Hi everyone. I graduated college in 2023 with a degree in English Literature, and after doing a few PR internships both during college and postgrad, naively thought I’d be able to find a job in the field I had fallen in love with. After a few months I started branching out…and branching out…and now I’m regularly applying to jobs whose only appealing factor is that it is a job.

My younger sister has a degree in graphic design and somehow landed a job less than six months postgrad. I’m thrilled for her, but a little embarrassed for myself. I don’t think anyone in my family understands, or believes, the job market to be as bad as it right now, and that certainly didn’t help my case. I’m struggling with liking any part of myself now and feel my whole self esteem is gone because of this. I don’t really have a point to any of this, just wanted to get it off my chest.