Mark graduated UCONN in 2020. Tough year to graduate. So I understood why he took a job waiting tables in June of 2020. But I didn’t understand why he had not looked for a job from September 2019 until March 2020 when the pandemic began. Indeed, he was an Economics major. So applying to financial institutions throughout his senior year should have been part of his daily life. Two years later, Mark is still waiting tables.
Nothing wrong with any kind of work and if that’s what Mark wanted to do with his life, so be it. But he didn’t go to college for 4 years and his parents didn’t spend 120,000 for him to go to college so that he could do the same thing he would have done at age 18.
Mark’s story is not singular. I’m no longer surprised when I hear that college graduates did not look for jobs during their senior years.
But what many don’t realize is that every day that they don’t have a job they become slightly less employable. That sounds harsh. But employers – particularly old school types – wonder “why has this guy been waiting tables for the last 2 years?” They would rather hire a guy straight from college who doesn’t have a question mark imbedded within his application.
If your child just graduated college without a job…. get help now.