I'm back.

After a long hiatus, the time has come for me to get back into writing about the journey of the jobless and the seemingly endless quest to secure gainful employment. Over the last few months, I have been applying for job after job, across various industries and situated in multiple locations, but, unfortunately, I am coming up empty. The only phone calls that I received were due to the fact that I had friends on the inside, urging the powers that be to at least review my resume; despite going well, the interviews that followed proved to be nothing more than sources of disappointment and added stress.

All the while, I find myself surrounded and even stalked by signs of the times. I have watched several films about the economic crisis, and, a month or so ago, I woke up in the middle of the night (or, more aptly, the early morning) to see Suze Orman on public television, telling a man not to go back to school because it would make his situation worse. Apparently, adding to your student loan debt to further your education does not make financial sense. Where was she a decade ago?

With the recent Occupy Wall Street (or various other locations), nothing seems to be improving. A recent photograph comes to mind in which a peacful protester wields her homemade cardboard sign, which reads "college education = unemployment." She blames the nation's problems on Wall Street and uses the sign to literally and metaphorically to thank Wall Street.

Is it really that simple, though? Are the industry elites of Wall Street responsible for all of the problems? Can I blame them for my current situation? Or is the fact that I am unemployed and overqualified with a list of worthless degrees the result of something else? Speaking to the worthlessness of college degrees, I urge you to read a New York magazine article from May of this year that I will share.