What do I do with my life after high school? Graduation approaching

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>Social pressure forced me into college.
>Parents paid for most of it.
>Waffled on what I wanted to do the entire time.
>Settled on Psychology (lmfao, amirite?)
>Realized too late (last two semesters) I should've gone deep into either applied/pure mathematics
>Got a job out of school, but fucked up a lot, developed really bad depression and quit.
>Been trying to piece my life together for the last several months
>Parents constantly trying to hang out with me
>Constantly declining
>Dad asks if I'm alright
>Broke as fuck
>Contemplating suicide
>Might try selling my body to other men to make rent
>"I've got my health."


Overall, based on my experience, I'd say college is a pretty shit choice if you're not sure what you'd like to do. School is a vehicle for becoming a professional, but if you're not sure what you're doing there, you can't ask the right questions or meet the right people.

>>18078159
Fuck anon sorry to hear that. Definitely seems like things kind of suck after high school. I'd like to not go to college if I can avoid it, but doing something like creating an app seems hard

>>18078259
To be more constructive rather than just bitch about myself: looking back, there was nothing specific I wanted to do with my life. There was no one occupation that really called to me. That isn't to say that I wasn't interested in anything. I was interested in everything and any of those choices would have been just as good as the next. What was most important to me was being free of bullshit.

What I really wanted was to fix other people's problems. If I would've invested my time in high school learning a trade like auto care, I think I'd be pretty proud of that. Similarly, if I had spent my time in college building a career for tutoring math, that also would've sufficed.

I'm working on that tutoring career now, but I thought of it way too late in the game, so now I'm dragging ass. If I had started working on it a year earlier when I was drowning in free time and resources, I'd have avoided the catastrophe of the recent year.

University is a meme. You can make a living without a degree and you aren't guaranteed a job if you have one. I really don't know anyone personally who has a college degree and uses it.

My last girlfriend was the most extreme case. She got her bachelors, spent just a year in her field, realized she didn't love it (after so many years studying it), quit, started managing a movie theatre, can't pay off her massive debt, and basically relies on her dad for everything. I had already opted out of university, but that clinched it because I knew too many people with similar stories.

Asking a seventeen or eighteen year old to decide what he or she will do for a living for the next forty years is too much. Get a job and take some courses at a community college. Maybe get an associates degree. Take that time to experiment and find something you're really into.