I lied and cheated my way through college for a worthless degree that I can’t use without a certification that I’ve been too anxious to take for the past 6 months.

I spent the first 2 years of college doing the bare minimum to get by, but the last two years I spent suiting up and trying my hardest, only for me to end up cheating on a lot of my exams and term papers. I never got caught and I graduated at the top of my class. <br><br>However, the degree I got requires me to get a certification to actually do anything with it, but my fear of failure is holding me back. It’s not that I can’t afford it, or I’m not healthy enough, I just don’t know what to do if I fail and I’d rather not try then try and fail.<br><br>Edit: I feel the need to say, I’m working on getting the certification and I stopped applying to jobs in my field and I’m looking for a more general job in the field that doesn’t require me to have the certification to get in.<br><br>Edit #2: Yeah, I’m fucked. I acknowledge that now. I’m gonna use the rest of this month and next to get the certification. I’m not gonna let my degree go to waste and I’m gonna stop being lazy.