I need a bit of help right now as I feel I've done a piss poor job of adulting and getting myself accustomed to the job market. Right now, I just want to pursue an office job - basically anything in an office environment (admin, reception, marketing etc). That's literally my dream job for now, for all my other ones involve hobbies (like writing and getting my first novel published). But, here's the problem: I'm completely directionless with regards on how to pursue this.
I'm a 23M situated in Vancouver at the moment and graduated in May 2018 with a degree in Human Geography from UBC. I was the kind of immature kid that just wanted to go to college for the overall experience. I wasn't dead sure what major I wanted to pursue job-wise, so I bounced from one to the next. Started off with history, then cycled to economics/business/international relations when I saw how poor the job market looked. As all three majors at my uni were highly competitive, I couldn't get in mainly because my study skills were extremely poor when it came to anything math or business related. So I barely passed those courses. In the end, I settled with Geography in my third year because of the prospect of GIS seeming like a promising industry to work in. I was enjoying my decision immensely in my third, but then the summer before my 4th year came and everything changed. First, I managed to obtain an internship using GIS that ended poorly because my supervisor had to leave and didn't manage to appoint anybody in his place. This coupled with the death of a beloved family member (which caused me many sleepless nights) had led to me straying away from the field as a whole. I had seeped into a deep depression, cutting off contact from most people in the process. Now that I've graduated at 23 years of age, I feel my degree is absolutely useless, my GIS skills completely obsolete and my job prospects low. The first job I got was 4 months after graduation, working at an airport as a baggage handler for a storage company. I was doing a solid job, but then after a month and a half, I got a call saying that I wasn't suited for the position (I was on probation at the time).
It's not only because of that that I wasn't able to secure a good enough gig upon graduation. I was drafted into the military in my home country (Thailand) and had obligations to return there in April 2019 to partake in the ceremony. Because I had obligations to move back home for military service, it was difficult to find a full-time employer willing to take me on. So, I had to settle for part-time positions in the meantime. I tried temp agencies, but they were of no use to me. I basically waited months without hearing back from them, and this is with me nagging them on for jobs.
Fortunately, I do have experience. I worked two part-time jobs during the summers while I was in uni, did almost two years worth of an internship with a non-profit company in event planning and I did various volunteering gigs in the past. I'm currently employed as an event assistant for a staffing agency, partaking in temp gigs on behalf of them. However, while it is in an industry I want to get a career in, the pay is low and the hours are very infrequent. Plus, most of what I do is grunt work. There'd be a week per month where I'd spend them not working. I'm also supposed to do marketing for a non-profit organization, but they've told me they need to fix their marketing department first before I get assigned anything. So far, my goal is to obtain a job that at least makes use of a bachelor's degree, so I can apply for my PR card here in Canada. I'm fine with settling with anything as long as it helps me obtain a full-time position that will allow me to apply for it.
I know a lot of people have stated that fast food and retail is what I should get started in, but I feel this will hinder my chances of getting into the field rather than improve them. Besides, I already have customer service experience with my event assisting job (despite the inconsistent and sometimes infrequent hours) and all my friends who have arts degrees have all found office work without much experience or having done much networking for that matter. So it makes me wonder if I actually need to get another bachelors degree. This is really all I want to do for a job; just be a desk jockey for a living while I pursue my hobbies on the side. I just need advice, that's all. I've been feeling nothing but pain and envy seeing all my friends enter into stable relationships and obtaining good jobs that make use of their degree, while I'm stuck here, alone and with a crappy temp job that pays peanuts. I don't want that hole to be dug any further for me.
Also, one more thing... is it too late to get an office job? I know I'm 23 and all, but because of the rampant ageism everywhere in the world, I feel I've missed the boat entirely. I feel like the equivalent of an 80-year-old man right about now. A wise man once said: “Some people die at age 25 and aren't buried until they're 75.” I don't want that to be my future.
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