Agata is a graduate. She’s been looking for a job for a year now. Any job. She lives with her mother, who has a very peculiar outlook on the job market. She thinks that work is no disgrace, even the one that takes away your dignity. After all, the point of life is to live it no matter the cost. Agata goes to a job interview in a pub. Hard, who interviews her, is very clear – in order to get the job as a bartender, Agata has to renounce her body, as serving every drink is an small act of prostitution. She runs out from the pub. She has an argument with her mother about whether her body belongs to her or to the employer. The Unemployment Office sends her to attend the  Catholic Secretary Course, during which women are taught obedience to men – the higher beings they should serve.

Thanks to participation in the course she gets invited to an interview in a company selling life insurance. The meeting with the Manager goes smoothly and she passes to the second stage of recruitment. Now she has to wait for the call. In the meantime she joins the Conscious Vagina Club, a place where women in search of a NEW WOMAN reject stereotypes which reduce their existence to the predictable social roles. And then they honor their vaginas, looking to them as a means of getting in touch with Pre-Eve. Agata is not sure if as a woman she’s first and foremost a Vagina. She visits the Unemployment Office again. In the final act, Agata becomes a merchandise that is being auctioned. Her mother places ever-higher bids to “sell” her daughter, so that in the future she in turn could do the same to the next generation of women. 

I wrote this text when I myself was unemployed and in the process of looking for a job. This is how my life adventure with writing started. It is also the first text in which I take up the subject of identity.