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Have any of you ever lived in a place that you LOVED that you had to move away from for reasons beyond your control? I moved away from the only place I ever really felt at home last August, in 2009, after graduating college and not being able to find work in my field. I had lived in Manhattan for two years and Brooklyn for another two. Now I live with my parents. There's no work in my field here either, but at least I don't have to pay rent. It's just shitty, knowing exactly where you want to be and what you want to be doing, and having to put it all on hold because the economy is broken. I guess what's prompted me to post this is yet another rejected resume, and the feeling that nobody is listening to the REAL statistics on unemployment. There are still those of us who graduated college within the past couple of years who were never employed in their field to begin with, OR the underemployed, who are still working as wait staff in restaurants and as cashiers in clothing stores even with degrees from the best colleges in the nation. Somebody told me in 2008 that this would get better by the time I entered the job market in 2009, somebody told me in 2009 that it would get better by now, and I have to wonder if it will get better next year. Something tells me it won't...
I re-read some of my old posts from 2001-2004 tonight and got a little sad. Everyone who used to post here had so much hope and optimism for the things I would accomplish and do. My family did too. I can't help but feel shitty about working in retail and now, being out of work. I recognized that it might take a year after graduating to find steady employment and I really kept a cool head up until that point. Now that I'm headed into year two, something about it hurts a lot more. :(
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