The struggle of securing a financial future

Don't stop going to college. I have a friend it took her 11 years to get her degree in urban planning. She now works for FEMA and was in New Orleans after Katrina. She loves it. She doesn't dwell on how long it took her all she talks about how is how much she loves her life now.

btw, N.O. has some kickass smoke.

I'm a bit older than most on this forum but can absolutely relate. Once in the "Machine" it's hard to see the big picture. Your youth is your greatest asset. Find a technical skill and run with it. You've got to make yourself marketable and the only way to do that is with a trade or education. There's not too many companies or industries that will take you in for OJT. They are dissapearing in favor of the skilled worker. I underestimated this when joining the Military. I was talked out of Air Traffic Control into Landing Support that had no correlation to the civilian world. A major tactical error for my future stability. Again if your not marketable, you fall by the wayside.

I'm fortunate enough to have my tuition waived and believe education is my only route to a secure financial future.

I feel ya man...

But despite it all, just remember something:

We are the first generation in our nations' history that will have a lower standard of living than the one previous. We have not been granted limitless oppurtunity, but inherited a country in shambles bound in shackles.

You are not what you own or what you do...you are just yourself, man, and that only has to be good enough for you, not anyone else because if they dont accept you the way you are they arent worth your time.

Every month feels uphill...never getting ahead, never getting comfortable. New bullshit to deal with constantly prevents progress.

Remember, your oppurtunity at the american dream has been FUCKED by the generations before, but its us who have to deal with it. You are not a failure, you are just trying to make the best out of a bad situation.

Keep your head up.

you cant do anything with out some kind of tech training or college education these days and its sad big buissness send all there jobs out of country and away from all the ppl that really need them. we could be living better lifes and feed our famliys off these jobs but big companys only see dollar signs and thats all that matters to them. so the only way ppl r supose to suport them selfs is crime its sad but wat can u do so jus keep on ur path n everything will work out in the end.