Our world works in a very peculiar way. At first, you have to work your ass off at school to get decent marks that would allow you to get into a good university. Then you work even harder at the university, because you need a good degree and then the world would be your oyster and you will get that dashing job of your dreams.
Then you finish university and you still hear voices of your teachers and tutors who had been telling you for years how important it was to excel at your studies and develop as many skills as possible.
Here is the day of your dreams - the graduation day. You are full of aspirations and naive dreams, your mammy and daddy are quietly crying and just about to explode with pride. Every single human being, especially those from the beyond the hope club, is happy. We fucking made it! "Bravo!" - you are saying to yourself and lots of dead flowers are scattered around.
You are an adult now and you are making your first step into the big wild world. It could not have been better, because now you will get a job and earn a lot of money and be better than anyone else. You will prove to everyone that you are not just a mediocre chap, but you are so fucking special and deserve no less than being treated like a prince/ss.
You start applying for jobs. Suddenly you realise that it takes forever to write a CV. You spent three days writing a CV, you read 5 different books about how to create a perfect CV, and you are already exhausted but very happy, you are almost there. Just one final effort and you will get that job of your dreams. You are going to earn some serious cash and spend it the way you and only you want!
You send your CV to 20 different companies. You are so excited that you can hardly catch your breath. You think: "Oh my God, now they will see how special I am and they will all want to employ me!". But your phone remains silent. It's been more than 24 hours since you sent your CV, but still no response. You wander may be your phone is broken and it can't receive calls? You check your phone 15 times, but it appears to be working perfectly fine. A tiny cruel suspicion starts to grow deep inside you that may be you are not so special and may be what you have done so far in your life is not enough to get the job of your dreams, but you try to ignore it.
Twelve days of silence and you are losing your desire to live. It can't be true! It CAN'T be true! How come they don't want even to see me and offer me an interview? I've been studying so bloody hard for the past 20 years, I was engaged in every single school and university activity and I was a President of Football/Rugby/Tennis/"Lets-get-together-and-get-fucking-wasted"society and I am just cool - why they don't want me?!
And then one day you realise that may be your expectations are a little bit too high and you need to apply to slightly less posh jobs. Let's start from the scratch, you think. Junior position is not that bad, after all, because they will see my brilliance and promote me to a managerial position within months. Yes! Great plan, I am a fucking genius, let's do it!
Finally you got that job offer. Now you will be working in a call centre, you will be a secretary, you will be a junior administrator or a PA. You finally have some power and you finally can show all of them what you are made of. You started brilliantly and after the probation period you have been offered a permanent contract and now you will earn 22,000 pounds a year. When you were a student, you used to live on 8k a year and now you have all that money and it's all yours. Let the party begin!
Suddenly, after 4 months you realise that your job is not really that great. And quite frankly, you never liked it. To be totally honest, it was always a shit job and you clearly deserve so much more. You feel cheated and betrayed. No one has ever told you when you were at school and then at university, that when you become an adult you spend the majority of your time doing a really boring job! It's not just boring, you have a very strong feeling that you were born for something way better. WAY better. And it's clear to everyone, and if it's not, then they are just dumb idiots.
Because you are so great and your job is so totally unsuitable for your top-notch skills, you do not really try that hard anymore. You just do your job and hope that one day you will finally get a job that will develop your endless potential and you will finally make it! But in the meantime you will do your best to make everyone else's life just miserable.
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