I Just graduated from community college in December with an associates degree in General Concentration. I dont know what I should do now. I'm turning 25 later this month and I make $9.30 an hour and been at the same job for 6 years now.
Its not cutting it. I hate being broke and I live with my mom. I got to get my life together. I just don't what career I should get into. I don't know if I should go to a 4 year school. I just don't know what to major in. Any advice brehs? I like cars and I used to draw and people said I was good at it when I was younger. I wish I was just good at something that I could make money from or win the lottery.
reality check here bro.
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You have a 2.4 GPA, which means you don't care about school, you're lazy, and/or you don't have the capacity to handle relatively easy subject matter. You really think you're going to be able to change anything at a 4 year university? You need to think about the type of universities that are going to accept you. They are going to be worth shyt, and their going to have a horrible name. This means your resume will just get thrown in the garbage. You'll be 50K+ in debt and you won't have a job.
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You suck at math. You barely can handle remedial math classes apparently. Engineering is not in your future. Neither is Finance, Accounting, science, or obviously mathematics. Think about that because those majors are the only ones that are even worth the cost it takes to go to school. It's probably going to take to 20 hours or more of study per week just to get a "C" in calculus. How are you going to be able to handle that and then have to study another 20 hours a week for Physics, or Statistics, or Chemistry? You're just going to fail-out bro. Forget it.
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You "like" cars. By the time I was 16, I already knew how a Combustion engine operated and I knew how to fix and repair it. I was assembling bikes by the time I was 10 years old. Most mechanics that I know already had a passion for this stuff and could disassemble and repair cars in high school. Were you like that? Did you street race as a teenager? I didn't chose to be a Mechanic, but I know I could easily have done it. Same goes for HVAC, plumping, or electrical. Think about this type of stuff before you waste 40,000 dollars at some vocational school. It's not like you can just walk in with a degree and get a job. These careers operate on an apprentice model. You may have to work for free for a while, and then you may have to sit at the Union hall for a while before you can even get experience under your belt. Then you have to pass the appropriate exams to get the appropriate certifications.
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You could draw when you were younger. I could draw lifelike pictures by the time I was 14. I still can. It came to me naturally. Of course, I did it all the time, and I became very advanced at it through practice. Again, I know 2 graphic designers, and they were both my competitors in high school. We were all exceptionally good at "drawing" by our teenage years. We were all in AP art, and we all received nothing less than 4 ratings in our portfolios. Did you have that type of ability then? I never took any art classes in College, but I remember the straight Garbage I would see on display when i walked by the art building. If you have to take art in college to get good, then in my opinion, you suck.
Graphic designing is a hard job, and I see my friends struggle. I keep in contact and it seems like my friend is maxed-out at 60K... at 31 years old. No good. He didn't learn anything in college besides Photoshop and HTML. Do you need to pay 50K to learn that stuff? I don't think so. To earn a living in art (graphic art) you need to be at least the top 5% in terms of skill and ability. I bet you 95 to 1 that you're not one of those people .
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You're options:
---The liberals got your back (stay in Fast food): Honestly, from what you're telling people here, you don't have what it takes to go through school or get paid doing something that you're "Good at". There is a huge populist movement going on right now. You can see some of these rather loud voices here on this forum. Just wait a while. I am sure the minimum wage will be lifted sometime in the future to a "living wage". There is a strong push for this. Since you have many years at your place of work, they probably won't lay you off when they are forced to raise wages. You can spend 50K, major in Art or some other bullshyt, and end up back in Fast Food, or you can just stay in fast food, and continue to earn money and not have any debt. Stay with your mom save money, buy a house. fukk it. Be happy with your life.
It's not just the coming living wage either, there are all kinds of Tax incentives and programs for people like you. Abuse em'. Section 8, SNAP, etc. Why put in work for something that in your case will never materialize? Just make sure that you mom doesn't claim you as a dependent. Fukk politics act in your best interest here. I would.
Why not have a kid? Your young, and kids are huge paid days. Were talking thousands of dollars in Credits, and the government will ramp-up your cash portion on your EBT card. The government will also pay for Baby food, Cereal, bread, Milk, Cheese, Juice, Vegies, fruit and most importantly they will pay for Similac, which very expensive I might add. The government will also pay for your babysitting costs (the pink check). AND now we have Obamacare.
Honestly, there is nothing more fulfilling than having a family--a girl and kids. That is your end-goal anyways, right? Why go through all this bullshyt like studying, commuting, feeling like shyt because you're getting bad grades, or a general feeling hopelessness when you can just subvert all this crap and just start having a family now? It's not worth it in your case.
Don't feel bad about using the government. That's why there is a huge populist movement. To help people such as yourself.
Tech jobs for instance, you could even do something like ITT Tech and get a networking degree or something, you'll end up making more than 10 bucks an hour.
those retail and restaurant jobs once I entered college, those jobs are for high schoolers, people on government assistance and high school drop outs. They won't even ask you your GPA.