He's 35 and asking complete strangers online what he should do with his life. Ultimately it doesn't matter what they or anyone suggests to him because he won't do it. Not because he's a dick but because he was neglected as a child and never had proper guidance from the people who should have mattered in his life when it mattered most. He never gained the confidence necessary to transition into adulthood, to set goals for his life and to set about realising them. He's never had friends and has no social skills.

He sees people his age with wives, families and careers and thinks that should be him too because he's ages with them. But he doesn't fully understand he's in a race that started 25 years ago. He can no more become those people than he can become an Olympic athlete. It's too late.

What is ostensibly a post asking for suggestions is actually a man completely lost in life shouting for help, hoping desperately that someone will care for him and nurture him. Sadly and unsurprisingly, that isn't something which online strangers can provide for him. No comment reply in that thread, or this one, will be enough to undo 35 lost years or to provide the direction or motivation needed to course correct. But laying out his frustrations on the internet is all he feels capable of doing. He is entrenched in learned helplessness and ultimately even if he recognises this, it doesn't undo it.

His options are:

>life as a miserable wage-slave making barely enough to survive in a pathetic min-wage job
>hoping a ran-through woman in her 30s (who is also mentally ill) might use him as a sperm donor, then both of them 'raise' another generation of failed adults
>suicide

I don't say all that to be cruel because in many respects I am him. But that's just how it is.