Matriculation

Calling on all the unemployed of the college class of 2009. I know you're out there. And I know you've got the time to read blogs like this one. Welcome to the company for which your misery has been longing. It is the beginning of a year long journey I'll be attempting to navigate here.

So, I just graduated from the University of North Carolina with a degree in Journalism and Mass Communication in the Advertising sequence. I also minored in English. So I guess a blog is an obvious move for me. Although, that seems to mean precious little today. I'm 3 months out from graduation and I am yet to experience the miracle of gainful employment.

But I'm not alone. There is plenty of company for my misery. And so that is what you can hope to find here. How are all of us, the unemployed college class of 2009, handling the unbelievably inconvenient and poorly timed recession?

I'm excited about this for a few reasons.

1. It will give me something to do everyday, which is kinda like a job right? Sans the pay check.

2. I'm already impressed with the game plans that my fellow class of 2009-ers have come up with to get through this mess. Some are brilliant, some are just entertaining...

3. I'm optimistic that should this blog fall in the way of the correct government officials there could soon be a bail out plan for recent college graduates. When some fellow class of 2009-ers and I were discussing this last night we though that a Cash for Drunkards program would be an appropriate follow-up to the success of the Cash for Clunkers program.... thoughts anyone? Call your Congressman.

tomorrow's topic: what am I doing?