All these "I'm gonna lose my job, what do I do" posts are useless, if not just glowie demoralization.
Here's the deal:
The medical industry, the entertainment industry, the cosmetic industry, the retail industry, etc... -- all of them are a farce.
They are based on lies told to people to sell things people don't need. What's worse is that some actively lobby to craft an artificial ecosystem that requires their snake oil to survive, thereby making us slaves to THEIR systems.
All your degrees and certificates are just wood pulp saying you're a loyal slave. It says nothing of your ability to perform the job; a shitty doctor is still a shitty doctor regardless of degree.
If your job is mandating you kill yourself by injecting venom, it won't be the last time they pull that trick. By giving in, you're just moving the goalpost for them. They'll ask you to do it again, and again, and again; until you're dead.
In reality, your job is already gone. The world we're headed towards, no matter which side wins, already deems you obsolete. If you weren't "essential" AKA "exempt" you're already first on the chopping block for the depopulation effort.
Technology is so stunted, so controlled, and so corrupt that the "skills" you think you have are woefully depreciated.
The only ability that matters is the ability to learn. Not memorize, but learn. Once you've mastered the ability to learn, there's nothing you're not qualified for.
If they take you to that line, and you get fired, then take the time to learn how to learn. It'll be the most valuable thing you could possibly do.
You don't get it, do you?
Your job is obsolete.
You losing your ability to support your family is going to happen whether you take the venom or not.
What you are doing now is not what you will be doing in 5 years.
If you aren't dead from the venom or had been killed off for being too white or male...
Either you're gonna be in a gulag, not knowing where your family is or if they are even alive...
Or you're gonna be working in a new industry making hard-light matrices while your kids go to school learning how to build coral castles.
There's really no in-between.
If you haven't already prepared for the certainty you will lose your job, you've already betrayed your family. Now's the time to catch up.
Oh, and I do live at home. You wanna know why? Because I refuse to be a debt slave. Sacrifices must be made, and if I had to choose having a family or raising my family as a family of debt slaves, I'd rather just stay and help pay off my invalid parents' debts.
I could move out in a week if I wanted, but it would require me going into debt and putting my parents fending for themselves. That's the system THEY designed, not the one I prefer.
As it stands, there's no way I see to both have a family and avoid being a debt slave. So I'm doing the responsible thing and doing my best not to feed the system by giving them leverage over me.
They are holding your family hostage. You know that right? They expect you to pay the ransom, but they have no intent of giving your family back.
You don't get it, do you?
Life cost money. Rent/mortgage, food, gas, insurance. It could take months before this is all over who's going to provide for these people's families? Q? Who cares is once the plan is executed the jobs are obsolete the rent is due on the first and my kids need food.
"Oh, and I do live at home"
That perfectly explains your naive perspective.
Welp, there's your problem.
Money, money, money, money...
If Life = Money to you, then you really should sit down and think about what God equals then.
Says the manchild living at home. Not all of us want to live with mommy and daddy forever. Some of us like being independent and getting married and having kids all of which cost money.
Life doesn't equal money but a high quality life, which the most ambitious of us strive for, isn't just given to you.
God said we should be fruitful and multiply. Think you can support a wife and children with no money? Good luck with that.
You're calling me the manchild but here you are resorting to names and shaming me for preferring a simple life; shaming me for not wanting to be a debt slave.
I'm not telling you what to do, I'm warning you of the repercussions in what you've done and why I've chosen to avoid those things.
I think it's wonderful you have a high quality life. I think it's wonderful you have ambition. I think it's wonderful you have a family, I really do...
But I don't care about a high quality life. I don't care about money or possessions. I don't care about a family that doesn't yet exist.
I care about the family I have.
Of course not; not in this world at least. That's why I'm not gonna do something foolish and start a family just because others tell me I should.
Again, if God wants me to, then he'll send someone my way.
Why do you think it's so important that I live up to YOUR expectations?
Why shame me for living at home still?
Do you think you're on a more righteous path than me? Because, I don't think I'm on a more righteous path than you. I'm on the path that's before me, that's it.
What you call being a manchild, I call being humble.
I don't spend frivolously. I don't have vacations. I don't purchase beyond my means. I don't even know how much I make per hour. So long as I have more in my account at the end of the month than I did at the start, I'm satisfied.
You gotta understand, I DON'T WANT YOUR LIFE!
Not at the cost it will take, and from the sounds of it, that's a cost which is currently too much for you to bear.
So go ahead, call me naive. You're accurate on that point, but I'd rather be naive and free from worry than be overly ambitious and hounded by debt.
Ambition at the risk of debt is just gambling.
Ambition at the certainty of debt is foolish.
Also, the whole you can leave and start a family whenever thing is silly. Im not going to insult you but i will say stop living in denial, bud. Making excuses for where you're at in life accomplishes nothing.
Not making excuses. It's true, I can move out whenever.
The family part is not solely my decision to make.
I've never claimed to be perfect. I'm flawed just as much as you. I just don't care about those flaws anymore. If shit comes my way, I'm gonna keep trudging through it.
But there is absolutely no reason to make it harder on myself when I don't have to.
If God puts that special lady in my way, I'm game for it. If not, then I'm not gonna force it. It's in God's hands if he thinks I'm ready.