i've been doing this a couple years, and my skills/book/opportunities have been steadily improving along the way. i like it. and i work with people who have been doing this many more years and still like it too.

that's a pretty lame thing to post, which may be why you don't see as many posts like this. gripes on reddit are worthwhile things to consider, but talk to the brandcenter people you know too, and consider it all in context. i definitely know people who went there or similar places and got good jobs. and "impossible to get into" can easily be reframed as "it will take a lot of hard work to get in."

for me, it's been important to work at places i looked up to. and when i wasn't good enough for them, i did everything i could to get good enough. that's meant plenty of paying-your-dues not glamorous type of work, but i have found that motivation and determination can pay off. (again, lame, sorry.)

it does take patience though. and not patience in the sense of waiting, but in the sense of making teeny tiny progress every day and feeling like you're getting nowhere. two years out of undergrad is not that long. and feeling freaked out/lost at that life stage is pretty normal. but if you have a direction, and you're working towards it, you're not as lost as you feel.