I really don’t even know if this is the right sub but I just don’t know where to talk about this. (Let me know if there’s a better place to post) I just turned 18 and am graduating in less than a month and everything just seems so depressing from this point on. I didn’t have much of an idea of what I was doing after school last year but the options of college, trade school, or the military seemed to be it.
Currently I work 20 hours a week making next to nothing and I truly cannot understand how my bosses and older coworkers can even survive on this job alone. I started working late (17) so I only have a couple thousand saved up with a license but no car and nothing of value. I RARELY spend money and it still seems like I’m so far away from being able to get a car and not to mention college. I decided that my best action would be community college for 2 years and then transferring through a 2+2 program and then deal with the debt afterwards??? I don’t know but the idea that I just became an adult and now have to go into tens of thousands of dollars of debt just to survive is depressing. I’m so lucky that my school is close and my parents are ok with me living at home and providing their cars to get to and from but I hate feeling like I’m still depending on them after so long. Even while in college I’ll have to work to afford going there and then after graduation hope to find a job and deal with awful conditions I read about on this sub?
I can’t even begin to imagine how I’m ever going to buy a house. My parents want to move out of state after all their children graduate so I feel like at some point I’ll have to figure out housing post college. It just seems so hard to get started if I have to begin my life in debt and before I can even get a well paying job. I don’t really know what I want from posting this but I just needed to let it out somewhere.