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If every place you ever worked you had to answer to a boss with a high school diploma or GED would you be considered underemployed if you had a bachelor's or masters degree?
For what it's worth, one of my old HS friends works at Arby's, making roast beef sandwich with his business management degree. I asked him, how are you going to get a job managing people when you've never had a job? He told me that I don't know anything about how the world works today. That was about 2 years ago. Guess he had to learn the hard way...
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Originally Posted by mkpunk
Graduated May 2012 with a bachelor's in business management. I was unemployed a year and three months (had chances with Vector Marketing but I didn't have a network to make the job work and a health insurance company but failed the insurance test (and then the region had issue so I would have been jobless ANYWAY.) I finally stated work last month and do cashier at a gas station.
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Originally Posted by wideworld
Graduated in business (BS & MS) from two top universities and struggled for close to two years; multiple unpaid or minimum wage internships and plain old unemployment. It took a ton of fighting, "networking," and banging down doors that weren't even doors but concrete walls to get a decent job. By then, the task of interviewing was made all the more difficult by having to explain all the under/unemployment. Really fun! It's not easy, but it's worth it to finally get a paper asking for your signature by the X.
Wow, amazing how they are all business degrees, and I thought I had it bad by majoring in Liberal Arts...
If every place you ever worked you had to answer to a boss with a high school diploma or GED would you be considered underemployed if you had a bachelor's or masters degree?
no, it means they were smarter going to college doesn't make someone "smart" by the time they graduate, rather a smart person would go to college to use it as a resource instead
I graduated with a BS in Computer Science many years ago. I could not find a job to save my life. Eventually I just started doing my own projects and learning skills on my own, and I built up enough of a portfolio to land my first real job. After a couple of years of experience it's now incredibly easy for me to get a job almost anywhere.
I actually kind of regret even bothering with college. Not a single company I've worked for requires it. My colleagues who started in the industry right out of high school make a lot more than I do since they started in the industry much younger than I did, plus they didn't have to accumulate any student loans. And there's nothing I learned in college in my CS classes that I couldn't have easily learned myself. Most of what I had to learn for my career I ended up having to learn on my own after I graduated anyway. I imagine it's even easier these days to learn things on your own things to all the online learning resources out there.
I graduated with a BS in Computer Science many years ago. I could not find a job to save my life.
Welcome to Obamas economy, it hasn't changed. Going to college to get a BS degree is still a smart way to go. They do teach a variety of languages and concepts that you can use. The problem is that few people enjoy programming or are good at it.
But anyway, I am a history major, graduated in December. I have been looking for a job since July to no avail. Even with administrative experience listed on my resume, employers are refusing to give me any interviews or a job
Graduated with a BA in finance last December, job offer from a Fed Agency that same month and very recently a job offer from a LE Agency in the DC area which I'm going to accept. I'm quite lucky that my military background has helped significantly with going through the civil service process, and even then I've had more than a few rejections/or situations where my application disappeared into a black hole.
I didn't do a single internship in college either and I only worked part time at the campus admissions office the entire time I went through school. Needless to say, I feel very fortunate and lucky to land these jobs so soon after graduating.
But anyway, I am a history major, graduated in December. I have been looking for a job since July to no avail. Even with administrative experience listed on my resume, employers are refusing to give me any interviews or a job
Sadly the best advice I can give is keep applying. Assuming you do know anyone internally to pass along your resume, you just hve to keep applying, keep trying. Indeed, linkedin, dice.com etc...
However be wary of how long you are unemployed, there comes a point where it becomes noticeable to potential employers and you will be asked about it.
If every place you ever worked you had to answer to a boss with a high school diploma or GED would you be considered underemployed if you had a bachelor's or masters degree?
My family immigrated to the US dirt poor. There are 5 of us kids. My parents worked night and day to put us through college, but that wasn't enough so my oldest sister made a sacrifice and stopped taking classes in college and worked in the assembly line to help out.
She started in the assembly line as a worker. Became a technician after a few years. Then started working in the engineering department. That company manufactures electronic components like microchips. She is now the head engineer of the design team in her branch of a multi-national company. And she still has no college degree.
She tells me that every once in a while she gets a new hire that looks down on her because they got a college degree and she doesn't. One guy even went as far as not ever recognizing that she was his boss, which she was. She eventually had to let him go, which HR agreed.
I don't know why college graduates these days feel so entitled. Just because you got a college degree doesn't mean you're better than those who came before you that didn't get a chance to go to college.
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It's not easy, but it's worth it to finally get a paper asking for your signature by the X.
going to college doesn't make someone "smart" by the time they graduate, rather a smart person would go to college to use it as a resource instead
