I regret taking a non productive gap year after grad because I felt lost and didn't know what jobs to apply to. I know I'll be asked about this in interviews, it's kind of a shame admiting I was unemployed. Skilled graduate students are not usually unemployed.

I'll be concise: I graduated in Physics last September and I decided not to rush into a useless master of theoretical physics because I know that research and papers writings is not my path. I do enjoy learning theoretical physics but I don't wanna devote myself to that - I know how hard things are in academia to get a stable job -. My other choice is to apply for jobs where computational skills are required - I am improving my Python skills and learning about Data science-. My problem is that I've come to realize that pretty late, 6 months after graduating! I felt really lost after grad and I thought I was not qualified enough to get a job that requieres programming, but indeed my classmates could get entry level jobs in data science. How could I explain a gap like this in interviews? I just don't wanna admit I was lost and didn't know what jobs to apply for. I don't even have internships anywhere since in college I thought I would devote myself to research and not industry. I have the option of applying to a masters degree but that will take me 2 years more, and I'm 23-24 now: when I finish that computer science-related master at 25-26 I won't have any job experience, and I know that's more valued. To be honest Reddit's advises made me realize that I shouldn't have taken this year off and that two years masters can be a waste of time, money and energy if you feel as lost as when you finished your bachelor's.

Some of my classmates have not graduated yet; fortunately that took me the standard 4 years because I studied hard, but I think that it's better to write in your resume that you needed an extra year to graduate rather than admiting being unemployed after grad. I won't lie though. It's not the same being lazy and being lost and even depressed after grad. We physicists don't have an evident job goal; it's more a matter of skills of which I cannot rely much by the moment. Anyway I think it's time to apply and think how to explain my situation - my family moved from Spain to France a month ago and I had to organize most of this emigration process, but that's not an excuse.

Any advice, experience, friend's experience etc would be appreciated.

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