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.

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

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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.

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Anonymous wrote:My ds is looking for a Capitol Hill or government relations job and it’s awful. Most of his friends in his major are still looking, and these are very qualified kids who have had internships. My DS has had four great internships including two on the Hill. It’s really upsetting to see what he’s going through. Every job he interviews at say he’s one of over 1000 applicants.

This option is not available for everyone this year. Your child needs to move on to option B.

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Anonymous wrote:My ds is looking for a Capitol Hill or government relations job and it’s awful. Most of his friends in his major are still looking, and these are very qualified kids who have had internships. My DS has had four great internships including two on the Hill. It’s really upsetting to see what he’s going through. Every job he interviews at say he’s one of over 1000 applicants.

This option is not available for everyone this year. Your child needs to move on to option B.

Anonymous wrote:My ds is looking for a Capitol Hill or government relations job and it’s awful. Most of his friends in his major are still looking, and these are very qualified kids who have had internships. My DS has had four great internships including two on the Hill. It’s really upsetting to see what he’s going through. Every job he interviews at say he’s one of over 1000 applicants.

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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

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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.

Holy cow. What college did your kid go to? This is why I'm always confused as to why non-1% families (or families that don't have a lot of generational wealth or a trust fund set up for their kids) let their children burn $200k on an English degree from Vassar (to take an example from my next door neighbor). Like seriously, what is even going through your head? Your kid would've been WAY better off doing engineering at VA Tech.

Also, major YIKES at the fact that most of your kid's college friends are just "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" -- is this what really happens when you major in the humanities at a SLAC? Ridiculous. At least if your kid was an English major at a school like Stanford, they'd be able to leverage that into a consulting gig at BCG or whatnot.

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.

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Anonymous wrote:Math major from Williams. DS is making 110K in his first job out. Considering applying already, because he thinks he's underpaid. Everyone he knows has a job or is in grad school.

I don’t know anyone who doesn’t have a job from a top tier school.

Came here to say this! It is not hard from a top school

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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.

You’re disgusting just as i suspected. Such a scum bag.

In the scope of things, I’m not, no matter what you say. If she can’t take the heat that her DS is helping to unleash a genie in a bottle against the American public by a power-hungry billionaire, then she needs to get out of the kitchen. I’m saying what a lot of her friends are thinking.

You need to keep that BS to yourself cuz you’re wrong.

Your angry response says I’m not.

I’m not angry, just pointing out your BS and you’re a disgusting person.

I’m less disgusting than anyone who works here 😘:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/technology/trump-palantir-data-americans.html

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/30/peter-thiel-palantir-threat-to-americans

You’re a mental case.

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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.

You’re disgusting just as i suspected. Such a scum bag.

In the scope of things, I’m not, no matter what you say. If she can’t take the heat that her DS is helping to unleash a genie in a bottle against the American public by a power-hungry billionaire, then she needs to get out of the kitchen. I’m saying what a lot of her friends are thinking.

You need to keep that BS to yourself cuz you’re wrong.

Your angry response says I’m not.

I’m not angry, just pointing out your BS and you’re a disgusting person.

I’m less disgusting than anyone who works here 😘:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/technology/trump-palantir-data-americans.html

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/30/peter-thiel-palantir-threat-to-americans

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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.

You’re disgusting just as i suspected. Such a scum bag.

In the scope of things, I’m not, no matter what you say. If she can’t take the heat that her DS is helping to unleash a genie in a bottle against the American public by a power-hungry billionaire, then she needs to get out of the kitchen. I’m saying what a lot of her friends are thinking.

You need to keep that BS to yourself cuz you’re wrong.

Your angry response says I’m not.

I’m not angry, just pointing out your BS and you’re a disgusting person.

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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.