For the year in which my d and her friends graduated, under-employment is the norm. It is very challenging, also sometimes hard to find jobs that are considered fulltime and offer benefits. Even people with graduate degrees are underemployed… Luckily for her she has no loans to pay off. She has friends who attended U or R and other schools who are so burdened with debt. She does have another friend who was in the English dept at U orlso and does have a job in publishing, zero raise beyond entry level pay in 5 years. She has friends with degrees in psychology from other schools. One is a school psychologist however it is a long haul as in order to apply to grad school in psychology you need two years of internship experiences and those can either be unpaid or minimal salary. Hard to do if you are already paying off student loans. The other friend with a degree in psychology has a job in a political organization in D.C. but mostly clerical/admin/social media marketing. She has a friend with a degree in communications with a job as a receptionist/clerical work for a law firm. We have a friend with a daughter currently doing a post-doc position in psychology for the VA. So… after several internship years including working as a nursery school aide and at the NYU child study program, she is admitted to grad school, gets her Master’s and as part of her Ph.D. study, she was lucky enough to have a placement because there are not enough placements to go around nationally for all the emerging students from grad school.