So today I decided to take some G.Damn. initiative and begin job searching. You know, because getting paid on Thrusday and having $4 left on Friday is really not cutting it for me anymore. And people wonder why I don't go out. How the eff am I supposed to pay for fun? With my looks? I'm not that hot. I chose to have expensive things and my social life, small as it was, suffers. Also in about 8 months my student loan debt will begin following me around like some kind of life ruiner. Therefore, I can no longer survive on $100 a week. It's cruel.
You guys, it's gotten so bad that I'm considering going back to the old school flip phone with no internet access. Do you know how that makes me feel? Frightened. I don't know what we all did before technology was at our fingertips. I will probably cry for the first couple of weeks everytime I go to check my email and remember that my phone is so obsolete it's like "what's 3G?" I might as well just get the Jitterbug.
Anyway, the job search. I used this website called indeed.com to search the NEPA area for jobs in the category of Arts/Entertainment. And I guess the only companies that are hiring are healthcare and hotels. Touche, hospitality industry. You are a real job now.
I think I got cocky for a while there. You go to college and immediately feel like you're better than everyone else. It's something that is perpetuated in our society. People with higher educations are better than those without. And it's wrong. There are plenty of people who live fine lives without the benefit of a piece of paper that says you blew $100,000 dollars on four years of parties and bullshit research papers. When the eff am I ever going to need to write a research paper again? Never. Because I refuse.
As college students we throw around phrases like "when I get my real job..." as if our current part time customer service job isn't real. Well, guess what? For some people it is. And for the foreseeable future, it's probably your only job. Reality check. Life hurts. Minimum wage hurts. If you don't have a Masters Degree+ you're just as useless as everyone you think you're better than. Courtesy of the Great Recession.
I always had a bad feeling about my major. As did everyone else who didn't understand what I was "going to do with it" and never hesitated to demand an answer. I don't hate Communication Studies. I love mostly everything I've learned in my classes. I enjoy being able to discuss TV shows with people who actually gave a shit about what I was saying. And I was pretty damn good at just about everything. (i.e. Honors Society Invitee, Bitches. And once I scrap up $40 I'll change that to Inductee) But once you realize the likelihood of working at a major TV studio is "unrealistic," thanks mostly to the people that have told you that exact thing your entire life, you kind of start to wonder if you should have picked something more practical. Like a nurse. Or a teacher, like my mother always wanted.
I began by looking at the local TV studios websites and aside from not being qualified to apply for any of the available jobs, because I was never interested in PR, I realized that I really don't want to work for a local news station. It's depressing. I would spend 8 hours a day looking at video of houses on fire or listening to the angry geriatrics call and complain about how Tom Clark incorrectly predicted the weather. So no, thank you.
I did find two jobs at the same company that sounded like my cup o tea. Quality Control and/or Video Operator. Sitting in a room watching/editing video all day? Yes, please.
Otherwise, I guess I'll be trying to clock more hours at my current real job. Barista extraordinaire.
P.S. - Please watch my new, mildly offensive video about the Sacred Heart if you haven't already. Sorry and Thanks.
Oh, you are so true. Let me first say. I do not and never have had internet on my phone and I get through the days just fine, you can to ;). On the job issue unfortunately it is very difficult to find a job doing anything! Especially in your field you know what you have to do, MOVE!! Preferably some where warm so I can come on vacation! You will figure it out, you just may need to make some sacrifices until you get where you need to be.
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