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Why are we seeing so many whinny early-20-something 'I failed, I'm doomed' posts on here recently?

Is there something wrong with the education system and culture that teaches, if you're not perfect, you're a failure?

Honesty, at 22, you haven't failed, you've barely started. Come back at 40 and 60.

Have you been unemployed in the early 20s without a degree and desperate to find a job while nobody takes you seriously and you only get ghosted or turned down, while job ads seem to keep raising the bar all the time? It is a horrible horrible feeling.

Yes. And again late 20s. And 30s. Each time, I lived. And adapted (and improved).

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