Posts by goldenheron6

Look, I’m not saying working at the courthouse sucks, but my dream gig would be
living in Washington, D.C. just like this girl in the photo 😁



Or maybe owning a killer hair salon like this one



But hey, dreams are for kids. Once you grow up, you gotta get real and just deal with whatever life throws at you

Nicholas Gonzalez8 said:Look, it's fine if the workload isn't crushing you anymore, but honestly? Do you really want to spend years—decades, even—stuck doing something that bores you to tears? There’s no such thing as "perfect timing" to switch careers. Some people jump, some people stay put.

I’m definitely not telling you to go out and quit your job tomorrow, but seriously, use your downtime to level up your education or skills and start hunting for something that actually sparks an interest. When that door finally opens, you better be ready to walk through it. 😉

I'm working on myself and planning to pass my certification exam.
Things are fine at the courthouse right now,
but if something more interesting pops up,
I'm taking it.

Wyoming. Just Wyoming. said:Honestly, I feel like you'd have a much easier time working in a courtroom than sitting in a therapist's chair.
Living in France is a total money pit unless you're sitting pretty at the top of the social ladder.

Running my own private practice as a psychologist? That’s the absolute dream for me. But let's be real—everyone's wired differently.

Justin Gomez2 said:Look, you’re overthinking it. Being 24 isn't late by any stretch. Honestly, the easiest thing you can do is just stop stressing and get moving. By the time you hit 27, you could easily have that degree in hand and be out there actually making moves in your field. Just so you know, before they even consider putting you on a permanent contract, you’re gonna have to grind through a full year of internship work first. $800 And pass the bar exam, too.

Finally, I’m here. I just started working at the courthouse and honestly, it’s not really my vibe, but I’ve got seven legal subjects to cram for. Already hitting the books.
I’m putting in the work to prove I’m actually responsible, and I fully intend to pass this thing.
So what’s the big deal? I couldn't care less about legal studies in general—the only thing that actually holds my interest is family law.

Agripina80 said:That’s exactly where the problem lies. We're being forced to decide our entire life's path while we're still basically kids. Some kids head straight into vocational schools right after middle school. It’s wild to think about—you've got a fifteen-year-old girl basically starting her career path before she's even hit high school graduation. Thinking about signing up for barber school? Honestly, it’s one of those moves that can either set you up for life or just burn through your cash if you aren't ready to grind. It’s not just about playing with scissors; it's a whole different beast once you're actually behind the chair. If you've got the drive, go for it, but don't expect a free ride. Then at twenty years old, it finally hits you like a ton of bricks—wait, am I seriously going to be stuck tracking my steps for the rest of my life? Seriously?

I'm in. 😁
At 15, nobody actually knows what they want to do with their life. Honestly, I think being a hairstylist is a killer career choice. It’s fun, it’s creative, and you get to constantly switch things up with different styles.
Look, if you actually know what you're doing and you genuinely love the craft, the money follows. It’s pretty simple. If you're a killer barber who treats every cut like an art form, people will pay for that expertise. Period.

Agripina80 said:Seriously, people, are we even living in the same country anymore?
I don't know if it's even smart to be telling a 24-year-old they need to go get a degree. Especially when we're talking about preschool teachers—there are way too many of them out there already, and most can barely find a job. Half the people working in those roles probably aren't even using their actual credentials anyway. Look, following your dreams sounds great on paper, but let's be real: out here in the States, making that happen is incredibly tough. Honestly, for some people, it might just be impossible.
Look, at the end of the day, you honestly gotta be grateful just to have a paycheck coming in. You just gotta suck it up, grind through those eight hours, and be glad you’ve actually got a job to go to. It is what it is.

Exactly what you said.
I’m finally starting to get used to the vibe at the courthouse where I work, but honestly? It’s still just not it.
Look, I don't even know what I was trying to say there, but you've got a point. You can't exactly pick and choose what life throws at you these days. All I'm doing is praying to Bog that my health holds up.
I’m paying!

I feel you, my period is kicking my ass right now too...

Basically, I don't need any medical procedures or anything, I just pop a pill when I need to.

I’ve mentioned this before, but I’d love to go into psychology. Honestly, even being a preschool teacher wouldn't be a bad gig. 🙂
Right now, though, I’m interning at a courthouse, which isn't terrible. I just need to grind through my year of training and then I can finally start hunting for something new.
Who knows? Maybe I’ll actually pull the trigger and enroll in some college program.
I’m single and don't have kids running around, so I've got plenty of downtime to hit the books. 👍

I didn't say why I froze up on this job—basically, two shift workers there were total nightmares. They targeted me and started screaming in my face. Everything's fine now, though; I'm not working with them anymore. 🍿

ambercrane722 said:I bet you get a lot of laughs from people. But as long as you keep searching, trying things out, and refusing to give up on what you actually want to do, you're fine. Plenty of people took on heavy-duty jobs, cracked under the pressure, and ended up much happier doing something simple, like working sanitation. Maybe you should try moving to the USA, since people there make their dreams happen way faster.

Oh, I definitely get laughed at. At my age, most people already have their PhDs and
know exactly what they want out of life, while I’m still basically a teenager who occasionally deals with a random breakout. 😁

As for the USA, I'm not interested.
I've always been more drawn to somewhere else—somewhere a bit more sophisticated, like Berlin or maybe somewhere in France. 🙂

quietbear22 said:You can't mix clean water with mud and expect it to stay clear. Either you walk away and find people who actually share your values, or you stick around and slowly turn into them... one bad habit at a time...

Luckily, I'm not that type of person. 👍
Now that I'm getting older, I know exactly who I am, and nobody
can just shake my foundation or flip my perspective that easily.

marsovka1234 said:That’s why being gay, Black, an atheist, etc., is such a struggle in society today. A lot of people in those minority groups live in constant fear of being judged. Why? Because everyone wants to feel like they belong, even if it's just a little bit, and they want to get validation from the majority.

I don't get why there's so much hand-holding for these groups when they're treated like saints, while
others get ignored or treated poorly.
Seeking validation from the masses is a sensitive thing, but I find it totally messed up when a healthy woman
goes through with a deliberate abortion, fighting tooth and nail to make it happen and paying top dollar for it.
Then they turn around and blame the doctor, who was just doing their job.
That might be "normal" to the majority, but it sure isn't to me.

Sarah Ruiz852 said:You just have to put in the work. It doesn't matter what the job is; no role is inherently "good" or "bad." At the end of the day, we're all just working for a paycheck, and everything else—the satisfaction, the prestige, the grind—is entirely up to you and how much skin you have in the game. You can't really go around demanding more than what you've actually earned.

I’m actually starting to like my job now, everything's finally clicking,
anyway, thanks for all the advice 👍

since they moved me over to work with a male judge and it's actually great!

So I had this group of people trying to act all high and mighty just because I haven't been seeing much action lately, but then there's this one girl
who basically runs straight up to me the second we reconnect and starts bragging about how she was hooking up
with a Black guy

😁

Whatever, thanks for the tip 😁

hollowpuma762 said:Quincy:

I don't even know where to start with this one. Honestly, I’m just sitting here staring at the screen, wondering how we even got to this point. It feels like everything is falling apart, piece by piece, and everyone is just acting like it’s business as usual. It's exhausting. Truly. You look around and see the same old patterns repeating, the same mistakes being made by the same people, and you just want to shake someone and ask, "Are you kidding me right now?" But what's the point? They aren't listening anyway. They never listen. Everything feels heavy, like there's this constant weight pressing down on everything we do. It's just... a lot. A lot to process, and frankly, I'm pretty tired of processing it. kaže: So, what exactly pushed you over the edge to just hit the reset button on everything? What was the breaking point? And how old are you actually? I know, I know—age shouldn't matter when you're starting from scratch, but you carry yourself with this youthful energy that makes me even more confused about what's going on in that head of yours.

Look, if that’s really how we’re playing this, I’ve got an idea. Honestly? Just sit down. Grab a pen and some paper—real paper, not some digital nonsense—and write a letter to yourself. Something you can toss into a time capsule and address to your older, much more wrinkled self once you've finally reached deep into old age.

Opcija za tekst:

Look, sorry babe, shopping just took priority.

It’s all just shopping to me. 😁

I can't even deal right now. Seriously. said:You're not too old for this...

Look, you’ve definitely picked up some solid life lessons along the way:

Stop listening to everyone else when they start acting like they "know" what’s best for you. They don't.
Money doesn't mean a damn thing if you're miserable deep down.

Life’s just one long series of lessons, whether you want them or not. 👍

bluewalker9 said:If you actually want to become a preschool teacher, just go sign up for an education degree. Simple as that.
Start grinding right now. Seriously, get online, hit the forums, and start digging through the literature. You’ve got an eight-month head start on everyone else, so don't just sit there. Use this time to prep for your first round of finals, or even better, try to knock out the entire freshman curriculum before you even step foot on campus. If you play your cards right, by the time your classmates are sweating over their first midterm, you'll already be studying for sophomore year exams because you've already mastered the basics. Don't waste the lead.
Look, it’s simple math. You sleep for eight hours, you grind at work for eight hours, that leaves you with exactly eight hours left in the day. Stop wasting them. Pour every single one of those eight hours into learning something new.
Once you’ve grinded through all that coursework and finally crawled across that graduation stage with a perfect GPA, then—and only then—can you actually say, "Yeah, I want to be a preschool teacher." Until that moment? You can't say squat.Man, if the universe had just played its cards differently, I’d be living the dream right now—just some chill auntie working at a preschool, zero stress, zero effort. Just vibes.
If you don't actually have the drive to deal with any of this, then starting this thread is nothing more than pure trolling.

Look, I get it—you haven't exactly hit the jackpot in life, but let's be real. Some people are born blind, some are deaf, and others deal with serious mental health struggles from day one. Compared to them, you’ve actually had it pretty damn good.

My parents basically look at me like I’m some kind of high-stakes notary or a legal clerk, but honestly? That whole vibe just isn't my scene. It's totally not my thing, and frankly, I'm failing miserably at it.
It’s all buried in that mountain of paperwork. Like at work, when some judge needs something, they don't even look for it themselves—they just call their secretary to go hunt it down.
We should just swap them out entirely. Every time I show up in front of a female judge, she acts like she’s better than me the second I make a single mistake.
They see some tiny little detail and immediately act like, "Oh, you absolutely have to know this!" They play all these high-and-mighty types, acting like they’re some kind of experts, when in reality, they haven't accomplished a damn thing.
Law is basically the only field that doesn't have to deal with actual physics or chemistry. It’s just people arguing over words while everyone else deals with reality. 😁

I honestly think the real issue isn't even the job itself—it's that whole attitude coming from female judges.
I'll take gay guys over straight dudes any day. 👍 They're simple.

Back to that whole idea about working at a preschool. Honestly, it would be my dream job, but am I really going to enroll in college at 24? It feels wild. That being said, the curriculum for early childhood education actually really interests me, and I'm super into it.
Interesting. I actually already took a look at that school's curriculum. 🙂
I wouldn't mind grabbing some books just so I could dive straight into studying right away.

Jeffrey Fisher5 said:😂
you’re quite the optimist, aren't you?
It’ll be "too late" long before anyone starts digging a grave—probably well before forty. That’s just how the American corporate machine works. They want youth; they want "fresh blood." Even today, people hitting their 40s—regardless of how much experience or expertise they bring to the table—find themselves struggling to land a job unless they are top-tier specialists in some niche field.
The advice to get moving by age 24 is solid...
It’s just a shame we don't know what specific career path she's stuck in.

Management? Give me a break. 😢

Look, I don't know, all I know is that grinding away at a job you hate is a total nightmare.

redbear2 said:So how is he supposed to shop if he actually types something in? 😳

😁

I'm 24, but honestly, it feels like I'm just stuck in this endless loop. You grind away at some soul-crushing job you absolutely despise just to stay afloat
so you can afford to go out and spend money on stuff...

My story is a bit of a mess. I ended up enrolling in a school because everyone told me
it was the "right move," even though it wasn't what I actually wanted.
I pulled decent grades there, but I absolutely loathed the coursework. One specific subject was a total nightmare—the professor basically made it her mission to pick on me. It was so bad it messed with my body; I dealt with irregular cycles for months and even broke out in cystic acne just from the sheer stress of being in that classroom.
Now comes the second act of this tragedy: I’m working in that field now and I hate every second of it. I have to drag myself out of bed at 6 AM to go do a job that offers zero fulfillment. This whole industry just doesn't interest me at all.
So yeah, I’m basically carrying the weight of a career I never wanted for the rest of my life. 😵

It’s just one long chain of stress.

They really aren't kidding when they say if you spend your whole life listening to everyone else, you end up stuck in a rut.
Life is way too short to waste it being this miserable, but man, I’d give anything to be doing something else. I really regret not going into something like dental hygiene or esthetics. I didn't even go to college, but my actual dream was to be a preschool teacher.
That would’ve been the perfect gig for me.
But nope, nothing came of those plans. 😠