For those uninformed, life for some, likely most, post college isn't a great life. Yet, everyone, including people about to join that post college life believe the exact opposite. I'm twenty five, I've been out of college for two years now and cannot find a better job than the retail position I seem to be stuck in. I don't entirely hate my job, it has its rewards, but the negatives - the overwhelmingly vast negatives - are starting to outweigh those rewards. Yet I have nowhere to go.
Most people, like myself, thought the options would be a plenty. In previous posts I talked about my early job hunts, and how it took me six months to land a job pushing carts for Walmart. Now I sell electronics and electronics accessories at Walmart. But now I have more bills, thanks old car for breaking down causing me to get a new one, and I don't make nearly enough money to pay them all. I'm quite literally hemorrhaging money, trying to make ends meet. However the 50k in various debts I'm in make that nigh impossible.
My other writings have ground to an absolute halt, and I'm only writing this so people know what my life now is like if they are interested. So, lately I've been trying to get full time, or looking for a full-time/ higher-paying part time job. Which, since I've gone through college, is going fantastically. This is how the world works.
Twenty or so jobs, give or take a few, have received an application from me in the past month. All but a few have emailed back stating they are either no longer hiring, or I'm not one of the droids they're looking for. The others I assume just tossed me aside laughing at my optimism.
I'm not sure what some places want, really. I've seen others with similar qualifications get interviews left and right. I've seen people who are far less qualified get opportunity after opportunity. Hell, I've work with people whom I'm not even sure how they were qualified to work at Walmart.
But here I am, trying to expand my horizons, start a career and write on the side til I can hopefully live off of my writing. But instead, I'm drowning in a pit that this supposed beneficial education has seemingly caused. Maybe I just went to college for the wrong shit. Maybe I should have went for something other than what I want to do with my life. Something less, artsy.
Maybe I'm looking at the glass half empty. I suppose some people would try and seize some sort of opportunity here. Do whatever they can with what they have to advance their place in the world. So from now on, I'm writing at least a page, a blog, or something every day. I'm still going to push for that full time position. But I really need this. I need something to validate those four years of my life, which two years removed seem wasted - on the educational side of things.
That and I definitely need something other than these horrendous Presidential candidates to think about.
