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I’ve been unemployed for about 16months now after I graduated in July 2019 and have been constantly applying for jobs.

I’ve had over 20 rejections for jobs I’m more than qualified to do, but don’t have any experience.

My question is this: How do you prevent the people you know from affecting your mental health?

I’m constantly reminded about how I’m earning no money and I’m jobless, it slowly eats away at you. How are you still sane after 10 years? I know I wouldn’t be

Thanks for your kind words. I hope that you've made new friends that can accept you through the work you've been putting in and through the connections you've made. Or that you rekindled the friendships that you cut off.

I don't think anyone can truly have an answer to helping with mental health, we just have to do our best.

Stay safe.

Don't worry. Sometimes we all need to get something off our chests. For me personally, I took 6 months off after graduation to take care of my already poor mental health. At the start of 2020 I decided to get myself a job this year, then COVID hit.

Its been a mess of applying for jobs, learning to drive to increase my job range, getting rejected and applying for more jobs. I'm trying to apply for Medical Laboratory Assistant jobs with the NHS but each rejection I've had is because I have no experience. It feels like my degree doesn't even matter (The jobs require GCSEs as a minimum qualification).

People always tell me "Keep trying and eventually you'll get something!", but what if I don't? What happens if I keep applying and keep getting rejected?

I hope you have some luck in the future. Hopefully when COVID calms down, the job market will open up for the both of us.

Yeah, the only issue is right now its tough even interacting with people due to COVID. I've barely been out recently and we're on the verge of another lockdown

I'm not sure where you're from either but here in UK, lawyers are always needed. I know someone who graduated and got into a Law firm instantly on 40K salary.

I agree with what you said, my degree basically feels useless.

Its tough but I hope you find something soon, both of us find something soon.

Thanks for the talk