25+ Thread: Acceptance Edition

I'm 28 and have failed to make the magically transition to adulthood. I have not "evolved" in any meaningful way since i was 17 years old. Never paid rent in my entire life, cumulative work experience is 2 years of stints at shitty stocking jobs. The weird thing is I don't care anymore. The sense of urgency that typical propels people to sink or swim lasts from about 18-25. Once you pass over, and you're still in a state of inertia, you kind of just accept your life is going to be unremarkable.

My only concern is that I don't know how acute the suffering will be as I get older, lose my vitality, and have nothing to my name or existence except going to a job and coming home to a shitty apartment. I don't know how that isolation is going to feel at an advanced age. Otherwise I'm doing decent. How about you anons?

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I turned 25 around 3 weeks ago. Getting out of this shitty bedsitter and moving into a proper 1 bedroom unit. Other than that, nothing terribly exciting in my life.

I could definitely live on my own and support myself, its just that everything involved in getting a proper job, the networking, the interacting with people regularly thing, REALLY holds me back. Good for you.

I turn 20 next month and the timepill/agepill is already destroying my mind. I don't know how the fuck people cope with being in their 40s and over.

I'm 35 and i still feel like i got mentally stuck at 17. All my friends have moved on, got careers and kids and basically grew up while i didn't.
I've been a NEET for 8 years now and even before that my work experience looks similar to yours. It's been so long that i'm basically unemployable so i'm probably gonna stay that way until i die. My only social contacts are with my family and "friends" from online gaming.
I'm not exactly happy but i keep myself distracted with escapism and the government gives me unemployment money, so i guess it could be worse.

Really the only bad part is the loneliness. If i had actual RL friends i would have no complaints, but i wasn't exactly a social butterfly even in my younger years and the years of near-isolation haven't done me any favors. On top of the fact that the people i actually have things in common with are all 10+ years younger than me.

Should I go to a good college with a mediocre course or a mediocre college on a comsci course.

dude you're still pretty young. im glad i only discovered Jow Forums 4 years ago. I can't imagine growing up on here. That's gotta completely fuck up your psyche.

Thanks for your contribution. I'm probably slated to be in the same position as you, but I probably can't be a full NEET sadly.

These kind of thread scares me

mediocre college for compsci. just make sure its accredited and make sure you get internships/work experience WHILE you're in school. Don't just mail it in and beg for a job when you graduate

good. perhaps I can serve as a warning for you.

>turning 26 next month
I just remembered how I was posting about turning 25 last year... And probably the year before that.
In good news, I'm actually looking for a job, and I go out with acquaintances once a week, which is a big booster towards thinking clearly.
But I still don't have real friends and I still don't have a job or proper qualifications for anything. I still can't afford college and I'm still stopped from doing the things I want by this invisible barrier of fear and anxiety. I don't know how this developed, but it's here and it's stopping me from doing the simplest things like making a phone call, sending a resume or just thinking about certain things. I never thought I'd be like this at 26. I wish I was confident again.

iktf. you're not totally fucked. your obstacles appear surmountable. i have faith in you, dearest user

Why the fuck are we like this

well im like this because my dad was too much of a pussy to do the "bad cop" aspect of parenting. He just spoiled me and handed me money without holding me to standards, inculcating any wisdom or advice, or showing me how to navigate the world. Since everything was handed to me, I never developed the urgency that compels most "lesser" people to have to go do shit like achieve success and work hard.

I've already enjoyed and experienced what having money is like, what it buys, and how life is lived with it. So, considering im 28 and approaching being an irrelevant old man, I can't be bothered to GAF. The gears should have turned long ago

I guess I'll play bad cop when I'm a dad then

>timepill/agepill
This trend needs to stop

what exactly do you mean? originally of course

I am 27, and i am fucking exhausted all the time. I dont do anything except refresh 4chins and lie on my couch. It is so much effort to even play a fucking video game, let alone study something, or play guitar like I used to, or do ANYTHING. All I do is go to my IT job, jack off in the work dunnies, spend as much time as possible on Jow Forums, and go home to do the exact same fucking thing.

The rare times I do get enough energy and motivation to play a game, I put in about ten minutes before I realise I am not having fun in the slightest.

i'm not 25 yet but honestly the main thing i'm afraid of about growing older is that i'm going to lose my ability to be a cute feminine (male)

at least you have an IT job. Not ever "taking" off career wise probably feels similar to never losing your virginity in the primacy of youth

There is no specific way a life should be lived. You are sitting there beating yourself over not living it the way others said you should have lived it thats pretty whack.

You almost certainly would qualify for a diagnosis of depression. Go to a therapist.

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Helpdesk isnt taking off.

It isnt depression this time. I remember what that felt like. I dont have the longing to disappear like I used to.

You havent set yourself or found yourself a purpose thats the reason really. I struggled with this myself for the last 10 years.

hedonism can satisfy you for a while but then you fall into this void. You need some larger than life purpose then its easy to spring into action because youll always know that there isnt enough time to do all the shit you need to do.