Finding a Job Is a Full-Time Job

You write, rewrite, and re-rewrite the same email over and over again. You organize your résumé incessantly, each time to more perfectly fit the job description craigslist says is available (even though it's actually already been filled). You lose a couple hours off your nightly repose, or you lie in sweaty, sun-stained sheets to avoid the world informing you you're not worthy of entering the MTV reality show that's standing outside your bedroom door.

And all this for jobs you don't even want.

Even better, most of these jobs you can't get, you can't even afford. "Salary competetive" the lisitings say--maybe for a middle school student, but for a debt-laden college grad, 20K means an existence that mirrors Oregon Trail's "bare bones" status.

The positive: we're young enough to handle two jobs, so 30K might be reachable!

The negative: we're young enough to handle two jobs, so 30K might be reachable!

There's most definitely a light at the end of the tunnel, of this I'm sure. But seeing as I'm near-sighted, my vision won't allow me to see it without my misplaced spectacles. The real question is, "How long can you wander in the dark without deciding to take a nap on the cracked concrete below your feet?"

Ah, youth, hate while you have it, love it when it's gone, and spend your entire life bemoaning either fact.