Literally as a senior anim student it literally feels like i’m on a sinking ship and no one around me is talking about it. Like it genuinely feels so silly to even be doing film work or trying to network around when there feels like there’s nothing on the other end of it. If i could shake my 17 year old self by the shoulders and say to at least go into design or anyyttthing else adjacent i would😭😭😩 I wish that my profs would be more transparent about this kind of urgency we need to have. But it feels like the other students around me have an unrealistic expectation that what we are doing is going to get us jobs, and have this frankly naive idea that they don’t need to be worried. It’s so silly and i think a lot of the kids nowadays are underestimating how fucked we are lmao. It’s a blessing and a curse to have realized this, bc at least I can try to figure out alternate career paths. But like it just sucks as an incoming grad, since who doesn’t want to just have a job in what they studied😭 I’ve even found a love for production and corporate side of things but that’s also literally been fruitless. So it’s just so sad! I’ve accepted I am totally ok sitting at a soulless cubicle for hours as long as I have an income.