[DIRTYSECRET]

“Good luck finding a job” Mitt Romney should have said it wen he lost. Wasted opportunity.

[Ouchthatonehurt]

Uh...I’m pretty sure I’m special.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

I never went to my graduation from college. I was working already. It was a good thing too because the speaker was the Congressman from Hawaii and I heard it was a painfully boring speech where he spent way too much time on the fact that the Department of the Interior kept Indian skulls in a warehouse.

[oh8eleven]

Your future probably isn't going to be as bright as the one your parents had.
Because of the national debt? BS.
All Americans have lived with a national debt since the country was founded.

However, had the author claimed their bleak future was a result of ØbamaCare, I would have agreed.

[Starboard]

The new “success formula” for recent graduates in today’s America:

— Game the system; let others pay your way whenever possible
— Always blame others for your shortcomings or problems
— Use your newly acquired powers of expression to obfuscate, misdirect, and justify
— Spend beyond your means and unhesitatingly walk away from your debts
— Prolong adolescence as long as possible and avoid the burdens of responsibility and commitment

In short, embrace the liberal principles of the Democrat Party which were inculcated in you these past four years.

[wideawake]

(2) is self-defeating nonsense. The rest is practical.

[Berlin_Freeper]

The other week I saw that my 4 year-old daughter has out grown her bicycle, it’s for a small child and has no pedals. I told my wife about getting a real bicycle with pedals and training wheels. She said maybe we don’t need training wheels.

I then gave a 10 minute explanation of how training wheels help to give a sense of accomplishment, that is an important early lesson in life even if only used for a short time. I also discussed taking her to the park and related stuff...

The next day when I went to pick her up from the Catholic daycare... she was in the backyard riding a bicycle all around the place!

I told my wife: Forget what I said, she already rides a bicycle...
She asked: Really?
I said: Like A Pro!

She’s special. :)

[latina4dubya]

4) You probably won't have the cool stuff your parents have until you're their age: Some people live the dream of getting a high paying job right out of college and accumulating all the neat stuff their parents have before they're thirty.

and somehow they will have all the cool stuff before they are their parents' age... either their parents will buy it for them, or they will buy it on credit... it is the American way for some time now...

[moovova]

1) Get a job.

2) After you get a job, help someone else get a job.

3) After getting a job...save, save, save...but spend some earnings so that other companies can increase hiring so that others can get a job.

4) Demand that your government create an environment that promotes getting a job.

5) Demand that your government reduce it’s programs that dissuade folks from getting a job.

[driftless2]

My step-daughter graduated with a law degree about ten years ago. Her only job offer was some low paying job with the city gov. of a large midwestern city. She took it. A year later she was offered a slightly better job one hundred miles away. She took that. Then she was offered a better job back in the big city, and now she has a chance to be partner in a law firm. And she just had a job offer from another established firm for more money.

Meanwhile more than a few of her classmates refused to take any low paying, starter lawyer jobs preferring to wait for the offers from the big law firms and the big pay they deserved. Or so they thought. Many of them were still umemployed five years after graduation. Moral of story: take what is offered however menial and work your way up.