Hello! I have never posted on reddit before so bare with me. Obviously as the title suggests, I feel very lost. I (22f) graduated with a BS in Environmental Studies in December 2024. It has been over a year since I graduated and I am even more lost and aimless than I was then. After grad, I took a seasonal job in Denali National Park Alaska as Environmental Coordinator. It paid great (almost $30 an hour) and seemed like a dream come true at the time. The position itself was more corporate consulting and waste management than anything and taught me a lot about what I don’t want to do for the rest of my life LOL. I absolutely LOVED Alaska and every second I spent outside of the office made for the best experience of my life. But, again, the job is just not what I want to do with my life. My boyfriend of 4 yrs also came up there with me after he graduated and took a supervisor job so that I could pursue this opportunity.
After Alaska, we came back down and moved in with my parents as a temporary crash pad before moving onto the next great thing. The next great thing hasn’t hit us yet and it’s been 6 months. I am starting to kinda panic about my/our future and trust me when I say my parents being 2 doors away makes it infinitely worse.
Although I learned what I don’t want to do, I still have no clue what I DO want to do. With a BS in a weird field and my only relevant experience being seasonal, the job market does not seem to be in my favor. I took a city job when we got back from AK but it pays just above minimum wage and the work can honestly be a little degrading. (The other day I remembered I have a literal degree while I was making a popsicle stick catapult) I love my team and that’s the only reason I can stand coming to work in the morning. I would love to get into wildlife biology or environmental conservation but my boyfriend has an astrophysics degree and both of our fields somehow lead us each into the middle of nowhere but not the same middle of nowhere.
I feel like I am oversharing but I truly don’t know what is important info and what isn’t.
Do I get a masters? Do I apply to jobs wherever and just hope we figure it out? Does he apply to jobs anywhere and I hope I find something I am passionate about nearby? How do you avoid falling into a life of just getting by? How do you figure anything out???
I don’t even know what I am asking, hopefully someone can provide some guidance based on this mess of a post.