I'm 25. My ex just dumped me a couple months ago through text after we lived together five years, she gave up on me.
I chose to not finish my science degee at a major university two years ago even though i only have three classes remaining. I had a decent GPA and always excelled in classes. Basically i didn't reenroll because i was annoyed with the scheduling which required me to take an intermediate core requirement on an off campus branch because i didn't take it in the fall. So my option was to pay more than I should have and let my parents know i won't graduate on time because i didn't communicate well with my counselor. Also the reason for not being out in 4 years was i switched from a business major to science after sophomore year because i was getting a 4.0 without trying and thought business college was for retards. Ya i know how full of myself i was for metaphorically saying fuck you to everyone repeatedly. Why didn't i get a loan and finish it before now? Narcissism mixed with mental illness. I found my neighbors corpse when i was finishing school and had an attempted break in the following year. I've never received psychiatric help because I don't want them to limit my ability to buy or conceal firearms, its a basic liberty here and i don't want to be stigmatized. The university requires me to readmit in spring to finish. I haven't had a real job in over two years, so I'm struggling to find work that won't destroy my pride. My best option seems to be joining the military because ive gotten pretty jacked, but I'm an assertive guy and will not fit well in an environment where I'm not supposed to think. I'm going to end it all when i turn 26 if i don't have my plan sorted out by then. I have lots of fleeting pride because before my ex i was very popular, attractive, and digressionally pushed weight. I'm expecting dozens of "kys" responses, but please hold off.
I don't know, it sounds like you have a lot of opportunities that you're turning down for basically no reason.
Maybe you just want to die?
Carter Garcia
Tl;dr op fucked up college planning, dumped, and fucked economically and mentally
Dont comprimise youre assertive nature. Ive known friends whove gone in and came out robots and mental slaves
Logan Reed
>annoyed at scheduling Fuck off just go back >finding a job that wont destroy my pride Seriously? No one give 2 shits about youre muuuh pride. Get a job; any job as a college student is acceptable
Logan Flores
I don't "want to die". I have many close friends and family. Opportunities as in military or a shitty retail job? I'm just going to choose to die if I end up without insurance.. See economically is where I'm going to get the most hate. I have no debt decent credit and if i live ten more years i will inherit well over 500k. What do i do then? Be a cop? Will they hire me if i complete academy even though I haven't had a formal job in years? My previous jobs were pretty prestigious.
Xavier Garcia
What job will hire me if i havent worked since 2014? I refuse to work retail or restaurants..
Daniel Reyes
Fuck your "pride" and get a shitty job to support yourself like everyone else.
Zachary Lewis
How shitty? I don't want to work for less than 18$ an hour.. That's already going to be a kick in the balls.
Joseph Miller
every job is a job stfu about the pride thing and get a normal job
Carson Moore
"Lol I chose not to finish school because it annoyed me"
What kind of excuse is that? Stop making us millenials look like retards. I hope a Chinese immigrant takes your spot at your university.
Adrian Kelly
Stop being a bitch and work at McDonalds if you seriously can't provide ANYONE else ANY VALUE. Who pays for your food, shelter, clothes, internet, electricity, etc etc? Do you think that you're too special to work for those things? You're okay being a parasite and letting other people bust their asses in shitty jobs they hate for your existence so that you cant sit at your pc all day???? I don't understand how people get so entitled....
Juan Davis
Nobody wants to employ you for $18 an hour, so you get to make a choice between what they'll pay and nothing.
Julian Stewart
What makes you think you're worth $18 an hour? Is it the endless supply of job offers you're declining? Grow the fuck up. Everyone starts at the bottom. You have your whole life ahead of you to "prove yourself" to the sheep who don't give a fuck about your salary.
Jacob Howard
fucking this
Tyler Cox
When i was in college i made six figures a year pushing weight. I don't spend any time on the computer other than to vent on this post. I've been exercising constantly since I broke up with my ex so at the least the army will take me. I don't care what you hope happens. What will happen is up to me. I'm not poor. Ya I'd rather die or serve in the military. Thanks though.
James Lewis
you shouldn't have started poopsmoking and becoming a poopsmoker
that's what you get for disobeying your parents your turdburglar, becoming an poopsmoker was the worst decision that you've ever made and the results of this same choice is to end up in the streets and suck dicks for crack cocaine
you had it all and you just had to blew it
serves you right for being a degenerate bad boibutt faggot
Blake Hill
Ok so what should i ask for when they say what do i want to make?
Asher Ortiz
Nice try faggot. When i pushed I was still getting a 4.0 and I had a student worker job. The girlfriend is what fucked me up. I'll never be what you imagine because I'm a musclebound virulent motherfucker with a car, weapons, and some finances. I don't smoke anything btw. I quit vaping cannabis and drinking coffee after my ex. My piss is clean.
Levi Rogers
Then stop your bitching and go serve in the military?
Jack Foster
Please don't serve in the military. The people serving in the armed forces are disciplined, respectable, hard working people. They're not lazy, entitled excuses like you. Go back to selling drugs. You'll be more productive that way.
Aaron Allen
fucking liar, i know you poopsmoke butthash you virulent cocksucker full of gays, stop coming on the internet to lie and have people suck your dick cause you are gay and like it up the butt with a sidedish of scat addiction
Oliver Barnes
That's the fallback plan... It sounds miserable though.
John Edwards
We all have problems and you ain't one bitch...
Xavier Hill
You were getting a 4.0 in business and you're this clueless about economics?
Gavin Ortiz
Guys be careful, he has cars, weapons, and finances
Isaac Miller
I've become very disciplined. I don't eat saturated carbs, i eat my weight in protein, i lift and jog every day. Seriously not lying. The heartbreak made me realize I needed to put that life behind me. I have no desire to consume it again because I associate it with my poor decisions. Believe what you want.
Isaiah Young
>I've never received psychiatric help because I don't want them to limit my ability to buy or conceal firearms, its a basic liberty here and i don't want to be stigmatized. Get fucking help, the worst thing you can try to do to fix your life is to go it alone.
Brody Ortiz
Okay so just keep going through life expecting some magical dream job to just fall on your lap without you having to do any work whatsoever. :D
Isaiah Wilson
Lol yes, I got a 100% in micro and macroeconomics. The irony isn't lost on me.
I know that this helped me reorient mental state when I was shaken up after a break up. I'm doing just fine now but it gave me descriptions of the world I had not considered before and I haven't made the same mistakes again. The Year One is what you have to read all the way through.
Eli Murphy
I mean i saw a career counselor and she's giving me a contact this week,but i have faith in nothing. It's happened for people I know through nepotism. I'm working out every day so if nothing else I'm a good cut of meat. I'm applying to lesser and lesser jobs everyday, but it kills me inside.
Chase Adams
Ya I'm not going to read that. I have better books if i wanted a self help book. I've mastered pleasing women and making people happy, i don't need the scribblings of lesser minds to tell me about that. I appreciate you trying to help though.
Eli Howard
This is just some advanced bait. No one is this retarded
Gabriel Rodriguez
This guy seems like the only guy who really cared and i want you to know i appreciate it. I just dont see how i can accept giving up a liberty like that unless everyone had to.
Logan Long
>Being this attached
Justin Young
"the scribblings of lesser minds"
Wait, but you're on Sup Forums bitching about losing some girl even though you're "amazing with women"
What kind of autistic fuck are you?
Bet you can't wait to get daddy's money
Colton Garcia
Nah man i really am. I fucked up everything. I blew so much money and time with my ex. I used to go to men's wearhouse to spend a few thousand at a time just for party clothes and let my ex drink fiji water because i was so inflated and elated.
I know it was completely stupid and ill regret it until i end myself.
Angel Sanchez
Op here
Lol umad?
Are there different types of autism btw?
Brody Miller
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Christopher Parker
Also for the record I'm not bitching about losing her. I'm actually better off physically, mentally, and financially. The girls I'm talking to are younger and tighter without cellulite. What stings is how she didn't push me to do better, she just watched me fall apart and then left stealing a few of my things after we were together five years.
Adam Wood
Op here Haha i bet you look like an uglier/fatter version of that image and you fuck your cat with your micropenis.
Zachary King
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Charles Hill
Honestly man. Your so fucking close. Man the fuck up and finish school. It's three classes, and I know you know you can do it. Who the hell cares about what happened in the past. Push through the pain you whiney faggot.
Noah Morgan
Op here
Getting off to sleep.
I'll keep trying to get jobs as I continue to bulk up.. Worst that can happened is i become an army fag that gets trained not to think.
Thanks to the two guys that actually tried to give me advice.
Hudson Cox
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Grayson Kelly
When you wake up enroll back to college. Take out a loan. It'll be easy
Ryan Howard
Ya I will if I get a job before i turn 26. Thanks man.
Christopher Reed
Why do you need a job to go back to college?
Hudson Jenkins
I know that's what I should do... I just really hate the idea of debt. I want a solid job before I do that
Jack Wilson
They won't let me take classes until spring.. :(
Aiden Reyes
ez
join air force reserve and pick some easy job like air transportation. you will stay in your home state once done with training and only be gone a short while if you pick a simple job (3-4 months). this will gain you a bunch of skills and introduce you to people and make you feel like you're doing something good. or if you want, you can use the air force and pick a job that will gain you some skill you wouldn't be able to learn in your civilian life, like aircraft maintenance.
Josiah Ramirez
as someone with a STEM degree (mathematics), don't even bother going back unless it's computer science or engineering. it's a waste of time and money.
>I'm struggling to find work that won't destroy my pride.
gotta separate yourself from that thinking. a job is a job, it gets you money, you need money to survive. ive done more shit jobs in my life than respectable jobs. ive been paid mostly minimum wage, except my TA and research position I had for awhile, and have been treated like absolute shit. at the end of the day, it doesn't matter because one important thing: YOU NEED MONEY TO LIVE. just get a job, any job, work your ass off at it and try to move up as much as possible.
hell, ive pretty much given up on finding data analyst / data scientist / any job im qualified for and looking for a janitor job because then i wont have to deal with fucking people which ive done for 10+ years.
Easton Jones
i should say that ive had less than a 1% callback rate for applying to those types of jobs, analyst jobs, and hell, a pretty bad callback rate for shit jobs as well. society is fucked.
Samuel Green
Go back to school and finish what you started. Don't be a bitch OP.
Cooper Nguyen
As someone with a chemistry major, this is true. The only guys getting hired these days are in the IT field. I managed to land an entry lab assistant position purely out of luck and I make around 15$ an hour. I know I'm lucky
Hunter Anderson
I'm in college rn too. I'm putting myself into debt as we speak. You will be able to work off a semesters worth of debt in a year once you have a degree. In till spring work if you can, so you'll be able to minimize your debt even more
Charles Stewart
I assume parachuting is part of that, which I dislike. What's the commitment?the army job i looked at is a 2 year commitment. Thats depressing.. I'd rather be a cop.
Charles Lopez
What are you pursuing?
Gabriel Jones
Business. Starting at community college and working during to minimize debt. Hbu?
Julian Nelson
You will be able to work off a semesters worth of debt in a year once you have a degree.
bahahahahaha. did the "guidance counselors" or "administrators" at your uni tell you this? that's IF you can even find a job and that's IF you can even find a job related to your studies. you'll most likely have to start from the very bottom like everyone else, except with a lot of debt.
Anthony Evans
Thats awful. I know people in the restaurant business that make more with no college education. How will i pay it off in a year if this guy is right about no jobs?
Isaac Allen
dude drop out immediately. i'm telling you it will be a waste of time and money. business is completely useless, in fact most of the managers who barely made more than me at all my shit-tier jobs had business degrees.
Robert Nelson
Five years max. Less time than you've been sitting on your ass doing nothing
Cooper Rivera
Chemical Engineering. Good luck user Any advice for me Sup Forums for ChemE?
Carter Clark
Do they have degrees from good schools? What would you recommend?
Christopher Cook
i have a math degree and 4+ years experience in analytics with a research group at my uni. i havent been sitting on my ass. ive been working my ass off since i graduated high school and most of my twenties are gone obtaining my degree and experience.
go to a trade school. so many of my friends who went have decent cars, getting married and buying homes/apartments with their gfs/wives. im still stuck at minimum wage being a fucking loser.
TRUST ME. UNIVERSITY IS A GIANT FUCKING LIE UNLESS YOU PLAN TO DO REAL RESEARCH IN THE FIELD YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY, UNCONDITIONALLY PASSIONATE ABOUT.
William Thomas
I know user. But at least my work is related to my field. Other people have it much worse. Trust me on that
Dominic Sanchez
>UNLESS YOU PLAN TO DO REAL RESEARCH IN THE FIELD I'd advise against the research part. I fell for that trap. Fuck me, life has been nothing but horrible
Elijah Watson
Op here Break bad? Lol
No advice sorry.
I could get you a job at my uncles Chem company if I knew you irl. I'm doing that for my chemE friend. I've gotten jobs for my friends, but I'm left jobless because i have this damn secret.
Gavin Kelly
>inb4 kys No finish the fucking degree, shithead. Lots of faggots would kill (other people) to be on the cusp. Bring it home and stop whining like a little bitch.
Levi Ortiz
My problem is that I love money. I know trades do ok, but somehow I've convinced myself that I can finish college and become extremely successful in business (1 mill+) is this I pipe dream? Should I just become an electrician like my dad?
Justin Flores
no air transportation has nothing to do with parachuting
the military is not some scary system where you have to go deploy to some eastern country and fight people. most military members especially reservist will never have to face something like that. air transportation is simply loading cargo to be transported.
the commitments are 6 years of active reserve duty and 2 year inactive reserve duty
imagine the reserves as a part time job. in the reserve you ONLY work the first weekend of every month AND you stay in your home state.
seriously don't join the army unless you want a shit experience
Josiah Russell
Op here.
Now you have my convinced the cop job is my best bet for now. If everything available pays shit i may as well have authority and a sidearm.
Justin Perez
they had degrees from the local big unis, so yes i'd say they have degrees from good schools.
do something really specific that guarantees you a job due to it being highly specialized, ie the trades. my friend is an electrician and is making $34 / hour. after being in the trades for so long, he's made contacts and sometimes gets side jobs for peoples homes or pet projects he can do on the weekend to make some extra cash. told me he made a few grand giving up his saturday/sunday for two weeks to do such a side job.
Juan Allen
trades guys can make big money too. hell, study business in your free time while training to do a trade and then start your own business.
Adrian Mitchell
Can you at least let me know what the company is? Might help me in the future
Cameron Jenkins
I was telephone switchboard repairer in the USMC for 8 years. I didn't know a single brainwashed idiot. Every single Marine I came in contact with was simply a slightly different version of the person they were before boot camp. This means even lazy disrespectful fucks were still lazy disrespectful fucks that had somehow gamed the system for 13 weeks.
Ethan Rodriguez
this
Oliver Jenkins
Op here Thanks man I'll try. I'm trying to improve my patience.
Well I'm glad it doesn't require parachuting. Also i know military isn't all combat and fatalities. I'm just not sure about that six year commitment.
Grayson Ramirez
This is exactly what my dad did as an electrician. Idk if it's cause he's lazy bad with money or both, but he is far from wealthy. I know your right, but I can't pull away from the idea of making big huge money as a business man.
Joshua Wilson
Its in ohio so probably not where you are or want to be.
Adam Bennett
tl;dr
man up, i had a wife of 10 years with 3 kids leave me a couple months ago and i replaced that bitch with a newer model in under a month.
as far as a job, i didnt go to college and make over 140k doing manual labor-whats your excuse?
Bentley Gutierrez
>doing manual labor Kek. Doing what exactly?
Colton Nelson
it's just one weekend a month, i forgot to mention there's also a two week assignment you must complete some time in the year as well. plus you get all the benefits of being in the military. meeting a ton of great people, developing your own self, and learning some skill that they pay you for.
a man i knew who worked aircraft maintenance got out and went on to work at spacex where he now makes some ridiculous six figure salary
Jaxon Price
Cheer up bro. Move to Australia, come live in Perth for the summer. We'll drink beer and go bowling.
Nathan Myers
you better be saving that money cuz once your body gives out
ya fucked
Colton Ross
Idk man no good excuse i guess. Just mental issues from being concussed by my father growing up plus the corpse and recent violent experiences.
Good for you though man.
Tyler Torres
handjobs.
Eli Nelson
What a millenial piece of fucking garbage. That's all you're getting out of me for advice.
Julian Morris
You already spent so much doing college shit, you need to fucking finish it. All your time and money will be for nothing if you refuse to go back. All in all, it doesn't matter if it took you 4 years to graduate or 7 years. You still have the degree. This isn't like a fucking video game where if you don't play a 3 cost spell on turn 3 you might as well concede. You can still have a great life even if the path you took to get there wasn't "optimized to the greatest potential."
My advice is DON'T go into the military, because then you will be committed for 4 years (or 6 if you're a dumbass), and will be that much further behind on your degree and your life advancement. If you do go back to school (and you should), then you're not going to be able to find an amazing job that pays a ton since you'll only be working part time. But that's fine. That's why you're going to college. When I was in college I worked at Red Lobster, they started me at 10.50/hr and after my first year I was making 11.75/hr, which isn't bad at all for an part time, entry level job. Still though, even if you can't find something like that, you gotta take something. Even if it is a shitty minimum wage job. Minimum wage is more than nothing, and what's more? Whenever you find something better... you can just leave. At any time. Go do the better thing. There is literally no downside or punishment for doing so. But you have to start somewhere.
Hudson Gray
That sounds cool actually, i promise I'm going to research that tomorrow and probably do it. As long as i don't have to parachute train that sounds perfect for me. Lol do aussies really want an American? I'd love to go there, but my travel plans for next year are Canada snd Germany.
Jack Bell
hardwood and tile mostly
Justin Diaz
You have lived a good life untill shit hit the fan and times got hard. Congratulations! This is the best time of your life. You will hit rock bottom and the only way is up. Now live the dream and do whatever you wanted, start all over, hell move to a different country, start there. Life is mostly suffering, and you started it now, enjoy it.
Kayden Martinez
work hard play hard bro, bitches come and go
Jeremiah Russell
Ya ill put arsenic in your water, old man.
Thanks man I'll finish it,but no way I'd work for minimum wage. I would rather break bad.
Logan Hernandez
this
Angel Collins
Heck yeah, bro. Come down and do some travelling if you ever get the chance. In fact, travelling may help build you perspective, wherever you may go. Canada and Germany are great destinations. Do some backpacking, become a citizen of the world. It might be your best catharsis.
Come down to Perth, I'd be happy to show you around. The nature here is lovely, and the summers are very hot (like the girls).
You'll be ok mate, it's a transitional chapter of your life. Trust your instincts, and ride the wave.
Chase Hughes
Too long, didn't read
Daniel Carter
Op here I know that's the thing, I've lived an exceptional life. I felt omnipotent around campus, with more of everything than I could want. Leaving the country though... I have soo many close friends here I don't want to leave behind.