I chose a creative degree and now I'm unemployed
My whole life I was taught to believe that having a degree meant security. I know a lot of degrees aren't the best and I probably chose a bad one. I graduated 6 months ago with a Batchelors in Digital design. It was my dream to become an animator or character artist or just do anything creative. I didn't really know how to make that possible without education. Everyone kept saying get the degree. I graduated with high grades and was offered a position to do my masters but unfortunately I decided not to because of burnout and costs. I'm already 20k in debt and didn't want to add another 11k to that. I feel like I've made a really big mistake. My degree feels and seems useless. I don't even know what jobs I can apply for with the skills that I have. When I started studying there was a lot of demand for animators and artists but now it seems like all the work has disappeared. A lot of my university friends are in the same situation but atleast have part time jobs to support themselves. I've never had a decent job. Only 2 very casual positions.
My parents tried to push me into an education degree but I didn't get accepted into teaching school and in all honesty education is the last thing I want to do.
I stay at home and almost never leave my room now. I'm so stressed that I've started developing autoimmune disorders and ontop of that I found out this year that I have endometriosis. I'm so depressed and it just keeps getting worse.
After enduring shouting from my father today, telling me that I have to keep applying for jobs and call companies to basically sell my soul to them. I've reached a breaking point. Genuinely what can I do? I don't want 4 years to go to waste.
Edit: I have read all the comments so far and genuinely from the bottom of my heart. Thank you so much to everyone who took the time to reply and offer some advice. I really hope this post is able to help others as well. You guys are incredibly kind.