Confessions of an Unemployed Bum

I admit it, I am leading the life of a bum/mooch. I graduated May 2005 (technically August but whatever I have a diploma) from a good university with an advanced degree. I stayed in DC to live out my lease and then moved home with the parentals while I searched for a job. Well, it June 9 2006 and i'm still at home and still looking for a job. Don't get me wrong my parents are pretty cool tenants and let's be honest $0 monthly rent is significantly better than the monetary rape I suffered for the two years of Foggy Bottom, DC living. But being unemployed blows big chunks. Part of the reason I decided to move back was for my friends and family and well, i don't have the funding to afford to go out with my employed friends cause they're in the fancy Boston Bar stage of life, a stage that I have never and probably will never be in. So besides Thanksgiving I haven't seen any of my friends. Shoot, I don't even get calls from them anymore, which is cool i guess, I mean how many times do people want to hear that someone can't go out? Plus it'll make it easier to leave if I get a job outside of the state.

Then there are the well meaning friends who have managed to get jobs. They don't get why its so hard, and I suppose I wouldn't either if I were them. But there isn't a single one of my friends, except maybe Kellay, who has a job that I would want and therein lies the problem. I want in on Criminal Justice, a tricky field to get into. No one wants an educated but underexperienced employee. How does one get experience if no one is willing to give it out? on top of that frustration, I can't even get a regular boring retail job. I'm too educated and too much of a flight risk for them to give me a shot.

All I know is someone better bite on the resume and at least give me a chance to interview soon cause I got three weddings, two showers and a bachelorette party that's gonna cost a minimum of more than a c-note from now til October so I either 1)need a job 2)need to rob a bank or 3) win the lottery. Personally I vote for #3 cause i got big plans for a lottery windfall, I won't forget either wash or the old homestead, and I'd get to really hold out for something I like to do.