Life is amazing despite other people’s misfortune

Honestly? I'm so anxious. I'm not proud of it or anything, but I think I might be too smart for my own good in the rat race. I am just filled with dread at the thought of working my life away. I've been depressed for years, but am being really supported by my family. I still live at home, because I know for a fact I would not be able to competently support myself yet.

COVID has allowed me time to myself to think about things and work through my mental health, but this very issue is what has me terrified. I don't feel any sort of stability, I'm afraid of being mistreated at the places I work, afraid of being forced to work long hours. I have a BAS in Graphic Communications, but any jobs that I would be qualified for locally pay 10 dollars an hour. 10 dollars an hour, barely better than minimum wage for something I went to school for 4 years for.

It's extremely demoralizing. But goddammit I'm gonna find a way out of the rat race eventually.

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