Full Credit

I must start by saying that I've never blogged before. I used to write back in high school and haven't written much since. I regret that, but here it goes.

I will give full credit to Gregg Araki for coming up with the term "Doom Generation." I fall well within this generation and have a birthday between generations X and Y. Sometimes, this generation gap seems to swallow me whole. But enough about me. Let's talk about jobs.

A woman has a plan to grab a loudspeaker and stand in the middle of Union Square. (This woman lives in San Francisco.) She recently lost her job and lives with a roommate who has two cats, one of which gets lost on a constant basis. The woman stands in Union Square, holding her loudspeaker and asks why everyone has forgotten her generation. Her generation used to be called the "MTV Generation." Apparently this term no longer applies to those born just after the death of disco (1979). She is too old...and will turn 30 in two months.

She states her resume, holding her roommate's cat under one arm and the loudspeaker in the other. Graduated from University of California Los Angeles in 2002...majored in something that doesn't really get many job offers now but seemed fun at the time. Multiple years working with kids. Multiple years dating the wrong people. Multiple years going to class and wandering around campus feeding the squirrels.

As she steps down from the upside down bucket she was standing on, one man claps for her. Accidentally, she puts the cat down instead of the loudspeaker without realizing it. Her search continues.