Anonymous
Post 08/22/2025 23:21     Subject: Re:Jon market terrible - anyone’s kids getting a good job
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:DD hustled and got a post-graduation job. It is at a firm where half the posters would be impressed and the other half would say gross. A few years ago I naively was encouraging her to go for a fellowship, like a Fulbright, or honors program in a government agency. She was correct to hustle for the corporate job.

I will note that she works very hard and is grateful for the job. Her role isn’t STEM or finance so she isn’t paid as much as some are noting here. But she enjoys the work and her team and is getting great experience.


How exactly is having a moderately paid job in a company clearly better than spending the same year(s) being a Rhodes, Fulbright or Marshall fellow? I mean, good for her if that is her priority, but I'm not sure it's correct to extrapolate

Yeah I don’t get this one. If you’re in the humanities a Rhodes scholarship is the ticket to a successful career- you’re much more likely to get into a top PhD program or law school. Corporate work is great, but these are once in a lifetime opportunities.

+ a million
Anonymous
Post 08/22/2025 23:09     Subject: Re:Jon market terrible - anyone’s kids getting a good job
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My son just started a new job at Palantir. GA Tech 2025 Grad with a degree in CS. Excellent pay and benefits.


Gross.

DP but really? Are you jealous or simply a disgusting person? People on DCUM are even more toxic than I realized. Someone shares good news about their kid’s hard work paying off, and your reaction is “gross”? That says more about you than about them.


Are you familiar with Palantir? Even my own kid, a conservative Gen Z-er still in college, thinks they are evil.
Anonymous
Post 08/22/2025 23:06     Subject: Re:Jon market terrible - anyone’s kids getting a good job
Anonymous wrote:My son just started a new job at Palantir. GA Tech 2025 Grad with a degree in CS. Excellent pay and benefits.


Ugh. Ew.
Anonymous
Post 08/22/2025 22:52     Subject: Jon market terrible - anyone’s kids getting a good job
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Proud Bucknell parent here. DS got a great job matching trade tickets for Blackrock ETFs after school. After 3 years they might promote him to reconciliations. He got 3 of his lax teammates hired into the dept as well! The Bucknell street pipeline at work!


Lol this is so funny and so few will get it.


I can't tell. Is this the Bucknell booster or someone mocking the BB and inadvertently boosting Bucknell?
Anonymous
Post 08/22/2025 22:24     Subject: Jon market terrible - anyone’s kids getting a good job
Anonymous wrote:Proud Bucknell parent here. DS got a great job matching trade tickets for Blackrock ETFs after school. After 3 years they might promote him to reconciliations. He got 3 of his lax teammates hired into the dept as well! The Bucknell street pipeline at work!


Lol this is so funny and so few will get it.
Anonymous
Post 08/22/2025 22:00     Subject: Jon market terrible - anyone’s kids getting a good job
Proud Bucknell parent here. DS got a great job matching trade tickets for Blackrock ETFs after school. After 3 years they might promote him to reconciliations. He got 3 of his lax teammates hired into the dept as well! The Bucknell street pipeline at work!
Anonymous
Post 08/22/2025 21:49     Subject: Jon market terrible - anyone’s kids getting a good job
Anonymous wrote:CS was so dumb to welcome AI, which ended up destroying them. At least law and medicine were, for a long time, highly regulated and created artificial scarcity.

My first job was 25 years ago, and i made $50k out of college WITH JUST AN ART DEGREE. My own child is terrified to graduate next year with an engineering degree from a top ten. They're looking at working abroad.

No, CS companies are smart in replacing some of their most expensive, redundant workers (entry level/low-level engineers without specialty domain knowledge). CS majors were dumb in believing they would hop into this trend and wouldn't get replaced first.
Anonymous
Post 08/22/2025 21:23     Subject: Jon market terrible - anyone’s kids getting a good job
CS was so dumb to welcome AI, which ended up destroying them. At least law and medicine were, for a long time, highly regulated and created artificial scarcity.

My first job was 25 years ago, and i made $50k out of college WITH JUST AN ART DEGREE. My own child is terrified to graduate next year with an engineering degree from a top ten. They're looking at working abroad.
Anonymous
Post 08/22/2025 21:20     Subject: Jon market terrible - anyone’s kids getting a good job
The kids we know who graduated from Tech with CS who graduated in the last three years all got great jobs. No dog in this fight but agree the claims are weird.
And not a STEM person myself. English major.
Anonymous
Post 08/22/2025 20:57     Subject: Jon market terrible - anyone’s kids getting a good job
The economy is terrible right now with the decimation of the federal workforce and the effects of the tariffs. I know so many people out of work right not, so there is a ton of competition from workers with experience, which makes it nearly impossible for recent jobs. The internship market is really really tough too.
Anonymous
Post 08/22/2025 20:57     Subject: Jon market terrible - anyone’s kids getting a good job
20:42 here: The best part is our daughter loves nursing.
All of her college friends, nursing and otherwise either have good jobs, or are in post-grad programs. Mostly STEM kids but not all.
Anonymous
Post 08/22/2025 20:42     Subject: Jon market terrible - anyone’s kids getting a good job
Yes. 2025 graduate is a nurse. Great money. Excellent hospital. Terrific city.
Anonymous
Post 08/22/2025 20:37     Subject: Jon market terrible - anyone’s kids getting a good job
Our next door neighbor's kid graduated in '24 with an Econ major + Math minor from a flagship (not elite, but still good). Had a one year fellowship in a different city and is now unemployed living at home.
Anonymous
Post 08/22/2025 20:22     Subject: Jon market terrible - anyone’s kids getting a good job
Anonymous wrote:My 2024 grad got a job b4- accounting, interned summer of 2023 and got return offer. This summer the firm was much more selective with return offers. my 2026 grad just received a return offer from his summer internship, engineering major. Tell your college students to take the fall career fairs seriously! Both of my kids and most of their friends got their internships at college career fairs. The internship is the key to job offers.


My son is starting his junior year of college next week. I’ve given him this advice throughout the summer. 🤞
Anonymous
Post 08/22/2025 20:17     Subject: Re:Jon market terrible - anyone’s kids getting a good job
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:DD’s a history major and has a job, so do all her friends. The only people struggling right now are her premed friends who didn’t make it into med school/other bio majors and cs majors.


What kind of jobs?

DD has a consulting gig, but previously interned doing archival work for the government and data analysis for an federal agency. Her friends in the humanities have jobs in Social work, a paralegal hoping to go to law school, and a program developer for a tech startup accelerator. Her Econ friends do IB/Consulting with one going to grad school.