Marketing Degree Regret: I wasted my 20s

I graduated with a marketing degree in 2020 and I honestly feel like I ruined my life. When the pandemic hit, I thought "No big deal, I'll just wait it out before applying for jobs." Huge mistake. By the time I started looking, I wasn't even a "new grad" anymore and had to start applying for those entry-level positions that require 3-5 years of experience.

I tried freelancing, but that made me hate marketing. Every client expected me to be an all-in-one marketing machine: graphic design, web development, SEO, SEM, social media, content writing, and ad management. When did marketing become all this? My degree didn't teach me any of it. I still barely understand SEO, and I can't build a website unless it's on Squarespace but somehow that's my problem? What is school supposed to teach us?

So took some sales jobs. Hated them. Finally, I got a real marketing agency job a few years back but I got laid off last year because the company wanted to expand to a different city, leaving me high and dry. Now I'm stuck in an admin job where my boss doesn't even know how to run a business. Every two weeks he panics because there's barely enough in the bank to pay his employees. It's been five years and I've had exactly ONE real job in my field.

Nobody told me my city was garbage for marketing jobs. Nobody told me about networking, the importance of co-op internships, or job fairs. As a first-generation uni student, I thought you just had to go to school, get a degree, then get a job. My parents worked labor jobs that were tough but straightforward. Meanwhile, I picked a dead-end degree when I could've done accounting or HR or literally anything with a clear job path. I wanted to do a PMP designation or something, but it feels pointless with my background and experience.

I hate that I didn't know better. I hate that no one taught me how all this works. And yes, I was an idiot in uni prioritizing fun over my career prep, but I didn't even know what I was missing. Now I'm here, watching as my peers succeed while I'm just stuck.

Does anyone else feel like they got scammed by their degree choice?

edit: spelling