I Quit! Applying for Jobs

Firstly, I would like to just apologize for going MIA for the last couple of month. I am back now and promise to write an explanation post soon. For now please indulge in my new post on being #TheUnemployedDiva.

Today officially marks the first day that I just quit applying for jobs.

I am done!

I’ve had it with job applications

If I were to fill in one more application form, type a cover letter or write one more e-mail that won’t even get a response, I will surely drop down and die. How can it be that after so many years of submitting forms, sending emails and making phone calls I still find myself without a job?

At this point, I don’t see how one more application will help me. I can’t keep wasting my resources like this. There must be more to life than just job hunting. My existence is surely worth more than being an official employee at job-seeking LTD.

So where to now? What will I do now? I quit applying but what will fill this space that used to be my job application time? And if I quit, how will I even stand a chance at finding a job? How does one find a job without job hunting?

So, I guess I have no choice but to stop throwing a tantrum and get back to job hunting; maybe what I need is a new strategy instead of quitting.

Please cross your fingers for me, as I get back to writing e-mails.

To whom it may concern…

Shameless: breaking free

This day I cast down my chains, I choose to leave this prison. It’s been a while since I’ve seen the sunlight. I can no longer live in a prison of my own making.

For the longest time ever since I finished university, I have been ashamed of my situation, ashamed to step outside and let people seem me; the unemployed graduate. Ashamed that my story would discourage young kids from continuing to higher education while the older group would laugh. I had promised myself that the next time I would live again, would be after I got job, but this prison has become too small for the woman I’ve become. I can no longer hide her from a world waiting for her to take her place.

Sure, I might not be where I want to be, not doing what I would rather be doing, but I REFUSE, REFUSE, REFUSE to dim my light no more. Today I will step outside the house with my shades on, greet everyone I meet in the street with a wide warm smile.

Sure, unemployment was never part of the plan, but I refuse to give up on life. Today is D-DAY, it is my rebirth into life. I will step outside and let the sun hit my skin.

Because today, I AM UNASHAMEDLY; DIVA UNEMPLOYED!

Insanity or Hope

Einstein defines insanity as doing the same thing over and over again, yet expecting different results.

This saying from Einstein got me wondering about life as an unemployed person and secondly as an unemployed graduate. I live for job application, applying for jobs is the first thing I do when I wake up and the last thing I do before bed. Before I can even do my morning prayer, I check my emails, I apply all throughout the day and yet I’m still jobless. I mean I’ve been job hunting for over a year and a half now, surely something must have paid off by now.

Maybe I am hopeful, maybe its hope that wakes me up every morning to apply to yet another job or search for more jobs and job sites to apply to. Maybe it is hope that tells me to put aside my dreams and focus on getting a job, after all getting a job is what would make a person. Getting a job is the reason I went to varsity and getting a job was all I ever dreamt about in varsity.

So, I wonder, am I insane or am I just a hopeful. Is Einstein right or is hope worth a try. I mean what is it in my head that makes it ok for me to continue with this kind of behaviour, what is it that makes it ok for me to waste my energy, time and money on applying for jobs that aren’t there to begin with.  Why do I think its ok to put off living life in the name of “investing”? How is it even an investment to keep doing the same thing over and over again without any guarantee of proper returns?

Am I insane or am I just hopeful?

Is it hopefulness or insanity that tells me its ok to quit living and use my whole substance to beg for a job?

And now I ask my fellow unemployed graduates; are we hopeful or just insane?

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launch of divaunemployed

Greetings, welcome to my first blogpost

Who is divaunemployed?

“Divaunemployed” – odd isn’t it? It definitely wasn’t my first option of a Blog title either, yet when a name encompasses the status quo, we just accept and comply and I suppose that this name will do for now.

I am a young woman who has been working hard throughout her life to step out of poverty. Having finished my degree in June 2016, I found myself sitting at home with an expensive piece of paper, still in poverty and worse of all; watching the setting and rising of the sun. I was unemployed, disempowered, depressed and feeling worthless. I was part of the statistic of unemployed graduates – something that I never thought would happen to me, but it did.

Growing up, I was encouraged to do well in school to get into university and I was told that this would be my one way out of poverty. Little did I know that things aren’t as straightforward as they are made to seem.

There isn’t a virtual input machine where when effort is factored in the output is proportional success. There is no machine where you input a single graduate and get a corresponding employee in the exact field studied for.

There is basically no way of guaranteeing that a tertiary qualification will get one out of poverty. Despite being informed as young South Africans that, our way out of poverty is through education.

This blogsite is going to allow me to share my journey with others – not just unemployed people but everyone, as the issue of unemployment affects us all.

I will be talking about my personal experience, question reality and deeply search for the meaning of this path that I have been thrown in.

Buckle up and enjoy the journey, I hope it can inspire, educate and encourage conversations and eventually action in solving the problem of unemployment.

Regards, divaunemployed