I live with my parents. I look for work, but also play lots of video games and surf reddit. Also help my parents with chores around the house as necessary.
I'm 27, graduated at 24 with a master's degree. Had a bit of an existential crisis around this time. Was a christian who took up political science because I thought it was "God's plan", only to realize around the time i graduated that God didn't exist and I wasted 6 years of my life and a ton of money in student loans for nothing. Joy.
Since I graduated in 2012, the recession was still on, and man, the economy around here is just...awful. In 2011 my city got named the poorest city in America, and in 2013 it got knocked down to the second position by being beat out by Detroit. The job market is absolutely awful around here. No jobs in my field at all, those that exist require tons of experience I don't have, and, heck, even the crappy min wage jobs often require experience too. Wtf is wrong with this economy.
It's gotten "better", but by better, meaning there's more low wage menial de facto slave labor around...and ugh.
Like, seriously. Let me get this straight. We have this economy, right? Where everyone is expected to work, right? But then we have people have to beg to find it, right? And then people get paid poorly because they're so desperate they can't find anything right? And the people responsible for the lives and well being and living standards of most people in this country are rich jerks who don't care at all about you, right? Seriously. I can't get over this part. We wonder why income inequality is so bad, and crap like that, and why working conditions are crap, but then most of us never stop to think about how the economy is in the hands of a bunch of rich jerks who dont give a crap about you.
My education might not make me very hireable, but it does make me realize how much of a craphole this economy is. But I digress.
But yeah. Live with my parents, look for jobs, get frustrated at how crappy this economy is, get anxiety over the idea of working a crappy job with irregular hours with a crappy unreasonable boss who just doesn't give a crap, and then blow off steam by arguing on reddit and playing video games. TO be fair the arguing has actually led to a lot of personal betterment though. It's actually good having some time off because it's made me realize just who I am. As I said I had a massive existential crisis around graduating, so it's good I've been given time to sort my mind out.