how pathetic!!

[Anonymous]

Well, this is my first time posting to this wonderful site and I hope I don't ramble on. OK here's the deal. I am 24, still live at home, just graduated with a bachelor's in August, and now I cannot find a job. The town that I live in offers few opportunities. I know that I will have to look elsewhere for a job with my degree, but I can't even find a crappy job to hold me over until then. This means borrowing money from my parents. I must admit, they are very understanding, but I put a lot of pressure on myself. I am considering going back to school in a much larger city (I made the mistake of not going away to college) if my loans come through. So I guess my main gripe right now, besides living at home and being ashamed to see anyone who might ask what I'm up to is that I do not have anything in common with my friends anymore. Since I have lived here all my life, I have kept the same friends for a long time. None of them went to college and now they are either happily married, or at least have kids to occupy their time (and they can't really relate to what I'me going through). This leaves me pretty bored on the weekends.
To make things even worse, I haven't had a real boyfriend in over a year. And you thought you were a loser? Ha! My only hope is that I can go off to school in a couple of months and get out of this town while I still have some life left. Whew, that feels much better. If anyone has similar stories or words of encouragement I would love to hear from you. Thanks.

[Anonymous]

My situation is/was a little bit similar. I graduated in 1999 from a UC school and then moved back home to another town in California, also the "home" of a UC school. So I graduated from one of "their" schools and with 14 grand in student loans (the DISadvantage of going away to college)came back to work at a different, actually less well-known campus, making photo-copies and such... On the other hand, working at a university campus, even if just as a temporary is not a bad idea. It was the best "temporary agency" in town, because instead of placing me in "boring" companies, it placed me in "interesting" university departments, where I constantly felt over-qualified to be a clerk, but there was nothing else I could do, not having had enough "work" experience...
Two years later, I finally have a job which offers enough mental stimulation, even though I've been working there 4 months already (my longest job after college). But I still think it's a job "to hold me over" until another time. I do not have any friends in this town. But I don't have a choice to be living somewhere else more interesting. And my only choices were "stay home unemployed" or "go to work" with the hope of one day making enough money to pay back my parents, go to graduate school and find a better life. The thing is, this IS my life... but it's nice that so many people can identify /phpBB/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif