give me some cheese, i'm about to whine

usually i take at least a little time to write a post, but this time you're going to get it straight as it comes. i've talked about it before and this probably won't be the last time i do: job search. <---- hate you.

although i sometimes find fun things to do with my unemployed time, believe it or not, i spend a pretty good amount of time browsing the web for employment. checking out good ol' monster, maybe careerbuilder, i don't know what else, there are tons of them. here's the problem-- what's legit? after having some interviews this spring, i realized i really need to better investigate what i'm getting into. look for some key words, find some things to stay away from-- but how are you supposed to know when you are interviewing for a "junior account executive position" you are actually applying to stand around and hand out flyers? hello, not what i signed up for-- i didn't even need to go to college for that, if i wanted to do that i would have skipped high school got my "high school equivilant", as they call it, and hung out and passed out flyers for the rest of my life. i understand that there is some, for lack of better word, bitch work in the beginning of every job, i have no qualms with that.. but i'm not trying to do that for the rest of my life. so save those jobs for the people without educations and stop promoting them to the people with them. thank you for wasting my sweet sweet time.

and anoooother thing, job sites-- let's talk about signing up for you. sure i'll sign up, i'll just give you my name, e-mail, phone number, address and give me a job-- sweet deal, i'm down. na na na na noooo. 1) somehow i start getting spam text messages as soon as i sign up for another site. click ok, instantly my phone beeps. that's interesting, not only an e-mail confirmation but a spam text from some east coast area code too?  i get all sorts of pumped when i get texts these days, then it's a huge let down... i don't need anymore let downs, i'm already unemployed--jerks. 2) these e-mails i get (yes on occasion they are mildly helpful), i get them like 5 times a day. i never said that i want to work in the area i live in...both places i've been living i would like to move away from, so when you send me jobs in gary, indiana and detroit, trust me, i'm not feelin' it.

next up-- i am a person with decent grades, great experience, solid awards/honors and so on. hi, why am i extremely overqualified or extremely under-qualified for everything... where is the in between?? i can either get an internship (i've had four internships already--what were those for then??) or i can get some kind of job that i am over qualified, resulting in a dead end-- solid options? i think not. i am just so puzzled. what is even more puzzling, now that i have finally found a way around the sketchy jobs (handing out flyers like a child) i'll be hanging, browsing, doing my thing and i'll take my sweet time to find something legit, before i try to actually go through the tedious application process... oh, hi jennifer-- you have to pay for this site and you have to pay to see the rest of this job description and application. what. the. hell.

so i say goodnight to you after searching for jobs for a few hours, still under employed and totally underwhelmed and under-loved by the working world.