I hate Rory Gilmore

While I've been working on homework for the past week or so, I've been watching Gilmore Girls on DVD. It's weird, but I find that it helps me want to achieve more and work harder, with the exception of the brief period of time where Rory lapses and drops out of Yale. Anyway, it's been good for my work ethic, but I'm nearing the end of the series now (booo!) and Rory is on her post-grad job hunt. Obviously, in the end she gets an awesome job, but right now I'm at the part where she's offered a job at a newspaper in Providence, Rhode Island, but she turns it down because she wants to see if she gets a fellowship that would give her a position at the New York Times. Clearly, because karma is a bitch, she doesn't the get the fellowship and has already turned down the job in Rhode Island, thereby leaving her to be screwed. And the whole time I'm watching this horrifying turn of events, I'm screaming at her in my head to TAKE THE FUCKING JOB. I realize that these episodes aired in 2007, before the economy tanked and the job market started sucking hardcore, but watching these episodes now makes me want to smack Rory in the face.

Part of my frustration is from accidentally reading a blog entry earlier about how library school is a waste of time and money unless you already have library experience and you can do it without loans. Well damn. I have no library experience and I definitely couldn't do it without loans. I already have tons of loans from undergrad, and once I graduate, I'll have loans from grad school too. I'm praying that I get some sort of scholarship, especially after I worked for two days on my applications. The fact of the matter is that the job market sucks for just about everyone. I'm also taking a risk in limiting myself geographically in my search. I know that's not a smart thing to do, but I need to be happy where I live, and I've learned that I don't do well alone. Plus, I'm going to be drowning in student loan repayments, so even if I manage to snag a decent paying full time job, I'll have to live at home with my parents anyway.

I hate that it's so easy to get into college, or even grad school, but that it's almost impossible to find a job. I also hate that finding a job you enjoy isn't the priority anymore. It's all about finding ANYTHING.

~Christine