I graduated college with a Biology degree, but I made no connections, did no research, had barely passing grades. I tried getting into lab related jobs, but never got interviews or offers. I ended up continuing to work my retail job for another 3 years for total of 8 years in retail since highschool. At some point I gave up trying to do anything with my degree and double down on my retail job. I got another retail job to broaden my experience. That taught me I hated retail and put me in a bad spot, but I did learn some skills that I brought back to my original retail job when I quit. I did metric based analysis on sales, conversion rates, shipment processing, and employee performance. I did this all manually because the company didn't have an automated system like the 2nd retail job I worked at. I produced objective measurable results all because my manager recognized my value and talent then trusted me to spend hours in the office figuring this out and googling excel formulas to execute and manage my project. Eventually I decided to apply for lab jobs again at my lowest point. It was when I felt I worked so hard and still didn't achieve what I wanted. I felt I would ultimately have a sorry life barely making ends meet in a field I hated. I landed an interview and I was honestly excited to present all the projects I accomplished at my retail job. I find interviews fun because it's one of the only times I have the opportunity to be proud of my work and success without sounding pretentious or out of normal conversation. I got an offer a couple hours following the interview right before my retail shift. It wasn't a glorious job, but it was something I never dreamed I could get, 45k full time job in a Micro QC lab for cosmetics, hand wipes, and drug products. I was able to excel at this job, actually utilizing a lot of the metric analysis I learned from my retail job that made me an asset at this lab. After almost 3 years I played a big role in the lab acting as a supervisor and leader. This year I was able to land a job at a pharmaceutical gene cell therapy company making 100k. I was in a very different place 6 years ago, I know what it's like to give up on everything. What I want people to know is if you can find something fulfilling or rewarding in your "meager" job like retail, if you give it your best, you can turn it into something awesome that can open doors you never thought were possible. Do work that makes you grow, even if you don't get that promotion or raise. If you know doing that work gives you skills and makes you a better person, keep on grinding at it!

@lilacs9848

2 жыл бұрын

thank you for sharing your story, it was very inspiring

@LooseArrowBoy

2 жыл бұрын

@@lilacs9848 I'm glad that it is! I hope it encourages others in the same situation. As a child my friends and family would tell me how smart I was and that I should be a doctor. Not meeting the expectations I assimilated destroyed my self esteem where I only valued the goal not the growth, ultimately being "lazy" achieving nothing and not growing at all. I've found many of these videos relatable some specifically addressing my experiences. They helped me make sense of what I was feeling, how I acted, and the inevitable outcome of it. 2021 I've been focusing on my personal growth, not just professionally, but emotionally and mentally. I want to know that my achievement so far was not a fluke and it's something I can understand and keep feeding into. I hope others will be able to take the first steps in bettering themselves that will lead to fulfillment and eventually a complete life. Sometimes just watching finance, self help, and career KZread videos while playing video games can get you started. It worked for me 🙂

@Maar123sm

2 жыл бұрын

Hi, I never write in the comments but I related so much with your story. Im also a biologist, I graduated last year. I worked during the 5 years of my career (first in a restaurant, now that I moved as a babysitter) and I cant find myself looking for a job as a biologist. It has been more than a year and Im too afraid to apply because I don't think I have the abilities. And time goes by and its getting worse and worse the fear. Can you give me some advice?

@LooseArrowBoy

2 жыл бұрын

@@Maar123sm if you want to hear more about my story I have a video on my channel "Dead end Job to Career..." I hope it gives you inspiration and direction. For advice I would start with what kind of job do you want. Teaching, lab work, research, government job? Then start looking up jobs in that field and apply to them. Apply to all of them from big name companies, to contract work, to local. I only have experience with lab work so some related jobs are, med lab tech (usually license needed), environmental monitoring, quality control micro/analytical, research and development. Entry level jobs would be a lab tech under those departments. I am in quality control and where I got my start. Contract manufacturing is the bottom of your choices, but there are many openings and you'll be surprised how many local positions are open. Food producers, cosmetics, medical goods, etc need quality control. These jobs can range from minimum wage to around 45k, 60k being the upper end. Contract manufacturing is all about money. It can be hard work, but you'll have the opportunity to experience many aspects of the business. It was in this environment that I not only learned about microbiology qc testing, but I learned how to author standard operating procedures, align with FDA guidelines, collaborate with several departments, and lead a group. This experience is rare to get at more established companies where your role will be isolated at entry levels. Spend at least 2-3 years in this environment and aim to get promoted from lab tech to analytical analyst, micro analyst, or associate scientist. At this point you have a lot of experience and skills that name brand and larger companies are looking for such as pfizer, Novartis, JnJ, GSK, etc. Now how do you get an entry level job? Look for ways to grow in your current job (like how I did), pursue more education, or self study. For quality control, the FDA enforces the standards found in the "United States Pharmacopia" chapters to KZread and Google are USP 60, 61, 62, 71, 1223(I think that's water). Anyways I would value an individual with understanding of those chapters over a masters graduate without work experience. For context I only have a BS in biology. I hope this gives you some ideas. I want to emphasize find fulfillment in where you are right now and pursue that. If you enjoy the grind and growth where you are it will lead to great opportunities. I found myself doing "extra work", I didn't get paid more, it didn't gurantee me a better job, but I was fulfilled doing it. What excited me was identifying a problem and finding a way to solve it using my best attributes which tended to be methodical thinking and analyzing numbers to produce meaningful trends. The work wasn't for my company, it was for myself and those endeavors coincidentally led to achievements warranting recognition. Last night while training for my new job I realized there was a discrepancy in the standard operating procedures. I brought it up to my trainer and now we are able to do the task more efficiently and actually easier than before. I didn't have to read as deeply as I did, but I was driven to understand what we were doing and it led me to find an opportunity for improvement. Honestly I was being lazy and hoping to find an easier interpretation of the procedures which ultimately I did find, but it was for my selfishness rather than "for the company." Sorry a bit of a rant there. Good luck!

@LooseArrowBoy

2 жыл бұрын

@@theoreticalphysics3644 Hey I know the feeling, I worked retail for 3 years after college part time after graduating and living with my parents. I still do live with my parents, but it is an agreement and the money I save is being responsibly used. I am 28 btw and my first lab job was when I was 24-25. For your career path, know that research tends to be a higher bar for entry in terms of education. Even after that having a well paying research job is completely reliant on the field and industry. Higher education is not my strong point and I've avoided it at all cost. I even tried to do a nursing accelerated program after being in retail for so long, i dropped out after 2nd semester because all my bad habits were happening again even with the lesser work load from roll over degree credits. If you're set on that path good luck to you! But I can offer some experience in my field. Research and Development is hard to get into and the well paying ones are in companies that are really pushing for new discoveries. Those candidates tend to have many years of experience, masters, or phd. If you're lucky you can get a tech level in that field. You may want to look into quality control and quality assurance and data analysis. There are a wider range of these jobs. They're not as fancy as "research scientist," instead the positions are QC micro, QC analyst, associate scientist and so on. There are many of these jobs available in companies you have never heard of. Think of any product that gets produced in factories. Those need to be checked for quality. Food, medicine, cosmetic wipes, tools, the list goes on. These items are tested, data is created, and the process needs to be optimized and maintain quality. I'm not familiar with your degree and what classes are involved, but I'm sure you can see the application of it. This is a stepping stone and it could open doors for RnD jobs in the future. I've heard stories of co workers in QC/QA moving onto RnD in the same or other companies. My coworkers this year with titles of QC Micro 1, have gone to get jobs at pfizer, Regeneron, Sanofi, and Bristol Myers Squibb, major pharmaceutical companies. Lastly most lab jobs aren't what you are thinking they are. They aren't groups of people trying to make brand new discoveries and creating their own experiments. Honestly most of the discovery is done in educational setting, where the professor teaches and does research at the same time (my experience in my university). More established companies that are just solidifying their new product or discovery just have their scientists repeat established tests over and over again and simply report the results. The people that establish the testing maybe consultants or 3rd party specialists. The majority of lab jobs are those where testing has already been established, you follow the procedures, and you execute and record. I'll have you know I have barely used any of my college education. Having a rough idea of science is enough. Almost everything I do now was learned on the job. Don't get stuck thinking you need to be prepared with higher education. What you need to do is be able to show employers you have the characteristics and the ability to be a good employee in the field. Do not let your thoughts of mundane work push you away from a career. In reality 99% of jobs are like this, and if they aren't at first they will become that way eventually. It is your job to find fulfillment in your work. If that fulfillment is learning more skills to join RnD then that is more than enough to keep you going at a lab tech job. Sorry a bit of a rant, but this is information I wish I knew when I was in college. If i could do it over I would probably go to college to become a medical lab technician. Instead I went in to become a "doctor" because everyone told me I was smart and that was a good job. Instead that held me back and closed me off to other opportunities that I'm better suited for. Hope this helps and gives you several doors to try, good luck!

I don’t think people realize just how demoralizing it is when you’re in that period of past college but looking for work. It feels like genuine purgatory and has made me feel suicidal several times with rejections and ghosting by these people. I hope whatever Dr. K is talking about is right, cause this feeling is worse than anything stressful I had in college.

@MrThedumbbunny

2 жыл бұрын

Many people do understand. I gave this advice to another person but here it goes: An interview is about fit and needs on both ends. It does not indicate your worth, potential or their opinion of your worth just that the specific things they need are currently out of what you could show them. I am fairlu sure I have had an interview where the other person needed a skillset Right Now but HR had forced them to take an entry level interview with me. Offering me that position would have been a disservice to both of us because I didn't fit the need and would have struggled or failed. Stories (real ones) are the king of interviews. When you say I have a skill say it with a story. When you have a weakness tell a story about fighting through the weakness to do something positive. When you are reflecting on a failure tell a story about the failure and following success. Third look for ways to skip the online application and get to the interview (after figuring out and refining your stories). Online application to interview conversion is terrible. Interview to offer conversion is much better. Spend time to avoid the worst part and get good at the interview part.

@johnmickey5017

2 жыл бұрын

My recommendation here is that you should try to make satisfying life without a “job” job. Finding a way to be making a positive contribution to the world is really important for self esteem and a sense of worth. I strongly recommend finding an opponent to volunteer in some capacity. This will build job skills, look great on a resume, and will make you feel valuable. Taking continuing ed courses will also help keep you sharp and moving forward. Plus you’ll meet people through these activities; and knowing people is a mega booster to finding employment.

@_sparrowhawk

2 жыл бұрын

I remember being IN CLASS in 3rd year and the teacher was basically mocking us all, saying 'you guys have no purpose in life, you all want to be CEO's'... That was fucking depressing. The guy teaching the class has no hope in you.

@louisemathevon8917

2 жыл бұрын

Being unemployed greatly increases your chances of dealing with depression. Something people don't often mention when you graduate is that it's really common to need a few years before you get hired in the field of your choice. I recommend that while you're applying for that "dream" job, get a part-time job in something that is low-stress but has an enjoyable environment. Leave yourself plenty of time to keep applying for work, but in the mean time, it's very rewarding to have a source of accomplishment not tied to your job search. I worked for 2 years at a bookstore before I was finally hired at a law firm. Many people work as baristas while actively looking for work in another field. Having that steady income (even if low) and a place where you can feel useful/just having somewhere to be with a set schedule is life-saving. It's easy to go into a downwards spiral if all day every day is about "I MUST FIND A JOB OR IM USELESS" so it's important to find time and a place where you can detach yourself from that pressure. And remember that there is a strong component of luck involved with getting an offer. You need to be the right candidate at the right time. But the good news is, you only need 1 offer!! Best of luck to you

@TheHadMatters

2 жыл бұрын

@@_sparrowhawk What does that have to do with hope? He's clearly saying your aspirations don't connect to real change in the world, and valuable skillsets. That doesn't mean he has no hope for your ability or future; he's just criticising your approach to making use of your life.

If I had a nickel for every time a HealthyGamerGG title directly called out a problem in my life, I would have an uncomfortably high amount of nickels

@lafondawilliams

2 жыл бұрын

interesting which job have you been applying for?

@repsaj_3235

2 жыл бұрын

ikr, i was just worrying about finding a job when I graduate next month and this comes up

@defytony5594

2 жыл бұрын

I've been feeling the same way lately. He keeps pumping out videos that relates to problems I have in life. ._.

@rookiebobplayer244

2 жыл бұрын

I have graduated a while ago and still have the same damned issue + hard to find better work

@nbonasoro

2 жыл бұрын

There are jobs everywhere right now if you want to work onsite and have your vaccinations

im an engineering student but i genuinely don't want a job. networking, linkedn, talking abt internships, it all disgusts me. i just want to learn cool shit man.

@paladain55

2 жыл бұрын

Engineer here. The job is just as bad as school so don't think it'll change. You'll get paid decently though but the job isn't fun. Going to be an aircraft mechanic in a year or two now that I have the money to swap.

@Blackmore278

2 жыл бұрын

Try joining a research lab at your Uni. I tried interning at a biotech company and immediately realized it was not for me. Unless you are in R and D (research and development) department of your company, you will be confined to performing the same 3-4 repetitive tasks everyday for months / years. It is not only creatively prohibitive but also in some cases morally dubious (you really just follow orders and don't think for yourself). Doing research while less monetarily rewarding gives you much more freedom (I get to chose when my experiments happen and what time I come into my lab) and a lot more agency. More importantly I am proud of the work I do and can look myself in the mirror.

@paladain55

2 жыл бұрын

@Mank Hobley Creating control plans, PFMEAs, Flow Diagrams, emailing customers their awful corrective action procedures over and over when an employee forgets to do one thing (say he misses a $0.15 insert on a $180 dollar part... they ship all 500 of them back) etc..., approving returns and remedies for them, fixing and improving tooling when needed, creating tooling and fixturing, answering questions and things to the best of my ability. Its a lot of business management, quality control, tied into tooling. If you thought engineering was fun because you get to work on things just remember that is not how the business world works. I am a mechanical engineer by the way. Currently working to live and would prefer to live to work (meaning having a job based on a hobby or something you enjoy). Currently I love working on boats motorcycles and cars and would love to get into airplanes. Only way for that to happen for me though is to get certified so i can work on them myself like everything else i have. lol

@raychell1

2 жыл бұрын

i graduated but like the whole getting coorporate is honestly eating my sanity away

@weridplusho

2 жыл бұрын

Same. I wanted to learn but the applying to jobs and the stress/anxiety during uni just made me uninterested in what made me excited before.

Well now that got a laugh out of me, "a big part of college is developing confidence." I knew I was going wrong somewhere when I found myself living in an anxiety fuelled nightmare of my own creation.

@xyzxyzuvwuvw7633

2 жыл бұрын

yeah, thats one of the one liners administrators tell you

@Kitty-hf6vq

2 жыл бұрын

If anything I came out of college with way less confidence than before

@nityacohen2950

2 жыл бұрын

Anyone have the timestamp when he says that?

@kindasomeviews

2 жыл бұрын

funny thing is that i have confidence but literally everything going on in (comm) college was damaging my confidence

@isthatbraised

2 жыл бұрын

@oska May I ask what course you took? I'm planning on taking something related to art since that's my very strong point

THIS almost made me cry because its so relatable. I felt so inadequate and burned out. I recently got a master's degree in cybersecurity, my undergrad was in something non-technical. I kept getting to told "NO" but as of 2 days ago I'll be an intern at NASA. I know its cliche but please just keep fighting guys, keep strategizing, organizing, pushing, focusing, and make Beyonce proud.

@Noname-rq1hr

2 жыл бұрын

Hey, can you tell us more about your story? It sounds really interesting, and congratulations, but how exactly do you go from a no tech undergrad to being a NASA s intern??

@TXejas19

2 жыл бұрын

@@Noname-rq1hr yes, i love sharing resources. Anything in particular you want to know? I always applied for organizations and titles that look good on my resume. The goal was always to get NASA on the board so people will scout for me. I immediately updated all platforms with my new degree and association, now recruiters are asking me to apply from EY, FBI for digital forensics, Lockheed Martin, and Verizon (most of which has previously rejected me repeatedly, couldn't even get past the application process). However, there is no substitute for knowledge. You have to know your craft or be able to demonstrate your ability to research and commit to them. I also nursed a 4.0 and i networked.

@Noname-rq1hr

2 жыл бұрын

@@TXejas19 how were you able to get into a cybersecurity masters with a non tech background? how did you catched up in terms of knowledge (math, coding, technical knowledge) you got your masters and worked on side proyects? or how do you make yourself knowledgable in cybersecurity? you worked in the field related to your first degree while pursuing your masters? or devoted completly to the master?

@TXejas19

2 жыл бұрын

@@Noname-rq1hr for some reason its not posting my answer. So I'll do it in pieces.

@TXejas19

2 жыл бұрын

@@Noname-rq1hr 1. Some schools don't require the undergrad to be the same as the grad school major. Be sure your school is properly accredited

I know no one is going to read this so I'm just going to get this off my chest. It's been two years since I graduated, almost three, and I haven't gotten a single company job in my field. I work in audio. I made the mistake of thinking I was more needed. Getting a first job out of college has been one of the most draining experiences I've ever been through. Firstly the NETWORKING. The networking is soul sucking. I've talked to the most self centered people I've ever come across in my life. All they do is talk about themselves for twenty minutes and before I ask for more they have to leave to go back to work. I feel like I'm not important to anyone just yet and I constantly have to make myself visible. And when I turn to my colleagues for pointers... Sadly, most of them have given up their search. I have been doing some more independent work in the meantime. It's been ok for the most part. A lot of people want free work and I just don't have the emotional capacity or the bills to do that. This upsets so many people and I've accidentally burned some bridges putting my worth first. My parents won't help my either. They're just as disappointed in me as I am of myself. I'm so depressed I keep pushing off jobs that I should be doing in a week but I never get any credit so I find myself asking "what's the point". I've applied to more than a 1000 jobs along those two and a half years. I'm so burnt out and depressed at this point. Like do I even want to do audio anymore? Am I even good enough? Am I just... Bad at it and should quit? ☹️ For the two readers who got to the end, thank you. I'm trying my best and I just want to feel like I'm getting somewhere in life

@RisingChaos

Жыл бұрын

I did everything I was "supposed" to do growing up and got a STEM degree. But apparently nobody actually cares about the "Science" part of that acronym and I'm still struggling 11 years later, bouncing between short-term contracts and temp positions that go nowhere and random trashy jobs just to pay my bills (a significant chunk of which is student loan debt for a piece of paper apparently unfit to wipe my ass with). Life simply isn't fair and some of us had to draw the short straw.

@mattr2626

10 ай бұрын

I read it, and I want to offer you my two cents: you already know you need to network, so start doing this more, just change your approach. Go to local career fairs where you can show off your portfolio, SHAKE HANDS, and get leads. I would also advise investing in a resume writing service. 90% of the time when you can't find a job, it's not because you're a bad employee or you don't possess any skills, it's because your resume isn't optimized well. Don't spray and pray your resume, that is not a winning strategy. Lastly, never work for free. You are worth more than that. Pick up a part time retail job while you continue to search. It's a hurt to the ego yes, but you'll get fast cash and have time to continue searching. Also, I'm not sure what your degree is in specifically, I know you said you work in audio? But expand your search if you haven't by now. Getting any job at this point may be your best option short term

@LFanimes333

8 ай бұрын

You fine right now, bro?

@avgspacelover

3 ай бұрын

@@RisingChaos hey move to marketing or data analyst

The issue with coming out of college now and looking for an entry level job is even more difficult than before. An entry level job is supposed to not have much requirement because that's why they're called "ENTRY LEVEL." But now you have companies asking for 10 years of experience for an entry level job and listing 50 different requirement and expect you to know and do 3-4 people's job while milking every penny they can out of you with a low pay for what you're actually doing. So it creates this infinite paradox of people graduating from college and looking for an entry level job to gain experience since they don't have a lot experience, but companies are listing entry level jobs and expecting people with 5-10 years of experience. How do you expect people to have experience if you don't give people an opportunity to gain experience? What a joke.

@ninjacats1647

2 жыл бұрын

If they use the phrase "entry level" the job should not require experience. That defeats the whole point of entry level. The practice of entry level jobs requiring experience should be banned.

@Pharoah2

2 жыл бұрын

Those jobs ARE being filled though. By who? Kids who did an internship or co-op while in university. You have to adapt to keep up, it is what it is.

@beastmasterbg

2 жыл бұрын

yes! every fucking entry level requires 10languages and libraries for programming + their own platform they use. I live in Eastern Europe its the same fucking problem. Covid worsened this shit even more

@santiagoperez2094

2 жыл бұрын

Wellcome to high tax economies.

@duskshadow25

2 жыл бұрын

@@Pharoah2 Yeah, they're being filled. But the issue is that to even apply for internship (which most people get rejected btw, due to not enough experience), you need to have experience in the first place. The whole point of internship is to gain experience, but internships nowadays ask for experience in the first place so it contradict with internship in the first place. A lot of places called it "internship," but in reality they just handle the dirt work to you for a project and get ideas from you. Then they kick you off the team after the project is done, so essentially you're just being used and disposed as a tool afterward.

It's honestly so relieving, this has been a huge issue for me since I've left university. I've googled it multiple times and spoke to people about it, it felt like I was the only person who was struggling this much about unemployment after university. To whoever is struggling, continue to apply yourself and work on yourself every single day. I was unemployed for almost a year and just recently recieved a job offer and I couldn't be happier, we will all make it. Make sure your CV/Resume is great and make sure you have personal projects to hide your job gap, if you have one.

@bee42Sad

2 жыл бұрын

Tips on dealing with the rejection? That has been the hardest part for me. I feel more and more jaded and depressed with each rejection (esp after an interview)

@Ordinary_Peasant

2 жыл бұрын

How did you explain the gap in employment?

@MrThedumbbunny

2 жыл бұрын

@@bee42Sad first understand that an interview is about fit on both sides. An offer/no offer and acceptance/rejection of the offer is about needs and fit. It is not an indication of worth or potential. For example if someone needs a trained skillset that can get rolling quickly for a major project but HR has forced them to do lower skillset interviews it would be unfair to you to offer the position because you will struggle and almost certainly fail. (Not certain but i have had an interview where I think this kind of thing happened). Second learn what people need. Spend time listening and then think about what is said. Do interviess and practice interviewa and ask about what they are looking for. Why is this position open? What difficulties does the team currently have? What early focus would be most valuable to expand my skillset into. These show both investment and intent to provide value if asked right. Third learn what you can do about that need with examples in story form. People like and remember stories. Work on them. Practice them. Last getting to an interview is often far harder than getting the job if you are well prepared and they are looking for a candidate like you. Try to find ways around the online application. They are garbage. My resume is acceptably good with significant valuable documented skills. I'm at about 2% online application to interview conversion. Once I go to a hiring fair kind of thing I am at about a 70% interview to offer conversion. Stories are king in interviews. Details matter. Be honest and upfront. If you are not a fit the job will hurt ypu and them. Be picky.

@kevinbissinger

2 жыл бұрын

@@bee42Sad There doesn't have to be something wrong with you for people to reject you. For me the biggest issue with rejection was I felt a need to understand what MISTAKES I made or how I FAILED. That sets you up to obsess about it and find faults in yourself as opposed to accepting the situation as not a good fit for both of you, and focusing on your next steps.

@moramie84

2 жыл бұрын

@@bee42Sad I think you need to understand that this is part of the process. Getting a job is part luck. Depends how much they need people, the interviewer/boss personality compared to you, other applicants. I think it is important to understand that this part has not much to do with your value as a worker or person. The reason you need to get this transformed in your head is that when you are already employed, you will have your ideas rejetced, projects thrown out or redone by someone else and you will feel the same way. This gets easier with experience I think, but you need the rejection experiences to learn how to handle them correctly. (It took me a few years.) Obviously you can think about whether you need to (and want to) improve in some areas. But sometimes it is that you simply where not in the right place in the right time and that is okay. It happens.

Had the same issue with my architecture degree, professors didn’t teach, learned nothing, got any entry level position and learned more in 3 months than in 3 years.

@TimProVision

2 жыл бұрын

100%. Can't believe how much time we spent in those design, history and engineering classes for it to pretty much be irrelevant.

@duskshadow25

2 жыл бұрын

What did you do to get your first entry job? I think the hardest part is getting that entry job pertain to your major.

@MrAbraxaeon

2 жыл бұрын

@@duskshadow25 Funny story, I was an intern for the Campus Planning department for my Uni. Went to work on a Sunday when my supervisor brought his friend in to show him around. We hit it off and he got my foot in the door.

@kennbeary7044

2 жыл бұрын

@@MrAbraxaeon Do you think the stuff you learned on the job was easier than the material taught at school or was it just different? Feeling heavy imposter syndrome rn as an entry-level grad

@MrAbraxaeon

2 жыл бұрын

@@kennbeary7044 I’d say the stuff on the job was more difficult to grasp for the following reasons. 1) In academics they don’t convey the level of detail required to get the job done and there’s no hand holding while working, people tell you something once and you’re expected to remember and apply it hence forth. 2) There is far more info to filter while working (granular) than in college which is high level mostly. 3) You have to work indefinitely with people on the job vs just a semester with an essentric professor. Working with difficult personalities is half the job. All in all I still have imposter syndrome that’s only being cure through successful task completion and coworker compliments.

Remember when you were in high school how you got this project and you just didn't have the time or skills to make it look how you wanted, but then you realized your work was way better than a lot of the crap other students put together haphazardly? It's not that different here.

@youtubeaccountserio2633

2 жыл бұрын

Too true

@GlamGoddes101

2 жыл бұрын

This is something a lot of grads new to the workforce have to adjust too!! It’s a little difficult bc you feel like you’re not doing your best or whatever but you just have to be okay with it

@popojelly1895

2 жыл бұрын

This is the most inspirational shit I've seen all day

@DavidSmith-mt7tb

2 жыл бұрын

Perfection is death of productivity in the corporate world. Look at all the half finished games that come out and are fixed after. After a certain point, each minute/hour/etc you spend on something gives diminishing returns, so you gotta find that sweet spot where your work is just good enough. Adults all work hard to look way more competent than we are. It's really imposing when you can't see through that BS yet and actually think everyone has their crap together, but in many ways we're all still kids fumbling through life.

@lalakuma9

2 жыл бұрын

True, there is a huge number of people who do mediocre work in this world, and they have jobs. You're not any less deserving just because you're not perfect.

I’ve been unemployed after graduating for almost a year and a half now, and recently I finished my entire design portfolio and to noones surprise I am underwhelmed with how it looks and specifically in the design sphere, this video was very useful in overcoming a lot of the feelings of doubt or I guess avoidance of looking for jobs. Not that I’ve been doing nothing over the past year and a half, I can very clearly feel myself progressing, but this video has answered a lot of the speed bumps that I’ve been running into recently. :)

@TXejas19

2 жыл бұрын

You tried ravature (i think that's how you spell it) they put you through a bootcamp but they also place you in a 2 year contract job. Doesn't pay well from what i can see but some have said it was a good enough springboard in the indeed reviews. They said its pretty much guaranteed.

@shepparddh

2 жыл бұрын

Content Creator for a company similar in your position, I'm happy to see that it will eventually be worth it in the end when you keep taking little steps. Looking at other portfolios can be dreadful seeing how the massive amount of effort they put. It's like looking at your classmate's exam paper where they're writing quicker than you while you stare at yours and you haven't wrote anything yet. However, chances are the guy next to you is panicking and just scribbling to be honest. What help me a lot is more like finding small successes to can help accompany the way of getting to where you want so that means enjoying or being in the process. In my case, my editing style has been minimalistic where my content is produced minimally with good effort leading to admirable results. Good luck on your path fellow healthygamergg!

@metagrazer

2 жыл бұрын

I'm also a starving designer in a similar situation, revamping my portfolio after being a year out of college on the job search. How do you keep from getting down on yourself after seeing the sheer amount of jobs you've applied to. 350 over a year and not even a response? How do you keep from thinking that no one's looking for you?

@lalakuma9

2 жыл бұрын

I feel like one of the traps of being a new design graduate is spending forever on your portfolio because you want it to be perfect, while your classmates did the minimum work on their portfolios and all got jobs ahead of you. I'm saying that because I really took my time revamping my portfolio (plus I took a break to recover from some health problems, so I kinda have a convenient excuse). This is why I'm afraid of getting portfolio feedback. I don't want to feel obligated to spend several more months perfecting it. It's time to actually just send out resumes.

@miamoon69

10 ай бұрын

omgggg, idk what job you do but i also have to do a design portfolio, but im lazy and been putting it off. lol. ive just been struggling with basic low paid jobs lol

This comes at the right time. My biggest cause of anxiety of the year.

I did a Masters in Teaching, and I felt so not ready. I spoke to the university and told them I didn't feel like they were teaching it correctly. Much of what was being taught was so highly subjective, it started getting silly. When I went on a physical practicum in a classroom, I received such contradictory feedback (one mentor said I was the best teacher he'd ever seen, and another said I was the worst they'd ever seen). Most teachers I met were terrible communicators and were awful at giving instructions. The parents and kids were fine! Eventually, my concerns were so numerous I was ejected from the university. They had told me that due to my having ASD, they said I would likely never function in any workplace... despite having worked as a Marketing Officer, Videographer and Digital Marketing for various not-for-profits and businesses for 10 years. My family launched a massive official complaint. We sat before a university board and we found that several of the Education Staff were found in the wrong with overwhelming evidence. The whole experience all but destroyed my respect for the Education system. I felt like a statistic - money on legs. Fortunately, I was let back in to complete the Degree, but the damage was done. I didn't want to be a teacher anymore. I found my values didn't mesh with the school systems I was originally going to want to work at. Due to my work ethic, proactivity, and my investment in teaching, a global education start up gave me a position as their head of marketing, and when that contract finished, a mining company hunted me down to do their videos and marketing. I began my Masters under the impression I would become a qualified, competent teacher at the end of it by studying under the best. However, all that happened was that I was enormously frustrated that I had spent 30,000 dollars on earning a qualification I no longer ever intend to lose. I will never... EVER... work for any organization, skilled or not, unless we share the right values.

@Ordinary_Peasant

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing! It was interesting to read

@vilgotembachermurtnes9215

2 жыл бұрын

damn

@lalakuma9

2 жыл бұрын

I have 3 university degrees, and let me tell you, no matter what program it is and what prestigious university it's in, students will always say that the training they get isn't good enough. Much of the time it's true, students are so idealistic when they apply/start the program, but reality always hits that most programs aren't perfect (and many are outright mediocre), so students will never feel truly ready for a job by the time they graduate, and they have to make up lack of preparedness in self-confidence. These days going to a university to be fully trained is usually not the point of getting a degree. If you don't like what you do in your program, you can think of it as a crappy, BS job that you have to pay for and complete just to open more doors to get an actual job. It's definitely not for everyone, especially if paying the tuition is a big financial burden on you/your family.

@Mikinaak2023

6 ай бұрын

Good luck.

After graduating I was unemployed for almost two years. During that time I practiced my illustration skills with little to no progress and this just made me fell into burnout and honestly... That has been my tendency every time I stop working. But specially that first year after uni felt the worst. Almost if not all my classmates had a job offer right after graduation and this made me feel useless... I graduated top five of my group but comparing myself in the real world with the rest of my classmates, this meant nothing. What I've learned throughout the years is that the only way of being hired is by recommendation. No company is willing to invest in a recently graduated-nobody with no work experience. Either start working on anything while studying, enroll on an internship or meet a lot of new people with similar interests that might be willing to work on something someday. Or just focus on social media doing whatever every day, you'll find your niche eventually.

@entropy8634

2 жыл бұрын

Did you find your niche?

@mandragonna

2 жыл бұрын

@@entropy8634 yeah, after 4 years I did

@IlyaCatWithABrush

2 жыл бұрын

As fellow graduate from creative-related field, this relates so much. While I'm pretty grateful to be able to found a niche from doing online commissions since my final year of studies, I still tend to get mentally exhausting from worrying about getting nowhere near my dream after two years from graduation.

@akiradanna1335

4 ай бұрын

i relate to this sooo much! i also graduated with an arts (music) degree and graduated among the top of the class, and i witnessed so many people getting "stable" jobs after graduation. i currently don't have a stable income, but i'm glad to say that i'm doing exactly what i told my lecturers about what i want to do after graduating - making game sounds and music. i hope after a good year or two i could go somewhere with a solid portfolio of published games. i also agree with your statement of getting jobs through recommendations. NONE of the jobs i've worked went through the resume route. it's either know people and show your skills (which is how i got my teaching, performing, and photography jobs), or build a portfolio and show it to the right people at the right time (which is how i got my game job). also, it's absolutely harsh in my country if one wants a corporate job; so many youth but only so many jobs to fill. getting jobs through recommendations just becomes a meme now because of how true it is. i hope you're doing much better now!

@commentbot9510

3 ай бұрын

Internships don’t give you money. Paid internships ignore applications.

I was in this exact same situation a year ago. I'm so glad to have just dropped uni and picked up a high quality apprenticeship instead. I have learnt so much more in the past 6 months than the past 2 years of uni. W + no debt + networking + work experience + doing what I like + feeling joyful

@deadinside8781

2 жыл бұрын

Do you mind explaining where you found it, the requirements description? I always thought completed formal education was one of them. I find it hard to believe anyone wants to teach people😅

@intellectualhybrid2

2 жыл бұрын

@Mank Hobley I'm super happy This feeling of accomplishment is underrated. I hope all the best for everyone who is still struggling finding their footing in the career world.

@Nikelaos_Khristianos

2 жыл бұрын

I'm only curious, what did you used to do at Uni?

@1es782

2 жыл бұрын

Degree Apprenticeship Gigachad?

@intellectualhybrid2

2 жыл бұрын

@@1es782 Honestly I got put off by the massive time investment. One of my colleages is doing one and it's like 5 years long

So relatable. I majored in design and arts, and after a 6-month trainee period, struggled to find a job for months. Then I landed a marketing assistant job in my current company where I've been treated like a superstar because I apparently have some innate talent for marketing. This of course makes me feel like an impostor and squirm uncomfortably when I receive praise. The promotions and salary increases I've been given in a rather short time horrify me because I feel they're unbased, huge mistakes from the company's part. However, even though I don't trust myself, I trust my colleagues, and if they see me fit for my job, I believe them. Building up confidence takes time - it's painfully slow - but maybe one day I'll get there. And you, my friends, will get there too. You just have to find an environment that allows you to learn, experiment, fail, grow. You'll thrive eventually. Last but not least, do NOT believe yourselves because your mind may be lying to you. :) Ask for a second opinion, as Dr. K says.

@lalakuma9

2 жыл бұрын

My therapist keeps telling me that I shouldn't judge and overthink my own job application. Just submit them and let someone else decide whether it's good enough for them. Clearly your employer is happy with what you're doing when they measure it with their standards, so just accept what they're willing to give you.

I can honestly say that 90% of what I do in my everyday job is learned on the job, and even the stuff I developed a base for in college were only really relied on in the first year or so. However, the reason I've been relatively successful is not because I came into the job magically knowing everything - it's because I mastered how to learn on the job. The struggles you face in college are more about building the tools you need to tackle problems more than "mastering" any skills. Once I stopped worrying so much about being underqualified in my interviews and just focused on my ability to learn and adapt instead of specific skills, I started getting multiple offers from good employers. I really was my own worst enemy for those first several interviews, but recognizing that toxic cycle made such a huge difference! Sometimes I wish I could tell my past self not to worry so much about landing a job, because a lot of those fears and concerns were unfounded. But then again, if I did I might not have learned that lesson properly in the first place. I'm not sure it would have been better!

@ShannonJinArt

2 жыл бұрын

This is so true. I probably used 5% of what I learned from college on my first job, and even less after moving to other jobs. What really helped was being adaptable and a quick learner, and googling things a lot. So much of the technical skills are learned on the job and they’ll change depending on the company, every company having their own particularities. At the end of the day if someone can approach work with a good attitude and good soft skills then that’s a set up for success.

@luisd.sanchezmartinez4632

Жыл бұрын

This is so refreshing to read and very valuable, thank you!!

One thing that starting my own company taught me: Stop preparing and start executing, it doesn't give AF if your portfolio is a beautiful 3D animated website that shows your work or literally screenshots printed on A4 paper. The trick isn't to beat every designer in the market before applying to your first job... The trick is to put yourself in a position where your presence is needed where you're able to provide a solution. Don't overfocus on the product, focus on the distribution.

One of the biggest things college doesn't prepare you for: Those HR monkeys with a power trip that love to set their job application systems to auto-reject every application that doesn't fit their list of "qualifications."

@mattr2626

10 ай бұрын

Some of them get paid absurd money for the responsibility they have too. Had a friend who was a recruiter for Google and he made damn near $140k just to interview and screen people. Sounded fucking amazing

I got rejected from 590 software engineering jobs, that's how I know I'm unemployable.

To those struggling some thoughts that might help: An interview is about fit and needs on both ends. It does not indicate your worth, potential or their opinion of your worth just that the specific things they need are currently out of what you could show them. I am fairlu sure I have had an interview where the other person needed a skillset Right Now but HR had forced them to take an entry level interview with me. Offering me that position would have been a disservice to both of us because I didn't fit the need and would have struggled or failed. Stories (real ones) are the king of interviews. When you say I have a skill say it with a story. When you have a weakness tell a story about fighting through the weakness to do something positive. When you are reflecting on a failure tell a story about the failure and following success. Third look for ways to skip the online application and get to the interview (after figuring out and refining your stories). Online application to interview conversion is terrible. Interview to offer conversion is much better. Spend time to avoid the worst part and get good at the interview part. Best of luck.

@lalakuma9

2 жыл бұрын

But if they never give you a chance to interview, neither side can even see whether they fit. It's like when employers swipe left on you on Tinder just because you didn't mention something about yourself in your profile. Or when employers ignore your message because they're so pretty and get hundreds of Tinder messages. There's a reason why I hate both job applications and online dating.

This was me a few months ago. I graduated in 2019, and spent a year unemployed, and When I almost a got a job, the pandemic happened and I couldn't find work for a long time, I became sad, depressed, started staying up late at night, watching youtube, porn, being mad at the world, feeling like a bum. In 2020 I enrolled in a certification course that's still ongoing. In November 2021, I decided to get a job, doing delivery/crew work at a restaurant, and it has improved my life, yeah It might not be my dream job, but im making money now with it, while finishing up a certification course. I will get a full-time job soon hopefully when I finish my certification.

@jayvercone.valenzuela6366

11 ай бұрын

How's your journey rn MN?

I also graduated from art school with a pretty bad portfolio and It took me five very miserable months of searching to find a job in my field, during which I worked an unpaid internship AND a job at a cafe. Then finally when I got to my job (had to move to canada) I worked for a measly 32k a year. I stuck it out and grinded for a couple of years, and now at 25 I make nearly 6 figures in my field (VFX artist). It's definitely not easy to prove your worth in a creative field and sometimes it means working your way up but it's definitely possible! Also, you only really learn the skills on the job to be completely honest. Being thrown into the fire and having to ask my colleagues to teach me what they know is how I really developed skills.

@dorianodet8064

2 жыл бұрын

That seem more realistic. This video definitely highlight very interesting point, but is also much too optimistic.

I did my masters in 2020 & 2021. This hits. The uni system acts like online learning is an appropriate substitute for everything. You need to do lab experiments? Just watch this video! You need to network? Just use the discussion board! You need social interaction to keep up your motivation? Sucks to be you! Covid meant many of us couldn't get internships to have demonstrated experience in order to enter the workforce. So if your field doesn't have many entry level positions, you may be expected to do unpaid internships AFTER your degree. Right when you need to eat and pay off loans. I got my degree in disaster resilience and sustainable development. I'm trained to help communities organize to become more resilient to natural disasters and climate change. Everyone I've met working in my field had to do (unpaid) internships to "break in". This is awful because when we require people to work for free to create a career, we make that career affordable only for those wealthy enough to be able to work for free. That's genuinely f*cked up.

I don't always relate to the topics by Dr K but damn when I can relate I love it because he does such a great job of explaining our thought process and where we might be going wrong. Have yet to watch a video and walk away without new insight. Thanks for being you, Dr. K.

Yeah, Uni is becoming more or less worth it depending on your field and the program in how it preps you. Ik I went in because I got a campus job that I can minimize my debt (by living free on campus) + the program I went to had an amazing network in the Game Industry. I graduated spring 2021. That beside the point, I wanted to be a game producer and I knew it was gonna be tough. Shit sucks, there are many times I felt like after almost 6 months of doing hundreds of applications and even less interviews I wanted to resort to something easy to get into like IT or something. But with asking for feedback on my portfolio, resume, and linkedin while networking here and there, I finally got into my dream career field at an amazing place. The biggest risk to your happiness is playing it safe. Keep improving at your own pace and chase your dream.

@duncanbug

2 жыл бұрын

This is giving me hope dude. I played it beyond safe (due to a crappy childhood which made me verryyyy insecure) now I’m pursuing the dream one day at a time.

@matthewk4912

2 жыл бұрын

@@duncanbug The thing is that we only get one life, so we might as well pursue what we want to do and believe in what we can best contribute to the world. If we don't pursue our dream in this life, we'll never be able to. I have a long ways to go but making progress

I can’t stress enough the importance of getting any job, even if it’s not the right job or the end-goal career. You’d be surprised with what opportunities are unearthed by simply showing up and doing a job. Some income is more than no income and getting your foot in the door can often lead to better opportunities. I see a lot of college grads saying that they’ve been jobless for a year or more and that’s dangerous. I fell into the wrong mindset after college because I thought my degree entitled me to instant career. It can, but it doesn’t always work like that. It depends on your field and where you live. You can easily lose all motivation to find work the longer you stay unemployed. I started thinking about it like this: Every week that I’m not working, I’m losing not only money, but progress towards a promotion. When you get married and have to provide for people other than yourself, you start to view a job more as an income than a passion-career.

@orbit1894

9 ай бұрын

your advice is dangerous for a lot people who cant find a job and feel behind in life. Your words are the cause of anxiety many feel that later spirals down to depression. "Some income is more than no income" will sound infuriating to many since they'll be thinking "I spent X amount on education, spend X years to work *any* job? Whats the point of education and all the wasted years?" I get it you mean good, but that's not the way to say it. "college grads saying that they’ve been jobless for a year or more and that’s dangerous" why throw wood into fire? Why fuel it with more anxiety and rush? " Every week that I’m not working, I’m losing not only money, but progress towards a promotion. " this is also the same thing, not everyone is career driven, and some just want to earn enough on the field they feel qualified. Life is not a race, but you seem to think so.

@javiercama8270

6 ай бұрын

It’s because colleges go so far as early as middle school to say that you will get a job after you graduate

About self worth bias: treat your last salary as the LOWEST of what you're worth when applying. And for the first job? Assume they will be hiring you not as much for skills (which you absolutely should be improving upon in the direction of your choosing asap ANYWAY) but for the person that you are. Skills are teachable - attitude is the key there and then :)

This video is entirely about me. I graduated college after high school with an associates in electrical engineering and had no idea what I could or wanted to do with it, went to a temp agency, and they found me a factory assembly job that I worked for 4 years. It took me that long to realize that I hated it and didn't want to spend my life doing it, so I went back to school for industrial maintenance for 2 years, kept a 4.0 for the first time in my life, got a maintenance position for a month, but they let me go because the supervisor was new and didn't realize what it would take to train an inexperienced student. I spent the next 9 months applying to maintenance positions and did not get a job. Spring rolled around, and my parents brought up going back to school for a third time, but for software development this time, and I'm now about to graduate from in 1 more semester. The thing about the maintenance thing is that during orientation for the program, the dean of the program actually walked around and literally thanked the students for signing up for the maintenance program because, according to her, "there are so many positions opening up around here! You'll have no problem finding a job at all!" she pretty much said. Well, she was right, except what she didn't say is they're all reserved for super experienced people in their 40s and 50s who already know everything -_- literally no one in my area gave a flying fuck about my grades, my resume, my maintenance degree. They aaaaall wanted experience and not a single one was willing to give any. How the actual fuck am I supposed to learn how to fix machines and tools and such if every company uses different ones and I have to be on the job to learn it?? School can only teach me so much... So maintenance was a complete waste of $20k in loans and 3 years of my life, and now I'm looking at jobs for software development jobs, and I'm seeing the same god damn thing. Required experience, a shit ton of responsibilities and requirements, and higher degrees than what I have, and this is on internships!!! Experience requirements on an internship?! I'm now 30 and have officially wasted away my 20s. Still living with my parents who treat me like a 12 year old so I even further don't feel like an adult. I have few friends and absolutely nothing even close to a girlfriend, but really, who would want to be with a 30 year old guy with no job (in a full time student), no career, and an entirely unsure future? Meanwhile, I've heard nothing but bad news about my generation trying and failing to own a house. It would be great if the powers that be would stop constantly moving the goal post.

@Mikinaak2023

6 ай бұрын

Go be an apprentice with a Company. If not, retrain in trades as an apprentice.

I can certainly confirm that there is certainly no 'labor shortage' when it comes to jobs that are decently skilled, or those that offer upward mobility. The 'shortage' is because nobody wants to work the high-visibility, low-paying jobs like fast food, restaurants, etc.

@ShinyFood

2 жыл бұрын

well yes but if you graduated in collage i would hope you'd manage to get a better job..

@inplane9970

2 жыл бұрын

​@@ShinyFood And that's precisely the problem. The wage shortage that's perpetuating the notion of "bad jobs" is the reason why over half of university graduates have no opportunities. Chances are you have no Co-op opportunities or connections to even get you a job in your field, unless you suck up to profs and TAs. So what's left? The necessary jobs that run our society, but aren't taught to you in university. The so called "bad jobs."

@Sw4ggB055

2 жыл бұрын

@@ShinyFood well yeah but the thing is tons of people have college degrees and graduated recently so the competition for entry level jobs is high

@666yaoz

2 жыл бұрын

So there is a degree of skilled labor as well. The problem is that these are not entry level. Most require at least 2-3 years of experience

@Voltaic314

2 жыл бұрын

@@inplane9970 I'm sensing a bias in your replies. It's not about jobs being "good" or "bad" for society. Whether someone is a lawyer or a fast food worker doesn't make any one of those jobs more or less necessary for society to function. Both are conveniences to our lives. Fast food is no more necessary than lawyers are for example. After all we could all just become farmers again. Just because someone is going to college doesn't mean they are gonna get a job that isn't "necessary" for society. My degree is in AI with an emphasis on machine learning and data science. In my particular field I study how to manage data in a way that's readable and manipulatable to help companies make better decisions with the data they are collecting. That is extremely important, the work that I do makes a far greater impact on how a company makes their decision compared to a single person in a single fast food restaurant of a giant franchise. That doesn't mean I think it's a bad job, (though objectively speaking it is, but for different reasons), rather it's just a more impactful job overall. People don't go to college to avoid "bad jobs." They go to college to get a job where they will have an impact on their respective companies or society as a whole. Other than knowledge for the sake of knowledge, that's the entire reason people go to college. In the way you talk, it's like you are implying that all college students are prissy bratty kids who don't respect jobs. It's almost as if you think everyone should just work shitty jobs for 20+ years and expect their companies to finally throw them a bone and give them a promotion after 20 years of work. I can not tell you how many retail jobs for example that I have worked where I have worked with managers who have been with these kinds of jobs for basically their whole life. Of which they only became managers after yearsssssssssssssss of work and dedication to that company. Whereas in an alternative universe if they would have got a college degree and played it smart, they could be making triple their current pay at a decent job somewhere in a much shorter amount of time overall. College isn't bad, it's how you use college that defines your future.

Thanks HGG! I'm a soon PhD graduate and am really struggling with the confidence piece. I am choosing to leave academia as I want to 'do the work' vs. publishing in journals and teaching. It has been hard as I have won a lot of academic awards and don't want an entry level position but have no 'real life' work experience. Of course, I'm working on marketing what I do have differently and sounding confidence but fighting the uncertainty and struggle is really hard to not pull me down into a dark hole.

Dr. K Thank you so so much for going over this topic and thank you to the individual brave enough to make the post on the subreddit for this video to occur. I know the struggle as an Art student about to enter the world of employment and had these very same issues of lack of confidence fear of being unemployable and the search of other portfolios. This was a much needed watch. This was the most relieving video I've ever watched from this channel.

I just need to finish college. I’ve been doing it for so long and it’s so embarrassing and depressing for me. I try to be positive but it’s hard when you see people graduating and you feel like you’re in the same spot. But I think with these sorts of things you just have to keep it one step at a time. So to all the people feeling down because they can’t find work, STAY STRONG. KEEP MOVING FORWARD. You guys are doing the best that you can and that’s all anyone can ask. :)

@RaxInDX

2 жыл бұрын

Same to you bro, everybody’s time is different don’t pay attention to what other people are doing, just know that everyday you are taking a step forward towards your goals

College has always been like one of those cartoons where a character is trying to help a friend move furniture around. Takes them all day and the friend ultimately tells them to put everything back to where it was before. Cause in college, it's always about doing more and even if you meet the criteria for a job, some company will make an excuse not to hire you

The biggest shot to my confidence was when I entered my junior year at my first university, and one of my professors told me that if I couldn't learn the material from the textbook or his website, then he couldn't help me and I was a lost cause. Ended up withdrawing from school and had to go to the hospital because that event finally broke me, and I needed extreme focus on my mental health. Now, after trying a community college and going to a different university, I'm trying for another bachelor's. I know now that the professor I had was infamous for being a massive WEINER, and all of his students hated him and his teaching methods. It's important for students to receive confidence from their teachers and detailed information about the resources available to them, especially when they're a first-generation student like me.

This was me going into my last quarter of university. I applied for 50+ internships and full time roles and received no response for months until I received a single one from one of the FAANG companies. I did my absolute best and ended up scoring the internship (as a senior) and worked my butt off to impress, scoring the full time role at the end of the internship. I went from exactly the scenario op was talking about to well over a 6 figure salary job within the span of 9 months. The point here is you just have to work with what you have and sell yourself to the best of your abilities. Even if you feel underqualified, act like you are qualified. Apply to as many roles as possible, all you need is 1 break to have a job which will open up other doors. Getting hired has a lot to do with luck, but it happens to people every day. You have a chance, make the best of it.

@duncanbug

2 жыл бұрын

I’m nervous. I’m a senior and I scored a nice student job that’s giving me related experience. But should I try and get the intership outside of Uni? Again. This job is great and related to what I want to do. The problem is I also need a cert outside of my classes to help.

@duncanbug

2 жыл бұрын

Also, Major congrats! I think I’m gonna apply aggressively! I mean. It’s that or being qualified after graduation but not getting internships.

@commentbot9510

3 ай бұрын

I am sorry but you did not struggle at all so why did you even write a comment here?

@Omar-kl3xp

3 ай бұрын

@@commentbot9510lol the person think that applying 50 internship was a struggle

Thank you Dr K for addressing EXACTLY what I've been struggling as a newly graduated UX student, I feel like after watching this video I've connected a lot of dots on how I was thinking and why. Over the past year I've been struggling with that confidence issue- I was just having a revelation the other night "wow, the way I've been looking for jobs is the way some people end up dating toxic partners, because it feels so familiar to childhood" so it was very timely to hear him reference familiarity from childhood. (not worded the best, but really want to leave a comment and thank Dr K, this was very liberating to watch and learn).

I went to trade school instead of college to learn how to be a Robotics Tech, and even then I couldn’t ever find a relevant job. Everyone said “Oh it’s easy, they’ll come to you”. And come to find out, no one wants me

@avgspacelover

3 ай бұрын

hey learn data analytics or marketing

I'm so grateful to find this channel.

I recently lost my job due to covid cutbacks, feeling unemployable myself. This video actually tackled some of my thoughts... Thank you for creating such great content.

How does Dr. K always release these videos on my problems exactly when I need them

@jirue

2 жыл бұрын

It's uncanny, almost like he specializes in people's mental states and has a large network to collect data on trends or something. :O

@Astroic1

2 жыл бұрын

@@jirue idk his accuracy and timing goes beyond “trends” and “mental states” at this point

@jirue

2 жыл бұрын

@@Astroic1 If you think so, you do you. Personally to me it just looks like he's covering lots of general modern health and mental concerns that a wide audience suffer from (hence his AoE healing approach being so effective). Things like concern about landing a job after college/university aren't new or timely, I had the same concerns when I graduated 3 years ago.

I was dealing with the same thing, (as many of us are/will). I ended up applying to some places that I was certain would never call me back. First place I applied to got back to me in a week. Nicest facility I had ever seen with some of the most experienced and knowledgeable people I have ever met. I thought I had no chance of landing this position. 7 months later and still going strong. I’m not going to lie, it was hard to get up to snuff. A lot was expected of me and I thought about quitting due to some heavy bouts of shame and imposter syndrome. I hung in there, left my ego at the front door, and took the little victories along the way. You can do it too!

It's pretty uncanny how relatable these videos are and how timely they find me. I've been out of college for 3 years now (majored in English) and my goal was to write and publish a novel. I actually wrote the whole thing but am hitting a wall now getting it published which is quite demoralizing. For money, I've been tutoring high school students in SAT prep, which I don't really like and now that it's been three years feels like the only work I'm qualified to do that pays an acceptable rate. Currently trying to get certificate courses done in other things that will help me get a career change going, but things are hard right now. thanks for the video

This hits home really hard. Thank you Dr.K!

I NEEDED THIS. Thank you Dr. K, always the right place right time.

i feel so fortunate, and smart for going to a welding trade school a month out of high school, im now 19 and got accapted today for a full time welding job. 19 and ive started my lifes career, granted its only for 16.50 which is about as low a welding job can get, but i did it on purpose bc the job i chose is easy and managable for me, its the best place for me as a begginer to start off so im fine taking less pay for a more relaxed experience in my field. i dont care much about money bc i usually only spend 100 a week, im cheap and satisfied with making little

As someone who is a 23 year old junior in college, I found this extremely interesting. Thank you, Dr. K!

Graphic design grad here. Lack of confidence and which direction to take my portfolio made me choose jobs I didn’t really want for almost a decade that are unrelated to what I studied. I’m glad I came across this video

This couldn’t have come at a better time. The only exception is that I’m not going to be a graphic designer, but an educator. This week has been rough, to say the least.

I've applied to probably 50+ jobs since late November and I haven't even been offered an interview. Only one job has called to talk. Unfortunately, I was not qualified because of no degree, even though I was self-taught in programming. I have a degree in Geology, but there's like no Geology jobs. I'm lowering my standards further and further. Eventually I'll probably just end up being a waiter or some shit which is the most depressing outcome I can think of. Like, $50k odd down the drain. For what? So I can serve ungrateful customers? Fuck that. Another SUPER frustrating thing is that JUNIOR positions in companies are requiring 2-3+ years of experience in the relevant field. How THE FUCK am I supposed to get 2-3 years of experience if even the junior/newbie positions require work experience? So stupid.

@CapeSkill

2 жыл бұрын

software engineering in a nutshell. Need experience for work, to get experience you need work.

@Sesso20

Жыл бұрын

Hey Synthh This sounds horrible, also because I am amidst finising my masters degree in Geosciences. Care to talk about your current situation? 🙂 I already had my BSc when the people first told us, that were literally no jobs for a lot of us graduates. I started looking for a job with my BSc but for most of the jobs, a masters is required so after not finding anything too, I just decided to study again... but honestly, I really dont feel qualified for anything technical in the end. But for non-technical stuff, the requirements are insane, even for "Entry Level"....... Greetings

@avgspacelover

3 ай бұрын

hi you can learn data analytics and get jobs in startups

Ok Dr. K gotta stop snooping on my personal life...cause at this point, these videos are a direct attack on me lmao

I think in design roles, its important to know your role and your 'place'. Those who appear the most competent are often just in the process of directing their work to a specific audience. If you don't know where to go- you will struggle to build confidence. But it comes from actually living that life and growing into your role actively

so for 15 years I can relate to this. for 15 years I worked for my family business rather than look for a job and work for someone else because of my low self worth and value. I couldn't face interviews, I avoided them because it meant sitting down and facing my value as a worker and a person. what is my strengths? what is my weaknesses? oh god, just the thought of that made me want to distract myself. I'm highly avoidant due to anxiety. It took 15 years of therapy to get me to this point of introspection but I'm still at the same anxious mindset. It all came back to having to talk to someone about my worth and proving myself to them that I can do the job. THIS was the root cause of it all

Thanks! this video is literally what I needed right now!

This is actually soooo helpful. I was rejected from my dream art school. I went to a school that doesn’t teach art but still wanted to be an artist. Since then I was really insecure and unconfident about my skills and my future. Now I’m going to focus on building my art fundamentals and try to get feedbacks! Good luck everyone! 🤞

Man this doctor knows EVERYTHING it looks like he reads in to our minds

@user-mr5kn1nd2o

10 ай бұрын

ikr

This explains so much. Thank you.

Love this. It's pretty ironic that I've been studying social sciences and still have no idea of how to approach the job market and promote skills acquired.

@Acehigh-Jenkins

2 жыл бұрын

I would just say apply for anything your not positively excluded from due to qualification (ie they need someone with a specific course you haven’t got). Also boll*cks to experience apply anyway. Also rewrite your CV a little each time to highlight any particular stuff they mention in the job ad. If they bang on about team work highlight group projects or working in a group at a part time job or playing team sport in the hobbies section. Just a few tips from a old bag who also graduated in sociology a few years ago now an has been negotiating the job markets for a few years.

@TheDavveponken

2 жыл бұрын

@@Acehigh-Jenkins Appreciated! Thanks!

@TheDavveponken

2 жыл бұрын

@@Acehigh-Jenkins Brightened up my day :)

There couldnt be a more perfect time for this video

I'm glad Dr. K mentioned the failure of the educators to provide positive reinforcement. That was my immediate thought upon watching the vid. "Why aren't the professors going out of their way to set these student up for mental success?" As a prof, I understand that we don't get paid a lot, but that's still no excuse.

@uxu7705

2 жыл бұрын

Nobody cares

@hkr0065

2 жыл бұрын

@@uxu7705 you do

@lalakuma9

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I think a lot of professors are too caught up in how academia works that they don't really care how other jobs in the outer world works, hence their failure to prepare students for careers. Plus a lot of professors are more of researchers and aren't really committed educators. Plus many universities aren't good employers to professors that aren't on tenure track, even though those are the exact professors that are hired specifically as instructors.

I got two bachelor's degrees, one in IT and the other in CS. Couldn't break into the tech field and now the tech market is impossible to get in. So I have severe imposter syndrome because I failed to start a career twice...

@avgspacelover

3 ай бұрын

build a portfolio

perfect topic please take up more of this.

How i wish that this video came out a bit earlier because this video is what i need when i graduated but still watching this makes me feel happy and proud that I did overcome that rockbottom state of mind i have being unemployed after grad.

This is me. Graduated 3 months ago and am still looking for a job. I have a degree, but no experience. It's very discouraging to be rejected over and over.

I was like this after graduation and was unemployed for 6 months. Then a recruiter just gave me a job I was overqualified for as a test technician. I didn’t realize that at the time though, I thought I was underqualified. Within the first month, I mastered it and then I learned python and wrote a program to automate parts of my job which no one knows about because I don’t know if that’s allowed. 5 months later, here I am and I just applied for a the Test Engineer role and Control Systems Engineer role at my company today. I really hope I get the Control Systems Engineer job because that would fulfill my highest potential I think and is what I want to do but more realistically I would be more likely to get the test engineer job since there is a shortage of them working on my project and I worked side by side with them all these months. If I fail at getting both jobs then I guess I’ve reached my highest potential so I’m going to give it my A game in those interviews. If this is as high as I can go I’d rather die. It’s do or die.

@patriciaa4260

9 ай бұрын

wow this is inspiring! I hope you eventually got the job! I recently graduated with a bachelors in ChemE and i’m also trying to do the technician to engineer path. I also want to become a controls engineer someday but ChemE is not really heavy on the electrical side of things so I’ve been applying to bunch of technician jobs in the manufacturing industry.

@BimmerWon

9 ай бұрын

@@patriciaa4260 Congrats on your graduation! As a follow up, I didn’t get either of the jobs. I stayed in the technician job until the end of March this year where I got a job as a Manufacturing Engineer at the same company. It’s still not what I want to do and I’m still way underpaid by about $30K a year but it’s a step up with a $20K a year salary boost. At least now I’m starting to build a resume though since I’m doing something engineering related. I’m planning on looking elsewhere for a job as a design engineer where they actually pay me fairly early next year. My advice to you is, DO NOT TAKE THE TECHNICIAN PATH if you can avoid it. You can literally pull any homeless dude off the street to do your job. Being a technician is not being an engineer. All being a technician did was build up resentment towards the fresh engineering graduates working in the engineering roles over me. Now in my engineering job, I still couldn’t care less if I was fired and only do the bare minimum work since the resentment carried over. Now I’m working directly with these “high and mighty” assholes. I know how they speak lowly of the technicians and they don’t know I ever was one. The engineers see technicians as incompetent tools to be exploited. Companies don’t value hard work, they only value hierarchy and if you’re buddy-buddy. You simply need to appear like you are hard working by exaggerating your accomplishments. Don’t do any actual real hard work if you can avoid it. You get paid the same regardless. Instead put more time into how you appear to others.

I feel like I'm being attacked by every title of video over the past month...

As someone who've been through this exact same feeling of despair, and is now screening applicants for the same field, I can certainly say that Dr. K is on point.

Great talk.

After school was by far the worst time in my life. I was always the kid with straight A's helping other students and doing a ton of extra curricular activities. After we graduated I was the last to get any form of employment and it wasn't even in our field. I'm doing ok now but still not as good as those with connections. I hope this helps anyone who is down atm, it does get better don't give up.

Dude this made me much more confident of myself and Know that it's not that i'm not employable but i'm degrading myself and looking in the wrong places

I was unemployed for years after college and now that I have a job I can't stand working there- the pay is great and everyone is pressuring me to keep the job but I feel worse now than ever.

This video really speaks to me because after graduating from college with a BS in Biology, I struggled for months to find a job. Mostly because I put a lot of pressure on myself, would compare myself to others in my same field who were landing research jobs, and had zero faith that I would land a "good" job and be an overall good candidate. As such, I became depressed, desperate and started applying for that 0-50% range. After nearly 6 months of applying, I ended up working a manufacturing job which turned into inventory management for over a year. Besides being overworked and treated poorly, I began to feel like my Bachelors meant nothing. Eventually, I put in my notice. I chose to pursue a different field of study, but now I'm stuck in that same toxic work environment with politics among coworkers, inability to move forward in the company, and heavy burn out. I really wish I had that confidence in the beginning because I'm now finding myself stuck in an endless loop of having a lack of self worth and shooting myself in the foot when it comes to finding a sustainable, reliable career that can treat their people with dignity and respect. Anyway, if anyone is stuck in the same position that I am, I hope things turn out for the better.

@noonehere_kasut

2 жыл бұрын

Hey I have a biology degree too. Would so love to get back in the field, but biology-related jobs available where I am now is close to non-existent. I'm trying to pivot to a different field by self-teaching, but it's extremely difficult without a good support group, plus not always feeling emotionally well due to various things I've lost in the past few years. I hope we get the strength to get out of this rut.

My issue with my confidence in employability is that I feel like I am not as flexible as other people I feel like I have the skills but not the flexibility I.E. Employer: are you willing to move to live closer to work? Can you drive? Are you willing to work late nights? Me: no, no, and no

I lost my **** at a recruiter who told me off for not getting into a suit and tie during an interview. I've had a tib, fib open fracture and surgery and I am stuck in bed on high dose morphine. WTF do they expect me to do?! I can barely move. Also they complained I was "sleepy" during the interview, they pressured me with 20+ calls to do the interview even though they knew I was on pain killers.

@yuppers1

2 жыл бұрын

What a terrible company. I'm sorry you had to go through that and glad it didn't work out. Frankly they showed you who they were.

@Consul99

2 жыл бұрын

No offense but if it's hard for you to do an interview how are you going to be able to work? Shouldn't you be on disability payments or something.

@DecadentDelicacy

2 жыл бұрын

Bad recruiters are very much like car salesmen sometimes

@retinapeg1846

2 жыл бұрын

@@Consul99 Job starts sep 22

@avrahamlevi2140

Күн бұрын

@@Consul99 he can recover

Overthinking will always kill you do what u need to do focus on beginning again if u fail get up dont give up its just the toxic expectation is just killing people look man juat focus whoever u are if youre young u are capable a lot

Thank you so much for this video

I really feel that entering college in 2020 was the worst thing I've done. Since day one it's all online and this screwed everything to me. Everything is so shitty and I feel I didn't learn a single thing I should by now. I really wanted to restart, but all the stress is not worth it. I like the path I chose, but I really wanted to have the full experience of being in college and not just send docs without learning a thing... I think I'll never know how college really is in this two years left now finally in person... I was so excited to do stuff and now I just want it to end and live a sad life because nothing seems that is going to work on my life because of all this pandemic and world ending atmosphere

@hihihihere12

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah tbh the pandemic has made me have a shitty perspective on college life, my 2 years prior to pandemic were optimistic but now I don’t get the positive feelings of being at college and I just feel overtly depressed… I fucking hate it

Thank you Dr. K for touching all the bitter things in life...

As a new grad industrial designer, this video is so helpful and rewatched this

This is a mix of truth and lies. While he is correct about us looking for the bottom 50% of the jobs, he has never been in our situation, and the last time he was in our position was several years ago when the situation was very different. People refuse to admit that the situation is changing fairly quickly. Also, some people refuse to admit that the situation is more negative than they dare to admit to themselves. Just as some people are stuck in negative mode, he is a bit too much stuck in positive mode.

definitely had this problem when I graduated from comp sci. thought I was over it but realized I still have some of these cognitive distortions about my art program now 😅

This post is very similar to what I am currently going through. Just graduated as a part time student with a part time job. My gpa is bad but I know just how good my work ethic at a job I always knew was temporary is. My ADHD wants to put me in a self judging loop. I get tons of encouragement from my coworkers, but it doesn't really feel real.

I recently have experiance this problem. I got a job as a junior web dev and all my work was look over by someone who been doing dev for 10+ years (keep in mind im 19). We get along great and I adjust my code to meet his standards, how ever when my first big project came around he gave little to no feedback when I would not have optimized code. He ended up making the site from scratch after wards and we had a meeting that ended up being he felt like we was walking on egg shells with giving feed back when I told him give me a whole bullet point list. at the end of the day it was pretty stupid as I wasnt doing anything "wrong" for say but what I can take from this is. expect to fail when you start. Learning to swim isnt something that comes easy to everyone some adults can swim, while I know 10yr who can, the fear of failling isnt something to run from

This woulda been nice about 6ish years ago for me. Uni really doesn't teach you jack crap, you're money to them, not much else. It was a HUGE waste for me because I didn't know I should have been hyper focused on gaining internships until it was too late and I was screwed. If you go in expecting university to help you and give you the knowledge you need, you're gonna come out bitter and disappointed. If you go in with the knowledge that what uni is for: the piece of paper; time and space to focus on personal projects; using it as a way to get internships, you'll do a lot better. For all those who are in university or going to it, see it as an internship mill. You'll learn _and_ earn more in an internship than anything else university can give you. Your GPA won't and don't matter (unless the internship says it does). If you flunk uni but networked well in your internship, you're still a step ahead than everyone else who didn't intern (or networked tho unless you're getting a uni job networking at uni is mostly pointless, imo).

I really needed this

I fairly recently finally graduated college last December (2021) at age 30 with my first bachellor's degree; and these thoughts, fears, worries, and nightmares (as expressed in the video) have haunted me for most of my college career. When I finally got to see my degree two months ago in February, I was inconsolably pissed off. I felt lied to, and frankly, I felt scammed by my universities (I went to three different universities). It made me mad because they didn't even have the decency to put what I studied on the degree itself. I feel completely unprepared, like I missed the boat. I feel stupid. I feel desserted. I developed clinical depression, among other serious ailments of the mind. I feel like I would be lying to someone if I told them what I studied in college, because I feel so inept at what I do (I studied Spanish and Russian, to be a translator). I feel like I put my trust in school, and school just betrayed that trust. I thought getting the degree was my best option, but now I doubt that thought I had. University actively destroyed my learning, my drive to learn, actively worsened my performance and skills, ran away with my money before I realized too late, and wasted my time. Again, it not just wasted my time. University didn't passively burn my time, it actively made me and my skills worse. Thank you very much for this video. It helped ease the gnawing pain of the last nine years.

@Sesso20

Жыл бұрын

Hello Chandler I feel this so much, because I am quite in the same boat. Next year I will be 31 with a masters degree in (Applied) Geosciences and I have no clue where I can even apply to. All the jobs require stuff that we never did, be it law-related things, be it specific certificates that cost money and time or just lots of programming and administration skills. I feel like I have wasted my 20s for this degree and I ll just end up unemployed, just adding to the fact that Ill never be in the workforce. But you have skills and me too. Its not wasted and I hope that you can find something that you are satisfied with!

@MorningMage

Жыл бұрын

@@Sesso20 Thank you very much for your response, and I am both relieved about and sympathetic to your story. I'm still trying to forge my own way by trying to get a freelance business off the ground while still sending off resumés to places who may conceivably want what I can offer. It's very unfortunate that there's such a huge disconnection between University and employment. I echo the same wish you gave me back to you. Be proud that you loved yourself enough to sacrifice what you did for that degree. It'll always serve as a monument to your dedication.

Covid definitely what cause me to have doubts because at that a lot of news about the increase unemployment rate and employee letting go. Because of that i become less confident and extra careful. Its been 1 and half year waiting for certificate to arrive cause that my only will to start a job life. I definitely appreciate this.

Haven't watched the video yet. Let but I'm 31 and I graduated in 2015. I still work delivery driving and I attempted suicide on my 28th birthday due to complete despair. I've completely given up hope of ever finding a job with my degree at this point. It took me 1.5 years to find a job after graduating and it was an insurance job (I have a business degree) that didn't require a degree and was 100% commission. I spent 10 months doing that job in 2017 and made only $4,000 in that entire time. I went back to delivery (what I did part time in college) "temporarily" while trying to find another job. I spent all of 2018 and never got any responses to a single job I applied for. So at the end of Nov. that year, on my bday, I attempted suicide. Since then I've just been struggling to piece myself back together. I physically can't even bring myself to apply for jobs (just working the one I already have) because of the absolute sense of dread it brings me, knowing I'll spend an hour or so applying only to never hear back. It so didn't help my mental health a little over a year after my suicide attempt that COVID started, and I was forced to work as an essential worker the entire time, got COVID multiple times, and have been generally looked down on and treated like shit by older folks the entire time. I'm going to have to stop thinking about it now, probably won't even watch the video, because just typing this is filling me with suicidal ideations. Gonna go do some breathing exercises now....

@seattlesoundisgrunge

2 жыл бұрын

I'll just say, that despite all that, I've been spending my spare time this entire period of my life reading econ textbooks and am in the process of writing a book that encompasses history, political science, economics, and philosophy. It's the only thing that gives me any since of purpose and keeps me going.

I faced this myself as well as having seen this in a lot of new employees, but it's a very hopeful things to say people are hiring you with some expectation that you're not trained for the job out of college. Sadly people who are hiring aren't always smart or stable. Often times they will expect an immediate return on every hire regardless of context and will essentially treat most new employees like trash, harassing them to the point of a lot of them being permanently traumatized. There are good bosses but unfortunately more % of people responsible for hiring fit into the former description. Also most people out of college don't even get a chance to prove that they're in it to learn or even display their confidence. A mostly experience-less resume instills very low base confidence no matter how much a person seems to be proud of their meager achievements. It's discouraging to hear people trash others' resumes. I had the fortune of graduating from a good college, but I feel like for others, I feel so bad for them. It's pretty disgusting, and I question if any mindset will change this as it's a 2 way street.

It’s not that unfair to assume uni is not preparing you for the job market. I along side many people have graduated with a Computer Science degree and have a though time getting the slightest attention from companies. The job market has just gotten a lot more cut throat

Many college majors don't actually teach you anything. It's mostly just busy work so they can justify giving you a degree. You do have to do the work of learning extra things and getting internships and experience, and it's fucked up because that's SUPPOSED to be the point of college. I only recently recognized that college had me burnt out. And that being in the workplace in your field of choice is (usually) so much easier and more rewarding than any part of the education system. The best part of the university is the opportunities that are available, that you have to actively seek out. You just have to manage the juggling act of getting the experience you need while not killing yourself in the process (which is fucked up). So get out as fast as you can, good luck.

Part of the problem seems to be a job can be listed as entry but they want 2 years experience -_-

I graduated with a B.F.A. learned a lot, It helped me see things differently and really develop my style of art, but it did not prepare me to monetize my craft. The Problem I see with art school (even though they may offer business practice classes) is that you are learning to be critical of your work and those around you, not how to make money. Most of my peers who I have graduated with fall into two categories, they weren't sure how to be business minded and ended up working for company or at an entry level job in a new industry, or they learned how to take their work and adapt to today's climate where I see a lot of creatives benefiting from making money on social media and KZread. All just my opinion of course :)

I worked full time while going to school full time for engineering. At the same time I got married and a kid - this made it easy to be isolated and I don’t think I ever built confidence bc I was so busy/over worked. I still struggle with confidence to this day smh :/

Currently working at a company unrelated to my major and I’m moving up within the company I work for. The job and pay aren’t bad. Pretty stress free. A fear of mine is leaving that job once I graduate and not be able to find an electrical engineering job (my major), or hating it despite better pay.

Yoooooo! I'm literally going through exactly this!!!

I’m getting called out back to back on these videos good lord

I havent had much trouble landing interviews but it was the interview it self. i had trouble impressing them, simply because im a job hopper and i tend to quit within a year. Thus getting better position were difficult. Eventually i decided to look into contacting temporary work with a recruiter. I was placed into department of pension job. I like the work i like that its short term i get to choose if i want to be perm or not.

I wish I had seen this like 5 years ago, sadly I went down the path of learning the skills I thought would help and never ended up getting a job...