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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I completely call BS on the posters who are blaming the grads.

The issue is that entry level white-collar jobs are being replaced with unpaid internships and HB-1 workers (who also take mid-level jobs). People have to spend years working for free before getting a toe in the door. The government isn't hiring entry level workers. Consulting and accounting firms demand graduate degrees so you have students who are taking a gap and preparing for grad school that are living at home. Unless the job requires a license, I think it's barrier to entry requires unpaid labor in the form of internships, etc.

I even see it with my kids. One kid wanted to work in PR. Well, it required two years of unpaid internships while she bar tended and lived at home before she finally got a job making 45K a year with benefits. She's plugged away and now ten years later makes about 80K at a trade association and has saved enough to move out and buy her own place.

[b]My other kid is a PA. He was in a BA-PA program so he didn't get a break. [/b]He started at 80K and makes 120K now. He has loans from grad school, but didn't need to live at home because he made enough to support himself from the jump.[/quote]

I think this is really great. IMO many students don't know these options exist, or consider themselves too smart to become a PA instead of a doctor. [/quote]

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