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yes the average situation for the
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average person leaving college is worse
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than it was there are a lot of people
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still getting jobs there are a lot of
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people still getting promotions and so
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on I think our generation we're still
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coming out of college and we have the
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same hopes that we did coming into
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college you know at least I know I do I
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haven't changed my own hopes of where I
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want to be I mean I I I would definitely
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say that it would act as a cloud I mean
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with the tough job market if they get
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out of school and instead of going right
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into a job they have to continue to look
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and search um I guess the recession has
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um opened my eyes up to other Industries
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um other than Finance I think right now
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for especially the classmates of mine
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that graduated last year they're at a
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critical point right now so they've been
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out of school for about 6 months I think
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if they wait too much longer then it
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would maybe affect their long-term J job
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prospects in speaking to maybe like my
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parents in that generation certainly
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that kind of attitude was pervasive and
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that if you start low you end low it's
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working that bit hard and not everybody
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is going to end up in a job but a lot of
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people will and I think the people who
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make smart decisions who position
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themselves well really go off the right
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kind of jobs are going to continue to do
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very well because I was in financial
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services and um it is a struggling
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industry I wanted to take a step back to
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see if that's really what I wanted to
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pursue going forward um and going to
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school gives you a bird's eye view where
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when you're working you don't really
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have the same perspective if you go to a
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school like pen and you spend $50,000 a
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year and you come out and you you don't
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have the prospects that you thought and
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you don't have that sort of career
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opportunities um that it guarantees and
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I think people might be more hesitant
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about necessarily investing in higher
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education you know I think it's
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conceivable that we're looking at 3 to 5
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years of quite a miserable job market
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and maybe 10 years before we get back to
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anything that looked like kind of the
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mid 2000s um but I think if there's
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anything I've kind of learned from
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school or maybe my peers is it's that
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you can change course whenever you want
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and so I think people will start really
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evaluating what they what they truly
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want to do in the long run and perhaps
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jump more quickly into those Industries
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the attitude is definitely um for me at
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least for somebody who had been always
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kind of rivers um think outside the box
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a little bit and if it's not available
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here maybe I can go find something
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elsewhere but I've thought a little bit
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of what's the most steady job I can get
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um but I'm not sure if that's just
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because school's been hard you know and
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I'm getting a little bit humbled um or
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if it's because everyone around us is
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having a tough time getting jobs
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