Where do I go from here?

[SHOOQUEEN]

You know how when you graduated you thought employers would be wearing your phone out trying to hire you...and remember how you felt when that DIDNT happen?? College soo did not prepare me for the real world. In college life is a piece of cake..(although I didnt think so at the time)...you can go to class or not. You can party or not and then you get a mandatory vacation every March or April called Spring Break! But once you get out and you finally find a job you HAVE to go to work and there is no Spring Break and you are lucky if you get a 15 minute break. I dont know about anyone else out there but I have a decent job and I make pretty good money but with rent, student loans, car payment, and credit cards...how the hell am I suppose to eat? It just doesnt seem fair..there is this girl that works at my company that didnt go to college and has probably never stepped foot on a campus..and she started working here out of high school and she is making more than me! Did I totally miss something? Sometimes I wonder why I even went to college...Does anyone else ever feel that way? And all the dreams I had about how GREAT I was going to be....well, there are in the same toilet as my savings account.

[lonelypghgrrl]

OMG! I know exactly where ur coming from! I lucked into my job...its all in who u know, baby. Anyway, I make good money, good benefits, but can't afford anything. Student loans, car payments, rent, utilities, it all breaks me. And totally depresses me. I turned down a job in the field that I know I'd love to take one with more money. Less satisfaction. Its not challenging and I dont like being a desk jockey. What's more, is my bf works 2-10 including weekends and I never see him either. 2 hours a nite...and we live together. I dont know what to do. There aren't any jobs here for geologists so I have to stay at this one.

My credit is ruined....I have no money to have fun. God I wish I was back in college. And ive only been done less than a year.
Help!!!!

[malaynab]

I know exactly what you mean about not seeing your boyfriend and still not having money to do anything when you do see each other. My fiance and I have been living together for 4 years. I work 8-5, he works 4-10. The days that he doesn't work, I work another job until 9. We've got debt past our eyeballs too. It's no wonder divorce rates are so high. Both of us are unhappy with the situation, but can't find a way to make more money. I had to take the job I was offered, because it was the only one offered. He's in the same position. I don't think college degrees mean much anymore.

[lonelypghgrrl]

:(
Plus I dont have any friends here. We just moved here. I sit alone all nite and all weekend. Bored out of my skull. All I can ever think about is what bills I can pay or how much debt I'm in. It eats away at me constantly. Wakes me up at nite.

Now its a PhD or nothing. But then ur overqualified. Whats going on? I shoulda been a plumber or something!


wanna talk?
email me at:
joshsgrrl@hotmail.com

[malaynab]

I'm right there with ya . . .

My office is full of married people who spend all their free time with the kids. I have no friends. (I sound pathetic :)

Even if I had friends, they'd have to be the kind that will do cheap things like cook with you or walk trails or do something other than shop and go to movies. (because of the whole $0 thing)

All my friends are 617 miles away. I just haven't been able to make any here.

I've noticed that people with less education/experience make more $ than I do. What's up with that? I went through undergrad and grad school and still don't make much. At this rate, my life insurance will be paying off my student loans! Now, I wish I'd have gone to a training program with direct entry into the jobmarket.

I'm with you, we should've gone to welding school.



Malayna:p :p

[cpate]

You two need to seriously think about finding new jobs.

I'm in Texas PGHgirl, and I know gelogists working for oil corporations make very good money down here, and the job market is pretty good in that field despite the economy.

Also, the cost of living is low. I'm in a large city living downtown in a new apartment (1 bedroom), and me rent is $700. It seems to me like everything is cheaper in the South, at least from the posts I see on this sight.

I know it doesn't seem like it, but there are jobs out there where you get paid what you're worth, and your education means something...