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If I'm unemployed and dropped out from college due to stress and burnout (still ongoing, compounded by a psychologically-unsafe living environment), and would h

If I'm unemployed and dropped out from college due to stress and burnout (still ongoing, compounded by a psychologically-unsafe living environment), and would have to fill out hundreds of job applications to find a job, and doing so is unmanageable and beyond my capabilities, is it easier to not find a job and stop trying to stay alive?

Traubenfuchs 4y ago
Stopping trying to stay alive sounds pretty neat unless you really enjoy life, but you have to keep in mind that you can only succeed with that once. I‘d recommend trying to lobotomize yourself with a few psychopharmaca prescribed by a psychiatrist first. What‘s the worst that could happen? You probably haven‘t tried everything yet and you can always try to stop trying to stay alive at a later point. You should probably call your countries crisis hotline. You can ask google how to commit suicide to get the number.
manimino 4y ago
It's not really that binary, though - job or death. There's an awful lot of space in between the two. There's this conveyer-belt view of life: we are supposed to go directly from birth to school to job to kids to bigger job to death. Some people really do live that. Most people don't. But we're expected to fit that mold, so anyone who's stepped off the belt will usually keep quiet about it. So it's easy to start believing that the only valid life is some linear path. Still. Unemployment is stress and uncertainty. But bad job markets aren't forever. Good luck with finding a job, or managing to enjoy the interim. Nyanpasu.
- granshaw 4y ago
  Amen to that. It’s profoundly sad actually when you step back to think about it. Most of mankind slaving away 40+ hours in the prime of their life, missing their kids first years, not having much time or energy to do or think about anything else, etc etc

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If I'm unemployed and dropped out from college due to stress and burnout (still ongoing, compounded by a psychologically-unsafe living environment), and would h

by nyanpasu64 4y ago

Traubenfuchs 4y ago
Stopping trying to stay alive sounds pretty neat unless you really enjoy life, but you have to keep in mind that you can only succeed with that once. I‘d recommend trying to lobotomize yourself with a few psychopharmaca prescribed by a psychiatrist first. What‘s the worst that could happen? You probably haven‘t tried everything yet and you can always try to stop trying to stay alive at a later point. You should probably call your countries crisis hotline. You can ask google how to commit suicide to get the number.
manimino 4y ago
It's not really that binary, though - job or death. There's an awful lot of space in between the two. There's this conveyer-belt view of life: we are supposed to go directly from birth to school to job to kids to bigger job to death. Some people really do live that. Most people don't. But we're expected to fit that mold, so anyone who's stepped off the belt will usually keep quiet about it. So it's easy to start believing that the only valid life is some linear path. Still. Unemployment is stress and uncertainty. But bad job markets aren't forever. Good luck with finding a job, or managing to enjoy the interim. Nyanpasu.
- granshaw 4y ago
  Amen to that. It’s profoundly sad actually when you step back to think about it. Most of mankind slaving away 40+ hours in the prime of their life, missing their kids first years, not having much time or energy to do or think about anything else, etc etc