KarenUhOh

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Sorry, Sam. You get zero sympathy from this journalist.

Do what the rest of us did when we graduated from J-School…get off your ass, get in your car and find a damn job. Most of the world isn’t “handed” a job…they have to actually FIND a job. I’m curious about what is actually taught at Harvard that you are just figuring that out, on the cusp of graduation. At my cheap, state school, it was drilled into our heads EVERY SINGLE DAY by all of our journalism professors that WE had to find a job…and it wouldn’t be easy. And all of us did find jobs(except for the marketing girls who just married rich guys and it turns out that was the best career path of all).

Yes, I know. The world has changed. And you are LUCKY, you big goof. All the 40 somethings, toiling away in print in a dying medium are rightly panicking. Their kids are approaching college age, their 401Ks are gone and the future is bleak. YOUR future is wide open. Employers aren’t hiring them, they’re hiring YOU.

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Excerpted from commenter “Hockey Mom” on The Awl, to a post about Harvard Crimson’s Sam Jacobs’ dismay with job rejections.

Sadly, as legitimately tough as it is to enter the job market now, it’s tougher to be midway or further through a career, with big bills, no savings—and entering the job market.