[marron]

On the bright side, however, if you get out of college, can’t find a job, but don’t qualify for unemployment, you don’t get counted as “unemployed”.

[Jim from C-Town]

‘From May to June, the number of college grads who were counted as “unemployed”—meaning they did not have a job but had tried to get one in the past month—climbed by 96,000, from 1,877,000 in May to 1,973,000 in June.’

To put that into perspective: That is more people than live in the cities of Columbus, OH, Cleveland, OH, Toledo, OH, Akron, OH, and Cincinnati OH; COMBINED!

WOW! Think about that!

[Prole]

[SampleMan]

But at 50,000 full time jobs created each month, they will all have a job by the 1st of Never.

Unfortunately a high percentage of these young mush heads will run out to vote for Obama come November.

[rod1]

Obamanomics: hurting our youth the most. There is a really cathy RAT 2012 campaign theme. or

Reelect Obama. We haven’t hurt enough of America’s youth yet.

[Harley]

I wonder how many of these jobless people are blaming Bush for their plight? Do you think they have a clue that Obama doesn’t really care if they have jobs or not?

[Graybeard58]

I would suggest to anyone with a bachelor's degree who can't find a job, to invest just 15 more semester hours at a junior college to become a certified C.N.C. operator, the demand is still out there and I'd bet employers would hire a qualified operator with a degree rather quickly.

It's work, you'd better know math, some geometry and trig but it pays well. I retired in 1999 at $24 per hour and all the over time I could stomach.

It's not a desk job and you might get dirty from time to time, alternatively, you can sit around and moan about not having a job in your area of expertise.

[Lizavetta]

Someone needs to burst that bubble that having a college degree means a well-paying career.

News flash: TOTALLY DEPENDS on what major YOU choose.

Women's Studies, Race Relations, Ethnic Studies, Cultural Trends, Chicano Studies, Dramatic Arts, History, Sociology, Psychology, Photography I.E. WIMPY SOFT MAJORS ...... you are likely to be working at Starbucks.

Petroleum engineering, Electrical engineering, Mechanical engineering, Computer Science, I.E. HARD SCIENCES ..... you are likely to be employed, particularly if you do internships while in college.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Gotta brag here. My oldest daughter earned her Master’s Degree in June 2011 from the University of British Columbia. It didn’t take her long to land contract work at the huge transit agency in Vancouver. She’s been looking for full-time work for a while, got a call last Monday, an interview on Wednesday, a job offer on Friday and she tendered her resignation today to take the new job. She’s moving up to Whistler in the next couple weeks. She’s a go-getter, has studied in four countries (including the US), has been working since 14, and isn’t afraid to take any type of work to get started. She really has it together. It may be tough these days and you may not immediately land your dream job, but you can do it with humility, perseverance, good old-fashioned hard work and a can-do attitude.