I think the first 3 years after I graduated were the most stressing ones regarding job. You need to surpass the “need a job but don’t have experience” contradiction. Once you get a job, you don’t have the skills to proper address your own competence, and how the environment you are in is exploiting you or not. For example, when I got a job as a software developer I wanted to prove myself so people wanted to keep me in, so I started doing a lot of overtime. I also had difficulty to ask questions for seniors since I did not want to look weak. But I was also very concerned out of being paid very little and maybe having too many responsibilities for my level but I was afraid of questioning over losing my chance to stay in the company and have more experience for then applying for a better job later. I am just glad I am past that stage.

I fortunately never experienced unemployment for a long, and all the anxiety that builds up from it. But I know people who completely gave up on their profession after many times applying for jobs without a response or working on really toxic places for their first years because of lack of good job positions, due to their low experience.

This is the drawback of the job market. Your labor power is a commodity that you have to sell and compete against all other workers, and your exchange-value is measured against all other people’s exchange value (the socially necessary labor-power for your position). Your use-value is on your qualifications, resume, connections and ability to perform on technical interviews.