The first job out of college sucks. It's a slap in the face to everything you learned in college basically and the living style you had. Entering large POs for 8 hours a day at a small company certainly was NOT what I expected. Needless to say, I found the "real world" extremely slow and that job didn't last long. It wasn't until I applied for a job a couple weeks later I thought I wouldn't even have a chance of getting, and that's when Accounting found me. Hey, those POs at my last place actually did something afterall. They need to be searching for Jobs. No ifs ands or buts. Get a LinkedIn account. There are so many recruiters on there. Apply apply apply. Not every company is the same. Tell your son to walk into the local music shop and ask for an application in person. It's about finding a job that they want to strive in that will benefit them to the next step. Life is not easy, it never was, nor will it ever be. That's what vacations are for and I recommend you take one if you can. It's about working towards something knowing it's helping others for your benefit as well. That is what "work" really is. It's not about "being a slave". That is the worst mentality you can have. It's about the natural life of living and what it means to be apart of making others lives better in some way. Attitude goes a long way. Once they find the right job, their lives will start to shape up. Don't let them be lazy about it.
Yeah ha, well what I meant is that most college schedules are 2-3 classes a day where you can sleep in and have time in-between to go back to your dorm/apartment and chill with friends and study or whatever. These classes teach theory and upper level management concepts you won't use in a entry level job. Only to graduate and go into work for 8 hours a day with little breaks, no friends, your asking yourself why you went to college to do basic work like entering in POs all day. On top of that, the salary expectations are way off, most kids think they'll make 80k after graduation but really start off at 40k and can barely get by. This can be tough on the psyche and does take about 2 years to transition or "get broken in" to the real world schedule of work. I know exactly how it feels.
The first job out of college sucks. It's a slap in the face to everything you learned in college basically and the living style you had. Entering large POs for 8 hours a day at a small company certainly was NOT what I expected. Needless to say, I found the "real world" extremely slow and that job didn't last long. It wasn't until I applied for a job a couple weeks later I thought I wouldn't even have a chance of getting, and that's when Accounting found me. Hey, those POs at my last place actually did something afterall. They need to be searching for Jobs. No ifs ands or buts. Get a LinkedIn account. There are so many recruiters on there. Apply apply apply. Not every company is the same. Tell your son to walk into the local music shop and ask for an application in person. It's about finding a job that they want to strive in that will benefit them to the next step. Life is not easy, it never was, nor will it ever be. That's what vacations are for and I recommend you take one if you can. It's about working towards something knowing it's helping others for your benefit as well. That is what "work" really is. It's not about "being a slave". That is the worst mentality you can have. It's about the natural life of living and what it means to be apart of making others lives better in some way. Attitude goes a long way. Once they find the right job, their lives will start to shape up. Don't let them be lazy about it.
A BIG slap in the face to the everybody gets a trophy generation.
Yeah ha, well what I meant is that most college schedules are 2-3 classes a day where you can sleep in and have time in-between to go back to your dorm/apartment and chill with friends and study or whatever. These classes teach theory and upper level management concepts you won't use in a entry level job. Only to graduate and go into work for 8 hours a day with little breaks, no friends, your asking yourself why you went to college to do basic work like entering in POs all day. On top of that, the salary expectations are way off, most kids think they'll make 80k after graduation but really start off at 40k and can barely get by. This can be tough on the psyche and does take about 2 years to transition or "get broken in" to the real world schedule of work. I know exactly how it feels.