What's Your Story?

I decided to tell the story of graduating from college and not being able to find a job. I also invite you to tell yours.

College Degree No Job Today

The reason that I’ve titled my blog “College Degree, No Job” is that in 2004 when I Googled that phrase I didn’t  get any career advice that seemed to apply to me.  When I searched the phrase today I got this “lots of references to the current downturn in our economy, but not much about the value of a bachelors degree in the New Economy.. 

There are a couple of crazy rants I’ve found, by bitter unhappy people that I choose not to share.  I don’t want to entice them to talk to me.  :p  Also, I’m really not interested in championing fighting the system.  To me, ‘the system’ is never the problem.  I’m a grassroots kind of girl.  If individuals choose to act differently then, lives will change.  I want to focus on practical information that can help individuals going through a crisis right now. 

But my question is this, is there even a crisis?  Was it just me and a few angry ranters? I know most people are vastly better off with some college, but maybe I’m missing something.

Thoughts?

 

College Degree No Job

In 2004 I graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English. It took me ten years to get my degree. Ten Years. I was sick, I was concerned with accumulating too much student loan debt and at times I just wasn't mature enough to make school my first priority.
After I got my degree, I was so sure this was it, that I finally could get my first real, grown-up job. All I wanted was some kind of generic office job-9-5, weekends off, health insurance, but instead I ended up back in the same job I worked my way through community college with.
During my job search, I Googled the phrase 'college degree, no job' to see if I could get specific advice for my situation. There was nothing.
Now, through happenstance, I'm a career counselor. And lately, I just haven't been able to get the idea out of my head to start a blog, so that if someone else Googles the same phrase, they'll find some advice.