i graduated college with good grades. i lost two very important family members in my life while i was in college. one of them passed away from cancer during my last month of classes right before graduating. It was extremely painful to go through. i had five classes during this time and i just wanted to give up, but my dad told me that I don’t have a choice and “adults go through this stuff and still go to work”. so i managed to pass all of those classes with all As and Bs.
After graduating, I thought getting a job would be easy. Everyone was telling me the job market is great right now and everyone is looking for graduates. I’ve must of applied to over 300 jobs on LinkedIn during my first three months since graduating. I’ve gotten a dozen phone call interviews and 3 job interviews for those jobs. One of the jobs rejected me and the other two ended up being pyramid schemes.
It got to the point where I was so desperate that I started applying to low wage Indeed jobs because I needed to support myself. I managed to get a job at a doggy daycare camp that paid 12 dollars an hour. I quit after a week and I got a hostessing job after that. They only paid me minimum wage the first week and didn’t allow me to get tips because I was in “training”. Customers were so rude and aggressive to me and a grown man even grabbed my arm because he wanted a different table.
I quit that job and I found a slightly better job that I can at least stick with. I work at a gym now and they pay me 14 an hour. I’m doing a lot of work to be paid so little though. We have to deep clean every single day, on top of dealing with entitled customers, on top of tons of office work and calling lots of people. I’m doing three times the work I did during my internship in colleg.
I’m just completely depressed and struggling financially. My car is breaking down, I can barely afford to eat. No, I didn’t get shit grades and I didn’t get a liberal arts degree. I feel trapped.