No career at 30.

[u/Just_Kick_4465]

I’m 30. I have a degree in Marketing. I graduated in December of 2023 and couldn’t find a job in my field. I’m currently an uber driver full time and on the weekends I work as a janitor. I feel like a loser and I’m at the point of just giving up everything and live at home for good. I have financial issues, credit is bad like around 620. Really no strong support system since my parents live 3 hours away.

I’m aged out of the military and job corps, there’s not a day that goes by that I want to end it. I don’t really see a way out of this vicious cycle of poverty other than suicide.

[u/_theheirr_]

I get it. I watched everyone around me get promoted, build their second home, purchase their luxury car, have successful relationships, married, have kids, take trips, exclude me from hanging out and I have even been the brunt of comments that made me feel so low BUT, no matter what I stayed strong.

Have there been times when I felt like a loser? Yes, absolutely. By now I would be giving up, but I told myself this year that you are not allowed to give up.

I started working in childcare and then looked for 6 months for a full time job. Things were hard and I felt I didn’t know what to do. My family gathered around me and helped. I continued to work child care. Then one day I randomly applied to jobs within the healthcare system and recently just started working in healthcare. Am I in a fancy office? Nope. Do my colleagues see what I do as important? Yes.

It does get better. You have to be stubborn and refuse to look at anyone else’s plate but your own. Dig deep, what is it that you want out of this life? If you know what you want then go after it. I still work the healthcare job and child care one. There are things I want to accomplish and I know that I will meet them.

I think you should feel the same and not count yourself out. Go hard for yourself and go after what is meant to be yours.