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  • DragonBallZinn [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    15·
    2 days ago

    Ventpost? Ventpost.

    I’m feeling totally worthless.

    No matter how many jobs I apply to I can’t ever land a single one, and I haven’t even started an actual career I’ve just been in freefall since I graduated college because the best I can get is seasonal, minimum wage jobs.

    I’m a humanities guy in a world where humanities is completely irrelevant and literally everyone and their mother knows libraries more than I ever will. Every employer only wants STEM, every other gen Z has the spark of STEM except for me.

    I have to waste my life bedrotting because no one wants to hire me and I’m stuck watching social media on how everyone is having so much fun without me.

    I have no idea what I even want to do with my life and never did. Nothing appeals to me at all, so any job I’ll hate and any hobby I will inevitably get bored of. I’m not like normal people who can just be obsessed with their jobs and their hobbies and do literally nothing else and then just die.

    I don’t know how much of it is autism, but why is everything so equally appealing and unappealing at the same time? Like at the end of the day, I just want to be happy, have a job that lets me express myself, some friends, a partner, and a hobby. But I’m not even allowed to even have one of those things.

    • roux [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netMEnglish
      5·
      1 day ago

      If it’s any consolation, the STEM job market is brutal too. I graduated 8 years ago and it took me almost 7 years to land a programming job that I was fired from a year later. The whole market is trash. At this point, imo college was a huge waste of time and money.

      I don’t know how much of it is autism, but why is everything so equally appealing and unappealing at the same time?

      You probably got the ASD + depression combo. I feel this a lot.