Good Evening!

Today is July 19th and the reality has really set in. I graduated college 2 months ago and still don't have a job applying the skills I spent four years learning. All of the analysts say it is a very tough market for new graduates with many experienced employees being laid off and looking for new work. How do you explain to a prospective employer that, although you have only just graduated, you have almost 6 years working in a professional environment and dealing with some of the toughest and most critical customers out there? As I have applied to job after job and sent out email after email and attended mixer after mixer, I am beginning to realize that it is very difficult to get a company to take the risk of giving you your first professional job. 

Since I got my first job, I have historically had an overfilled and overflowing proverbial plate of things to do. At 16, I was taking several honors classes in high school, working as an intern for a bank, had an officer position with the Horizon Pride Regiment's colorguard, and lived about thirty minutes away from it all. After graduating high school, I worked full-time while attending college and become involved in dance classes, marketing competitions, honor societies, and finally Omega Phi Alpha Phi Chapter. After being so busy and so planned for so many years, the free time I have gained from graduating has been almost a shock to my system. 

Many times, I have caught myself daydreaming about doing things that I normally wouldn't do, like constructing cake sculptures (i.e. Ace of Cakes), or making shoes (P.S. I Love You), or even opening my own lounge that served just desserts and drinks. All of which are expensive to do, or very time consuming and artistically involved. Because I have neither the money to open my own shop nor the artistic ability to sculpt cakes and shoes, I have decided to start writing about my life after college.