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studying psych as in working on your Masters?
cause i would be very happy for you, but you are not likely to get anywhere near that...
What was your starting salary after college?
studying psych as in working on your Masters?
cause i would be very happy for you, but you are not likely to get anywhere near that...
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My cousin must be doing it wrong then. he's making 80 and had to settle for a v6 challenger cause everything was so expensive out there.
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Need to go to cheaper sate haha im from new mexico and 73k is Ballin here
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Cant believe some alot of people are content with making 35K out of college smh
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The economy isn't exactly what you'd call "thriving." I know law school grads with triple digit debt working damn near menial jobs i.e retail, service industry, etc. And they're actually lucky to be doing that. Depends where you live I suppose, but up here in the northeast the job market is trash.
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Need to go work in the oil fields haha in north dakota or texas people makin mad cash out here
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I live in the DMV area and making 35k here you cant even survive. I graduate college fall 2014, so hopefully things go as planned.
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Triple digit debt? You mean 6 figure, correct?
Law is a very specialized field that breaks down into sub sectors. You are correct. Some of the top prospects fresh out of the most prestige law schools in the country are doing paralegal tasks.
However, good jobs are out there for people that are qualified. My friends and I graduated from undergrad in 2009 and all got jobs within a month. We all have climbed through several jobs since then to command higher salaries.
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I graduated in 2011 with my civil engineering degree and got my job before i graduated
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Yeah, my bad
As far as graduating in 2009 and having a job within a month, you and your friends are in the minority. Where are you from and what is your field?
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This really is what it comes down to. I consider myself lucky not because of my salary, but because I can wake up every morning at 5:45am and look forward to getting to the office. Like most, it makes it so much easier to do well at something if I enjoy doing it, and work is no exception
First yr salary was 65 (+ incentive + OT = ~75)
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35k is better than not working.
One of my friends spent 6 months looking for a job that paid what he felt he was entitled to. Wouldn't swallow his pride. Finally gave up and ended up having to take some bs sales job at 30k, and he struggled to land that.
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Sometimes you gotta put that pride to the side.
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Haha, he is doing and did it wrong.
Unless he was going to Canlis once a week and El Gaucho the rest of the time, he should have been set.
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That is why you should have a job set up BEFORE you graduate. That is what the career center, organizations, and career fairs are for. People feel as if "oh I got that degree now i can get a job", but have no experience what so ever. It doesnt work like that, and is probably why its so hard to find a job.
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^this. I had two job offers two months into my final semester. People need to take advantage of the opportunities the schools provide you. Both those companies came to do on campus interview. And your more than likely to get the job that way instead of applying on your own since they have a relationship with the school.
Same thing with internships. Networking helps. Didn't have one until the summer before my 1st senior year. A company came to speak to one of the orgs I was in. Saw the one of the guys at a convention later on and told me to give him my resume. Called me the following week to do the interview.
Same thing with internships. Networking helps. Didn't have one until the summer before my 1st senior year. A company came to speak to one of the orgs I was in. Saw the one of the guys at a convention later on and told me to give him my resume. Called me the following week to do the interview.
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Yup yup this is what i did my school had an internal webpage for employers to go and put up jobs that are open for students
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GOOD ADVICE
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awesome thread alot of great advice in here
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Some people have to settle for less money because they refuse to leave their hometown. If you open up to jobs in another city, that increases your opportunites exponentially.
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Yeah you guys who are not utilizing the career center at your University, there's something wrong with you. You are paying good money for an education, USE THEM FOR EVERYTHING YOU CAN.
Right out of college I was at 50k per year plus bonus and 25% of my insurance was my responsibility.
Right out of college I was at 50k per year plus bonus and 25% of my insurance was my responsibility.
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Is it cool to hit the career center a couple months after you've graduated?
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I do not know how you got to college for 4 years, and graduate making 30-40K a year. If thats the case, skip the college, go to work straight outta high school at 17-18.
A manager at footlocker with no education makes 40k a year. If you open at kiosk at the mall, you can easily bank 60 a year.
In a major city there is no way you can survive on 30-40K on your own.
Dudes have to be honest, if you graduate college, are living with your parents and are making 40 something K a year, then yeah I can see how your living expense and food expense is covered. The money goes towards you or for you to save.
But who wants to live with their parents for the rest of their life. That's high school teenage status. Once yuppies graduate college they are searching for independence, perhaps moving out and going to a distant city.
But if you are on your own...nope.
The youth, my generation unfortunately lacks motivation, ambition, being risk takers. Too quick to take the first offer, too scared to get out their comfort zone search other places for employment, because they want to room with the 'rents.
Being too cautious and safe, gets you no where.
A manager at footlocker with no education makes 40k a year. If you open at kiosk at the mall, you can easily bank 60 a year.
In a major city there is no way you can survive on 30-40K on your own.
Dudes have to be honest, if you graduate college, are living with your parents and are making 40 something K a year, then yeah I can see how your living expense and food expense is covered. The money goes towards you or for you to save.
But who wants to live with their parents for the rest of their life. That's high school teenage status. Once yuppies graduate college they are searching for independence, perhaps moving out and going to a distant city.
But if you are on your own...nope.
The youth, my generation unfortunately lacks motivation, ambition, being risk takers. Too quick to take the first offer, too scared to get out their comfort zone search other places for employment, because they want to room with the 'rents.
Being too cautious and safe, gets you no where.
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air spider 777
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Depends on your University. Some colleges let alumni use the career services center whenever, some as soon as you expire it isn't free, and some you have a time frame after graduation, most cases it's like twelve months.
Check with your University.
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$30k plus overtime.
