College grad, cant find work. - 76% Normal

Dude, this is hardly anything you should be worrying about. To begin with, in current economic difficulties, it's normal for people to need some time before they can find a job.

Think about it this way. Most people who graduate straight out of college wouldn't have much work experience as well. The best you'll find is some graduate with previous internships and that's about it. Most graduates won't have any work experience at all when they start applying for jobs.

I did a PhD after my undergraduate studies. This means that by the time I held my first real job, I was 28. Now THAT is really late.

The only advice I can give is be persistent in your job applications. My job application was rejected by 35 different companies before I got my current job. I recommend that you apply for big companies where they have graduate development programmes of some kind. The smaller companies normally can't afford to train new employees. Therefore, they always ask for people with very specialist skills and many years of experience. Don't go for these. Go for every graduate development programme available where as long as your degree is relevant to the company you're applying for, as long as you've got the attitude and the brains, you'll do well in the job interview.

Good luck and don't give up hope!

If you can get by without working, why would you want a job?
Make a list of the things you like to do. Post that, and I bet you'll get some fun suggestions.

twenty four sucks dosnt it. Every year i love my birthday until i was twenty three. I thought twenty two was to old, but i got used to it and it still felt like i was young, but i never hot used to beeing twenty three, and ill be twenty four next mounth. what are we to do now?

Just make some up! Find friends that will let you say you cleaned their house once a week, or babysat their kids or something of the sort. Just some kind of odd jobs that filled your free time, like during summer vacations and such. Sure it's not the most honest thing, but desperate times call for desperate measures.

what I want to know, is what your degree is in? Maybe you can volunteer somewhere and get your foot in the door?

I can't believe you would hang this on your parents - that they spoiled you, so somehow it is their fault that you never got off your ass to get a job.

You know how to work cause you got good marks. So get off the pity pot and look for a jib - no excuses. Be a man.

*job

people might think you're too smart and not want that