Where? Yale? You shoulda went 2 Harvard Law.

Not a good year to get out of school with a degree in credit default swaps, subprime mortgages and Ponzi schemes, was it?

That sucks, 200k and nothin to show for it. Keep looking for a real job, go to college career fairs, and eventually you will find a real job for your qualifications.

Well, first off, it always amuses me how people on this site, mention that they graduated from one of the top universities in the world, yet without fail, don't ever give the name of said university. Take this FML for example: It would make your point much stronger to have included the name (unless, of course, you don't want to make it known that you actually graduated from University of Phoenix Online). Secondly, if you have a $200,000 degree in Economics, you, of all people, should know that in a time like now, the job of a crossing guard is widely coveted. It strikes me as odd that an economist from a prestigious university would turn down a job in today's rough times. So forgive me if I don't believe that a) you graduated from a Top 20 university (I highly doubt you completed secondary), and b) that you are an economist that spent $200,000 of your education (if such is the case, it obviously didn't take you 4 years to complete that program. Somewhere in the ballpark of 8 years would be more accurate).

top 20 isn't top 5 or atleast top 10...

Um, I'm a college graduate, late 40's, parents are dead so I'm not living with them. I'm not working in my field precisely either, but I'd rather work than starve and have my pretty degree mentioned in my obituary, or spend my afternoons telling the other residents at the homeless shelter how well and expensively educated I am. He may or may not be a "whiner" - I don't know him well enough to determine - but I do have to say he's naive and a bit of a snob, as well as unrealistic in this economy. Jobs are scarce and nobody goes right from the classroom to the corner office. It IS easier to find a job when you already have one, no matter how "menial" you may feel that job is, and having it shows an employer that you're willing to work, whether it's work you'd prefer or not. It shows you're capable of learning something different from what you spent years learning, and aren't a completely useless bonehead once outside your area of expertise. It also prevents having big gaps on your resume that can only be explained to an interviewer by saying, "I couldn't find a job good enough for me." No, there's nothing wrong with wanting to work in your field; there IS something wrong with turning your nose up at whatever honorable, legal employment is offered that will pay the bills while you search for that work in your field.

Should have done a cost/benefit analysis on that one, eh? Besides, undergrad degree in Econ isn't going to get you any place special. If you were any good at Econ, you would be doing grad work right now and not helping children cross the street.

Hey, it's money.

omg u preppy bastard. you go to college and all of a sudden youre too good for it? if you can afford a $200000 college you probably dont need a job. go whine to your parents for some money. the fact that you said you were "tempted" makes me sick. go die kthxbai

Your problem isn't that you were offered a job as a crossing guard. Your problem is that you PAID $200,000 to attend your school, so you THINK that makes your degree worth $200,000. The true value of any asset is not what you paid for it... the true value is what others are willing to pay for it. Of course the greatest irony is that you have a degree in economics and yet you don't seem to understand this basic concept.