Hello,
I only recently started using reddit. A fascinating community.
I am 30 year old male in the US. I have a car payment and phone payment, and I rent a house. I have been too trusting of family in the past and have terrible credit because of it. I am working on that, and though it is taking time, it is working. I have a girlfriend(Things are great there). I have a son with an ex, and recently she has gotten on medication for her anger issues and gotten married(He is a decent guy, and has helped get me to see my kid). All in all, things are pretty good in my life.
My problem is that I recently(about a year ago) started working on my financial problems. During that time, I was working part-time as an aircraft mechanic(A job I did not expect to enjoy). This was basically taking a few trips a year, and a week or so of training per month. I was also working at a company selling servers to large companies. I was the one that built and installed the servers. The job paid around 15/hr, and was the most I ever made at a job. The problem was that people kept leaving, and we only had one person per job. A month into the job, I was building and installing servers and PCs, shipping and receiving, organizing the warehouse, making trips to the hardware store so that I could build furniture for the office, helping the new girl with the RMA stuff, and sorting through the RMA stuff for the last 15 years because there were items that were never closed. I was drained, and the bosses did not care. I did like my job though.
Then the mechanic job offered me a full-time slot for $30/hr. I was paying off debt and was getting close to being done with it, and I was building savings. It seemed like the right thing to do. So I left the other job, I gave them 2 months notice, and wrote instructions on each position I was filling so that it would be easy to train replacements. I even stayed in contact with one of the employees and answered any questions he had.
After a few months at the new job, I am unhappy. I love the work I do, when I get to do it. Trips don't happen except maybe once a year. I am in meetings and doing paperwork(unrelated to my field) and might get to work on a plane for a few hours a week.
I have been depressed lately, and getting up to go to work is a struggle. I am not sure if it is that I am not where I expected to be at age 30, or the job, but I feel like the job is leading me to reevaluate my life.
I grew up wanting a job in IT. I have to help most of the people I work with, because they do not understand computers. Everything I have done, minus the last job, was all just hobby stuff, and helping friends. I have no degree. I have enrolled in a community college. I feel like I set myself back by not going to college when I should have(my dad was very ill so I stayed home to help with my brothers and the bills, getting extra work since my father could not work). I also do not know if I could even get a decent job when I graduate.
I just do not know if I should stick it out with this job until I graduate, or do I leave and take something that pays way less? I have applied at other IT companies and they have said I was not at the level they were looking for. Would it be an option to start a computer repair business or something along those lines? From what I have seen, people do not fix their computers often anymore.
My previous employer is not hiring at the moment. I have already talked to them. I am suppose to have lunch with two of the bosses this Friday just to catch up.
I am just at a loss. I am so tired. And I feel so old. Any advice would be appreciated.
Submitted April 18, 2017 at 09:43AM by SadPandaLoves http://ift.tt/2pvg2qE
