Anonymous wrote:If posters could share their child’s major, I would be grateful. I’m so sorry the market is terrible and kids aren’t finding jobs or are having them rescinded. It’s scary. I have a HS student thinking about college, and I don’t know what to tell them in terms of their tentative major choice in STEM or what majors might be better. My kid has zero interest in healthcare and would be terrible at it.

If your child isn’t dead set on STEM they should avoid it. If that’s their passion find coding camps and compile certificates rather than chase a college degree.

Anonymous wrote:I work in the tech field, and my employer is looking to hire two junior SWE positions. I've received over 9,500 applications for these two positions. Let's assume only ten percent of those applications are legit, we are talking about 950 applicants for two positions. There are so many resumes from Ivies, Michigan, Northeastern, UVA, VA Tech for these two positions. Absolutely insane.

My kid works for a well-funded AI startup (billions raised and $100BN+ valuation) and they can’t find any good ML or computer vision engineers.

They are hiring 100+ people.

There is always a bull market somewhere. My kid is also constantly hounded by recruiters and just started at this company.

If posters could share their child’s major, I would be grateful. I’m so sorry the market is terrible and kids aren’t finding jobs or are having them rescinded. It’s scary. I have a HS student thinking about college, and I don’t know what to tell them in terms of their tentative major choice in STEM or what majors might be better. My kid has zero interest in healthcare and would be terrible at it.

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Anonymous wrote:There are plenty of jobs outside of DC!!

There is always a bull market somewhere, and right now in DC, Defense-Tech is super hot. Just in the last week I have seen five start-ups in the DC area raise $250MM+ (total) in this sector. You need AI/ML/Computer Vision skills, as well as engineering/robotics skills.

It requires security clearances. I am in the DoD AI/ML/VHDL and we have ten openings for skills like this; however, it also requires TS clearance.

Why do we need security clearances anymore? The cabinet is full of Russian-compromised people, and they use Gmail and Signal to discuss secret issues.

If the info is being fed to Russia anyway, why the need for a clearance anymore? I bet they get rid of those one day as part of Project 2025.

So that you don't tell the media about the signal chats! They want to leak their info themselves/

Anonymous wrote:I feel the only industry of grads that are guaranteed to have job offers is healthcare. I have two kids one that is a PA and one that’s an occupational therapist. Both have graduate degrees and had a job before even graduating

This comment is spot on. Majoring in business or CS no longer leads to reliable employment and things will only get worse as AI expands.

I work in the tech field, and my employer is looking to hire two junior SWE positions. I've received over 9,500 applications for these two positions. Let's assume only ten percent of those applications are legit, we are talking about 950 applicants for two positions. There are so many resumes from Ivies, Michigan, Northeastern, UVA, VA Tech for these two positions. Absolutely insane.

Anonymous wrote:My DD took 3 years to find a career type job. In the meantime she took a job in the insurance industry just to have something on a resume.

Insurance field was a good idea, solid on a resume. I had similar timeframe when I graduated in 1991, tough times for jobs, and I waitressed. Money was good, but didn’t look too impressive on paper.

Anonymous wrote:I feel the only industry of grads that are guaranteed to have job offers is healthcare. I have two kids one that is a PA and one that’s an occupational therapist. Both have graduate degrees and had a job before even graduating

So wrong.

There are lots of jobs for recent grads. They have to network to find them. Kids send out hundreds of resumes, and wonder why they can't find work!! Get out and network!! That's how you find jobs. When AI reads your resume, you're sunk.

Your child will find a job.

I was worried about mine, who is a year from graduating, but she got several summer job offers, and I'm certain she'll find a job after she garduates.

My older DS who majored in art history worked as a barista for a few months, then found a job on linkedin as a marketing assistant. Two years later, he's doubled his salary, and is well on his way to a successful career at a large company.

If your child has no initiative, I'd worry, but I don't spoil my kids. They have a home with me if they want it, always, but I give them no funding at all, so if they want their own apartment, they have to earn the money -- and they do! Even my youngest has three jobs at school to pay for her apartment over the summer (which I'm not funding).

There are so many other things to worry about right now, OP. Call your Senators and tell them to STOP the Horrible, Hideous Feed the Rich Tax Cuts bill!! That's a far better use of your time!! And go out and protest this corrupt regime!!

Your kids will admire you for it.

My DD had three offers over $80k, she is going to Chicago. She had the offers in the Fall to start late summer. She graduated in May from T25 but not T10 with very average grades. But she is good in interviews, very good.

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Anonymous wrote:I would recommend they job search outside of the DC bubble.

There are no jobs out here either

+1

Americans are do dumb thinking any red state will have jobs after a few months from now

You should be there will be no jobs anywhere in sex months time

Anonymous wrote:I would recommend they job search outside of the DC bubble.

There are no jobs out here either

Anonymous wrote:Godspeed to all. This is a terrible environment. I don’t blame you for being worried, many of us are also worried.

It feels like we are going back decades in time.

We are and it won’t get better in their lifetime

I feel the only industry of grads that are guaranteed to have job offers is healthcare. I have two kids one that is a PA and one that’s an occupational therapist. Both have graduate degrees and had a job before even graduating