Statistic: Age group 16-24 19% Unemployment
Erica's Age = 24
Erica = Unemployed
Haven't had to punch a clock since 30 December 2009. And no, I'm not bragging. I send my resume out to at least 50 companies per day, average about 10 fill in the blank apps per day, and usually get frustrated about the lack of employment around 20,000,000 times. Nah, only about once a day.
Who do I blame for this crisis of unemployment? Do I blame the consumer for not spending money? The business for cutting back on employees? The government?
It seems that everyone is blaming someone. Mostly I hear the government getting blamed and how they need to do more. Well I don't know if I believe that or not. I look at it this way, nobody saw this coming. Well maybe someone but I'm not going to blame them. I'm not going to blame anyone. The American lifestyle of living a champagne lifestyle on a beer budget is catching up to us. Most citizens of this country live outside of their means carrying a heavy debt and crippling the economy. This was bound to catch up with us sooner or later.
Wait, I change my mind. I'm blaming debtors. I am blaming the people who lived a lavish lifestyle and who accrued large amounts of debt. Greed has finally caught up with us and it's biting us in the butt. Granted the banking and lending industry are ultimately the perpetrators but in all reality the choice to take out loans is the consumers fault.
I'll admit it. I have a credit card that is almost maxed out because I am living a lifestyle that I should not have lived. I didn't budget myself in Europe and that's where all my debt occurred. It also doesn't help that I am unemployed and have had to put a car repair and new tire on there that way I can drive to interviews trying to land the job. Oh, I also have student loans amounting to $10,000 bucks. But I'm okay with that. My college years were spent working long hours for minimum wage but I am proud that I went to college for 5.5 years aka 9 semesters and only accrued that much in loans. But yet I have not helped the economy and I'm still not but being umemployed.
Here is my plea: Please America! Please give me a job that way I can right myself financially and I can be debt free. I can only hope that others will feel the same way about living a debt free life as I do.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Monday, February 1, 2010
Czech it out.... (hahaha)
I started a new blog entitled the Midwest Beer Fairy that will talk about my beer experiences and my thoughts on the brews that will encounter my taste buds so Czech it out!
Catch Up on my LIFE
So here's the scoop:
Hated working at my call center job. I am not cut out for 1. Being behind a desk for 8 hours, 2. Wearing a headset, or 3. Forced to give a complainer my complete and undivided attention. THe job essentially depressed me and I was unable to have any semblance of a social life. And also being constantly woken up by phone calls did not make Erica a happy girl. I decided that since I had $$$ saved and that I was soon going to crack, that I needed to put my two weeks in ASAP! So on Dec 30 I was again unemployed in this crappy job market.
Long story short, I have applied to over 150 jobs by either applications or by submitting resumes by the end of January. No bites except this one (drumroll please mistro).... Teaching English in South Korea!!!
Now before you think I've fallen and have had major brain damage, know that it is a relatively safe country (do you really think N. Korea would really nuke their neighbors? They would also die from the radiation) and that the $$$ for teachers is really good. The only basic qualifications to apply are to have your Bachelors, a citizen from an English speaking country, and be able to pass a background check. So of course I applied. My wanderlust has not been satisfied yet and I admit, I am ready to leave the US again.
I applied to work at Chang Dam, a private English school in S. Korea and have been accepted. Today I will receive and email hopefully containing a contract that would tell me how much they are willing to pay, when I can leave, and where I would go. The contract would be for one year teaching year round. Idk what ages I would teach but I really would like to teach elementary school children.
Not to worry though. I'm still applying for jobs here since I need to be able to pay the student loans back and my beer money. I also discovered a few jobs in Praha that I can apply for so I will still continue trying to plan my return to E.E. (Eastern Europe). Grad school is put on hold for a few weeks while I contemplate my immediate future. I would really like to pay my undergrad loans off before I incur any new ones. My present student loans are <$10,000 at this moment and I pay the loan sharks every month. My goal with Korea is to pay them off that way I could go and get my Masters eventually.
Today could be the defining day for me. I could get an amazing offer to live in an incredibly foreign land will I will easily tower over the populous and be able to learn new skills. Oh, and lose an incredible amount of weight by eating rice and fermented spicy cabbage everyday. Let's hope that this first day of February is a lucky day!
Hated working at my call center job. I am not cut out for 1. Being behind a desk for 8 hours, 2. Wearing a headset, or 3. Forced to give a complainer my complete and undivided attention. THe job essentially depressed me and I was unable to have any semblance of a social life. And also being constantly woken up by phone calls did not make Erica a happy girl. I decided that since I had $$$ saved and that I was soon going to crack, that I needed to put my two weeks in ASAP! So on Dec 30 I was again unemployed in this crappy job market.
Long story short, I have applied to over 150 jobs by either applications or by submitting resumes by the end of January. No bites except this one (drumroll please mistro).... Teaching English in South Korea!!!
Now before you think I've fallen and have had major brain damage, know that it is a relatively safe country (do you really think N. Korea would really nuke their neighbors? They would also die from the radiation) and that the $$$ for teachers is really good. The only basic qualifications to apply are to have your Bachelors, a citizen from an English speaking country, and be able to pass a background check. So of course I applied. My wanderlust has not been satisfied yet and I admit, I am ready to leave the US again.
I applied to work at Chang Dam, a private English school in S. Korea and have been accepted. Today I will receive and email hopefully containing a contract that would tell me how much they are willing to pay, when I can leave, and where I would go. The contract would be for one year teaching year round. Idk what ages I would teach but I really would like to teach elementary school children.
Not to worry though. I'm still applying for jobs here since I need to be able to pay the student loans back and my beer money. I also discovered a few jobs in Praha that I can apply for so I will still continue trying to plan my return to E.E. (Eastern Europe). Grad school is put on hold for a few weeks while I contemplate my immediate future. I would really like to pay my undergrad loans off before I incur any new ones. My present student loans are <$10,000 at this moment and I pay the loan sharks every month. My goal with Korea is to pay them off that way I could go and get my Masters eventually.
Today could be the defining day for me. I could get an amazing offer to live in an incredibly foreign land will I will easily tower over the populous and be able to learn new skills. Oh, and lose an incredible amount of weight by eating rice and fermented spicy cabbage everyday. Let's hope that this first day of February is a lucky day!
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