Anonymous
Post 04/06/2026 08:56     Subject: This job market for entry level college grads
Law school looks like its going to get the 2008 double whammy of getting a surge in a applicants right when there is a tech disruption to practice (eDiscovery in 2008 and AI in 2025). Schools will be happy for the tuition and argue there is a lawyer shortage because governments don’t fund enough legal services and people would rather give up on the law rather than do legal work for $50 an hour and get stiffed on the bill 50% of the time.
Anonymous
Post 04/03/2026 22:47     Subject: This job market for entry level college grads
Anonymous wrote:What is difference between BSN and RN?


Inova pays an RN who has a BSN more than someone who is an RN without a BSN.

Anonymous
Post 03/22/2026 22:06     Subject: This job market for entry level college grads
I had one employee working on her RN. She could not pass organic chemistry at our local community college in our State of Maryland so she transferred to a community college in Delaware and took organic chemistry now for the third time. She is now an RN.

Persevere and stick with it.
Anonymous
Post 03/22/2026 21:42     Subject: This job market for entry level college grads
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:There’s always law enforcement.


And teaching. Plenty of openings. Counties have multiple programs for career changers that get you the training and certification.

Your kid paid for a $150k degree to earn $40k. What a dismal ROI.


You sound both an Abby and uninformed.

Even new teachers in this area make much more than 40K, and that still leaves them 2 months to seek a summer gig if they are so inclined.

And, walking around with a college degree for the rest of your life/career is not nothing.



These finance types probably don’t understand that(important) point at all.

DP. And it happens to be a job that positively contributes to society.
Anonymous
Post 03/22/2026 21:41     Subject: This job market for entry level college grads
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:There’s always law enforcement.


And teaching. Plenty of openings. Counties have multiple programs for career changers that get you the training and certification.

Your kid paid for a $150k degree to earn $40k. What a dismal ROI.


You sound both an Abby and uninformed.

Even new teachers in this area make much more than 40K, and that still leaves them 2 months to seek a summer gig if they are so inclined.

And, walking around with a college degree for the rest of your life/career is not nothing.



*snobby
Anonymous
Post 03/22/2026 12:56     Subject: This job market for entry level college grads
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:There’s always law enforcement.


And teaching. Plenty of openings. Counties have multiple programs for career changers that get you the training and certification.

Your kid paid for a $150k degree to earn $40k. What a dismal ROI.


You sound both an Abby and uninformed.

Even new teachers in this area make much more than 40K, and that still leaves them 2 months to seek a summer gig if they are so inclined.

And, walking around with a college degree for the rest of your life/career is not nothing.



DP. And it happens to be a job that positively contributes to society.
Anonymous
Post 03/22/2026 12:48     Subject: This job market for entry level college grads
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:There’s always law enforcement.


And teaching. Plenty of openings. Counties have multiple programs for career changers that get you the training and certification.

Your kid paid for a $150k degree to earn $40k. What a dismal ROI.


You sound both an Abby and uninformed.

Even new teachers in this area make much more than 40K, and that still leaves them 2 months to seek a summer gig if they are so inclined.

And, walking around with a college degree for the rest of your life/career is not nothing.

Anonymous
Post 03/22/2026 11:23     Subject: This job market for entry level college grads
What is difference between BSN and RN?
Anonymous
Post 03/22/2026 10:58     Subject: This job market for entry level college grads
Nurse here. You can skip the BSN and just get the RN. It's all the same with hiring.
Anonymous
Post 03/21/2026 16:02     Subject: This job market for entry level college grads
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:It's bad. That is why law school apps are up 20% too.


There is going to be a surplus of lawyers in 5 years?


There is already a huge surplus of lawyers. Law school is a bad bet right now.


They’d be better off doing an accelerated BSN.

And how does that help someone with a bachelor's degree without the requisite science classes?


You enroll at any convenient community college and take science pre-reqs. This works for any allied health professional and even for medical school.

— RN BSN who took all the stats and micro at Montgomery College within the last 10 years


This. Perpetual shortage of people with BSN + RN.
Anonymous
Post 03/21/2026 08:06     Subject: This job market for entry level college grads
What are the majors/job fields for those seeking jobs?
Anonymous
Post 03/21/2026 08:05     Subject: Re:This job market for entry level college grads
Anonymous wrote:
If I can give one suggestion for those who havea senior in high school or a young college student interested in finance, business or a consulting job with a big firm upon undergraduate completion, I would say to have an interest in a nonprogit that you can continue a relationship with during college that you might have participated in during high school. It could be in almost any kind of service group, but if you continue with a college or community related group in volunteering, it shows a continuing interest beyond just the studies and money goals. This might be in a disability related program, housing program,
literacy or STEM education program etc. It is the ability to write about a multi-year interest in XX in different ways and if one can relate it to your college studies even better! As an example, we had a super girl being a weekly companion for our adult daugher for two years who basically had been a volunteer with a disability related group in high school, continued related activities by being a mentor in college and even wrote a grant for a small program at the college. She has a job upon graduation with a top tier cosulting firm. She was very thoughful, too, about the kinds of internships she participated in.

Providing references for college students over the last 20 years, I have seen more than once how the volunteer interest of students have helped them get into top tier graduate programs or a job as one nursing student several years ago when you could not get a job in nursing, had her first break with a school serving students with disabilities in part due to her relationship with our daughter.


How about applicants who are firefighter volunteers for their town?
Anonymous
Post 03/20/2026 17:54     Subject: Re:This job market for entry level college grads

If I can give one suggestion for those who havea senior in high school or a young college student interested in finance, business or a consulting job with a big firm upon undergraduate completion, I would say to have an interest in a nonprogit that you can continue a relationship with during college that you might have participated in during high school. It could be in almost any kind of service group, but if you continue with a college or community related group in volunteering, it shows a continuing interest beyond just the studies and money goals. This might be in a disability related program, housing program,
literacy or STEM education program etc. It is the ability to write about a multi-year interest in XX in different ways and if one can relate it to your college studies even better! As an example, we had a super girl being a weekly companion for our adult daugher for two years who basically had been a volunteer with a disability related group in high school, continued related activities by being a mentor in college and even wrote a grant for a small program at the college. She has a job upon graduation with a top tier cosulting firm. She was very thoughful, too, about the kinds of internships she participated in.

Providing references for college students over the last 20 years, I have seen more than once how the volunteer interest of students have helped them get into top tier graduate programs or a job as one nursing student several years ago when you could not get a job in nursing, had her first break with a school serving students with disabilities in part due to her relationship with our daughter.
Anonymous
Post 03/19/2026 13:49     Subject: This job market for entry level college grads
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It's bad. That is why law school apps are up 20% too.


There is going to be a surplus of lawyers in 5 years?


There is already a huge surplus of lawyers. Law school is a bad bet right now.


They’d be better off doing an accelerated BSN.

And how does that help someone with a bachelor's degree without the requisite science classes?


You enroll at any convenient community college and take science pre-reqs. This works for any allied health professional and even for medical school.

— RN BSN who took all the stats and micro at Montgomery College within the last 10 years