I'm a very extroverted person and have a big surrounding. Most of my friends and family are very successful people and pursuing great careers. I feel like a failure every time I compare myself to them.

I am a political science major that Intends on pursuing a masters to work in the field of policy analysis and eventually becoming a foreign service officer. I already have a part time job in the government while finishing my studies so I got that going for me. However most of my friends are engineers, my brother too, my girlfriend is studying medicine and I know so many people pursing great things like PharmD, dentistry or anything stem related. Being surrounded by people like that makes me feel like a big failure. Especially when compared to my girlfriend, it kills me inside as I am a very ambitious person but I still feel as I am heavily judged by people for not pursuing something like engineering or in healthcare. 

I love all my friends and my girlfriend, they treat me very well and this does not come from them telling me these things, it's all in my head. However I can't get rid of this feeling inside of me of feeling like a loser just because I'm not studying something very important/stem etc.

I don't know what to do, I'm confident I'll have a great career as I have plenty of work experience and my GPA is good enough to be admitted into a masters. But I still keep feeling like a failure nonetheless.

I just wanted to get this off my chest,


Thank you