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2012
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EmailBefore things started to pick up, it was suggested to me that I work at a juvenile detention center as a detention officer. Here I was a recent college graduate with dreams of becoming a successful writer being told that I need to get over myself and go babysit some yuckmouth, trifling kids on their way to spending several years in an adult prison.
My response didn’t come in words; I just had a blank stare on my face, and pretended to channel my inner Helen Keller.
As job opportunities continue to dwindle, many with and without a degree have found themselves considering positions they never imagined themselves in -- or not.
One frustrated job hunter shares his story:
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“I'm also concerned about college loans, but what about all of the students nationwide that have been unable to gain employment after graduation? I am one of those people.
Why are we in this situation? I am a US Navy veteran and I still cannot find a job worth talking about.
A job paying only $10 an hour will not cover my student loan payments. With offers like that sometimes I feel like I'd actually lose more money working than I would not working.
I'm applying to FSU for graduate school in an accelerated 1 year graduate program. I am hoping and praying that everything clears up and all of this money that I have spent will mean something. I always argue with people telling me things like, “you should take any job that you can get now.” But should I really at the cost of being even more broke than I am now?
Why did I go to college and pay all of this money when I could have just stayed at home and worked 3 jobs such without losing money in our flawed and massively expensive post-secondary education system?
I don't think anyone is really taking in the magnitude of what is really going on here. If I had some money enough to make it to Vegas and gamble off my college debt, then I think I would take that option as well.
Such a sad situation for everyone living in these times and it appears that it won’t be ending anytime soon.”
Calvin
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I’ve actually read about grads heading to Vegas to gamble with the hopes of winning big to pay off the big loan [28]. And more and more stories about veterans returning home from war losing the fight for post-war work [29] are surfacing.
I didn’t end up monitoring teenagers charged with aggravated assault and attempted murder, but I’m sure I would make more money doing that than my backup plan of stanky legging [30] in the street for spare change.
For those who refuse to deter from their ideal career path, are they being impractical?
Are you already working a job (or second job) that you didn’t imagine yourself doing?
Email me at therecessiondiaries@gmail.com [31].
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