I don't have any good advice for you. My company held an all-hands call today during which the CEO said "Now that the election is behind us we can look forward to political stability", among other equally insane things. You could say I'm feeling pretty down about the whole situation as well.
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lots of denial, nicotine, and THC
not a fix but will definitely smooth some of the rough edges out a tiny bit
if all else fails my grandfather says to run in circles screaming and shouting
Yeah I've got absolutely nothing for ya. Nothing works, you'll never get ahead and it's worse now than when I was your age.
I feel ya brother. I’m 41 and wondering why the hell im even saving for retirement. I’ll be dead before I’ll ever be able to
Brother you need some help. The rate of decay is slow and steady and almost imperceptible to a normal lifetime. Finding a job may actually help. Now’s your chance to get in where you fit in. Love games? Get a job at local games store. Like animals? Go apply at a zoo. Find people that you can relate to. Good luck man. You can do it.
It is a scam, in the end it is pointless to try, but you gotta eat, clothe yourself, and it's warmer indoors, which all necessitate to generate income._
If you're still young and not too much in debt, try to work some fun jobs, like outdoor educator, youth hostels, ski mountain, or whatever floats your boat. Travel around. You don't have to try to make it in the world right away
OP said that they are disabled.
You can still travel and work a lot of cool jobs depending on the disability. In fact there is a website called cooljobs that helps you find jobs at national parks doing things like working in the gift shop
You got me, kid. I had a stroke at 42 after busting my ass forever, and it's been the best thing to happen to me yet.
Basically just enjoy everything outside of work, politics, and religion. Family, friends, and yourself are the most important things in life.
Try to find a job you enjoy from 9-5. That means focusing on activities you enjoy that are the main activity of said job. I worked in a pet store because it afforded me 30% of my time playing with puppies, even though the remaining 70% was cleaning puppy shit and stocking goods. I now work as a therapist because I spend 70% of my time talking to people about their problems (which I enjoy), and 30% doing paperwork and correspondence. Make your job something you enjoy most of them time and it gets much easier. Then, you retire and collect Social Security. As long as you’ve worked for most of your life, that’ll be a decent retirement. You’ll have to live frugally, but it’ll be livable.
Also, if you can manage it, invest $10,000 as early as you can in a stock market index fund and pay for a fund manager. By the time you retire, that will provide you with a substantial cushion to rest on.
I had a friend who was absolutely determined to never work for anyone else, and so he taught himself how to make wire-wrap jewellery to sell. It's far from an easy thing to do, as he was incredibly motivated and spent most of his time working on it, but if you really do want to, there are ways that a person can support themselves through their own direct actions.
And yes, I second others that suggest you really should spend less time on social media.
america is a capitalist country, or so i read and heard. money should be the motivator here.
and i also see your point. the general trend of money is to move upward. your fighting chance is to get the money to stay longer in your hands for you to benefit before it gets sucked up.
all i can say here is don't stay too much on the bigger things. more likely, you will not have control for any of those. focus on the smaller things you can change on the dailies.
In the end, it comes down to "what do you want?"
Recognize nobody is going to just hand it to you. So whatever it is that you want, you have to work for it.
Stick a photo on your monitor if you have to. My desktop is a photo of my house to remind me of the mortgage payment.
Right but I think the feeling is that there are people who it's just being handed to and they spend all of their time making sure I'll work increasingly harder to get what I want and likely do that until I'm near death.
To generalize the answer a bit, if for no other goal, than make the goal to move to a country that better aligns with your beliefs and that you feel rewards you properly for your work. Make incremental steps to achieving that (what exactly the list looks like depends upon the person's current state and where they want to go) and make marking each one off a goal and motivation.
Move to a really poor country and meet real people there. Your life will get better, inevitably.