It’s an unfortunate reality of the human condition that there are more people vying an ever dwindling number of musical chairs.
At this rate, I am getting absolutely sick of the generic and clichéd advice given to fellow humans who are just trying to survive. In my specific context, my feeds are bombarded with posts and articles on the ongoing graduate unemployment conundrum.
Whether it’s credential inflation, cost of living, AI, globalisation. Whatever it is, your advice will never work.
Because if there were only 10 musical chairs and 100 people partaking in this game, then the maths is beyond clear.
10 people will make it. And the 90 left behind, well, will be left behind.
How hard is this to understand? People like to produce content about unemployment in various formats. Be it YouTube videos, podcasts, news articles, interviews.
We are all just milking the topic. No one actually gives a damn. We are all too enamoured with our own lives and the stresses associated to do something about it.
There’s no more groundbreaking career advice anyone with an above average G-factor needs to hear.
If you are good enough, and your CV is seen by the recruiter, and you are liked enough, you will be hired. People act like there’s more to this. I beg to differ.
But hey let’s not miss the forest for the trees because this is a structural phenomenon on a global scale.
Society likes to congratulate the 10 people that got the chairs, but what about the 90 that didn’t?
Do we not see a problem with this? Any civilisation with a growing number of frustrated people will not last.
