I live in a heavy engineer city. I didn’t even know what engineering was until recently and honestly sorta still don’t understand what they even do. I’m not exaggerating, everywhere I go, everyone I meet is an engineer and most people make 6 figure salaries, which to me is a lot.
I do all kinds of different social activities and everyone, I’m not kidding, everyone is an engineer. Just basic stuff, non nerd oriented stuff. TimeLeft, MeetUps, sports, it’s all engineers everywhere. I did a hiking group yesterday morning, everyone but me had the title of engineer and I couldn’t relate to anyone.
They talk about their jobs constantly and their education. I have a master’s degree but my entire education was a joke. I’m not passionate about my job or what I went to school for, it’s just something I did because that’s what “the message” was.
Everyone around me makes good money and I feel they got some memo early in life or in school about what to do in life to make money and afford a house. I make less than 70K and I can’t see myself affording a house at all. The cheapest house in 100 mile radius is probably 250k for like a 2bedroom 1 bath and that’s just not worth it.
My dad was an under the table meat cutter who disliked education and my mom didn’t work. So I never got some life memo on how to choose a good career and I honestly don’t care to go back to school and get into another 100k debt on the “chance” of making the right change or right line of work.
I just wish I could go out and not get jealous of people with high paying jobs and a good education. I’m technically “educated” but man, my experience was an absolute joke in both my undergrad and my grad program was hilariously terrible all around, could have gotten a better education watching YouTube/TikTok shorts.
I feel like EVERY SINGLE person I meet is highly educated and has a good career. Man, on even Reddit everyone seems to be an engineer or software engineer.