What’s your honest advice for a young person struggling with rent, money, and finding a job, still relying on parents financially right now?
Not looking for “just work hard,” genuinely curious what actually got you through a phase like this, and how you dealt with the guilt of relying on parents at this age.
I just feel like I’m running behind something, not even sure what exactly, money, stability, proving something to myself, maybe all of it at once. Curious if anyone else has felt that and figured out what they were actually running from, or toward…
For me it was definitely a sense of knowing the next step and treating the current step as a grind.
Out of high school I was working and in community college doing intentionally intense things like taking a full course load scheduled only on Tuesday/Thursday so I could work the other five days (two part time jobs). It sucked but I knew it was “only these two years”.
Same with transferring to a university and going to grad school. Even after graduating I stayed in cheap if awkward rooms to rapidly pay down my student loans.
What helped was knowing exactly what I was aiming for and knowing there was an end “in sight”.