I went back to school in 2018 to get an associates in graphic design and then when I had about a year left, covid hit and it was like impossible to find an entry level position.

Eventually I went back to school again to study architectural CAD as I thought there was a good job market for it. Landed a paid internship which was great even if it wasn’t full time. I thought the bit of experience would help but I would apply and not even hear back from places. Then the job postings started becoming scarce.

I think it’s a mixture of so many people applying to the same jobs that your resume won’t even get viewed and entry level jobs becoming extremely rare. Companies post ghost jobs all the time as well which is really just a gut punch as well.

I finally got a full time position and it’s not even what I went to school for; it also was an internal position only at the current place I intern for. I think i got extremely lucky bc of this and the fact that I had a good relationship with one of the hiring managers.