[JennysCool]

Get a WAAAAAHHHHHHHHHmbulance there! Stat!

[ProudEagle]

Jobs with $60,000 starting salaries fell into students' laps. Though we giggled at jokes about waiting tables and seniors joining the Peace Corps because the market is bad, our laughter was nervous. We wanted guarantees. She told graduates to be willing to take jobs outside their fields and to accept entry-level positions to get in the door.

Gee, my generation learned all of this from the git-go. I started at the ground level, worked my way up, accepted whatever I could to make ends meet and whaddya know? I'm finally better off than I thought I'd ever be. I'm finally in my dreamjob after 20 years of sweat. I've loved every minute of my life and work. Why? I EARNED it. I WORKED for it.

I suppose I shouldn't be so hard on them though. The hippie/me generation raised them. Figures.

[Martin Tell]

Then came the burst of the dot-com bubble. The tax cut. September 11th. Enron. The war in Iraq ...

This maroon equates the (non-existent) tax cut with 9/11. With that type of brain-power, no wonder he can't find a job.

I always thought the Ivy league was over-rated, and I was never impressed with their products. Here is more proof.

[Timocrat]

Oh dear. Somebody else wants their diaper changed. I might suggest a spell in the military to put some backbone into the author but I think they are looking for some maturity in their recruits.

[George W. Bush]

Ivy League angst. Poor things.

[scubadave]

the director of career services at NYU advised students to overcome the job market by thinking outside the box

Gag me with a 2x4!! Imagine the upper-middle class putzes sitting at the feet of this NYU pinhead, diligently taking notes.

Did these University "directors of career services" ever work in the private sector or own a business? Perhaps these kids should bring their Bull---t Bingo scorecards to these orientations!

[WaterDragon]

It sounds as though they studied a very narrow slice of history during grade school, high school and university -- a slice that covered the entire 1990s.

Evidently they read nothing about the economic and political ups and downs during the previous 2,000 years. Amazing.

[HitmanLV]

This article betrays a very barren, almost narcissistic, vew of the world. These are exactly the people I went to law school with, and worked in law firms with for years, before I quit.

They aren't nearly as impressive as their hype. Frankly, they should look at this as a maturing experience. What lessons they learn from this is for them to decide.