Getting Started with Low GPA

[Anonymous]

raptorsxyz wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are you good looking?

Are you male or female?

Are you a smooth talker?

I only say this as I graduated with a 2.7 GPA and with a good suit, nice watch, crisp white shirt and tie all I needed was the introduction.

If a man HR is full of young women. Not really hard to get in. If a women all the “bros” in start ups dying for a young women.

And bars by where you want to work are your friend. Just meet someone and get a referral. Even works virtual on linked in.

Being old, fat and bald with glasses it’s hard. Young good looking and from a good school easy.

I was on Hill on Thursday it was loaded with good looking women and men in nice suits looking the part.

Also you represent your boss. I say hit the gym, dress nice, hit the bars!!

OP here, thanks for making me feel a bit better. I'm a guy - I mean I'm no Sean Connery, but yes I am good looking, a decent talker, and I pay close attention to my fitness and how I dress. Good info to know I need to keep working on these soft skills and qualities.

How do you have a low gpa with those qualities? If you were a party bro you should have a jobs network. If it was mental illness then you need to get that worked out ASAP before you're stuck working Amazon warehouse shifts.

[Anonymous]

Rethink sales - it is about connecting people with problems to solutions that might help. It is not necessarily "soulless."

[Anonymous]

I’m a woman, but otherwise you sound a lot like me. My GPA was hammered by being pre-med, but I was a Poli Sci and English double major and did well in both fields (and all humanities and social sciences courses). See if you can get a job at a place like Glover Park Group or a similar org. I would try for opportunities in SF, Boston, DC, and NYC. Grind in out for three years and apply to grad school in your second year and then really kill it in grad school and get a job at Goldman, Bain, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Fed position? Policy wonk type.

What is a policy wonk fed? I’ve never worked for the government so curious.

I think they mean a policy analyst. I do that work in IT, but I’m a higher grade and got started with a long career in IT. That said, you could get in at a lower level because a lot of the job involves writing. There are likely some places that hire policy people for research. You be asked to research public policy and then figure out if that policy is instituted at the organization. Then you contact all the people involved and get them to agree to updates to ensure coverage. In my area, they’ve all be experienced professionals but I don’t think that means that no one ever hires people out if school for that type of work.

[Anonymous]

OP, in all the posts so far, I'm not getting a good sense of what you WANT to do.

I think sales is a fine entry-level job. But I also liked the idea of looking at the trade associations. There's so much churn at these places that there are often interesting entry-level jobs. Think meeting planning, entry-level IT, data management, communications, etc.

Get some good experience under your belt and think about whether you would even WANT to go to law school. It doesn't sound like a great fit.