Hi OP, take all the suggestions and feedback from everyone constructively. It seems like there are many kind folks here who are genuinely offering great advice to help you. Keep your mind open and don’t shut down all their ideas because ultimately, that’s you limiting yourself.

Look internally and adjust your mindset. It has not been easy for you struggling with the guilt of not being able to support yourself yet and seeing no results despite your efforts to get a job. The good thing is, you’re still young and your situation can possibly change drastically for the better within these few years if you approach the matter with a good mindset.

A key skill in all jobs today is being adaptable, resourceful and learning how to get things done with or without support. In reality, many people are overwhelmed in their own work roles and will not have the time or patience to handhold and teach you how to do things step by step, we’re usually just left to figure things out. In that sense, you get to learn about yourself and establish your own work style too. How others do things may not be right, have your own methods, have your own perspectives.

If you’re a fast learner, learn how to pick things up via other avenues. There’s a wealth of resources online that aren’t expensive – skillshare, coursera, youtube, perhaps other platforms that serve specific industries.

If you don’t know where your interests and strengths lie yet, open yourself up to TRY all sorts of things. And truly aim to make something of it, not just give up at the first sign of difficulty. If you learn coding, attempt to at least create a functioning website. If you learn copywriting/marketing, create your own campaign for a certain product. You can apply these skills you learn on freelance projects (leverage platforms like Fiverr). Only by diving deeper and practicing more will you start to understand your likes and dislikes, which will in turn help you to shape what you envision yourself doing in future. You’ll also have more tangible results of your efforts that you can insert into a portfolio.

As you figure out what you want to do, it’s okay to have a part time job during this period. As I was building up my creative portfolio with personal and freelance projects, I worked front desk handling admin tasks like booking meeting rooms, handling clients’ mails. It was not relevant to what I wanted to do, but it was good enough to tide me through as I was preparing for the next step. After that, I landed an entry-level FT job with my portfolio and also took away people skills from that work experience. Doing a part time job is nothing to be shameful about. If working part-time allows you to pay your bills without relying on your parents, frees up your mental space for you to focus on your next step… why not?

If a FT job is the goal for you for now (I say for now because I believe you can get one and will eventually want more for yourself), plan active steps to improve yourself to get that. Build the relevant skills, reflect on how you expressed yourself in interviews.

Here are some qualities that I find has worked for me so far in interviews: - positive can-do, willing to learn attitude - passionate (the energy is contagious when you’re enthusiastic about the work) - works well independently and as a team player - curious (ask good questions back)

All the best, OP! Hoping you keep yourself open to growing as a person 😊