im 31. i did a business degree that i found absolutely worthless, then went to japan to teach english before covid happened. since covid i flew back home and genuinely have been in a death spiral of unemployment or working minimum wage jobs which are all i could find. i live in australia now and make $900 aud per week as a receptionist. i am so used to being poor that i can survive spending $200 on rent, and $100 on food. $150 on other random expenses. I am saving nearly $450 a week, but that will only add up to $25,000ish in a year. And actually it took me 1.5 years of working part time then full time here to accumulate $10k from work alone. (this is all AUD). Basically i am extremely discouraged seeing folk who have worked since 18-21 having 6-figures plus in their retirement funds, already have a house and mortgage paying it off etc. I am stuck in endless dead end jobs, i was fired from a decent office job . I have a girlfriend of 3.5 years and honestly i just want a house, with her, friends, a dog and a cat, and then start earning over $100k a year and be able to have kids before she becomes unfertile. it feels like a race against the clock. I honestly have about 3-5 years MAX to make twice as much money or more a year and im unsure if i'll make it. I've accepted i will have to work a lot but honestly i struggle even just working 40 hours a week. i am currently just applying to jobs anything that will make me more money but i feel quite hopeless and find it hard to apply having to write a custom letter each time and tweak stuff. sometimes i just want to outright lie but i cant even think of a fake company and experience that would be believable.
>>34496276Good luck on all the career progression stuff, OP. I also recommend using AI to write the cover letters, no one reads them anyway.Generally, relax and stop comparing yourself to super successful people. Most people your age are poor. Yeah, sone have houses and six figures, but most are poor and unsuccessful. Just focus on you. Also, you don't have to wait to get rich to have kids, children are a delight. They'll strain the finances, but they are worth every cent. I'm going to go watch mine sleep, I love them so much
>>34496276>be able to have kids before she becomes unfertile.>honestly i struggle even just working 40 hours a week.how are you planning on raising kids if you can't do full time? the politest even tempered kids are an extra 40 hour a week job just by themselves first thing you need to do is stop thinking about things that are obviously incompatible with the way you can deal with life. right now you're the 300lb guy talking about doing the marathon in a few months after a few weekends of training. you need to work towards things you have the capacity for and can succeed at attaining to stop spiralling
