The Joys of Unemployment

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.