LilZebra wrote:
I moved out when I was 22 1/2 in 1989. The previous year I took a Data Entry course and got a few weeks job experience with Air Canada.
Well, after 1990 there was the Recession of the 1990s that didn't clear up until about 1998 because of the "dot com boom".
I spent most of the 90s doing volunteer work at the computer club and things like that, learning HTML and built a public transit info website.
The economy is worse than it was 20 years ago. Locally, several private companies are laying off shrinking the size of their workforce, claiming "automation".
That, and immigration from the Third World makes it hard if not impossible, especially if you're a White Male...to find ANY decent work.
It's gonna get to the point where office clerical jobs will be so automated that no one will work except computers processing everything.
I wouldn't be so hard on yourself. As long as you have your physical health then I'd just take it easy, figure yourself out. Your parents of course will disagree. Your parents are what, Gen X or Baby Boomers? If Boomers, then they had it easier than kids of today. They cannot relate to younger people.
Sorry, I didn't see this until now. I think my parents are Gen X, though I'm a little confused as to where the line is date-wise. But they do understand that I'm trying, and my dad occasionally will interview potential employees for his workplace, so he knows what struggles I face there - which is why my parents aren't outright furious with me for not getting a job yet or on my case to try harder. They're just subtly irritated with me an increasing proportion of the time. But I'm 24 years old - they were probably expecting me to be out of the house a year or two ago at least. Can't say I really blame them for being a bit annoyed that I'm not, even if it isn't my fault.
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Yet in my new wildness and freedom I almost welcome the bitterness of alienage. For although nepenthe has calmed me, I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.
-H. P. Lovecraft, "The Outsider"
14 Sep 2017, 5:13 pm
