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It's actually been a pretty shitty and frustrating week. Me and my sister (only family member I'm really close to) have both been dealing with our parents acting fucking toxic as hell. She's unemployed, despite having an engineering degree from a pretty good school. I'm underemployed, trying to go back to school but I'm worried now the thing I'm trying to study isn't going to be as safe as a bet as I thought and I'm debating if I want to waste another 2-3 years on another dud degree. We're both in our early 30s and struggling to have stable lives, which sucks cuz she really wants to start a family with her BF and I really want more freedom and autonomy to travel. Both of us currently kinda live with our parents, well more specifically we both rent properties our parents own that they only live in occasionally but we usually have to ourselves. They're renting to us at a slight lose, but they act like this is a massive act of charity despite the fact they could never get a regular tenant who'd be chill with them crashing in the guest room every other weekend. Both of us are greeting pretty doomer about our job prospects, I'm fed up with the service industry and think I'd legit rather go crust punk than keep doing this, but I'm a little old for train hopping now. My sister is a bit bougier than me so she's struggling with the prospect of going back to being a barista after a decade of (barely) middle class income.
I'm very tired and fed up and honestly it's been making me cranky and I've been lashing out at people which I don't like.
I'm sorry comrade. Hoping things look up soon. Been out of work for 4 months myself, so you aren't alone