Not good enough

I have graduated from Electronics and Electrical engineering this year. I am interested in analog IC design. I was good at studying and got a really high GPA. My problem is I think I am not good when it comes to doing the practical parts like projects like I am not very good at searching in papers or sometimes understanding them and at all my projects throughout the university i struggled a lot. I understand the subjects well but when it comes to projects i really suck and tried that at many types of projects like software , embedded and analog and i wasn't good at anh and needed help a lot and at last there were a lot of projects better than mine.

Now after graduation the market of analog IC is really competitive in my country and I thought maybe I am not that good and I can be like a TA in some UNIs but the gap in salries is huge working as a TA is about 150 USD in my country while in analog IC design maybe more than 1000 USD so I don't know what to do and how can i get in this competition with my poor skills in projetcs ( also i am not that creative in projects that is another problem)

So if anyone working in the analog field what are the steps they do when they start a new project they don't know a lot about?