Here’s the hard truth: if you’ve applied to so many jobs and no employer wants to hire you then you don’t have skills or work experience to be hired.

Doesn’t matter if you studied at MIT.

You can make up a bunch of excuses about how the market is bad or AI will replace humans but it’s fake excuse you come up with to protect yourself from having to do the hard decision: Get a job in anything.

You need to develop your skills and work ethic. Work. In anything that you can get.

If you have to be a janitor, or a barista at Starbucks, or volunteer, or whatever, force yourself to do that. Make minimum wage. It will teach you true hardship. There’s people who don’t have the privilege and opportunity to study at the literal best engineering university in the world and still become extremely successful, and you will get a different perspective on life.

You’re obviously very bright and privileged since you studied at MIT, but for whatever reason you’re lacking skills to secure a job offer, so the best decision you can do is just get any job to learn those skills you lack. Probably soft skills or self confidence.

Shower, put on some nice clothes, and go around your neighborhood retail stores, restaurants, anywhere and ask if they’re hiring. You’ll get a job. Do that and it will light a fire inside of you.

Meanwhile continue networking and improving your skills. Take some classes. Do side projects. Continue applying to jobs.

The job market is 90% who you know, 10% what you can do.

The world is for the resilient. Good luck.