Garrett wrote:
I suppose by most standards I'm okay. Not verge on bankruptcy or defaulting on my student loans yet. I recently graduated from college with my BS and don't have a grace period to fall back on because I used it up last fall while I was off from school. The job's market's also not so hot for a recent business grad and to my knowledge the only companies that'll hire me are insurance companies and other places where you earn on commission. To me that's like working at a fast food joint and unacceptable. Oh well, I have a connection with a higher up in a local major non-for-profit organization who I'll probably hit up soon if I can't find a decent job. Things aren't looking so bleak for me, but they aren't good either. Somewhere's in the middle, but that's not the reason I'm selling my imports.
When I was younger I was very into video games and had a large collection of games. Over the past 10 years or so I've been dipping into my collection to sell my games periodically. Part of this is because these games have turned into possessions that no longer have any meaning to me and just sit in a box and are never played. I'm still keeping the ones that are worth some dough though and have even thought about importing games that I have worked on. Ironically, I don't own any games I've worked on and thinking about it I wouldn't mind owning a few.
Well, best of luck with everything. My two sons are in your boat, a little bit.
Son#1 has a BA degree in Public Policy. He worked as an Alumni Coordinator at a community college until the grant money ran out. This summer, he's working at a mountain camp for at-risk youth and is hoping to land an entry level professional position at Duke, his
Alma Mater, related to development and designing curricula for teaching solutions to various modern problems - while he takes the LSAT and applies to various law schools for his hoped-for fall 2012 matriculation.
Son#2 took his masters degree a few weeks ago but still hasn't landed that great orchestra seat with full benefits. He was very fortunate, however, to be accepted into a doctoral program at the Univ. of Maryland that will pay all expenses for three years, plus a $20,000 per year stipend. If he doesn't win that great orchestra seat in the next three years, maybe he can teach music at the college level somewhere. A DMA in his pocket will certainly open up new opportunities.
I was also in their and your position several years ago. I couldn't beg, borrow, or steal a post in school administration or teaching high school social studies in Oklahoma, so I went to OCS and became a naval officer. Paid a lot more, too, and I traveled everywhere and saw everything!
And my wife had hard luck, at first. She wanted to be a Massachusetts parole officer in the worst way, but state civil service was frozen the year she graduated from UMass. So, she became an assistant manager at K-Mart, decided she hated retail work, and joined a Federal agency in a clerical role. After three years, she moved into a professional position and wound up rising to senior management level.
Hang in there, Garrett, and keep looking. Get yourself on a track at any level, work hard, stick with it, and you'll land in a good place. That's what my wife and I tell the boys!