LIfe In the Real World

It has been over a month since I graduated university. I feel like I should know where my life is going, or have some sort of grand plan to make sure that my life goes in the direction that I want or need it to go in. However since I graduated university the only thing I have accomplished is the month long road trip I made with my two best friends, who were also my roommates and rocks during the four years at university. We had a blast exploring the US and discovered what we would do differently if we could start over and do the trip again. (First of all we would avoid the desert. Those two/three days driving through Arizona, NM, and Texas were torture.) It has been about two weeks since I said goodbye to them, but it seems so much longer. These are girls whom I have lived with and spent more time over the past four years than with my own family. And now I have to realize that there is no definite time when we will be reunited face to face. Mutual friends of ours are getting married in October, so maybe we will see each other than, however, who knows where I might find myself in October. I have been applying to jobs frantically since I finished my trip, although so far to no avail. Is this really what life after university is like? Just uncertainty and hoping that you will find a job so you can start paying your bills that are piling up? The most frustrating thing I am finding is that the jobs that I went to school to get aren't available or if they are they are asking for more experience than I have the privilege to have. I find myself wondering what I spent $100,000 on school for when I can't put my degree to use. It makes me almost consider going back to school and majoring in something else to help my chances of landing the job I really want. That or make me kick myself for not taking more PR classes or a business class or two just so I could get started in a different part of the industry and then just be able to get my foot in the door and change over later. As it is, I see in my immediate future working some minimum wage job to support myself which isn't really helping me land the job I want. Although my parents keep telling me that taking a part time position to make some money and then taking an un-paid or low paying internship on the side could be the best route to go so that I am gaining the experience I need while still making some money. I want to believe that it will all work out (and I have to keep reminding myself to have faith) but right now it is very frustrating because I am living at home where everyday my parents are asking me if I have heard back from any of the places I have applied to and I have to keep answering no and then they look at me slightly disappointed and I don't know what else I am supposed to do. I always imagined myself graduating from university, landing an awesome job and moving out on my own. Now that I am actually living it I see how naive my dreams might have been and I see a long road of hard work ahead of me. But hopefully this long road will have a wonderful ending.