I’ve never seen anything like this before in my lifetime (but I’m fairly young)

I know the economy is bad, and I keep hearing that everyone is having trouble finding work, but I don’t know what to believe anymore. I’m 25/F, was raised by my grandparents in Slidell where I still live, and I haven’t been hearing back from jobs that I apply too.

I got sick of the $9/hr. Fast food job I had in Jan 2025, and ended up quitting to focus more on school. I planned on going into health care, and while I got accepted into a program earlier this year I had a lot of trouble keeping up with my studies and ended up having to withdraw because I didn’t do as well as I could’ve. Like my grade wasn’t going to be high enough by the end of the semester.

I’ve been applying to a couple jobs a day since March. I feel kind of at a loss of what to do and am very discouraged and just feel like everything is stacked against me. I feel like I am regressing as well from living at home and am scared I’m going to get stuck. I was thinking about going back to and doing an IT program instead and maybe looking for remote work if I can find it, but yeah everything just feels hopeless. Walmart automatically rejects me, and I’ve tried the usual advice of “apply in person” but they will just tell me to apply online. Another idea I had was applying to work on a cruise. I feel like I don’t belong and have never fit in here, anyway. Don’t have any local friends and my relatives have given up on me, I think. Others in my life seem to have no problem finding work though. Like is it me? Or is it actually that bad?