I'm almost 31 and live with my younger brother of 3 years. Some months I can pay rent, others not, but he's kicked me out to be homeless for about a week and let me back once I found a job, but I got fired. Got another job and got fired.
I'm fat and you could probably consider me an alcoholic. I'm also very short at 5'5 or 5'6 idk which. Routinely, I'll have 0 dollars in my bank account and will have to ask my mother for money she hardly has.
I see friends all around me making money. Sure, with their own issues, but working min wage jobs at 30, being fat, broke and short disqualifies me for a large majority of women.
Basically, in my mind, if I was able to allow my life to get to this point, why haven't I just ended it yet? I'll be 50 by the time I ever get it together, and that's probably me being some kind of department manager at lowe's or some shit.
Idk how to fix it all. Idk if I have time. My brother is getting married in September and I have till October to make SOMETHING of myself before i'm out of a home for good.
I need advice. I'm not a good employee. I probably have some kind of mental disability and people probably already have this notion of me being a loser and working retail. The only thing I have to my name is a real estate license, and I've sold a few homes, but it's a hard job and i'm fucked up and need money NOW.
Srsly considering ending it. Maybe I respawn a stronger person and not a beta bitch.
EurasianChad 1 2w ago
You have time.
Start now. Get on a basic fitness program & start losing the weight. Go on a walk and clear your head. Remember, for as long as you are alive, you have a chance.
whytehorse2021 4w ago
Here's a list of common thinking errors humans make, also known as cognitive distortions:
All-or-Nothing Thinking: Seeing things in extremes, like "perfect" or "failure," with no shades of gray in between.
Overgeneralization: Taking one negative experience and applying it to everything, like "I messed up this presentation, I'm bad at public speaking."
Mental Filter: Focusing only on the negative aspects of a situation and ignoring the positive.
Discounting the Positive: Brushing aside positive experiences or compliments as not important.
Mind Reading: Assuming you know what others are thinking, often in a negative light, like "They think I'm boring."
Fortune Telling: Predicting the future in a negative way, like "I'm going to bomb this interview."
Magnification or Minimization: Blowing things out of proportion (magnification) or making them seem less important than they are (minimization).
Emotional Reasoning: Believing your emotions reflect reality, like "I feel like a loser, therefore I must be a loser."
Should Statements: Holding yourself or others to rigid, unrealistic standards, like "I should be able to do this perfectly."
Fallacy of Fairness: Believing that everything should be fair, and getting upset when it's not.
Blaming: Taking responsibility for everything, even when it's not your fault, or blaming others for your own shortcomings.
Shoulding on Others: Believing you can control others through "should" statements, like "They shouldn't have made me feel this way."
Heaven's Reward Fallacy: Believing that good things will happen to you just because you are good, or bad things will happen to bad people.
Hopelessness: Feeling like there's no way out of a negative situation.
Always Being Right: Needing to be right all the time and having difficulty admitting mistakes.
Fallacy of Change: Assuming people can easily change to suit your needs, or that you can change yourself completely.
It's important to remember that everyone makes these thinking errors sometimes. The key is to be aware of them and learn to challenge them with more realistic and helpful thoughts.
Vermillion-Rx Admin 1mo ago
Look man, I hope you're being serious but you're gonna use slang abbreviations of words whilst on the verge of being suicidal with "6669" in your username and talking about respawning?
Dude. Fucks sake, come the fuck on... how are we supposed to take you seriously when you don't even take yourself seriously.
Just looking at this wall of problems, assuming you're actually serious underneath it all and that I'm giving an actually suicidal person advice, you have described numerous problems you should target immediately.
First of all stop drinking. Probably a huge correlation between that and getting fired a lot and also being fat and depressed.
Secondly. Stop burning and or fucking up your bridges in your life so that you actually have somewhere to stay while you get a couple paychecks.
Third. You have bigger problems than women. You need a stable income and stable living situation. That immediately eliminates most women but being short doesn't. Being fat you can fix. Met plenty of successful short men but you have far more serious issues.
You could have a stable apartment/roommate in 2-3 months of you stopped fucking up.
Well so you could be making big bucks with a skill and license you already have if you had your life together
BecomingABetterMan1 1mo ago
Where is your accountability in all this?
Saying "I just suck at everything" isn't being accountable, its an attribution error. Much like telling a child "you're a bad kid" when they do something you don't like... It's not that the whole child is bad - only the specific action.
What I'm getting at, is that YOU are not a fuck up, but you have fucked up. We all have.
So what specific actions have gotten you fired? How do you fix them?
It Doesn't take 20 years to get your shit together, and it sounds like if you can pull your head out of your own ass, you could land in a trade apprenticeship in no time making good money.
You are not a fuck up, but you have fucked up. Identify those fuck ups, learn from them, and move forward. Don't become a statistic.
Typo-MAGAshiv 1 1mo ago
I strongly second this.
OP @itsover6669: whatever job or career path you take, you need to fix this:
Fucking show up every day, and do the job you are being paid to do. Being a good employee is easy.
No, you just make bad decisions. Start making good decisions.
What other people think doesn't matter that much, and management in retail actually gets paid pretty well.
Forget women for now. You need to fix yourself.
You can have a decent job with a decent income within a few months, and kick your bad habits as you look for it.
Isn't that several steps up from where you are right now? Then why shit on it?
Lone_Ranger 1 1mo ago
This is the answer OP needs to hear.
Now you have heard it OP, are you going to listen?
Or are you going carry on living in a 24/7 pity party?
Intrepid_Place53900 1mo ago
Not really a RP type of question/issue.
Do you have any skills? Good at anything? Enjoy any type of work?
Stop putting people down, someone who's the dept manager at Lowe's is not a low life. I respect everyone who actually works for a living.
Who I don't respect is people who live off the system or their family.
In the meantime get a job and stick with it. Stop F'in around. Stop wasting your money drinking you can't afford it.
Get yourself in shape, Lose weight and start working out.
You can complain and say life isn't fair
or
You can stop bitchin and get to work
adam-l Moderator 1mo ago
One thing to keep in mind: thinksnthat come to your mind (i.e. your perspective) changes when your situation changes. The more you implement the changes towards stability that others have offered, the more opportunities will seem viable. That's a way to escape the despair spiral. It may not aeem bright today, (or even tomorrow), but it will, eventually, if you keep on an improvement track.
MrSupreme 1mo ago
Monk mode for a couple years, stop thinking about pussy,stop doing it for the pussy.Love your family as they are supporting you as much as they can. The realtor thing sounds good enough to invest some time on it, it can be profitable enough to get your legs out of the mud.
Just stop doing stuff for either women or to be an alpha dog. Be the best you can be,you're still young
First-light 1mo ago
First ff forget about women. They will make it all worse now. You need to concentrate on yourself and getting your situation sorted out.
Maybe you do have a mental disability but your mind is all you have and you have to find a way to make it work for you. You need to get in control of your mind somehow and be a better employee or start your own business (where you will have many more employers who all need treating even better).
Making your mins work will be a two fold thing on one hand you need to just make yourself do better but on the other you need to work with your strengths and avoiding your weaknesses, so think about what things can do that. Clearly if you can sell houses you have something going for you. People must be capable of trusting you and you can understand what they want. You don't sound like a total failure to me. It sounds like this is a hard patch where some habits need to change.