I've been unemployed since the summer of 2007. It wasn't a problem until the beginning of 2009, since I was in school. I've been seriously looking for a job for months now, and can't find anything.

I'm young, reasonably intelligent, physically healthy, and willing to work. Yet I can't find a job anywhere. In the past month alone I have applied at Macy's, JC Penney, Best Buy, Starbucks, Barnes and Noble,Office Depot, Office Max, several restaurants, Kmart, even Wal Mart as much as I hate it. All the type of jobs students would have while going to school.

I go on interviews. They say they will call within the week. They rarely do. I call them and they say the position has been fulfilled. At first I thought it was me. But I have interviewers telling me I was a "front runner" and that I had a "good chance" of getting the job.

I know the job market is competitive right now, but I'm starting to lose my patience. I apply for jobs and think to myself "Why am I bothering? A thousand people are applying for the same thing."

I'm still waiting on Best Buy and Barnes and Noble. Hopefully one of them comes through. I'm just running out of patience and places to apply.

My family has been having financial problems lately too (like so many others, unfortunately), and I'm the only one who doesn't work. I feel guilty that I spend the days looking for a job while they are actually out working 8 or 9 hours a day.

Anyway I just wanted to vent my frustrations.