I feel I’m at my wit’s end. I honestly don’t know what else to do that could help my career situation.

I graduated with two bachelor’s, one in biology and another in film production, but had to take two years off due to medical issues.

Hundreds of applications later, no one wants to hire me. I spedrun through both my degrees in 4 years, so no time for internships or work. And due to the 2 year hiatus and moving away from my college town, I lost all my networking.

Every single position I’ve taken since (except one), I was laid off in under a year outside of my control. One gradually pushed me out and lowered my hours because he hired me to help organize his business before he was ready, another ghosted me because the person who referred me pissed off the boss, another moved their business out of state, another mismanaged and couldn’t get enough clients, another collapsed due to important stakeholders dying to covid, and then another got hit by the film industry strikes so they did large sweeping layoffs due to budget.

What am I supposed to do now? Every single time I have to use all my savings to survive until I get another position. And now, with the economy plus my choppy work experience, I am extremely struggling to find any work.

I have scrambled for any entry level position, so I have a mismash of an amazingly well-rounded skillset across finances, IT, and mostly film production experience on set and in administration/operations.

But all entry skills and not long enough for anyone to have any trust in me. The only thing that gives me life and joy is learning, but positions never last long enough to teach me and the financial desperation prevents me from getting further education. I want project management experience so bad, hopefully in entertainment/event/travel industries, but I ain’t picky right now!

So what’s my path? Because I feel like I’m in the too-specific/too-much and too little experience hell. No one is calling me back. I literally feel my brain degrading because all my time is spent job hunting than actually getting experience or learning!