Unemployment Stories, Vol. Seven: ‘When I look to My Future, I See a Wall’

[DTS Ltd]

Unemployment Stories, Vol. Seven: 'When I look to My Future, I See a Wall'

A look into the perspective of the demoralized...:bgh:

 

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[MJ DeMarco]

Jobs, jobs, jobs...

The people cry for infants, but vilify and disparage the mothers that create them.

 

[Steele Concept]

Like the words of a famous rapper...

"get your game up boy hustle harder....".

The "graduate and get a cushy 9-5 job with security" days are over. One week after I finished graduate school I was hired by an eminent VP at a solid company. One month after I was hired, he was laid off and I had 3 different bosses in 6 months... Then I got laid off. Corporate merger? F*ck that, don't hire me if you are going to let me go 6 months later. I was left with a terrible taste in my mouth.

I used to sound a lot like those brick wall people but with more anger and a touch less hopelessness. You want a job? Make a job. Better yet, make a business. If you have your graduate degree and a 3.8 GPA, don't take orders from an incompetent a**hole. Get out there and make your own rules.

 

[rcdlopez]

I find it interesting that in the first story the woman talks about how her college degree has actually made it worse for her to find a job and yet she thinks going to school to find a good job is the best thing for her son.

"We live simply so that we can afford our one non-negotiable extravagance- tuition at a parochial school, so that our son can have the best education we feel we can provide for him, which he will need of course, if he expects to have a good job one day."

I believe Einstein said it best, “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”

 

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