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I can't get exposure to any careers so I can't get a job. I can't get a job so I can't earn money. I can't earn money so I can't buy anything. I can't buy anything so I can't support myself. I can't support myself so I have to leech off my parents, and I'm getting past my mid twenties. Never made over 40k nominally.

Is this it? I'm the female equivalent of a gooner NEET, just holed up in my childhood bedroom. Why continue living? Why have children? To selfishly use them to fill that hole?

I can't get a job anymore. I'm (mostly) able bodied, can learn and do most jobs if given a chance, but eh. Got a useless CS degree a year or two ago that I'm not interested in anymore. Won't be able to enter the field. It's as useful as a basket weaving degree outside of it. Don't have the money for another foolish round of education to learn new skills.

I don't get interviews, so I don't get a job, so I'm not able to work. Haven't really had a decent job in 8 years of adulthood. Made $18/hour in 2018 and 2026 stocking shelves, before and after college. Wasn't worth it. I've been unemployed for a while.

Welfare pays less but at least it'd require no effort on my end. Nothing more I can put effort towards personally. Another degree? Rofl.

Good stuff. Comp sci degree. I quit the "job" after I paid them off. Been bedrotting for a while. Can't get a job anymore

Good stuff. Comp sci degree. I quit the job after I paid them off. Been bedrotting for a while. No job anymore

Not working. Not going outside. Not going to school. Not making any money. Wish I had anything I could do

Comp sci major. It was a mistake. I've been the female equivalent of a gooner NEET for years after college. I made $18 an hour in 2018 and $18 an hour in 2026, stocking shelves both years. Wasn't worth it.

The last time I was somewhat happy was when I was 12. I'm 26 now. It's been a downward journey for 14, 15 years.

Haven't even made above $18/hour in 8 years of adulthood, before and after college. I make $0 now.

I'm a shut in. I don't talk to anyone, I don't go anywhere, I don't really eat anything, I don't do job applications, I struggle to get the will to get up to even use the bathroom. Might as well just lie in my own piss.

I don't want to wake up anymore tbh. An eternal slumber would be nice. My childhood bedroom is becoming my tomb, my final resting place.

Comp sci degree. I was stocking shelves for a year or two for starvation wages to pay off my student loans. I quit, and haven't made any applications in half a year. I don't consider that a job, so I've just been sitting at home.

My childhood bedroom is becoming my tomb, my final resting place. Don't know what to do now. Not interested in the field anymore.

I don't have any experience to pivot with. I won't be doing another round of education, or joining the military.

Is it game over?

Shit, had to go back to shelf stocking for a couple years making the same starvation wage I made in 2018, after over 30% watered down inflation. I'm unemployed now.

Wasted four years on the degree and two years paying off the loans off of that starvation wage. Can't build experience anymore.

Won't be doing another round of that foolishness, be it another degree or trade school. I'm bedrotting now. My childhood bedroom (I never was able to move out) is becoming my tomb, my final resting place.

I'm more asleep than I am awake these days. No reason to go out, no reason to have hope. No reason to have kids. I won't force them to have to deal with our doomed society. I love them too much for that.

No decent job, no job at all. Useless degree. I wake up around noon and sleep at 4am. I lie down in bed for the majority of the day doom scrolling YouTube and I just eat cup noodles. I don't do anything else, that's all.

I don't have the energy to rage against the world anymore. Nothing more I can do to fix my life. I was making $18 an hour in 2018. No reason to go to another $18/hour like retail or fast food in 2026.

I have a few grand in cash. I'm debating burning it.

Inflation wreaks havoc on most people, like it or not. I personally made $18 an hour in 2018 and $18 an hour in 2026 after college (computer science) in the hopes I'd get a better job. All it gave me was debt, a permanent limp, and wasted time.

To adjust for inflation I'd need to be making $25 right now. Far, far more if we talk about housing cost increases. That's roughly 50k.

Repeat those 8 years one more time. 2034, and we approach $30/hour adjusted for inflation. Which is 60k. And keep in mind, inflation is heavily watered down through substitutions and pushed down by non essentials. So it's worse, in reality.

Meanwhile, 60% of jobs pay less than 60k. Jobs that keep society functional. While at the same time we call 60k "starter wages".

We are not setting the next generation up to thrive, we are not giving them a fighting chance. There's just no incentive to be having children. To be successful you have to be part of the top 10%, which already is biased towards privileged folk. No matter how hard an individual person works, this is the trend as a whole.

We're headed back to feudalism if we aren't already there.

Meanwhile, all I'm told is "get an in demand degree!!!! Bury yourself in debt for another try!!!" When I started, my degree was in demand. When I finished, not so much. The parallels are uncanny tbh. It's foolish to make that mistake a second time. All the while I'm running out of time.

I had a friend who offed herself after being unable to get a job years post grad. She had debt, she had no family, she had no shelter. She's gone now.

Entry level roles are dead, and our system proves it. This is a financial death spiral. The game is over.

There is no incentive for the next generation to let this society continue. Baby bonuses? Be real. The next generation will have zero job opportunities compared to today, and we have zero job opportunities compared to the halcyon era.

It's objectively a poor financial decision to be born these days. I'm sorry for the truth.

I don't even want to get out of bed these days. I haven't made any job applications in half a year. Genuinely, what's the point?

I've tried all I could over 8 years.

What I majored in is dead for me one way or another. I desperately tried to get a role unrelated to it for a year and a half after college, using a non-technical resume. I couldn't even get an entry banking interview for roles that paid a dollar or two more than $18 for 8 years. I couldn't get any non-tech office interviews with the same resume for roles that paid more for 4 years.

Here I thought a degree would help get a foot in the door for those, but it doesn't look like it. I tailored my resumes to showcase transferable skills I gained across my pathetic job history.

I couldn't get any traction on getting a blue collar role like a factory or basic construction job for 3 to 5 years (not here, just around the country). A degree doesn't help there, much.

I was once told I'd make more than $18 when I was 18 years old. Here I am at 26, making $0 now shortly after making $18 earlier this year.

I might've just been applying to the wrong places for these last 8 years, who knows. I have talked to temp/staffing agencies throughout the years. I got one email back after talking to 50 or so about a potential apartment touring role, I don't remember the exact details. It paid similarly but... y'know, beats stocking shelves. So I sent my resume over.

A week flew by, no reply. I call, they say they went with someone with more experience.

The job market is only getting worse and worse as time goes on. I don't know at this point. The only jobs I can "walk in" for are jobs that pay close to if not $18, like retail or fast food. Those won't be helpful anymore.

I tried my best. The job market is only getting worse and worse - we never recovered from 2008, and now we have the worst entry level market in 37 years. It's far too late.

Monopoly is finished. We trample over young people's hopes and dreams for a reason. Because it's unreasonable to let society continue.

Title.

Good stuff. Comp sci degree. I quit the job after I paid them off. Been bedrotting for a while.

I've never had a decent paying job.

$18/hour stocking shelves in 2018.

An unpaid swe internship during college.

$18/hour stocking shelves in 2026 until I quit.

In a hcol area. It's nothing tbh. Got a permanent limp from being on my feet the whole time in those stocking jobs. Ruined my body for what?

I've been bedrotting for a hot minute now. Wish there was smth I could've done.

I don't have a car. I can't fathom paying for gas these days.

I don't really have any money. I don't spend anything. I just eat cup noodles and nothing else. Sometimes raw, I don't care to get water always lol.

I can't get a decent entry role anymore. Be it inside or outside what I majored in. Won't be paying a dime for another round of schooling. That's foolish.

I don't have the energy to rage against the world anymore. I'm just a worn out, beaten down soul. I wouldn't be alive today if I wasn't leeching off my parents.

I lost a friend who finished college with me - same major - who had worse circumstances. Jobless, homeless, no family, no support, buried in student loan debt. I tried offering the help I could, but it wasn't going to be enough. She ended it earlier this year. Just a reflection of me in another timeline.

Our society has a lot of problems. They needed to have been fixed decades ago.

I recently lost a friend from college earlier this year. She was a CS major, was jobless, homeless and buried in student debt for years after college. She isn't alive anymore. I miss her.

I'm an unemployed bedrotter myself. I'd be the same under her circumstances.

I quit my job personally. I made $18/hour in 2018 and $18/hour in 2026, stocking shelves years after my computer science degree. All it gave me was a semi permanent limp and no money.

If society says they're not valuable jobs, so be it. Let it all end.

Our society isn't sustainable.

Inflation wreaks havoc on most people, like it or not. I personally made $18 an hour in 2018 and $18 an hour in 2026 after college (computer science) in the hopes I'd get a better job. All it gave me was debt, a permanent limp, and wasted time. I don't have any options to start a career now.

To adjust for inflation I'd need to be making $25 right now. Far, far more if we talk about housing cost increases. That's roughly 50k.

Repeat those 8 years one more time. 2034, and we approach $30/hour adjusted for inflation. Which is 60k. And keep in mind, inflation is heavily watered down through substitutions and pushed down by non essentials. So it's worse, in reality.

Meanwhile, 60% of jobs pay less than 60k. Jobs that keep society functional. While at the same time we call 60k "starter wages".

We are not setting the next generation up to thrive, we are not giving them a fighting chance. There's just no incentive to be having children. To be successful you have to be part of the top 10%, which already is biased towards privileged folk. No matter how hard an individual person works, this is the trend as a whole.

We're headed back to feudalism if we aren't already there.

Meanwhile, all I'm told is "get an in demand degree!!!! Bury yourself in debt for another try!!!" When I started, my degree was in demand. When I finished, not so much. The parallels are uncanny tbh. It's foolish to make that mistake a second time.

I had a friend who offed herself after being unable to get a job years post grad. She had debt, she had no family, she had no shelter. She's gone now.

Entry level roles are dead, and our system proves it. This is a financial death spiral. The game is over. Monopoly is finished.

Inflation wreaks havoc on most people, like it or not. I personally made $18 an hour in 2018 and $18 an hour in 2026 after college (computer science) in the hopes I'd get a better job. All it gave me was debt, a permanent limp, and wasted time.

To adjust for inflation I'd need to be making $25 right now. Far, far more if we talk about housing cost increases. That's roughly 50k.

Repeat those 8 years one more time. 2034, and we approach $30/hour adjusted for inflation. Which is 60k. And keep in mind, inflation is heavily watered down through substitutions and pushed down by non essentials. So it's worse, in reality.

Meanwhile, 60% of jobs pay less than 60k. Jobs that keep society functional. While at the same time we call 60k "starter wages".

We are not setting the next generation up to thrive, we are not giving them a fighting chance. There's just no incentive to be having children. To be successful you have to be part of the top 10%, which already is biased towards privileged folk. No matter how hard an individual person works, this is the trend as a whole.

We're headed back to feudalism if we aren't already there.

Meanwhile, all I'm told is "get an in demand degree!!!! Bury yourself in debt for another try!!!" When I started, my degree was in demand. When I finished, not so much. The parallels are uncanny tbh. It's foolish to make that mistake a second time.

I had a friend who offed herself after being unable to get a job years post grad. She had debt, she had no family, she had no shelter. She's gone now.

Entry level roles are dead, and our system proves it. This is a financial death spiral. The game is over. Monopoly is finished.

I mean shit, I made $18 8 years ago and I made $18 this year. Both jobs were essentially stocking shelves. Not at the same job. Already got a slight permanent limp from being on my feet at those jobs. Thank goodness I quit tbh.

Wish I had an avenue forward.

I can't support myself. I can't enjoy life. I can't even get a decent job.

I just wish I could've gotten financially ahead

I made $18/hour in 2018 and $18/hour in 2026 up until I quit. It wasn't eight straight years at the same job. Inflation was eating away at what I can do with that.

I'm unemployed now. I was leeching off my parents, and it wasn't providing useful experience so it doesn't matter.

I got a bachelor's in computer science in that time frame only to graduate into a job market where people with years, decades of experience in that skill set are unable to get interviews.

One with 5 yoe is at a coffee shop.

One with 15~ is making $13/hour at a retail store for part time hours.

One with 20+ has been Uber driving for a year now.

And so on and so forth. It's a dying field, I made a mistake there.

Their consensus when I show my resume is that I would've been fine a decade ago. Possibly even during 2008, and one of them graduated in that time period. But not today. I was born late, my bad.

I've had basically no job, no money for years now. We treat 60k as "starter wages" when it's more than what 60% of jobs pay. And people struggle to live on 60k in this economy. I never made over 40k.

I'm doing my part by quitting the job I had. When everyone quits similar jobs, the economy shuts down.

I've just been a bedrotter for a while now.

I won't, and can't be paying for school again. The workforce just doesn't want the next generation. We toy with, trample over, squeeze young people until they're dead. But before they leave we try to make sure they leave behind a new baby or two to repeat the process.

Our society doesn't have a future.

Given that, is there anything I can do?

Basically a two year gap of nothing after college. I won't be joining the military. I have essentially no job experience outside of stocking shelves, and an unpaid swe internship. I can't pay for school again, and even if I could, I wouldn't.

The person with 5 yoe I mentioned does have some savings so they tried applying to a lot of trade schools. They got denied on EVERY FRONT, due to there being too many applicants.

There's no use in any skills I can practice on my laptop in my bedroom. Another programming language? Another framework, another project? That's no use.

The only other avenue I have to gain skills in theory is through employment, which I don't have. Stocking shelves did nothing for me but give me a permanent limp from walking around all day. Most jobs that pay similarly don't give opportunities to learn skills either. Fast food, retail, delivery, etc.

The only skills I have outside computer science would be considered soft skills, which aren't enough to be considered anymore. I've never gotten any interviews in my life outside of the unpaid swe internship I mentioned.

Part of me just feels existential dread constantly about my dismal future. Holed up in my childhood bedroom doing fuck all. The other part feels nothing but apathy and just wants to do self deprecating acts that if said out loud would get me banned from reddit.

I need help. I don't know what to do.