Entitlement

I was chatting to my mother last night (as you do) about this and that and the conversation worked its way round to what my friends from university are doing now, jobwise.
Now the thing that struck me at this point was that (like me) most of my close friends are not working in a job that they want to turn into something long term. In the main we seem to be temping, working in retail or doing simplistic clerical admin things. Of my friends who are graduates less than a quarter are working in so called 'graduate jobs'.

Initially this seemed slightly strange, the people I was talking about are all intelligent, (relatively) hard working and distinctly employable (even in a down turn). So how come we are all doing low level short term jobs?

This is particularly the case in my personal view of my own job, which was initially taken as a two month temporary position whilst I looked for a 'proper' job. Over 18 months later and I'm still there on roughly the same wage, still telling people that I'm only doing this until I get a 'real' job.

Have I been seriously looking for another job over the last two years? Apart from a couple of interviews, no.
Is my a job a temporary one? Obviously not
So is my poorly paid, relatively easy position my 'real' job? Apparently so

Somehow for over a year I've managed to deceive myself into thinking that I was just going to get a better job, because I deserved it, because I was entitled to it.

So having finally realised the bleeding obvious I guess it's time to do something about it.

See you in February
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