Some people are not supportive of the lifestyles of the broke and unemployed. Waking up to my friend sending me a link to listen to the song “Get a Job” is not ideal, especially after waking up to my father chewing in my ear as a means of retaliation from the last post. To all my friends and acquaintances that choose to associate themselves with me, please note: I do not yet have a job, I do not liked to be asked about it, and no the job search is NOT going well.
I had lunch with a friend of mine who graduated from
The rest of our conversation turned from jobs to just catching up, but once I left I got to thinking about this one question “how is the job search going?” On a daily basis I am probably asked this question about 10 times, whether it’s by a friend, one of my parents, a sibling, it comes up more than I would like. My dad will come into the office where I am diligently working to make moves in my life and stare at me for about five minutes before asking “any leads today?” I understand someone who I never speak to asking me if I have a job, but the people I speak to everyday do not have an excuse. Don’t you think if someone handed me a job I would at least tell the people that are closest to me, let alone my own father? To the people that graduated before me, I would like to take this opportunity to apologize from the bottom of my heart if I ever asked you this thoughtless and utterly inappropriate question. I can now relate to the rage you feel inside when you know someone is about to ask you that question and you just want to stop them mid sentence so that you don’t have to respond with “it’s not going well, thanks for asking!”
Being unemployed is not the easiest lifestyle in the world. At least if I had a job there would be a wider range of annoying questions that people would ask me on a daily basis. I know some people may be thinking that I have it pretty good if all I am worried about is someone asking me a simple question, but this is not the case. I am not the world’s most tolerant person and if you are going to ask me something that you can answer yourself, don’t bother. It’s like the phrase “if you have nothing nice to say, don’t say it;” “if you have nothing useful to say, don’t say it.”
Don't sweat it. This is the worst economy on our lifetime. The government doesn't have a clue and us employers have no idea how to plan or develop business plans. Julie has her masters and couldn't get a real job for a year.
ReplyDeleteThings will get better. Just don't know when.