It's time to graduate college,
but there's no career in sight
It's graduation limn, and
unlike many of my more
motivated (and disciplined and
organized) friends. 1 don’t have
a clue in the world us to what
I'll he doing uftnr )une 15.
No resume, no interview suit
and no ideaof what l want to do
or where I want to do it. The
Reporter’s
notebook
whole concept of actually set-,
tin# out to- find a . job seems
almost unreal.
Sure, graduation day . has
been five, years: coming and it's
not as though I didn't have
some spare time along the .way
to think, about my carnet'-. Hut in
alt . honesty., the gravity of this
[ situation has . only recently
become the subject of daily
thought; ; .
Why am I getting a journalism
degree Instead of. Something
more marketable, like computer
science or business? •
Because your boyfriend;
freshman year was a journalism
major, you copied all of your
friend's computer labs in 'CIS.
121 and you flunked Calculus
207,
Why am my grades so lousy?
Because your priorities (let's
say between .study time and par
ty time) are distorted.
Why wasn 't I born into a family
with so much money I’d never
have to think about finding a
lob? • V " •; ;
Because not everyone can .be a
Kennedy.
While this basically negative
thought 'process. compounded
by an endless barrage of pawn-.
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tal concern" ("Don't even think
about free loading- anymore
because It won’t work'.'), isn't
especially helpful, there are oc
casional bright spots. ••
Accounting.-' majors who
■ graduate. with jobs that have
starting salaries of $26,000 a
year1 are hro wn -nosing
• overachievers.
At least you didn't com
promise. your .principles.,;-.
Accounting majors who
; graduate with jobs that have,
starting' salaries of $28,000 a’
year amprohahly Ty pe A. high
"stress personalities, who'll have
heart attacks 'before, the year
2000. J ■ ; ■ " • ,
At least you'll still bo healthy.
• : J ■■■ •. V . '.
■ Accounting majors who
■ graduate -with jolts that have
starting - salaries of $20,000- a
'yeur'caniiot possibly. lay any■ fun.
At least'you . get invited to
parties- .
1 don't know, maybe 1 haven't
;• Rent an
Electric Typewriter.
Rent now!
Availability limited.
At your Bookstore.
made the most 01 my educa
tional .. opportunities at the
University, and maybe I don't
have the most optiiriistic job
outlook. But when all is: said
. and'done. 1 wouldn’t .trade the'
das! five'years.for anything. Not
even for a job with a starting
salary of $26.OtiO a year.' .
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