I graduated from college 3 years ago during the pandemic with a degree in political science and I intended to go to law school the following year. Thankfully the pandemic gave me an insane amount of time to be alone with my thoughts and I decided that law school was probably a shit idea. It’s expensive and soul sucking and lawyers work insane hours reading contracts all day and the salary isn’t even guaranteed to be high. However I’m stumped on what I should do because every single profession seems oversaturated, soul sucking, has no work life balance, and will probably be replaced by a computer at some point in the future. It’s borderline impossible to find real information and advice on a career.
Health care workers are treated like absolute garbage and the work life balance is non existent. Tech seemed like the promise land, but it’s absolutely oversaturated. With boot camps, self taught coders, and children being taught code in school it will only become more saturated. Also it’s impossible to get information about a tech job on the internet I feel like I’d have to sacrifice my first born child just to get a basic understanding of the job and benefits. Any corporate job is soul sucking and you’re treated like dog shit.
I’m not looking to be mega rich I just want to be able to afford a comfortable life and not feel sick about money 24/7. I’m willing to go to college again I’m willing to put in the “work”. Unfortunately I’m from a dirt poor rural family with zero connections so it won’t really matter what I do because I can’t network my way into a career.