Honestly, get into the trades. Welders, plumbers, electricians, carpenters, etc. I went to college to get a business degree and it wasn't worth the paper it was printed on.
Having a skilled trade, on the other hand, is a job that isn't easily shipped overseas. I'm an apprentice welder at a government shipyard and it pays well. Not as much as non-apprentice's do, but even with just three years under my belt, life is cushy.
I don't know where you live, but there are government facilities and military bases everywhere. Some offer paid apprenticeship training where they teach you how to do everything while on the clock. I'm in one of those apprentice programs now.
I found this job on USAJOBS.gov. it took a while to get through the hiring process, these jobs are highly coveted. And it's a lot of work, like really hard sweaty dirty work, but it's worth it.
I won't sugar coat it though, it's not a fast process to get into an apprenticeship. It's not an overnight fix. It will take time, time which you've already stated you might not have and I'm sorry.
If you need something immediate and you're in good physical health, I would recommend military enlistment. I joined the Navy some years ago, and though bootcamp sucked, everything after was easy street. If you're an inch away from homelessness, military would be a life saver. Do one enlistment which is like four or five years. You'll have steady employment, a steady paycheck, and plenty of time to plan out your future if you don't want to stay in.
There's a false narrative that everything and everyone is either left or right, liberal or conservative, blue or red. But it's simply not the case.
There are a handful of leftists in the Democrat party, but the vast majority are right wing conservatives. The Overton window has shifted hard to the right and most of the Democrats shifted along with it.
A Democrat politician today would have been considered a right wing republican extremist 40 years ago.
"Hey, I'm giving these guys some guns so they can kill all of you. But it's ok because here's a sandwich. Might want to eat it now, it'll be your last meal before they exterminate you."
I went on to enlist in the military, got out after one enlistment, and eventually became a machinist and shipwright welder. I'm working on my SCUBA & underwater welding qualifications.
In a high-school out in the boondocks of Texas, I was easily the smartest kid. Everyone else was concerned with their parents farm, chores, football, and dating.
Nobody was interested in reading or higher education, and the teachers put no effort into encouraging students to reach higher.
We're incentivized to lie to our employers. If they ask where we see ourselves in X number of years, any answer rhst doesn't involve that company is a red flag to management, and likely a reason to terminate your employment.
We live in an age where company loyalty and hard work translating into promotions & higher pay aren't real things. This is not the 1970s anymore, despite what many of our geriatric politicians say to the contrary.
These days, the only way to get a promotion or a pay raise is to quit and go work for someone else. Employers don't like to admit it, but that's the hard truth. There is zero incentive to work hard for, or be loyal to, any company.
Shared hobbies are often the best way to get your foot in the door. Book clubs, local events, concerts, charities, and religious locations are a good start.
A message from Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa, posted this morning to social media platform X, confirms we'll hear of Switch 2 "this fiscal year" - before the end of March 2025.
But the message also damps down any expectation we'll hear about Switch 2 in the next few months - as Furukawa rules out any further details being shared in an upcoming Nintendo Direct scheduled for June.
Furukawa wrote. "We will make an announcement about the successor to Nintendo Switch within this fiscal year. It will have been over nine years since we announced the existence of Nintendo Switch back in March 2015.
"We will be holding a Nintendo Direct this June regarding the Nintendo Switch software lineup for the latter half of 2024, but please be aware that there will be no mention of the Nintendo Switch successor during that presentation."
While I'm willing to concede that Biden is unpopular now due to recent events, the claim thst he's the least popular president in 75 years is laughably false.
Newsweek seems to conveniently forget about Trump, who's currently has 90+ pending criminal charges.
Conservatives are typically motivated by anger and fear. They tend to be less educated and more superstitious. They can be easily swayed by appeals to their religious beliefs.
Those motivated by anger and fear are far more easily tricked and manipulated by others with nefarious intent. They can even be deceived into going against their own interests, as evident by Republican politicians and their opposition to democracy and freedom.
Liberals are typically motivated by humanism and live-and-let-live philosophy. They tend to be more educated and less superstitious.
Democrat politicians have a much harder time trying to browbeat liberal voters to do their will. They're conflicted as they lose voters if they obey their rich donors, and they lose rich donors if they obey their voters.
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I feel so attacked right now đ