My Job Search

Since I graduated college, I have been searching for a job in the area where I now live with my husband and our dog, Brama. At the moment, to be honest, I do not care where I work. I just need a job that will keep me busy and pay my bills. I have applied to about 15 stores and locations, have had 6 interviews, and one part time job offer at a local dollar store.

My problem with this situation is that I am a college graduate! I graduated from a good school, with good grades, in what I thought would be a wonderful career, which is teaching. So far though, I realize that the recent economic problems are affecting me more than I thought they would. Many places are either not hiring, or only hiring part time, which does not help my situation at all. 

I am not trying to complain, but at the same time, I did not pay that much money to go to college, and then not get a job because the economy is in a recession and school budget cuts are at an all time high.

Why is it that when the economy is in a recession or a depression, we cut the things that we need the most in society? For instance, during graduation, my education professor proceeded to tell my fellow education major graduates and I, that hiring for education now is at an all-time low, it's the same percent as it was during the depression. Now, this is isn't the type of motivational speech that I was expecting on the day I've been waiting for since I realized that college isn't all that it's cracked up to be, which was like junior year. I left that day feeling that if I could not get a teaching job that I would work somewhere for a year, and then go and get my Master's degree which is required if I want to keep my certification. It angers me that education is one of the first things cut in the government when times are hard, because education is all about teaching the youth which will one day be our future. Education should be one of our number one top priorities, because we need to start teaching these children about the world they are about the inhabit as adults. We need to show them how to function in society, so that we don't have as much unemployment, homelessness, and poverty. If the government would give MORE money to education than a lot of our problems like unemployment, homelessness, and poverty would improve and maybe disappear in a few years.

Here begins my job search! I started applying to places all over, not really care where just as long as I finally gained full time employment somewhere. I have been very wrong to assume that my three previous jobs along with my Bachelor's degree would help me attain a position in any field. Apparently, I am too qualified for many jobs, which makes me undesirable because they know I will eventually leave for a much better job, and for others I am under-qualified because I lack the skills that others have achieved from working instead of attending college. Either way I am being punished for going to college, and concentrating on my schoolwork instead of working. Which in all honesty, I think is complete bullshit.