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Well… I got another rejection letter from the place I went in for the second interview last week. 

Guess I’ll be scratching that one of my list as well.  In fact, I think it’s time to just throw away the whole list.  All of these jobs I’ve applied to over a month or more ago.  If they haven’t contacted me by now well I don’t think they’re going to ever.

So lets call that round one.  I put up plenty of good swings but at the bell I’m hurting bad.  I guess this is the point that the coach would tell me I need to hunger for the win.  To go out there and want it bad enough I can see it.  They’re slapping on a bandage and giving me a squirt of water.

So here’s the bell and the start of round two.  I see the win.  I see the knockout blow.  I see it alright!

Now all I have to do is make it a reality.  Problem is I’m not a boxer, I’m a guy with a Computer Science degree and there’s apparently no where to use it.

Seriously, could someone explain to me what the fuck happen?  All I heard through junior high and high school was how computers were the future.  How in the next century there were going to be millions of jobs in the computer fields.  I saw the crazy dot com days back in college.  Where students were hired right out of college with huge deals.  Cars, stock options, bags full of cash!

Then something happened.  The economy turned to shit.  The computer industry went from phenomenal growth to agonizing loss.  This had to just happen just when I finished my education and I’m trying to enter the job market… err… I take that back.  It’s no market!  It’s a slaughter house.  I feel like a damn cow in the line slowly making my up the shoot just waiting for my turn to die.

This is not how it’s supposed to be.  I shouldn’t hate the idea of work when I’m just starting my professional career.  I should be excited about finding a job and getting to go to work.  I shouldn’t get up every morning and immediately be depressed as I realize I still don’t have a job and won’t for a while.

What the hell am I suppose to do?  I’m serious!  If anyone has the answer then for crying out loud just tell me!