Today, after working for over ten years at a dead-end factory line, I told my friends I was going to take some business courses and land myself a real job. All they've done since is laugh, mock me, and say that if Clinton couldn't fix the economy, I have no chance. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, while struggling to find a job that will accommodate my disabilities, an acquaintance ranted at me about how nobody wants to work hard, and they have to earn what they get. This chucklefuck works for his father, will inherit a multi-million dollar business, and bought his house from his aunt. FML
Today, I'm in a US college. I could've gone into a trade or internship, but no one listened. Now, while my parents brag to their friends that their child has a degree, I'll probably be spending the rest of life in crippling debt, sleeping on the side of the road, and begging strangers for table scraps. FML
Today, I am jobless after graduation. Ironic, since when I started college with my education degree, I was congratulated, told of the teacher shortage in my state, and how quickly I would be able to find a job. Three years in, the economy tanks, and the state issues a teacher hiring freeze. FML
Today, I found out that my friend makes more money than I do. She's a high school dropout and working at a retail job at the mall. I went to college for four years to get my job. FML
Today, as I rung up a customer's groceries, he gave me a pitying look and said I'd have a "real job" if I'd only studied harder. FML
Today, after spending last year putting in hard work, which paid off and I got my dream job, due to my own mismanagement of stress my dream job is gone and life is back at square one. Now everyone's predictions of me being a waste of space are true and I have to reinvent my life. Starting over at 38 after already starting over at 36. I can't anymore. FML
Today, I got offered an interview for a great job. My father then spent the entire dinner telling me how pointless it was, and how I should apply to the factory next door because I would spend all the extra money on gas. FML
Today, my husband told his parents that he was quitting his job so that he could focus on school. They asked him what he was going to do for money. When I told them that I'd be the one working, they took one look at me and burst into laughter. FML
Today, after several long years, a lot of debt, and two great degrees from a top university, I had to move back in with my parents, because no matter where I look, I can't find a job. FML
Today, my dad called me a "worthless human being", and told me that I'm "better off committing crimes and living life in a prison cell", all because I haven't gotten into the industry I studied for right out of college. I'm currently at a temp job doing accounting. FML
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Top comments
coltsrock37 15
Except that when Clinton was president, the economy was at one of it's best points in the nation's history.
may651 14
Poor Op. I would be a better friend than them. YOU CAN DO IT!!
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Comments (126)
21jason 9
The pursuit of happiness.. This part of my life is called happiness
21jason 9
Or being an idiot
Xx_Dakota_xX 1
Sorry OP but real friends don't dis each others dreams I hope u do land ur career and prove their ass wrong
iiNommBaconz 0
Tell them to remember this day when you drive off on your solid gold moped, while they still only have rusty bicycles.
mynameispickle 0
Aww im sorry:( you shouldn't give up!!
lissalove17 8
I feel like OP is one of those people that constantly talks about going back to school and bettering their life, but then never actually acts on those plans. That's the only way that it would make sense to me for his/her friends to laugh about it.
THE_A_TEEN 28
I get the feeling that you assumed too much about someone you don't know.
celicagirl 5
take that as your motivation to prove them wrong :)
FaraPjJammaz 13
Dont Mind them. All they want is to bring you down and tied to this dead end job. They don't want you to do better because they want you to be the same as THEM; working the same dead-end job til the end of time. If you feel like you can better yourself, do it. Don't mind the negativity, yo! Use it as motivation.
raysfan6006 3
Clinton did fix the economy
bananagrams 9
.....and then there was Bush
Steve95401 49
OP has a "real Job" already. A college degree doesn't guarantee anything anymore.
FYLDeep 26
It might not get you in the party, but it will at least open the front door.
hateevryone 15
you need friends that will support you.