Job fair

Yesterday was the St. John’s University Career Center job fair. I work at the Career Center, so I’ve seen a lot of the things that went on to organize the fair. Unfortuantly, I was forced to do a lot of the work to get ready for this fair as well. Yesterday I was stuck in Carnesseca Arena for four hours swiping people in. Ugh, talk about being bored. It amazed me to see how many older people (Alumni) showed up for the fair. In a way, it kind of scared me.

I really hope that by the time I am 25, I will have a career…one that I love and one will that last. At the fair, a lot of alumni showed up with Resumes and ready to talk to the employers. In fact, one lady even had her child with her. I’m not in the career field quite yet, but does that look bad to an employer? Not the fact that she had a child, but the fact that she was 30 and still didn’t know what she wanted to do with her life. Last week, a man came into the Career Center because he was alumni who had an appt. because he didn’t know what he wanted to do with his life. This man is married and has a few children. He was 47 years old and still did not have a career. I just don’t quite understand this. He graduated from St. Johns quite a while ago, so what happened after that? I know that maybe because of some circumstances he could not get a job, but why for so long? The Career Center has a lot of older people calling and saying they just don’t know what to do with themselves, and they are 40 and 50 years old. I just hope this isn’t me after graduation.