From the Highs to the Lows

This week started out well - graduating from college, receiving congrats as well as grad cards with certain monetary benefits to them. But in the last two days, I've been turned down for two jobs. This isn't really unusual, as I've grown accustomed to it, but these were both jobs that I thought had a lot of promise. I had thought to myself that I had a pretty good chance of getting either (or both, in my more confident moments). So these rejections leave me with little hopeful active applications. 

Still, there are some exciting developments. I've been circulating my resume, and hopefully in the next week I'll have some leads. And one of my former supervisors at an internship (the same place where I had applied for one of the jobs that turned me down) has already been pounding the pavement for me. I got an email within 10 minutes from someone else I worked with there about a job posting. Hopefully this means I'm moving forward and getting closer to the Holy Grail: an entry-level job.

I turned on my computer this morning to get a quick blog post in before leaving school for good (more on that later) and I saw some new unemployment numbers. Luckily, new jobless claims are down to 631,000. But continuing claims have risen to something like 6.7 million. And then, this story about a 25 year-old college graduate who is standing on streetcorners in DC trying to pass out his resume. I thought my blog was gutsy....best of luck to this man! I feel his pain! And he's a native New Yorker...how could I not be pulling for him (notice how he went to a state school and then had to leave to find work....)?