Day 2

So I couldn't decide if I should number the days by how many actual days since I started or by the day number by which I have actually done something productive. I am going with days actually doing something job related since it will be easier to keep track.

After my last attempt to look for a job, I took a little break and focused on working at my current part time job. Getting 5 to 8 hours a week at Anthropologie is helping with gas money until a real offer comes along, but this past weekend it was taking up a bit more time than I would of liked. I had planned a weekend trip to St. Simon's with some friends after thinking that my only shift was Saturday. I figured a 4 hour shift wouldn't be too hard to pawn off on someone so I was excited to leave my house for a few days and forget about the looming idea of a job. Of course when Tuesday came around I stopped by to look up my hours for the upcoming week and low and behold I was schedule not just Saturday, but also Sunday and Monday. This put a huge dent in my MLK weekend plans and I ended up having to stay in town and forgo the trip out of Atlanta. I ended up salvaging a little bit of the weekend by making a trip up to Clemson Friday night to visit some of my college friends and tourture myself by reminding myself that I am out of college. It was fun to be back but staying for a night was enough and I don't miss classes or homework at all. I'll just have to keep up the weekend trips up there to help remind myself that I could still be in college.

As far as the actual job hunt is going--ehhh not off to a great start. I'm not even looking for a super great job at this point. I figure I have no idea what I want to do anyways so if I get into something and realize it isn't the job for me I can always change. No need to limit myself since I'm not sure what I'm 100% interested in anyways. All I know after my numerous areas of previous job experience is that I like office work. So I guess I can start at that. I've look at a few administrative jobs but I feel like I could do better than getting someones coffee and making copies after graduating college. I've also looked at the HR route since I had seen how that worked this summer. There are still more options than that in an office and I have come across and sent my resume into some that sound interesting. Hopefully I can get a few more leads tomorrow and submit some more resumes. I'm hoping that I can meet people who know people in a business hiring but so far all my people aren't looking to hire anyone. So it looks like more internet research is to come. If anyone knows of any office positions let me know!

Day 1

To start off, here's the situation:

• Graduated a semester early from Clemson University on December 17, 2009.
• Got my Bachelor of Science in Political Science with a concentration in global politics and a minor in Sociology.
  
• Picked the wrong time to graduate due to the economy and lack of jobs out there
• Moved back home with my parents while trying to find a job in my hometown of Atlanta

So this is my new life--college graduate living at home with the parents. 4 years ago I would of thought that my life couldn't get any lower. I had big plans of moving to DC the day I graduated and working with the Department of State eventually landing the perfect job as ambassador to some cool country. But as in most cases of life, things changed and my goals are a little bit less clear now that I have received that diploma. So here I am, back at square one of the ever present question "what do I want to do with my life"? After being asked this question for the past few months when telling people of my graduation, I really just want to walk away as soon as I hear it. How am I supposed to know at 21 what I want to do with my life? Or what kind of job I am looking for? A cool one? All the jobs I can imagine myself loving are the ones that take a one-in-a-million chance of getting--like to be Samantha Brown on the travel channel or the CEO of Coca-Cola. I have realized that these jobs are less than likely and therefore I need to come up with some more reasonable options. Looking at sites, I see so many different jobs that could interest me that its hard to say that there is only one thing I would like to do. To those people that ask what I am going to do--I have no idea. I will end up applying to a lot of different types of jobs and hopefully one of them will want me.

Since this entry is called day one, today is the first day of my job search. I have just finished up my resume and after some review from my parents and other close adults I am ready to face the job market. So real world--here I come!