Jon market terrible - anyone’s kids getting a good job

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Anonymous wrote:My kids has a job and so does most of his friends. (graduated 2024 - so out one year). A lot live at home the first year to save money and to be able to accept a lower paying job that would otherwise be unaffordable. In fact, more than half of his friends live at home.

They all hustled, did internships or lower paying jobs first, networked and all have jobs with varying pay. The jobs are out there but you need to be aggressive and be willing to move and be open to different opportunities.

I would rather pay for my kid to have an apartment than have them live at home again. Anyone else?

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My 2025 CS major is working and just moved out with another '25, got job from last year's internship (both of them, actually).

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DS has a very good job, but only got one offer after two excellent internships and 250+ applications. In a cohort of 10 and was told they got 3000+ applications. Most, but not all, of his friends got jobs, though some are crappy. A few still looking. We know 2024 grads who are still unemployed.

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TJ kid just graduated college. All their hs and college friends got a full time job (unless going to graduate school). No exceptions. Mostly STEM majors.

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Anonymous wrote:DS has a very good job, but only got one offer after two excellent internships and 250+ applications. In a cohort of 10 and was told they got 3000+ applications. Most, but not all, of his friends got jobs, though some are crappy. A few still looking. We know 2024 grads who are still unemployed.

What field and did job come from internship? Such a rat race

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Anonymous wrote:My kids has a job and so does most of his friends. (graduated 2024 - so out one year). A lot live at home the first year to save money and to be able to accept a lower paying job that would otherwise be unaffordable. In fact, more than half of his friends live at home.

They all hustled, did internships or lower paying jobs first, networked and all have jobs with varying pay. The jobs are out there but you need to be aggressive and be willing to move and be open to different opportunities.

I would rather pay for my kid to have an apartment than have them live at home again. Anyone else?

Disagree, but I guess not everyone has a great kid! LOL.

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Anonymous wrote:My kids has a job and so does most of his friends. (graduated 2024 - so out one year). A lot live at home the first year to save money and to be able to accept a lower paying job that would otherwise be unaffordable. In fact, more than half of his friends live at home.

They all hustled, did internships or lower paying jobs first, networked and all have jobs with varying pay. The jobs are out there but you need to be aggressive and be willing to move and be open to different opportunities.

I would rather pay for my kid to have an apartment than have them live at home again. Anyone else?

Disagree, but I guess not everyone has a great kid! LOL.

Oh mine are great! I just like my empty nest.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone’s kids getting a good job? What did they do? Job market for new grads seems really bad.

Entry level position but yes, GMU Economics grad working as a project engineer in a construction company.

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Anonymous wrote:My kids has a job and so does most of his friends. (graduated 2024 - so out one year). A lot live at home the first year to save money and to be able to accept a lower paying job that would otherwise be unaffordable. In fact, more than half of his friends live at home.

They all hustled, did internships or lower paying jobs first, networked and all have jobs with varying pay. The jobs are out there but you need to be aggressive and be willing to move and be open to different opportunities.

I would rather pay for my kid to have an apartment than have them live at home again. Anyone else?

Disagree, but I guess not everyone has a great kid! LOL.

Oh mine are great! I just like my empty nest.

I have 3 great kids. Love spending time with them. I still think I might heavily subsidize or fully pay for an apartment.

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Anonymous wrote:DS has a very good job, but only got one offer after two excellent internships and 250+ applications. In a cohort of 10 and was told they got 3000+ applications. Most, but not all, of his friends got jobs, though some are crappy. A few still looking. We know 2024 grads who are still unemployed.

What field and did job come from internship? Such a rat race

Econ. No.

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Anonymous wrote:My kids has a job and so does most of his friends. (graduated 2024 - so out one year). A lot live at home the first year to save money and to be able to accept a lower paying job that would otherwise be unaffordable. In fact, more than half of his friends live at home.

They all hustled, did internships or lower paying jobs first, networked and all have jobs with varying pay. The jobs are out there but you need to be aggressive and be willing to move and be open to different opportunities.

I would rather pay for my kid to have an apartment than have them live at home again. Anyone else?

Disagree, but I guess not everyone has a great kid! LOL.

Oh mine are great! I just like my empty nest.

I’m with you

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Anonymous wrote:My college grad is working at Whole Foods. BA in the humanities and fair amount of internship experience in publishing. I cannot even count the number of jobs she applied to, most of which went into a black hole. She's still trying for the job she wants and she moved to the city she wants to live in with friends, and at least she's able to pay her bills. It's not ideal but she's making it work.

Yikes. What college? Major?

Not the OP, why do you care about which college? Major is relevant, however.

of course it's the major (not the college).

Publishing has been challenging to find jobs for decades now. You have to take "lesser jobs" and grunt work to get into the field

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Anonymous wrote:DD has an architecture degree and has not been able to find a job since graduating this May--ditto her arch friends. She has two friends who are engineering students and they haven't found anything yet either. They all starting looking around March.

Do you think there will be less jobs in some of these areas because of Trump kicking out the men and women who do the actual building?

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Anonymous wrote:My kids has a job and so does most of his friends. (graduated 2024 - so out one year). A lot live at home the first year to save money and to be able to accept a lower paying job that would otherwise be unaffordable. In fact, more than half of his friends live at home.

They all hustled, did internships or lower paying jobs first, networked and all have jobs with varying pay. The jobs are out there but you need to be aggressive and be willing to move and be open to different opportunities.

Me too! But we can easily afford it. If you can't I'd have them live at home and save for moving out later. Because it might be a few years before they can afford to be fully in an apartment

I would rather pay for my kid to have an apartment than have them live at home again. Anyone else?

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Anonymous wrote:My kids has a job and so does most of his friends. (graduated 2024 - so out one year). A lot live at home the first year to save money and to be able to accept a lower paying job that would otherwise be unaffordable. In fact, more than half of his friends live at home.

They all hustled, did internships or lower paying jobs first, networked and all have jobs with varying pay. The jobs are out there but you need to be aggressive and be willing to move and be open to different opportunities.

The 2024 experience is VERY different from the 2025 grad experience.