Our generation of young Americans has been afflicted with the delusion of "Go to college, study hard, get a degree, and use that degree to get a job that uses what you studied."
There is a grave misunderstanding of the purpose of a university degree. Universities are not supposed to be job training programs. However, it has become a self-fulfilling prophecy because this view of university has led most young Americans to go to university when they shouldn't, inflating tuition cost to the point that no one would go to university for any reason besides job security.
Science degrees, such as chemistry and physics and biology, are more well-suited to invention and production, not "finding a job". You don't just go out and find a "physics job" or a "chemistry job".
There are very very few "chemistry jobs". Ideally the economy should have more production of goods. There's too much focus on "getting a job", you're expected to work at a corporation until you die. Whatever happened to being a blacksmith, a farmer, a woodworker, etc?
If you can't use your chemistry knowledge from your B.S. in chemistry to produce goods, you're working at Taco Bell until you save enough money to start producing goods and hopefully quit working at Taco Bell.