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?

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

[Anonymous]

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?

[Anonymous]

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.

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2025 uva commerce grad- making low six figures at a bank in NYC. Return offer from internship last summer.

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2025 psychology grad, working in a private in-patient facility - worked there PT throughout senior year

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Math major from Williams. DS is making 110K in his first job out. Considering applying already, because he thinks he's underpaid. Everyone he knows has a job or is in grad school.

[Anonymous]

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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?

No.

Perhaps without a surfeit of labor the construction industry will be forced to modernize to achieve productivity gains.

So it could be a blessing in disguise.

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Anonymous wrote:Math major from Williams. DS is making 110K in his first job out. Considering applying already, because he thinks he's underpaid. Everyone he knows has a job or is in grad school.

What field is the job in? sounds great

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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.

Yeah, mine got one straight out of UVa. Been working for two months and moved to Manhattan in two weeks.

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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.

It is not bad!
Every single 25 grad at my kids ivy hd a job or grad/law/med lined up by graduation weekend. All of them. There were multiple parties for all of the different groups and if the kid didnt say the job the parents were sure to say. We must have met 40-50 families over the three days.

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Anonymous wrote:Math major from Williams. DS is making 110K in his first job out. Considering applying already, because he thinks he's underpaid. Everyone he knows has a job or is in grad school.

What is he doing?

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DS and his friends (undergrad and grad students) from CMU all had multiple SWE offers with companies on both coasts. Some went to Wall Street, some went to FAANG and some went w startups.

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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?

You do realize this is not an option for many people, right?