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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have an apartment over our garage in a desirable neighborhood and because of that we've housed 4 kids from the class of 2023 while they've searched for jobs over the last year (including my DS). The physics major landed a job first at a cybersecurity start-up paying $65k a year. The business major, a kid who had the best EQ of the 4, landed a job paying about $80k but it took way more time than he expected. The English major who never had an internship in college really struggled and ended up as a health tech for about $45k a year. The math major is still looking (he had a late start) but he has had good offers that he has turned down, unfortunately because now it is getting tougher to get another offer. Just listening to them, math or physics could be a good alternative to CS.  [/quote]

Young adults, most of the time, think that they can make it without anyone help and that is the problem.

My DS graduated from VA Tech in December '23 without any job offers even though he did two internships in his sophomore and junior year.  He was devastated when he didn't have a job upon graduation that he became depressed for two months.  To keep himself from going insane, he went to the gym and hit the golf course everyday.  He met this older person on the golf course and they played golf together.  Turned out that this person is an SES Fed and he made a few calls on behalf of DS for a contracting position.  DS is now working for a big defense contractor with very good salary, 115K.  Sadly, "connections" and "networking" is often not emphasized enough in college.  Most college students fail to recognize this until they graduate and by then it is too late.  [/quote]

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