Hurry Up & Get a Job! No, Wait! Work on Your Portfolio and Resume Until They Are Perfect!

The internet is always full of advice. In fact, it's full of -all- of the advice. Evar. Any advice that could possibly be given is available on the internet. This makes the internet kind of useless if you don't already have some sort of idealogical predisposition in a given venue.

I'm an artist, and I've just lost my job, through no fault of my own. Currently I'm torn between attempting to get a job as fast as possible, and patiently sitting down and working on my portfolio. Both seem like a good idea. Both seem like a good idea right now. They are, however, mutually exclusive. If I apply for a job that I want right now, while my portfolio isn't as good as I'd like it, I will have been on the ball for a moment, but it's less likely that I will actually get the job. If I wait, myself and my partner become more broke. We already, after only a week of my unemployment, are pretty hard up.

What to do, then? Go broke quickly while trying to do right? Or just sh*t out applications until some employer is gullible enough to think my current portfolio is good. Do I really want to work at a place that likes my portfolio in its current state?

Back to the internet being a collection of all advice ever. I looked this up, to see what bloggers and various other content publishers are saying about this dilemma. They say that I should do one or the other, but they say both. Wait for the perfect job, and settle for the next job you get. F**k you, the internet. You're not actually useful after all.

We already knew that, though, didn't we? I mean, the primary revenue for online companies at the very beginning was pornography which, let's be honest, is just a massive documentation of the oppression of women. What has it moved on to? People in the current up-and-coming generation (the 21 to 24 year olds) think that the internet is better than a library. Have they been fooled?

Yes. Yes they have. Seriously, you can't just take a bunch of sensationalized magazine-style articles, covered with advertisements and stuffed with rhetoric, and assume that they're as good as a book. The internet has positive elements in it, but seriously, to assume that print media will disappear? If the only source of information we had was the internet, we'd be in trouble.

Where was I? Oh, right, I'm talking about not having a job, or something.

Also, you can tell the internet isn't the be-all end-all, by the number of rape jokes splattered everywhere.

I can't get a job, because I seek advice from a magazine ad-covered collection of rape jokes.