The job market is rough enough already. A lot of people are just trying to get employed, and interviews keep getting harder. No surprise that more people are using tools like InterviewMan to improve their chances.
I went to college because everyone around me treated it like the safest path to a good life. They also always told me to just focus on studying and not take a job, because if I worked a lot, I'd probably fall behind in school or drop out. My grades were good, I don't have a criminal record, I don't have a disability, and I spent a large part of my free time volunteering and helping in my community.
Now I've graduated and I'm trying to get out of a toxic home. Honestly, I feel like getting away from narcissistic people and from a parent who pressures me to do things and go places I don't want to will make my life much better.
The problem is that housing is ridiculously expensive where I live, and I've even started looking at places in other states that are a bit farther away. Most landlords want your income to be 4 times the rent before they'll approve you. A lot of the apartments I'm seeing are around $1.4k for a studio or a small one-bedroom. So I need to be making around $52k-$58k just to meet their income requirement.
I've applied to jobs that pay in that range, and all of them say they want a bachelor's degree. The jobs that only need a bachelor's degree aren't getting back to me at all. And then the other good jobs want prior experience, but how am I supposed to get experience in investigative work if no one will hire me so I can gain that experience in the first place? I've been applying and searching for several weeks, mainly in my field, which is criminal investigation.
I feel trapped, tbh. It looks like I might have been better off working full time and building experience instead of wasting all this time in college, because it's clear employers care a lot more about experience. Now I feel like I ended up going to college just to work as a cashier or in fast food, because those are pretty much the only places that don't feel impossible to get into.