Here we go....

So today is the day I decided to take my unemployment to the next level...blogging about it. I started a blog for a class project last fall, but I forgot about it until today.
I've always known it's easiest to write about what you know, and so for the time being, the only thing I know is that I have a degree, a hard earned degree, sitting waiting for me to use it...and nobody wants it.
I don't know about anybody else out there, but I was blind in college; and that's saying something because I'm a pretty street smart person. I had known going into college that I wanted to get a degree in communication, specifically broadcasting, and that might be a difficult, competitive field to get into. So I listened to my peers, heard the struggles they were dealing with, but didn't pay particular attention to one piece of advice "Never leave school, the real world sucks.
I'd think to myself...well...duh, of course it does. Where else is it perfectly acceptable to drink on a Tuesday, and wake up on your couch the next morning being glad you made it home alive? OF course college is better! But the real world is way better, you get to live on your own, make money, and live the high life.
I was stupid.
Down right head up my ass stupid. NO way is it better, and I'm only a few months out.
I've literally met depression, shook it's hand, taken it out on a date, and found a full time live in relationship with it. That's supposed to be funny.
I left school thinking I would get a job, start within two weeks, have a quick vacation, and start making money to pay back those hefty loans I have coming my way. UM.no. I graduated three months ago, literally in 10 days it will be three months. In three months, I have applied to over 200 jobs, signed up for an employment agency, and had TWO call backs. That's it.
Those pesky emails they tell you to send to get in contact with anybody? They don't reply. If I go in person to ask about a job what do they do? Send me to the Internet.
Which annoys me all ends. I type in this information, copy and paste my resume most the time, which means I have to reformat it. That takes a while too, but I do it because somebody else isn't and that somebody isn't going to get this job.
Well apparently neither am I.
I'm so frustrated at times I want to write back to these places and tell them what they are missing. That I am the hardest working individual they will ever meet, that I can do anything...literally anything. OK maybe not anything, but still, I would try.
I look at my graduation picture above and think "Silly girl.". It's depressing to think I'm fighting for jobs I'm over qualified for. I mean seriously? What's wrong with over qualification? I would do the job, keep my head down, and work my ass off no matter what.
Oh well. I have to believe though that soon, some day soon, I'll get that phone call, and I'll start my career. Hope at the moment, is all I have. It's better than nothing.