Feel my Aero degree was completely useless...

WorstAero
Sun, 23 Dec 2012 10:45:22 +0000

I already posted this on reddit but I would also like to hear other opinions:

(Note: I don’t live in the U.S.)
I went into college at a younger than average age and during high school I had this delusion that I was going to become an astronaut so I decided to go into an Integrated Master’s in Aerospace Engineering. I started disliking it and getting mediocre results but everyone around me kept advising “Don’t worry! The early years are mostly weed out courses and generic stuff! The fun comes later!”. Well the “fun” never came and I was stuck in this damn course since I didn’t want to take a decade (and yet ended up taking 7 years to complete a 5 year degree).
I tried getting internships but no one accepted me, not even unpaid ones for some reason. I also chose the Avionics specialization which though it had more interesting courses I feel was too scattershot: I just learned a bunch of isolated classes on electronics, signal processing, etc, without going into any sort of necessary depth to actually CREATE something (this university while one of the best is also infamously theoretical, leading to the common joke that all their engineering degrees are actually math degrees).
Meanwhile, it seems every single job opening is looking for stress engineers, which require skills I do not have. I have a relative in Norway who oddly enough keeps saying that there are PLENTY of jobs there and that they even PREFER people with no job experience since they don’t have any previous “habits”. Naturally this goes against EVERYTHING I hear on the news. I applied to a bunch of jobs but always get either no answer or a rejection letter. …so should I seek my career somewhere else? I found that I enjoy programming but again, I feel like I haven’t learned enough to do anything useful and by the time I get anywhere, I’m probably too old (the field is notoriously biased towards the young).
I feel like I ruined my life and want some honest advice on what’s my best bet (even if it includes stuff like “Go work as a janitor” or something).
EDIT: here is a list of the complete class curriculum:

[Aerospace Seminar I Applied Mechanics I Chemistry Complex Analysis and Diff - ■■■■■■■■■■■■](Aerospace Seminar I Applied Mechanics IChemistry Complex Analysis and Diff - ■■■■■■■■■■■■)