About to finish a mostly useless degree that I abhor. I have no idea which way to go next. Advice would be greatly appreciated.

I don't know if this is the right subreddit for this, but I might as well try this one as well. I'm sorry if this is not the right place.

In a few months I will likely finish my degree in psychology (equivalent of bachelor level). I chose this degree because of the pressure around me even though I was undecided. In my country at least there is massive pressure to go to university right after high school so I picked the only thing that I found remotely interesting in the little thinking time that I had. To put it in short, I have come to despise most if not almost the whole realm of psychology and to top it all off, this degree is becoming more and more useless as the days pass due to it becoming extremely ultra-saturated.

I have no attraction/desire for most jobs in this field and to be frank, I'd have to go maybe even up to a doctorate level to even consider working in this field (otherwise there are little to no jobs for a bachelor level in this field). Still, I am 22 and have no idea what path to go on, and with university coming to an end one way or the other, I have to make a decision and I am at a complete loss.

A part of me tells me to get another degree in something more "useful", even though I have no idea what other degree I could choose that would give me a slightly better outlook without being something I'm completely underqualified for. While on paper I could probably apply (and successfully be accepted) for pretty much most degrees given the very good results I had at the end of high school (very relevant for uni admission in my country), most of what one would classify as STEM degrees scare me. I was decent in math, but not excellent by any means. As for other related subjects like physics/chemistry/biology, I was extremely bad to put it lightly.

I guess I could say some of my strengths are foreign languages (I speak 2 of them fluently) and humanities in general, but to put it frankly most humanities related "strengths" don't make one very employable in most cases. The education system in my country still very much resembles the one that existed in communism, which is "Do as you are told, don't ask any questions. If you make a mistake, you're a failure" and this didn't help me explore too much when I was younger. This is why I have no idea what I would actually like to do. I'm not really the adept of "follow your true passion" cliche when it comes to choosing a career, but at the very least I'd like to be able to know what I would be decently good at and not live my whole life hating my job. I've already spent almost 4 years doing a degree that I abhor in a corrupt university (long live Eastern Europe...) that I got a good taste of doing something you are not meant for repetitively.

At the same time I could drop the idea of going into yet another education stint, but I would probably be just as lost if I were to jump into the job market. Even so, the vast majority of options I'd have would be jobs that require little to no qualification with little to no chances of advancing over the course of time.

Before I make this too long, I'm going to mention I do have a bit of work experience in a different field (that requires my foreign language skills) and I did like working in that field. However, the kind of job I am talking about is intermittent and seasonal and I would not be able to rely on it for stability. It's a good side gig/plan B to keep the waters calm for a few months if things go wrong, but it cannot become a full-time gig in the forseeable future (due to factors completely out of my power).

If you actually went through my entire wall of text, I thank you. Any advice or idea would be immensely appreciated. Even random ideas of career options are encouraged. I figure that if I hear about options I have never considered, I might look into them and something might click.

Submitted April 01, 2023 at 03:30AM by vaveacav https://ift.tt/58vdcU1