Idk, I just work, go home, sleep, work again. I'm more financially stable than most people my age working for minimum wage, having been able to save by living with my parents, and that gives me motivation to get up and keep doing this every day.

But, I guess it's still not enough in the long term, for one thing.

For another, that's all that I do. I feel so easily distracted otherwise and just live to move from day off to day off, never having the focus to organize something to improve the other aspects of my life. I've not really achieved a lot of the career goals I had for myself nearly a decade ago. And that makes me feel especially like I'm failing at performing whatever male gender roles that society expects of me, which I feel in turn, will be a malus towards whatever prospects at sociability that I might have.

I'm approaching 30 and I hardly have no consistent friends or significant other. I keep reflecting on this and wonder if my social ineptitude will compound on me like my parents and result in me being either completely lonely like them or in a crappy relationship. I try making friends outside of here but, the most annoying thing about it is that I seem to often find myself the one who has to consistently initiate conversations, leading me to take hits to my rather low self-esteem. I'm just not worth bothering with as a person. The same can be said for dating in some respects. I just want to find people who I can geek out and joke about history and gaming stuff.

I'm approaching the new year, feeling disorganized and listless, discouraged by whatever past failures I've gotten out of trying to make plans to better myself that fall through.

  • Sulvor [he/him, undecided]M
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    10 days ago

    Considering most people are stuck at work 40hrs/wk, having a fulfilling job can have a major impact on the rest of your mood and motivation. Even the same work for a different company can make a big difference depending on workplace culture, coworkers, your boss, compensation, etc.

    If you have a college degree, you can definitely find something above minimum wage. Idk what kind of work you do but maybe think about applying for some stuff you’re interested in but maybe only semi-qualify for.

    I hate that my advice for what sounds a bit like depressive apathy is get a new job but that’s the world we live in.

    • Red_Sunshine_Over_Florida [he/him]
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      10 days ago

      I don't like my job because it involves taking care of aging people who are in the process of exiting this world, and while I work I know from what we discuss on this site that we don't really have a future where w we'll live with the same level of prosperity as they did (certainly not one with the same availability of nursing homes as we have now). I feel like I'm a boilerman on a sinking ship being told to keep the boilers going no matter what to keep the lotus-eater machine running for the aging post-war generation.