Hi all, I'm Oz Angel, and I'm going to be one of the regular bloggers here at Essential Madness. So, a little about me... I'm a regular Aussie girl. I'm not anyone special, just your typical Aussie battler. I probably won't be writing about saucy material like Queen Bee, but I'm hoping the ordinary struggles of a positive Aussie girl will interest at least some of you.

With the global economic crisis, the ability for the ordinary Australian has become a lot more difficult than what we have been used to in the past. I am no different, I have felt the pinch. My partner earns a modest wage, although splitting that between two is spreading the butter quite thin. We are surviving. I'm not the kind of person who likes to struggle, though. I want to get back into that comfort zone. You only live once, and while I can appreciate the experience of struggling as something to learn from, I don't want to live my whole life like that. Is that really too much to want?

So anyway, I have embarked on a journey to make myself a lot more employable; taking on a university degree and two other certified courses. Will this be enough? So far it hasn't. Sometimes I feel like all the effort is for nothing. I feel betayed by my country. On the one hand they fight for my vote... convincing me that they will make things better for me, but on the other hand my country cannot even employ me. I don't consider myself a dumb person. My friends seem to regard me as an intelligent person. So why can't my country see that in me? Is there anything else I can do?

Wow, sorry about this, I guess this is quite a boring introduction. Hopefully my blogs will document an eventual happy ending. Fingers crossed.

Talk again soon happy people.