So, what next?

'You have 23 LinkedIn connection requests'

Sigh!! Realisation dawns, that time had arrived! Four gruesome years of battling it out at an Engineering course, fast forward to graduation and the unemployment phase begins.

Everywhere I turn, people are going crazy. Online job portals,like Naukri and Monster.com are probably having their best season yet, with countless resumes being uploaded. That childhood friend abroad, suddenly, becomes an extremely prestigious connection on LinkedIn.  People are constantly running around printing/modifying/copy-pasting CVs and hand delivering them to companies, where you swallow your dignity and try to negotiate with the security guard when he won't allow you to pass the main gate.  If, despite this, efforts of landing a job are futile, change course, they try everything one can get their hands on; internship's, coaching classes,GRE,MBA. One needs to hurry up..Cause it is after all a rat race!! The person who gets the best job/university, the highest package, the fastest wins!  I admit to have been part of this myself. You try everything possible to cushion yourself from the much dreaded, 'So, what's next? '

Having passed out, you have got to have an answer for that, there is no time to breathe!! Life has got to be chalked out.  I think there's probably even an algorithm for it:
1.Go to School
2.Get a degree
3.Find a first job
4.Be successful at that job
5.Learn all the right skills for
6.The next great job
7.Repeat 5-6 untill 8
8.Achieve success

But is that really it??  Is my life really just an algorithm?? How does that make me any different from a robot??

There has got to be more here somewhere.........