Bluespace wrote:I read this thread and feel bad because I live in a tiny town where my options range from retail work to fast food. And not even big retail. Literally petrol station or tescos.
Ye ye ye nah nah nah. That's no excuse to feel that you're not achieving anything with life.
Here's a shout: Instead of thinking that you're too high and mighty to work in a "tescos or a pub or a petrol station" how about you go there and you work and then you save money and then after you have some money saved up you move from whatever town you live in to a place with more career options.
There is very little excuse to say that "I don't have any money to move out because the only jobs I can get is a mininum wage (which I may add is like £7.20) job stacking shelves." You think moving towns is difficult and unattainable? Bruh I had to fucking move to a different country and I still managed it. I worked shitty jobs, my last job was literal fucking warehouse grunt work. You ever walked stupid amount of miles in steel toed boots? It's only bad for the first few weeks.
What you're doing is averting and procrastinating about your lack of options. You do have options, it's just those options are going to fucking HURT. There's no easy path in life unless you were born into a billionaire family. I get it, it's easy to complain and whinge, it's much harder to actually get up at 6 in the morning to get dressed in some shitty supermarkets uniform so you can do monotomous work whilst having a fake smile and in a constant fake "Always happy to help!". But that's life, and it's life for a lot of people. You have the ability to work that job for a little while and then move out and find better and more rewarding work. The people that have worked in that tescos or sainsburys for literal decades are not so lucky.
It's the same shit with college grads. Getting a BSc does not guarantee you shit nowadays. Heck, getting a masters doesn't and neither does getting a phD. They're all
entry requirements, hard work and dedication gets you the job you want. I'm not under any illusion that as soon as I finish my phD that I'm going to get instantly accepted by a institute to do their research. The shit I'm researching, just like 99.9% of other projects, literally have zero real world application. The only people who are going to read it is my tutor and my auditor. Otherwise it's going to the theses pile in the library never to see the fucking light of day again. I just hope that I manage to get into an interview and actually show them how much I care for the work and how hard I'll work for it. That's what matters. Your education and degrees opens the door to the office, but that's it. It's not a fucking keycard to employment, it's a facilitator.
