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:	post by xmikex at 2010-01-11 10:04:39

The bad news is, you're going to take a shitty entry level job that you'll hate, and it will pay you in dirt and misery.

The good news is that 20 something's fresh out of college are always in demand because companies love paying people dirt, and making them feel like shit.

I went to a terrible school, and while I feel I made the best out of my education I was horrrrrrrrrrrrribly unprepared for the realities of the real world. I had a professor literally telling us on a daily basis that you could make "$100 an hour" as an editor straight out of college. Obvious exaggeration, but it still perpetuated the idea that a bachelor's degree is the secret key to unlocking your new life as a billionaire. I can remember sitting down at my computer on Monster.com, no idea how to write a resume, or a cover, and shooting off resumes to jobs I didn't even understand that were offering $70,000 a year.

NEVAR FORGET: college is a commodity. The sales pitch doesn't end just with the brochure and the campus tour. Your advisers are salesmen. Your professors are salesmen. They pump you up with these grand ideas like Ron Popeil pitching you a rotisserie. Learning is important. And don't kid yourself, so is the piece of paper. But it's all a big infomercial. Nobody in the real world gets something for nothing.

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