I guess one of the hardest things about all of this is that I don't know what all this means for my future.
I'm going to be forty years old in three months. Most women my age have a career, savings, a list of accomplishments. What do I have?
The last serious job I had was almost twelve years ago. Everything else was temporary, or I was fired, frequently because my ADHD made shit unmanageable. What savings I had were spent in the resulting periods of unemployment and depression. I've sold a few short stories, managed a web page, but otherwise I have very little to my name. And it's getting to the point in my life that it's getting harder for me to achieve or obtain those things. Even if I got a perfect amazing career now, will I have enough time to save money for our retirement? It's entirely possible my husband will never be able to work again. Can I support us both, in that case?
We are primarily living off benefits and the goodwill of our families. This is not the vision that I had of my adulthood independence.
I'm not sure that I'm capable of working a full time job anymore. And the jobs that I seem to be capable of doing are so simple and low-end that they pay very little. I have so little tolerance for any sort of pressure...even the jobs that I trained for seem terrifying to me now.
I don't know what I want anymore. And maybe that's a good thing, because I don't know that I'm capable of getting it.
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