It was only after being home for 5 weeks this November than I truly realized and understood the economic crisis at home in the UK. It was more expensive than ever, particularly the price of food... I couldn't understand how I was going through money at a rate of knots. I was home for 5 weeks and blew $1500, a lot of money considering I didn't do anything particularly amazing, I didn't buy any clothes, I didn't really have to pay for food, I didn't have to pay rent... the only thing I did pay for was my fuel for my car, my phone and a random outing here and there. An expensive trip.
The situation at home I feel has hit my age group the hardest, two fifths of the unemployed are under 25 years old. Right now I feel like if I really wanted to be at home I just couldn't. Its almost the case that I'm over qualified for a lot of jobs out there and they wouldn't employ me because they know I'm only going to be there until something better comes along. Then the jobs I actually want that would have been available to me in the past I'm under qualified for and people that have been in the industry for a few years are snapping up opportunities that graduates would have once taken. The dilemma with experience is the biggest problem of all, no company at this time can afford to have an unexperienced graduate amongst their team and I can't afford to do an unpaid internship. What to do? I consider doing more education, getting a masters maybe... but that can set me back up to £18,000. So I have to ask myself is it worth investing my time and thats much money into doing a masters? Will my chance of being able to get the Graduate Scheme I want be greater? The economy is set to get worse before it gets better, so who knows what the future will hold. I guess all we can do is work hard and be optimistic.
