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No. 1469793

I am 21 and i have no idea what do with my life, everything feels like it moves at the speed of light and i can't keep up, does anyone else share the sentiment?. I don't know what career/job to choose that wont get automated in 5 years or will pay me enough to someday afford a house or a good appartment.
A thread to discuss the modern problems of being in your early 20s and what awaits us in the future. Jobs, career, dating, family, etc.

No. 1469795

Get a job at Starbucks or something and save all your pay checks

No. 1469817

>>1469795
why

No. 1469823

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Get into construction nonnie. It pays the bills.

No. 1469824

>>1469817
People make it seem like you’ll be completely broke unless you go to college. That’s a meme. You need to learn how to save and live within your means and you’ll have a comfy life with no university education.

No. 1469826

Here come the zoomers…

No. 1469831

It’s ok not to know what to do. I got my first job when I was 20 or 21, worked for a few years and then started college at 26 in a totally different branch than my previous job. Then after a year I changed my major. I’ll be 30 or 31 when I graduate, and there are ppl even older than me in my school. It’s ok, you have time.

No. 1469832

>>1469824
i dont know nonny, even my friends with a college degree are jobless. Also, working at Starbucks or similar jobs which dont really give you any real life skill seem like a waste of time, what do you do if they fire you? considering that most retail jobs dont hire people over 30.

No. 1469842

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>>1469831
not to be mean but that makes me even more anxious. It just feels like there aren't as many possibilities as there used to. I have friends with degrees that dont have jobs and friends with jobs that are scared of getting fired and not being able to get a new job, because even to be a mcdonalds cashier you need a degree. I wish i could be starting my life, but the world moves so fucking fast, i was working off art commissions and them BAM out of nowhere art gets fucked thanks to AI. Right now i am trying to build a platform, become a youtuber or streamer, just because i have no idea what else to do, even coding seems to be kinda fucked.

No. 1469862

>>1469842
You sound a little dull and unimaginative. Life is gonna be a struggle for you whether or not you get a degree, I'm afraid. Since you insist on debt slavery cuz that's what everyone else is doing, get a business degree and nepo your way into a decent admin position at a middling corporation.

No. 1469863

>>1469842
Kek leave it to people that waste money and have no ambition to be scared about AI shit taking their jobs. The medical field always needs people, other anons said construction too, civil servants are always needed. Stupid careers that go nowhere aren’t. If you can’t see a future in it don’t bother getting a degree for it. Just get certified and you can do respiratory therapy which is always needed now thanks to covid or other jobs that just need certification for it.

No. 1469864

>>1469832
>working at Starbucks or similar jobs which dont really give you any real life skill seem like a waste of time
I worked retail after college before jumping ship to work a comfy and lazy admin role. You just need to not be stupid and realize how to sell yourself. There are plenty of things you can pull out of a retail/food service job to sell yourself, like prioritization, working in a fast paced environment, working with multiple different personalities (including difficult ones), building relationships with clients/customers, organization, etc etc.

I am very much the optimist and think that retail set up a good foundation for my work ethic. It's just a matter of selling it to prospective employers afterwards.

No. 1469865

>>1469832
Money should be your main focus always. If you are too stupid or don’t know what you want to do in college, saving and learning how to budget is your best bet. I saved 50k by 23 working at McDonald’s so I have more money than most people my age with degrees lol

No. 1469867

>>1469864
i see, thank you. Will try the youtube shit for a year then maybe try to apply for a retail job or rope myself if it doesn't work.
>>1469865
i see, do you have any future plans? what do you plan to do with your savings? i think that's what i struggle with, so far i mostly used the money i made from art to upgrade my PC, i only have 1k in savings for emergencies.

No. 1469869

I'm 23 and share your sentiment about not keeping up. I feel like I've been left behind by society/culture.

No. 1469871

>>1469867
I don’t plan to do anything with them. Just live life and not live pay check to pay check. A lot of people end up broke because they think the only options in life are to be poor or rich. I’m just happy to go out to eat when I feel like it and pay my bills on time without stressing out.

No. 1469872

>>1469863
nah, medical jobs pay like shit and are stressing. The point is getting a stable and good enough job to afford a living, y'now like our parents did a few years ago before automation.
>waste money and have no ambition
seems like you are projecting

No. 1469874

I think CS is still a pretty good major choice despite people saying it's oversaturated and big tech layoffs being in the news. You only have to get a 4 year degree here to be eligible for most jobs and there's a good variety of job types out there. I have relatives who self-studied IT and have nice jobs now too if you don't want to go the college route.

No. 1469876

>>1469872
It sounds like you want a ceos salary but don’t want to put any effort into getting it but you also feel too superior for anything beneath that, so instead you’d rather just do nothing.

No. 1469877

>>1469876
sorry i didnt know a living wage was a ''ceos'' salary now.

No. 1469880

>>1469877
If you don’t even have the intelligence to use google to figure out what kind of career you want how do you expect to do well in school?

No. 1469897

>>1469880
what does that have to do with anything, i dont have a crystal ball to know which careers aren't going to be victims of automation in the future. You sound like that neet rich girl from the antiwork thread or at least someone who never worked in their life.

No. 1469966

>>1469823
Zoomers will literally do anything expect work in construction kek

No. 1470092

Anons don't have to work in a warehouse to make higher than retail money. Custodial exists, security exists. Especially in security, you can get yourself strapped and have higher pay, no degree needed, just pay for a class and you're good to go.

No. 1470126

>>1470092
>strapped
???? You can't just do that to random shoplifters nonna????

No. 1470128

>>1469897
At some point nearly everything will be automated, and that's just somethign everyone will have to expect. It doesn't mean that you shouldn't put the effort in now. Learn some life skills, get a job to teach you perseverence even if is a shitty retail one, and take some useful classes in the meantime if you don't want a degree. There are plenty of jobs that pay minimum wage. Yes it's quite difficult to get one because there are so many people looking for them, but once you do you can work your way up.

No. 1470134

>>1469793
What country do you live in? That will sway my advice. In America, you can afford a house in very small towns or the country on even a $12 per hour job if you skimp for six years and don't have any children. It sucks that it takes that much effort, but that's the truth about today's real estate market.

>>1469832
>most retail jobs dont hire people over 30.
This has never been true in my experience.

No. 1470136

Do anything because time will pass anyway. Try many things, travel, change it up, and stick to it because you will blink and be 30. Then 40. And so on.

No. 1470138

>>1470134
>What country do you live in?
argentina, so yeah most of the advices of ''just work part time at wallmart lol'' are useless to me. That's why i am putting most of my efforts into freelancing.

No. 1470144

>>1469872
shows that you dont know what you’re talking about. Theres vocational nurses being sent around the us to administer covid shots and getting paid a ridiculous amount. They also have living and travel fare paid off so no you can go to school for six months and do all this. I also live where most of the population is below poverty level and people are still able to go to school to work for jobs like that.

No. 1470151

>>1470144
i am not from the USA we have free healthcare here, nurses and doctors get treated worse than criminals and hospitals are rat-infested.

No. 1470163

>>1470138
Nta but try a career that can branch out to other places especially in english countries. I’ve had younger teachers come from other countries like guatemala and honduras and most of their families also left to the states with the help of working careers that required bilingual speakers. You can be a teacher/architect/nurse/salesperson anything really that can be placed in the us for bilingual clients. You can also try to get hired as a translator for tourism groups too. Hope you can find a good career to start off on and have a livable wage soon!

No. 1470169

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>>1470163
thank you, its a bit hard to choose because i hate all of those options, but if the situation get worse and i can't make freelancing work then i will try them. I really hate hearing about my mom/dad/other relatives and older family friends who went from hs drop-outs to owning business or becoming high ranked employees. My mom's bf's always tells me about how nowadays he wouldnt be able to go from truck driver to manager without a degree.

No. 1476415

>>1469823
>how to ruin your body 101

No. 1476423

>>1476415
I mean everyone I know who’s gone into construction is jacked on top but has toothpick legs kek

No. 1476477

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another 21 yr old here. my degree is in fashion and textiles (management, design, technology, etc.) and i’m graduating in three semesters.
i’d hate to have a long-term career in anything with that, though. i actually hate the thought of having one career my whole life- there’s so much i want to do!
fuck a long-term career, esp one that could be pulled out from under your feet at any moment bc of AI. doing one thing for too long gets boring, anyways.
it’s 2023, year of the side hustles! now, this might be naively 21-years-old of me, but i believe doors will open if you’re confident in yourself- even if it takes time.

plus, there are homeless junkies that still find a way to make enough money to buy heroin. there will /always/ be a way to support yourself.
Good luck, nonna, i hope we make it out of this

No. 2066853

I don't appreciate how being in your early 20's now is still being seen as a teenager. Nobody considers you to be grown until you're almost 30 now

No. 2066854

>>2066853
Wrong, you’re either a baby til 25 or geriatric by 18 today.

No. 2066857

>>1476415
This. My uncle just turned 50 and worked in construction and he had to get a bunch of surgeries for his knee, back and now he has constant pain from some sort of carpal tunnel thing that nobody can even diagnose properly. All of this is not worth the money at all.

No. 2066884

>A thread to discuss the modern problems of being in your early 20s
I'm curious, what do other nonas identify as being the modern problems of being in your early 20s?

For me it's definitely the gap between wages and the cost of real estate. I feel like I can never "start" life because I'm too busy scraping nickels and dimes to rent. Where I live, the average 2-bedroom home costs 750k, and most apartments have become AirBnBs or charge insane rents ($2200 on average for a 1 bedroom!) so I feel like I'm effectively locked out of the market. It wouldn't be so bad if the wages were higher, but even as a university graduate it's difficult to find meaningful work that offers benefits and a good wage. I know the economy is a bit of a meme, but I do wish I lived in an area with a more robust economy and job market. Now that I'm entering my mid-20s, I feel a little bit ashamed that I haven't progressed further in life like how I had imagined when I was first starting out.

For any older anons that stumble into this thread, what's a piece of advice that you wish someone had given you when you were in your early 20s?
Inb4 "zoomer!" yeah I am generation Z I'm sorry that I was born in the wrong generation but I can't change that.

No. 2066927

I think you should ideally use your early 20s for at least one psychedelic experience and solo travel. And working in a dead end job like as a waitress or a grocery store, just so you will always be grateful for the 9-5 office cage you'll get eventually. And to try locking in a husband(!) ASAP and not waste even a second with dumb abusive retard losers. All the best men are forever off the market by the time they turn 25, the good men by late 20s.

No. 2100953

>>2066927
this might be unpopular here but i really do not believe that choosing to use psychedelic drugs always benefits people / legitimately expands their mind and comprehension of the world. When some retard chokes down some shrooms it can quickly result in drugs and being 'psychedelic' or a crunchy instagram hippie type and not just pondering on shit

No. 2100957

>>2066927
fuck off with your marriage propaganda cocksucker

No. 2101098

>>2100957
Word.


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