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The original was posted on /r/relationships by /u/throwaway48928 on 2024-01-23 23:44:39+00:00.
I (26F) am concerned about my brother (33M) who has never had a job
My brother is 33 and has never had a job in his life. He has been trying to get his accounting degree for the past 8 years and he is still not finished school. He stays at home and does nothing. Now he is saying he doesn’t even know he wants to be an accountant. That he doesn’t understand why no one calls him for an interview.
After high school my parents pushed me to become a doctor. My first degree was in premed and I failed to get into medical school. I fell into a deep depression back then. I worked for a year and then I decided I wanted to pursue nursing, because I still had the desire to work in health care. Now I have two degrees worth of loans. Currently I work as a health care aide while I’m in my last year of nursing school.
My dad has never worked and my mom worked 2 jobs.
I am in my last year of nursing school and my parents expect me to take care of everything when I’m done school. To take care of them and my brother. They take out all of their anger on me and every single day I am called a failure. They have put me in thousands of credit card and loan debt helping to pay for the family.
I feel a lot of pressure. Right now I am really concerned about my brother who has never had a job and my parents are telling me to do something. But I don’t even know how I could help him when I can’t even help myself.
TLDR; my parents expect me to take care of the family, especially my brother who is in his 30s and has never had a job