Some of these people seem clueless and inept, but for others there just isn't enough work to be done. From Unemployment Stories, Vol. 28: ‘I’m Inclined to Simply Disappear Into Silence’:
It has been many months since and after an internship and a deferred paying job I didn't see a cent for, I'm back living with my folks. I'd go elsewhere for work, but I honestly can't afford it. I'd take the terrible, boring jobs so many of my contemporaries accept without complaint, but I'm so depressed over my state in life I can't seem to find the energy to care enough to survive. I have been so very lucky and blessed to have parents that support me both financially (though I wish so hard I could finally be totally independent) and emotionally. But my dad (very reasonably) said he won't continue to help after I turn 26. I know it's supposed to give me initiative to get my life together, but even with this date looming I just can't find the energy to care about self-preservation.
It's tough out there if you don't know how to do anything with any meaningful value and need to support yourself without a partner. Obama's mess aside, it's never been easy to make a living and, with most under-50 women being in the workplace nowadays, there are twice as many people wanting work as there were in the last generation. Relative to the population, I mean. That worked OK in a booming economy, but not in the Obama Depression.
To be just slightly provocative, if all women went back to the kitchen, the garden, the home-schooling of the kids, and volunteer charity, (like Mrs. Obama), and if all Mexicans went back to Mexico, no American male would lack good work to do to support his family with dignity.
One word to the wise: Start at the bottom, as I did. Nobody owes you anything just for being your wonderful self. If you want money, you have to add value to an enterprise.
