As a recent college graduate, I am eager to find employment--of course in order to repay my student loans, but also because
I want to use what I've worked so hard to learn. I began my search online, spending hours upon hours trudging through many job and career finder sites. What I found:
accounting, finance, computer programming, IT pro, sales, sales, sales, accounting again, more accounting, more sales, and on and on...abundant opportunities, but only for certain groups of people. Not for a translator. Not for an editor. Not for a writer. In other words, not for me.
Later that day...a fast food restaurant employee hands me a drink in a split cup at the drive-through window (while talking on a cell phone to a friend) and the sticky drink spills all over me and all over my borrowed car. I have to pull over and go inside, where the employee first tries to ignore me while talking on that stupid cell phone, and then acts like I am just a complainer. Didn't apologize or anything. The kicker--this is a place that did not hire me when I applied for a job while I was in college.
I just wonder what will
happen as a result of the employment world shutting out all the creative people. And what is going to happen when it runs out of the all-powerful EXPERIENCED WORKER category and it is forced to actually take a look at those of us who graduated with a 4.0 GPA and who always, always get the job done on time no matter what, and who understand how to communicate effectively, and who CARE. I think the world will be a much better place, and hopefully, there will be opportunities for people with heart, soul, and a true work ethic.