Ok, I am officially freaking out now.
I have no idea what I am going to do: job/life wise. I stay up all night now prowling the internet looking for a job, a company that is hiring, and anything part time until I can find my real grown up job. So far, 50% of the “real jobs” I have applied for are not what I would even be remotely interested in doing for years at a time, but like everyone else in this economy, I will take what I can get-which is nothing.
Everything is online today, so submitting an application/resume is no different. I submitted my resume online one day and received a rejection email no longer than four hours after. I didn’t even have the time to run possible phone interview scripts through my head or possible outfits for real life interviews. It saved me the stress of thinking of that, but then it added stress just thinking of my poor rejected little resume. I can just see it: someone clicking it open, it starts to introduce itself, “Hello, I’m Ash-” CLICK! That’s right, slammed shut; without even being given the chance to sell me.
Everyone has me paranoid too, telling me the first job I’ll get I’ll be stuck at the rest of my life, whether I like it or not. Which, in my mind, I know isn’t true, but at the same time that is exactly how I see my ‘rents with their jobs. For as long as I can remember Ang has hated her job and the bs that comes with it. I know everyone does, but I do not want my children, if I have children, remember me ranting over my job every day or even every other day when I come home. I want a job where I complain, at the most, three times a week unless it has been a highly stressful week. I do not want a job where I feel complaining comes hand in hand because I can’t stand it. I never understood why people stay with jobs they hate, but in light of today’s economy it is totally understood.
Which reminds me, if I tune in to CNN, HLN, FOX, or MSNBC one more time for career advice and the same re re career advisors say, “It’s tough out there, this is a difficult time, keep going, differentiate yourself from everyone else, etc.” one more time I will throw something through my tv. Seriously.
I can’t even really complain about the whole not having a job thing, I mean a) I was not just laid of from a job of 20+ years like most in my area, b) I may have a degree, but I have little to no experience doing anything and c) I am, luckily, not living day to day or scared to pay bills - I only have student loans to pay and I’m still piggy backing off my ‘rents. So, I feel pretty silly for complaining and freaking out but I still needed to put it down and get it out of my head so I can go to sleep.
Everything is online today, so submitting an application/resume is no different. I submitted my resume online one day and received a rejection email no longer than four hours after. I didn’t even have the time to run possible phone interview scripts through my head or possible outfits for real life interviews. It saved me the stress of thinking of that, but then it added stress just thinking of my poor rejected little resume. I can just see it: someone clicking it open, it starts to introduce itself, “Hello, I’m Ash-” CLICK! That’s right, slammed shut; without even being given the chance to sell me.
Everyone has me paranoid too, telling me the first job I’ll get I’ll be stuck at the rest of my life, whether I like it or not. Which, in my mind, I know isn’t true, but at the same time that is exactly how I see my ‘rents with their jobs. For as long as I can remember Ang has hated her job and the bs that comes with it. I know everyone does, but I do not want my children, if I have children, remember me ranting over my job every day or even every other day when I come home. I want a job where I complain, at the most, three times a week unless it has been a highly stressful week. I do not want a job where I feel complaining comes hand in hand because I can’t stand it. I never understood why people stay with jobs they hate, but in light of today’s economy it is totally understood.
Which reminds me, if I tune in to CNN, HLN, FOX, or MSNBC one more time for career advice and the same re re career advisors say, “It’s tough out there, this is a difficult time, keep going, differentiate yourself from everyone else, etc.” one more time I will throw something through my tv. Seriously.
I can’t even really complain about the whole not having a job thing, I mean a) I was not just laid of from a job of 20+ years like most in my area, b) I may have a degree, but I have little to no experience doing anything and c) I am, luckily, not living day to day or scared to pay bills - I only have student loans to pay and I’m still piggy backing off my ‘rents. So, I feel pretty silly for complaining and freaking out but I still needed to put it down and get it out of my head so I can go to sleep.