Job hunting in today's society really f*ing blows! As a recent college graduate, I have joined the "real world" and with student loan payments knocking now on my front door, I'm starting to freak out a bit. I have been working "three" part-time jobs since I graduated in May. I put the word three in quotes because while I am currently employed by three different companies, I hardly consider them really anything.
I love working with Nick doing wedding photography, but one weekend per month is hardly considered an income. I've also been helping in Mom's office with filing papers and answering the phone occasionally, and this is a nice time killer while getting paid $10/hour, but it doesn't excite me nearly enough to make it a "I want to go in and work EVERYDAY!" kind of job (Gary allows me to choose the hours that I go into work there). So that really leaves me with just DLM. Don't get me wrong, I love the people and it's a great place to work...if it's full-time or you're 16 without any bills. I don't have many bills to pay, right now, I really only have my cell phone bill, credit card bill and car insurance, along with the typical payments for having a car (gas, oil changes, engine problems, etc), and every now and then I pay for some groceries since my brothers don't like eating healthy so Mom doesn't waste her money. Now the problem is I'm still living paycheck to paycheck and I'm living at home, with three monthly bills.
I would like to be able to purchase a nice, reliable car some time in the near future and it's possible through Toyota with their "recent graduate finance program" but the kicker is, you need to have a full-time job to get this great deal. So much for that one since I can't seem to be qualified enough for anything.
Through college, I had to work for every penny I earned and decided (stupid-ly) to go to UD and get myself into some debt (not horrible, but more than I would have if I would have taken that full ride to play softball that I was offered). Now I find myself with a bachelor of arts degree in communications and going nowhere. Every job that I look at requires previous work experience...well my main problem is I really have none that would apply to them. During school, I was on the newspaper staff as a photographer, not a writer (mistake number one) and I couldn't apply for any of the internships in the area during summers because they were all unpaid and I couldn't lose valuable time from a paying job to go to a job where I was making no money. And now it's coming back to bite me in the butt. I believe the worst part about job searching, besides filling out at least 5 applications a day, is reading all of the qualifications and thinking this is perfect! I'd be great at this and then getting down to the last line "minimum of 3 years work experience..."
How do you expect a recent college grad to have anymore then MAYBE a year of real world experience? This is not a realistic expectation.
So after searching for what I like to call my first "big-girl job" for almost 3.5 months now, I find myself wondering if I should just go back to school to get more experience...but wait, that won't help! Because that will just put my further in debt and then I most likely still will be unable to find a job after another graduation. But I also run into the problem that I really don't know what I want to do with myself for the rest of my life. I'm really open to any sort of job at this point because I feel that I didn't have enough time to explore during college into what I really love doing. Yes, I love taking pictures, but starting out is very rough and expensive. I don't mind writing, but how am I supposed to get a job doing that if I can't even get an unpaid internship with a local paper? I love kids and everyone tells me I would be a great teacher, but I really don't want to do that, however, I have recently considered applying for being a substitute teacher this year, just to see if I would like it or not. I love traveling, but it's so hard to find a job where you get paid to do so. I have even started looking into becoming a nanny, but everyone feels like paying somebody $5/hour to watch your two or three children all day is a fair price, and I'm sorry but if you can't put your children in daycare for that cheap, you should expect someone to come into your home to care for them at that price. I feel like I'm just stuck.
We really have to find a way to provide more jobs for people who are needing/willing to work in today's society otherwise, as a friend said the other day, "we're going to have an abundance of really educated restaurant servers in our society." GRRRRRRRR!
Until next time,
XOXO
<3 Marci
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