If I'm this terrible at the political system now, how do I get a job in the future? My best (if not only) chance to make a consistent income is to be a professor.

It's the combination of being used by people who I thought I might be able to be friends with (I struggle very much with creating and maintaining friendships) and having work rejected solely because of who I am and/or my lack of popularity.

And the strange thing is, most professors really like me. I'm just being pushed around or treated like I don't matter by other grad students. I've always been loved by teachers and shunned by most of my peers though. I should be used to it by now, but after I graduate, there will be no more teachers, only peers.