Jobless Young Adults

The New York Times states that young adults find their voices while fighting to be heard by potential jobs. Millions of college graduates sends out numerous amounts of resumes to potential jobs and rarely get a call back even for a unpaid internship. With that being said it makes me wonder what is really going on? Are companies scared to take a risk with a young adult because they don’t have faith that the young adults can handle the workload? But employers say they will hire 10.2 percent more college graduates from the class of 2012 than they did from the class of 2011, according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers. Even so, joblessness among the young remains at crisis levels, economists say. (Seligson 2012) Given the fact that I am a young adult this fact worries me. I am concerned about my future because it seems as if no one wants to give the young a chance. Even if you are a high school graduate and have some college experience you are still worse off trying to enter in the job field. It is understandable that jobs want people with more education but even when they are well educated it’s still not enough.  The question comes up, “What can we do to change this?”  There are many people working to try and change this problem. The fact is that it is still a working progress and it is something that can take years to turn around. Young adults have to be serious and focused about their future to be able to overcome this issue.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/06/business/for-jobless-young-people-new-advocacy-groups.html?_r=1&ref=jobs

Tattoos

In this time you see people of all races, sizes, weight just different in their own way. Tattoos are even different on different people. Body art, which is what some people call them became more popular nowadays. People get tattoos for a numerous amount of reasons. I’ve seen portraits done of people’s love ones that have passed on, pets, guns, and cartoon characters and even celebrity tattoos. Most would say that it is unprofessional to have a sleeve of tattoos on your whole arm or tattoos on your neck. I would agree that they can be a little distracting and misleading but that should not be the reason we are judged. I have two tattoos and both have meaning behind the artwork I am not the type of person to just put anything on my body because I was bored at the time. My hummingbird on my neck represents how I would want to be free like a hummingbird just be able to fly freely and chirp that’s music to my ears. I am a music lover and love to sing so If I had a choice in another life I would be a hummingbird. Plus I think they are beautiful birds, sounds weird but that’s the truth. The one on my arm represents my culture it’s the sun and stars off of the Filipino Flag and under it is written in cursive beauty in tagalog. Some people just get anything without thinking about it just to have more tattoos than another person.They say criminals and thugs have tattoos and that it is gang related. Most of the time it is true but not all the time. Body Art can tell a story in some cases. You can learn more about a person by looking at their tattoos and that is also a way of making small talk with someone.    I can see how it would be distracting in the work place and I agree they should be covered if possible just to look presentable. I think it could go both ways, if you have the skills to obtain your job your appearance shouldn't matter. I think it just depends on the company. Nowadays companies are becoming more open and modern with time.