
Originally Posted by
Celtic_Sea_lily
I'm not looking for sympathy...ok I am!

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Originally Posted by
Celtic_Sea_lily
I'm 33 (soon) and feel like at the end of my degree I'll have a career but not much else
You chose your degree and career precisely because it'll give you so much more than a soulless rubber-stamped entry into the economy.
Don't be bothered by being 33. You have the enviable privilege of not having been forced into a cookie-cutter, pressure-cooker career path at a tender age, only to burn out, coping only with large quantities of alcohol and/or turning into an utterly awful person. I've know plenty in that boat, who, on the surface, had all the career tickboxes checked. Mostly lawyers. How can I put this... let's just say that if I had to prioritise oxygen, I wouldn't give it to them over you.

Originally Posted by
Celtic_Sea_lily
at this rate I don't think I'll ever be able to own my own home, I haven't even travelled overseas yet and I'm feeling a little miserable about it all
Owning a house comes with its own unique set of horrors. I, for instance, can't get away from the necessity of slogging toward it, but why would you need to worry? You can't take it with you.
And travel... is great. But, IMHO, the most meaningful experiences in life come from within our own minds. Make of that what you will, but I think your psyche is perfectly capable of being whatever it wants to be, wherever it happens to be at the time.
Don't give up.
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