I'm slowly losing my mind
I genuinely don’t understand what I was supposed to do differently. I'm so fed up man.
My whole life I was told to follow the traditional roadmap. Do well in school, go to college, get a degree, graduate, get a good job and everything will work itself out.
So I did exactly that.
Now I’m sitting here nearly $150,000 in debt, applying for job after job, and I can barely even get an interview.
I’ve rewritten my resume. I’ve applied to entry level positions. I’ve applied to jobs that pay way less than I thought I’d be earning after college. Half the time I don’t even get a rejection email. I just hear absolutely nothing.
Right now I’m driving Uber just to keep money coming in and pay my bills. There’s nothing wrong with working Uber, but this was never supposed to be the end goal. I went to college because I thought I was investing in a career.
I just want a normal, stable job. Something with a salary, benefits, progression and some kind of future. I’m not expecting to walk into a six figure job straight out of college.
But what was the point of spending years getting a degree and taking on $150k in debt if even “entry level” jobs want years of experience?
It genuinely feels like I followed the roadmap everyone told me to follow and somehow still ended up completely lost.
Is the job market really this bad right now, or am I doing something seriously wrong?