Sick of life!

D-A-V-E

Im getting very sick of my life as it is at the moment, im 21, live at home (live close to college), absolutely broke as i cant get a job, have been looking every day since christmas, and if i was to get one it would be very hard to keep as iv college 5 days a week 9-5..sick of it at this stage..starting to see everything else just continue on in life while im here stuck in a rut, not able to enjoy myself anymore..anyone else in this position? sorry for the depressing post!

peepeep

You're not stuck in a rut, you're gaining an invaluable third-level education. It's not like you're on the dole with no career prospects. Stop feeling so sorry for yourself!

TheZohanS

Moved to PI as per OP's request.

peanuthead

Hey

I felt the exact same as you a couple of years ago.

Don't feel that living at home with your parents is a bad thing - it's actually a good thing.

I lived out of home and it was worse. Not only was the rent crippling me, but I lived with friends, who were not going to college.

One Friday (cause my friend always got a half day on a friday) my friend came home from the shops after getting paid and had bags and bags of new clothes. She did a fashion show for me and by the end of it I was inches from tears.

I had no money, I had no clothes, and I couldn't even go out with her that night, not only because of the clothes and money but because I had assignments too.

It was awful. But somehow I stuck with it, even though I wanted to drop out and get an job - and thats when there were jobs. You will be just as broke out of college at the moment.

But fast forward 5 years (to last year cause I'm actually in college again and feeling the same way you are AGAIN) I was qualified, in a steady job, getting good money, and she was still in the same place, not getting her half days anymore due to cutbacks, still doing the shopping and nights out, but please, instead I was going on city breaks. And I had JOB SECURITY.

STAY IN COLLEGE!!!!

You will not regret it. I know how you feel - believe me I'm feeling it now too. But I don't get down because I know that in the long run I'm doing the right thing.

thatsa spicy

I'd imagine for a very large proportion of the country's population, this is one of the worst years of their lives.
Looking at things objectively, your situation really isn't bad at all!

Your getting a third-level education.
You live close to the college.
You're not sitting at home unemployed with feck all prospects.
You're not struggling to keep your job so that you can keep up repayments on a negative-equity mortgage.
You're only 21!

So you can't get a job. Seriously man I'm 20 and I can't get one either, nor can any of my mates!! I'm in college too. If you want a job to have money to go out or to spend on discretionary things like that, then I'm afraid you may just have to learn to do without them or only spend money on them sparingly. I havn't wen't out since starting back at college because I'm on a tight budget.

The best thing you can do is to think of the next few years as a hardening-up exercise for life. Our generation has had it far far too easy for as long as we can remember. Not directing this at you in particular, but we have to get used to making do with less.

The doors of oppurtunity still lie open for you, which is a lot more than can be said for a lot of other peole at this present time!

Sorry if anything there bites, but just trying to give you some perspective