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...ucks! I can't stand it. A total rant here, but I feel totally lost like I'm never going to find a full time job and that there is nothing out there.

I'm so fed up that I am even considering just getting certified to teach high school biology/earth sciences because I know they NEED science teachers. However, teaching is something that I never thought I would want to do so I'm still not postitive that I want to do that! I also am tossing around the idea of going to grad school but I feel like if I do that, spend even more money on my already expensive education (I know we all have college bills but genius over here had to pick an expensive private school) that I'm just going to be in the same postition I am in now, only with at least a master's degree. That's also another reason why teaching is starting to become more appealing since I feel like it's more of a sure thing.

Ugh I'm so frustrated! Any other brides out there also feeling the semi-newly post grad pressure of getting a 'real' job without having much luck?!

haha I totally hear you on the two degree thing...I also have two and no they don't care. Which is silly because when your in college professors love to tell you "oh you'll have no trouble getting a job with your two degrees". Haha I laugh now!

I also want a real job to take some of the pressure of FH and to help out more with everything and not feel so bogged down with loans - my parents helped where they could, thankfully, but I still have a heavy sum left for me to pay.

I too didn't think I could do nursing. I am terrified of needles!! But I had a diabetic dog (and although that is not the same thing as a human) I got used to giving her her insulin injections so maybe needles wouldn't be so bad (as long as they stay away from me)?

The job market is so tough right now that they can be choosy and want the ideal candidate with such and such years of experiecne (which I'm still confused on how you can get if no one is willing to give you a chance?) and X GPA. Sigh

It's just terrible.

@cobalt: I'm sorry to hear your company closed and your in such a tough spot! I'm glad you FI is helping to support but I understan your frustration.

@surkim: I am laughing like crazy right now because I too get side tracted on wedding bee. I look for a job and then log onto wedding bee forever and try to look for a job again. I'm just addicted to this site! I wish it was called JOB BEE!!! and was just as addictive :)

@corgi: I acutally had an interview with a company (happened suddenly like you said), had the job, was super excited, and then they lost funding for the postition :(. I was so upset because I had felt some sort of relief, that I was finally getting a 'real job' and then it was all taken away just as suddenly as it had come. So now I'm back to the long, often feels like never ending, task of looking for a job, FUN!

@MissLoveBird: I think we are rocking the same boat here...That sounds like me to a T! And I do agree that so many people are bidding on the same jobs that those with experience, even if it is entry level, are going to have better luck.

I also fear that while we are spending X amount of years/months looking for a job that by the time the economy does pick up employeers are going to say we've been "out of our field" for too long since graduating. Ugh adding yet another frustration and factor into the what to do next category.

Well I am sending good luck to all of us!

yup. about to graduate in May, will have loans & 3 months to finish planning the wedding, and job search definitely isn't going to be on my mind & it should be :(

I wish I could have gone to job fairs and everything like everyone else close to graduation but I just had surgery on my foot and I could not exactly come rolling up to a job fair being like "hey wanna hire me? I should be good to go in about 6 months!"...now could I? I ended up getting a great temp job after graduation (which had nothing to do with my major but it's where I met FH) that paid great and got me ahead on my bills, but that couldn't last forever and I was working over 60 hours a week so it made job searching that much harder. Now I'm looking and looking and applying and not getting very many interviews and its just a lovely mess.

I was just at the eye doctor and the guy who fit my new glasses was saying how is daughter, who is a lawyer in Boston, cannot get a job. Also, he said his son went back to school and his one professor said that they (the students) should be lucky that they are in school right now because by the time they get out there 'might' be something out there for them and how his son can't even get a part time job.

I'm lucky that I do have a part time job and I know I am not the only one out there having trouble....we are all facing the same situation no matter what our background. I hope it get's better for all of us in the very near future!!!

haha I double majored in Marine Sciences and Biology and where FH and I live ight now I'm looking more in the biology field...also research!

I know that a masters or phd would greatly help in getting a research position but I am worried that if I go back I am going to be stuck inthe same position I am in now! So that's why I was thinking teaching. I also can't decide if I were to go back for a master's what I would want to study....stay with biology, do more environmental/marine, or GIS (which I loved in college and could go into fields spanning the sciences and business which might open up more windows).

I've been laid off twice in a little over a year, so I feel your pain.  Being unemployed is an emotional roller coaster - frustration, anger, embarrassment, and on and on.  Hugs to you all.

I'm having an up week on the emotional roller coaster.  I had a job interview Monday and I have a phone interview in an hour and a half.  I would love to have this job, which of course means I'm so nervous I want to throw up.  I really hope it pans out - I'll be so crushed if it doesn't.