When you graduated college, did most of your friends get jobs straight away?

[Anonymous]

When I graduated from a Seven Sister college in the mid 70's the country was going through a recession. Most of my friends worked secretarial jobs until they went back to graduate school. The management trainee jobs were reserved for boys.

[Anonymous]

Graduated early 90's during the recession. Got a job out of college but it was in a small city and had weird shift hours so I absolutely hated it. If I wasn't completely ignorant of the whole intern/co-op program I might have had more success. My university was an engineering school. With the Soviet Union collapsing about that time most of the aerospace companies and defense contractors weren't hiring anymore so a number of engineering students couldn't find work. Those that did were technician type jobs or teaching math. A few went to law or med school.
I got a "do over" and went to school for a Masters in Accounting in 2005. I didn't have any problems getting a job that I enjoyed. Most of my classmates were able to get jobs pretty quickly working for CPA firms.

[Anonymous]

Judging from several recent posts, it is inadvisable to go into law, teaching, medicine, academia... So what careers do you recommend for your kids?

[Anonymous]

The U.S. Labor Dep't. jobs report released on Fri. and it said that 50% of college grads between 2006 - present -- don't have jobs. That is very depressing/demoralizing.

PP -- the WSJ recently reported that more businesses like grads with general liberal arts degrees instead of business degrees because they can generally write/think better. And, you asked what fields are hiring pp -- engineering, health care, hairdressing (can't be outsourced according to WSJ).

It's a really tough time out there for young people ... I don't think people show enough compassion for their plight.

I graduated in 1978 when interest rates were out the wazoo! Jobs were tough to find but I found a great one due to some really great luck!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel very bad for today's graduates. When I graduated (1988) I think every one of my friends had a job coming out of college. It must be such a depressing experience to have worked really hard and then have to work even harder to find an entry level job.

Well OP, I sure wouldn't hire you today with your horrible grammar. Some corrections:
I feel badly
Graduated from
Straightaway ??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I feel very bad for today's graduates. When I graduated (1988) I think every one of my friends had a job coming out of college. It must be such a depressing experience to have worked really hard and then have to work even harder to find an entry level job.

Well OP, I sure wouldn't hire you today with your horrible grammar. Some corrections:
I feel badly
Graduated from
Straightaway ??

Ditto. I only came into this thread because it is my pet peeve when people say "graduate college" or "graduate high school." Why? Just, why? Why would one say this? Makes no sense. "Graduate FROM college." "Graduate FROM high school."

[Anonymous]

1997 grad - Very few people got jobs with the "Big Six" accounting firms that year - was a tough year in that industry, and if you couldn't get a job there, it felt like failure. Only 1 person in my entire university got a job with AA that year (4.0/president of accounting school).

So, I went to a non-first tier law school and still make doo-doo money.

[Anonymous]

Graduated college in 2001. MOST of my friends had a job, or were headed to grad/med/law school or got a job within 4-5 months. They may not have waited for the ideal job, and most of them switched within a year or two, but yes. Most had jobs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Graduated FROM college in 2001. MOST of my friends had a job, or were headed to grad/med/law school or got a job within 4-5 months. They may not have waited for the ideal job, and most of them switched within a year or two, but yes. Most had jobs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1997 grad - Very few people got jobs with the "Big Six" accounting firms that year - was a tough year in that industry, and if you couldn't get a job there, it felt like failure. Only 1 person in my entire university got a job with AA that year (4.0/president of accounting school).

So, I went to a non-first tier law school and still make doo-doo money.

What part of the country were you in? My DW is from Raleigh, North Carolina and graduated that year with an accounting degree and IIRC the big firms hired a number of graduates. She could have gotten on with a big six but didn't like that environment so she wound up working for a local firm.

FWIW - I think universities are overeager to push public accounting and especially the big four (is that how many are left?). Those places can be like white color sweatshops and burn out people quickly. There's a lot more that you can do with a CPA besides public.

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

Do the people queefing in anger about the graduated college/graduated from college thing not have anything better to do? No other threads to post in (oops- in which to post!) to complain?

[Anonymous]

Seriously ...some people right in short hand -- get a grip...I wasn't the one who wrote that but I worked with a guy who insisted graduated college was correct. No amount of "correcting" could correct him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seriously ...some people right in short hand -- get a grip...I wasn't the one who wrote that but I worked with a guy who insisted graduated college was correct. No amount of "correcting" could correct him.

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[Anonymous]

Sorry all, but Merriam-Webster online lists "He joined the navy after graduating high school" as a correct example: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/graduate