What do i do with my life leftypol

right now all i want is enough money to be comfy in my own apartment, me and my dog. maybe a small car note, some nice spending money, to be comfortable and independent.

i'll be starting classes in january but i'm just rethinking a lot of things. college will put me pretty deep in debt no matter what, because of my financial situation, so if i don't come out making great money with a CS or infosec major, then i'm fucked.

I just want to be a modern version of young Noam Chomsky but I don't have the charisma or energy

Educate yourself. You can never know enough.

Absolutely don't go off dying for some shitty natlib project that will, even if it obtains its majority cooperative capitalism economy, get carpet bombed by either Turkey, the US, Saudi Arabia or even Israel (or Syria, honestly) for being a thorn in the side of greater geopolitical projects of global capital and the hegemony of oligarchs. You're better off training for a job than doing that.

All this depends on your financial situation. If you have the money to go to college without picking up too much debt, or have been offered scholarships from a school either for merit or some sport, then go. If you like linguistics, study linguistics. Maybe even pick up a language or 2 as well. Take whatever interests you.

If you think there is no possible way you could get into a college, or pay for one without taking on unpayable amounts of debt for an education that may or may not give you a return, its up to you. If you like languages, and are willing to risk your life for the revolution, learn Kurmanji and Arabic and try to get in contact with the Lions of Rojava.

If you decide to go to Rojava, they need practically everything. Know english and Kurmanji well? They'll have you teach schoolchildren english. Like science? Work on setting up organic farming, or teach a class in chemistry at a university. Become an electrician? Help them set up a sustainable electric grid. They say that they have enough soldiers, and don't need any more bodies just yet. If you go, they will train you about how to fight, and you may serve in the YPG for a few months, but the rest of your time will be spent in civilian life. What they need are educated people who have skills they can teach others in order to create permanent, autonomous, democratic communities.

If you really want to make a difference in either place, learn a useful skill or study in some field, and go to Rojava to practice or teach it. The war in Syria is not ending any time soon, and Rojava is in a fairly safe(if tenuous) position.

If you want to stay in the US, go to a 4 year school, get a degree in something that you like, but is practical, and work on getting a job with that. Keep politics separate. Learning a trade is OK, but it won't be exciting or interesting.
If you are ABSOLUTELY SURE you want to go to Rojava, take some classes at a community college in a certain subject, or study a trade, and go in a year or 2. They'll still be around, and they'll still need help.

You think you could bring your dog with you?

Get the actual fuck out of my face

Although if you want black metal (and want to learn a trade with near endless job opportunities) come to Australia.

similar situation here

I just want to be on my own two feet, too. what do, comrades?

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Of fucking course. Why would I expect a board aimed at the socialist Left to be composed of people who actually work for a living and want to improve their situation? Like any other space that is supposed to embrace class-conscious wage-earners, it only attracts losers in their late teens who fantasize about going to the middle-east or starting a commune as a way out of the numbing banality of their daily life.

Why can't it be both?

Become a tradie!

I am one, an HVAC technician. Pay is pretty good, and you work as a guardian for people's comfort.

Try welding as well. It is really quite fun, and welding is really an art. Plus you can do plenty of cool shit with a welding certification, like doing underwater welding or welding on skyscrapers hundreds of feet in the air

Wow, sorry dude, I'll go work in one of those decently paid union factory jobs that doesn't exist and get my blue collar credibility before I have an opinion. You're as bad as a neoliberal, capitalism has systemically attacked the power of labour and raised unemployment to crippling levels, but I guess that's my fault.

28 here.

Unemployed now, but the reason I became a Socialist from a edgy right wing contrarian was when I first entered the workforce at 18, I was astounded to how much I was completely fucked over by those above me.

But yes, I agree, most lefties I run into online at least, tend to just be disaffected teenagers or people who haven't even been in work for years, decades in some cases and are suffering from some sort of mental disorder like extreme anxiety.

I remember my friend who worked quite high in the Greens (and was the person who introduced me to Marx so he's red as fuck)

"The problem with the left is we attract too many mentally ill who want to change the world rather than themselves and have this stubborn idea on how the world should change"

Go to college if you can get it mostly paid for through scholarships, grants, etc., or if you're 100% confident you can repay loans in a reasonable timeframe. From your other posts it seems like you're legitimately passionate about learning.

welcome to leftypol

If you have the free time to shitpost on Holla Forums then your problem is not unemployment, it's anxiety over which option to pursue that would satisfy your expectations, expectations which are probably based on an inflated sense of self-worth you have out of inexperience. Once you're actually thrown into the labour market your ego will settle down to your pay level, and after you're humbled we can talk a bit. But until that, fuck off, and I mean all of you.

I'm tired of teenagers thinking that Socialism is about the trite coming-of-age drama movie they have going on in their heads. Some of you reach absolutely ridiculous levels with this shit. For example, I've been reading the "guys I'm sad and I'm thinking about joining Rojava" post almost every day since I started browsing here. I'm 100% sure none of these people ever actually joined, and I'm also sure none of you morons realise how self-absorbed it is to treat a real-life conflict as some type of escapist fantasy for your grey moments, while most people partaking in it probably dream of having your security and your stability.

The young-adult-ennui phase is just as annoying and detrimental to the Left as the rebelious-teen phase. It fucking dies at 22, so please wait until you're at least that old and you have a job before you partake on left-wing politics.

get some exercise and see a therapist (if possible)
there's so much fucked up shit to look forward to comrade, hang in there

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Show us where the evil teenagers touched you.
In my experience an "inflated sense of self worth" is the thing that people do not have when they are directionless teens. If you think you are important you generally also have some grand vision for yourself and work to get there.

Are you actually actively trying to kill whatever is left of the left? Sure man, the best idea here is to push directionless teenagers with no hope or even the prospect of a job to the right wing.

Kill yourself mr adultman.

Why would your age affect that?

that user thinks that just because he had a cushy university life until 22 everyone is like him and hes salty because he cant score more oppression points.

One minute to do job that takes a human, what, 5 seconds to do? Generously 2 seconds. 2 seconds of minimum wage is .4 cents.
Electricity to drive that thing for a minute is easily less than that. Now you just need cheap unit price and low cost of maintenance and that thing is already cheaper than hiring people to fold shirts (not that you'd do that anyway, but you get the point).

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That video is like 4 years old.
Pretty sure baxter is flipping 10 shirts a second now.