I could go on and on about this, but I’m sure it’s been done before… so I will make this a short rant.
1. Why did I think I would have no trouble at all getting a grown-up job after college? Oh that’s right… because everyone SAID I would, like it was some kind of guarantee!!
2. How come only the trashiest, most rude and poorly dressed, unprofessional assholes get the best jobs at my County’s courthouse? You know, the place that has the best starting pay rate, the best benefits, and gets every holiday off. I guess you have to have a gang tattoo on your wrist and smell like alcohol to qualify to local government jobs in my hometown.
3. Since when do you have to have 79 years of experience to be a good secretary?? Can’t you just be naturally organized and detail-oriented??
4. Why on God’s green earth am I working in a shit-hole, raccoon-infested greenhouse and getting treated like crap for $9 measly dollars an hour and no benefits when I spent close to $80,000 on college tuition??
5. Why am I spending all this time and money producing the most perfect resumes on the nicest cream colored paper and pretty much writing my cover letters with a goddamn quill pen using my own blood and not getting ONE phone call back.
I don’t mean to be snotty, and I don’t think this is snotty… but whenever I go somewhere for personal business or something and see people working my dream jobs (secretary, human resources, anything in an office that doesn’t involve fertilizer or rose thorns) they are rude, look like crap, and don’t even DO anything that really takes any amount of talent or expertise?! I could do these jobs too! I could be the perfect secretary, the ideal Human Resources Assistant, even a reliable Call Center Representative!! I’m not asking for the next position as CEO or even anything that would get me my own phone extension. All I want is a job that pays double digits and hour and maybe offers benefits so I can go get my shitty old glasses replaced!!! Why did I go to college if all I had to do to get one of these jobs is wear poor fitting clothing from Sirens and get a couple of visible tattoos and a bad attitude???
i’m going to go ahead and say “HELL YEAH” to all of that. i’m 23 and am in debt up to my eyebrows because of college. i’m beginning to think that college is all one big conspiracy theory, because i’m smart as hell, attractive, well-dressed, and disgustingly polite and caring. so naturally i’m still waiting tables in a shit hole restaurant.
Ooh, a conspiracy. I like that, I can add it to my list of other conspiracy theories
I think it really is true that it’s not what you know, it’s who you know. I’m a temp now (which I suggest trying, it’s not bad) but everyone at where I work now who is a permanent employee MUST know somebody, because they get away with murder and don’t exactly do their best work. As much as I hate socializing, I think networking is really the key when you’re looking for a job out of college. But the whole debt thing is still maddening.
By: theposhyone on March 6, 2008
at 11:22 am