[smartstakestime]

1) theres a reason we have the phrase "starving artist" ... its a feast of famine career. Talk about a degree meaning little. Liberal arts is the last place a degree matters.

2)beyond job choice or debt. Did this person not take internships during college??? Cry me a river. You take jobs during bachelor years, you get reccmondations talk to your employment office (most colleges have them) and you have something lined up (espcially for a grad). I smell that this person does not work well with others and bruned all of her bridges with her colleagues.

Are we getting the full story, is this person good at what they studied and worked hard to make connections? Possibly not. This is an anecdote that should not be used as conclusive evidence of anything.

[jnbiche]

> worked hard to make connections

Yeah, but there are lots of people who are hard, smart workers, good at what they do, but they either

a) don't realize how important it is to make connections in order to even survive in today's professional world, or

b) were told that all they had to do to succeed in life is go to college, pick a realistic major, work hard, be honest, be trustworthy. Well, that's often not enough.

You almost always have to have a large professional network in order to thrive in today's world.

And many people struggle with that.

[scarejunba]

I didn't even know internships were what you did in uni. I only did mine because everyone did them. Now I make an appréciable fraction of a million dollars a year. All because I applied to the places my friends recommended I apply to and did the things then that my friends recommend I do.

The power of role models and established process is huge.