As graduation is approaching, (61 days! but I’m not counting…) my LinkedIn and Facebook feeds are slowly starting to populate with posts from my peers about getting interviews, job offers or some even accepting positions halfway around the world already.

The one thing they all have in common: they are all in a STEM field. For those who aren’t aware, STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math.

When I finally decided that public relations/communication was the career that I wanted to pursue, I knew that it was going to be hard. It’s very well-understood in this industry that there are about a thousand qualified candidates per available job at any given moment. Communication is now the second most popular college major, according to The Princeton Review. In an area that is heavily STEM and military focused such as Norfolk, Va., well-paying communication jobs are incredibly hard to come by. Finding one that wants an entry-level, recent graduate adds on another hundred pounds of hay around the needle.

Seeing other people my age getting such immediate responses from such prominent companies like Microsoft, Amazon, ADP (just to name a few) gets extremely disheartening very quickly. Most days, it feels like companies only care about software developers, business analysts, engineers or accountants.

Amidst all of the social media posts and unsolicited advice from professionals around me, I often have to remind myself of why I’m still pursuing PR in the first place. Why didn’t I just tough it out and continue with computer science? Maybe I should have studied business or finance or accounting?

Why does it feel like I’m never going to be wanted?

Then I remember that if there were no PR people, nobody would even know about STEM!

We are the ones who decide which brands become household names, we write the speeches that capture American hearts, we give voices to the silenced and we are the ones who share with the world the latest innovations from the STEM fields.

Every industry needs public relations people, even if they don’t know it.

We are the ones who actually run the world, they just haven’t realized it yet.