That was the job market I graduated into.

But you were in IT--admittedly I was in Canada, but I got the first job I applied for and they were desperate for more people. I thought those were the good times (well, not counting the dot com boom which I kinda don't believe in, because how could I have missed out on it so entirely?)

That was the job market I graduated into.

Me three.

My post-graduation life: Did a summer internship at a theater company on the campus of my college, made a shitload of good friends and contacts (whom - and I kick myself for this not infrequently - I have totally failed to keep up with), made plans to move to SF with one of those friends. Summer ended, she went to Cleveland and I to Walnut Creek, where she waited tables and I temped at the California Christmas Tree Growers' Association offices, and we both saved up and in January '91 I found a flat in SF and she moved out.

Then followed four horrible months consisting of frequent borrowings from my parents, exactly four hours of temp work (signed up with 3 agencies, for all the good it did me), and, at long last, a job that made me a miserable weeping wreck within three weeks. Then came the good work at UCSF, and the cool acting jobs, and things got much better.

Very, very unadventurous of me... if I could do it over, I'd probably start out wandering much, much more. I'd still want to end up here in the Bay Area, though.

That was the job market I graduated into.

Skimming the thread very quickly, after my last post, made me think that a bunch of y'all graduated into the dominatrix job market.

Which made my brain go to its happy place.

Go Nicole on the not!smoking!

General poll: what did you do after you graduated college?

I went straight into grad school that summer and had my first high school teaching job by the end of the next school year. I started there in August while I was finishing my MA and then worked at the same school for eight years.

It's probably no surprise that at 30 I went stark raving mad and moved to California.

what did you do after you graduated college?

Got married (the DAY after graduation). Moved to the Bay Area. Tried to get a job during a bad recession. Moved north to Sacramento. FINALLY got a job...a job that has made every job since look wonderful.

Heh. Something Hec and Maidengurl might appreciate: The part of Athens I live in is Papagos. Which I believe is the name of the park where the A's play in spring training. Karma, I tell you.

And I need to ask for some unspecified life~ma, having to do with careers and places and moving and such.

Go, Nicole!! So proud of you.

{{sj}}

Bad = Killer Cramps from Hell

Good = Leaving early today to get a massage!

Boo for the bad. And, I totally sympathize. I'm got some serious cramps happening along with nausea. Yay! But, I don't get the nice massage.

After college, I moved home (Memphis) and worked for about 8 months before starting grad school. After grad school, I moved back to Memphis again and worked or a year before moving to Chicago. They were both good experiences for me. Grad school, on the other hand, I wish I had done differently. My advisor and I never really clicked (read: hated each other), and in a small program, that makes a huge difference. But I thought after the first year that I was stuck in the program until I finished. I wish I had just gone to another university.

But you were in IT--admittedly I was in Canada, but I got the first job I applied for and they were desperate for more people.

I was stuck in San Antonio right after college for life-reasons. There isn't a big tech industry there and the IT jobs all had tons of applicants. I finally got a low paying job doing support, but only because choices one and two didn't work out. I got a rejection letter before I was hired.

It's sixteen years later, and I'm still doing what I was going to do until I got on my feet and started doing what I wanted to do.

Oops.

Oops, I forgot. Right after college, I also drove out to LA, and bummed around taking temp jobs and volunteering for AFI movie projects as a PA.

Moved back when the funds ran out.

Maidengurl might appreciate:

Yes, indeedy. And I will be there in JUST OVER A MONTH.

Ahem, sorry. I can't answer the college question, cause I'm still in school, and working full time, and parenting...I'm so not a good example.