I like how so many of them say, "instead of getting a Master's in X, I should have gotten a master's in Y." Where Y is another worthless discipline that one of the other people in the article studied.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2277923&forum_id=2#23364441)

LJL @ getting into some stem degree program with these ppls backgrounds. even if they somehow do they are then dealing with asshole boomer hiring managers afterwards... who of course will question their lack of experience.

degrees and experience are both flame.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2277923&forum_id=2#23364511)

Dude should easily have copped some 60k starting gig at Target HR while living a respectable young urban professional life with a cool apt in downtown Minneapolis. Ten or twenty years later he eventually makes bank running some large dept.

Instead this guy literally could live in his parents basement and has no serious career. All 1986 babies are fucking fucked.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2277923&forum_id=2#23364771)

One wrong choice and we're just as fucked as our lesser brethren.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2277923&forum_id=2#23366397)

Author: CarneyLansford

They didn't care that I was a Malcolm X scholar!

Wrong guy, dipshit.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2277923&forum_id=2#23366410)

"My husband, who still works at the same job he had in high school and did not attend a day of college, made $97,000 this year. He works on heavy equipment and is not even a supervisor. I am an associate's degree RN and I make $8 an hour more than he does. Our friends who have Master's degrees, one in international business and one in social work, are struggling to make $40k."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2277923&forum_id=2#23364938)

I'd def go back if I wasn't about to take the bar exam. may go back actually if I can't find a legal job.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2277923&forum_id=2#23366982)

whether or not this is flame, die in a fire

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2277923&forum_id=2#23368508)

THE PROSTITUTE

I came to New York in 2006 and got my BFA in theater from NYU on a full ride MLK scholarship. I'd been working my whole life at that point. First for my mom who was the sole provider of our family and then, as soon as i could drive, at a restaurant. I imagined that if I went broke once I got to new york I would be a stripper but there are no gay male strip clubs that I'm aware of so stripper turned to prostitute. And for the last six years whenever I've been in between serving jobs, which i often am, that is what I've done.

I've been working in restaurants for over a decade. It's tiresome to say the least. Not what I'd hoped to do, not what I'm interested in, and inevitably I will sabotage, allow myself to lose the job or just stop going thinking that then I'll be forced to find something better and if not then I'll troll craigslist until I've made rent. I'm currently weak with hunger. It's the end of the shortest month of the year and i have no money. Not even change. No job. And nothing to sell anymore. All my books have been taken to the strand at this point. The only thing I own of value anymore is the computer I'm writing this on.

I find the judgment frustrating, I stand by my choices, I understand the nature of the system I was born into (I think much better than many of the critics) but being smart doesn't necessarily mean being successful. I am frustrated knowing I'll have to muster up the strength of a superhero to compensate for my relatively poor background, but if that's the challenge I'll give it my best shot. I wrote, directed and starred in a play during my current period of unemployment. I am committed to several long term creative projects, and I work hard to make progress with them. I have not been feeling like I am getting anywhere. When my boyfriend broke up with me, in part because of my scrub-dom, he said that in his family he was raised to work hard for the things he wanted. That was the harshest thing to hear. My mother is not the cause of my lack of success, the problems and responsibilities are mine and I own them.

tl;dr: no one cared about my MLK scholarship

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2277923&forum_id=2#23366252)

I just turned the big 40. I've been unemployed since November of 2011. I have a MA in a design degree like "most" of us...yadda yadda. So naturally with my lovely liberal arts degree, I had become a cleaning lady in NYC after looking AND looking for graphic design/advertising gigs in South Florida and NYC to no avail.

It's not really the employers' fault especially since I graduated from the UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE in a crappy program that hadn't bothered to teach one of the most fundamental criteria for graphic design skills: THE TECHNOLOGY. That and my lovely country forgot to appreciate a growing creative force...but I don't blame or expect the government to fix that. And I'm a voting democrat. We live in a mediocrity...so of course, the likes of me are out of a job. Yes, I have skills. I have been touted for it which is all I can say to put it in simple terms. After giving up graphic design job searches, for years, I had worked in yachting industry (catered to English internationals illegally gainfully employed in the US while many discriminate against Americana), retail (which by that time I had grown to hate Glenn Murphy for ever existing as CEO and as a human being....thanks to his super low wage policy and 10 cent per year raise even for more competent employees), that and becoming a cleaning lady in NYC after transferring with the Gap from South Florida to NYC. What can I say, I grew tired of making 9 bucks per hour providing quality CS to customers, weekly credit promotion/processing... including lying to customers about credit inquiries effecting their credit.

So after transferring to NYC, I worked as a cleaning lady for a shady, two bit agency owner for a whopping 12 bucks per hour before finally quitting the Gap. After about a year and half later, I got laid off from that "respectable" cleaning agency (what else is new in NYC...and cleaning agencies...do you know the kind of guys who own these agencies?) due to the fact I finally asked and demanded my over time to finally be paid. So after being laid off by another "CEO", what did I do to survive in the big A while collecting a measly unemployment check of less than 250 bucks per week while STILL looking for at least poverty line waged (yes, it's waaaay more than 7.25, we all know) job or above hundreds of times per week? I, a casual dweeb, became an unlicensed "erotic" masseuse. That's right, ME. And I've never looked back other than continuing to post my resume on Careerbuilder of course. It's not much more money than my "cleaning lady" job, since I'd rather meet a few clients per week, but it affords me the ability to help my struggling mom cope (a little bit anyway) and pay my shitty rent/bills in Brooklyn. I'm not ashamed or obviously proud of my new part time "job", but hey, there happens to be a lot of interesting and / or handsome (mostly married) men who need a woman's touch every now and then when they're on business travel. Plus, I get to go out more...and the tips can be pretty, pretty great. I've been discreet to any high profile or celebrity figure out there....I don't care at all...because it's a job...than I apply my CS skills to naturally. I'm not even a hottie or young...but it's better than working in retail for shady CEOs who know nothing about Social Responsibility with respect to their own employees and wages.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2277923&forum_id=2#23366406)

http://money.cnn.com/gallery/news/economy/2013/01/24/masters-degree-debt/6.html

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2277923&forum_id=2#23366571)

Not flame.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2277923&forum_id=2#23366799)

My 2 math buds -- one teaches high school math.

The other passed his second CFA exam as a junior I think. Fucker was getting offers left and right senior year --- became an actuary. Makes good cash.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2277923&forum_id=2#23367768)

It's really just E (civil is questionable) and CS.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2277923&forum_id=2#23366814)

(at least if you're graduating from big state U)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2277923&forum_id=2#23366895)