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Story of my life. Only I'm 38, still can't find stable employment, still have some student loan debt, and am no where near forming a family or owning a home. I was doing OK...surviving...during most of this crash, but now I'm hanging by a thread hoping I won't end up living back at home with my mother. (I guess I should be grateful that's an option, otherwise I would be looking at the street.)
Oh yeah...I'm in a STEM field!
The American dream has been nothing but a nightmare for me. Everything I hoped to have when I graduated high school and then college is out of my reach. I was the kid who stayed off drugs, didn't go out much, stayed at home and studied. For what?
I can't pin my situation on any single mistake. I haven't blown money on anything stupid or lived it up. No fancy cars, vacations, etc. Just one lackluster job after another. Before someone assumes I'm bad at what I do, every job I've lost I've lost because the company was struggling and/or was outsourcing. I've never been the only one to be fired, it's always a group.
I've been so depressed as I've drifted into my late 30's that one family member and two different friends have recommended I see a doctor for anti-depressants. As if I shouldn't be depressed? I purposely stayed away from alcohol and drugs thinking I was making a better life for myself, and now I'm supposed to accept that drugs are the answer? Why didn't I just enjoy them when I was in high school?
I don't date. I don't go out. I've fallen behind on what's left of my student loans ($7k), and now they're skyrocketing up. (Funny how making a payment doesn't seem to have the same impact as missing one.) I don't know what to do next. My love of life is gone. I've literally stopped caring.
I just watched my grandmother die (96!), and I can't stand the thought that this is going to be my life until I die. Honestly, crime is starting to look like an appealing option.
I'd leave this country if I had any idea of where to go.
Sep 9, 2012, 1:18:45 PM
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