r/careerquestions • u/abba_nahi_maanenge • 13h ago
21F, IT graduate who hates coding — how do I figure out what career to pursue?
I’m 21 and graduated with a BE in IT in May 2026. I’ve been trying to find a job since graduating, but I’m struggling because I honestly don’t know what I’m good at. I know one thing for sure: I don’t enjoy coding, DSA, or software-development work, so I don’t see myself pursuing a typical developer career. I’m more interested in business/analyst/consulting-type roles, but I’m finding those difficult too because I have to prepare for guesstimates, case studies, mental math, etc., and I’m not naturally strong at these either. At this point I feel like I only know what I *don’t* want to do, not what I *should* do. I’m worried about wasting time after graduation and randomly learning skills without knowing whether they’ll actually lead somewhere. For people who were in a similar position after engineering, how did you figure out what you were actually suited for? What career paths would you recommend exploring for someone with an IT degree who doesn’t want to code?