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  • My son is currently in the same boat, he’s gone to check out (talk to counselors , look for housing, and jobs) and will be transferring his school in the spring for his final year, and has a job lined up at the beginning of the year (with housing) until classes start. He’s back home until then helping out in our place.

    On another note, the anxiety and stress about the existential dread of working until you die is going to be there and my only advice is my experience in breaking up my short term goals- I only have to survive X years here doing this and then go to college, then another X years there , then X year in each position until I reached a “sustainable” place/salary with a partner and kids at this point to be witnesses to my (many failures) shenanigans.

    I say X years because sometimes it was years, sometimes months. For example I signed up for 4 years in the Air Force, but that was broken down into 2 months basic, 2 months training school, 2 years overseas base, 1.5 years US base with a 8 month temporary duty overseas again…each part was shitty, but less shitty than the time before and in some interesting places.

    I guess what I’m trying to TLDR is that if you break up your early life I to smaller achievable goals it will help you get to where you can have a life.

    Now housing and pay is another story that, man…good fucking luck and know you have most (some?) of us Gen Xrs cheering you on.








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    1 month ago

    I’m sorry you misunderstood my point of view as an American who has emigrated out of the US (lived overseas in various places throughout my career but have finally been able to land in one spot to call home).

    I have, however, lived in some very large international cities which skew perspective because they have shops open 24/7.

    The town we live in all the large markets are open on Sunday in the summer, but that’s out of necessity because we go from about 65k residents to 350k. They are open shorter hours, but man it’s busy.


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    1 month ago

    I live in a country like this and believe me, it’s refreshing. Yes it’s an inconvenience some times, but the alternative is 24/7 hell: once the expectation is that you can get anything you want, whenever you want then you start to compromise the lives of everyone because someone has to work those shifts, and if companies have to man those shifts they damn well will make profit-which is usually at the cost of staff pay. And then when you’re in line at 2am getting peanut butter and packing foam you realize the Karen in front of you yelling at the cashier because they don’t have chocolate croissants, is a product of this cycle.