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my plan after graduating is getting what you call ”low skilled jobs” but in reality theyre just as important as other jobs. everybody looks at me like i am braindead when i tell them i dont really have many career ambitions other than that.

i dont want to do hard stuff like medicine or law because i dont feel like im made for that (but i respect people in those fields immensely). i dont want to invest in property and rent it out (hell no). i dont want to invest in weird companies ran by some guy in the Eipstein files. i dont want to get a corporate job where i sit on my ass and do nothing.

i honestly dont even want to go to college atleast right now. why does everybody act like you have to have a mystical job with 3 Phds.

i feel like some people insist that you go get that degree immediately simply because they have so much disdain for work (nothing wrong with doing that if thats what you want to do of course).

why do some people act like youre an inferior lifeform for wanting to work as a barista or at a grocery store. our lives would collapse without those workers there.

i do want to do things with my life and have ambitions in general but its not about capital... i want to improve my social life, start sewing, watch movies, go to my first concert, go to therapy, spend time with my family and so much more.

the job is just supposed to fund that and help me remain in touch with my community and be expected to be somewhere so that i dont die all alone and nobody finds my corpse for months on end...

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[–] MasterDeeLuke@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'm 29, all I do at my job is stack totes and I'm fine with it. Pay is low but I deal with it by being efficient in my daily living in ways like splitting bills with my brother, being very close to work so I spend little on gas, eating healthy so I don't have to worry about expensive medical problems and so forth.

Whatever you do, just make sure it's something you actually want to do. I knew someone who went $30,000 in debt for a teaching degree only to discover he hated it and ended up working in retail anyway. Also, whatever you do don't go into a job that will ruin your health, even if it pays well all that money might just end up going towards paying for medical problems that the job caused.