HamsterPants

I fully intend to make armor smithing the meat of my career, but that's because I already have entrepreneurial plans for the kinds of products I'll be able to bring to people. I took a look at that guy's work and his armor is very nice, but it's not quite at the level of quality that I'm hoping to achieve. If it is possible for me to manage, I would really like to master the craft and create works of art in the form of armor. As for the valuable skills, thank you for the advice. I definitely agree. Welding and metal working skills are invaluable to any steel craftsman. I already have experience with welding and know how to operate the equipment, I guess you couldn't say my education is recognized (and I could use a refresher course) but I've learned the ups and downs. Thank you so much for the input!

Thank you Bulbasaur. I appreciate you taking the time to reply in such detail. Your assumptions about my situation were accurate, so this advice was very helpful. I just needed to come here to ask because it's hard to find people who understand or respect my philosophical perspective. For most people, reluctance to participate in the system is synonymous with being a lazy detestable person. If I asked your average "old wise man" about this stuff, he'd just turn it on me and make me look like the bad guy. I was really tired of receiving that kind of response, so thank you. As for blacksmithing, apprenticeships are actually incredibly rare and expensive. Most blacksmiths these days are self-taught, but there are communities online which are very active and very friendly, so I will absolutely reach out to them.Your point about breaking the inertia in the beginning is very true. It's like trying to push a boulder, you really have to give it 100%.

Hello everyone.I'm currently 22 years old and I've got problem. I'm not sure how to go about carrying on into the future of adult life. My parents are causing a great deal of frustration for me, but because of how I've learned to communicate with them, it's impossible for me to be verbally persuasive about my feelings and my needs. It's very important to me that I make the right decision so I'm going to detail this situation in the best way that I can. I've been unemployed for 3 years, and I've never had a non-temporary job. The process of applying for jobs inspires nothing but apathy in me, to the point where, even if I got an interview, I've already stopped caring. I want to chase my passions in life and try to earn money that way. I've chosen that I'd most love to become a blacksmith (more specifically an armor smith) and to sell my works. There is a market for these products so that's not even relevant to this topic. The perdicament I have right now is how I choose to go about reaching that point.Currently I have no formal education. I have a GED, and I'm not particularly good at anything in life aside from the ability to retain lots of knowledge. I have no professional skills yet. My family is supportive of my career choice and is willing to financially support me in acquiring the education and tools necessary to make a living that way on my own.However, my parents absolutely refuse to take responsibility for the way that they have raised me. They blame all of my problems, and all of their parenting mistakes, on the claim that I have aspergers syndrome (or some kind of mental disability), a notion which I strongly disagree with, and feel is a massive cop out. There are huge voids in my relationship with my parents. My father is abusive, and though my mother didn't let him physically and verbally abuse me very much as a child, she completely enables him to do so now, with the mentality that I have no right to have my feelings considered because i am a grown man who is still dependent on his parents. They never taught me how to be self-reliant. They never gave me the skills for that, as they argue that it's something I was supposed to just automatically know.My mother thinks that the reason why I don't have a job and stay at home all day is because she failed to "discipline" me, but she thinks that discipline is not compatible with peaceful parenting, which is what she claimed to have tried.My memory of my childhood is very limited, but I never had any friends, and I was extremely anti-social beginning from my 3rd year at least. I used to bite people constantly, especially other children. Not seemingly for any reason, it would just sorta happen, but it earned my family a bad reputation with other parents, and it earned me nobody to socialize with. My parents refuse to believe that they have anything to do with my nature as a child, or any of the ways in which I psychologically developed. So if I stay with my family for a couple more years, I will have the support i need to become a very capable blacksmith, but at the expense of living with people who make me feel extremely frustrated, and extremely angry.My father is going into counceling, and I'm thinking about giving counceling a chance because he wants to fix the relationship he has with me (because it really wasn't a relationship at all) but I am very doubtful that he will ever apologize for any evils that he made me suffer. If I confronted him about these things verbally right now, he would literally scream at me and threaten me with violence for disrespecting his authority as my caregiver. If I defend myself verbally or physically, he will think he is completely morally justified in battering and bruising me, and then literally throwing my limp body out of the house afterwards. He has done it before and he would do it again. He is basically a slave to his emotions, and would disown me as a member of his family if I didn't appeal to his preconceived notions of "respect" which he apparently deserves for providing for me. I have no money and no friends or relatives to fall back on, so my only other option besides living with my parents is becoming homeless and then trying to find a job in that state of living. Is there anything I'm missing here? I feel incredibly distressed.