In fact more, were almost 1,100 curriculum, which we receive in a few days after an announcement on a known job portal, to cover two squares of journalist in our new Office in Madrid. Asked, in addition to the University degree, a high level of English, driver's license and own car and availability to travel. The adjusted wages in line with the times. And even so, more than 1,000 people, mostly young, qualifying and were offered to fill the two seats available.

Perhaps some of you not be it, but I did I was surprised by the magnitude of the number. Behind every one of those almost thousand curriculum there are nearly a thousand young - or not so young - who have not found your site on the labour market. All them with completed university studies, many highly qualified, who took seriously that that training is the basis of personal progress and went a few years of his life, perhaps at the cost of great sacrifices of their parents, to acquire knowledge and certification I was going to secure a future professional in accordance with their hopes and expectations. Years of notes, reviews, weekend without leaving, practices of fellow... for what? To finish adding your brief resume to other hundreds in selection processes with the possibility of the two per thousand. A problem is not exclusive of the journalists, the same is currently the case with the graduates in law, in economics, with architects, even with a good part of engineers and general with almost all of the graduates. In short, it is a problem of society as a whole.

For many years, even today, we have heard and read economists, sociologists and politicians who claimed that the main challenge of our country was training. Then, what answer we give to our children when finished his studies ask us why not find a job? It is only because of the crisis? Can anyone believe that when it starts to send the labour market it will absorb no more 1,100 applicants who stayed out of place? In these times, being University is a problem.

In gilded age of the brick (who remember?) many young people left the studies to work in construction. Won over a good plasterer or an electrician that many lawyers and economists, and many parents were their children direct their future to the field thinking there never I was going to miss work. Today, the vast majority are solidifying the statistics of the INEM with few expectations of finding a job in the short term. In these times, not having studies is one even bigger problem.

Let us be clear. In Spain, with 45 per cent of youth unemployment, the mere fact of being young is a problem. University degree or without it. And in this crisis that is threatening to extend for years, our young people face a bleak panorama and surely many reasons to feel indignant. But in any case to remain inactive, depending on years of their parents or unnecessarily prolonging their training by adding to its curriculum studies of dubious utility. In any case, learn languages, English, German, Mandarin... There is always an opportunity for that search. There are opportunities for entrepreneurs, those who have an idea and even with limited resources, are able to develop at the expense of work and imagination. Or, ultimately, to do what they did many of his grandparents, look for the life beyond our borders, there where, perhaps, your resume does not have to compete with other mil.

We can complain we want and have more than enough reasons to do so. We can fill seats and demand changes and reforms, can settle in Utopia and expect the system to regenerate by the momentum of the slogan or the banner. But, after all, individual progress, which feeds the collective progress depends in the first and last instance of the effort and the determination of each and everyone for himself. Our youth, grown on the welfare and with a paternalistic conception of the State, society should learn that nobody is going to remove the chestnuts from the fire. You are alone with their own destiny. As we are almost all others.