I don't think this is too doomerish for the doomer comm, but this is something I need to get off my chest.

I'm a bit of a manchild, I graduated but no one wants to hire me so I have no money. I am stuck in a dead end, only a dollar above minimum wage job because that is as far as my resume will take me. Employers claim that they are desperate for work but they are as picky as ever. Hell, with the recent fed shenanigans, they WANT be broke an unemployed because shareholders and porky can never take one for the team (unlike us disposable poors).

I can't afford rent anywhere, even in the tiny hick town I grew up in with literally NOTHING to do outside my shitty job, so that rules out getting out and meeting people, I never met anyone in college and all my childhood friends have forgotten about me. Sure, I can go to a place where there are things to do, but it's a 40 minute drive to the small city....and I have no friends so that really limits things. I'd love to move into a West Coast City or NYC, but those are absurdly expensive, but it also seems like that's where everyone is that I could be compatible with. Ironic, the cities that are supposedly good havens for misfits and outcasts are the most attractive to investors and thus have the highest property values.

I know I can't give up, I want to have friends, I want to live somewhere nice and do dumb webcomic-y stuff. But I can't help but think that said life has been stolen from me by wall street to feed porky's unending hunger. I'm still going to try to leave, so for people who are in these situations, what have you done to pull yourself out and if you're a 20-something in bumfuck nowhere, how the hell do you meet friends?

  • Dingdangdog [he/him,comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Focus on something you like to do that's productive, art/writing/music/crafts of any kind. It helps you feel a bit better to produce something, even if it doesn't get you out of your financial situation.

    I'm currently in a similar boat, though not with family but an ex. I help out with rent as much as I can and we don't hate each other so it's not too terrible, but I also am looking for a way to move out.

    It seems very difficult, as my credit is fucked so getting an apartment is basically impossible. Looking into finding a roommate somewhere is basically what I'm doing atm, don't know I can't focus on it too much or I also get pretty depressed.