Having a midlife crisis at 26, feel like I m fucked, options?

[Anonymous No.53919880]

I need to rant, I feel like im lost and hopeless. I always thought I'd be somewhere better at 26, I got my degree in communications and never got a "career" yet. I met a girl and moved out of my parents but we argue often and idk if it was worth it or if I love her. I've been ghosted and rejected so many times from jobs more times than I can count. My options feel like they are dwindling and I feel incapable, I work on my resume every day and still cant past second or first phase interviews.

Idk what im doing anymore, I moved out thinking I'd make it if I left my parents, except I only have one wfh job that pays "enough". Im so desperate I will do anything, what options do I have to improve my life in one year? I have one year before my lease is up with my gf who I moved out with due to convenience. My whole plan has been to get a better job.

what should I do ? certs? military officer? crpyto? Anything please help

[Anonymous No.53919890]

you make me feel better about being a 26 year old who dropped out college doing communications degree

[Anonymous No.53919897]

>>53919880
its called a quarter life crisis. I had it at your age. it gets better, seriously.

evaluate your interests, and pick something to put your time into. you have to start deciding. analysis paralysis is your enemy

[Anonymous No.53919903]

>>53919880
idk if this is really the place you'll receive valuable advice, but sincerely i hope you eventually find your peace and happiness brother

[Anonymous No.53919907]

>>53919880
yk the way I look at at, at your age most aspiring professionals are still in med/law school etc or just starting out their first internships. I mean sure, there are the super sharp kids who are already working, but for the most part, even those who are on top of their shit are still just getting their life together. I'd say 30 is a good round number where you should at least have your shit relatively together. So you've got 4 years to just learn a skill and get the fuck to it. That's 1,460 days. You're telling me you can't learn to code or weld or whatever the fuck in that time? Just sit your ass down, and crack a book. If you're set on your gay meme career then go back and get a masters . Just keep climbing that ladder and don't ever stop, bitch. You got this shit.

[Anonymous No.53919937]

>>53919880
>got my degree in communications and
I mean, the deck was stacked against you from the start, it is kind of like karma tho (pick easy courses, get shit/no pay). There is a reason only women do communication degree, because they can expect get together with a guy who has a worthwhile carrier and pay for their lifestyle.

If i were you i would go for either an IT cert (something something admin, networking, whatever) its braindead easy and can land you a okay job.
If you want to be sure to not fuck it up, just go for military. I mean its not the best carrier, but it is a carrier.

GL

[Anonymous No.53919938]

>>53919907
Thanks anon, I genuinely love your advice. Rare to get it straight like that.

This will sound pathetic, but I dont care about what i do, the fact is nobody will hire me, I've attempted to master interviewing and learned shit on youtube anywhere I can, i mention that shit in my interviews all the time, nobody seems impressed. I would happily become someones personal bitch if they hired me to do it and master it, I guess what Im saying is I need to know what is an industry I can break into with some monk like discipline, I need a way out of my rut, because right now nobody gives a shit about my current +6 customer facing experience or degree

[Anonymous No.53919939]

>>53919880
I ran away from my first job after I finished my bachelor, getting NEETbux and learning to be a programmer now. Join the brogrammer bros (if you're interested in it)

[Anonymous No.53919957]

>>53919937
I undestand Communications is next to sociology and basket weaving degrees, but I do see it in somoe job postings or even for the ones that ask for ANY degree at all. Should suicide be an option if I can't get my shit together by 30?

[Anonymous No.53920176]

>>53919938
>>53919957
I believe many globohomo corps don't want white men as their otward faces. Just look at advertising.

Seriously try car sales. They only care about your numbers and the numbers depends on your actual communication skills.

[Anonymous No.53921356]

>>53919880
>26
>I got my degree
wtf are you doing with yourself
join the air force and save the world before it's too late

[Anonymous No.53921424]

>>53919880
>degree in communications
kek, thanks for playing
no refunds

[Anonymous No.53921595]

>>53919880
>you can always complete CFA, get finance jobs, and print money. Just saying

[Anonymous No.53921733]

>>53919880
You work communications but haven’t figured out how to use AI to juice up your capabilities? Ngmi

[Anonymous No.53921858]

I am 28 years old and I never even kissed a girl

[Anonymous No.53922496]

>>53919880
I got fired at 27 and started over with nothing, making $11.50 an hour, working part-time. Spent the next 4 years working my way up. At age 30, had 11k in credit card debt. By 34 have all my debt paid, a job that pays a 90k salary, and 35k saved.

I could be doing better if I never got fired, but if you don’t give up, you’ll find a way out of the darkness.

[Anonymous No.53922551]

You literally cannot have a midlife crisis in your fucking 20's you spastic fucking zoomers, wait till your my age at 35 then you can start flipping out about having no time left.

[Anonymous No.53922655]

>>53919880
>> girl
look. love isn't all that special its more about picking a suitable partner that you can work towards your goals and dreams with. infatuation (feelings of love) will fade in every relationship, it can be soon it can be late but those inital feelings will always go. if the girl is good and she doesn't give you any drama then its a good partner. if she makes your life harder then she is a bad partner. decide for yourself. but if its a drama relationship just leave. if you aren't going to make a baby then technically you don't even need a girlfriend.

>> job
the job market and economy is hard right now. I sent out 100 mails and phone calls to prospect at local companies here in western europe and I only got 3 interviews and 1 accept for a non skill factory job that only runs a few days a week. 1 or 3, sometimes no days. I'm ok with that cause i got a big bitcoin stack. but yeah. 5 years ago when I was looking for work I sent 10 mails, went on 4 interviews and got a good paying full time job fast. like in a few weeks. now its different. don't worry about this it's not about you its about employers they don't want to hire anymore. also A.I can do most office bulsshit jobs out there so whiy should they hire exactly? I have a Bachlor I.T and Mechanic and electric degree and still its tough out there. haven't found anything decent. have been searching since 1 january. thats 3 months. I also have a little job working for Dash DAO luckely.

[Anonymous No.53922679]

>>53922551
There’s nothing to say he won’t die in his 40s. Tons of people do.

[Anonymous No.53922707]

>>53922679
Not really, I've got a lympolipertative disease that will kill be by 42, chances of getting this? less than 0.001 and only effects men.
99.9% of you will make it to 70 now get the fuck off this board and go live your life.
Midlife crisis holy shit just cause you heard a word doesn't mean it applies to you.

[Anonymous No.53922744]

>>53919938
>>53919937
it's cope advice. I was making 120k when I was 26 lol

You're already 4-6 years behind your peers in your career

[Anonymous No.53922909]

>>53921356
Are you AF?

[Anonymous No.53923102]

>>53919880
>TFW 25 and this story is way too similar to mine

Reading this you have an apartment, a gf, and a job, you beat me on 2/3, so whats the deal faggot?

[Anonymous No.53923130]

>>53923102
Read between the lines. Some people are hardwired to be unhappy. It's fate.
And this website acts as a sort of concentrated microcosm for those people to mingle.

[Anonymous No.53923184]

>>53919880
>we argue often
Ditch the girl, learn some new skills. Speaking from experience, being in a shitty relationship will hold you back, more than you realise.

[Anonymous No.53923209]

>>53919880
>gf
get the fuck out normie

[Anonymous No.53923233]

>>53919880
What do you argue about? Money?

[Anonymous No.53924135]

>>53922744
My friend was making 120k per year at 23 , you are 4-6 years behind your peers lol

[Anonymous No.53924196]

>>53919880
Whatcha Andrew Tate hustlers university

[Anonymous No.53924232]

When people talk about getting jobs and careers it all sounds so surreal to me. The only time in my life I kinda passed a job interview was in 2007.

[Anonymous No.53925990]

>>53919957
>Should suicide be an option if I can't get my shit together by 30?

Suicide should NEVER be an option because that is what globohomo is deliberately trying to push you towards. Defy them and keep living.

Since you have a communications degree I suggest that you try and get a job at a local TV or radio station. You will probably have to do something lame like operating a TV camera or a soundboard for a while but once you get the job and have your foot in the door as part of the "team" then you can gradually work up from there.

>t. One of my buds has a job at a local small town TV station operating a camera during sportsball games and my uncle has worked in the editing room there literally since the 80's.

[Anonymous No.53926059]

>>53919957
>Should suicide be an option if I can't get my shit together by 30?
It's always an option, but why are you asking someone else whether you should do it? It's not mandatory or anything.

[Anonymous No.53926156]

>>53924196
How is Hustler U. Doing now that Professor Tate has been incarcerated?

[Anonymous No.53926157]

>>53919880
Why did you study communications? Serious question. And what sorts of jobs have you been applying to? You left that part out.
DESU you should probably go back to school for a more marketable degree. You could have gone to the business school and gotten a meme degree like marketing that would have been more employable than communications, ffs. Another option would be to self-teach computer programming and to try and land a SWE job when the market picks back up again, but you might not have the technical acumen to make it.
Whatever you do you need to lose the desperation. It's possible that your interviews have failed because you outwardly appear low value, personality-wise or professionally.

[Anonymous No.53926223]

>>53926157
To expand on this, if you feel you can hack the self-taught SWE route, I unironically think a niche area like blockchain dev could work out well for you. Yeah, you'll have to work some shitty startups and be paid in scamtokens, but the risk/reward would probably be much better than whatever communications job you could get, short of jumping straight into a management position somewhere.

[Anonymous No.53926229]

>>53919880
didnt read but you have a depression, eat some magic mushrooms (in a good setting) and thank me later

[Anonymous No.53926251]

All the advice in these threads are si fucking gay
If you're not a complete normalfag from the get go forget making it it never even began

[Anonymous No.53926275]

>>53919880
>>53919890
>communications
kek I almost fell for this meme too
I dropped out for a semester then got a IT degree, still a meme but it's worked for me
OP, unironically lrn2code. Get your OSCP cert (people go from nothing to cert in 3-6 months) and you will have a 6 figure job waiting.

[Anonymous No.53926277]

I am 26 years old with a meaningless office job I hate, I am tired all the time and never sleep well anymore, can't muster the energy to even cook food for myself most days, and I have never kissed a girl.

[Anonymous No.53926288]

>>53919880
I am 26 too and have an econ degree, I am a neet. I don't delude myself, I know it's basically over. Only hope we have is crypto.

[Anonymous No.53926324]

A communications degree is for women and guys who are well connected enough they don't need to worry about learning an actual employable skill. You have a gf, job and your own place though so not really sure what you're so torn up about. Might be deeper issues. If money is the problem maybe learn 2 code or try a trade.

[Anonymous No.53926356]

>>53926324
I'd add sales is an option too. There are a lot of shitty WFH cold calling jobs that just require any bachelors degree, and if you happen to have a knack for it can do fairly well and move up

[Anonymous No.53926440]

>>53926251
basically this. If you are not a normalfag you will never have a "career" in this economy. And this also applies to the "learn to code" meme. We are too late for everything. People underestimate how bad everything is and how worse it will become. We are only a few years away from inflation raping us all. You can call me a schizo or whatever but you'll see. The only way to make it if you are not a normal fag at this point is crypto.

[Anonymous No.53926454]

>>53924135
Why are you letting him of easy? At 14 you either have made your money, or never will

[Anonymous No.53927016]

I just thought of a really good suicide option.

You buy a really long metal rod. And then when it thunderstorms, go outside and hold the metal rod to the sky.
Lightening is faster than light, so you will die before you even know what happened.
OR..
you will have super powers

[Anonymous No.53927074]

>>53926275
>Get your OSCP cert...and you will have a 6 figure job waiting.

is this legit? even without relevant experience?

[Anonymous No.53927545]

>>53919880
just get a job

[Anonymous No.53928235]

>>53919880
Learn to code.

[Anonymous No.53929498]

>>53919880
>i moved out thinking id make it if i left my parents
american moment

[Anonymous No.53929806]

OP get your CDL and drive trucks. I have a useless degree in Asian studies with a minor in Japanese because I was a huge weeb in college. I taught English abroad for a couple of years but came back home and couldn't find any good jobs. So I got my CDL and now I make 90k a year.

[Anonymous No.53929818]

>>53919880
Im 40 and I feel and look better than I did at 26. You aint close to mid-life yet. Still a kid.

[Anonymous No.53929825]

>>53929806
Do this if you want a fucked up back and a myriad of health problems from sitting too much

[Anonymous No.53929934]

>>53919939
How are you learning?

[Anonymous No.53929943]

>>53919880
If it makes you feel better, I was also dumb enough to get a communications degree.

[Anonymous No.53929957]

>>53919880
https://youtu.be/mwoX_UotKGo

[Anonymous No.53929969]

there is no problem, you’re doing fine. Just a bit of a bitch and worrying like a hormonal teenager

[Anonymous No.53929982]

>>53919880
If you’re arguing constantly with your gf, leave. More fish in the sea.

[Anonymous No.53930093]

From a guy who learned to code, don't learn to code. Unless you really enjoy it and you're interested in it. It's easy to write code now, and I've picked up several more languages after learning the first one, but it's hard as hell to learn, very frustrating. I know a lot of people who went to bootcamps and tried self study, most washed out and the one who did land a dev job hated it and left after a couple months and doesn't code at all any more. I only still do it because I love doing it, wanted to learn since I was a kid. But junior level devs is oversaturated, there's a strong demand for programmers, but no one will hire you without solid experience.

There's a ton of other IT fields that you can make as much, or nearly as much, with a certificate. Most IT jobs you can do without coding, or with minimal ability, and you can learn coding on the side if you decide to do it later. Best field right now is cybersecurity, they are hiring people with just a Coursera class and poaching helpdesk workers, anyone who wants to do it is basically a shoo in, get the Security+ cert or similar. Networking and DevOps are also good, those would vary but would probably require some PowerShell or Python and more study, but typically a lot less knowledge required than making software.

[Anonymous No.53930124]

>>53919880
quarter life crisis mate. you get four of them.

[Anonymous No.53930266]

I've had mid life crisis at 14, 22, and now 26. When do they end?
>>53930093
Might drop out of grad school and do that or data analysis. Any cyber sec courses you'd recommend? Or any on coursera would do?

[Anonymous No.53930333]

>>53919880
I'm 36 and exactly at the same spot. Could be a lot worse, and alone.
Not sure how to turn this around any more.

[Anonymous No.53930373]

>>53919938
why don’t you try becoming a buyer for a tech company? you don’t really need much technical skill, just enough to roughly understand what you’re supposed to talk to suppliers about. or inventory management or something. administrative work in tech is not glorious and your peers will make you feel like a moron, but you still get a lot of the benefits and maybe stock if you pick a growing company

[Anonymous No.53930453]

>>53923130
>microcosm
I don’t think you know what that word means

[Anonymous No.53930493]

>>53919880
It’s a quarter life crisis and it’s caused by financial insecurity and societal upheaval.
You are basically staring down the barrel of working for the next 60 years and potentially having nothing to show for it
You’ll get over it and learn to ride the tiger

[Anonymous No.53930584]

>>53919880
I was in your position anon so I bought shib when it had a $50k marketcap

Maybe you should do the same

[Anonymous No.53930759]

>>53919880
i can help you with your resume.

[Anonymous No.53930843]

>>53930493
what if he is sent to the Ukraine meatgrinder? how long can he expect to live?

[Anonymous No.53931384]

>>53919937
>>53919938
>>53919957
SALES, SALES, and fucking SALES anon! What the fuck man?!
>degree that’s supposed you make you good at talking to others without any sperg issue
>customer facing experience
Nigga apply to inside sales at a corporation, it will change your life. Will start out ‘low’ for sales, but I guarantee it’ll be 2x any customer service bullshit depending on which Corp
>UPS/FDX good starting point
>CORPORATION faggot, no mom and pop bullshit

[Anonymous No.53931455]

>>53927074
Not the same anon, but OSCP is quite a valuable cert. I'm in IT and have thought about getting into cybersecurity in the past and that was one of the certs I would go for.

It's valuable as it is relatively challenging though, it's essentially focused on real world penetration testing skills and all the auxiliary knowledge associated with that. If I recall correctly the final exam is a 24 hour period where you're connected to a network with a number of machines that have vulnerabilities and you have to try break into them as much as possible, then following that (after the 24 hour window) you write up a report. Which I think is time limited as well. So based on that you can probably understand why it's considered so valuable.

>>53930093
Also what this guy mentions, particularly -
>Best field right now is cybersecurity, they are hiring people with just a Coursera class and poaching helpdesk workers, anyone who wants to do it is basically a shoo in, get the Security+ cert or similar.
If you have no IT background at all I wouldn't go for OSCP initially, probably try get security+ (and networking+) first. Then you could try OSCP or if it's still too much I believe CEH -
https://www.eccouncil.org/train-certify/certified-ethical-hacker-ceh/
Is easier than OSCP and could be a decent bridge.

>>53930266
CompTIA certs are entry level IT certs. For cybersecurity Security+ (and networking+ is useful), CEH as above and OSCP. Ordered from least to most difficult.

[Anonymous No.53931589]

Just wanted to say as another 26yo in pretty much the same situation as you I appreciate you making the post. The solidarity from the responses help a lot, that’s why I still come to this site.

[Anonymous No.53931667]

>>53919880
Maybe use the time to figure out what is meaningful to you and what you are good at. Do you want to be self-employed or not? Do you want to work 9-5, or a different rhythm?

Sometimes you have to zoom out a little and think about what you want out of life in general, not just your job. Probably better to keep it a little longer and try things on the side.

[Anonymous No.53932638]

>>53919880
Two paths I recommend are Data Analyst or IT.
Both are good choices. I'm bias for the IT route, but my younger brother who's your age likes that data analyst route better
For data analyst
>get microsoft tools suite certification
>get Google data analyst certification for free
>get Tableu data analyst certification (idk if it's free but I hear Tableu is a popular tool for data analysts)
Start applying for positions that are entry level data analyst roles and data visualization roles. Maybe look specifically for insurance companies, banks, and advertising agencies. That's a nice start. Just checked and the pay seems to vary. If you have an alumni association at your school or a jobs center there, they could get you connections that will get you in. Don't sleep on the job center at your uni. There ability to get you into *relevant* entry level work there might surprise you. They might even have some guidance for you.

Next is what I wrote in another thread. You can go the system admin route with the MCSA certification or the network admin route with the CCNA
>get certification for MCSA
Then get a helpdesk job, maybe a junior system admin job if there's an opening. Within a year of working helpdesk you should get a system admin job tho. You should be able to get this certification in like a month. It's not a hard one and you can probably get it done in like a week.
next.
>get CCNA certification
Get a network admin job, or a NOC job (network operations center).
>get certification for Security+ certification
This last one will get you a comfy high paying job for sure within two years. You can easily get a SOC position (security operations center job). They always want people to over see security.
From what I've heard, system admin jobs are very comfy. Check it out.
You can just buy a course on Udemy for like $20 when they go on sale (which is every single week). Just look at the reviews and make sure the teacher suits your style of learning.
Jesus bless ya lad

[Anonymous No.53932664]

>>53931455
>OSCP is quite a valuable cert
I had a ton of fun studying for it, but never actually took it.
>If you have no IT background at all I wouldn't go for OSCP initially, probably try get security+ (and networking+) first. Then you could try OSCP or if it's still too much I believe CEH -
Agreed. OSCP is not for someone absolutely new. Network+ or CCNA would be the way to go.

By the way OP, Network+ is easier than the CCNA I mention in this post here (>>53932638)
>>53930266
>data analysis
maybe that's what my brother calls it instead of data analyst. Idk, it's late.
You can make it OP. I believe in you.
Even if you have to get a helpdesk job as you work on your Network+ or Security+ certification, it will give you a foot in the door to a comfy safe career. System admin, might actually be a good goal, not sure if it's over saturated right now. But again, the certification for that one would be a MCSA.

[Anonymous No.53932686]

>>53919880
>I only have one wfh job that pays "enough". Im so desperate
Get a helpdesk job and as you're working there study for your Network+/security+ certification. Watch the Udemy courses on 2 times speed.
schedule to take the test.
I recommend you look at the cyber general threads they have on /g/ sometimes. It's not currently there in the archives, but they have free PDFs of study material for these certifications. Helps to be able to read the material in conjunction with the Udemy courses.
Just don't share this with everyone here and don't let the certification people know you have the copies.
if you go on other archive sites and type in "/cy/" or "cyber general" for the board /g/, it should pop up. It will be the Mega Uploads website. They have a ton of stuff.

[Anonymous No.53934048]

>>53928235
Or you could as well invest in crypto for passive income

[Anonymous No.53934492]

>>53919880
kys

[Anonymous No.53934510]

>>53919880
I'm with you on the gf part. It felt nice at first but now I catch myself daydreaming about being a loner again. What the fuck man

[Anonymous No.53935614]

>>53919897
What is your job now, how old are you now?

[Anonymous No.53936536]

>>53919880
You are a bloody motherfucker who doesn't think about your future. Dickhead go and invest in some utility cryptocurrencies project like CryptMI and thank me later. Scumbag!

[Anonymous No.53936584]

>>53936536
Kill yourself

[Anonymous No.53936681]

>>53931455
checked, thanks for the info. I have some experience with hard exams having been an actuary before my current neet spell and can code at hobbyist level but no IT work experience. I was looking at the "learn fundamentals" package from offsec but Security+ and Network+ look like good options for starting

[Anonymous No.53936931]

>>53919880
IS THERE A WAY TO HIT RESTART