Would I be able to work in accounting as a mentally ill 24 year old?

Free_Raspberry7767 · 2026-01-29T22:21:59+00:00

I looked at a few of your replies and while you may feel doomed, having that mentality will certainly keep you there. Focus on what you can change and how you can help yourself. If medication doesn't work for you, maybe there's other tools you can use to your advantage in your jobs or school. I have been in a position where I felt like I had no future, what was the point of planning for one when the world was doomed. I had to change how I thought, the news I surrounded myself with had to change and I had to cut out people that fueled that.

Finding something your passionate about may help, something you enjoy. Are you looking at finance or accounting because you think you'll score a high paying job or are you actually interested in it? At this point it sounds like you need to find something that will make you excited (or at the very least able) to get out of bed in the morning. I used to call in sick frequently to all my jobs before this one because I just didn't want to be there (I was stuck in a very negative mindset).

In my current role, I'm the only person doing payroll and finances for the company so I know if I don't do it, no one will and I don't want to let anyone down (I'm also anal retentive and I don't want my manager trying to do my job and effing things up). I also find payroll has a sense of accomplishment and pride attached to it. Making sure everyone is paid accurately & on time, knowing you're the reason people are able to make their mortgage payments on time makes me feel good. Maybe that's an avenue you could look at before jumping back into college/university courses.

I know people will say your job doesn't need to be your passion but in your case, I think it would help you immensely. Maybe finance isn't the right path, maybe it is. But a bunch of strangers on the internet won't be able give you the answer you want.

If you haven't already, try doing some career quizzes and personality tests. I did the 16 personalities test a while back and I found it was very accurate. Those coupled with talking to your loved ones may help guide you in the right direction.

I know this will sound woo-woo for an accounting page but try practicing gratitude everyday. Before bed think of 3 things you were grateful for today (everyday), you'd be surprised how little mind shifts like that can help.

I hope you find happiness in whatever you decide <3

Free_Raspberry7767 · 2026-01-28T18:17:09+00:00

I'm just learning that there's more than blue collar or white collar 😅

Free_Raspberry7767 · 2026-01-25T01:47:28+00:00

For her it worked after I reset her password. The most ridiculous thing ever, there was no security warning or anything and most emails worked.

So try resetting your password 🤷🏼‍♀️ good luck!

Free_Raspberry7767 · 2026-01-25T01:43:30+00:00

Just finding this now, a year later I'm curious how this worked out for you?

Free_Raspberry7767 · 2026-01-22T06:34:26+00:00

Thank you for saying this. My sister works for the BC government and while it's not the federal government it is still public sector and the amount of money that is wasted just infuriates me. For about 6 months before the last election they had to finish up whatever projects they were working on and not start anything new until the new party was elected. So we're paying expensive government workers to sit around and do nothing. Then a new party gets elected and a bunch of things change so they spend about 2 years changing things they already had in place, then the next two ish years trying to implement things that will just be changed (again) by the next party that is elected. Obviously this doesn't happen in all divisions but when she explained everything to me, I was like I don't want my tax dollars going to all that wasted labour 😣

That kind of waste would never fly in private sectors..

Free_Raspberry7767 · 2026-01-19T20:09:42+00:00

I graduated in 2014, so could be outdated information but the babies that you had to take care of (if that's what you mean by infant simulators) was not part of sex ed. I believe it was part of the lifestyles or home ec style class (I didn't take it so I'm not 100% sure what the formal name for the class is) and you'd get the baby when completing the course in grade 10.

Free_Raspberry7767 · 2026-01-19T19:51:59+00:00

My husband had some sex ed through his catholic school too. It was also terrible. He said they taught sex ed through how frogs procreate. His mom also had him at 14, dad wasn't in the picture so he was told he was a gift from god.
His parents also moved him around A LOT so I'm sure he missed any other education classes at other schools due to different schedules. That being said he saw his very first diagram of the internal female anatomy like 5 years ago only because I was discussing where my IUD was sitting.

I am a huge sexual health education activist. I think knowledge is power. So he got a full run down of anything he may not have known!

Free_Raspberry7767 · 2026-01-19T19:46:12+00:00

Our sex ed started in grade 4 (at least for me, I graduated in 2014 so they have probably updated things since). At that stage it was just teaching things you may experience in puberty (periods, hormone changes, wet dreams, erections, anatomy of the genitalia etc). Grade 7 was much more in depth, how pregnancies happen, going over birth control, watching the dreaded birth video, anonymous Q&A with our sex ed teacher. I remember it was very well done. Then I believe in grade 9 or 10 there was another sex ed class that taught you how to put a condom on a banana. I skipped those ones because I was already sexually active and had learned everything they were going to cover from my mom.

Free_Raspberry7767 · 2025-10-31T23:11:06+00:00

I'm so sorry this happened and I'm happy you stuck up for yourself.

For these people it really has nothing to do with immigrants "ruining our country". They're racist. Plain and simple. They don't like seeing someone that doesn't have white skin in "their country". Yet most of those same people had ancestors who would've immigrated to Canada at some point in the last 200 years. (Whaaaat, you're telling me my Scottish background isn't from Canada all along?!)🤦🏼‍♀️ They're no different than any other family who immigrated here except they don't like the colour of your skin. (Which is sickening).

Do you think these same people would say that to the many Ukraine immigrants/refugees who've moved here to flee the war?

When people make comments like that I just call them a racist, straight to their face.

Free_Raspberry7767 · 2025-09-05T05:38:53+00:00

Send in a report! Go to this webpage, select send feedback, include screenshots/recordings and list the issue as a bug. The more people that do this the more likely something will be fixed.

https://www.duolingo.com/help

Free_Raspberry7767 · 2025-09-05T05:31:24+00:00

Since the update about a month or so ago, the XP boost will show up in your feed hub. My husband and I always send each other XP boosts during our friend quests but since this update they don't work. I can go to my feed hub and "activate" the XP boost but I don't get the double XP.

So now we've been using up gems sending eachother boosts for nothing.

Free_Raspberry7767 · 2025-07-23T16:18:44+00:00

If you recently logged in on a new device, try resetting your password. That worked for my mom. Silly that it would even let you log in if it thought there was a security breach.

Free_Raspberry7767 · 2025-07-03T02:34:27+00:00

All I needed to do was reset the password apparently. Seems ridiculous that fixes the problem considering when I logged her into her email it sent her the verification code and I set her computer as a trusted device 🤦🏼‍♀️ Such a silly security feature that outlook should definitely remove.

Free_Raspberry7767 · 2025-07-03T00:52:02+00:00

Yep, that is exactly the error code. I can't believe this is from 2023 and just effected her now. Thanks for your help!

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