Today, it's the third anniversary of when I started looking for a new job. I'm still working at the job that made me want to get a new one and I haven't even had an interview for another one in almost two years. My Master's degree on the wall is looking more and more like a roll of toilet paper. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, it's been two years since I graduated with my master's. It's also been the same amount of time since I've been looking for a job. I got an e-mail yesterday from a company for a telephone interview which I was happy about. The day of the interview, my phone is disconnected. FML
Today, I went on my 56th job interview since graduating from college 3 months ago. I am 31 years old and I spent 11 years in college. I only graduated with a Bachelor's Degree after all those years, but I am still not qualified for anything due to how long it took me to complete my degree. FML
Today, I've applied to 300 jobs in the past 4 months, gotten 7 interview, 2 of which have gone to a third round and I'm still unemployed. FML
Today, it's been exactly 2 years since I graduated college. I make less money in my full-time job now than I did working part-time in college. FML
Today, at work, my colleague started to look for a new job. For me. FML
Today, I had my first job interview since graduating from university. The person who interviewed me informed me that not using my degree after two years practically makes it null and void. I guess instead of being a financial advisor at the company, I could always be a janitor there. FML
Today, I got my first job after having spent months looking, and graduating college in the meantime. I got it based on my pre-college qualifications. FML
Today, the job search agency that I use asked me to stop sending in my resume, as no one had hired me in three years, and that the situation was unlikely to change. FML
Today, after several long years, a lot of debt, and two great degrees from a top university, I had to move back in with my parents, because no matter where I look, I can't find a job. FML
Today, marks the 8-month anniversary of receiving my Masters degree. It also marks 8 months of depression and unemployment because the dream job in my field I was promised before graduation was rescinded due to COVID-19. FML
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cmotdibbler 4
In what field and where did you do your MS?
MrMaD_fml 2
revel in the fact that you gave even have a job, others aren't so lucky. (not me of course, I got a career, lol)
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Roll_with_it 0
Wow, be grateful you have a job? I'm sorry but what a crock of s**t that is. People shouldn't consider themselves lucky, most of us work hard in there jobs & thereby aren't in need of luck to keep it or even have it. Also people who immediately believe that a degree helps find better jobs are, to be quite frank, fools. I know that my company have a school leavers policy so that we can train people in the skills they need to actually do the job, we have one twat with a degree in economics & he still belives he is better than the others at his job. Yet his accounts are all doing quite badly & he has the personality of a turd.
talaina 2
It depends on the type of job you are applying for. Some types of jobs do require you to have an associates or even a bachelors degree. In fact, I've recently started looking for my first "real" job. You wouldn't believe how many positions I can't even apply for because I don't have a masters degree yet. If the OP is in a field like that, I can completely understand why NOT finding a job with a masters gets a "WTF?" reaction. Not to mention, most people I know who are planning to go for their masters are doing so not because they are pretentious but because somebody or several somebodies (*coughcareerplanningcentercough*) have convinced them that it is necessary to get a better job. That is the message which many professors and other staff here send to students, and frankly, many of the students don't know any better. I would guess OP may have been in a similar situation. FHL.
neeners24 0
at least you have a job
musicjenn 3
In this economy...be happy you have a job...I graduated little over a year ago and I'm STILL looking for a teaching job
whydofirefliesdi 0
all you people who just commented are a bunch of *****
exquisite 0
Right now I think you should be happy you even have a job.. or do you just not realize how bad the economy is right now?
evig_fml 16
listen just because you took a piece of toilet paper and wrote masters degree does NOT mean you have masters
jcougar12 0
At least you have a job. Im a 25 year old, four time war vet with a masters and no one will hire me because ive been to Iraq and there scared my PTSD might kick in. So I sit at home and try to live of 500 dollars a month. When you go to serve your country and have it turn your back on you for doing you job, than talk to me. Until then, be happy you have a job unlike the God forsaken people on this planet that dont.
gotdapowa 0
in soviet Russia, jobs hunt for you!
righttorule 0
Recessions are boring! That's a fact. Shut up, do your time & be grateful you have a job. This is not an FML. It's just whining over nothing. It's not even funny.
Intellectualist 0
^this
rramirez1 0
oh boohooo!! there are so many people in the same or worse position as u.. I have a double major and a masters and I'm selling cemetery plots..
righttorule 0
Now that's funny! :D