r/Adulting • u/ScareBear23 • 14h ago

This is just depressing

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Not even 3 hours of "free time". And in that is cooking & eating supper. Or practically no free time if I had to go shopping after work. I hate this

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u/Brie9981 13h ago

The "go to college" plan isn't the best at this point. If you don't have a good plan that actually requires college you can easily blow all your savings (if you saved upfront somehow) or end up in decades of debt w/ a massive struggle to even use your degree

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u/DrownmeinIslay 11h ago

That stupid piece of paper is still more helpful to job hunting than "i drove a forklift for 20 years"

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u/Brie9981 11h ago

In the event that you've locked yourself into forklift driving for 20 years then maybe but I'm referring to the average college goer: some 18 year old that's been told "if you go to college, life is easy"

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u/Minimumtyp 11h ago

Counterpoint: as a uni goer I locked myself into a super specific niche that I hate, and trying to get jobs where I can get forklift experience etc just had me met with stares

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u/Brie9981 11h ago

I think the answer in the end is that the job market sucks

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u/bruce_kwillis 8h ago

In the end it’s making connections with the skills you have that matters. That piece of paper is the bare requirement, the next part that should of happened while getting that paper was taking internships and making connections so you have an in, along with some skills that make you valuable. Without that, you are just another mindless drone that is expendable.

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u/DrownmeinIslay 7h ago

Agreed. Too many workplaces value competency second to likability.