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>no idea what to do with life

Help.

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>same

No.

Go to a trade school and learn to weld or repair AC units and make money

Working as trucker counts...?

What would Kurt Cobain do?

Honestly this is a good idea. I'm a post-doc working in AI/machine learning and in a decade or so tonnes of white collar jobs will be disappearing. The progress being made in the research community currently is fucking impressive.

Physically creating a mechanical robot to do things that humans do such as welding strangely shaped objects in weird places, or fixing a broken oven, or sorting someone's busted toilet are a bit further away. And even if we do create "plumber robots" they will be very expensive to build and maintain, to the point that I'd say human tradespeople will be around at least for our entire lives.

Don't get sucked in by the college/university scam unless you are going into something very specific. And don't feel like less of a person for doing a trade. All those other saps will be out of work soon enough.

Just kidding, OP. You'll be fine. Enjoy life

As long as you have a high school diploma you're good. Literally pick any corporate job that you can get hired on at, work hard, become the person that wants to learn everything, cover call offs, and eventually you become the person that the place couldn't run without.

Then promotions out the ass. Or go back to school and get a degree (I recommend this, because being a retail slave sucks.)

interesting! why do you say reasearchers will dissapear? more info please

I didn't?

Do you guys think that it is safe to do electrical engineering technologist or technician at trade school? Good pay and lots of jobs?

Yea I'd say that's a safe bet. You can also go various directions with that. I have a friend who did a 3 year bachelors in electrical engineering technologist and he's been working in a large engineering company (AECOM) for a few years now. He's slowly working his way up and has been some good raises the past year. He started with lots of drafting/CAD work behind a desk in the office but he's slowly started to move into more project management and client relations type stuff. Really just depends what you are like as a person and where you want to move to. Some people will like doing the CAD stuff for their whole lives.

Alternatively you can go more a technician route and be more hands on with your work. Become an electrician at a company, or start your own.

So basically have no social life, just work & stress.

>Clean your room
>work on your nutrition and sleeping schedule
>Say goodbye to sugar, drugs and porn
>go to the gym/fighting club
>find a job
>make a list of realistic goals for today, this week, this month, this year, the next 5 years and FUCKING DO IT

yeah then i mistook white collar for researcher. fuck these english terms

>and porn

yup you lost me there

jump on the whitehouse lawn tell them god sent u and the world needs farms and community centers, or that u telecommunicate and the universe programming is complete

i like turtles

Haha no worries. The researcher direction heavily depends on what you are researching to be honest. And relying on becoming an academic researcher is not a good idea. Very very few people get into permanent research positions and it's not always based on how good you are as a researcher. Like many things, luck and who you know plays a large role.

If you want to go down the research path, make sure that the skills you pick up along the way are valuable in a commercial environment. Basically have a back-up plant. This will also allow you to transition if you actually end up not liking academia. I'm most likely going to do the same thing when I finish my post-doc. There's a lot of interesting work to do in industry.

attend gender studies

solid statement, seems logical- uni and academic research jobs are limited, so...

studied physics 3 semesters, seems the people (post docs, etc) there dont really have it easy getting something serious there

If I told you that I am good at math but 29 and autistic...would you say the same?

25 and in the same boat
cant speak for you but im strongly considering just shooting myself at this point

Tenure is a cocksucker, here in the states it's basically doing a couple more doctorates and working 90 hours a week, then in a few years deciding you hate the place, moving on, and starting over

underrated post.

Engineering, it's applied maths

This faggot gets it

pretty much this, but maybe just turn down the consumption of porn.

go into a city and open a "repair computer shop"
charge insane prices

profit

Kill self. The end

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>same
This. Good luck, OP

Additionally you have to be happy to move where ever there is work at the end of contracts that often only last a couple years. This can also mean internationally. Really shit if you want to have a healthy family life

have you tried drugs?

...

on the other had, youre pretty soaked up with skills and knowlede after that?

leading back to the first point about commercial stuff

Skills and knowledge that are unfortunately not always relevant to the job you get in industry. That's why you should try to find out what would be valuable commercially and develop those as well. Writing journal papers and the expertise/research required is a huge skill that is essential for academia. Commercial environments don't really give a shit about that, though.

Basically going the academic route isn't always best. Unless you really enjoy what you are researching and want to be called a doctor, going straight into industry after undergraduate will allow you progress faster than spending years doing academic research.

Of course if you want to end up doing R&D in a big company, being part of a research team or the head of a research team will often require a PhD. So it really depends on where you want to end up.

Also this is for STEM. I don't think you'll end up using an English or Philosophy PhD much in most large commercial organisations.

CLEAN YOUR ROOM

>take 20 minutes of my time cleaning my fucking room
>start cooking my own meals
>stopped suger and limited my porn consumption
>get a shitty fastfood job
>made a list of goals that were shit but realistic
>want to die even more

what is valuable commercialy would you say.. as an example?

i think its to deliver results in a given time span.
and after that, again. to push out results/products...
what do you say?

and yes, id like to be called doctor ;) but dont think i can do it

Yea those are very general, but I was meaning specifically technical skills for the job. If you do comp sci or engineering, academic research might not require much commercially useful programming skills. You will use MATLAB a lot for electrical engineering research, but will need C and python more in industry. I was meaning more things like that.

They will vary depending on your field of study, so it's worth investigating those specifically for yourself. Look at job adverts for things in industry and see what they list as useful technical skills, programming languages they want, software packages they use, etc. Familiarize yourself with those

We do not have to justify our existence. We had no agency when it came to making the decision to come into existence. That was something that was decided for us, and we could not say no to whoever made that decision.

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>same

No.

oh right. the tools of course. the knowledge for the specific job. knowing some people working there/ connections.

Unfortunately no one cares because everyone is in the same boat.

You have two options: try to make as meaningful and happy a life for yourself as you can; or just end it.

Exactly. I remember having the same questions when I was first on Sup Forums about a decade ago now.

Good luck man, I wish you the best.

thanks, great talking to you!

>How to turn into the most run of the mill person ever who only cares about keeping fit with no other interesting hobbies or interests, just "a job".
>"realistic goals"
What's wrong with having an dream and pursuing it? Sometimes it works out.

Ive heard many people failed their electrical engineering from my local university. How true is this?