Just dropped out of college and don't know what to do with my life

Just dropped out of college and don't know what to do with my life.

Philosophers for this feel?

Personal advice is also appreciated.

I've been there 7 years ago. I still don't really have my shit together but my advice would be to put yourself out there and try as many things as possible instead of being a NEET. I was a total NEET for 2 years after dropping out, then tried to join the army, washed out, and was semi-NEET while working really marginal 1-2 day a week jobs or sometimes working from home but not making enough money to really do anything. I tried out a full time job for a few months but it was a godawful field so I quit and wrote a couple of unpublished books. Now I just started a more legitimate part time job recently but it'll still be a long while before my life can actually go anywhere.

The only real advice I can give is don't be a NEET unless you have a trust fund or an inheritance of some kind.

>Personal advice is also appreciated.
Go back to college.
It's fucking easy.
Stop doing drugs.
Stop hanging around people who do drugs.
Put down the video games.
Severely limit your television consumption (or eliminate it entirely)
Find quiet spots to read/study.

College is fucking easy if you don't fall into terrible habits or surround yourself with people who aren't in a college mindset.

What do you want to accomplish?
First step is get a job, life opens up its doors to you in huge ways once you have expendable cash.
Secondly, think about what you actually want to do. If you want to have a college degree job, then start at community college and transfer into a 4 year degree after you have most of your GenEd classes out of the way.
If you want to do something that's more of a trade job or vocation, practical experience is the only way. You CAN make a life out of Underwater Basketry or Left-Handed Puppetry but it's fucking hard and you need to be GOOD.
If your interests are not hard vocations but rather practical abilities you prefer to profit from, consider entrepreneurship/"using the internet to make money off my niche". As above, this actually requires a lot of work and a lot more luck.

If you have no real prospects, join the military or buy a POS house with cash wholesale and fix it up and rent it, you can google the math needed to figure out your overhead and profit.

Whatever you do don't subscribe to NEETism, keep yourself on some kind of productive schedule of always doing SOMETHING to move forward. And read the fuck up on any literature about discontent.

DONT GO NEET, depression is a bitch once you go neet.

Dedicate your life to God.

Not OP but I don't think being a NEET is a big deal if you have the money to not need a job or college because you can still get out and socialize or pursue your interests without needing to work if you already have money. NEET life just isn't for complete introverts or the poor though.

Definitely don't want to be a NEET. I was thinking of getting a part time job (20 hours a week) that I don't hate too much, and spend the rest of my time working on acquiring and developing useful skills in fields that interest me.

What essential value do you see in a college education? I didn't drop out because the cursus was challenging. One of the major reasons was that I'm completely disillusioned with academia and see little value in spending so much time and money for a near worthless degree when the same material can be gotten elsewhere for virtually nothing.

I'm thinking I'd like to be a self employed type, but obviously that's not easy and requires a lot of dedication and time. That's why I'm looking to acquire some skills and select the one(s) I'm best at. Hopefully I'll manage to make some money off of it eventually.

Could you recommend some philosophers who offer convincing arguments towards the notion of faith?

Being a NEET definitely has its advantages if you're motivated to make the best of your time. Free time is extremely valuable, most people don't get enough, but I agree that it's pretty useless if you're depressed and spend it procrastinating. Definitely a pitfall I'll try to avoid.

I won't speak for anyone else, but I've never been happier since I became a NEET. I get to read as often as I want, I eat well, I go on long scenic walks, I see my friends, and meet new people. While others are stagnating, wasting away in offices, I'm actually improving myself, both physically and spiritually.

That sounds nice. What do you do for money? And what do you do to keep yourself motivated?

when you finally grow up and decide to get a job your career is going to be seriously stunted by the huge gaps on your cv bro, not a good plan

I worked for four years making a respectable upper-middleclass salary, all the while living very frugally. For now, if I'm short on motivation, which is rare, I remind myself that this lifestyle isn't sustainable.

Finally grow up? What does employment have to do with maturity? I've had several jobs, one of which paid handsomely. Nearly all of my coworkers, and even my superiors, were stunted, living narrow lives of unearned complacency. When *you* grow up you'll come to learn how detrimental most occupations are to one's spiritual health. You work to provide yourself with food and comfort, not because there's anything especially good about work itself (in most cases, there isn't).

>I was thinking of getting a part time job (20 hours a week) that I don't hate too much, and spend the rest of my time working on acquiring and developing useful skills in fields that interest me.
What exact skills were you wanting to develop? Because unless your family is fronting you the cash to mull about outside of college (which they may be doing, no judgment here) you're gonna want to work 40 hours a week.
Besides that still leaves plenty of time to develop skills and interests despite what /r9k/ memesters say, if you don't let media eat up all your time

>What exact skills were you wanting to develop?
Computer programming, woodworking, electronics. Hobbies include cooking, making music/art, reading and watching movies.
> Because unless your family is fronting you the cash to mull about outside of college you're gonna want to work 40 hours a week.
My calculations lead me to believe that I could survive off of 20h/week while still managing to save some money. Don't really see the point in working more if I have other occupations to fill the time.

The idea that comfort is the only thing that matters also leads to an extremely narrow life.

>Finally grow up? What does employment have to do with maturity? I've had several jobs, one of which paid handsomely. Nearly all of my coworkers, and even my superiors, were stunted, living narrow lives of unearned complacency.

Maybe you should have gone into a career you actually enjoy instead of falling for the stem meme due to lack of imagination

Lots of people got memed into the working class mentality where they essentially live to work rather than work to live. They don't understand that with certain types of employment conventional wisdom about needing to work into your late 60s+ before you can retire doesn't really apply. If you made 100k a year or more and saved most of it you could have that last for a few years without doing anything if you lived frugally.

well we can't all have the judeo-protestant work ethic. are you brown by chance?

there would be nothing wrong with this attitude, as under capitalism we all free to choose how to allocate our resources, in this case time. however, people like you never seem to really be content and eventually end up bitching that someone who worked harder than you has more money and nicer stuff than you and then you start calling for more taxes to distribute the fruits of their labor to yourself.

Fellow college dropout here. I said a novena to St. Joseph a couple weeks ago to help me get a better job, and ever since then I can't stop thinking about becoming a priest. It just doesn't seem worth it to me to kill myself working for material things that I don't enjoy and will only make my life more complicated. I wonder if this is the answer for other patrician Veeky Forums-tier Veeky Forums types; maybe I'm not drawn to the priesthood because I'm a loser, maybe I'm a loser because I was meant to be a priest.

Anyway, sorry to diary, just wondering if anyone else felt the same. There's something seriously out of whack with a civilization where there is a surplus of writers and a deficit of priests. Maybe the scales need to tip in the other direction before culture (and even secular culture derives its strength from the health of the Church) can begin to revive itself. Maybe we were just born at the wrong time, anons...

there's a shortage of priests because the number of white catholics is dwindling and browns can't hold their nut and don't read

No, I'm not black, brown, hispanic, asian, middle eastern or whatever your ethno-memes about muh work ethic make you think I am.

>people like you
I don't know who these "people" are or what makes them "like me" but I don't care how much anyone else is making unless I'm thinking of getting into their field. I like how you convinced yourself that I'm some kind of socialist or commie strawman who's perpetually dissatisfied and wants redistribution of wealth for no apparent reason. All I'm saying is there's no reason for someone's entire life to necessarily revolve around work and that making however much you need then getting out is an option people don't even consider before some arbitrarily mandated retirement age even if they technically don't need more money. That has absolutely nothing to do with socialism.

>What essential value do you see in a college education?
I think the real world is going to hit you one day; when it does, you will either realize how valuable that degree would have been (even if you yourself didn't value it but society does), or you are going to be arrogant and blame everyone else for your future struggles and problems.

Good luck, hope you make it son.

reach out to people in your prospective field and area and see about interning or shadowing them

This is probably true. The idea of studying Aquinas for 6-8 years sounds super comfy to me though. Don't know how well I'd do in a parish environment but they'll probably take anyone at this point.

Penn & Teller: BS! - College

College degrees will lead us to future happiness, enlightenment, fun, preparation for life, a fulfilling job, as well as national prosperity. At least, that's what we've been told and sold. That's brochure bulls***! Been to a college lately? Rather than beacons of enlightenment, colleges have become bloated 400 billion dollar a year corporations, islands isolated from the real world, treacherous minefields where free speech and individual liberty often get trampled. And not only that, but going to college offers no sure path to an enriching life..or even a blue-collar job

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