you have some of my exact same experiences that it's uncanny. It's unreal that capitalism creates these same situations for people isolated from one another. I have multiple degrees but I don't think it matters much because I failed to "network" in school, as in I failed to become friends with some rich guy's son who can get me a job through nepotism. I have a job now I'm trying to hang onto, but it's rapidly becoming clear everyone here except me got there through family connections or sheer random chance.

The only viable career path I have right now is ask to become management and I abjectly refuse. I'm not going command people nor do I want to be in charge of hiring/firing. The other option is do what every else here does, work for a few years, save up money, and get into real estate. Flipping houses or being a landlord. I'm not doing that either.

It doesn't help that I hate the work. Half of my job simply involves filling the atmosphere with more CO2 and I go home feeling guilty about it every day. I don't know what else to say other than death to America and death to capitalism.