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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Good luck explaining the gap when trying to get a job...[/quote]

Really? Nobody cares about job "gaps" that occur before the acquisition of a bachelor's degree.[/quote]

Sure, if you want a job at a company that hires every warm body. At my office taking five or six years to finish a BA automatically throws your resume in the electronic trash.[/quote]

How would anyone know ?
I only list my year the degree was obtained.[/quote]

Years attended? Transcript verification? "Explain this job you had [back home] for two years"? How about grad school admissions?

Like I said, if the kid wants to work at some low-prestige company, sure, I doubt many will notice or care. And if the kid never wants to go to a good grad school, who cares, I guess.[/quote]

I have never had anyone look at a transcript.
I don't list years attended even though I graduated on time.
Nor do I list every job I had, WHO CARES![/quote]

You've never had a high-status job. I'm sorry this is over your head.[/quote]

You are completely full of sh%#. Your college experience matters for exactly one thing, your first job application. No one gives a flying @#$% after that and if you are in an industry where this is a requirement then it is BY FAR the minority and you should at least be aware of that. PLENTY of normal companies that don't care. Once you have real life job experience it becomes 1000% more relevant than college. [/quote]
NO, the PPs point is that even those with a "big-status" job at the age of 38 wouldn't need to list the job they had at Home Depot when they were 20 and taking a break from a traditional college path. They would put the college they ultimately graduated from, no starting date is needed really, and then the following relevant jobs that followed. OP's nephew may just end up being a more interesting and LESS JUDGEMENTAL person because of this period of his life, and will hopefully learn that many people have had experiences beyond what their "high-status" lives may reveal. That's some thing not everyone has figured out, I guess...^^^^[/quote]

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