Ever felt like university was pointless?

I’ve been there, graduated then just felt stranded. The best advice I can give is sign up to admin agencies who can find you temp work, it won’t be exciting but some of it is surprisingly well paid.

I remember practicing for my driving theory test when I was 21 or so reading the question “You have a pint with your pub lunch...” thinking “there’s no room for a pub lunch in my budget”. This stage is horrible, but it won’t last for ever.

I think degrees should be more highly valued but less common. Nowadays people go to uni to dick around for a couple of years and get useless degree. Ideally uni numbers should be cut by three quarters. You shouldn't need a university degree to be something like a primary school teacher, and you certainly shouldn't need a gender studies degree for a job in anything.

Also, medication can help a lot for anxiety; I'd go down that rout if I was you.

Yes I wont even go because its so expensive I hate spending large sums of money and I know of too many people whos studied years at university and then cant/dont even work in that field, struggle to find work and still have high loans to pay back. Dont wanna be trapped like that.

Give yourself a break. Covid 19 has decimated the US economy.

Things will get better in time, and your degree will come handy.

In the meantime take any job you can get.

I will share my story with you, cause I felt the same. I studied only design & advertisement high school. One of my friends got me a job, which didn't work out in the end, so I had to take any job, which was available. I worked for New Yorker as a shop assistant, it was really hard and I don't even want to talk about money...

I was so tired every day, but I was looking for a design job. After a while, one was really promising, so I quit in the New Yorker. The job didn't work out as well, so I was 1-2 months at home, depressed and feeling like "that's not what I imagined". I'm thankful to my mom, which yelled at me to get up and do something. I was pissed and depressed, but I actually sent 5-7 CVs and letters and I got an offer which started my design career. I was kinda lucky and now I make better money than most people my age.

Take away from this for you should be: Just find any job now and it can push you to understand, that you don't want to do it for long, so you will try to find something better in your area of expertise.

Please don’t get a credit card if you can barely pay your bills. It’s very very easy to rack up credit card debt when you don’t have much money and it takes a long time to pay it off.

Can you not get a job that isn’t in the field you studied?

And that’s literally how life is. Constant defeats. Get a credit card. Go do some shit. YOLO. I got $200 skates and I love it. You have to find something to occupy your days.