Look it's one thing to be on benefits when your folks are alive but one day we'll all be on our own. What then? How do you plan to deal with it?
Feeling lonely. No career. Dad is sick, had a few mental breakdowns and no one to talk to. Got so lonely I started emailing feedback to random companies so someone writes back to me. "Dear Colgate toothpaste I love product X"...then wait for a response.
Every now and again I boot up emerald and it gives me that sense of adventure. It's the first one I played and to me it's just - it never gets old. Maybe one day I'll be 70 and boot it up in the retirement home for good old times sake.
Don't like tax, ledgers etc. Too late to change majors. What other doors does the degree open? I'm thinking payroll but maybe other stuff I didn't even think to consider. Would love to hear some suggestions.
28, I quit a trade apprenticeship that suited me to start this degree and I just cannot engage at all. Repeat failures in the same units. I've been at this a year and a half and will be 8/12 through best case scenario at the end of the semester.
Things like CAPM, Beta, reconciliations, this is completely beyond me.
28, mature age doing accounting. Quit an apprenticeship to go to uni and never got over it. year and half in and best case i'll have completed 8/24 units at the end of this semester. I failed ACCT1007 last semester, on track to fail again this semester. Failed ECON2002 last semester, failing again this semester (It's FINC2003 now).
I'm on the spectrum and the logistics of uni are the big issue. Each semester just finding out which units to enrol in makes me have a breakdown and takes hours. I spend hours trying to figure out what to do and I basically need chatgpt for everything. It's too complicated. I don't even like what I'm studying.
I don't know.
Failed my HSC and couldn’t get into uni after high school, did nothing for a while before working a few different factory jobs. Lived at home and never moved out.
In late 2023 I lucked into a toolmaking apprenticeship with a local company. Total fluke. 15-minute commute, it’s a niche trade and by sheer coincidence my dad had worked for them as a cabinet maker a few decades earlier. They hired me on the spot. Lost money (almost 20k) a few weeks after starting when PLS shares I’d been holding tanked. I turned down a perfect rental close to work early during the apprenticeship when I was ambivalent about the job. I was never offered another one despite applying for multiple properties every weekend after that. The final clincher was losing 10k betting on Joe Biden to win the presidency. Stupid in hindsight but I was stuck living at home with my parents in a cramped house and the stress was killing me. Paper thin walls, no privacy. Four people in a very small three-bedroom house. Mum didn’t even have her own room. Was desperate to save enough for a deposit and get out.
I went back and forth on it and ended up quitting 9 months into the apprenticeship with one week’s notice. Told everyone I was starting at Uni the following Monday to study IT. My team were shocked, some people tried to talk me out of it. I was completely burnt out at the time and just wanted the pressure to drop. The big issue was housing. Couldn’t get over turning down that rental, was constantly stressed at home, tried to make a risky bet to get out faster and it blew up in my face and I lost months of earnings.
I regretted quitting immediately. I’d been accepted into uni but hadn’t enrolled in any units. Spent two weeks pretending to go to work, either going to the park, going to the movies, shopping centre. I did finally enrol and went to some classes but I was too far behind and dropped out. Ended up having a bit of a breakdown and went to a hotel for a few days. That’s when my parents realised I’d quit.
Spent 8 months doing nothing before starting an accounting degree in March last year. Have not been able to get into it at all, think about the apprenticeship constantly and I’m failing units. Only 6/24 through the degree and I’ve already given up on it. See no career at the end and do not want to do accounting work. I tried applying for apprentice positions in toolmaking/fitting last year and had a few interviews but no offers. I think that door is closed.
I just feel completely exhausted. Almost 30, no qualifications. I see myself bombing out of the degree, getting stuck doing process work or machine operator jobs at 30-35 dollars an hour and never breaking through that ceiling. It’s a sad future. Never making enough to move out and live independently, either being stuck share housing or living at home.
My dad has been very sick recently and as awful as it is to say, it’s come as a bit of a relief. Housing has always been the big problem and if he passes away, all pressure to move out evaporates. Odds are I never do it at all.
The whole thing’s just a complete mess and I don’t know what to do. I see myself bombing out of the degree, getting some local factory job making 60-70k a year, dad dies, mum retires (she’s 66 this year) and I end up staying in that house and never moving out. Just life never really starting but nothing falling apart either.
I don't know.