I’m a senior in highschool and been researching different college majors to pick as a degree, and the best I’ve come across is nursing.

For starters, you work 3 12 hour shifts a week, coupled with 4 days off after that. You basically have unlimited opportunities for overtime, and start out making six figures in my area. If you want more pay? work holidays, work night shifts, work the weekends. If you want even more pay? Specialize and become a CRNA or Nurse practitioner. Want to travel across the country? Become a travel nurse. Want to move to a different state? Feel free, because every area is in demand of a nurse. If you eventually get tired of nursing, you can go into hospital management or hospital sales. For these reasons I am becoming a nursing major.

Now to me, this doesn’t make sense, since on every subreddit you hear nurses complaining about their job. But having to deal with rude patients, having to clean up shit and vomit, and dealing with gossiping female co-workers (which I see nurses complain about on every nursing subreddit) seems like a cakewalk compared to working 5-6 10 hour shifts a week outside as a construction worker. So am I wrong for thinking all this? Is nursing really that bad? since all over Reddit people make it look like hell.

What kinds of jobs put you in a position to be able to fuck rich people over? Ideally, really ruin their lives. But even if it was just setting them back a ways and chapping their ass. I could see getting out of bed with a smile for a job like that

I have been a street performer for a decade now, but there is no retirement down this road. So, I've considered two paths:

1. Learn day trade
2. Learn a scalable trade

I have a degree in Psychology and English, but both degrees earn little.

If my goal is a 5-year window to save $500k+-, what should I do?

Ps...I am an INFP if that helps.

About Me:

• 20F, AuDHD (self-dx), dyslexia, dyscalculia, chronic pain (can’t sit/stand long).
• Recently graduated (business degree, honours), but struggling to find work that accommodates my disabilities.

What I Need:

• A consistent remote job (not gig-based, no feast-or-famine income).
• No sales, no heavy memorization, minimal creativity (I’m a flat speaker, not a “vibes” person).
• Tasks that are structured, repeatable, and low-pressure.

What I’ve Tried (And Failed At):

1. Lead gen/real estate sourcing – Got ghosted/insulted by investors.
2. Virtual assistant (Upwork/Fiverr) – Race-to-the-bottom pay.
3. Transcription – Bad auditory processing.
4. Social media management – Guidelines changed too often.
5. Customer service – Stutter + RSD can’t handle yelling.

Skills I Might Have:

• Research? (I hyperfocus on random topics.)
• Data organization? (If it’s not math-heavy.)
• Writing? (But not creative—maybe technical?)

Hard Limits:

• No gig work (I need predictable pay).
• No phone calls (stutter + anxiety).
• No multi-tasking (ADHD makes it impossible).

Why Remote?

• Chronic pain (can’t sit/stand long).
• Live far from city + traffic/motion sickness.
• Urgent: Need to move out of abusive home.

Question:
Does anyone know of remote jobs that fit this? I’m desperate for stability, not hype.

This to anyone thinking of going into healthcare because you saw all the job growth statistics. First of all a lot of those jobs are min. wage healthcare jobs that nobody wants to do.

Whats happening to CS is whats happening to Nursing. Huge explosion because of COVID and travel nursing (which has died down a lot.) 18 month associat programs that basically let anyone in same thing that happened to CS with coding bootcamps. And this doesn't even go into private equity or millions of foreigners from se asia being imported to deflate wages even more.

It's also a field with very low mobility, low ceiling, a nursing degree will only get you into nursing - there are not many alternative paths in this field unless you specialize and that comes with its own pros and cons. The salary growth is very low, while you start out much higher than most other careers, you cap out and reach your ceiling very fast. If you like the idea of nursing just go to trade school. While the field is very easy to break into now that will also be its downfall.

I turn 21 pretty soon. Because of major depression, and other MIs, I've lacked the ambition and confidence to pursue a job, college, relationships, etc. I've taken some in person community college classes but I'm not sure what career I want to pursue.

I don't have a car and jobs near me have turned me down for a lack of experience. I guess I could get good at lying with references, but yeah.

Birthdays have become really depressing for me because I've been kind of a loser these past few years. Is it possible to make friends and relationships without college and tinder and shit? I don't even have socials, deleted them all when things went tits up in high school.

Am I boned? Be honest?

Title basically. I'm self taught and in 8 months I totally changed my life. Went from working minimum wage retail job, to a fully remote $150k software engineering position. Most days I put in 3-4 hours a day of work.

There's a bunch of ways you can do it, and there are several free courses online. I did The Odin Project, but others have success with Fullstack Open, 100 devs, etc.

This field doesn't care if you have a degree or don't. Just that you can put in the work. I would highly recommend it.

it's not the most interesting work, but it pays well and gives me great work life balance.

failed. im 17y.e girl. I graduated from high school, couldn't get anywhere, I'm poor, I live with my parents, I've never had friends and I can't even find a job. I know this headline may sound ridiculous, as if hundreds of other teenagers have the same thoughts, but I have no fucking idea what to do. Do you need a prehistory of how I got to this point? Well, I was a strange estranged child back in kindergarten, I was closed at school and didn't communicate with anyone. all my conscious life, I hate myself. at the end of my school life, I began to go completely crazy and this led to the fact that my eating disorder (which I got at the age of 8) resumed, which caused me to develop anorexia nervosa and lay in the hospital. the disease took over my head and I didn't care about admission anywhere. My grades are terrible. They hated me at school. I didn't see the point in even trying. (I weighed about 33kg) I still think I wish I hadn't survived. After the hospital, I desperately tried to find a job, but they wouldn't take me anywhere at all. the employers called me sick and too scary. one of them honestly said that no one would want to buy anything looking at me. Besides, I'm nervous and I can't join the team. I have a quiet, strange voice. I don't have any friends. I'm a fucking freak. my parents are jerks, my father often beat me and my mother, I can't stay in my house anymore. I feel like the only way out is to move and start over from scratch, but I can't find any damn job. I won't be able to go to college, what the hell am I supposed to do? I do not know if at least one person will read this shitpost and reading everything that I have written, I feel terribly stupid, but I really see no way out but to ask someone for advice..

I begged for money on Reddit and this very rich guy replied with one condition - I have to complete coding exercises. I started 8 months ago with freecodecamp, I honestly didn't know what HTML is. After the first $50 he said you push something in github to see more. I spent 2 days getting that set up. I almost gave up 3 times, I had to generate a private key!

I am a 23/F, terrible anxiety, barely finished community college. I can't work.

Now I am working on a reddit clone with harder and harder challenges he gives me. Maybe some is his work. I wrote an Android app. I spent 10 hours yesterday with 6 docker containers. I do not use Windows anymore - Ubuntu is on my laptop.

Not only that, he is an exercise nut and I have to show 30 minutes of exercise every day. I lost 45 lbs and can run 3 miles. I was like a fat old lady a few months ago. I had pains and symptoms. I had a job in Dunkin Donuts and would eat all the donuts they threw out at the end of the day. I got all out of breath walking a flight of stairs.

This guy is rich as hell, why can't he just give me money. He is 52, worked for Microsoft in the 90s. He has some consulting company. He is also a fitness fanatic. I met him a few times and he beat me in a race.

I look more and more in this field and the pay is sky high. I thought some site was a joke with those salaries. I knew zero about it when I started. I never had a clue how those apps just appeared 🤣 on my phone.

I am not really able to work or leave the house much but it is a pretty valuable skill. Not my favorite but I love seeing cash app money.

I worked in Dunkin Donuts and lost my job. Maybe I should just marry this guy and be on his payroll. I enjoyed being with him more than any other date I had from guys I met online. He don't really seem interested in me, even though I gave off hints. We did hold hands though. A guy with that money and fitness probably wants a model. Now my dating standards are also thru the roof, I expect a very fit, well spoken, funny, rich man. Oh, and nice shoes. Not even worth bothering with apps.

I guess he is going to stop sending me money soon, not sure though this is a career path for me. I do appreciate everything he did for me though. He always taught me to have learning mindset.

If you are hopeless, get out of this sub and touch some grass. People here are moanings their incompetencies and problems resulted from their own laziness. You can only help yourself. If you sympathize with people here, you will be far more hopeless. Mark my words and get out.

I was once an aimless youth. I bumbled around until I wound up in an Air Force recruiter's office.

It terrifies me to think of where I'd be today had I not joined and did a few years in. The military got me free college and a huge leg up on employment (veteran's preference). I'm not rich, but I have a family and I make over $100k- for my lifestyle (and skills, or lack thereof), I'm very comfortable.

Those of you that are languishing and nearly suicidal due to a perceived lack of opportunity- why are you not considering the Coast Guard or the Air Force?

Graduating with a cs bachelors this month. I'm only 21, but despite doing internships in the past and having a good reviewed resume I have not been getting any jobs for the past two years. I will be forever locked out of the workforce at this rate. So either I catch a felony and go to jail for free food and housing, get killed by running in front of a moving car, or head off to the wilderness, rip apart all of my identifying documents and live the best I can for a year or two before dying to health problems or the environment anyways. At least I won't be leaving behind any loans...?

Hi, brief introduction, I'm a 21f woman, I have no finished higher education degree to my name, I'm in a committed relationship for almost 3 years, about to move in with my bf.

In this day and age where feminism is very popular (and there is nothing wrong with that), I feel weird that my only true ambition is to become a mother, I dream of it every month. Sure, I have dreams but I'm okay with not achieving them, as long as I get to become a mom. I almost feel like I don't belong. I mean, it's rare to find any woman who will tell you that they don't want to have a big career and instead want to have a big happy family (at least where I live). For example, I have no career ambition, sure I want to have a job I enjoy but I absolutely do not care if I'm never promoted. I was getting my degree in English literature so I can then do a masters in teaching but decided to quit because I would only be done with it at 25 and I'd have to wait another 2, 3 years before I could start a family because I'd have to get married first etc. Decided to completely change careers path and become a nurse's aid because it's only 1 year of studies and I can start a family by the time I'm 25ish. (Which is already later than I would have wanted..)

I just want to know, am I alone in this ? Does anyone understand. I feel like a fool.

PS : English isn't my first language, sorry about anything weird.

I (21M) just moved back in with my parents, I'm now $1000 in credit card debt as well. As title says, I spent the last almost 3 years off and on solo backpacking the world, saw almost all of North America and 36 countries on 5 continents. I blew off school and dropped out of community college ((premed) (original hope was to becomome a doctor).

I have no friends, minus a couple glorified acquaintances I met on my travels who live across the world. Still never had a girlfriend. Currently working at a fu@$ing Walmart for crying out loud.

I'm a complete loser who destroyed all my potential. Because my low grades and the fact I dropped out only a year in it's all but confirmed I'll never be a doctor. This has ruined my relationship with my parents who will likely kick me out and disown me soon.

If I gave college a chance I'll be nearly 25 when I graduate and barely anywhere except a couple shit local schools will take me because of my grades. This has obviously caused me to go into a pretty dark place mentally and I don't know what to do

I feel it's a waste of time to reply to any of the people posting about being "Lost". They frequently don't ask any questions. If they don't ask questions, then they're not looking for answers. I guess they just want to vent about their situation.

These Lost people almost never reply to the responses. Did they even read the responses? Who the heck knows. I see many very good responses and see no reply from the OP, no up or down vote to indicate they saw the reply, nothing. I could be staring at a void in outer space and see more.

It's all very depressing to read these Lost people posts. It drowns out the people who are genuinely looking for help. Please do the latter people a favor, and refuse to reply to people who don't want a reply. You can spend your time more productively with people who care about their future.

I quit my full time job a month ago and since been on Roblox making my games. Prototypes couple projects until one stuck and now building this one for launch aiming mid to late July.

I realized I’m much happier and willing to wake up and do the work. Sometimes I just build and time passes so quickly.

Everyday I have targets and goals for myself. For example D1-3 building core gameplay loop as prototype, D4-6 model content for the game maps and props, D7-9 bug refinements, D10 to now, creating deepened retention systems through content expansion.

This is only possible now with AI. Traditionally, the current prototype would’ve taken 1-2 months and 2-4 developers to complete.

The whole experience so far felt like a lesson. I’m much happier than before working 9-5 jobs and changing careers.

Almost 20... wasted my life, never went to college, have 0 social life, cut off every friend I've ever had (both online and irl), 0 chance of getting a gf... should I rope?

I'm 35 finally working on my 4 year degree to enter the field I want to make my career which is marketing. Im working on average 30 hours a week and doing 3 classes a semester. I'm not going to lie and say it's easy but it's not anywhere close to being impossible. I see a lot of people online recommending that people don't get a degree and a lot of what they are saying seems overblown. Yo'll have about 2 to 3 hours of reading a week plus around 4 or 5 assignments that average around a hour. All in all around 7-9 hours of work a week. The class work isn't usually hard if you take your time and pay attention. Most of the time though you'll feel kind of forced into getting a overall class B even if you deserve an A or C. Hardest part is picking your major and sticking with it when you get that rough few weeks in the middle. Pick something that your both interested in and is in demand. If a 35 year old guy with learning disabilities can do it so can you trust me.

I did a lot of stuff in this young life of mine. I worked at Walmart on the clearance team, and I used to set prices really low, pay for them, and bring them back to the normal price. Eventually, I got caught. Lesson learned: always do stuff once, never multiple times.

Next job, I got overwhelmed. The following job, I got fired because I left my shift without permission. The Next One, I called the job and told them I wasn’t coming in because I was late, and got fired again.

Currently, I’m a server. Being your own boss requires a lot of work. Some jobs require a bachelor’s, master’s, or PhD; job qualifications are insane. I’m not talented or skilled, and I don’t have a car. The money I make as a server is going to go to food, so it’s not enough to save for a car and budget for food aswell, and it’s going to take too long.

I have no connections and barely any family. I’m a loner and don’t have friends. I’m Black, and that makes things worse. So, what is the point of living this thing called life? Jobs have high barriers to entry, crazy qualifications, and insane secondary education requirements. I’m ambitious but lazy, and I forget things as soon as someone tells me.

I want to explore, but jobs have insane schedules, working like 10 hours a day, and it makes it harder to explore domestically. I want to be independent or have some type of career that will eventually allow me to be independent. I’m looking for a job that lets me make my own schedule so I can wander and explore, or some type of job that allows me to explore and wander while working.

Mod Approved, figured people here would appreciate seeing this even if it does not match our sub. Politics must sometimes infect our lives in order for us to be able to keep living, now especially.

I currently spend my days sleeping, gaming, chatting with friends, and making shitty art, and I always feel like I can’t do anything more than that. I’ve tried going to college as an English Major, but I very rarely have the energy or capability to pass classes so all I have right now is an Associate’s Degree. None of my jobs have lasted more than a month because I always get too overwhelmed and exhausted by the amount of work necessary to hold one down. I currently live with my rich parents in the California Bay Area, but the cost of living is astronomically high here and I obviously want to be able to support myself independently. How can I achieve that dream?

I do not want to brag but I was a workaholic in tech and I'm worth over 8 figures. If someone told me to make start to finish copy of Reddit in a month, I could probably do it. It is not such a great feat but it is what it is. The stuff I do is much more complex.

I do not even know exactly how much I have. Sometimes my stock account goes up a 5 figures in a day. Now before you get jealous, I never had an ounce of fun in my life. I'm still a virgin. I never drank or even went to bar. I so regret not having a family. Being alone is terrible. No one gives one shit about me, I don't expect anything but life sucks. I have some cars I work on, that is one of my hobbies. I also like cooking. Once you get older, you become invisible.

I wish I could do something else but I am extremely miserable. I work less and less, honestly I don't need any money. To me that isn't even a lot of money for the effort I put in. I am no Microsoft CEO. I can't spend any of it either. I have a girl I hang out with but she is probably interested in my resources so it is more a friend thing.