Reply to Any Ivy graduates here? Ivy League graduate son in a funk, humuliated, & remains jobless

Forum Index » Jobs and Careers

Reply to "Any Ivy graduates here? Ivy League graduate son in a funk, humuliated, & remains jobless"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Didn’t read the whole thread but I was a middle class non-athlete Ivy grad and had to seriously hustle in order to get a shitty entry level job. Key was my parents weren’t whispering in my ear that my Ivy education should have meant otherwise. Your son needs a schedule to combat his depression and you need to stop even hinting that he’s somehow more deserving than others. A retail job plus some volunteering could impart some good habits and perspective - as well as improve his resume.[/quote]

RE: "shitty entry level job"

I don't mean this facetiously, were you targeted in a negative way for having a "prestigious" degree in a setting with presumably few or zero prestigious degrees? Curious what your trajectory was like after that. How long you remained in that "shitty" job, did you ever end up tapping an Ivy network as you job hopped, or did go back to grad school?[/quote]

NP - I had a similar background and experience with a shitty entry level job.  I was promoted after 10 months and stayed at that level for a few years (typical in my field).  I knew I didn’t fit in at my first company, though, so I made a lateral move into one where degrees from prestigious schools were more common.   I got my next promotion 5 years into my career and have moved up every 18-36 months since then.

The Ivy network became much more useful once I was about 10 years into my career and had deeper hands-on experience.  I’ve job-hopped to work for other alumni, and gained visibility I wouldn’t have had otherwise.  I’m pretty introverted, but I have leveraged my quietness into sort of an ‘Ivy nerd’ persona and I don’t think I would have been able to do that with a degree from GMU or UMD.  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics