Friday, January 23, 2009

Get Rich or Die Crying

If you want a good idea of how bad the job market, picture this situation:

You are graduating from UC Santa Cruz with a BA in Business Management Economics and are planning to go into the accounting field, which is one of the three strongest industries in America right now in terms of job growth. You have a 3.4 cum GPA and a 3.7 major GPA. You were a RA for two years, the Vice President of Sigma Lambda Beta, the Vice President of Alpha Phi Omega, and a coordinator of the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Program from the IRS. You have a polished transcript and have had the career center go over your cover letter and drill you on interviewing skills. At the end of the day, you STILL don't have any job offers.

Now replace all the "you" and "your"s with "I" and "my", and thats the story of my life right now.

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