I'm only 24, and I went through trial by fire to catapult into running a multi-million dollar operation all by myself. I wrote a few algorithms and now I've got Fortune 500 executives swearing up and down how brilliant I am... which is not true, I just didn't sleep for months : ). And next week 30 coworkers are throwing a party to thank me for my work (which is unheard of!). I know, its silly I'm complaining and I'm sure nobody is feeling sorry for me, but all this sudden wild success and blessings has me overwhelmed. Everybody in my personal life is looking to me since I'm the only stable one (but I'm still starting out and trying to get my life together). My mom last year kept asking me for money to the point it got out of control. Then my older brother married a jezebel and had a sickly child who probably won't make it, and my mom wanted me to give him money to help him out. When my financial resources started to get strained, I finally told my mom no more, and while she got very mad she accepted the boundaries I laid out. Now Mom is asking me to help my dad get a job and get my younger brother an internship. I'm going crazy, I can't be everyone's keeper. i've only worked fulltime for 8 months and despite things going well I'm still starting out! I feel bad I've been harsh at times to my mom, but I can't let her use me anymore.
On top of that, most of my unemployed friends are jealous of me and stopped talking to me, and it hurts. I've tried reaching out but with no success. So many of them feel my blessings are undeserved, even though I spent my joyless childhood, high school, and college years buried in calculus, business statistics, and computer science deliberately planning for my own job security while everyone else partied. My remaining friends are all girls, because unlike guys my age they don't feel threatened by me. But even they have all become dysfunctional with difficult times. My best friend became really depressed and she is becoming emotionally detached from everything, and it hurts she is shutting me out. For all my friends that are girls, it's been awfully hard to find one stable enough to be my girlfriend.
Please just pray for my family and friends. Everybody in my personal life seems to be going through a catastrophe and coming to me for help. The rest are just shutting me out in anger or embarassment. I wish I could help everyone out but I'm still only 24.
On top of that, most of my unemployed friends are jealous of me and stopped talking to me, and it hurts. I've tried reaching out but with no success. So many of them feel my blessings are undeserved, even though I spent my joyless childhood, high school, and college years buried in calculus, business statistics, and computer science deliberately planning for my own job security while everyone else partied. My remaining friends are all girls, because unlike guys my age they don't feel threatened by me. But even they have all become dysfunctional with difficult times. My best friend became really depressed and she is becoming emotionally detached from everything, and it hurts she is shutting me out. For all my friends that are girls, it's been awfully hard to find one stable enough to be my girlfriend.
Please just pray for my family and friends. Everybody in my personal life seems to be going through a catastrophe and coming to me for help. The rest are just shutting me out in anger or embarassment. I wish I could help everyone out but I'm still only 24.
