Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

People *can* change. They just can't usually do it by force of will. If you want to be a very different person, you'll probably have to put yourself in a very different environment under very different incentives/constraints & you'll probably have to burn your ships behind you.

I think if you're very unhappy with your life, there's hope for you; the odds that you're in anywhere near the best habitat for the unique creature that you are is very low. Many high potential people are unusually high maintenance & few environments really work for them.

Plot your escape. Have a fallback plan, but not an easy one. Hitting escape velocity is hard, but you only have to maintain it briefly. Move somewhere new, maybe near your online friends; take a new job; throw yourself into an unusual situation. This is your life

I'm stuck and halfway through this ordeal called an engineering degree. Haven't paid attention to the light of day or human warmth in years. Pretty miserable but can't exactly move somewhere new now can I? One's got to serve the rest of his current sentence or contract first.

Depends; I dropped out of college one semester short of earning my degree & it was one of the best decisions I ever made

I'm guessing you had a fallback plan in your case, other degrees or certified skills to put on the market. I can never tell if I'm just whining and should push through it, or if my...reluctance is a legitimate sign. One semester short...You must've had that dilemma pretty settled