This may be true, but the advice does not necessarily mean it will take 6 months - I have a graduate degree from a prestigious school in STEM, and it took me 2

This may be true, but the advice does not necessarily mean it will take 6 months - I have a graduate degree from a prestigious school in STEM, and it took me 2 1/2 years to find a job, only after getting fed up with job searching and teaching myself programming. I treated job searching as a 9 to 5 job as well. The market is very tough for those trying to enter in the first time in general.