this is unemployment...

To be unemployed, fired or turned down a job is a mixture of feelings very much like the ones you feel when you're in the dating scene. Being unemployed is like being single, looking for someone. Being fired feels like when you're breaking up with someone, and you are on the recieving end. And being turned down job, well, it's feels like when someone turns down, let's say, a date.

I have been out of a job for about a month now. I have been unemployed before, but I was only seventeen, and hadn't had that much experience, which was usually the reason why most companies would turn me down. But I did find a job eventually. Now that I have experience, they could just as easily say "sorry, but I just don't find you attractive." Same thing.

The unemployment office is like that "friend" who fixes you up on dates, but only with the ones who are as desperate as yourself. And they are all boring. And stupid. And greasy. And they smell like shit. I tell my "friend" that I want someone with intelligence, humour and someone who smells good, just once. But they are all already taken. "This is all I have for you. The nice ones want... other people. Better people."

I need to find better friends.