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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Any parents out there who paid $200K+ for college, kid did great, and now can't find job?
Kid graduated from top 20/30 school with honors and career center was completely worthless. [/quote]

Maybe someone already linked this earlier, OP, but:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/10/26/living-home-family-post-grad/

"Living at home after college is not a failure to launch"  (you should be able to see this one article without hitting a paywall, I think).

This is an opinion piece and from the perspective of cultures where it's far, far more common for adults in their 20s to live in their parents' home after college for a time. I know, that's not the DCUM way, on this board, but it's a good perspective to consider.

[u]I have not read the entire thread[/u] so sorry, OP, if you've been down this path here already, but: Can your DC put together, for now, projects, jobs, internships, tutoring, even unpaid volunteering that is at least "career-adjacent"? Things which are near enough to the field of interest that they keep DC engaged and [i]happy[/i], and also add new experiences to the resume? My own DC is at home now after graduating in May and is, like your DC if I read it right, in a humanities/arts field, not the vaunted STEM stuff over which DCUM obsesses. DC is working one paid internship related to DC's field, 20 hours a week, and another short-term paid job in DC's field about 10 hours a week, while also looking constantly at other opportunities for when those two jobs conclude. Can your DC find things that build up the resume while looking for FT jobs?

And I note that you mentioned publishing early on in the thread; I would not expect publishing jobs to be there like they were in decades past. That was a field where I had several friends in NY and Chicago and it has cut way back. One close friend, who had been a very senior editor who had spent more than a decade with a speciality publisher, has been 100 percent freelance editing for several years now after her employer drastically reduced staff size including senior staff. And the issue wasn't anyone's work, or loss of revenue (nonprofit publisher); the issue was that they moved to a whole new business model. Just FYI. The field is not "Move to NY and work 'in publishing'" like it was when we parents were graduating from colleges. [/quote]

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