After graduating college

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Is there anyone else here who felt out of it after graduating college if they didn't have a set plan for the future?

i had my plans set, so i didn't feel out of it, but all my colleagues did

they were even sad while i was excited, looking forward to my future

I think it's pretty common to be unsure about your direction. Probably a lot of new grads going through that right now.

I know that I went through it when I finished my BA. In my case, it was just poor planning and poor decisions as far as what I'd studied.

I had anxiety attacks when I was finishing school because I didn't have a plan. Or, better put, I knew I didn't want to do what I chiefly trained for. I knew I had doubts earlier on, but it gelled near the end into a certainty. The not knowing of what I'd do or if I'd find a job had me pretty messed up.

I suppose even NTs have the issue, especially in an economy when you presume a job should be out there waiting for you but knowing there's a lot of people out of work with more actual experience than you have.

I was in the same boat....lost interest in my major about a year or so before graduation, but figured it was too late to change.
I was lucky in that I was able to find work with the Post Office a year after I graduated.

Ended up going to grad school over a decade later. It's only now that I've finally gotten a job that required more than a HS diploma.