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I'm 27 - been living at home but am now finally in the process of moving out. I graduated in 2012 with a degree in advertising. A year before I graduated I realized sadly that it wasn't really for me, but I was so close to graduating I decided to just stick it out and not switch majors and pick up more debt. I graduated, and literally didn't do jack poo poo for almost a year. I had a lot of depression issues in university, which led me to getting very close to me trying to kill myself and realizing I needed help while at school. After graduation I just spent time at home on the internet and playing games not really knowing what to do or where to loving go. I had a degree in something I wasn't really passionate about and didn't really know what I wanted to do with my life. A friend of mine hooked me up with a fast food job and I told myself I would only do this because it was a way to earn money while I look for that real, adult first full-time job. I ended up spending more than 3 years there because I got comfortable and complacent, and I really didn't know what I wanted to do. I felt like a loving loser serving lovely teenagers for minimum wage. Plus my parents were supportive initially and understanding, but once I spent a couple years here I could tell they were sick of me working at a fast food place. Luckily a friend of mine noticed I wasn't doing so well and pointed me in the direction of a temp agency that helped recent college grads. It took a while, but I finally got a position through them doing basic data entry stuff at a local hunger-relief non-profit. As part of working there I had to do a few shifts in a food bank, and seeing homeless and truly needy people really kind of lit a fire in me. It showed me while I was depressed about not having enough money to go out to bars or whatever with my friends, these were people who were actually, really struggling and the stupid poo poo I was complaining about didn't really matter in the grand scheme of things. I also liked the idea of the work I was doing not lining a CEO's pockets and actually helping people. My temp period ended with them and I just kind of drifted for a few months. Eventually they actually called me up, and wanted me to come in and interview for a full-time position since I guess they liked me during my temp period. I've been full-time there for a while now and I finally have enough saved to move out on my own and get my poo poo started. So yeah. I guess be persistent and you just gotta keep moving.
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