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I can't cope with bureaucracy. Everything's too complicated these days.

I live in a country area in the UK, very isolated, and the result is I would have to travel 1 hour to get to a college.

There are no jobs around here and I don't know anyone. I'm 30 years old and I don't know what I can do.

For years anxiety has crippled my ability to work or do things with people. I'm trying my best to conquer that via dietary changes and developing interests that help my self-esteem.

But I just feel despair. I know I have my whole life ahead of me but all I've seen in the past few years is hopelessness. Since 2007 the suicide rate in the UK has increased gradually every year. Cuts to services are leading to crises such as overcrowded trains, miserable university students paying big fees and young workers not being able to afford housing.

Where is the hope?

I have talents but nobody is interested in them. It seems to me the herd only wants what the herd has always wanted. If you aren't a Christian, football loving, beer swigging, happy-go-lucky joke teller then people don't want to know you. I have no friends. I can't find anyone to talk to who will talk about what I'm interested in.

Even on this message board in the past I've been bullied by other people for having a niche interest many others don't have. There was nothing offensive about it such as racist, sexist etc. It was just simply something other people didn't like and they mocked and insulted me with abandon.

If you don't mind me asking, what's this niche interest of yours?

The "they" is some people. Cant be the majority of people here.

As for the rest, I understand why you despair. For me it helps to help occasionally others with their paperwork. I am much better at other people s paperwork than at mine, sometimes we manage to get what the person has the right to get, and at other times we dont, but then we can at least mock the people and that helps, too.

I also always wanted to join some organisation or political party; maybe that is why I had always wanted to live in a city or close to it. I am German and a multi-party system makes it a little easier to get involved; not much though, I have to admit that I havent managed that yet, but I will before retirement, I swear. I feel now ready to do it. Nearly at least ...

But for me it is the small acts that really count. I think there is no other way to create some hope than making things a little better, and your post IS making things a little better already. At least it has risen MY fighting spirit.

It's something to do with the occult. From what gather interest in such things hasn't been popular since the late 1800s so I seem to be out of time.



Thank you.

Are there any jobs working on a country estate? Putting up and maintaining radio towers for wireless devices?
The old standbys of fishing and farming?

Here in the USA, I know someone who works for the Nature Conservancy--he overseas stuff like removing invasive weeds and returning land to the way it was before we screwed things up.

I also know several professional gardeners. One is a rose specialist--he has customers who need their rose bushes tended to. Another supervises at a big estate--she figures out what is necessary to keep the plants at their best.