• brap@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    Ah yes. I too should have applied myself more. So they kept saying. Repeatedly.

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      12 days ago

      being told basically “Just be interested in this for no reason, what’s wrong with you?” in different variations is so confusing and backwards. yeah, I mean I tried

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        11 days ago

        All the while acing the things you are actually interested in. Were they just clueless 15 years ago or did they straight up not give a fuck???

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      11 days ago

      I got frustrated with my dad at one point and said "then why the hell do I have just as much trouble doing things I want to do? He didn’t have an answer to that…

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      11 days ago

      So I’m officially the blacksheep, the dropout in my family. I was in honors in college and high school. I got to the workforce and I’ve solely worked in the service industry cause apparently I don’t apply myself. I’m family therapy and when I told them I’m trying my hardest to find an apartment and looking for opportunities they said I wasn’t applying myself.