The job hunt!!!

On my weekly outing to get the job paper this morning I was unavoidably hit around the face several times by a disturbing thought: I’m unemployed. That’s right…UNEMPLOYED. For a few months now I’ve been waltzing around in my little bubble thinking, “I’ve just left uni, it takes time to start a new life”. Well, that lovely state or existence that I’ve been living by was unceremoniously punched out of my brain and I have been thrown out into the cold, dark and depressing world of this never-ending job hunt. Problem is, this job hunt has been going on for far too long now and to no avail. It seems that when all the graduates left the start line to find their treats I went the wrong way round. While everyone reached the finish line clutching their prizes I was still admiring the daises or hopelessly looking in every nook and cranny to find my prize. And to make matters worse the sun is going down, the rain is beginning to pour and I’m pretty sure I can hear an ever approaching storm heading my way in the form of the credit crunch. But despite these obstacles I keep looking and clambering on. As everyone keeps telling me….”something will turn up”…..I swear if I had a pound every time someone said that phrase to me I would be a millionaire.

This current mood I was in was swiftly worsened when I had to dodge a stream of vomit carelessly strewn across the pavement followed by a heartfelt greeting at the door of my local newsagents by a group of spotty faced youths asking me for a “fag”. Oh and all of this was musically accompanied by Morrissey singing the lyrics “Heaven knows I’m miserable now” into my ears, which provided a fitting soundtrack for my current state of affairs.

Being unemployed is a funny place to be in. Well if I’m being totally honest it’s a soul destroying, tedious and exasperating hell hole to be in, but it can have its little quirks. With all the time I seem to have on my hands its inevitable that my silly little brain will work in overtime….ideas will begin to flourish, thoughts will begin to wander and all of a sudden you start to address things in life which may have previously sat on the back bench. However hard I try, I’m afraid that this is the only positive I can find out of being unemployed….oh maybe renewing my old musical affair with my saxophone and piano is another positive but trust me there is only so many times that I can play Joni Mitchell’s Blue till I start to feel…well blue.

Anyway I must dash and carry on with my hunt…if anyone can point me in the right direction I will be eternally grateful as I seem to be temporarily stuck in the worst Labyrinth of my life……the only thing that could make it worse is if David Bowie turned up in those skin tight trousers…or maybe it would somewhat improve matters.