Today, I am jobless after graduation. Ironic, since when I started college with my education degree, I was congratulated, told of the teacher shortage in my state, and how quickly I would be able to find a job. Three years in, the economy tanks, and the state issues a teacher hiring freeze. 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, I'm in a US college. I could've gone into a trade or internship, but no one listened. Now, while my parents brag to their friends that their child has a degree, I'll probably be spending the rest of life in crippling debt, sleeping on the side of the road, and begging strangers for table scraps. 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, 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 was fired from my job. They fired me because they couldn't work around my college schedule. The only reason they hired me was because they were looking for college students and without a job I can't go back to school. FML
Today, as it has done in the last couple of years, my dream job has only been accepting applications from students continuing their degree in the fall. Literally, people with half degrees can get what I can't get with a full degree and experience. FML
Today, I found out that the money I spent on a very specific degree was wasted, because apparently, I don't qualify for a job at the place that told me I had to have that degree. 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, my sister started a full-time job with a good pay despite having no prior work experience and being a college freshman. Meanwhile, I've graduated with two degrees, have been working two jobs for the last five years, and still can't get a full-time position anywhere. 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, 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
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Scourge87 0
That sucks OP. But yeah, its just the american way to start cutting down expenses on education as soon as possible. (Not trying to be anti-american or anything, its just that my mother and several of her friends had to leave the US to find a job as a teacher for basically this same reason. It wont be the last time that'll happen).
boarder700 0
If the unions were willing to work with the states these things wouldn't be so severe. Cuts need to be made sometimes. The unions refuse cuts so things like hiring freezes are the only things states can do. They can't just print money like the Fed. You should start harassing the local teachers union. Unions suck - especially civil servant unions
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Comments (108)
Kockdiesel 0
I'm hiring, wanna join the Air Force?!?!
g3rusz 6
Doesn't pretty much every new graduate have the same problem? Stop complaining and find some menial job to sustain yourself till the end of the crisis!
Peroxide 3
Can you teach me how to love? My robotic heart cannot create this thing you humans call love. DESTROY! DESTROY!
Jimboom 12
Calm down dear. Caprica's only a tv show! Don't take it so seriously.
Hiropon 0
Wait, hiring freeze? Could someone please explain this to me? I'm an idiot. :0
g3rusz 6
Hiring freeze=not hiring anyone 'till it's over. In a nutshell.
jinxthejinx 0
how is that irony?
_whatever_77 0
That's what you get for voting for Obama....
fmlstatushater 0
um this crisis started towards the end of Bush's reign from his great leadership and the Republican policies.
Cristaderzi 0
Obvious racist troll is obvious!!
dudeitsdanny 10
How is that racist? Its ignorant, but not voting for Obama isnt racist. Do you know who the Green Party's candidate was? Voting for Obama for being black is also racism, btw
idkweird 0
dudeitsdanny: Well said. Thank you.
perdix 31
One word: Texas We have billboards on the freeway in Houston groveling for teachers. Come to the state where BBQ means brisket and leave that ketchup/no-ketchup feud behind
wordgirl 0
Mmmmmm: brisket. :p
txgirl09 5
Join the club. I'm looking into going back to school even though I swore i'd rather slit my wrists before going back just to duck out of this economy for a while.
mollymaykitty 0
Ouch. My sister-in-law had the same problem. She's finally found a job after months of looking.
paddyirishman85 0
Thats not ironic