Every unemployed individual knows the feeling of waking up to a fresh cup of coffee all chipper and ready for the day. Then you realize, what are you getting ready for? You look at the clock it's 6:02 a.m., you have 45 minutes till you normally have to be on your way to work. The feeling you used to have of dreading that hour long commute on the compacted piece of cement.
You turn on that morning news to check the traffic and the pitiful weather conditions that lurk ahead. To realize your doing this all for nothing. The last 2 years you spent doing the same routine has now ended and you wake up to the excitement of visiting with your friends Craigslist, CareerBuilder, and Indeed. All to which have no clue on which really is the more resourceful.
The unemployment rate has sky rocketed to 10% in your state, your job forecast is very gloomy, the jobs that are on the market are totally not in your field, but you apply anyways to make it so you don't get audited by the Labor of Commerce. So why do Americans do all this for nothing? Because of society has convinced us that no longer can we walk into a store and take an application, talk to the hiring manager, and hope to hear from them. No we ponder around on the internet searching for that right job and then apply to automated computer system all to be sent that lovely thank you message for applying.
A week goes by and that lovely message appears "Thank you for your interest, but we have found other candidates that closely match our opportunity better." We love getting this message in our email, it makes our day that much better. We continue to do this over and over again hoping that one day that message turns into a phone call or even an email saying please be here at a certain time.
Instead of the long commute, we have traded it in for the long waiting game of baseball, where you have all your bases loaded and you can't seem to hit that final run in to get that job you want. Amazingly, enough we do this everyday. America the land of opportunity, has come the land of monotonous.
