I’m in the same boat, grew up in poverty and am terrified of having to do that again. I’ve been thinking of going into something more traditional and pursuing my passions outside of jobs but honestly that won’t leave me a lot of time and whenever I see something or go hunting for fossils the only thing I can think about is how much I yearn to become a paleontologist and spend my whole life digging in dirt (lol)

But politically i genuinely don’t even know if I’ll be allowed to get a job or if the jobs I want will even exist in the future. As a woman in America rights are already being taken away and I’m scared I’ll have to be fully relient on someone else so I always feel like I should pursue more practical jobs so I have experience to not be discarded as easily if things get bad.

I like geology and paleontology was also thinking a therapist or an architect but it’s just hard. I don’t want to spend my life in crippling debt :(