The Process and Age

As you can imagine, I have been filling out many online job applications over the past few weeks.            It's very time consuming and when you hear nothing from these different companies and institutions, one may wonder if it was even worth the hours put in.

If you are not in the unemployment club, you may not realize the tedious steps that need to take place each time you want to submit your resume to a particular job.  There are questionnaires and lengthy profiles that can take up to 10 minutes before even getting your resume up.  Stupid questions, that pretty much make me repeat the same information that is on my resume.  These career links should let us fill out the basic stuff and proceed with the resume submission.  Last week, it was taking so long to complete one,  I started to drift off and then proceeded to click out.  They keep sending me emails telling me I need to complete the online profile.  *&*! them!  I feel like writing and telling them they need to change their system

If that is not frustrating enough, I have come to the painfully realization that I am getting old.  Yes, I know, many of you are rolling your eyes and thinking you are not even 30, but when it comes to selecting the year of my birth, 1983 seems to have gotten farther down on the scroll bar.  I didn't realize it at first, but as I continue to go online, I am noticing that there are a lot of younger peeps out there.   When did this happen?  My year use to be at the top of the list!

It felt like it was yesterday that I just became old enough to drive a car and now I am falling in that too old category.  I suggested an idea to Ian that I try out for the MTV show Real World, but Ian quickly brought it to my attention that I was TOO OLD.  What!!  How can it be that I am in the age bracket that prohibits me from going on a reality show where all you do is talk about your roommates, work a mindless job, eat, drink, and sleep.