I messed up big time and it’s taken a toll on me mentally. I started studying Mechanical Engineering in 2025, noticed in January of this year, it was not for me, but due to familiar pressure. I continued under the pretence that’ll pass, did everything I could studied like crazy during the summer holidays and still failed both semesters. Now I’m technically repeating it, forgot to deregister myself so I have to pay the school fees even if I don’t study. Problem is, I feel lost and embarrassed. I have currently no job, my friends are a year ahead of me and some are younger, others have a proper job and the only jobs I can get are cashier (not that there’s anything wrong with that.) So I am left with two choices, continue at ETH and pass so I can finish before I turn 27 or stop start at a PIBS job in engineering or get a bachelor in business to study as an HR/Marketing field, and chance is I finish when I turn 28. Problem: AI is making things difficult, I am so scared that if I choose a major I am passionate about such as in the business field (HR/ Marketing), like I originally wanted to, I would not have a lucrative job cause AI is turning the job market upside-down. Though at the same time, I hate myself for not pursuing it in 2025, and also for not pursuing it this year, cause then I genuinely wouldn’t have minded cause I would finish school at 26 years old. I feel like I haven’t achieved anything, and feel like my life is ruined. I am also trying to get a job, which is proving to be harder than I thought, even though I worked as a cashier since I was 16. I haven’t found anything, and the jobs available are temporary. Cause the goal was to atleast work 80-100% and save for university since I’ll have to provide for it myself. It’s just disheartening seeing my peers, finish their masters or having passed the first year or starting and I have yet to start. Feel like a big disappointment. submitted by /u/GraciaK03
Originally posted by u/GraciaK03 on r/Switzerland