Anyone else feel this way?
 

Lately I've been feeling super depressed. I feel so unaccomplished in my life and I just want to stay positive and motivated. But this social media business is killing dreams. I don't envy what people have but it sucks that as a Daca recipient I have to work so hard and I see people on Instagram showing off all these material things and it makes me feel so inferior.

At the age of 25, I don't have a good job, and I don't have my own place yet, but I'm trying my best to make that happen within a year, hopefully before I turn 26. I am currently working two part time jobs and I still struggle to pay my bills because between the two I don't even work anything close to 40 hrs a week. I would say with both combined maybe 18 hrs a week and it's just so depressing. I was a teacher for 8 years and I quit because I realize this field wasn't making any money so I went back to school to do phlebotomy and now I am currently applying to jobs, but nothing yet. Does any one have any advice or any motivating words. Just feel so stressed out and down all the time because I am not where I want to be in my life.

Re: Anyone else feel this way?
 

Serious? Come on brotha, focus that negative-depressed energy to something more useful... How about you invest in Lynda and learn a new skill, keep learning. You've been given a gift that most people can only wish for and you spend it on being depressed. Wake the f up, only you can help your god damn self.

I started working at 17 doing dirty shit (literally) and I stomached that til DACA is introduced... Now I am on my way to a Lamborghini store in Beverley Hills to buy a Gallardo at 26. Go do something or join MAVNI for fucks sake. Just stop STOP.

There is no one to blame but yourself hence no one can help you other than yourself. We can keep saying things like 'keep it up' bla bla bla but if you don't have what it takes to be strong, then just go LDAR.

If you need assistance let me know my inbox is always open.

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You have been a teacher since 17?

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You got your health deetx.

Little by little and with hard work you will get to your dreams.

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Lambo? Please, what do you know and how do I get involved :)

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Yes, I started off as a TA and eventually became a teacher after all my schooling.

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Just curious, why did you become a teacher before? We live in a materialistic society that people go into debt(loans) to get fancy cars/houses and other status symbols to impress people, often people they dislike, too. But materialistic things aren't everything, so don't let your lack of such things define where you should be in your life and what things you should have by a certain time. Everyone's route in life is different.

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yes, i feel this way rather often.

social media can be very debilitating in this sense. many of the smart kids i went to HS with have already found the cure for cancer, it seems, and i am just here inputting stuff into QuickBooks. it really sucks, and it might not come from a place of envy, but from a place of frustration - frustration of being so limited for reasons not resulting of our own action.

i think that it is good to feel this way and let it process. if you have to rant, scream, vent - do it. just let the thoughts and emotions be felt. but, also, explore them; think of what these limitations mean and what you can do to at least derive some positive from them.

lastly, consider that you are still very young. you still have a lot of time to find a place for yourself in life. right now, it is good to focus on taking care of whatever is most immediate to you, like perhaps finding a job. once you do, take inventory of what you want and try to move in that direction. life isn't a race to be won.

hope you're feeling better.