How Do You Get a Job After College?
So you have your degree. Now what?
From USA Today:
How do you land that job after college?
Katie Diekman, 22, is looking forward to a “gap” year after graduating with a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan in May.
But Diekman, who majored in women’s studies and history, still needs to find a job in the non-profit field to fill that gap.
“For a lot of people, it’s really overwhelming,” Diekman said. “It’s still very hard and frustrating looking for jobs.”
Diekman is working at an unpaid grant writing internship at the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Washtenaw County in Michigan. She’s also working weekends at The Produce Station, a gourmet market in Ann Arbor. Eventually, she wants to go to grad school to become a professor in women’s studies.
But she wants to work in the non-profit sector right now before committing to grad school. And she’s hunting for jobs in that area now, too. If she doesn’t find better-paying work, she plans to move back home and live with her parents for a while.
Comments
There’s the problem right there. Women’s studies and history. If colleges would cut the useless degrees and the salaries that go with them, then maybe college can be more affordable and a degree more valuable.
I’m a millennial, and it’s funny how people in my generation all think they’re entitled to a job after college just because they were told pretty little lies.