I gave up completely on working in school, it was pointless graduating because my life will still be shit regardless if I graduated, My ADHD was neglected and my deaf right ear was the scapegoat for my poor performance. And I gave up working in school and just surfed the web and listen to music on the school laptops. The only reason I stayed because I thought my parents would use my lack of education and employment as an excuse to kick me out of the house.

I kept lying to my family that I was doing good in school until they find out. When my grandmother found out that i was failing she interrogated me about it I told her the reasons. Then she took me to school to officially dropout and had cried.

Fortunately I didn’t get kicked out. Now I’m trying to find a way to leave my family. And I am thinking of living in an rv

  • stink@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Gonna be honest, I know people who graduated high school who can’t even write a quarter as well as you do.

    You should go for that GED, not now but make sure to set a date for yourself and stick to it.

    You can get into the trades but it’s also not that easy to get a union job depending on where you live, the union trade school near me has a huge waitlist and it took my friend a few years of applying to get accepted.

    I have faith in you my friend!

  • darkcalling@lemmygrad.ml
    10·
    6 days ago

    I feel for you comrade but I really must advise you that unless your parents are wealthy and willing to set you up you really need either a HS diploma or a GED. You can get GED’s online often. RV’s are expensive, even used ones cost a lot of money and there are maintenance concerns. The type of money you’re going to struggle to get without a GED or diploma.

    I’d recommend if you think school isn’t for you that you get that GED, you find a trade, you get certifications in it or whatever and you start working on that path. I knew someone in a similar situation to yours, ADHD, only they lied about college not HS. They had dreams of van-life and things like that but didn’t do anything about it and though their parents let them live with them for a while what eventually happened is both retired, felt money was too tight and they moved away and left this person homeless. If they hadn’t had an uncle willing to take them in they would have been on the streets and in terrible danger but even so things are not that great for them.

    So I’d highly recommend getting that GED since conventional school doesn’t agree with you and then picking up a trade. Because life will be sooo much better and easier for you if you do those two things and it’ll give you the money and ability to move away from your family and live how you want in a secure way that retail work (where you’re often not paid enough to survive and have to roommate up) just often won’t in many areas (especially heading into a trade war with tariffs where retail could crash). You’ll have so much more to fall back on than without them where you’re going to kind of be a leaf on the wind which can sound kind of romantic but for every great writer who has that kind of bumming around and bumping into success as a backstory there a thousand people who are suffering and stuck on the streets sometimes until they die who tried doing the same thing but failed and were abandoned whose stories are never told in our capitalist society. Don’t think the odds will favor you, take care of yourself, be safe but get a plan, find a trade, get a GED. It’s some work and pain now yes but it saves you a lot of work and pain later and for the rest of your life compared to trying to go without.

    Looking at that list darkernations posted, pretty much everything there requires at least high school degree (or GED) and/or on top of that some certifications or community college.

  • Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml
    6·
    6 days ago

    Living in a vehicle isn’t so bad when you are young. Getting a job picking fruit in the summer is a pretty good way to make money with no education. Lots of places will let you set up on the farm during the harvest. If you work hard and stay money smart you can make enough in summer and fall to get by.