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Congratulations on saving your sanity.
I don't know if you have the resources for this -- see if your college provides this -- but I have undergone serious career counseling a couple of times in my life when work was eating me and I didn't know what to do. Since you are graduating from college, this would be a great time.
The kind of counseling I'm talking about would involve sitting down with a career counselor, talking about the kind of person you are, and taking a few standardized tests -- a personality test, an aptitude test, and a few others. You and the counselor interpret the results together and figure out the kind of job and work environment that would suit you best. Then the counselor gives you tools for finding that kind of job.
The first time, decades ago, I was miserable; I'd quit a job at a huge company, but they'd convinced me there that my unhappiness was all my fault and I figured that I had no aptitude for what I was doing. The counselor did the tests and told me I was _exactly_ suited, by temperment and aptitude, for what I was doing, but that I'd be happier working for small companies than larger. I worked for small outfits for the next ten years, even though the money was with the larger companies, and it really worked for me.
The next time through, I was really sick of my profession -- it had changed, I hadn't -- and the counselor helped me identify other fields that would work for me as a career change. I followed up on her advice with some volunteer work in one of the recommended fields, and it clicked.
At the very least, avail yourself of your college's career center. They may not offer the full service I've talked about, but they will certainly introduce you to tools and resources that you can use in your search.
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