Graduated from a top tier liberal arts school. Double majored. Fooled around in college, but graduated with a 3.0. I've been applying, but still no return calls. Couldn't even get a call back from Target or Klein's grocers. WTF??? all these employers want prior experience... well how in the hell do I get my foot in the door to get some damn experience if not one single employer is willing to give me a shot?
By age 25, I had roughly $15,000 saved up. You're either being stupid with money or simply not applying yourself. There's no reason you should be unemployed given your scholastic background.
Relax Alexander Supertramp! Everything will be okay. You just have to have faith that you will get a job and keep trying. Every employer is not going to say no to you.
They could you know wrote:
Relax Alexander Supertramp! Everything will be okay. You just have to have faith that you will get a job and keep trying. Every employer is not going to say no to you.
Tell that to the ~8% who are unemployed
Need to pursue BOTH I say..now. What career field is the big passion for you. Go after it harder and more aggressively than anyone out there! At the same time find something that pays the bills. History is filled with a thousand times I have failed. Get pissed off, get your head and plan working and do it right. Go at it harder than anyone in your position in this country! As they say, keep getting up and coming forward! Do it! Come on!
That's cute. Now it's time to wake up and smell the dung. WANT is not some springboard for success. If you don't have connections, you don't have s h i t. Forget credentials and merit. It's about who you schmooze and booze and how much money you've got. PERIOD
check out the navy, if they are taking in people. take some physics chem and trig at juco before you enlist. go in the nuke program or some other highly skilled rating. at your age you will appreciate the chance to do a highly skilled job. hospital corpsman rating has a bunch of healthcare training ( risk of going to Afghanistan w marines as a doc though)
air force could be worth checking out too
I would avoid army or marines fwiw
this is all in context of getting job training, experience
etc
103yrs old! wrote:
Need to pursue BOTH I say..now. What career field is the big passion for you. Go after it harder and more aggressively than anyone out there! At the same time find something that pays the bills. History is filled with a thousand times I have failed. Get pissed off, get your head and plan working and do it right. Go at it harder than anyone in your position in this country! As they say, keep getting up and coming forward! Do it! Come on!
I just don't have the energy for all that. Nor do I find any career field particularly exciting.
Should be some career that interests you. Why the no energy?
You are young and strong. You sound beat up from something else going on also?
frustrated young person wrote:
I just don't have the energy for all that. Nor do I find any career field particularly exciting.
Thanks for impersonating me in a sardonic fashion typical of LetsRun. Anyway, regarding the others, I have no interest in the forces. My one true aspiration is essentially a pipe dream by most people's accounts. I'm tired of seeing Facebook friends gloat over their new-found careers, yet I hate myself for that, because at the same time I don't want anything to do with 9-5 monotony.
I've spent way too much money on booze and pot and can't seem to get out of the funk. I still think I'm 21. I'm pissed at the state of the economy and the hypocrisy that seems to pervade every level of society. I spend way too much time analyzing the defects of everything around me in order to justify my attachment from so-called normal life.
Worst of all, I expect people to tell me to sack up and stop being an impractical p*ssy, but most people that know me only see the easy-goes-easy-loves veneer I've handsomely crafted.
Maybe I need to get outta my own f*cking head.
detachment*
Keep things in perspective. Your young and healthy. Right now your down. Do something nutty. Get yourself out there. You put yourself in the company of others who are trying to get moving they help light a fire under you.
Sounds like you are having one of those "Travis Bickle" type of moments in your life.
I guess I have to do the cost-benefit analysis or somethin like that, but who knows. Doesn't help that teachers and friends and everybody and their freakin grandmother shove down my throat that I'm some kind of smart motherf*cker who will "figure it all out someday." Should I appreciate their candor? Or are they just trying to shut me up so they can pour their own tales-of-the-trenches on me and make me some kind of dump yard for their own frustrations? Cuz apparently that's how people see me--always wanting to tell me of their own emotional shortcomings and caring little for when I seldom open up and share my own (hence me doing it all here, anonymously).
not sure if any of this makes sense
frustrated young person wrote:
I just don't have the energy for all that. Nor do I find any career field particularly exciting.
At this point, it's not about desire but necessity.
You're 25, there should be nothing else in the world that you should have energy for IF you plan on beginning a successful career. Not partying, not running, nothing else.
Don't feel so entitled.
103yrs old! wrote:
Keep things in perspective. Your young and healthy. Right now your down. Do something nutty. Get yourself out there. You put yourself in the company of others who are trying to get moving they help light a fire under you.
I guess I'm healthy. I know my mind is not. I'm fortunate that I can run fast and far as an alternative to substance abuse when stress hits toxic levels. maybe I just need a freakin gf haha
frustrated young person wrote:
frustrated young person wrote:I just don't have the energy for all that. Nor do I find any career field particularly exciting.
Thanks for impersonating me in a sardonic fashion typical of LetsRun. Anyway, regarding the others, I have no interest in the forces. My one true aspiration is essentially a pipe dream by most people's accounts. I'm tired of seeing Facebook friends gloat over their new-found careers, yet I hate myself for that, because at the same time I don't want anything to do with 9-5 monotony.
I've spent way too much money on booze and pot and can't seem to get out of the funk. I still think I'm 21. I'm pissed at the state of the economy and the hypocrisy that seems to pervade every level of society. I spend way too much time analyzing the defects of everything around me in order to justify my attachment from so-called normal life.
Worst of all, I expect people to tell me to sack up and stop being an impractical p*ssy, but most people that know me only see the easy-goes-easy-loves veneer I've handsomely crafted.
Maybe I need to get outta my own f*cking head.
Uh, well you just responded to your own response.
Sorry I posted before I read yours. I am the newbie post also..forgot I did not go back to 103 old. You sound like a sharp son of a gun. Your aware this seems self imposed? Yep this country is hell on wheels. Geez though, it has been way worse many moons ago...when all thought it was totally over. At your age, ya got to say screw everyone and all around me..and make a go of it on your own..your way.
Like the GF idea! The right one will get you on the straight and narrow. :)
103yrs old! wrote:
Sorry I posted before I read yours. I am the newbie post also..forgot I did not go back to 103 old. You sound like a sharp son of a gun. Your aware this seems self imposed? Yep this country is hell on wheels. Geez though, it has been way worse many moons ago...when all thought it was totally over. At your age, ya got to say screw everyone and all around me..and make a go of it on your own..your way.
thanks for your honesty. I do adopt that 'screw yall' mentality but I think to dangerous extremes. To self-destructive extremes where I'm so keen on carving my own niche that I've left the mainland and I'm digging in rocky soil with landmines. haha it's a funny thing, life can be so simple some moments, and others I'm utterly lost. My ability to think might be my one true gift and curse. Or perhaps I should stop overestimating my talents, join the mass of men, and grease the wheels on the CEO's Maybach. Moderation is the ultimate challenge. Funny how I've got my who life ahead and I can't see it that way...
I'm feeling better tho. this whole message board ranting thing is quite therapeutic!