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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The people posting about how graduates should have fast food and retail experience don’t realize that many of those jobs have gone to full time year round workers including new legal workers (asylum seekers can legally work after a year).

We now live in CA where the minimum fast food wage is $20 an hour. My 16 year old applied to 10 fast food jobs in May and June. He got 2 interviews. When he said he could only work full time in the summer but could not work over 20 hours in the fall when school started he wasn’t hired.

The only jobs his friends got were life guarding and the attractive girls were hired as hostesses in restaurants. [/quote]

I spend equal time in DC and upstate NY and I see tons of high school and college age kids in retail jobs in both places.

The point is you are not helping your kids by paying all ths bills for their upper middle class lifestyle and then suddenly expecting them to understand to be prepared for work when they graduate from college. A kid who graduated college with no workplace experience of any kind, even if volunteer experience, is behind the curve.[/quote]

well plenty of foreign students get their masters without work experience (student visa doesn't allow working), and they find jobs just fine.
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It allowed working when I was in college (graduated in 2010). I had friends who interned over the summer in college with their visas at Goldman Sachs and Citi and another who worked at a summer camp in Maine. They got like 6 months that they could use during college or after college. Is that not the case anymore? [/quote]

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