Anyone else feeling hopeless about careers and future?
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Hello guys. How are you dealing with the anxiety around the upcoming economic crisis, AI taking jobs, layoffs, and the lack of job security in IT?
I’m 26 and honestly feel very lost right now. I prepared for competitive exams and later attempted CAT, but nothing worked out. I have no job, no work experience, and no MBA seat. Even if I try applying for jobs now, I feel my gap years will become a problem.
Everywhere I look, I see people applying to 100-200 jobs for months without getting callbacks. It makes everything feel even more hopeless.
Whenever I try to learn something or start working on a new skill, my mind becomes extremely negative and self-critical. I end up stopping midway.
I also feel brainwashed into thinking that doing an MBA is pointless unless it’s from at least a good Tier 2 college. Government jobs feel like they have no growth, IT feels very hard to enter, and I got a poor CAT score this year.
When does this darkness end?