bondgirl007
03-23-2006, 12:48 AM
Hi everyone. I am so happy to have found this website. After reading some of the posts I am already starting to feel better about life. I seriously almost started crying reading some of them because I have felt so alone and hopeless lately and it is a relief to know I'm not the only one out there who is struggling right now with all of this.
Just a quick summary I guess - I have graduated with a degree in political science and am now suffering from of huge expectation hangover. I guess I thought for sure I'd walk out of my last final and into some great and successful career. Boy was I wrong. After all of the time, effort and money, I feel I have nothing to show for it. So now I find myself living with my parents against my will because I cannot afford to move out and my sanity cannot afford roommates.
I currently have the dead-end of all dead-end jobs where I am at the bottom of the food chain and make, well, not very much. I pretty much have no social life, no love life, no friends (they all have gone off and apparently done something with their lives like get married or whatever - that's known as having arrived around here - I'm considered an old maid cause I'm 23 and haven't married yet - anywhoo...), and I feel like the clock is ticking and I have already wasted so much time and blown any chance at having a successful life.
I come from a incredibly religious family and well, lets just say my parents would rather see me serisously injured than stray from the flock. This is the source of much conflict and grief between us. The comments never end! But religion is a whole other can to open up and it's bursting at the seams.
So anyway, thanks for letting my vent about and share my current situation. I guess I could have real problems like most people in this world but this whole quarter-life crisis thing has really taken its toll on me.
I wish you all the best in dealing with this and I look forward to talking to you about all of the problems we are going through.
You guys are awesome!
The first thing was, I learned to forgive myself. Then I said, "go ahead and do whatever you want, it's okay by me!" - Jack Handy
Just a quick summary I guess - I have graduated with a degree in political science and am now suffering from of huge expectation hangover. I guess I thought for sure I'd walk out of my last final and into some great and successful career. Boy was I wrong. After all of the time, effort and money, I feel I have nothing to show for it. So now I find myself living with my parents against my will because I cannot afford to move out and my sanity cannot afford roommates.
I currently have the dead-end of all dead-end jobs where I am at the bottom of the food chain and make, well, not very much. I pretty much have no social life, no love life, no friends (they all have gone off and apparently done something with their lives like get married or whatever - that's known as having arrived around here - I'm considered an old maid cause I'm 23 and haven't married yet - anywhoo...), and I feel like the clock is ticking and I have already wasted so much time and blown any chance at having a successful life.
I come from a incredibly religious family and well, lets just say my parents would rather see me serisously injured than stray from the flock. This is the source of much conflict and grief between us. The comments never end! But religion is a whole other can to open up and it's bursting at the seams.
So anyway, thanks for letting my vent about and share my current situation. I guess I could have real problems like most people in this world but this whole quarter-life crisis thing has really taken its toll on me.
I wish you all the best in dealing with this and I look forward to talking to you about all of the problems we are going through.
You guys are awesome!
The first thing was, I learned to forgive myself. Then I said, "go ahead and do whatever you want, it's okay by me!" - Jack Handy