Young people, what is your plan?

Question

After graduating from college, and finding myself living at home I am wondering if this is a trend or a reflection of the current state of the country. I, along with 3 of my close friends all live at home and cant find jobs to support ourselves anywhere. One of my friends is a former teacher overseas, bi-lingual, with a B.A in linguistics and waits table for minimum wage.

I have a fun job, the pay is good (11.00/hr) but I am a "flex" employee, meaning my hours vary and I have no guarantee of hours or a consistent paycheck. I would love to leave home, but seems like companies are only hiring part time employees, and mostly none with benefits.

Is this due to the economy, the rise of costs in EVERYTHING, or what is going on here?

Answer 1

As a college graduate in 2001, I would say the best advice from my prospective is to take an entry level job somewhere and work your way up.  

Most graduates make the mistake of holding out for some $50,000 a year job, but things don't work like that.  

You have to prove yourself on the job just as you did at college.  No free lunches in the real world either.

Answer 2

You all have had it too good. You don't know how to manifest prosperity because you never had to worry about it. If your parents would kick you out you will have an energy where you would really open up to having something better. Your friend would know that you can not use a degree in linguistics for anything other than teaching linguistics. I coach people like you & what I do is help them figure out what they love. Then how they can make money by doing what they love. They learn how to master thief life. You say you love what you do but there are some drawbacks so I would get you to focus on what you love about it. Not specifically the job you are in but the feeling it gives you cause that can be transferred. Let's say you work with people who are not well in a nursing home & you love caring for people. So that great feeling you get could be transferred into a teaching career or a medical career & then you would have to know the details of these to see if they fit your personality. It is too much to go through here but you need guidance & support in this area. It can't be from your family or friends cause the person would have to really allow you to figure it out without their own emotional baggage coming in. If I can help you e-mail me but remember to write the first words of your question so I can remember...Allot of people your age are going through the same thing because they have the same lack of guidance.

Answer 3

It would help to know what your degree is in.  If its something useless like sociology, english, anthropology etc then I'd say that your choice of studies is your problem.

If not, checkout monster.com  I got like 20 leads and 3 legitimate offers from decent companies within a month.

Answer 4

Living standards for American working people have been falling like a rock for the past thirty years or so as two per cent are being allowed to inherit most of the nation`s wealth, that`s what`s going on.