I graduated last year, with a useless degree in Business Management (specialised in FnB) and I’m very picky with jobs.
I flee at every red flag I see (I worked for less than 2 weeks in a Japanese company that did wage theft, and the supervisor was also so mean so I hated every day of the 2 weeks there. I was made to do ENG-JPN translations while standing up, but the desk was placed so low I’d have to bend down to look at the screen and to type. Overall, terrible work experience)
I also had applied to those jobs that requires me to plan a business proposal for their “4th quarter”, and I knew damn well that they’re gonna take the ideas but not employ me. I don’t want to drive an hour a day (2 hours for round trip) to head to the office and be stuck in traffic.
More recently I’ve been looking for remote jobs but I’m getting difficulties being hired (just got rejected from my dream remote job too and I’m so upset because it’s the first job application that I went through that didn’t have red flags, (except the fact that they’re an European company looking to pay measly salary to people from the Global South).
Graduate jobs here are also HORRENDOUS. In fact, a recent survey found that 72% of recent high school graduates are not interested to get into tertiary education because of how lowly paid graduates are (graduate degree and high school diploma holders get about the same salary). Many of them said that their part time gig of selling things online, or as digital creators have earned them more salary than most fresh graduates salary.
Anyways, I am tired of the job market and have been unemployed for more than half a year (I’ve friends who are in the same boat as me as well, since we don’t want to be exploited anymore)
Has anyone tried to started being a freelancer that involves doing things online? Blogger, YouTuber, DropShipper, Fiverr freelancer, Digital Creator, affiliate marketing, digital artist, etc?
How did you start? How was the pay like in the beginning? How long did you take to build a substantial income? Do you have any other tips?
Thank you