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Kid graduates from a private university, turns down $40k job...

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Then the NYTimes tries to feature him in an article about hardship...

Over the last five months, only one job materialized. After several interviews, the Hanover Insurance Group in nearby Worcester offered to hire him as an associate claims adjuster, at $40,000 a year. But even before the formal offer, Mr. Nicholson had decided not to take the job.

Rather than waste early years in dead-end work, he reasoned, he would hold out for a corporate position that would draw on his college training and put him, as he sees it, on the bottom rungs of a career ladder.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/07/business/economy/07generation.html?_r=1

Then people (rightfully) go bonkers on him in the comments :awe::

http://community.nytimes.com/commen...usiness/economy/07generation.html?sort=oldest
 
I wouldn't take that job either. 60k+ minimum offer for me, given my education level coming out of college.
 
Well to his defense, he would have had a valid reason and everyone would have understood if he is a member of these forums. Just sayin...
 
Wow. I don't want to hear about hardship when people are turning down $40k jobs and continuing to live with their parents.
 
At least $100k or nothing for me. And that's only if it's part time work.
And I'd better get a supermodel secretary.
 
And I bet they're paying for his iPhone bill too. None of these whiny fucks ever live up to the expectation of over valuing themselves unless they have an iPhone for no good fucking reason other than to show off to people who don't give a shit.
 
Living in Worcester is its own hardship. I went to college there then got the hell out. 😛
 
Who the fuck cares? I'd turn down $80k/year if it was a shit job in a shit area. But I'd take $20k/year if it was a great job that would get me really good experience and I loved my co-workers.

...Of course, I could only stay in such a job max 6 months 😉
 
MarkXIX said:
And I bet they're paying for his iPhone bill too. None of these whiny fucks ever live up to the expectation of over valuing themselves unless they have an iPhone for no good fucking reason other than to show off to people who don't give a shit.
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From the article:
“My parents are subtly pointing out that beyond room and board, they are also paying other expenses for me, like my cellphone charges and the premiums on a life insurance policy.”
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fail. i barely graduated college and had 4 offers within 6 months.

he should have taken the job and kept looking.
 
SarcasticDwarf said:
Seems like a good idea to me. Taking a low-paying job in another field can definitely screw up your future career.
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First, $40k for someone with virtually NO work experience is NOT a low paying job, it's actually slightly above the average or expectation.

Second, you're wrong about it screwing up your career. If that's true, I should NEVER have worked at a movie theater as a teenager or I wouldn't be making the $80k+ that I am now, right?

I suspect that if the job had a title of "Coolest Job in the World, My Friends Won't Believe This Shit!" he would have taken the job for that pay. You want to know why? Because his generation is more fucking worried about how they look to their friends, their status, than they are the reality of the world around them. Its the entitlement generation in full swing is what it is, period.
 
I find it funny that kids think they are going to land a $100K job right out of college. Instead they wind up working at Starbucks.

Reality check, you're not special.
 
that is pathetic. these people should be ashamed to have their "story" put out there.

The parents are wealthy, by my standards. The son is fucking spoiled and mostly because they parents pay every goddamn expense. My parents made me start supporting myself when I turned 15.
 
pontifex said:
please explain this. I'd love to hear your reasoning on this one.
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well a year from now he'll be competing with a bunch of fresh college grads for the entry level dream job. Problem is he will be 1 year out of school and more rusty with the fundamentals... is probably how the reasoning goes.

Frankly though... with a bit of self study he can keep on top of his game so he can land the job in his dream field. Furthermore, he could probably make a strong case about needing to work in these harsh economic times.
 
pontifex said:
please explain this. I'd love to hear your reasoning on this one.
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Me as well. I'm trying to figure out how bagging groceries (and all of the other amazing side jobs that came along with that) when I was 16 years old in high school adversely affected my career.
 
DanDaManJC said:
well a year from now he'll be competing with a bunch of fresh college grads for the entry level dream job. Problem is he will be 1 year out of school and more rusty with the fundamentals... is probably how the reasoning goes.
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I may be in the minority but I would rather hire a qualified person who has worked one year out of college, regardless of what field it's in, than someone who was undergrad a week before the interview.
 
DanDaManJC said:
well a year from now he'll be competing with a bunch of fresh college grads for the entry level dream job. Problem is he will be 1 year out of school and more rusty with the fundamentals... is probably how the reasoning goes.

Frankly though... with a bit of self study he can keep on top of his game so he can land the job in his dream field. Furthermore, he could probably make a strong case about needing to work in these harsh economic times.
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Work experience is so much more beneficial in most cases than "freshness out of school"... I can't think of one field where it wouldn't be more beneficial.
 
DanDaManJC said:
well a year from now he'll be competing with a bunch of fresh college grads for the entry level dream job. Problem is he will be 1 year out of school and more rusty with the fundamentals... is probably how the reasoning goes.

Frankly though... with a bit of self study he can keep on top of his game so he can land the job in his dream field. Furthermore, he could probably make a strong case about needing to work in these harsh economic times.
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I guess it depends more on the field. Like in IT, i could see someone losing knowledge if they worked in sales for a year or technology changing while you were doing another unrelated job. I do tend to forget about stuff if I don't get to use it.
 
There's no reasoning on Sarcastic Dwarf's statement! It's a jackass statement to make.

Given a current college grad with no experience and a graduation date that is months or a year old with no experience since then, or someone who's been bagging groceries to get by, I'm taking the guy bagging groceries.

Shit, Kurt Warner won the Super Bowl after at one point stocking shelves at HyVee for minimum wage. Hell, he's probably Canton bound ahead of his time.

Let me guess, you're gonna tell me that a can of green beans weighs the same as a football and they're green like the turf, so stocking shelves was "in his field", right?
 
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MarkXIX said:
There's no reasoning on pontifex' statement! It's a jackass statement to make.

Given a current college grad with no experience and a graduation date that is months or a year old with no experience since then, or someone who's been bagging groceries to get by, I'm taking the guy bagging groceries.

Shit, Kurt Warner won the Super Bowl after at one point stocking shelves at HyVee for minimum wage. Hell, he's probably Canton bound ahead of his time.

Let me guess, you're gonna tell me that a can of green beans weighs the same as a football and they're green like the turf, so stocking shelves was "in his field", right?
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😕
 
I'd be floored to just be offered a $40k job at this point. Six years spent on higher education but my industry is recovering much more slowly than anybody anticipated.
 
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