Chapotraphouse

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

yeah man, rip the poster down and redecorate as an adult.

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

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.

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

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.