It's been nearly two months since I graduated from college. Just last week I received my diploma from Appalachian in the mail. I was pretty excited to get it, even so that I cracked the glass for the frame that my diploma was to go in.
In the last two months, not to my surprise necessarily, I have struggled in finding a job. I've applied to two places recently. One was to Belk, Inc. in Charlotte as a Web Content Writer, and the other was the Inspiration Network as a Social Networking Manager. Both positions I would love to have, but I have yet to hear anything back from them other than the automated email response. I suppose they filed my resume away and will take a look at it eventually.
I plan to hopefully apply to a public relations position with Catawba College's Human Resources Department. My dad actually saw the ad in the paper and didn't know if I would be interested or not. It is PR, which I'm technically a journalism major, but my degree is in communication, and I think I could do a good job as a PR individual. I guess I'll find out.
Most of my days now are spent just passing the hours at home. It really is disheartening at times being at home feeling so isolated and having a feeling of discontent with myself. I browse job sites daily and constantly look at my resume to make sure it 'looks alright.'
I know that I am not alone in this struggle. I guess all of us who were born in the late 1980's should have known our economy was going to be in the crapper just about the time we were going to be finishing with college, but it sure is bad timing on our part.
There are in fact jobs out there. They are far and few in between, but they are there. The problem that I am having is that every job listing I am finding requires at least 2 to 3, 5 to 7 years of experience. Seven years ago I was in high school trying to figure out how to do my algebra homework, not thinking that I needed to already have a job, getting that much needed experience that was going to get me a job one day when I was ready for one.
My original plan once I graduated was to do some free lance work for The Salisbury Post until I found a steady position somewhere. Unfortunately, the Post doesn't have the stringer funds available to afford to pay me right now. I had considered working for the Post (or another newspaper) and I knew I might have a leg up since I interned there this past summer. But the problem with that is, well, newspapers aren't doing particularly well these days and they aren't hiring for the most part. Most graduates aren't looking for newspaper jobs simply because they aren't there and we've all been told not to even consider it. Of course we were also told not to get into journalism but we were all either too stupid or too smart one to listen. I'll let you know which one it is later on.
So for now, I'm just going to keep plugging away at the job hunt. Getting an interview would be a nice start. I have a few networking contacts, so I'm hoping something will come to fruition sooner than later. It's comforting of course knowing that I have a lot of people on my side praying for me and showing me plenty of support. Those individuals mean a lot to me.
I know I will eventually be blessed with a job and I pray that day comes soon, but until then, my life continues to be at this crossroads. And I'm in a broke down vehicle.
Anybody have the number for AAA?
