I’ll try to be short here. I’m 25. And have only very recently figured out what I want to do with my life. I spent the last 7 years or so just happy I was gettin laid and gettin paid. Never cared about highschool, Went to tech school (finished it) and hated it. Landed in a mill humbly making great money for my area but I’m so beyond done with that life. ( swing shift, 12s, you know the whole thing.)
With the rise of Ai and massive lay offs for every good thing I read there’s 5 saying run for your life – in every industry. But on top of that, I don’t live near the hustle and bustle. I’m in Appalachia. There’s no networking here, I don’t know anyone. There’s no seminars, there’s no meetup.com. I feel as if I can’t even make a step forward without uprooting my entire life (I’m not opposed to that at all but I’m just saying)
I say all that though to ask you men if you’ve ever been in a similar situation? I mean I can honestly say I never imagined I’d be interested in doing the things I want to do with my life now and I just feel like I’m late to the party. (I want to work for the government / one of the 3 letter agencies mainly or some kind of contracted intelligence work) It just feels like a person like me isn’t meant to be in that world. But I’m not going to accept it.