[Vigilanteman]

My daughter graduated from college on a Saturday. She had a number of leads but no job. A couple of the better leads were close to home. So after spending the weekend celebrating with her parents, sister, BIL, nephew and other relatives in the region, we started home on Monday, arriving early Thursday morning. She landed an interview with one of the leads the next day and was offered the job the next week.

It was hard work and didn't pay what she wanted, but it was a job and she took it.

She did her best at it, so much so that one of the better choices which wouldn't give her an interview in April called he back last week for a interview. With nearly six months of proven work history at an entry level job and an attitude which shows, they called her back on Friday with an offer which includes bennies like health insurance she didn't have with her present job. She gave them their two weeks notice yesterday.

The point is that my kid (and thousands of conservative family kids like her) did not spend her post graduation time protesting and whining that they can't get the job they "deserve." She took the first job available and used it as a stepping stone closer to the job she deserves.

FWIW, her old man did essentially the same thing back in 1981. It took me more years than it did her months to trade my first two jobs in on one I deserved.

[Cronos]

The difference is that your kid deserved the education -- i.e. she was smart, she learnt some useful skills WITH the useful skills she already had (hard-work, diligence etc.).

College education is devalued when it is too easy to get -- I got an engineering degree and I still had nightmares about it 4 years after I graduated.

If we try to pass every kid and push everyone into college, then higher education is devalued.