I’m a final year student about to enter the job market, and my family’s well-being weighs heavily on me. While I appreciate everything my parents have done for me, their pressure to find a job immediately is causing a lot of stress.
Looking back, my academic performance wasn’t ideal due to personal struggles in high school. Now, many companies have strict eligibility criteria, making things even more challenging. Although I managed to do well in college and 12th grade, it feels like it’s not enough.
Hearing talks about being a burden to the family breaks my heart. I want to contribute and find a good job, but the pressure and current job market situation are making it overwhelming. My mother is expressing her own anger but I cant take up anything what other say ………………….. Because no one in this world feels happy about my presence . Might be my parents will be happy but now a days it also feels bad and being a burden to them .
I am helplesss ……
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I hate that you’re completing a milestone and instead it’s mired in anxiety. You have your whole life to feel miserable about your career….. Seriously finishing school is worth something.
That “burden” line is also a load. I mean, if you can contribute, that’s great. It’s just… were you a burden while you were in school? Probably not. What changed? Building a career takes time, job searches take time. So this time now, not that different from when you were in school, you’re still learning and growing.
and there’s always telling them to screw it. I know, I was the good kid too, went to work at 17. Now, 19 years later I wonder if I was right to do that. Because for all my hard work, I took a lot of pain and unpleasantness along the way. I didn’t get many thanks or much repayment for the work.
So they keep pushing you, you have the option to say no. I only say so because it seems like some people think that isn’t an option, but it is. Blah blah social contract, the social contract is dead. My parents generation killed it with unions, pensions and the concept of retirement.
You get a job because you want to work, no other reason. Not out of guilt, because you don’t owe the world jack. The current generation is handing you the worst economic AND ecological climate in recorded history for regular people. You probably owe them a punch in the nose.
That’s another thing is what are you working towards, because the job you start today might not be there in a few years. So, plan accordingly, I am, and everyone I know still working is.
This has been the speech I wish someone had given me 20 years ago.
“… were you a burden while you were in school? Probably not. What changed? ”
in fairness, world wide inflation changed. And although the US got it under control better than most, corporations are gouging customers in all markets by pretending that inflation is the reason for higher grocery, fuel and rent/housing prices but in reality, the corporations just kept prices high even when costs and inflation subsided because through the inflation they learned consumers would pay the higher prices.
Now those corporations are reaping massive record profits on the backs of consumers who are at the breaking point after all the hell and chicanery of the last few years
Stuff like this always reminds me of the immortal words of Joe Pesci as Leo Getz:
“They fuck you at the drive-thru”
Good words by HLV
I’ll add, as a different generation person … there’s no requirement to find the job you studied for right away, in fact, it looks good on a resume if you can show continuous work history. find anything that pays a decent wage and teaches you something new – preferably something that also interests you.
Good luck
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