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Frustrated Over Being Unemployed, Man Dies By Suicide After Burning All His Degrees
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Despite having a degree, which shows that you can do the job, employers still ignore your application, or reject you.
Now, college students have a thing called loans. Whether or not you have a job, those loan providers still want to be paid.
If the student can't pay the loans, and their family cosigned the loans, but they can't pay it, then thats a LOT of pressure from family, and everyone involved is going to have a bad time.
My degree is in game programming. I rolled a nat 1, I guess, cause all the gaming jobs are abruptly disappearing this year, and I just graduated last year. I've given up on pursuing a job for a game company, for now.
I've been in the red a couple times. I'm barely afloat as it is. During December and January, I was thinking about either suicide, or abandoning my life. Going on the road.
But I didn't have the strength to really do it.
I'm at about $130,000 in debt. I am working minimum wage. And entry level for my field is 60-90k.
You can imagine how gutwrenching it might be to be that close to having a liveable income, when you were raised poor, and you've only had minimum wage jobs your whole life. Now I'm back at a minimum wage job, and I have to pay ~$1000 a month in just school loans.
So...I can relate.
TMI , did you ever have any experience to go with the degree? Did you not work at all during college? why don't you start making some games that are worth two fucks and the money will flow champagne like at Gatsby's homie, back in the black!
Making your own indie games when you already have the skills and don't have college debt is a thing that already generally doesn't work out.
You are right, they should just give up and make coffee or hamburgers or something... What do they have to lose? If anything they hone their skills and get practice for when they find a job... and can show a portfolio of some projects worked on.Knowhatimsayin?
The problem in America is that more and more skilled workers are having to settle for making hamburgers because of shit like this. Good luck getting any "portfolio" shit done when you're working 2 unskilled labor jobs and still not making your monthly bills.
This also doesn't address the fact that employers give zero fucks about that stuff. Portfolios. Gimme a fucking break. It doesn't matter if you singlehandedly made an entire Linux distro, no one's going to care.
Shit like what? Are all the employers the same in your area? Are you working two dead end jobs right now?