Comments on: No One Likes A Recession

By: Bishop

Bishop — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:14:37 +0000

Brilliant post. I will have to say, right now there are three camps of college graduates that I count among my friends:

1) As you have already so eloquently mentioned in your detailed blog post, there are the ones who are not taking the necessary time and effort to find the lowest fruit they can find (as long as it is remotely on the same career tree) or willing to swallow their pride and apply for a position that pays less than $40,000 a year.

2) There are some among my peers who are applying to graduate schools and tripling their debt, or who are going with the ever flexible and convenient online MBA degree.

3) And there are some who are desperate and doing everything possible, but are still getting rejected for part time, unpaid, and even burger flipping positions.

By: Simple Country Physicist

Simple Country Physicist — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:20:21 +0000

To mix metaphors, disciplines, and I am not sure what all else, the degree of subtlety of reality depends on where your are on Maslow’s hierarchy.

By: Educated Nation--Job Search Advice For College Graduates | Educated Nation | Higher Education Blog

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:00:10 +0000

[...] Pep talks should include a concrete bit of take-away advice. Here are two posts and a book by Lindsay Pollack in which she dispenses advice similar to mine (i.e., rarely will forward motion take you in the wrong direction), but she somehow manages to dispense her wisdom in a manner several degrees kinder than mine. [...]

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:40:27 +0000

Excellent article Alexa. Thanks