Thought i'd join in with the job-crisis panic!

The Government is trying its hardest to convince us that there are PLENTY of jobs out there. This may be true, but jobs for who?

This summer i have had a three month break between first and second year of University (sounds great, really isn't) and it has been the longest and most tedious three months of my life. The only job i have managed to find is a few shifts at a shop where i worked before University, which i found myself being grateful for as i watched many of my fellow students slide further into their already extended overdraft.

Many companies are eager to give jobs to those with family or children to support, or to those with experience, who don't need to be trained using valuable company funding. I find it hard to put fault in this, however with my graduation only two years away, i can't help but feel a little twinge of panic (or full scale breathe-into-paper-bag panic attack depending on the time of the month) when i think of the repercussions of not being able to find a post-graduate job.

It would mean moving back home; i love my family but i love my Independence equally.

It would mean the thundering cloud of student debt would loom over me, a constant burden for longer then I'd like to imagine.

I would feel useless and under-appreciated, as though my new skills and ambition i have acquired over the past three years will have been for nothing.

This is why i fully support the thousands or temporary jobs being created by the government. Positions such as Dance Coaches, Community Workers and Teaching assistants. OK, they may only be temporary, and not your chosen career path, but they are something.

This summer has made me realised the grand scale of the job crisis that we are in. I have stopped assuming that everything will be sorted by the time i graduate, that i am bound to get a job, because it's just not that realistic any more.

I think I'll just remind my Mum not to turn my bedroom into a gym just yet...i might be needing it.