When you go to college, no one ever tells you that it's going to be hard to find a job. You're not told what kinds of jobs you CAN apply for, that you have experience for. All you know is you just spent thousands and thousands of dollars thinking you'll be guaranteed a job in the workforce.
The funniest part of it all is the entry level jobs for college grads require 1-2 years of corporate experience. Now explain to me how you can have experience if you were in college full time? To this day, still don't understand that one.
Eventually, you find a job where you can start to develop a name for yourself. (For some, getting this job after college takes longer than a year). The best advice I can give anyone in this position is to take on extra projects in whatever it is you want to do. Don't let that first job out of college be in a field you hate.
Why? Because people get comfortable. You are finally getting your full paychecks, treating yourself to whatever you want and living your first solo apartment. Why mess it up by chasing after your career? What if your dream career path pays less than you currently make?
Those thoughts swarm into your mind and you are thinking "I'm better off just staying where I am, as much as i don't like it here, I want to continue living my lifestyle" and BOOM! Years flash before your eyes and you are now at a company you never saw yourself at for 5+ years, still miserable.
Make your youth count. Go after those things that you want, the career, the car, the house. Everything else will fall into place.
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