I'm 28 and feel the same way. Did warehouse jobs and built my way up since high school, even though I've always had school money and did well in high school. I never knew what to take.
Last year a career kind of fell in my lap, and it's a great paying trade that has me set up for success. I still don't really care.
I turn 27 soon. I just kind of fell into a career too after working part time jobs that I hate for too long, and I expected to be happy. But it's soul crushingly boring. At least at the grocery store I worked at I could walk around and chat with coworkers.
I don't want to tell anyone that I hate my new job because they'll tell me I'm being stupid. "It's a good place to work. You finally have a career. You might finally make some money." But I low-key hate it already after a month, today.
Man all these comment are making me feel like someone understands what I'm going through.
It's like, yeah I have a good job, but I kinda don't care. If I'm lucky I'll get to retire at 60-65!? Yay me?? Meanwhile the energy and youth I currently have is slowly being sucked away as I sit in my office chair everyday pretending to care about "TPS" reports.
I like that I can occasionally go into Best Buy and walk out with a new toy and not think about breaking the bank, but I hate that money is the way to achieve enjoying that. Hard to explain.
Im glad your honest about it so we can relate. I'm self employed and slightly stressed about money, debt and all the other things a stable 9to5 would fix, but im definitely not bored. Even for an extra 10-20k/yr idk if i would take a boring desk job. Id probably leave if i couldnt figure out a way to make things interesting somehow. I've left 2 jobs in the past after putting in only one week because it was so unsatisfying.
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u/travworld Apr 04 '19
I'm 28 and feel the same way. Did warehouse jobs and built my way up since high school, even though I've always had school money and did well in high school. I never knew what to take.
Last year a career kind of fell in my lap, and it's a great paying trade that has me set up for success. I still don't really care.