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Hello fellow 36 year old! I think graduating into the 2008 mess gives us peculiar point of view. Two years older, we might have already had burgeoning careers
by alexose 5y ago
Hello fellow 36 year old!
I think graduating into the 2008 mess gives us peculiar point of view. Two years older, we might have already had burgeoning careers. Two years younger, we might have avoided it altogether.
I remember so much impending doom from those years. Pretty different than the current sentiment.
- peignoir 5y ago2002 here got into the market right after the 2000 bubble and the second Irak war… my lessons learned since has been to travel and go where the market is better.
- jurassic 5y agoTwo years younger reporting in, things were still terrible for the Class of 2010 graduates. New grad unemployment didn't recover until 2012.
- alexose 5y agoDidn't mean to imply that things were back to normal by 2010, only that it was (in theory) possible to prepare for it a little. In my case, there's no way I would have dropped CS in favor of anthropology if I knew what my prospects would look like! But yeah, it was rough for everyone. Even now, young careers are shaped by what happened in 2008.
- dumdumdumdum 5y ago2013 here. I'd say things weren't that great then too.