Graduating into this economy?

runnersmom
Tue, 03 Feb 2009 09:53:29 +0000

Well, terrifying is more like it, but I was trying to be calm! I think the plan is for my S to come live at home if he does not have a job by the time he graduates. We’re fine with that, but he understands that his job at that point will be to find a job. We have agreed that if he does not find paid employment, he can pursue what we consider “resume value” unpaid internships and we will help support him wherever those are. We would expect that he try to get a weekend/night job to help with living expenses, but we recognize that even those may be hard to come by. Another piece of his plan is to take language classes during this post-grad year, since he did not take it in college ad it will be very helpful for graduate school applications in the field he would like to pursue. I think that the key is going to have to be support and flexibility.