Go to college, you’ll get a good job.

My literal bachelors in Math, Education, and science landed me a job as a waitress. After about 60 applications/interviews with data entry, help desk, finance, even just secretary, and a shelf stocker. I had to settle for being a waitress. Where they only give me 20-25 hours a week. I’m so glad I put myself in so much debt to get a waitress job. Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad I have a job but like be honest what?

I listed my 2 years of teaching, 3 years of restaurant, 2 years of tutoring for computer science and math, and a year of website management. All good references, but I kept getting ghosted, told they found a better candidate, or just getting ai interviews that auto reject me. Also I have 3 years of volunteer work at youth special olympics, animal shelters, and more tutoring for math and computer science.

So glad I went to college for my degrees hahaha…

Edit: I double majored in math, and math ed, when back to finish out science. Also I’m trying to transition OUT of teaching. I am not trying to get INTO teaching. I just am really frustrated with the “entry level” jobs that are either fake ai training, not actually hiring, and the interviews that say they want work experience more closely related to the job and that teaching isn’t close enough.

Trust me, I am still applying to tons of jobs, but it’s just really mind boggling to me because I was naive and really believed if I solely focused on being top of the class, with lots of educational degrees I’d be set. I realize now that grades did not matter as much as beloved them to be, and I shoulda been networking rather than isolating and trying to fast track my degrees. In the end, a degree is a degree no matter how studious you were.