Sorry for the delay in response but thank you all for your responses.

@divine1966 ;: Did you mean to send your latest message again?

Seiche thanks for sharing your life experiences and for relating to me! Don’t worry about hijacking your thread at all because after seeming like I’m the only entry level GIS person to look for a job right now, I was really thankful to hear from you to make my experience both validated and more hopeful. I’m terrible at comparing myself to others, so I sensed an obligation to search for a job especially when my parents have nagged about it, just so I can be like everyone else at my age. But thanks for you pitching in you’ve also refreshed the lesson that life’s a marathon and not a sprint. Thanks again for sharing your story!

And thanks FuzzyBear for at least thinking of me! Sorry that the internet won out this time :/