Unemployment…
One month ago I completely upended my life. I moved cities and applied to every job under the sun. Every adult in my life was hounding about how “No one wants to work these days," very Kim K of them. Yet on my end of the spectrum it's like no one wanted to hire these days. This whole struggle made me think about this surface level conflict of people who want to work, but also want to make a living wage and others telling them to just work better jobs.
What the hell is a better job? Men breaking their backs and working 80 hour weeks to barely survive paycheck to paycheck. The economy unable to work without us lowly minimum wage workers.
The job market is hell. I’ve worked 2 jobs both the only of two jobs I applied to and in my little suburbs it was enough. I moved to a way bigger city expecting a lot more prospects and in a month I got exactly one call back. ONE???!
To an extent I totally understand the idea of a bigger market requiring more time to sort through applicants, but I wasn’t exactly apply to corporate jobs with thousands of applicants flooding in from the nearby universities. Yet, I was competing with practically the whole city for the few open spots.
All of it is confusing especially for a baby worker. As my cousins and younger friends start applying for jobs I wonder how much worse it’ll get. But it illuminated the obvious that older generations don’t seem to understand, why would anyone want to work a job that barely helps them get by.
I never quite understood the millenial vs gen z debate, and more than ever this seemed liked the time to be uniting rather than attacking each other over superficial differences. Especially when it’s women in their 30’s gatekeeping and crying over circular trends and men who want to go back to when it was okay to be violent and evil publicly. I don’t quite buy into the completely accepting and woke stereotypes about gen z either, but pretending that any of these things matter when we have a climate crisis, economic crisis, and a million other actual problems to worry about kinda urks my soul.
Maybe it’s just the ADHD everyone has that leaves them with a short attention span for all the these things, but once we focus on getting the government in the kitchen, rearranging some things, we could certainly party with the rest of the world!
