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F!S Anon Meme (the ??th)

Secrets, rants, opinions, anything you want to say about your fandom or a fandom or fandom in general, do it here! Anonymously, of course. Get it all off your chest.

Some ground rules:
1. Going anon is encouraged but not absolutely required (for those who struggle with recaptchas and stuff).
2. No autoplaying/autolooping embeds, or embeds that cover/stretch the screen.
3. No dropping personal info or IRL contact info, etc.

That's about it, though!

(Today's post is below.)

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Don't beat yourself up too much, anon. You may have made a mistake, but never is an awfully strong word- and there's no guarantee that if you HAD made the opposite choice that you wouldn't be here right now regretting that you didn't take the 'safe' path and looking at the successful people in that field instead. As you discovered with your 'easily hirable' choice, not everyone on a given path winds up successful, especially in today's job market.

But it's not too late. You may be in a worse position to reach for that dream then you were 3-5 years ago, but that doesn't mean it will be forever beyond you. I'm in a completely different field right now that I studied for in undergrad, and I was far from the only one at grad school in that position. It wasn't just people in our age bracket, either; my classmates included people 20-30 years my senior, with kids of their own who were about to go into college themselves. You aren't necessarily as locked into your current path as you probably feel. Even if your choice was a mistake, it's not necessarily an irreparable one.

Do you have any community colleges in your area? Even if you can't afford to go back into higher ed for a while, you might be able to pick up a class here and there in your dream field while you work on sorting out your current situation.

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks. I actually had a friend in theatre who's parents were in theatre and they apparently always told her that they regretted going into it, that life would be better if they'd had jobs with secure income and stability. I told her my father - who was a musician in his youth - had the exact opposite regrets in becoming an engineer instead. And it's something I keep telling myself, that there's no "right" path, that no matter what I would've chosen, there'd still be regrets somewhere... but it's hard.

And tbh, I know I'll feel better once I have some income coming in, but right now I'm just left wondering what the point of it all was if I'm left broke either way.

I'm doing my best to "balance" both of my lives, but until I get a better grip on things I'm worried that - in trying to hold onto two things - it won't be enough for either.