Just need to vent a little

  The only way to get the age out of the equation is if you make around 40K per year!! HAAA! Just not gonna happen in the 1st years.

Good thing, in my case, I'm a Chemical Engineer and it's part of the National shortage occupation list. So, I know I can get a well paid job around... but God knows where. I have given up hope on the idea of living together. I'm pretty sure we will only get to see each other during the weekends. But hell! Is better then seeing each other every 3 or 4 months  .

i am another person here who has those feelings of where is my life going and what is going on. lately i have been feeling more unhappy than happy and just getting through the days waiting for the summer to roll around. i've been through uni but yet to find a career job, still living with my mother, and my boyfriend lives across the ocean, so yeah i definitely feel like the life i should be living hasn't started yet.

We are all in a sort of pause-life mode 

i am another person here who has those feelings of where is my life going and what is going on. lately i have been feeling more unhappy than happy and just getting through the days waiting for the summer to roll around. i've been through uni but yet to find a career job, still living with my mother, and my boyfriend lives across the ocean, so yeah i definitely feel like the life i should be living hasn't started yet.

I know where you're coming from I went to a vocational school, since I thought it'd give me some great skills to do a job I wanted to do (medical assisting) but I have yet to find anything career related--just temp agency work, nothing permanent, nothing even remotely related to what I went to school for. And, I live with my mom like you do, and sometimes that can be hard, especially when your BF/fiance/husband lives overseas 

We are all in a sort of pause-life mode 

This, definitely. I feel like my entire life is on hold till May, then it can start up again, only 49 days 

I know where you're coming from I went to a vocational school, since I thought it'd give me some great skills to do a job I wanted to do (medical assisting) but I have yet to find anything career related--just temp agency work, nothing permanent, nothing even remotely related to what I went to school for.

Don't be so hard on yourself. The economy stinks and jobs are very few and far apart right now. Hopefully, the economy will get better and you'll get the exact job you were hoping for .

Don't be so hard on yourself. The economy stinks and jobs are very few and far apart right now. Hopefully, the economy will get better and you'll get the exact job you were hoping for .

Awww, thanks Sometimes I beat myself up over it, I just live in an area with a ton of those types of schools, so there were loads of people competing for only a few jobs. And I'm not entirely impressed with the school I went to, and I have an inkling employers kinda frown on it as well, but I can't really change it. Here's to hoping I can have some luck in the UK, I'd love to find something in the NHS maybe, but that'll take a long time to do 

I have a degree in Human Development from Penn State, and haven't worked in my field since 2007, when I was laid off due to budget cuts at my old job. It really is a bit on the depressing side.