Entry-Level Jobs that require bachelor's degrees

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Hi yall,
How hard is to find entry-level jobs that require 4 year degrees? I hear conflicting information. I hear more and more jobs are requiring them than they were decades ago. However people think i should just work a McJob but I have never wanted to work a McJob because I am college educated. I dont see the point of college if I never work at a job that requires a bachelor's degree I have no experience. What kind of jobs would they be? I have a degree in one of the social sciences. I could not get any jobs after college because the state of Texas never gave me a job coach. I regret going to college.

College is not meant to replace experience. College is meant to add to experience. A degree is not a magic shortcut. Experience still matters.

How do I get experience if I cant get hired for that first job? My parents and all my teachers told me that getting a degree would be a meal ticket to the good life and the American Dream and that it would get me a good job but it did not. How would suggest getting a job with no experience and that is not a McJob or volunteering or a unpaid internship? I wanted to get experience but DARS would not help me and still may not get me a job coach. Its still up in the air. I just will be unemployed/self-employed for the rest of my life if I cant get a free job coach from the state.

I wouldn't.

I'd absolutely suggest getting a mcjob, volunteering, or internships, to demonstrate that you can even hold a job to begin with. You act like it's beneath you, but if you can't even handle a mcjob, why should I - or anyone else - believe you can handle something more?

Having a degree affects what job you END with, not what job you start with. It's about how far up the ladder you can eventually climb, not what rung you get to start on. It can most definitely create a path to "the good life and the american dream", but it's not a shortcut - you still have to do all the work, and climb that ladder yourself. It helps you with the work, not absolves you of it.

It is behind a paywall, but there is a story in Forbes that there are over 4 million Gen-Zs with a degree and no job.
They were basically sold worthless degrees.

Engineering degrees are a good choice if you want a job with no experience.
I remember a talented electrical engineering student who got an internship at a big auto maker without having a driving license!

Have you considered becoming a job coach? your experiences would be useful for other poor saps with a 4 yr college degree and fee debt.

Well I wanted to be a engineer but my I never got good math teachers when I was in school that made it click for me. My life would be so much different if I would of had good math teachers. I am really good at mental math but not abstract math. I just happen to be good at the wrong kind of math for a career.

I have never held a job for any significant length of time so I dont see how I would be qualified to be a job coach. I have no debt of any kind. I got my degrees debt-free so it could be worse.

Being a job coach is not about holding different jobs, its about experience applying

I dont have any experience at a job. Also I feel like I am the one who needs a job coach. I dont see how I can teach people how to work when I have never held a job for any amount of time. I have only worked at a job for 1 month but thats not enough to count.

I had two math teachers that won the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching.
We need more teachers like them.

I discovered that I can still teach basic math that I haven't used in many years! Just need to take a few minutes to bring that up those old memories. When I was working they came to me when they had math questions.

College degrees are becoming less valuable to the workforce because the workforce has changed. The world has changed dramatically within the last 20 years. The new world order requires social networking to gain jobs. It’s more about who you know than ability from what I’ve witnessed. They encourage people to mimic the job that they intend to do and they are rated on the mimicry. Weird, huh? But this is the method they are using that remains unspoken.

Trades are becoming more valuable now because they are less likely to be replaced by robotic automation.

It has been my experience that more often than not, it's not the degree that's worthless.

Seems to me, the reason so many Gen-Z have degrees but no jobs is, they got the degree, but have no work experience, and expect to get jobs they're not qualified for.

So even fully qualified graduates need retraining. Even in infotech and engineering.

Believe it or not. a lot of job coaches and life coaches have not held a 9-5 job prior to entering their profession. Back to job coaches, all you would be doing is showing people how to apply for jobs. Snagging the job is up them (not you). Your experience in applying for a wide range of jobs is what is useful. Not holding a job. I regularly was turned down for work and always insisted on getting full feedback from the interview panels which was useful in terms of either where I stood against other applicants or what I needed to do to improve my prospects. that sort of data is what a job coach needs to be of value to a client (not how to make hamburgers or take apart a computer).

I know a woman who started at data entry and is now making 140k/year at the same company.
She was out of the work force raising two daughters and had to start with a McJob.