I’m in my early 20′s and I have to tell you, I’m not happy at all. People my age have been in school for 12 years plus 4 years for college and we get out to find unemployment near an all time high. We worked hard in college, racking up debt, only to find that possibly all our efforts have been wasted. I would have been better off if I had skipped college and gotten a burger flipping job out of high school! At least that way I wouldn’t be in debt like I am.

A lot of people my age are participating in the Occupy Wall Street protests and I can see why. I haven’t been there myself but I am tempted to go. There are a lot of crazy people there but a lot of sensible ones too and I would probably fit in somewhere. The longer this bad economy goes on, the more likely I will be to join at some point. Watching our politicians at work is really a joke and someone needs to speak up.

What is so worrisome now is that even if I did find a job it wouldn’t be very secure. I have several friend who are afraid they are going to have to file for unemployment because their jobs are on the chopping block. This makes it very hard to optimistically look for work knowing that even if I am lucky, any job I find might be short lived. Everywhere I go and everyone I talk to has stories about how hard a time they are having right now. It’s really sad and I feel unlucky that all this is happening at a time in my life when I should be venturing out into the workplace, getting my feet wet, and figuring just what it is I want to do with my life. As it is, I am just struggling to survive.