Regretting getting an advanced degree in organic chemistry. I’ll be coming out of graduate school with no skills and a dislike for research

Currently in the U.S. I got my bachelor’s in chemistry because I really liked organic chemistry after finding out I’m pretty good at it. I decided to get into a graduate school for organic chemistry right after and went straight for a Ph. D program. This is despite not having undergraduate research experience given the pandemic, because I wanted to learn more about it, and I get paid to go.

I found out after being in the program that I wasn’t good at research, and got kicked out of my research group because of it after a year. So I’m on the pathway of mastering out. I think I’ll get my Masters just fine, but I’m worried thinking about what comes next. I’m terrible at research, so there’s no way I’ll be able to get a job involving it. The only thing I’ll have coming out of graduate school is just more knowledge of the subject.

I feel I’m in a path where I end up getting a Masters for no reason. All jobs in organic chemistry revolves around working in a research lab where they expect me to have research experience and papers, of which I have none. Taking graduate courses was fun, and I enjoyed being a student. But that’s all I am right now - a student. Once I graduate I’ll be thrown into a world where I bring nothing of value to anybody.

I feel worthless and depressed. I won’t be able to apply my degree like everyone else does, and might end up working an unrelated minimum wage job for the rest of my life. Are there going to be ANY employers out there who’ll value someone like me?