On any given day, I cannot dwell too long on the current employment situation, lest I am driven to either The Bottle or The Nearest Cliff To Jump From.
But what really makes me hysterical is finding out that the jobs I’ve applied for (and some that I’ve not because they’re union jobs and um, hello, like I’m going to beat out someone in a union for a $10/hr filing job) are going to people with multiple degrees. Jobs that are paying, NO LIE, $25K and they’re being filled by people with graduate degrees, and in some cases, MULTIPLE DEGREES.
I’m sorry, but what the fuck?
So I lose one job to someone’s kid who hooked up microphones at his church on Sunday mornings. Nepotism. Yeah, I get it. And in a way, it makes me feel not so much like a total pile of shit knowing that it wasn’t that I wasn’t qualified for the position.
But to lose general office assistant positions to people who have multiple fancy documents boasting grad and post-grad studies, well, I just can’t really compete with that.
A few of my friends from this area have left recently for jobs. And I’m really happy for them, because I know that there is so much more opportunity for them out in the rest of the world, aka NOT the Upper Peninsula. I suppose I could be one of those people if I really wanted to, if I had nothing here worth staying for. However, that’s not the case. And I told myself months ago that I was going to be committed to finding a way to make it work here. But every day I lose another job or go without pulling in any income, and it gets harder to have any faith.
And this abysmal winter weather? I’m so sick of being cold and looking at snow. It’s not helping my attitude one bit.
Something needs to happen, and soon. And right now, I have no idea what it’s going to be.
