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I've been trying and applying everywhere, and no one wants to take me, and what's worse is my family is pressuring me too, saying I'm not taking it seriously, but I am, I'm trying. They always compare me to my niece, who is two days older than I am, saying she's more successful than I am in terms of getting a job, getting her own car and house. It's not fair it's not fair that I was depressed and no one helped me it's not fair that I get to see everyone around me succeed while I'm stuck in the same spot I was five years ago it's not fair that I get punished for something I couldn't control
it's embarrassing been 19 and writing this but I needed to get this off my chest
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Long story short: the job market is fucked due to insurance policies and oversaturation.
Insurance companies have raised requirements for liability and culpability to impossible standards, which resulted in the unreasonable rise in credential standards for hiring parameters. Employers demand impossible levels of certification from new hires in order to indemnify themselves towards their insurance providers. Insurers will fight tooth and nail to avoid having to pay out a claim, that's how they make obscene amounts of money. It's a fundamentally predatory system. They make you pay for a service, which they never intend to provide, and then use your money to lobby the government into mandating every business to enlist their service. Through these efforts by insurers the requirements for payouts have grown incredibly narrow during the past few decades, culminating in the status quo, where newcomers practically don't stand a chance.
As for low-skill labour, that market has simply been oversaturated by outsourcing, offshoring, and mass-immigration, resulting in depressed wages from a general disposability of human capital.