18 and full of excitement when I received my acceptance letter from De Montfort University to study Photography & Video BA(Hons) in 2011.
It is now 2015, I graduated last year with a First and still no one will hire me. Im on a below minimum wage job which actually means I've resorted to being 18 again.
After living away for 3 years, one becomes accustomed to being self sufficient and the freedom becomes a right. Now I am nearly 22 and still living at home having my dinners cooked for me.
This is not what I thought post University would be like. I thought the world was my oyster - well that's what I was told.
I'm going to take a slight dig at the Telegraph Media Group now with there Photography Internship, after it took me a day to finish there application process which included, two written questions and two video questions, I waited eagerly for there reply. I thought this is it, this is what will get the ball rolling for me and my career. There looking for a graduate and that's all. Well I was the perfect candidate, not only was I a graduate in Photography but I'd also been awarded the highest diploma you can get from a BA with the plus of past experience as well.
After a week, I received a generic reply and was told my application had not passed the first stage and that I couldn't ask for feedback as I hadn't reached a certain point. The saddest thing is that this internship probably went to the one of the bosses nieces friends cat.
Is this world we have come too? That students are leaving university with thousands of pounds in debt, but not even achieving the dreams we have been brought up believing. And in fact letting the rich man stay on top with no space for us under dogs. They say its all about the people you know, it should be about talent and creativeness not your ability to flirt with every Tom, Dick and Harry.
The funny thing is you can't pay your fee's back until you earn over £16,910. Even at that pay rate, do the government really think were ready to be paying back money? I don't even earn that much.
What I'm trying to say is, maybe just maybe uni was a waste of time and I'm starting to believe that. Three years wasted that I could have been getting experience in the film industry or actually starting my life rather than being stuck in this rutt.
They say the twenties are meant to be the best years of your life, 2 years in and there the worst so far..
