1. When you realize everyone in your graduating class is going after the same jobs.
2. And when you run into one of them at an interview.
"Oh, you too! Haha. Us."
3. When you're asked about the skills on your résumé, and you play it cool, as if you have them.
4. When you have to describe that "internship" in which you literally. did. nothing.
5. When you choose your professionally edgy (yet sophisticated) LinkedIn profile photo.
6. When that one friend who hasn't done anything for four years starts to wear suits to school.
7. Or when you overdress for an interview and feel like a fool.
8. When every single person on campus suddenly has a job, and they're all besties because of it.
9. When your eager parents start telling you about all their friends "in the biz."
10. When your friend chooses an ~alternative~ path.
11. When you and the significant other have the "what's next?" talk.
12. When you reach out to a friend from high school because you heard they have a good job opportunity.
13. When you realize everything you've ever done was for a student group, and you freak out.
14. When you have a meltdown because you literally cannot get the edges of your résumé to line up at all.
15. When your career counselor tries to calm you down by saying "this is only the first step."
16. When you feel the need to send a follow-up email because you don't trust the online submission process AT ALL.
17. And when you finally get that job and don't know how to be cool about how proud you are.
