<p>Rob LaZebnik, a writer for The Simpsons, tells the WSJ what he would have said to the Class of 2013 if anyone had considered him remotely qualified to speak
[Rob</a> LaZebnik’s Message for the Class of 2013 | Saturday Essay - WSJ.com ](<a href=“http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324412604578513191042063204.html?mod=WSJ_WSJ_Careers_CJEducation_7]Rob ”>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324412604578513191042063204.html?mod=WSJ_WSJ_Careers_CJEducation_7 )</p>
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Your life has been a nonstop ride of work, study and fun. Now, though, you’re about to walk out of those iron gates and
what? You’re headed into the most challenging labor market of the last 80 years.</p>
<p>…go to the least expensive graduate school you can find and just hunker down. You’ll want to look as young as possible when actual good jobs come in three to seven years and you’re competing against new grads
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<p>Pretty funny, with some nuggets of truth.</p>
<p>Pretty darn funny. Don’t know whether to send it to my oldest who graduated, did find a job, but makes enough pittance to qualify for food stamps…or to second son who will graduate next year and has big ideas and who, when visiting, leaves our TV on the cartoon channel…or to three who graduated high school this week or perhaps to my 85 year old mother, who will laugh the hardest.</p>
<p>Oh my God! I laughed so hard I almost wet my pants reading this. Mostly because it is only a slight exaggeration of what we read here on CC.</p>
<p>I loved this and sent it to several friends and relatives. SO true!</p>
<p>I found it more depressing than funny. But just a little :-)</p>