Cornered
2022- made $200K reluctantly selling dream home at peak of COVID
2023- quit 6 figure job out of years of safety concerns and frustrations with management/coworkers
2024- decided to try day trading, gave myself 3 years to learn
35M I have 6 months left before 'reviewing' whether I should continue learning, which I probably shouldn't. Something isn't clicking and it's not the type of work one can get help with. I occasionally look for jobs in case I discontinue trading, and I'm totally screwed. There is nothing out there for me.
I have 10 years in a niche job that has no transferable skills, a useless college diploma, and nothing else. I've put an inhuman effort into trading, and all it amounts to is a suspicious and hard-to-explain gap on my resume.
I don't have an ego, but I'm not working in a factory for minimum wage. I've gone to school 3 times in the past and it didn't work out. Going back a fourth time to compete with kids half my age, especially with the cost of living, just doesn't seem feasible.
All I truly want is a relationship, a home, and a sustainable job (one where I don't wake up hating life and living on the poverty line). I am so far away from having this life. I pine for those things and it's agonizing. People have been doing it for thousands years and this idiot just can't seem to figure it out. I've seriously backed myself into a corner.