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.

+1000

I have no clue why parents who aren't 1% wealthy or have trust funds set up for their kids would let their kids do stupid BS like Fulbrights or an honors program at the State Department; those are just holding grounds for unemployable, downwardly mobile kids.

Even more confusion at why people let their kids go to Vassar and major in stuff like English when they don't have generational wealth. Like the Whole Foods poster -- WTF? Your kid would be WAY better off doing engineering at VA Tech.

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.

My DD is a BS/MS Finance grad, got a job as a Real Estate Associate in insurance making $75k. Graduated from a middle level State Business School

West Coast here. Know kids at Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD. Some had great jobs lined up before graduation. Others had offers rescinded or their internship companies weren't hiring. Some found jobs over the summer. But others are still looking. It's tough out there.

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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.

Pretty sure PP meant the company and its founder are gross.

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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.

Jealous? No. I would be embarrassed if my boys took a job there and wouldn’t broadcast it. You know what’s more toxic than my post: Palantir. Big balls. Tech bros with God complexes. Spying on Americans. Corruption.

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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.

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.

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Anonymous wrote:My son just started a new job at Palantir. GA Tech 2025 Grad with a degree in CS. Excellent pay and benefits.

Congrats! What’s the ballpark of the TC if you don’t mind?

He makes 210K. It will probably increase once he has his TS SCI clearance.

Thanks. That’s a great package for ng!

So basically the only ones hiring are for companies that are big Trump donors like Palantir, who want to take all our data and make us less safe. Oh yeah, and ICE is hiring. All hail the MAGA economy.

Nice logic! Hope your kid is smarter than that.

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Anonymous wrote:My son just started a new job at Palantir. GA Tech 2025 Grad with a degree in CS. Excellent pay and benefits.

Congrats! What’s the ballpark of the TC if you don’t mind?

He makes 210K. It will probably increase once he has his TS SCI clearance.

Thanks. That’s a great package for ng!

So basically the only ones hiring are for companies that are big Trump donors like Palantir, who want to take all our data and make us less safe. Oh yeah, and ICE is hiring. All hail the MAGA economy.

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Anonymous wrote:My son just started a new job at Palantir. GA Tech 2025 Grad with a degree in CS. Excellent pay and benefits.

Congrats! What’s the ballpark of the TC if you don’t mind?

He makes 210K. It will probably increase once he has his TS SCI clearance.

Thanks. That’s a great package for ng!

Yes, I think so, too. I'm super proud of him. He has worked hard while in college and he had great internships.

My college senior is worried, because several of her friends that graduated this year are working crappy jobs while they look. We are not subsidizing our kid, and we will be glad to house her until she finds a job. My older kids did crappy jobs until grad school and stepped up to a better job. They are doing really well now, five and six years out. It really depends on the kid and the connections the kid has made. It also depends on luck. My DC found a job on linkedin that was a disaster, but they got recruited, also on linkedin, and found a great job a few months later. Kids who are really picky may have a longer wait for the right job. I think it's a terrible idea to subsidize your kid, though. I want my kids to be independent and know what it feels like to work hard to earn enough money to pay your bills. I told them from the get go that I'd pay for college, and then they were on their own.

I'll add that DD attended Cornell and still does not have a job, Applied and Engineering physics major. Considering law school.

Anonymous wrote:We’re a normal family with normal kids that go to normal schools. It’s a tough market and many people are struggling to find a job. DS is an engineering major and is still looking for a position after to applying to 100+ places. Carnegie Mellon CS grads aren’t an honest reflection of the economy.

Indeed, I’m the PP with the kid working at Whole Foods. My kid went to a good school, but not an amazing school and did internships but not at the kind of places where you really need to know someone important. That said, my kid also has a really great attitude about the whole situation because most of their friends are in the same boat. They’re all working in jobs that get their bills paid while they look for the jobs they want, and they’re not just sitting around waiting for life to hand them something.

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Anonymous wrote:My son just started a new job at Palantir. GA Tech 2025 Grad with a degree in CS. Excellent pay and benefits.

Congrats! What’s the ballpark of the TC if you don’t mind?

He makes 210K. It will probably increase once he has his TS SCI clearance.

Thanks. That’s a great package for ng!