Hi guys, I am on the verge of:
1) Embracing a normal career, make the parents proud, earning 10k or more a month in a few years, working 5 days a week, from 8h30 to 17h30, living what I identify as an “NPC”/”Normie” life. I think I could manage it if I find the right position where I do not have to deal with too many assholes and having colleagues that would also be cynical about their situation.
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2) Following passions, relying on parent's wealth like a leech to help me if I don't make money, travelling, trying to make businesses, trying to be able to work as little as possible as fast as possible.
2 is way more risky… but could be more rewarding. But it makes you feel like shit because you do not do things like society, family and so on expects you to.
1 is awful, the few corporate jobs I had, I hated them. My last one ended abruptly as I quit because I could not focus on the shitty tasks I had to do. Both allowed a lot of working from home but still was not enough. Could not focus on what drives me in life (art mostly).
My best possible life (according to me): make a good chunk of money in a very fast way (either illegally, or legally with a shitty business like selling digital products).
Buy land and a house in France (it's cheaper than my homecountry where buying land would be impossible: switzerland) for around 250k it would be possible. Looking to pay all in one, no loans.
Spend my day farming, taking care of chickens and basically sustaining my food needs almost entirely in autarcy. Make money by practicing my passions (could probably make 1000 a month if i try hard).
But even for this, the economic situation of the world is not reassuring. The political one too.
I have no idea of what to do. With antidepressants I could probably survive to the 8-6 corporate grind lifestyle and maybe retire early in a cheap country if I get lucky. But it is hard… most jobs if not all are really meaningless. Corporate is the worst… but it is where the money is. If spending a life of slave, at least be a slave with a bit more comfort than the other ones.