Mad Max Fury Road: Unemployment Edition
I just graduated with a Masters’ degree a month ago, and the road from being a student to straight-up unemployed is a nightmare. Being a student means that you don’t have to worry about planning the layout of your day or knowing what you are supposed to do. There is an army of people working to make sure you are fully occupied and more, every single day. But with graduation, comes an unwanted aspect of freedom (at least for me), the freedom of being able to do, whatever you want with your time. And like any well-meaning young adult, I decided to devote my time trying to find a meaningful way to spend the rest of my days, doing a well-paying job. Let’s forget the well-paying part for a minute. The journey of trying to find a job opening, to begin with, that in itself is probably the most complicated thing I have ever done in my life. Add to that the pressure of not knowing what you are actually good at, the employable skills as some would call it. I always thought of myself as a goo...