Mayıs 2, 2026
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Herkese merhaba. Kendim hakkında biraz bilgi vereyim; Biyoloji alanında lisans derecem ve İşletme Analitiği alanında yüksek lisans derecem var. Başlangıçta veteriner okuluna gitmeyi planlamıştım ancak lisans eğitimimin son yılında aksi yönde karar verdim. Hayvan/veteriner bakımı konusunda oldukça fazla deneyim kazanmıştım. Lisansımı bitirdiğimde alanımda iş bulamadığım için 3 yıl restoran sektöründe çalışıyordum. Buradaki son yılımda, hizmet sektörünün dışına çıkabileceğimi umarak İş Analitiği alanında yüksek lisans yaptım.
Bu süre zarfında küçük bir üniversite kasabasındaydım ve mezun olduktan sonra iş bulma şansımı artırmak ve kiradan tasarruf etmek umuduyla ailemin yanına (daha büyük bir şehre) taşınmaya karar verdim. Ağustos 2025’te mezun oldum ve hâlâ işsizim ve kendimi zavallı gibi hissediyorum.
Bu noktaya kadar yalnızca 70’e yakın işe başvurdum çünkü analitikteki çoğu iş için vasıfsız olduğumu hissediyorum (çoğu 3+ YOE istiyor, bende en fazla 1 var) ve taşınacak param olmadığı için kendimi yerel işlerle sınırlıyorum. Öğrenci borcum neredeyse 70 bin. Hiçbir gelirim yok. Kendimi ailemin üzerinde bir yük gibi hissediyorum.
Bir takım görüşmeler yaptım. Genellikle işe alım uzmanı taramasını geçebiliyorum ve hatta bazı şirketler için 4. tura bile çıktım ama teklif yok. İçimde doğuştan bir sorun varmış gibi hissediyorum. Özellikle sevimsiz olduğumu düşünmüyorum ama nörolojik açıdan farklı olabileceğime dair büyük bir şüphem var ve röportajlarda kendimi yeterince “normal” numarası yapmaya ikna edemiyorum. İnsanlarla nasıl “tıklayacağımı” bilmiyorum. Hizmet sektöründe çalıştım, bu yüzden gündelik ortamlarda insanlarla nasıl konuşulacağını biliyorum, ancak kurumsal bir ortamda fazla olgunlaşmamış veya fazla garip göründüğümü düşünüyorum.
Sürekli reddedilmekten dolayı gerçekten cesaretimin kırıldığını hissediyorum. Perakende ve restoran işlerine de başvurdum ve bu rollerden tamamen mahrum kaldım; bir ret e-postası bile almadım. Özgeçmişimi her işe uygun hale getiriyorum, JD ile alakalı hale getirmek için deneyimlerimi karıştırıyorum, perakende/restoran işleri vb. için derecelerimi kaldırıyorum. Kendimi çok umutsuz hissediyorum. Hobilerime odaklanmaya çalışıyorum ve hayvan barınağında gönüllü olarak çalışmak için onay almayı bekliyorum çünkü zamanımla yapacak şeyler bulmam gerekiyor. Bir kariyer için çalışmadan ve finansal geleceğimi güvence altına almadan hayatımı boşa harcadığımı hissetmekten kendimi alamıyorum.
Buraya yazarak ne aradığımdan emin değilim, sadece tavsiyeye veya işlerin daha iyi olacağını bana bildirecek bir şeye ihtiyacım var.
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That sounds like a hard place to be. My heart goes out to you.
I have been unemployed three times since I graduated ten years ago for a nonconsecutive total of 2 years. I also lived with my parents for four months during my second period of unemployment. The job market is a mess and it seems like it’s always a mess. What you need to know first is it’s not you. There’s nothing wrong with you. You are not the problem. If you live in the United States, the job market is so iffy that Trump fired the people who were responsible for reporting the job numbers because he didn’t like them.
I have lots of good advice on gaming the system to increase your chances of getting an interview, because that’s often the hardest part, but it sounds like that’s not the issue for you. It sounds like you’re getting caught up on interviews. Here’s the thing: interviewing is such an artificial process. We have to pretend to be a version of ourselves that we think the interviewer wants to see. It’s hard but it’s not impossible. Are there people in your life you can practice interviewing with? That would be a good first step. Or I’m sure that are plenty of interviewing practice services online or in your area. I know Portland and Chicago had unemployment offices that interview prep. Might those exist in your area?
I think you fall on the same trap that many people think getting a master is the way to go.
You are over educated and under experienced.
You are over educated for most of the entry level job. Your experience does not qualify you for any mid level or senior level job. And that is your dilemma.
Master degree, except for a few industry, should reserved for those who try to take the next step into an established career and not someone who needs an entry level job.
What you can try is look for non profits such as animal rescue, smaller healthcare like mental
Health agencies( non profit), homeless programs, they tends to pay less but they are less selective. You can go in there for a few years till you have enough experience to apply for staff or mid level.
Just my 2 cents. Good luck.
you’re not unqualified, you might be applying to the wrong roles. I feel like you’d easily qualify for roles like healthcare analytics, pharma data analyst or even clinical operations roles. I’d say try to find the best fit roles using Google career dreamer or Path ai on app store. I had no idea what to do after consulting, and ended up in product thanks to that. I was hesitating between product, data analyst and software. problem is you’re overqualified for retail (they know you’ll leave) and you’re also applying to senior roles without corporate experience. I’d target more junior/analysts roles like junior healthcare analyst, clinical data coordinator, research analyst etc. I had to start as a associate product manager when I transitioned but quickly got promoted to product manager also 70 applications since august might be too slow in this crazy job market. try to do 20+/week.
Thank you for sharing your story. Currently what’s happening is a global impact on the economy as it’s an economic shift due to AI introduction + Offshore Companies (low cost support) + mass lay offs of mid to senior level management who are now competing for “lower” roles that are competing with recent grads or entry level workers + Government paying corporations to intake international workers (benefit for corporations to hire cheap labor) .. couple more issues that are feeding into this market reset. Because the shareholders + investors all want profit in their pockets
This is sociology 101 syllabus is known as a global economic shift which many individuals unfortunately start to internalize because the school system trains the youth to be better than the classmates (hence you feel like a loser) because you may see others “winning”.
I’m sorry, you’re not a loser nor is there inherently anything wrong with your, nor do you need to even start thinking of wondering “is it me am I the problem”. Mass economic reset and it all started after COVID, some of its planned some of its unplanned but it all is happening at once. But it’s not happening to you only.
I posted a picture of my country with high volume of graduates with least amount of entry level available and that post went viral hiring 225K views in Reddit in 24 hours. Trust me I’ve been talking to many individuals like you struggling and questioning their own self, personally sabotaging their future due to negative self talk, and I’ve chatted with people from all around the world.
I also have in person met 7000 highschool kids all worried about the future of their decisions of university.
And I’m here to tell you, you aren’t the one that’s the problem. Please do not victimize yourself because you’re giving in to the design of this society which is built against humanity. Schools for all these years have never evolved…. Why? Never aligned with market, people with PhD working in warehouse management, masters working in retail. This is 15 years ago as well.
But now it’s more evident because people with masters or PhD aren’t getting jobs..it’s a bottleneck. Plus mass layoffs in short amounts of time and high post grads but AI in entry level. So collectively, it is more in the face than it was 15-20 years ago.
Sorry I really wanted to put this message because it bothered me to see the changes in you through your message of “inherently” something is wrong with you, or you’re a “loser”, “burden” to parents. No. Don’t. Not a healthy mindset.
I lost my business October 2025, out of work for months. Attempted to apply for jobs, but same story as everyone else. Drew out my value map, what can I do uniquely others can’t from my lived experiences. What am I good at in solving problems that makes me irreplacable and I solve that problem in a short amount of time. Instead of transaction.. I use the word transformation because that’s the economic shift. You can’t get paid from corporations so you have to build value by solving others problems in a short amount of time that helps them remove their future worries and anxieties, for which they will trade money for because their time is more valuable than money.
Understood money doesn’t only come from companies, there are affluent families who also have problems and many millionaires out there being made who also have problems. So I realized I need to obsess over their problems. They also have pets (this is for you – plus you are educated in Biology and Analytics). Also, side note there are more pets than babies… Ye… I was looking into this idea 2 months ago to make an online “Expedia” but for pet owners. One stop online website for new pet owners, help them find clinics nearby, local online help, coupons from brands, advertising, tips from other pet owners, local pet supply stores, etc. all on one website. And yes I know this is a multimillion dollar idea but I realized it’s not my forte because my passion is to help people get unstuck so I focused on that. But I’m sharing it here because YOU can do this..hire some web designer from Fiverr and make it happen.
So I decided I would coach the kids of rich people, I also on-boarded a neuroscientist friend and a Kinesiologist where we went over to there homes to do a full diagnosis of their children, provide data of weaknesses and improvement in their health, and I was attending 2 times a week in person and once virtual to coach their habits. Affluent families future worries are they want their kids to protect their wealth when the parents pass.. so I said heck ye, I have a background in business, I have coached youth and I have a training background..let’s build something for their exclusive package and transform their kids so the future worries are removed (Value). I did this and then I also had opportunity to attend to 20 schools because knowing rich families helps to get into private schools, which opened up more doors. I left the Coaching now I want to do something on a bigger scale.
Trust me I’m not educated, dropped out and got in alot of trouble when I was young. But this is about you, that you can do WAY better than me..how.. here
Write down Dec 2026 – then write a big scary goal for yourself that Forces you to think uniquely. My scary goal was help 1 million kids get unstuck mentally and not be isolated.. I am not even close, but, the unique thing with this concept of putting a scary big goal is that you will realize that you will operate FROM the future and work backwards and not operate towards from where you are. Where you are in your current state, everything will seem daunting and intimidating. You will think, damn, I have no resources no skills bla bla. But if you have a blueprint of the future then it’s much easier to start building it. But right now you’re building yourself from the past blueprint and that’s not helpful because you’re only saying “I am a loser” because you’re comparing yourself to the past you who went to school got the degrees and all….that version bye bye…now you build FROM the future you. Much more exciting and by default you’ll realize you have to delete 80% of the old you, to rebuild the 20% of you that is what makes you better.
Dog walking business ?
With your business analytics – you can sell AI Receptionist tools to small local businesses (I did this with 3 accountants and 1 blinds business). I setup AI Voicecall and AI scheduler for them.. I did a 30 day free trial and tested it out before I made it for those businesses.
Heck you can read business scaling books and create a program to help scale small businesses. Consult them to help them out. I had a gas station so I was an Advisor to other owners to show them efficient ways of inventory management. You can incorporate AI Admin tools to these small businesses as well.
I’m sorry I got passionate, but, you are smart and you overqualified for jobs…that’s awesome meaning you are skilled and talented to help other businesses scale.
But I’m telling you the One Stop Shop for pet owners is YOU! Work with local clinics, animal shelters, pet stores, and get businesses to advertise. This is the golden goose for you.. plus you have business analytics background so you can do the demographic research, build strategies to help boost adoption .. I don’t know I’m no expert.. but you can DM me and I can send you my notes 🙂
I hope this this gets your lightbulb lit back up over your head and energized because you are more than just a job!
Hi, about the jobs not calling you back, I’ve heard of a recent trend that some companies post fake job roles (ghost jobs) to get people to come into their interviews as a method of data collection of sorts, build a talent pipeline for future needs, project an image of growth to investors, etc.
Also, it’s not just you; the market is genuinely strange right now. Beyond those fake ‘data collection’ postings, many companies post roles they don’t intend to fill immediately. Making it to the 4th round proves you are highly qualified; most people don’t even get past the first bot filter. Hang in there, the fact that you’re getting that far means your ‘breakthrough’ is statistically a matter of when, not if.
“but in a corporate environment I think I come off as too immature or too awkward”
You’d fit right in with the Military. Were jut a bunch of goof balls.
Two paths you could take with your degrees.
The work horse enlisted who find a good time in any situation (higher rank with your degree)
or
The Officers who complain about who made the coffee for the meeting. (commissioning with your degrees)
Just an option, and I know someone will express their opinions on current global politics (they always do). But its not stopping others from still joining. As long as you use it right, a 3 year contract can set you up nicely.
came here to say something similar. you nailed it.
Nothing about this says “loser” to me. You are just stuck and discouraged. Also, only 70-ish applications is not that many in this market. You need to widen the target. I did 30-40 apps a week. Don’t just apply to pure analyst jobs. And if the analytics path keeps stalling, it’s okay to pivot. Thats what I did back when I was not getting a job after being unemployed for months. I learn a new skill on course careers and got some coaching to help with my interviews.
You’re honestly really close. Getting to late rounds means it’s not your background, it’s just how you’re coming across in interviews. That’s actually a much easier fix than trying to get more experience.
Most people never figure that out and just keep applying more.
If you want, I can show you exactly what I’d change in how you’re answering and positioning yourself, because it’s usually small tweaks that make a big difference. What kind of roles are you mainly interviewing for right now?