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What's next after graduation? Seeking advice

Hi guys,

Bit about me, I'm 29 graduating soon (2025), doing business management degree. I did AAT lvl 3 accounting before degree and I did year long placement as an Accounts Assistant. Other than that I've been working pretty much since I was 18 so plenty of work experience, no long gaps on CV, unfortunately none of my work experience beside placement is relevant to my education background. I've been applying for graduate programmes mainly in accountancy as I wanted to become chartered accountant eventually however I've got rejected from most of the places, sometimes they didn't even give me any feedback. I managed to get to video interview stage, I structured my answers after watching some you tube tutorials and literally memorised them to recite them like a robot to give perfect answer but still my applications got rejected. I don't think I'd be able to secure graduate scheme. I'm still waiting to hear from 3 or 4 firms however if they would reject my apps then that'd be it for the graduate scheme. Now I'm starting to really worry about the future. Not sure what to do next or what are the alternatives. Naturally looking for any work after Uni would be the first step however I am feeling bit down as I don't want to end up doing some shitty job that I could've easily done without degree and with the job market being so competitive I don't think it's even worth to do degree anymore, feels like I've lost time for doing degree that is useless and would get me nowhere. I'm trying to figure out what to do next after graduation so any advice would be much appreciated. Thank you.
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