post-grad.....

By now, I'm sure you've seen the previews for the movie "Post-grad" that is coming out tomorrow, with Alexis Bledel. It's about a girl who graduated from college, moved back in with her parents, and is looking for a job, a life, and love....not in that order, necessarily. Every time I watch this preview, I am irritated by it. It makes post-graduation, unemployed life look like so much fun. Obviously, it doesn't look like the movie. Real life looks like credit card bills that you can barely pay the minimum balance on, endless job searching and applying, dealing with feelings of fear and failure (nice alliteration there, huh?), and worrying. It's applying to jobs well beneath your education level, and not getting them, most likely for that very reason. It's dealing with citibank and nelnet for student loan payments that stress you out. It's that creeping feeling of...shit, is this what it is like being an adult? And ironically, at a time when we're supposed to have a degree in our future job area, most of us STILL have no idea what we want to be when we grow up.

So here we are, with advanced degrees, closets full of clothes for jobs we don't have, eating cereal for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. And we're the future of America.