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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is our oldest nephew and I'm a SAHM, so I've never been through this before. Nephew is graduating from college. Sister and BIL are middle class. I'm a bit uncomfortable with my husband putting his neck out for an in-law who honestly doesn't seem deserving of a backdoor to a lucrative job. Or is this just how the world works and I should encourage my husband to help? [b]My husband has helped a couple of close friends' kids,[/b] but they all had pretty impressive CVs, so I don't think they really even needed the lift.[/quote]

If he's willing to do it for friends' kids, you should definitely ask him to do it for your nephew.  It's an entry-level position, he's not asking to be CFO.  He can sink or swim once he gets there but having the door opened by a connection is *exactly* how the world works.

It's strange that you call your nephew "an in-law" when speaking from your husband's perspective.  Your sister and BIL are his in laws, but the next generation down is just . . . his nephew, same as yours.  [/quote]

We socialize with those families and those handful of kids he helped we knew for years. Very charming and highly ambitious students. I doubt they even needed my husband's help. [b]My nephew is fairly aimless and isn't setting the world on fire.[/b] I'm sure he can land a regular 60K job like any other graduating college student. My sister and brother in law think my husband can pull strings to land him some plum six figure finance job a couple months before he graduates.[/quote]

Is he supposed to be setting the world on fire before he graduates college?  How aimless can someone be while taking classes toward graduation?  Is he a 7th year senior or something?

You knew the other kids for years, as opposed to your nephew, who you what, just met?  You are coming across like a sociopath.  You have no job whatsoever but believe that you know better than your DH, the actual gatekeeper, what kids deserve a shot based on . . . being charmed at a cocktail party, so you will denigrate your own flesh and blood and not even ask your DH to do the same favor for your nephew that he is clearly comfortable doing for kids he knows.  If you could read your posts through any other eyes you'd be mortified.[/quote]

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