<p>My daughter has spent more than a year out in LA looking for work in her field ( at least she had a little $$ coming in from the retail job she began in college and transferred to out there )
We decided ( as parents ) that we were not going to renew the lease as she has had only one job interview in all of this time. She is currently driving back east with her car packed and a little sad about what she feels is a failure.
She is going to try her hand in NYC and something tells me she will have better luck here than on the west coast…maybe she might have that much more motivation when she is sort of stuck here in our little town.
Her childhood friend who has taken a semester off from his college flew out to share the trip with her…which makes me feel better that she isn’t alone
I am a little mad at her college for giving what I consider to be outdated advice to the graduating seniors in her major , to stay out there while applying. In retrospect, we could have flown her out, first class and put her up in a five star hotel for all of the money wasted …things just aren’t the same for today’s grads as they were a few yrs ago</p>