Reddit, what's bothering you right now?

Couldn't get in anywhere to transfer. I'm pretty much done with community college. Got a pretty useless associates, just for transfer, but no tag for my major so my 3.0 Gpa wasn't good enough. First time in my life I won't be in a classroom. Only ever had party time jobs, I have no idea what to I'm going to do with my life. I don't have many skills outside of what I'm studying, but even that is very limited. My dad had been blue color his whole life. He's always pushed me away from earning a living by sacrificing my body, and told me to focus on school. I'm one of those people who only had a career path and said career in mind. Now that that's been derailed I feel a lose of direction/purpose that I've never experienced before.

I know I'm already a disappointment in my parents eyes for not getting a bachelors this year. My dad kept asking me if I had "graduated" , essentially transfered, since my first year at community college. My birthday is coming up, and I've always hate it, unless forced I don't celebrate it. Last year I ignored it and it was my best birthday yet. This year is going to be worse though, because I know it's going to be used as a benchmark for where I should be at my age. Most of my high school friends, which I don't talk to anymore, should be graduating around now. Sucks too, because apart from 2-3 aunt's, I have like 17 aunt's and uncles, my shitty associates degree is the highest level of education achieved in our family. Accomplishments rarely praised, failure constantly brought up. Since my parents constantly told me to avoid their own mistakes I guess I can't make my own.

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