& for the non-i-bankers --
“It’s shocking,” she says. “I’ve sent out hundreds of résumés, and I’ve only gotten one interview.” She’s far from alone...
Jane is biding her time—and paying rent on her Williamsburg studio apartment—with freelance publicity jobs. “I’ve thrown morals and taste by the wayside,” she says with a laugh. “Right now I’m representing a hip-hop-porno DVD.”
The past few months in particular—which have been marked by everything from a broken laptop to a job at another hip-hop magazine that seemed to be hers but then went to an employee inside the company—have caused Jane to reexamine her career aspirations.
Source --
Generation Hexed
By Ethan Brown
...Hip Hop Porno?
My version -- I worked at an internet company for 6 months until they realized they could get cheaper (To the tune of 10-15K) labor & laid me off. Many, many resumes later, I landed a random job by chance. 6 months later, my position turned into something that is not a "good fit" (I hate that term) for me, & I had told them 2 weeks into the job that I never want to be transferred into that particular section. I was never consulted -- I learned of my new duties during an office meeting at the same time all my new co-workers did. After MUCH AGONY (Job-wise & worse, politically), I had to quit. The people at unemployment decided that I quit without good cause (Suicidal tendencies is not good cause??), so I started living off savings. Savings from a job that paid $5K less than what I was making at my first full-time job out of college. Savings depleted by $8K because of this economic crisis we are in. A week after I quit, my world was
ROCKED by a personal crisis that I am still dealing with. Many tears & many more resumes later, I am still unemployed & searching for answers. My archaic laptop died on me about a month or so later. I'm reexamining my occupational, educational & personal aspirations. Will I ever have a career? Doing what? Is grad school worth the money? Should I have children? What the *F* am I doing with my life?
I'm not even good enough for temp work --
But even menial temp jobs—such as working in the basement of Sports Illustrated, bar-coding old photo negatives—have been hard to come by. And forget about jobs in industries that Dworken would like to work in, all of which, he says, feel impossibly out of reach. “The response is ‘Great résumé, we’d love to have you, but we have 400 résumés.’ Sometimes I feel like I have a better chance of becoming the CEO of Lehman Brothers,” he adds, “than getting some of the jobs I apply for.”
Source -- Ibid
