By CollegeGrad - 25/04/2009 06:39 - United States

Today, was my graduation from a prestigious university. In two days I start working at a hot dog stand. FML
I agree, your life sucks 66 765
You deserved it 16 926

Same thing different taste

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trilliamme 0

I'm pretty sure I'm going to end up doing something like this with my new shiny Bachelor's degree, too.

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to #125, same here. BA in psychology from one of the top 10 colleges on the US news and world report rankings for 2009, 3.8 general GPA, 3.97 major GPA, 2 psychology internships, research with three different professors, honors thesis project running my own study... no post-graduation employment so far. Anyone who is going to college for the degree or the grades is misguided; getting an undergrad degree is really just telling employers you might not be an idiot. They need to see that you have skills. And while getting a degree in engineering, bio-medical engineering, bio, statistics, or economics may be a little wiser, those degrees STILL won't necessarily help you to get a job; you still won't have any skills with just a silly degree. Work experience is really the most important thing. What I did during the SUMMERS when I wasn't enrolled in classes is getting me the most attention during my few (and unfruitful) job interviews. I recommend that anyone who knows they have brains just skip the whole college thing and search human resource departments at universities and start making copies (no salary) for professors you think you might like. Use library resources like JSTOR, pubmed, sciencedirect, etc. to get an actual education. In four years of doing that, you'll learn more and demonstrate more value than anything you could possibly do for four years at an ivy league. And you'll save thousands and thousands of dollars.

LeonardSnow 0

hahaha me too, me too - welcome abroad guy/girl

mylifeisfuckeddd 0

damn economy! be lucky u have a job though, even though it sucks

maxam_fml 0

those must be some pretty expensive hot dogs. serve em with pride sista. someday you'll have the last laugh. congrats by the way.

The comma isn't his/her fault. That's the format when you submit your FML.

yay for the shitty american economy...

Jessyca_fml 0

:/ Serious my friend told me to go work at starbucks or at the mall. I'm graduating this fall...from a sucky university with a psychology degree...sooo don't worry...I think a lot of people are going to be working at crappy jobs right out of college. Unless they know lots of rich people :P

chococool223 0

Poetic justice at its finest. College is such a flawed system.

No offense...but the people who keep on saying liberal arts majors are worthless are seriously ignorant. I’ve met bio majors who take on jobs after graduation in fields that remotely have no affiliation with science. I will admit that finding jobs with just a b.a. or b.s. nowadays is hard. That's why anyone who wants to make a decent living should get an M.A. MBA or PhD and just quit your bitching. What do you expect...the bachelor's degree in this day and age is overrated (the education standard has gone up). If you want better pay then go back to school and quit your bitching and moaning. And don't say money is an issue, if you want something that bad you'll attain it, even if you have to take out loans or bust your asses trying to get scholarships and grants. By the way I am an Art History Major and Spanish major, and I was able to get an internship and a 14 hour job...and I haven’t even graduated. If I had listened to all those ignorant ideals that a science major is the sure way to go...id still be stuck in the Science College in my university majoring in Biology, and feeling completely and totally miserable. So suck it! And OP you’ll be fine, just fix your resume and see what job you can land. If not reconsider going back to school.