Recently Graduated College? Here's What You're Probably Doing Now
November 07, 2012 - 8:35 am | PermalinkDo you remember what you were thinking four years ago? How hopeful you were—and why wouldn’t you have been? You were going to college, you were getting a higher education, you were going to be a success. So what are you doing now?
If you're one of the three out of ten young adults who graduated college and had to move back in with mom and dad, you might be wondering what good all those years of extra schooling did you (other than getting you out of the house—for a while). Due to a horribly mismanaged economy and a near-complete lack of job growth, at least one in three people are forced to move back home after college; keep in mind, that doesn't mean that the other seven people are working their dream jobs.
Buried Under Mountains of Debt
If you're under the age of 30 and recently graduated college, chances are you owe somewhere around $20,000 in student loans. Some studies think this figure is a little low, so you might even be worse off—have fun paying that off with the awesome, high-paying job your Liberal Arts degree netted you.
Learning Something Actually Useful
I bet she reads books all the time.
Anyway, speaking of worthless degrees like Liberal Arts (or Philosophy, English Literature, Anthropology, and so on...), you're probably just now realizing that you spent the past few years of your life learning a subject that isn't going to get you a job anytime soon—yet you've still got all that debt to pay off. Think you were smart by getting a degree in something “useful” like graphic design or journalism? Think again, as these are some of the most useless degrees in the current job market. So now you might be learning something useful, and you might be learning it on your own...
Educating Yourself About Something Else
The world has dramatically changed in the past two decades. The advent of the Internet means that if you want to learn about something, you can. For free. Of course, it requires that you don't care about getting a piece of paper that costs you tens of thousands of dollars and only proves that you were highly skilled at giving a professor what he or she wanted to hear. So now, unless you learned to be a lawyer or a doctor or something else where professional schooling actually means something, you might be educating yourself in a different and more lucrative or interesting subject.
Disclaimer: Stay in school, kids!
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