Someone Please Hire Me Already!

So this blog is meant to be about my final adventures in San Diego, and I will get to that I promise, but first I need to vent a little. As anyone who reads this blog knows, I am in my last semester of college and my life has therefore been taken over by applications, resumes and cover letters. I am now on every job seeking site known to mankind and have even gone old school combing the classifieds of newspapers (okay so maybe not so old school if you do it online, but still I’m pretty desperate here). Everyone tells you that if you focus on school, get good internships, and develop some connections that you would find a job. They all lied. I am a qualified, capable graduating senior who will most likely be jobless in May. Even more frustrating, the business world doesn’t even leave you grad school as an option. Sure, sure there are some programs you can get in to, but most of the big programs require at least two years of work experience. Just where do you expect me to get that experience exactly? To date, I have applied for 54 open positions. I have heard back from 3, 2 of which were filled and the other is considering several other candidates. Not great odds if you ask me. I even went so far as to contact the Air Force about their Public Affairs positions (my father is currently in the military and loved the idea), but guess what…there are no openings there either. I’m not kidding people, I have a 3.78 GPA, a double major and a minor, great recommendations, no criminal record, have never even been fired, and I was turned down by the military. Perfect. My economics teacher loves to remind me of my bleak future by referring to me and my fellow students as the “lost generation”. Our jobs are being filled by over qualified individuals forced to take huge pay cuts and low positions after losing their cushy jobs in the economic crisis. If we do continue on to grad school to buy time, companies expect to have to pay us more so they turn us down. So to all five readers of this blog, I am resorting to begging. Someone PLEASE hire me already, I really, really don’t want to move in with my parents!