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[Blue Submarine No. 6]

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[Bucky Barnes]

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[Stephen King's The Stand]

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[Haruchika]

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how screwed am I, career/life wise, if I can't hold down a job in college? Like, how bad is it to be 23 year old graduate with barely any work experience?

Lets say I'm not in a major that guarantees me any kind of job too, just to make it extra sucky.

Not at all. Recent graduates tend to get a lot of leeway as a lot of people don't work during college. Just bullshit a lot about what work skills your degree has taught you.

Also, twenty-three is no age at all.

Pretty normal, I think? I graduated with only part-time restaurant jobs, and had no trouble finding work (though I also have a fairly marketable degree). I think people care way more about your degree than your work experience when you're a fresh grad.

Well I have a pretty shitty degree for finding jobs so... yeah. And I haven't even been able to keep a restaurant job or anything, the only job I have had ended badly cause it fucked with my mental health so bad.

I mean I only had one job that lasted more than three months, and that's only because I kept working there after I graduated while I was searching for a full-time job. What I'm trying to say is I think my current employers gave pretty much zero shits about those jobs at all.

What's your degree in, nonny?

Studio/Fine Art. So like... paintings, not even something employable like Design or even Illustration.

Oh man...I wish I could say something constructively helpful, but I know basically nothing about art, especially fine art. :/

Though I will say I honestly think having a degree is better than not having one especially for several generic job types...not gonna be huge money-makers, though. :|

It's not that big a deal. Where you're at geographically (i.e how bad the job situation is where you're at) will matter the most. There's nothing inherently undesirable about a young grad with no work experience.

You can always say you babysat, ran a lawncare business, or did in-home healthcare during those years. That way you have something to put down for experience.

Edited 2016-01-13 02:34 (UTC)

You're not screwed. I did not work consistently all through every year of college (although I went straight to grad school after and had an assistantship every year). There's always summers, if you have a long summer break. You could also see if you can get a job during the school year that lets you work very low hours, or a volunteer position.

The lack of experience isn't necessarily an issue--a lot of people will have a little more experience, and a few will have a lot more, but a lot of 23 year olds looking for jobs are at about the same point as you.

What might be of more concern is that you say you "can't hold down a job," which makes me think there might be issues other than experience you might need to work on in order to help you get (and keep!) jobs.

Uh basically the can't hold down thing: I can't manage both my studies and a job without the stress really fucking with my mental health. I feel like I can basically do one or the other, but not both, and since all my friends have jobs and go to school, I feel like a failure :c

You're not a failure at all! People operate in all kinds of different ways, and school demands a huge amount of time and physical/emotional energy, so it's not unusual to need to focus on just that. The good thing about a post-college job is that that's all you have to focus on--there's no schoolwork to try to balance it against. So your difficulty maintaining a work schedule alongside a school schedule might not have any bearing on your ability to get a good job after school is over!

If your stress levels are high enough to be making you feel shitty like this, you might look into counseling--just having an outside person to help you get perspective can be a big help, especially in moments like this where life just seems huge and unmanageable. If you're at school, odds are you've got access to free counseling, so it's worth a try!

Try being in your forties with no work experience. Nobody gives a fuck.

You're pretty much in the same place as everyone else at your age. Just go out there and get a job. Then at least you'll know what you like/don't like to do.

Just so you know, there aren't that many majors which help secure jobs specifically. It's good just to have the degree though. You just have to be ambitious and try your best.

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