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Feel lost

  • 18-09-2009 1:43pm
    #1
    LegacyUser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭


    I imagine I'm not the only one feeling this way at the moment but its starting to really get to me, am 28, male, have no college education, did attend college for a few months back in 2000 but left the course as it wasnt what I wanted to do.

    Got into a retail job and have stayed in retail/customer care ever since, problem is now that I've gotten to the stage where I'm sick to death of dealing with the public in one form or another, its just soul destroying. I have interests mainly films and video games so would love to get involved in doing something in that field but courses down here are slim. My gf has finished a year long course and is going to full time college with the intent of getting a career later on, shes younger than me though at 23, now she assumes her life will just fall nicely into place once a degree is gotten but she's in for a shock if that doesnt work out, a few friends of mine have great degrees and diplomas and are working in fields that dont relate to what they studied in the slightest and arent happy either.

    so I'm torn, do I stay in a secure (well as secure as one can get these days) job and do something part time? or just work my way up a ladder I dont particularly want to be on. If I'm honest with myself I need a kick in the arse to get things going, even writing this is helping really, is anyone else feeling like this? without getting too melodramatic it feels like people my age are almost a lost generation, our parents settled down and had kids long before they hit late 20s but everything these days has become so career orientated that we should feel if we dont have...whatever it is we're meant to have by the time you hit 30 you're a failure


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  • #2
    Oh The Humanity
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,324 ✭✭✭Oh The Humanity


    I think you are somewhat right about your generation being a bit of a lost generation.

    I think the fault lies partly with the ideas given down to your generation by well meaning parents, they encouraged the expectation that when you grow up you would find a meaningful career that would nourish your mind and you would enjoy.

    So thats unrealistic pie in the sky, there are only a finite amount of interesting jobs out there. Not enough for all the people lining up thinking they deserve them.

    In reality work is a means to an end. We work to live not the other way around. Accept that work is not going to be fulfilling and stimulating.

    You need to get away from working with the public. That is what is grinding you down. You only have a certain shelf life working with the public before you crack.

    If you can get away from that role into something less stressful that would take care of the feeling of despair about work. Then get doing a course after work to fulfill your mind.


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