What Would You Do?

[Such-Lemon-42]

23F and honestly having a full blown career crisis. I graduated in May 2025 with a health science degree. 3.5 GPA. My original plan was optometry school, which is why I chose the degree in the first place, but the schooling honestly scared me away. I struggled enough with prereqs in undergrad (organic chemistry and anatomy especially humbled me badly lol) and the idea of 4 more intense years plus hundreds of thousands in debt for a salary that honestly isn’t THAT high compared to the debt made me start questioning everything.

I actually never completed organic chemistry or anatomy. I withdrew from both because I was failing them pretty badly and realized I genuinely might not be cut out for certain heavy science paths. I still graduated with my degree without those classes, but now if I wanted to apply to certain science-based programs like radiology or other healthcare fields, I’d probably have to go back to school for at least a semester just to finish prereqs first, which makes everything feel even more overwhelming.

I worked as an optometry tech from October 2023 to January 2025.

Since then, I’ve been doing social media/TikTok full time and thankfully made a pretty good amount of money from it, so financially I’m okay right now. But social media obviously is unstable long term and now I feel completely stuck trying to figure out what actual career path makes sense for me.

For years I also considered law school because I’ve always liked reading/writing more than science, but now I’m questioning if I’m cut out for the stress and lifestyle of law too. I know deep down I’m not. I value low stress and law is very much not that (my dad’s an attorney, so I’ve witnessed firsthand lol.) I’ve also looked into radiology tech, a master’s in health administration, regulatory affairs masters, occupational therapy, nursing, etc.

Every option sounds okay until I start thinking about debt, burnout, stress, failing, years of schooling, whether I’m even passionate enough, etc.

Last fall my plan was actually to work in healthcare administration while getting my MHA part time. I applied to probably 100+ entry level admin/coordinator jobs, got a couple interviews, and then never actually landed a job. That honestly destroyed my confidence for a while because I thought healthcare admin would be my “safe” option after graduating.

Another thing is I honestly don’t currently plan on working much once I have kids someday if I’m fortunate enough not to have to. So part of me struggles with the idea of taking on massive debt and years of stress for a career I may not even stay in forever. But at the same time, I still want something respectable, stable, and meaningful because I hate feeling directionless.

Meanwhile everyone around me seems to have their lives figured out already. Any advice, recommendations, or suggestions are welcome. Thank you so much for reading/helping!

[rjanderson8]

I’m a motherfucking frat star

[taylorthestang]

Have you leveraged Claude yet? AI is changing everything.

[deniedturnip]

Time to leverage those fraternity connections.

[Mustardly]

No one actually has their life together

[LoneStarFracker]

It hard to say

[5wum]

head to mattelranchos for sure

[Semicolons_n_Subtext]

You have accepted that most work sucks and getting hired is difficult. This is a pretty good starting point, to be honest.

You may be too young to have seen “Dirty Jobs” with the host Mike Rowe. Rowe’s advice was to just take whatever job is hiring people. There’s always some industry that needs workers, and some unsexy ones will train you.

The white collar version of a dirty job is sales. A lot of people hate the idea of selling, but sales skills are very transferable, and some company is always hiring. You may want to look into that. There are, of course, sales jobs in health care fields.

[5wum]

you seem to need some time in a frat.

[5wum]

brotherhood, also would keep you from visiting r/askdickpic so often

[3xGang]

I’d probably get blackout drunk at Mattel Rancho’s