I Am Completely Useless

I wish I was never born.

Really there is no point to me being here on this planet. My whole life is just other people telling me what to do and when to do it. If I speak up I am shouted down. I am 30 years old a virgin unemployed living at with my parents and grand mother. I am not allowed to do what I want. I get yelled out for not having a job or applying for them. An when I do apply I get yelled at for that too.

I have never had a girlfriend. But then again who would want to date a unemployed virgin living with his parents.

My parents have said I am not allowed to move out and that I should stay at home. All I feel like doing is sleeping and never getting up. I don't even know why I get up out of bed.
 

mikebird

Banned
I wish I was never born.

Not quite the quote. More a very accurate an true, honest announcement ready for when my Dad's funeral happens...

At the moment... Wondering if anyone would turn up at that apart from me.

Told by my socialite elder brother that we have similarities. He did one bar at their pub while Mum did the bigger, better one. Since those... 1960s? I was born at their hotel I never comprehended, until we moved to a fourth commercial property - the pub I lived in for nine years, separate from our family

I was a nightmare amongst nieces and brothers' wives, and the parents went too far on expenses for the best schools, just because the local next to the pub was rubbish. I had extensive health concerns - not mine - I laughed in hospital - Mum & Dad suffered. Their investment in me was the strongheld belief I had, to pay back everything back to all of the family. Times in jail & hospital made me a blacklisted, bullied family member, while I upheld the best principles of life which won't change,

But I've extended my family concept of a lovely world from WWII and 1950s where every person was kind and loyal

Sadly, anger is with me. But a huge amount of success has cherished by shouting at people, and on the phone, about insurance, medical issues, legal...
where my scientist and engineering attitude spreads to personal communication, physical, and even sometimes religious respect and human rights perspective attained from pure experience and experimental checks and action, and deep judgement of being subjected to oppression and bullying in real life. So much gained from simple matters such as my personal identification, where other people make mistakes and are prone to my judgement. It's never gone wrong. If it ever did, I'd say so, and learn from my own mistakes. In a bank, hospital, ummm... no mistakes made in court, disciplined, charged and subject to sentencing - accepted, as all my people watched. Sorry again to repeat... no.1 crime is to prevent a person's career from flourishing on groundless reasons.

Something I should put elsewhere in a thread: telephone ongoing experiment to change my plan. The root of my failure. Trying my standard outgoing answer message on my lifelong American Cable & Wireless desk phone with all the basics. Hiding from pickup with unidentified or even know numbers all day to revert of auto-answer - the little boy recruiter's psychological tactics of screening methods to see how the caller reacts to an answering machine. Master of all machines I am; it's human communication I simply cannot cope with. Trusting the standard message, which I see people think it's a little daughter answering, having me down as a multi-family man at home. Years of my own message composition of any type, such as send a text or email. Facts based on using the machine standard reams more reward. First time, I try it from my mobile!! My deep failure to think further... The human intercommunication has destroyed my mind. I blame the hardware at every stage. Mic, speaker, line... all messages left cannot be heard to a threshold of understanding. 36 messages on there when I emerge from hospital, making it my project to note each message thoroughly, after long amounts of speech, all I ever can draw meaning from is shouting, screeching, my own name, the word 'recruiter', 36 times. Now, after listening to my own personalised outgoing message by mobile in my bedroom is far to thin to hear anything other than slight noise. Tried a quiet or loud, shouting outgoing message. Sure all these years have bothered recruiters, like I have? £300 spent on any better phone has come to me, but the eternal headloop of spending more in a current dilemma to make thing worse. I have a POLYCOM conference phone on my coffee table with a good amp and handless. The best advantage is to disable the lowest volume ring on desktop phone which gets me jumping out of my skin in fright. I get a lovely purr from from the POLYCOM and full display and handset option with the desktop. Experiments reap experience of the caller moaning about hearing me, while I can for them, with a very adjustable volume. Maybe none of the three microphones work? Endlessly tried this either way. It's the callers that make the differences. I rely 100% on immaculate Skype quality, identification, my personal & business ID. Few recruiters play ball. 3 of those contacts remain, but the interchanges die after one related opportunity do discuss. The is my only chance at employment life. I even requested a check of my landline, moaning about the dismall dB level and uselessness, wanting an upgrade. Of course, an operator turned up. Dialtone success. All perfect. Rubbish. They get my fee for services unrendered. If I was the boss of that, I'd do the same. Oppressed peasants and minions line their pockets

My new tack is to pick up every call instantly, for now. It always made everything much worse for years, using that verve - subject to pure bullying, especially when I react with reverse bullying

Life... pending... shaking, after that post :crying:
 
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Hoppy

Well-known member
Your poor parents have issues. They do not understand about boundaries and they are scared that their poor little boy is going to leave the house and leave them alone. While you are there you can give them some purpose in life.

You are 30 years old, male and are obviously capable of looking after yourself.

I thought for a while giving you some advice, but if you are really useless like the title of your thread say, then it will not help much.

If you really want to get out of that situation, you will do it whatever anybody is going to say.

So, what are you going to do next?
 

Richey

Well-known member
I think that finding ways to be content and relaxed is worth seeking out before the full time job and moving out. Find your purpose and plan out what you want to achieve first. Work on fitness and health first, whilst you are at home, work on your identity, e.g. classy city look, indie rock look, semi-formal, something with swagger or a coolness to it.

Find ways to be relaxed and learn to live in the Now instead of focussing on future/past. That's important.

In the meantimes, i recommend going to a career coach or getting some interview training. Most of the time they are great and really helpful. It can be way better then trying things on your own, not knowing where to start. Seek help from the experts. The resources are there for that reason.

You're not useless. You are locked into a state of mind and your environment at home is just looping itself each day. I recommend trying your best to break out of that. Maybe you can choose some night/day classes in anything that interest you. Not because it might get you work, but because you find it interesting and educational. Try to see learning/education as a really "cool" thing. Learning how a car works. WOw....that would be so coool.....Learning about building or designing something......That is amazing ....i wish i'd learnt that year ago....etc...

Personally, i think some parents are just sh*%house at parenting and take the egotistical "yelling" approach. This never works. The best method is always to encourage and to stay positive.
 
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MotherWolff

Banned
Hi Lonelyguy!



I'm a little less than half your age and I'm kinda going through the same thing. Only difference is my father wants me to get a job, go to school, move out on my own, and become the independent young woman that I always wanted to be. You need to get out of that house as soon as possible. But you need to get over your mental obstacles too. I imagine you wouldn't do too well at work if you feel useless like that. Nothing will get done if you just sit there all day. I feel ya though about other grown ups telling you what to do like that. That's just not right. You have the right to be employed like anyone else. My mother is the main reason why I do not have any working experience. But that is going to change really soon. Do you have anyone close to you could help you find some work?
 

jaim38

Well-known member
If you are agoraphobic like me, getting out of the house can be hard. You are not useless. I suggest helping around the house doing chores like washing dishes, vaccumming, cleaning, etc. In fact, I used to feel completely useless but then started helping around the house. This gave me a sense of achievement and pride in knowing that I can be counted on to help. Start with this and give yourself a pat on the back once the hard work's done. Plus this can be a good learning experience.
 
My parents are driving me towards the end. They are always fighting and yelling. All I want to do is leave but I have no money and no where to go. I am sick of living in this house. I am always in the middle it is really depressing. I wish I could go to sleep and never wake up.

I am always going to alone and with no money. I will never make of anything of myself.
 

Lea

Banned
My parents are driving me towards the end. They are always fighting and yelling. All I want to do is leave but I have no money and no where to go. I am sick of living in this house. I am always in the middle it is really depressing. I wish I could go to sleep and never wake up.

I am always going to alone and with no money. I will never make of anything of myself.

I completely understand your situation, as mine is similar. It is so easy for people to say "move out, get a job", blah blah. But in reality it´s not easy at all, especially if you have no money for the start, not much skills or working experience, or the parents are taking away your sanity and coping abilities (= the opposite from being encouraging and supportive). It seems to me that people who never had such parents can´t imagine what it is like and what detrimental influence they can have on their children´s psychic.

Anyway, getting out is the best thing we can do, obviously, so keep trying to look out for ways, even if it´s hard.
 

Steelsoul

Well-known member
I may not completely understand you because i still go to school, but i have the same feeling as yours. Sometimes i feel useless as i depend on my parents of everything. They don't want me to have my own decisions and it's annoying. I think when i grow up and have a job, i will live on my own, without my parents.
You should try to get a job first. When you have money, you can do whatever you want
 

Pacific_Loner

Pirate from the North Pole
It is so easy for people to say "move out, get a job", blah blah. But in reality it´s not easy at all, especially if you have no money for the start, not much skills or working experience, or the parents are taking away your sanity and coping abilities (= the opposite from being encouraging and supportive). It seems to me that people who never had such parents can´t imagine what it is like and what detrimental influence they can have on their children´s psychic.

Anyway, getting out is the best thing we can do, obviously, so keep trying to look out for ways, even if it´s hard.

I think when people say "move out, get a job", they understand how difficult it will be in his (or your) situation. But when you're stuck in such situation, there is not much else that you do other than trying to get the hell out of it, and as fast as you can, since the longer you wait, the worst it's gonna get.

The only other advice that I could possibly think of is start your own business, or take your backpack and become a homeless traveller.

Which all means the same thing: Get out of your parent's house and start living even if it means failure after failure, humiliation and what else before you get somewhere you're happy: It's just worth it
 

Lea

Banned
I think when people say "move out, get a job", they understand how difficult it will be in his (or your) situation. But when you're stuck in such situation, there is not much else that you do other than trying to get the hell out of it, and as fast as you can, since the longer you wait, the worst it's gonna get.

The only other advice that I could possibly think of is start your own business, or take your backpack and become a homeless traveller.

Which all means the same thing: Get out of your parent's house and start living even if it means failure after failure, humiliation and what else before you get somewhere you're happy: It's just worth it

Homeless traveller. Hope you have tried that so you know what are you talking about. That is a nice romantic idea, but a very hard reality, which even if you managed to maintain for some time, it is no solution at all. Because you´d be out in the rain, filthy clothes, nowhere to wash, nothing to eat or some scavenge, scared to sleep from fear of being attacked. And you would not even know what you are doing that for, no purpose, no aim in front of you. And being homeless and broke, nowhere to stay, nobody is going to employ you so you have no hope. In no time you´d be back home to your parents.

There is nothing wrong with traveling or camping trips, but if they´re done like holiday and when you have sufficient money.
 

ukmale

Well-known member
Same here guys ... I am finding really hard to cope . How is a young 24yr old supposed to cope in a highly sexual world when I have a mircopenis I get laughed like I am some kind of freak of nature so what am I suppose to do .... No girl is gonna settle down with a zero sex live with a guy with a mircopenis so I am stuck it has made me ill and house bound and wow hate to think what the next 5yrs hold for me ... My life will never change as I am so bitter seeing happiness is everyone around me but never me I'm just a freak show
 

Lost Girl

Well-known member
Homeless traveller. Hope you have tried that so you know what are you talking about. That is a nice romantic idea, but a very hard reality, which even if you managed to maintain for some time, it is no solution at all. Because you´d be out in the rain, filthy clothes, nowhere to wash, nothing to eat or some scavenge, scared to sleep from fear of being attacked. And you would not even know what you are doing that for, no purpose, no aim in front of you. And being homeless and broke, nowhere to stay, nobody is going to employ you so you have no hope. In no time you´d be back home to your parents.

There is nothing wrong with traveling or camping trips, but if they´re done like holiday and when you have sufficient money.

There are alternative ways of living, many have, many do. I'm sure there are even ways of living without money entirely *gasp* :eek: The thought...
 
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