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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anyone is in the same boat as my DD?  History major from UVA without any jobs offered so far.[/quote]

I think the issue is that there’s an uneven, unpredictable job market.

It’s easy to get an entry-level job and not starve, and it’s easy for workers with certain types of skills or experience to get work, but the unpredictable nature of COVID and the volatility in the stock market mean that some people might have a terrible time getting suitable work.

Another thought is that it’s good to have grad school applications in the works, and for recent grads who haven’t applied to 2022-23 grad school to think of this more as a gap year than a life launch. If the economy is good and hiding in grad school is unnecessary, great, but who knows what the economy will do.

Still another critical thing is for kids not on a cookie-cutter career path to think of all honest, paying jobs as real jobs.

Bright, well-educated kids without fabulous student job resumes should understand that a supermarket clerk job can be a gateway to running Whole Foods. Working as a bank clerk may start the path to running Bank of America. Running a rental car counter may be the start of the journey to being a millionaire rental car franchise owner.

Certainly, there are plugged-in kids with fashionable majors who can skip those entry-level jobs and sneer at them. But even a lot of those kids actually started out with low-level jobs working for their parents or parents’ friends when they were in middle school or high school. So, they actually did go through a hidden scutwork stage.

And the need for a humble scutwork stage is especially critical for humanities majors without a significant work or internship history, because the reality is that they have important intellectual tools but no work skills. They may have no idea of what working in a shop or office is like. Getting some kind of paying work is how they start to see what’s out there.

Finally, all kinds of people buy lattes, hire babysitters and use dog walkers. Doing that kind of customer-facing work can be as much a part of self-marketing for a new grad as sending out resumes. I think new grads just have to get the best bill-paying jobs they can find  and try to apply the same intelligence and energy to the bill-paying job that they would apply to the real job, and hope for the best, and not get bogged down in negativity. [/quote]

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