I am so frustrated!
Ya'll know I graduated about a year and a half ago from Winthrop University. I have a Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communications with a minor in Political Science. It would seem to make some sense I would have a decent entry-level job by now. I don't! I work at Target . . . as a PART-TIME sales associate . . . at $6.85 an hour . . . averaging 14 hours a week. With the piddly check I receive every 2 weeks, I can barely pay my credit card bill ($167 for a pair of glasses I needed), gas and maintenance for my car (which needs its brakes checked, tires rotated, gas/transmission systems flushed which all need to be done at the dealership), car insurance ($90 a month), and cell phone. Granted, I have a savings account, but my belief about a savings account is that it's exactly what it says it is . . . a savings account, not an expense account. I try to put 10% of my check into my savings account because I read in the business section of the newspaper that is what you're "supposed" to do and it sounded like a reasonable idea so I try to follow it. Granted it's about $50 a month but that's all I can do and it adds up eventually.
I have sent out about 50 resumes in the past year and a half with some resulting in interviews. I have experience 4 responses: (1) no response after the interview (2) no response at all about my resume (3) I am overqualified (4) I don't have 100 years of experience to my name. How can I rectify this trend? I can't get experience without someone hiring me. I can't afford to go to "interview counseling" and I live too far away from Winthrop to go back there to get interview help. The local colleges don't offer interview help. Most of the places I sent resumes to just offered the address and not the phone number and there's no way to get the phone number. What do I do?
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