Parents want me to get a job

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I would not be so depressed if i had atleast a highschool diploma, well it isnt called that in switzerland, but something similar. Why? Necause i have no chance to find skilled employment.

Let's do a re-cap. This is a list of excuses you have posted for not having a job, sorted alphabetically.

I agree with hurtloam: baby steps. You cite having no high school degree (or the Swiss equivalent) as a roadblock, understandably so. Here in the US, one might work toward a GED, (General Educational Development). I imagine that can be done online?

It’s easy to feel overwhelmed. I do remember the fear I felt in young adulthood. To say I was inadequately prepared would be a gross understatement.

One book that has helped me, even in my advanced state of decrepitude , is: The Loving Push: How Parents & Professionals Can Help Spectrum Kids Become Successful Adults by Temple Grandin, Ph.D. & Debra Moore Ph.D. True, it’s geared toward others helping us, but if we wait for that to happen, we’ll probably die of old age.

They could kick me out, but that would make me homeless. I dont think they really want that. I dont know if there is something aimilar to a GED in switzerland.

There are "adult education" opportunities in Switzerland.

What sort of "track" were you on in Switzerland?

We have that here in the United States. One can go to a (usually) community college, and pick up "certificates" for such things as x-ray technician and substance-abuse counselor.

When I was 16 there was a bag boy at the market who I would occasionally watch push the carts in. I estimate that he was about my age. I envisioned he would work there for a while and move on with his life after he finished high school. I moved to a different part of town next to a cheaper supermarket so I stopped frequenting that supermarket, however once in a while I would have a need to go there, and I would see him working the checkstand.

Eventually I moved away and then returned ten years later. 20 years had passed by this time...he was still there. Only he was no longer a bag boy or a cashier but at this point, he was the store manager, had married and started a family.

Im just gonna be honest, i hate work. There is nothing more than i hate. Especially if the work is low paid, or even umpaid. Maybe im really lazy, but i just dont see how work, especially low skilled work benefkts me.

We've been over this.

No one likes work.

We do it to make money. It's how the world works. If we don't work we don't get money, we don't get food or clothes or shelter.

You start in a low paid low skilled job. Everyone does. It's boring. Everyone finds it boring.

Through your low paid job you gain experience. You prove that you are responsible and reliable. You get references and move on to another employer. You may get paid more in the next job. You gain more experience and so on.

Having your own income that you worked for is pretty good. You feel like you earned it, because you did.

Thats why i find non existing favorable. Yes i would rather die, than live. Because life simply sucks.