A Short Motivational Reminder On Finding A Job

"I am honestly just at that point of giving up. I've edited my resume for the nth time and I have had no response from any of the nth companies I've applied for so far except for one that was so gracious enough to say that my application has been declined."

Sounds familiar?

/my 30-hour stippling drawing of a stag back in 2nd year diploma

You're probably not the only one having the same issues. More or less, mostly everyone who is graduating or has graduated recently is going through the same exact emotions and thought process — rage, anger, denial, doubt, fits of murderous tendencies — you know, the norms. However, it can become self-denigrating to continuously experience rejection after rejection. It's as if the world has turned its back on you at the moment you need it the most.

I've been there. In fact, I'm still there.

As a graduating Graphic Design student, it's nerve-wracking to imagine the world outside of the four corners of the campus. The lecturers have been the kind of clients you could only ever imagine in the dream world and being confronted with the reality that your designs are probably not as good as you hoped they would be is even more damaging.

/my approach to our infographic timeline assessment in the history of design

Let's not mention that the reputation you have in school will probably carry you during the first few years of your job search. This particular reality haunted me.

I have to be honest. I haven't been the best at keeping my attendance perfect for the last three semesters. From a growing financial struggle to a seething depression, it wasn't easy to focus on anything. Add up the death of my grandmother who was like a mother to me, I haven't really been able to bounce back into full gear. I want to, but I just haven't really been able to.

/my tropical-inspired watercolour painting

I'm not saying that I'm not okay. I'd like to think that I'm still in a much better situation than a majority of people around the world — and while I have read somewhere that everyone's battle will always be different and that you shouldn't be comparing your own demons with someone else's, I also would like to think that everything in our lives happen because we have to learn something from it.

This is one of those lessons.

/my original illustration based on resilience and growing a pair

It is here to remind us that you shouldn't be counting the steps if you know where you are going — you just have to know that you are moving forward.

It's not gonna be easy and who are we to say that it's gonna be worth it once you get it, but here's the thing, you are doing this for a reason. You are pushing yourself to send a hundred applications within two hours every single day for a good reason.

So, don't stop now. Who knows what will happen tomorrow?

Keep pushing forward.