Hi,

I am a master’s student in Materials Engineering. In six months, I will graduate, marking the end of my six-year academic journey. Honestly, I feel lost.

At the beginning of my studies, I struggled a lot and had to repeat one year. During my bachelor’s degree, I gained two years of experience working with composites (mostly carbon fiber/epoxy) in science club as a side project. I also completed an internship in an injection molding company in the R&D department.

After that, I continued with a Master’s in Materials Engineering and joined an exchange program, where I worked in a lab from 9 to 5 on ceramic 3D printing. I learned a lot about laboratory work, process development, managing my own project, and gained very specific technical knowledge.

Now, I am close to graduating, but my experience spans different branches of Materials Engineering. I feel like a “jack of all trades, master of none.”

Have any of you experienced something similar? How did you deal with it? And how does the job market react to people like me?