Fuck companies that don't have the fucking professionalism to tell you if you've gotten a job or not, though they've promised to contact you. I already know I didn't fucking get it, but I'm obligated to confirm. I sent an e-mail to my HR contact yesterday, and they still haven't replied. It's going to be time soon for a righteous indignation phone call. I wish I could verbally abuse them all on the phone.
What a world. I was treasurer at my university's accounting society; have a Master's degree in Accountancy with a focus in audit; 3.8 GPA; Eagle Scout; laundry list of strengths. And I can't get one fucking job in public accounting. Half of all Europeans under 34 live with at least one parent, and much of the Occupy people in the US and the protesters in Europe (like the ones in Madrid) are young people with fucking Master's degrees who can't get a fucking job. We're finally reaping the true outcome of borrowing from the future and using up the fucking earth at a pace technology can't match. We're finally inheriting the wind of a system that demands perpetual growth in a finite world.
I can't wait to see what happens when the bubble of education bursts. Surprise! Go to college, work hard, and enjoy a life of student debt and unemployment, because there are too many fucking people in a world too technologically advanced to require all their labor, based on a system that requires too much growth for this taxed, ailing earth to support (not to mention a patriarchal, avaricious global assembly line)! Welcome to the rest of your life!
It's already such a giant fucking ethical problem for me to accept working in public accounting (although it's balanced by hte fact that auditors—in theory, at least, since at the higher levels it becomes retaining clients and pleasing them—keep the excesses of private firms and their fraud in check). I could not ethically work in marketing, or defense. Or to help manage a hedge fund? Haha. There are some things far too impure to stain one's hands with. May the ghost of Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis descend upon all the corrupt—all the people who interpret "caveat emptor" as a free license to exploit people without regret—and bring them to unrelenting justice. His ghost exacting vengeance is at least more likely than some God or karma doing it.