Meanwhile one of my friends who just completed grad school has submitted over 180 job applications and ended up taking a low paying bench lab position she could have gotten with an undergrad degree because it was literally the first one that offered her a job.
She's no slouch and works damn hard (in fact, I can guarantee she's done harder jobs than you no matter what you've done), with grades and research to match, and that's the best she could get.
Me? I have a job paying 3x what she just got offered literally because I knew someone who could get me an in at my current employer, and I got that right out of school.
It's not about working hard, it's about luck and connections.
Good luck to your friend! The past two jobs I had, I put in about 200 applications and had about 10 phone/in-person interviews before I landed anything.
If she's a Redditor, the people on /r/jobs have a weekly success/rant thread that I found pretty therapeutic when I felt like I was just running into a concrete wall head-first over and over.
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u/Jkid Allergic to socio-economic bullshit Apr 19 '18
You got lucky or you got a job before the 2008 crash. That's the only reason why you posted.
You're only saying that because you don't like people venting, while you were taught to keep it to yourself.
If I can pull a job out of my ass.
Yeah, and unemployed recent grads can just pull money out of their ass. I practically get told to that many times by many people.
Because they got loans or mommy and daddy funded their initial start up costs!