Challenger

It was only when I had quit my job that I realized how lucky the employed teenagers are. When you are on the sinking ship of unemployment, you actually have time to study, to do the things you want do, and to reach goals that you set for yourself. You finally have the freedom to accept invitations without having to say, “I have to check and see if I’m off work,” and then reject the invitation because you do have to work.

These are the ideas that ran through my mind when I finally had a chance to get my foot out the door and quit my job for a good reason, but after I recieved my last paycheck and spent it, all the freedom I was enjoying suddenly came to a hault. All of a sudden, you have some new restrictions placed on your freedom, all because you have no money. Once again, parents hold the power to your social life. Instead of saying “I have to check and see if I’m off work,” now you have to say “I have to check and see if my parents will give me some money.”

Before I got my first job, I searched high and low, and put in numerous applications, but no one would hire me because I had no experience, and I was not going to settle for the first job in a fast food resturaunt that I could find (no offense to anyone). Finally I was offered a job at a place I hadn’t even put in my application.

I have finally decided to start looking for another job, and putting in applications once again with the attitude that it will be easy to find one since I have experience this time. The problem is no one is hiring, or there are age requirements that I don’t meet. The other problem may be that I have only applied to two places. Whatever the problem is, finding a job is not easy. Once you are on the sinking ship of unemployment, it is hard to get off of it.

The whole situation makes me think of a movie I saw over five times in theaters. In one of the last scenes of Titanic we see Rose and Jack in the water, and he lets her get on that board thing so she has a chance to live. She says, “I’ll never let go, Jack,” and then he lets go and sinks down in the water; kind of wierd since she said she would never let go...I don’t know. The reason I brought that up is because we unemployed teenagers are sort of in that same position. We need somebody to let us get on the board so we can make some money and have a chance to survive in the same house with our parents.

I would like to wish myself, and the rest of the people on the ship goodluck and happy hunting. Hopefully we will all get our chance to survive, and go from being on the sinking ship of unemployment to living in a yellow submarine with a job.