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Related: About this forumMinimum Rage: College Grads in the Service Industry
Behind the bar of a fancy New York restaurant, a 27-year-old bartender tidies her olive-and-cherry box. She attempts to look distracted while a middle-aged financial analyst holds her captive with small talk.
So what else do you do? he slurs, four Manhattans deep.
Nothing, she says. I just do this.
Oh! he answers. Thats cool. Did you go to college?
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Po_d Mainiac
(4,183 posts)I was standing beside my wife as she was lined up out in a hallway ready to do the march and get her BS.
A kid a few feet ahead opened a door beside him....It was one of the janitors closets.
He pulled out a broom, raised it above his head, and hollered out "Hey, I got a job!"
The groans and laughs cancelled each other out.
True Story.
xchrom
(108,903 posts)KansDem
(28,498 posts)After securing graduate degrees, I worked for two years at three part-time jobs. I had to be somewhere everyday of the week and did this while I applied to every position I was remotely qualified for.
I had two interviews but no offers. A full-time position opened up at one of the part-time jobs and I'm now working in a field that I never envisioned I would be doing when I was in school.
It's a crapshoot. Some of us "win" and some of us "lose."
I didn't "win" but I sure as hell didn't "lose" like some grads I've been reading about lately.
And "yes": If I knew then what I know now I would have made some very different choices...