>>12101491>>12101514There's different degrees of living innawoods. I'm in Australia and my granddad (and uncles + other relatives) has lived innawoods on and off for a lot of his life.
If you go the route of owning a large outback block (quite cheap and easy) then building a decent liveable place on it you can be fine. It's not as out-there an idea here as it might be considered in other countries. You could even remain on-grid in terms of electricity/telco pretty easily. Or go solar/satellite for a hybrid approach. You can still do semi-regular stock runs to keep well supplied without having to worry about being 100% self-sufficient. There's decent infrastructure in place here for supporting people living outback which you can take advantage of.
>>12103095Poor choices in career, nothing in CV that stands out, no previous experience because you failed to apply yourself during uni and thought getting a piece of paper alone would be enough. Those are the typical issues I see, especially the latter*. That's not to defend the boommer 'millennials are just lazy/going into useless degrees' argument, the reason so many people did that is because it's what their boomer parents did and what they were told to do. Boomers blaming the children they raised for making mistakes is the stupidest shit. If your children are failures it's your fault as a parent and there's no two-ways about that.
*I worked part-time as a lab tech while at uni, got a casual lab demonstrator job straight out of uni and an industry job 6 months after, through my experience (and good worksmanship) in that job I was then able to get promoted to a position where my peers were PhDs. It still wasn't easy to find a job but I knew that going into my career because there's not a lot of opportunities in it. I checked job boards before picking my majors and elective units to make sure I was going into something that at least had some positions available. More opportunities in other fields but less interest.
