The economy is bumming me out, man

I grew up in the nineties. The economy was robust, life was good and pogs were fun. Like most young people growing up in a country with a thriving economy, I didn't spend one second thinking about what life would be like when I got out into the working world. Why? Because the working world was a certain. In the nineties, people graduated from college and got jobs. There was no awkward in between period where you were looking for a job and waiting tables to make ends meet. In fact, often job growth was so strong that companies were waiting to hire you before you graduated. The last two sentences may be a gross over exaggeration, but it certainly didn't seem like the case at the time. Heck, the economy was so good that smart people told unsuspecting suckers to put money in the stock market and that there was no chance that money wouldn't grow.

As you can see, things have changed. For the longest time it felt like the poor economy was something I just read about in the newspaper, but the issue is finally hitting closer to home.

When I graduate in December, the economy will likely still be in the tank.Even if things are on the upswing, it's unlikely that enough time will have passed that we'll be back to the happy days of the nineties and early 2000s. Fooey. What does this mean for me? Well, chances are I'll be battling for very few jobs not only with my equally qualified recently graduated brethren, but also those who have been laid off from other jobs in the field. What can be done about this? For once in one of these blogs, I don't really have an answer. Let's just continue to hope that things get turned around eventually, because I would one day like to have a full time job.

Sorry to bum everybody out.