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Should I even attempt to apply for grad school? I have a bachelor's degree in history.

My last year in undergrad was difficult in some senses. Mainly because of my senior thesis. As a history major, I did an almost 50 page thesis about women's suffrage for my senior seminar class and I know to many grad students, 50 pages is nothing, but for me, it took a huge chunk out of my spirit and confidence. I inevitably got an A but after going over and over on simply finding the right research and struggling to write the paper and then getting help from my professor in editing it. 

It drained me, and made me originally decide to not apply for grad school and just find a job. Months later, still no job and my life was crap for personal reasons unrelated to finding work. I am in a better place now, but my thesis work made me rethink grad school because when I analyzed the difficulties in writing a simple 50 page thesis,  my logic was that it would be even worse for actual graduate work, and that I would plummet catastrophically from pressure. It doesn't help that if the tax bills pass, it would be financially horrible for me. Although right now, I don't have any college debt due to the scholarships and financial aid I received from my university. 

What's more concerning is that even with all the time I had, I still don't know what I want to do with academia. If let's say the tax bill doesn't pass and I go to grad school, I don't know if i want to do education, government, or media. I am very interested in politics, but I am unsure where I would go to do political work. I know strangers on the internet probably won't be able to help but I might as well ask people who are/finished graduate school.

Sorry if this post seems old, these types of questions have probably been asked before in some manner.
gpt
Please do not apply to graduate school. You discovered it would be 'catastrophic' for you. End of story. Even people with *every* reason to go to graduate school in the humanities can often discover that it was the wrong choice for them -- and you have already discovered several angry red flags. 

Follow your other passions and use the skills that *did* earn you an A on that undergrad capstone in ways that you find fulfilling. There's a lot of hard, important work to be done in political organizing, charity, non-profit, and other fields of work that you might be great at. If in doubt, start with volunteering your time and energy to something bigger than yourself -- whether that's one hour a week at a homeless shelter or applying for jobs as a grant writer in a small non-profit for a cause you believe in.