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⌈ Secret Post #2021 ⌋

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Look, you're a anonymous person on the internet, and obviously I don't know how smart (or not smart) you are.
I have given my opinion on this matter, but you seem very convinced of your own thoughts on this matter.

No, not everyone can achieve in college - I do not know you enough to know whether you could or couldn't.

But honestly you sounds already defeated by life. I'm convinced you could achieve in something . That something might not be a doctor's degree, but perhaps you'd be a very talented woodworker, or interior designer, or hairdresser (there's actually a lot of creativity in those jobs.

I don't know what your talents are - but you do. Not all talents are academic. If you're good with your hands there are ways to get out of menial jobs. If you're willing to learn, even just in an evening course, there are ways out too. But it seems you have resigned yourself to never amounting to very much, and that's sad, because you only have one life and it's a pity to give up without a fight.

But it seems you have resigned yourself to never amounting to very much, and that's sad, because you only have one life and it's a pity to give up without a fight.

When everyone in your life has told you that you can achieve, then you try and you fail not once, not twice, but every time, why the hell should you continue to believe it? It doesn't hurt so much if you keep your head down, work 9-5 and accept the most you can hope for is to retire someday and not die in the cold.

I can't achieve in anything because everything has an academic component. It's woven in. Woodworking requires mathematics, interior design requires economics (in the running of a business). Even hairdressing requires college courses which I cannot attend because I cannot pass exams because of my learning disorder.

For us thickos, there is no hope. Just be happy you have intelligence and forget about us, okay? Someone has to make your burgers.

Maybe people are telling you you can achieve because they can see you're smart while you refuse to see that in yourself.

Do you think everything comes easy to everyone else?

I dropped out of 2 high schools, and eventually ended up graduating with my country's equivalent of a GED.

I went to college even though I had a shrink specifically tell be I wouldn't be able to because I had some serious issues.

In college I flunked a year and I had to redo it because two teachers basically hated my guts and didn't think I was a "team player". But I took that as a chance to take different subjects the next year.

Then after I graduated I haven't been able to hold a job for longer than 6 months.

Trust me, I know about failure. I know much more than I'd like. But I know that believing that you're stupid never fixed anything.

This. I have a college degree and three years later I still don't have an actual career job. I went two years being unemployed after I graduated, had to move back in with my parents, before finally managing to scrape enough together to move to a different part of the country where the economy wasn't quite so bad. Since then I've been working two jobs pretty consistently and while I do excellent at my current job and love it, I still only make $9 a hour and its seasonal so once it ends I go back to making minimum wage and have to scramble to find a second winter job in order to support myself.

A lot of life is simple perseverance. I dropped several of my college classes and struggled A LOT in college but I managed to pull through and graduated with a 2.9 with only having to take an extra semester and a few summer classes (which were required anyway).

Point is, people with degrees will still know a great deal about failure too so saying, "You have a college degree so you don't know what it's like to fail" is a gross overstatement.

Not everybody has a talent or is good at something you're lucky if you are, but some of us are literally not blessed with talent or intelligence. The fact depresses me but it's a fact nonetheless. I realized this years ago and came to terms with it. I have a job that's kind of stupid (but then so am I lol) but it's a job I can handle and a steady paycheck but it's really annoying for people to come in and try to tell me that I'm just not trying or looking hard enough.

I'd try and explain myself more, but to quote you "you seem very convinced of your own thoughts on this matter" and honestly I'm not very good at explaining myself. So I'll just leave this here.

DA

If you're able to show up for work, do a job (even a crappy one) with competence and get along with your coworkers, those are talents a lot of S-M-R-T people don't have.

Society has brainwashed us into thinking we should all aspire to be rock stars or millionaire CEOs, but look how many of those people are miserable. If you're happy, or at least content, with what you do, that's nothing to be ashamed of. In reality, most of these so-called menial jobs are a lot more necessary to the smooth functioning of society than the glamorous careers are.

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