Over the past year and a half I have being searching for employment as a Journalist. After 30 interviews and over 200 applications it seems as if I have wasted 3 years of my life trying to get my Diploma all for nothing.

Every interview is basically the same, all the questions are the same plus now I’ve realised the outcomes are same. They either tell you that you have not enough experience or act like everything’s going well but never call you back. My gut tells me that all these interviews are staged as if they already have the person in mind who they want to employ and I am there just to make up the numbers so that they can tell the companies HR department can look like they’ve done some searching for the right employee. Right now its not about what you know but who you know and what kind of people your parents know. If you are wealthy then its easier to find a job because your parents are hooked up.

At the start of my job search I was like the job will eventually come but how soon did that feeling disappear. The hardest part of being unemployed is not the fact that you don’t have a job but the advice from others who think they understand your situation.

Without looking into your situation people already know that the field you chose to study is not a worthy field, they also know that you are choosy about where you want to work like you’ve turned down millions of jobs because the pay wasn’t right or and the fact that you are just lazy. All that its hogwash because instead of trying to help people spend more time trying to figure out what’s wrong with you.

All that you can do is listen to their crap until you find employment until then you’re just a puppet who can’t do much because money means more to people then common sense. Hence why we have a President who can’t read, an opposition leader who failed woodwork and an SABC CEO who has no Matric but all of them are in positions of power but I a budding journalist cannot even get a decent job to kick start my career. Until I find that job I have to put up with this shit.

What a time it is to be alive.