The world of an unemployed 24year old-#UgBloggers7Days

I felt like a throw back article today! So I went to archives and retrieved this from two years ago! This is proof time does fly by. ENJOY YOUR FRIDAY

Am obviously 24 not growing any younger, am confused, very much unfocused, without direction and worst of all without drive to attempt to do anything to get me out of my unemployed state. I know you are thinking this girl is really unserious and to be honest I would not blame you because I too think the same thing. Every few weeks I sit down write this awesome plan and am excited about getting work on this plan done then I never follow it through because am scared of failing.

 You know when you have applied to numerous places and gotten no calls backs, you return and edit your CV and re-apply and still nothing happens. So, am just here wallowing in self pity because things are not working out.

When i was younger  I wanted to be everything that seemed or sounded cool, at about 5yrs I wanted to be a nun because  the nuns I lived with were very good and made being a nun seem like the best thing. They were disciplined, clean and most of all very dedicated to their calling. Then came the phase of me wanting to be a lecturer, my dad was a lecturer and you know how young girls adore their fathers so i wasn’t any different I also wanted to be like my daddy.

Then the title cardiologist sounded so good and like every child I wanted to be a hero and in being a cardiologist I would be a heart hero that was until biology and chemistry became pretty difficult in my form three. The list of careers I wanted to attempt is endless but my point is at 24 my head is still reeling with dreams of  a 10yr old still trying to attempt to do anything but only this time am trying my hand at anything that will get me an income.

Ten years ago my idea of life was quite simple. Go to school, get good grades and get a good job. Of course then I had not thought of things like unemployment rates, job scarcity ,population growth self presentation, and the facts like if it’s not engineering, medicine ,accounting and law then all of you are basically applying for the same  jobs.

 Because whether you have done logistics, international business, linguistics or economics or the endless list of courses, you are all applying for the jobs and the universities send out thousands of graduates to pile upon the thousands of unemployed graduates to compete for the few jobs available.

Am at that stage in my life where am beginning to feel left out. Most of my peers have a job or at least have something to aspire for. I on the other hand am like a floating polythene bag. I have no job and am slowly getting frustrated with applying and getting nowhere and when you meet your peers and they are talking about their jobs you feel like crap because when you are not job hunting you are either running away from relatives who are asking you why you are not yet employed or stuck watching a lousy movie with the theme of success to remind you not to give up just yet , better yet you are waiting by your phone waiting for the phone call that is going to change your life.

Well i hope that phone call does come soon, and when it comes I hope by then you are not confused as I am right now and I hope you haven’t given up looking for that job, if it hasn’t come yet consider doing short courses that could get you ahead of the pack. As for me, I will try to take my own advice and hopefully the job I want so badly is not as far away as think.