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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I heard somewhere that people who graduate in a recession later take fewer risks to advance their careers, in other words that the environment in which they started their careers has an affect on their choices many years down the line.  I don't have any study reference to back that up, and I don't remember how many years the effect apparently lingered.  [/quote]

This actually really resonates with me.  My whole life I did the "right" things -- graduated top of my class with honors in undergrad (was the first in my family to graduate college), got a really great scholarship to a top tier law school, etc.  Then the bottom fell out and I watched all around me as a lot of my classmates struggled to find jobs.  I was on unemployment myself for about 6 weeks after a temporary job ended until I finally accepted a job below my capabilities and now I'm stuck here.  I had no idea how much the first job I took out of school would affect my future career, and now that hiring is picking back up to some extent, I feel like a picked over good.  At the time though, taking this job felt like a better option than not having a paycheck.  I probably am much more risk averse because I'm terrified of going back to that feeling of being 25 and needing unemployment.
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