Thread 33629769

I am 20 years old. I live with my parents and don't have a car, but I am wanting to get one soon. For right now, I use their car to go to my job, which is working at the deli in a grocery store. I want to go to college to become an accountant or a financial advisor (preferably the latter, because really I hate math, but my interest in history won't get me a good job). However, I absolutely hate my job. It's not really that hard, but I am incredibly depressed in my life because my job is so unfulfilling. I like writing, I like studying languages, and I like playing video games, but nothing I do in my personal life actually feels meaningful and because I have no way out of my situation, I feel completely hopeless and powerless and I'll have to just keep doing this until I can go to school. Even then, though, I'll need a job.
This deli is so awful. It's so mismanaged and understaffed. There is constantly so much to do and it's just a neverending cycle of going and slicing meat and making sandwiches. I realize it's a very easy job compared to most others, but it's not emotionally easy. I want to find another job, but everything available to me is either retail or fast food, which would be just as bad, if not worse.
What should I do? I am to the point that I feel so powerless in my life. I feel like I'm stuck in a cage. I would not be surprised that if this continued, I would end up just contemplating suicide. I don't want to do this anymore.

>>33629769 (OP)
What is your financial goal from working beyond buying a car? If that's it, just keep doing it until you buy the car then quit your job and enroll in community college

>>33629784
Getting the car is my only goal. However, I'll need money to pay for the car, obviously. I also need money for paying for other necessities that I can't rely on my parents for.

I really really hate this country. If I lived literally anywhere else in the first world, I wouldn't have this problem, because those places actually have public transport.

>>33629800
Wait, you're saving up to buy a car on credit? Dude, buy a shitbox for $3k on Craigslist. Ask your parents to determine which cars are good versus lemons, your situation will be a lot easier if you buy a car outright instead of financing

>>33630392
My dad agreed to do the down payment as long as I can do the monthly payments. But, yeah, I could look on, like, Facebook marketplace. Are cars from there even likely to be good, though?

>>33629769 (OP)
Brother, you can simply be a history teacher with a doctorate and teach in a university

>>33632885
Oh, don't get me wrong, I would absolutely love to major, hell, even get a PhD, in a field like medieval studies or classicism, or even just a single language, but you are incredibly unlikely to get work like that. Academia is incredibly unstable as a job and most professors make peanuts. If I can get a good job in finance making enough money to live in a nice house and have the things I want, I'll probably go back to school to pursue the history stuff.
Then again, I'll admit, working this job I don't want to work just so I can have money is making me reevaluate things. I used to not want to pursue history for fear of not having enough money to be basically upper middle class. I'm kinda poor, and I never want to be poor again and I want my kids to not have to have the same problems I have. However, again, working this very depressing job, I'm wondering if it really is more worthwhile to sacrifice money for work that actually nourishes the spirit.

>>33629769 (OP)
Fill out your FAFSA and do everything you can to get financial aid so that you can start school as soon as possible.