Apprehensive about future employment

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How many of you have a college degree and use it? How many have a college degree and don't use it? I am going to graduate in May with a bachelor's degree, and I am really worried about getting a job. The plan was to go on and get a Master's degree, but now I am not sure if there would even be a point. I am only 27 and have already had more than 50 jobs. I cannot seem to sustain employment for various reasons. Right now I work on campus and this has been my longest job (a year and a couple weeks or so). It is also very flexible in that I choose my own shifts and work whatever I want. I only work an average of 10 hours a week or less. Anyway, what I am getting at is that once I graduate I am going to be expected to work much more than that at a regular job. I am really worried that I am going tens of thousands of dollars into debt, and I simply won't be able to handle it in the job force. I am beginning to panic about the whole thing and I don't really know what is going to happen next. I don't think I can communicate well enough with other people to do anything important. I also am not very independent and I need a lot of guidance. I just am feeling so useless right now. Does anyone else have these sort of problems/worries?

Hello there,

I am turning 25 shortly and congratulations - you've held more jobs than me (6), regardless of whether or not they lasted long. For the skills that I possess my resume is paltry in comparison. The longest I have held a job was 1 year, so good luck in the future with the one you have now. What helped me maintain employment there for so long was... that I was able to post my own hours and only work 15-20 hours a week without getting canned and that I had two supportive friends that worked at the job. Each job ended with a climatic meltdown or period where my work suffered due to decompensation, inability to focus, etc.

I have been in college for seven years now continuously save for this last year where I had two quarters consecutively where had several weeks of decompensation where I wasn't able to handle the work load just in my classes (heavily project based) simultaneously with everything else, and was dropped by my University for low-scholarship.

I still don't have my B.A , only a two-year degree, and a ton of misplaced credits. I recently found out that I have ASD and am planning to switch majors again (to Computer Engineering), because after finding out that I have ASD the Major I was planning on entering (GlobalStudies, Interdisciplinary Social Science-Political Science) didn't seem financially worth it, due to ASD to support myself, even though I was a year into it already.

My suggestion to you is that if you have any friends in the field you're majoring in, perhaps they can suggest you to the company they work for, and so on. Switch majors or double major so that you have two options to pursue employment in. So long as you have the skills, getting your foot in the door is the first step, and if a friend can vouch for you - better yet. That's how I received my most successful employ from.

I completely understand the feeling of aimlessness, meaninglessness, and the like. Hopefully someone here will post who has the life experience to advise you over this hurdle.

respectfully,

I have only a high school diploma I had 2 jobs I held for 9 years each. One was partime and the other was fulltime. Before these jobs I had six jobs that I held for like 2 weeks each I was either fired for being too slow, too weird, or just could not fit in. But all the jobs had one thing in common and that is people made sure I knew I did not fit in and was not welcomed there. I am toying with the idea of going on SSDI I don't think I can handle starting a new job getting use to new people.

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Have a law degree....working as a glorified "secretary."

Much of it is based on (1) choosing to not become a lawyer (but I was assured I could do "anything" with a law degree.... ), and (2) a lousy economy meaning there are very few decent jobs available. Been trying to get something better for about 5 years now. Anything open I either am not qualified for or doesn't offer anything better than what I have now.

My current "boss" tolerates my AS mannerisms well, so that's something I'm not eager to trade for haphazardly. When something comes around that I'm good for and would be good for me, there is much competition for it....meaning my odds of being selected are even lower than normal.

I'm concerned that while staying in one job looks good in regards to being able to hold a job, it's typecasting me into a role I took just to have a paycheck.