This coming may will mark two years since my college graduation, and other than two degrees and two three-month stints in temporary work and maybe an interview here or there, I have nothing to show for it.
I will say, however, that I've learned something over these past 2 years that will probably stick with me as long as I draw breath. I've learned that no matter how far one goes in life, if they have a lifelong disability, there's a very good chance that such a person will never be given a serious chance by employers, even though their PR commercials and websites say otherwise. Skills and accomplishments be damned to hell.
It's ironic, really. I went to school with the faint hope of escaping just that kind of situation, but I guess there's no running from it. I can't just move to another state or another country because I don't have the money, and chances are their computer science and IT markets aren't much better thanks to outsourcing, near sourcing and H1-B Visas, which goes to show just how far employers here will go to keep from paying workers a decent living wage, healthcare and other benefits.
I suppose I'll just stick to being temporarily employed because that's all I and so many others have to hope for in 'this economy'. Actually, it would still be like this even if the economy were better because this is America, where only the privileged and the normal, whatever that is, 'get ahead' and the rest of us are left to worship them. Can we do better than this? Yes. Will we? I'd like to think so, but the cynic in me knows better.
See you around,
Homer