I can't do social work. I just can't do that type of job. Since I was a kid I didn't do well in social contexts and did poorly when it came to working with people in need of help.

Yet my parents always pressured me from a young age to become a social worker and so did other people. There is a worker shortage in these job fields where I live.

I did years of studying and internships just because other people wanted me to yet I could never really get good at it and it ended up making me so depressed that I nearly killed myself. Last year I finally left this career after a therapy visit.


Everyone is furious at me. My parents call me a failure every single day. They keep saying stories of their family members who are social workers and telling me that I should "just be like them". They don't get that social work is not for everyone. They dont get that I cant force myself to do it. I don't know why after 6 years of failure in this job sector people still try to get me to do it.


I'm so tired of their shit. I wasted years of work in a field that I did not care about and they still have the audacity to call me lazy and spoiled. Since I dropped out I've been doing gruesome work such as field work for extremely low pay for very long hours but in their eyes I am still lazy.


They tell me they are planning to leave me here to starve and run away to another country. I dont make enough money to support myself because my job doesnt pay much.