Oh hey! Remember me?

I thought I'd give a little update, in seeing as I've been here just over three months! By which I mean, I've been living here unemployed for three months -- what is an educated unemployed young adult to do in a job market that is inundated with educated unemployed young adults? What every other educated unemployed young adult does -- go back to school to become an over-educated unemployed no-longer-young adult, or blog while continuing to look for jobs in vain. I'll go with the latter.

Observations on Job Hunting in NorCal:
There are no jobs. Anyone who thinks they can hire in this economy is crazy. No, really, they are legitimately insane. Therefore interviews are always interesting, but you will never actually want the job. You will remain unemployed and will only interact with truly insane people until YOU become legitimately insane. There are now two options:

1. You accept job with legitimately insane person. Money-making prospects slim. OR:
2. You become so crazy you think you can employ yourself and others. You post job openings that only legitimately insane people would ever agree to do. You wait until a bright young thing goes crazy, hire them for an "internship", and make yourself look legitimate. Legitimately legitimately insane, if you will. Money-making prospects slim. But hey, at least you can say you do something. (My sister met one such fellow with me, because he said I could bring her to the interview and he was so creepy on the phone that I did just that. Her reaction: "I wonder if he knows nobody actually works for him...")


I am actually getting pretty good at this job-hunting thing, however. As long as you know going into an interview that hundreds of people apply for every job opening within an hour of it being posted, and that your interview will likely amount to nothing, it really takes the stress out of the whole process.