Feel like I fell off the bandwagon and have no chance of getting back on
I see all of you posting on here that you apply to 30+ positions a day, have sent over 500 applications out. I feel totally out of my league and like I’m barely a person. I am 28 years old and have a (useless) degree from a prestigious liberal arts school, and a ton of debt. I have been pursuing theatre acting as a career for most of my adulthood. Even shortly after graduating I was never taken seriously for full-time, salaried entry-level positions I felt most of my classmates were either immediately getting hired for, if not totally skipping over—my employment history is only theatre contracts and part-time or contract-based work. Now I’m even aging out of anything “entry-level” let alone anything that requires a master’s for consideration.
I just feel like the entire world is passing me by and I have no shot in hell to ever catch up to it. It really feels hopeless a lot of the time. I feel like most paths open to me end in homelessness at worst and perpetual downward struggle at best. Like there is no light at the end of this.