Reality sucks

Heyyyooooh!!

We all know the industry is flopping, more artists are being laid off, and the likeliness of someone like me (no experience) to get a job is probably 0%. 

Anywho, I had graduated spring of last year from an "art" school, and it took me 2 and a half years to learn and practice the animation I was taught there. I wasn't bad, but I also wasn't incredibly good. Good enough to be considered for small freelance goods, but not good enough to get me into an "ideal" industry job. 

After graduation, I had realized that there were not many Junior positions available. Most of the time, it was for people with 2+ years of industry experience, and/or released titles, movies, etc. etc. Even though I wasn't qualified for most of the positions available out there, I still sent in my resume, cover letter and show reel. Of course, the rejections kept coming in, and my hopes were getting pretty down by that point. 

Long ways down the road; I didn't care about not getting a response from companies, and I actually started celebrating the rejection emails (it's better than nothing). I also, kept on working on my skills on my own as well as working minimum wage jobs just to pay the bills. I was happy, trying my best. Until I finally realized how seriously bad the industry was getting. I started thinking that if a professional of 20+ years of experience was having a hard time keeping his/her job or even finding a new job, then there was pretty much not much hope for a newbie like myself. I was told by my friend, that most junior positions were being outsourced to other countries and that was the reason why I couldn't find as many as I'd hoped. That really got me down. 

Right now, I'm just hoping I get a chance out there. I barely make money enough to pay rent and food, so taking schools like Animation Mentor or IAnimate are definitely out of the question. I'm still in my shitty minimum wage job, I'm just hoping I get better enough in time to actually make it somewhere. I know I'm not great, or qualified, but I do have passion. That's the only thing keeping me up right now.