Basically, I drank my way through my 20’s being terminally underemployed, housing insecure & I had a few abusive relationships along the way. I went to college (comp sci) wayyyy to early, lost a friend to suicide & basically flunked out bc I couldn’t get out of bed. I did a semester of community college after that but then decided school wasn’t for me. Then I did a bunch of retail jobs & somewhere along the line I found that food service was much more exciting & made a lot more money. I fell into the food service to alcohol abuse pipeline & shit didn’t go too well from there. Now here I am, back with my parents & nearly all my stuff is in a storage unit. They’re willing to house me indefinitely, rent-free, as long as I find a job within the month & I go to school (which I’ve now decided that I want to do). I can either go back to community college then a state school (my preference) or trade school & get my career going in about 18 months. Thing is, EVERYWHERE I look online everyone is saying (1) the job market sucks, (2) every job is either hard to get or hard to keep & (3) the only way to make enough to live is to never grow up. How do I figure out what to do & where to do it?
Wasted 10 years of my life, now I get to restart at 28 with no direction
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If you now have a good head on your shoulders, dont listen to other redditors about no jobs and such. Continue working and grinding thru school and work until you get somewhere. Remember, your parents are doing you a huge favour right now. Dont squander it and make them proud of you.
Just go to trade school and learn to be a welder.
MaximumEmpty6868 had good advice. Welding is a good trade to go into, and there are several subsets. My father was more a structural welder, while my brother and son worked in the oil and gas fields. The pay is good, as well.