I get insecure when i'm reminded of college

Trade school is da best option because these days niggas just wanna be sittin behind a desk doing faggot work. We losing our real men. Plumbing is a good trade to be in because you get paid fo putting up with people's shit

You should feel insecure, going to college is one of the easiest things ever and everyone does it now. You can barely even get a job without a degree now.

Insecurity can be beaten but I believe in you.

I believe in everyone.

I understand where you're coming from, but you have to see that this is not a positive approach to life. You can't change what you did in high school, and it's not helpful for you to be preoccupied with the mistakes you made then and to berate yourself for not being able to take the long-view back then. The best way to deal with this is to learn from your errors of judgement and resolve to do better.

It seems that the challenge facing you right now is getting your driver's licence. So what are you doing about that today? Are you going to take some small step towards achieving that goal, or are you still stuck in your high school mindset of knowing what you should do but actually not really giving a shit?

I'm sure you feel all grown up now - most eighteen-year-old people do - but there's nothing that you've done in your life so far that has to determine the path the rest of your life will take. You shouldn't allow yourself to continue to drift without direction, but you still have some time to figure out where you want to be when you hit the prime of your life in your thirties and forties.

As far as college is concerned, you really shouldn't worry about this. Since you didn't do well in high school, that suggests you're not an academically-minded person, so you probably would find higher education frustrating and unrewarding.

Becoming a plumber or one of the other skilled trades is far from the worst choice you could make now. There's very little chance that plumbers, electricians and heating and cooling engineers will soon be replaced with robots, and those are jobs that can never be transferred to some sweatshop in a low-wage country.

It seems to me that the main thing you should be doing now is accepting responsibility for your life and taking a step forward. Going to school to become a plumber doesn't mean that you're then committed to being a plumber for the rest of your life. Maybe you'll find you really enjoy the work and you will be, but it's possible that once you're working in that field you may come across something else that truly fires your enthusiasm, and you'll then have the maturity and financial foundation to pursue that dream.

Most college ppl get shitty paying jobs anyway. Start some apprenticeship and learn to roof or build houses. Eventually you can become a contractor and make like 5 grand a week