If you were born in 2004-2010, I genuinely feel sorry for you...

If you were born after 2004, I genuinely feel sorry for you and you'll understand why in this video...

#selfimprovement

[woki]

the fact that a career advisor says "isnt that a bit too unrealistic" instead of trying to help is a horrible mindset to have as a career advisor in my opinion

[mr.purple]

“Isn’t that a bit too unrealistic” is unbelievably awful to say to a kid

[sarahismyalias]

As a girl born in 2005. To say that I've been overwhelmed and stressed for the last 5 years would be an understatement.

[mememme]

"If you don't feel happy about what you're receiving, look at what you're giving" - My dad

[VinkGD]

'06 kid here. There was a time in 6th grade where for an essay, I had to write a fictional story about literally anything. "Let your hand go crazy on the page". I wrote what I always considered, then and now, to be the worst story I've ever made and maybe even read. It was awful; I had so many grammatical mistakes, a bunch of plot holes in the story line, etc.

But this teacher, a couple weeks later, decided to have a 1 on 1 meeting with each student to talk to them about their assignment. I was TERRIFIED about this concept. The mere idea of having to deal with my bullshit story was something I wanted to completely ignore as soon as possible. Eventually, my name came up. Sweating profusely, shaking for my dear life, I get up to sit at a desk in front of my teacher, absolutely petrified about what's going to happen.

She then says something along the lines of this: "So... Vincent (that's my name). There were some issues with this text; obviously, you had a couple of grammatical errors here and there, and... your story isn't structured super well... but I noticed something while reading your story. You care. You had, and I'm not saying this lightly, the most passionate writing out of anybody in this class. I was reading this and felt actually invested in what you had written. I see something in you, a spark, a possibility. You have something special, Vincent. And for that, I'm giving you an A+. Now go back to the classroom, and make sure to keep everything that happened here to yourself."

Without her even knowing it, she changed my life forever. Despite my absolutely horrible story, she gave me a chance. She showed me that someone cared. She realized before everybody else, even me, what I would grow up to become.

I'm an aspiring filmmaker. I'm now in college, studying cinema, living my wildest dreams. Thanks to that woman, I know what I will do with my life.

The main take-away here, if you really want one, is to be kind. Be kind to others, and especially, be kind to yourself. You never know what kind of opportunities your kindness will bring, either to you or to others. Thanks to a random woman's kindness, I found myself. One day, you may find yourself too.

Good luck. <3

[unchartedland]

Born in 2008 here,

What you said is correct. I spent half of my life questioning if my career is even attainable. My family supports my dream, but even so its a lot of pressure. I would, no I will be the first person in my family to actually go to college. Its stressing but im trying to not let life pull me down. Sure i may be young, but its never to early to start planning your future.

I was told by somone once before that i should live in the now, not in the when. Hearing them say that i realized how normal it is for people to wait to start planning for their future. I realized that some people just hope something falls right unto their lap. I dont want to be like that though. I want to be prepared, I want to achieve my dream. Though i do realize that some dreams don't come true, im willing to take a leap of faith anyway. It's only up from here.

To anyone who reads this, we got this and no one can stop us. I would say the sky is the limit, but we can reach higher than that.

[kayytu]

“You are not behind. You are simply on your own timeline” HITS LIKE NO OTHER THING HAS HIT ME BEFORE 😭😭

[adjustedbrass]

99 here. Yeah, I'm an old man from last century.
This isn't a struggle unique to you kids. I had no idea what to do with my life. Still don't. This modern way of life is foreign to how we've always lived. I'm doing my best to sort out some sort of career.
Years into adulthood, I've finally realized that i don't have dreams or ambitions. I just want to live.

[minideanjr.]

I've never had a dream job. I always liked building or cement because my dad did it, but it just didn't stick. When people asked me I would say "I wanna work fast food" and all my teachers told me I needed to aim higher. I never meant that I wanted to be at fast food for my whole life, but I just didn't have a goal. Everyone around my is pushing to do this and that but I just want to live a life I'm proud of. I'm happy this video popped up because it's really inspiring.

[Nicholas-numr]

"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." -Ferris Bueller

[trollerthegreattrollertheg]

2004 autistic person here. Had a similar experience where my teacher said I'd make a fine "Walmart greeter". I improved drastically through Middle school and was then labeled to go into trades. Years of speech therapies, social conditioning along with study development later, I got accepted to an engineering college where I'm currently studying .

The system entirely failed to prepare me for proper life on my own. Instead assuming I'd never even get a job let alone live my own life. I'm sorry you had that teacher try to funnel you like that. It's ridiculous to ever assume a kid's fate when they can barely grasp simple chores.

[Faceless_cyote]

"ISn'T tHaT a BIt tO UnReaLIsTic" MA'AM YOU ARE HERE TO ENCOURAGE ME? I can't imagine being let down by someone who is meant to guide you :(((

[carbs_r_delish]

Born in 2010 here.

Yeah, I’m young. 13 years old. And I so, so relate to this video. My whole life, at school, it’s always been “You’re too young, you have time.” And “You have years, don’t worry about the future.”
No, Carol, I don’t have time. I don’t have years. Every choice I make now, *will* affect me in the future. Every decision, every pencil mark, affects me. I HAVE to worry about the future, because that’s the place I’m ending up. I have no doubt about it.

It’s why I care so much about the environment, people, and *everything*. If we don’t stop now, there’s not going to be anything to look forward to in the Future, because there will be no future. I’m worrying now, so I can live in the future. And not end up stuck in the past with no hope for anyone.

If there was advice I could give to the future generations, or anyone in general?

Care about the present. Because if the present is dying, there will be no future. No future to look forward to. No future to laugh in, to die in, to smile and dance and cry and get hurt in.

And especially, be yourself. It sounds cliche, I know, but if you just look at yourself right now. How does it feel around people, when you put up your facade? Does it feel good? Do you feel happy? Do you feel fulfilled?

The answer is: No. It doesn’t feel good, it doesn’t make you happy and it doesn’t fulfill you. It feels awful. *Because it isn’t you.*

You aren’t perfect. Humans cannot be perfect. And that’s what we are. Humans.

And with that, I have one last thing to say:

Being perfect isn’t real. It’s just not. The only perfectness in this world is imperfection.

Beautiful perfectly perfect imperfectness.

Edit: I am no longer replying to any comments underneath this one. If there’s any rage baiters, just report them and move on, they’re not worth your time. Thank you all for reading my comment, and sorry for the shitty way I’ve written my thoughts 😭 I was tired and sad when I wrote this.

Again, thanks for reading my little comment, on a big video, have an absolutely wonderful day :D!
-Carbs

[Sam_Hue]

“Don’t let others define who you are as a person.”

[viosey]

0:13 they totally rig the career tests to give you a teaching role because there aren't enough teachers. like sure i could be good with kids, but i'm also dumb as hell and have social anxiety, so it makes no sense for them to have given me primary school teacher because that's way too stressful for me. and on top of that my career advisor reccomended me a religious college like christian or catholic or whatever and i'm not even religious. really wasted an opportunity to actually help me. i'm an '06 kid and in year 9 i had no idea what i wanted to be. I'm graduating this year and i still don't. i'm doing a makeup VET class because they don't offer animation courses in my area, i already failed another VET course the year before because i thought it would have animation in it but it didn't and i couldn't figure out how to do half the work.. maybe i'll try writing or animating, but right now the only thing i can probably get is a job at kmart or the library. i tried working fast food because one of my friends was doing it and it was way too stressful for me.

[-Joseph-H-]

My mother taught me a very good lesson about feeling behind, and that is, the only person you can be behind, is your past self, allways compare to how far you've come, rather than how far you haven't yet reached.

[lucypenuel]

Thank you. I feel like gen z is one of the first to really document and share the experience of growing up in such a chaotic world (especially the 21st century). Not just by forcing acceptance of the existential dread, but in sharing the feeling and learning to move forward and trust that it will be ok. I’ve come to realize that all I’ve done more than enough and just reaching for the next goal is a great way to achieve lots and still find contentment.

[Paincreas.]

Shoutout to all of the kids and young adults here trying to better yourselves, I’m right there with you all. Very, very wonderful message Jak, thanks for sharing.

This is the kind of content I want to spend my time on: genuine, purposeful, uplifting interaction. And you know what, as we all continue to learn how to progress, discipline ourselves, grow, and learn- the more we will become compared to what we were yesterday.

And I think that’s pretty cool.

[BMO]

I was born in 2005, whenever something doesnt go right in my life i always say to myself "oh well it is what it it"

[sappy_]

3:33 I definitely felt that this year. Those career tests never really worked for me, because they always told me I should go into the arts. I love creative things, I love writing, drawing, music, but I know for a fact I would get so burned out if that was my full time job. So I went for computer science in college, because I was good at math, I enjoyed the programming classes I had taken, it paid well. That had been my plan since I was in eighth grade, but the further I got into the program, the more I realized that this field was not for me, and that took a lot of time to grapple with. And my parents and friends have been super supportive as I try and figure out what to change my major to, but yeah, definitely a curve ball that I didn't know how to deal with at first.