Job Hunting

We all come to that time in our lives where we have to apply for careers, hunt for jobs and stop sitting around our parent's living rooms wasting air.  So, in the spirit of hunting for a  job, I considered sketching how easy job hunting has become through the ages.  Pre-biblical times:  In the earlier days one had to be able to either farm or hunt.  Making clothes was not a job, it was a woman's duty, creating dishes, pots, fires etc. also fell on her.  So it was either hunt, or farm or die.  Biblical era:  Here you see that your job or career was based on your birth.  If your dad was a farmer, congratulations you are a farmer. ( This might seem easier, and like a better resort, but if you wanted to become an accountant, and your dad was a woodworker... forget it!!). Then came the dawn of science where you could start asking around and travel to different places, often starting as some ones slave and working your way up (this does not include slavery era).  Then came the letter writing and walking door to door delivering them era.  This might seem easy, but take into account that they wrote with ink and quills and it took about 50 letters for the average bloke to get a job.  If you weren't literate add a half hour to the traveling costs and time for every visit to explain your situation to every possible and potential employer.
Then we got the art of printing and it boomed in news paper ads and classifieds.  This was the beginning of the easy life.  You could read ads from employers, write letters to the ten or so employers, send it by post and wait for a reply (up to three weeks) or travel to them to deliver by hand in the hope that some one else didn't beat you to it.  Then came telephones.  Ah, the wonder of ringing some one up and making an appointment only to hear the post reached them sooner.  Fast forward a bunch of decades and today you buy a news paper ( if you are old school), and plug in your mom's wireless dongle into your laptop and click on job mail, olx, gumtree, vacancies.tk and many more.  You click search, or place an ad saying you need to find something that will help you pay rent all while not missing your favorite television show. Most of us have smart phones and if you want to phone straight from the ad, why not.  Interviews are done on skype, and people who has never met you offer you the same job you can find in South Africa in the emirates at four times the pay.  And then after replying to ten ads, all above your experience level because handing out flyers is sooo beneath you at age 17, that you woulld rather be a business manager and get rich quick at only R 35 a month.  okay so today being on the searching end of that job is not eating peanuts (yet), but technology has made it easy on all of us.  Saving every one time and money so that we can waste it on soaps and watching the same series we love twice.