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read above. i just finished my third year at a pretty solid J-school in the DC area and i feel catastrophically underprepared for the "real world". journalism is what i'm passionate about but it just isn't realistic as a career option anymore. moreover, adjacent industries like PR and communications are under increased threat of redundancy as AI improves, and here i am, about to step out into society looking like a complete fool with a worthless degree and zero prospects. my resume's fine, all things considered, but i never specialized; i have reporting experience as well as skills in photography, statistics/data analysis, HTML & CSS frontend coding -- even a little bit of social media, which is the only aspect of journalism i truly dislike.
i'm not looking for reassurance. i need help choosing my next step: switch majors to accounting (and take out a pretty hefty loan in the process), stick with my summer internship doing nonprofit comms and hope something comes of it, or wait to graduate, get my CDL and become a bus driver. any chance i could do technical writing? RFPs?