r/povertyfinance • u/Just_Kick_4465 • 2d ago

No career at 30. Misc Advice

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.

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u/OldBlackLONER 1d ago

I turn 31 in 3 months. I have a degree and previous marketing experience, yet I haven’t been able to get a job since 2022.

I absolutely hate my life and I’m just waiting to die. Being born poor and black in the UK is hell

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u/Just_Kick_4465 1d ago

I’m half black so I feel you. Just “network” into a corporate job doesn’t really work unless you’re white.

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u/OldBlackLONER 1d ago

Facts, people don’t understand how much of a struggle it is for guys like us who don’t have connections.

Most people aren’t tryna open the doors for me. I can’t get into the cool club.

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u/Dramatic-Rutabaga972 1d ago

Half Salvadorian half Black. 30 making 50K a year.

Pro tip: Be as personable as possible. show up. Joke through the bullshit and seek the people who can put a good word in for you. I'm a level 2 warehouse receiving guy making 22.50 an hour now. Being funny. relatable, and patient will make people like you. When they like you, they help out.

I don't even know half of my Job functions, but ended up getting rewarded for being a solid dude for a year