People from all around are talking about what are students supposed to do with this hole COVID-thing going on. But I wish I was in their situation.
I graduated in June 2019 and I have been job-hunting during this year. I’ve worked on different projects and then I finally found a “stable” job in March. Two weeks later Covid-19 hit the world and I was kicked off.
So now I’m 23 I have few experiences and whenever I look for a job I happen to be non-suitable for a job cause I am not a Junior with 3, 5 or more years of experience. How I am supposed to get that experience if no one wants to bet on me.
I really feel desperate, at least this year I’ve found my passion and I did apply to a UX/UI Design Post-graduate degree. I hope I can join that course, but who knows…
But let’s imagine I get accepted. I would try to find an internship in some company so I can practice and learn from the real world as I try to build my career as a UX designer. I’ve already looked for them, and guess what they pretend you to work full-time and get between 200 and 400 € at the end of the month.
I am very thankful to my family because they still have me at home and they have always given me everything I needed. But I don’t want to rely on them forever. I wanna live by myself and 200 or 400 euros won’t pay for a home.
I just guess we are a generation who will have to fight and build our own path cause anything we’ve already learned is non-sense today.
At least I could try to build a portfolio by myself in non-real scenarios just projects I imagine to be real and hope some-day one of these imagined projects takes me to land a real job with someone placing his/her bet on me.
See-ya,
Laia.
