Suboptimal Experience

A few torturous months into job searching and coming swiftly to two realisations. 1. that the job market is horrible and I now understand why people pay for others to search for jobs they could fill for them. 2. that I probably should have stuck with political science in undergraduate work and joined the foreign service, because that seems to be the place for jobs. In other, not so muted tones, I am tired of looking for jobs. I would give up but I need to get a job for money, among other reasons. This lack of results is dowsing my natural good humour and making me a bit more cynical about the world, though I am still trying my hardest to be up beat. As a final note I would like to say that it's not that there aren't a plethora of jobs out there to be had, simply that for the jobs I want, aka something that has to do with what I got a degree in, I am under qualified and for jobs I would rather not have I am over qualified. On top of that there are so many people out and about that are in the same boat as myself that for the employers its like being at a toys store where there are shelves upon shelves of shiny new toys and they are the owner so they can pick the shiniest and best toy for themselves. So if you aren't quite the shiniest best toy you get put at the very back of the shelf. It's very much a Corduroy story....And if America is the land of opportunity I would hate to be trying to get a job anywhere else in the world right now.