I have a college student that is really stressing about the job market. Let me give you a little background. Based on when she started school, as a full-timer, she should have graduated this May 2009. But transferring from a specialty college added another year and I was actually thankful for small favors here because she didn’t graduate this year. However, I am rethinking that thankfulness as the economy is still going down hill.
Now imagine if you will all the college graduates this year and the battles they have been facing along with the rest of America but add to that they now have student loans coming due.
Our daughter has always been employed since the age of 16, hard worker with strong work ethics. She currently has a part-time job at the college but it is extremely part-time and it will end when she graduates in May 2010. So for all of 2009 she has been looking for another part-time job.
She has only had a few interviews and is getting so frustrated and discouraged you can hear in her voice. She has the weight of so much on her I worry about the ill affects stress can cause her. Now this is coming from a young lady who takes her bills & credit history very serious and needs order in her day. She is also planning a wedding that is to happen 5 months after graduation.
Nothing I say right now is helping and I try to keep her positive but she knows upon graduation it’s still going to be a battle. I do think graduating will help because her schedule will open up to work any shift any time. Where as right now her schedule is limited due to classes and a part-time job.
So what I want to hear from my readers is how is the job market affecting your family?
Frankly, in my opinion is something doesn’t give soon we’re all gonna be in the funny farm. My momma used to sing to me: their coming to take me away, ooh ooh, their coming to take me away, ah ah, their coming to take me away, to the funny farm *evil laugh*.
Or as the “I’m a private person”, lady told me at the Medicine Shoppe, I’m picking up my Crazy Lady pills. But I corrected her buy saying, we call them happy pills 
Anyway so lets hear it! Personal stories. Share this trying time with other readers.
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Reading your comment gives me hope too
I will definitely pass this along to my daughter. I am really happy it is working out for you. I enjoy hearing about other people’s successes, especially my new blogger friends 
Thanks for the info it may be just what she is looking for and me too.
Hi Fly,
I’m a professional who had been having withdrawal symptoms from my profession for years. My therapy was to blog about it and I found that I enjoyed it because others who were similarly challenged found solace in my words and I found myself comforting them. I found it hard to transition despite getting another degree because I live on a tiny island and had years of experience in my profession. Nobody wanted someone like me.
I’m still in my old job and still have my old blog. But with the economy in this state I now work less and less as clients are dwindling and I love it. Why?
You see when I was trying to figure out what I could do and since I was already computer savvy (with my blogging and stuff) I decided that the best thing I could do was to find something that I would enjoy doing that could earn me an income and something that wouldn’t require me depending on an employer. I’ve been slowly building my site for a year and I love it. It’s hard work but fun because I have hundreds of friends and lots of support from others like me. We call ourselves SBIers. I try to visit the forums to learn something or to help or to laugh or to make progress.
I love SBI because it’s professional and proven and you get lots and lots of free help and it makes me feel good to be doing something for myself. i feel like I am in control, not seeking someone to take me out of my misery. All you gotta do is ask and you will find someone who will offer more than an answer – genuine help.
It’s amazing the people involved – dentists, infopreneurs, stay at home moms, e-good creators, web professional, retirees, students and more. Since your daughter went to a specialty college I’m guessing that she really has a niche that she loves or she might have a hobby or knowledge about a range of ideas. SBI helps you to come up with great niche ideas that are in high demand and low supply.
I decided to use my disenchantment as a life changing opportunity and then with the sluggish economy it became a life preserver.
Your daughter could start now – there is a Thanksgiving special but she might wish to ask questions about the system which SBI encourages – Ask Questions.
Take time to read about it and explore. They are good people, very intolerant of scams and the unscrupulous. Your daughter could actually find satisfaction here.
Best of luck.
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