I'm working a remote IT analyst job making £50,000/y (which I think is great for an average bong without a degree), and I have £100,000 in savings and investments (because I live with my parents and own nothing).>My problemI'm nearly 29 and my life is incredibly boring, never found love and worried I'm at risk of missing out on having children with a woman of child bearing age. I was going to buy a house but I realised the only things I can afford are just really crap, and I'm losing interest in that whole idea, and maybe I should use my money to do something else. >What I wantI think I've played life too safe, and I want to take more risks and expose myself to more randomness that might be able to solve my unsatisfied desires. I think I've got good opportunities, but not sure where to start. I don't want to throw away what I've already done for myself, I just want to take a different path from here.>My questionWhat would you do if you were me? Extra background:>Wasted 18-22 by being a retarded and badly misguided hermit. >Finally got a good career path at 22>Covid lockdown and restrictions stole age 23 and 24 from me>25 I have a good job and I'm free. Life finally begins.>Gained some very powerful soft skills, and can perform in social settings like I used to never be able to. >Very comfortable doing things alone and meeting new people. >Not an autistic terminally online hermit anymore. (He claims on his cantonese basket weaving forum blogpost).
>>34069308>I'm working a remote IT analyst job making £50,000/y (which I think is great for an average bong without a degree)I'm 39 and homeless in the USA. How the fuck do I achieve this job of yours?
>>34069565When I was 22 I managed to land an apprenticeship (government subsidised on-job training scheme) at a large telecom company in the IT department. It was 2 years long, and when I finished it was during the reopening economy, and the job market was really good, and I managed to get an offer from a company that deals directly with the one I was working for, and they liked my experience and enthusiasm.I heavily leveraged my youth and enthusiasm to make up for my shortcoming in academic qualification and combined it with my short experience at a big name company and I turned the questioning onto the interviewers by asking them how they could help me develop my own skills. I worked out this is the best strategy for a young person lacking experience, not to pretend to be a know-it-all. I know your position is a lot different, but you probably just need to be honest about your strengths and weaknesses, and try to frame it in the best way you can. Play the cards you were dealt.
>>34069943I guess it takes years of experience to get remote work huh
>>34071387I had none when I got my apprenticeship, which became remote after about 3 months because of covid, and after 2 years I got my current job.
>>34069308Honestly, I'm in pretty much the same position (years wasted partially from my own failure and partially from lockdowns). My plan is to buy land (houses are expensive but land is cheap where I live for some reason) and build a house from cheap materials. I know it could backfire massively if I'm a retard and can't build for shit, but I'm an American so my pioneer ancestors did it so why can't I?So basically I'm bumping in case anyone has a less retarded idea for me to do.
