I'm from Chicago area, lived in the city for 4 years then moved to Nice part of LA. However im somewhat depressed bc I been struggling to find a good job. I have 2 friends.. One is older and married, skate/beers once a week, and he's likely moving somewhere else in near future. The other doesnt care about anything but skating, and is pretty transactional. Says hes down to skate whatever, but in reality just wants to go places that are convenient for him, and basically just buys me a burrito and then expects me to give him rides when we aint even in the same area. Neither of us have hit each other up in weeks.
It seems like a lot of successful people around this part and I'm not one of them. I just love hiking in the mountains, amazing weather, and skatespots, but thats pretty much it. Dont really have anything going for me, its like a vacation ive overstayed, and like groundhog day. But thinking to move back to Chicago. Parents are there and getting older and lifes just easier there. Also my brother lives in Austin, I've never been but I'm visiting next week.
At this point I think I just quit apply for jobs here, and focus on Chicago or possibly Austin
Had a gig job since Sept and used to make me decent money, quickly turned unreliable, and basically unemployed getting like $400 from unemployment. I dont want to live here and work a BS job a 18 year old or anybody with a pulse could get. Even with a degree a well paying white collar job is hard to get. Im just tired and sort of stopped trying, worried I'm going to be underemployed forever. If thats the case I think I'd be happiest having some whatever remote job getting American minimum wage and live in Bulgaria where I was born, have some family. I'd have a currency exchange advantage, and travel around to other places in and spend time in south east asia and the such.
Lost optimism awhile ago. Tired of everything