I will be graduating from a good university with good grades and will not be able to find a good job because I only focused on studying during college and didn't major in engineering or business. My degree while personally fulfilling and useful toward my goal of becoming a doctor is not going to land me any jobs and my lack of internships (outside of research, I did not have any jobs) won't help either. I basically have no marketable skills outside of a chemistry lab or neurobiology exam.
My friends who are graduating will be starting medical school, working in finance in NYC or at top tech companies in SF and doing things with their life.. and I will be living at home struggling to find a job for my gap year that pays more than minimum wage. I feel like I will be on the sidelines as my friends go off into the world and do these amazing things.
I went to a very good university and studied hard to earn a high GPA and will still be working a job that I could have gotten without going to college.
It doesn't help that I am an Asian-American and have super-judgemental family members who are all overachievers..
Has anyone taken a gap year and found it to be a worthwhile experience? Is anyone else in the situation that I'm in right now as well? How are you dealing with it?
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Feeling really terrible about having to take a gap year
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