B BACKGROUND During adolescence, a person is faced with changing life cycles and newenvironmental demands, including those related to future career expectations. Inaddition, students also begin to be rational about the career expectations that havebeen set, whether they can be realized or not. Many of these considerations cancause students to experience depression. This study aims to determine therelationship between the degree of depression with career expectations of SMA 8Jakarta students. METHODS The study was an analytic observational study with aapproach cross-sectional. Byusing consecutive random sampling, 194 subjects were obtained from SMA 8Jakarta, who filled out the career expectation questionnaire-40 and depressionanxiety stress scale-42 (DASS-42), in December 2021. The inclusion criteria werestudents in class XI and XII at SMA 8 Jakarta. , and are willing to be respondentsby stating their agreement on the google form link and the exclusion criteria havea history of previous therapy related to certain psychiatric disorders and have ahistory of chronic organic disorders such as malignancy, thyroid disease, andbrain tumors. Data analysis was carried out using the pearson Chi Square test witha significance level of p <0.05 RESULTS. The results of the characteristics of the research subjects found that the age of the subjects was between 15 years (49.4%) and 16 years (50.6%), the majority weremale (61 ,4%). The monthly income of parents is dominated by the income groupof 5 million-10 million rupiah (93.2%) and the highest level of parental educationis high school (50.5%). tall. The results of the pearson Chi square test of therelationship between the degree of depression and the career expectations of SMA8 Jakarta students, obtained significant results with avalue of p 0.001. CONCLUSION There is a significant relationship between the degree of depression and the careerexpectations of SMA 8 Jakarta students with p value = 0.001