I am a chemistry major and I genuinely fear for my future. I just hope i don't end up eating rats under a bridge by 2030.
I can't find any internships. I currently work as a pizza driver. I might be doomed to work food service, and food service is really miserable. In food service it's really easy to make mistakes, and the mistakes are high-stakes because they're made in the heat of the moment during a rush, and the customer sees them before you can correct them. And the boss yells at you for every mistake, even if it's a one-time mistake you'll never make again.
I am a total incel loser with no friendships, connections, or networks. in general only 20% of jobs and internships are advertised; the majority of positions are only advertised to friends and friends of friends. the reason i haven't made any friends is because starting from freshman year, all of my classmates were extremely annoying pre-meds that I could not relate to. They viewed me as some annoying nerd because I actually liked organic chemistry instead of whining about exams and whining about the professor and begging for curves. Now I'm finally entering chemistry major-only classes, but they're online because of COVID-19 so I still can't make friends, and classes will be online until I graduate, and I'm so screwed.
I'm far past the point of no return. I haven't had a single friend from university in Fall 2017. My social skills have degraded to the level of an autistic alien's first day on Earth.
Research groups in university are not helpful for making networks either. The undergrads only show up sparingly and also seem to only be there to fill their resumes for medical school.
It is a travesty that such a fun science is relegated to being a poverty major. You'd think I was a liberal arts major, not a chemistry major, if someone is talking like this. Starving artist? More like starving chemist.
I can't find any internships. I currently work as a pizza driver. I might be doomed to work food service, and food service is really miserable. In food service it's really easy to make mistakes, and the mistakes are high-stakes because they're made in the heat of the moment during a rush, and the customer sees them before you can correct them. And the boss yells at you for every mistake, even if it's a one-time mistake you'll never make again.
I am a total incel loser with no friendships, connections, or networks. in general only 20% of jobs and internships are advertised; the majority of positions are only advertised to friends and friends of friends. the reason i haven't made any friends is because starting from freshman year, all of my classmates were extremely annoying pre-meds that I could not relate to. They viewed me as some annoying nerd because I actually liked organic chemistry instead of whining about exams and whining about the professor and begging for curves. Now I'm finally entering chemistry major-only classes, but they're online because of COVID-19 so I still can't make friends, and classes will be online until I graduate, and I'm so screwed.
I'm far past the point of no return. I haven't had a single friend from university in Fall 2017. My social skills have degraded to the level of an autistic alien's first day on Earth.
Research groups in university are not helpful for making networks either. The undergrads only show up sparingly and also seem to only be there to fill their resumes for medical school.
It is a travesty that such a fun science is relegated to being a poverty major. You'd think I was a liberal arts major, not a chemistry major, if someone is talking like this. Starving artist? More like starving chemist.
