Title: I&#x27;m an active member of this community but I&#x27;m using a throwaway instead because I don&#x27;t want this issue to be linked to my identity<p>tl;dr: I graduated Software engineering 3 months ago and I&#x27;m currently without a job and back to live with my parents.<p>During school I was always told that I was &quot;brilliant and one of the best&quot;. I tried not to show it with any attitude, but after a lot of people repeating over a period of many years, I think it entered the back of my mind but still with impostor syndrome.<p>On my final year I interned at a very prestigious company (not big 4, but still a huge one) with a great salary and an important project. Everything seemed to go the way everybody predicted and expected of me.<p>At the end of my internship, my manger lets me know that I will not be hired because the company is not hieing junior engineers at this time, but he would gladly recommend me to anyone.<p>I sent my resume to more than a 100 companies and I got a decent number of responses, interviews and even offers. However, all of the offer were with not-that-interesting tech stacks and really bad compensations.<p>For me it was not about the money, but a show of how much a company appreciate me and how they think of me.<p>I refused all the contracts so far, and the responses are fewer everyday. I&#x27;m eve, starting to regret not accepting a couple of them, after all this is maybe what i&#x27;m really worth and I was in a bubble all that time.<p>A few weeks ago I realized that I was gaining weight, and that I&#x27;m no longer interested in social interactions or my hygiene.<p>I told my family that, i got laughed at and was asked to find a job and stop being spoiled and lazy.<p>I don&#x27;t know what to do.<p>Pick the next offer I get because there may not be another? See a professional about my current mental health?<p>I realize that this is more an anonymous rant than an Ask HN but I have no one else to ask
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