Alright, I know there's an economic downturn and umemployment is rising but you never really think it's going to affect you, do you? Why is finding a job harder than finding the Holy Grail?
One moment you're content with who you are and your place in the world and the next you realise the truth- you have no talent for anything, the education you have is well below standard and people would rather hire Jack the Ripper than give you an interview. You scour the job sites and newspaper trying to find something, anything you can do without developing the urge to throw yourself out a window by the second hour and you follow one link... to another... to another until three hours later you realise that you're playing online poker and you haven't even applied to a solitary job. Not that anyone would look twice at the cv you paid £20 to write on one of those "free" cv sites that catch you out at the very end when you're too tired to put up a fight. Or bother reading the cover letter that makes you sound like an over-eager moron, that you deliberated for hours over including the word "enthusiastic" in. And if the jobsite staff really screw up and leave a job on that you think you could actually enjoy- that wasn't posted six years ago- and doesn't require a twelve-year degree and actually pays enough not to force you into a second job begging on the side of the road *by this point you're dancing around the room in uncontainable glee*, just as you click the big red apply button, a pop-up appears demanding £34 for a three month membership to the site. Talented, motivated, intelligent people are sitting at home without a job, twiddling their thumbs and developing drinking problems , why? Perhaps it's because people expect you to have a diploma and three years experience to wash a car for minimum wage. I can't give you an answer. All I can do is wish all jobseekers the best of luck because experience tells me you're going to need it
