Post-Grad Blues

So graduation came... and it went. The whole process was really quite anti-climatic and I am starting to realize that the accomplishments you achieve while in school are what matter, not some hour long ceremony. I am working for free now (I certainly didn't see it coming) for a pretty cool company that is working on a very cool event. The event is scheduled in SF for August and is called SF Chefs. Food. Wine. It will feature many of the big cheeses in the food/wine world talking, cooking, pouring and being generally accessible for a full 3 days! I will be running around in their midst organizing, pampering and assisting where necessary. The preparation that goes into planning these events is monumental, but it comes at a good time. It is a time where people are so desperate for work that if you dangle a vague promise in front of their face they will throw themselves into virtually anything, not even hoping to learn anything from it FOR FREE hoping that maybe they will get a job out of it. Which is a necessary step in this new world of economic doom and gloom. Before I graduated I never had trouble finding a job, employers seemed to love my chipper "can do" attitude and my low maintenance persona. After graduation... and this is when I am supposed to have that full time job that I've always been offered but never been able to take because I HAD TO GET A DEGREE! So now, Bachelors of Arts in Latin American Studies in hand I find that all of this holding out for a diploma did not help me! There is no 9-5 job with advancement potential, not even close. Let's keep our fingers crossed that this event will help me build some connections that will take me out of my unhappily unemployed status. At least I have my chef who is able to create a culinary masterpiece out of our vacant refrigerator! So I will forge on, battle my post-grad blues and keep blogging!