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three-quarters were employed either lull-time or part-time
About one-quarter ol the respondents were continuing
their education.
Communications, public relations, and advertising
accounted lor 10 percent ol those working, and teaching
accounted lor another 20 percent. More than hall of Ihe
English major graduates held |Obs that were not directly
related to their maiors, and more than hall were seeking
other employment
For 1990 graduates in all fields, 57 percent, held lull
time career related jobs About three-quarters ol the
respondents held jobs that had some relationship to their
majors. An overwhelming majority ol all graduates said
that they were not adequately prepared for computer use
— including many students who had majored in computer
science
With the possible exception of computer training, both
Garlield and Morton have made sure that they are pre
pared lor the stormy job market. Garfield is currently
interning as a teacher s assistant at Harris School through
the University ESCAPE program She would like to contin
ue working in education, but she is ready to do otherwise
"If I don't get a real job. I plan on volunteering at a local
school to keep building my resume." said Garfield."!
haven't really experienced the job market yet. so I’m still
pretty positive, but I've seen what has happened to Will
I'm (prepared to work in a restaurant for awhile il I have to
What has happened to her boyfriend isn't exactly dev
astating, but it isn't the success that he had hoped lor
'It's been an emotional roller coaster.
Learning how to cope with rejection is
one thing you don’t learn in school.’
Will Morton,
University graduate
either Morton works as a free-lance reporter for radio sta
tion KUIK AM in Hillsboro He makes $20 per story work
ing a city and county public affairs beat, and he generally
writes five stories each week White it is a good job for
building a resume. Morton had expected more from the job
market when he graduated.
“The job market was the surprise of my life." said Mor
ton,"! was fairly optimistic and maybe a tut naive. I gradu
ated in December and hoped that by mid-January l would
have a job Now it's near the end of May l‘ve talked to a
ton of people and the best I can get is part-time news writ
ing at a radio station . . . My optimism has been shattered I
didn't realty believe in the recession before."
According to Morton, the newspaper industry has been
one of the industries hardest hit by the recession. After
talking with people in the business, he has learned that if
ihe business does come out of the recession, it will be one
of the last to come out and get back on its feet.
A number of times he has spoken with editors who were
interested in hiring him, but they have eventually told him
that they couldn't get approval Irom their publishers to hire
any new staff at all Newspaper chains across the country
have been "consolidating." which means that small papers
have folded and any available stall positions have gone to
dislocated workers who had been employed by newspa
pen within the same chain. In short, the newspaper indus
try is not blossoming
Morton said that if he had it to do over again, he may
have taken a few journalism courses just so he could say
that he had taken them during job interviews.
However, he doesn’t believe that journalism coursework
is a necessary prerequisite for landing a job in the media
The most important thing is to know people in the business.
"You can’t underestimate the importance of connec
tions.” Morton said.
Garfield has other ideas about what she would have
done differently when looking at her college career in
review.
"Well. I wouldn’t have majored in English," she said
laughing.
When asked if she thought this might offend some peo
ple in the English department, she said that they have 900
other students to spare, and that English is the most pop
ular major at the University. As for other things she would
have done differently, she said that she would have tried to
figure out her schedule better so that it wouldn’t have
taken five years to graduate. She also said that she would
have tried to do more internships and volunteer work
around town
Both Morton and Garfield said that maintaining their
relationship is their top priority for the future. They have
tentative plans to move to Massachusetts after Garfield
graduates, but if things don't work out. they will just move
some place that they both like and look for jobs there.
In reference to a popular novel about the ambiguity of
the future of their generation, Garfield said."You could
totally call it a Generation X thing."
— Jason Jones
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