Blurgh, sorry guys, but i'm gonna have to...
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ramble more about the things that make me sad aaa
So i'm sure that all most some of you, by now, have read that i'm having severe doubts about my study, so i'm not going to go over that in great detail again. Further introspection, however, reveals two distinct sides of my existence right now: the classic happy jolly side, and the persistently kind-of-miserable side. The problem here is that the latter is my default state when i'm not distracted about the reality at hand. The reality is this: What i'm studying right now has excellent employment opportunities, but i have the wrong gut feeling about it. Everything i actually want to be doing has TERRIBLE employment opportunities, and/or requires a shit ton of luck/work in order to sustain a living. Mom is perhaps a liiiiiiittle bit too emotionally invested in me doing well, and in general has some fairly annoying anger issues.
This translates to a bothersome conundrum: keep at my study and potentially feel miserable for the next 3 years, or try to figure out what i would rather be doing, at the risk of invoking Maternal Wrath(tm). I would not be hestitating nearly as much if i didn't live under my parents' roof, but as it is when you've turned 18, they are legally allowed to kick me out. Dad probably wouldn't, since he's generally a lot more reasonable about things like this (preferring to say "it would be a good idea if..." rather than "you really should do X but i guess you just want to live as a bum"), but mom? Well, she's always a ticking time bomb. She has exploded about perceived slights before, but today she took a full-on sarcastic retort without doing so. This uncertainty is possibly even worse than a guaranteed rage. I know she's a human, and she has her flaws, and i still love her. I just don't think she has ever exited "i'm your mother i'm always right"-mode when talking to me. I really wish she would TRY to look at it from my perspective, because she's extremely quick to say "i think that's a bad idea and so should you, and by the way i'm offended for some unknown reason".
I feel trapped, plain and simple. And i hate feeling trapped.