so I can earn less than some ugly, annoying, ginger fucktard recording himself eating kebab. I just want to fucking chill, but instead I have to hear all these complaints from people who bought their house for 3 dollars and a bag of potatoes, and yet they have the audacity to say that our generation has it sooooooooo easy. "But you need to go to university and get a job", "Your father and I won't support you forever", "You need to have some goals and plans in life", "You really don't have any dream job you always wanted?". Bitch, fuck off. My dream job is unemployment while getting paid. I know that I'm getting older and time is slowly running out, but just leave me the fuck alone.

 

[Worndown]

I am not sure what I want to do when I grow up. I took various jobs and slowly (and without planning) built a career. Not all places were good, some were bad. Finally my health took me out of the workforce. No regrets.

What interests you?
Are there any jobs that share any of those interests?
Money does not bring happiness. That kabob probably gave them indigestion.

 

[Codename_Joryu]

I am not sure what I want to do when I grow up. I took various jobs and slowly (and without planning) built a career. Not all places were good, some were bad. Finally my health took me out of the workforce. No regrets.

What interests you?
Are there any jobs that share any of those interests?
Money does not bring happiness. That kabob probably gave them indigestion.

Like I said, nothing interests me and I have no special skills that can get me far in life. There's no job that I really crave, no position that I really want to work for. Especially in times like these, where honest, hard working, important people are made fun of, while others (not only kids, but adults too) look up to influencers and tiktokers who contribute nothing to society asides from pumping their severe dopamine addiction.
Also no offense, but saying that "Money does not bring happiness" is a terrible advice. You need money for pretty much everything in todays world. If you don't have it then you can't protect or support anyone, let alone yourself. It's a necessity, not a side bonus you get from working 8 hours a day.

 

[Luna say maybe]

Money does not bring happiness

Having no money brings sadness

 

[immrw]

I'm in the same spot. graduated with a bachelors in neuroscience. got burned out and won't go to grad school. so now my 4 years of education is basically useless. applied to 100s of jobs and nothing. i feel lost. i'm uninterested in everything. i have no direction and i don't really care to find one.

 

[bankai]

But you're going to have to do something to earn a living. Might as well decide what that's going to be and go for it.

 

[Nauyaca]

Sorry to be so blunt but it's not like any of us have much of an option here, most of us are not trust fund babies, so it's either some dehumanizing, awful job so you can scrap some money for at least a hobby, or CTB, by the way, university might be crap, but employment life is even more crap, so, if I where in your situation I would choose university, not because it's a good outcome, buy because it's the least awful one, choose something that may allow you to work from home, save as much as you can, and, if you live in the US and have the possibility, emigrate to a cheap cozy country that allows you to chill while minimizing your expenses, look, it sucks, but by the looks of it, you are in a way better position than mine, i wish i had that opportunity, being young again, you know? so at least you have that going, good luck

 

[starboy2k]

I would tattoo this whole post on my back because you didn't tell not one damn lie.

 

[anonymous568]

Same just existing alone is difficult . Finding distractions maybe helps temporarily when having to work etc but it's hard to find anything good to look forward to . I mean knowing we will die one day is reassuring for me if I don't ctb before that. If you can't deal with uni I would say sometimes a job is less stressful than studying depending on the person but yeah jobs suck too and I just hold on to the fact life isn't eternal luckily .

 

[Housefly]

Sigh, we seem to be living the same life. I dropped out of uni because I just didn't want to and it would just waste money to keep going. I'm right here and it's kind of more annoying for me because I keep applying for jobs and not getting passed the interview stage. I feel worthless even though I'm actually trying at something I don't care about. I don't expect things to fall into my lap obviously but it's all in the same field so i don't understand what I'm doing wrong. I'm not depressed right now but I definitely am so anxious.

"Even if you don't know what you want to do, just do what you can."

But I'm not being allowed to do because nobody wants me.

 

[Ariel1]

My parents keep pushing me to go to university and get a better job, but I have absolutely no idea what I want to do in my life. Nothing is interesting to me, nothing excites me and I'm not good at anything. I worked a couple of jobs already and they all seemed fun at first, but after a while became unbearable, I also used to go to university and it was a horrible experience, I feel like I'm too stupid to go there. I have no dreams, direction or plans for the future, every job that I wanted turned out to be underpaid as fuck, and I want to kill myself almost everyday. The last thing I want is study for 3 more fucking years so I can MAYBE get a job in that field, just so I can earn less than some ugly, annoying, ginger fucktard recording himself eating kebab. I just want to fucking chill, but instead I have to hear all these complaints from people who bought their house for 3 dollars and a bag of potatoes, and yet they have the audacity to say that our generation has it sooooooooo easy. "But you need to go to university and get a job", "Your father and I won't support you forever", "You need to have some goals and plans in life", "You really don't have any dream job you always wanted?". Bitch, fuck off. My dream job is unemployment while getting paid. I know that I'm getting older and time is slowly running out, but just leave me the fuck alone.

Have you thought about taking a year to travel? That's what I should've done. It's supposed to help you get to know yourself better and find out what you're good at and like doing. I went to university for 5 years and took different college programs because I had no idea what I wanted to do and I never stopped to really figure it out. Now despite all of that, I'm unemployed. So school does not guarantee you'll have a job. Life skills and knowing yourself will get you farther.

 

[Sarco]

Hey OP I like your pfp, you have good taste