4 Years For What?

We go away to school for 4 years, have the best time of our lives, spend all this money and then find ourselves sitting on our parents couch drowning in loans.

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I've been a college graduate for about 4 months now and I've hated every second of it. Everyone claims 'oh the adult world isn't that bad' but if you're still living at home, underemployed and swimming in thousands of dollars of debt, yeah it's that bad.

But one thing that I can't wrap my brain around is how do they honestly expect us to pay off all these loans? Companies are not hiring recent graduates. Every job opening I've seen requires at least 3 years of experience... But how can one gain the experience needed while you're going to school? Isn't that experience enough? I just feel like I've been set up for failure. Or maybe I am just filled with delusions of grandeur (i.e. find a very very wealthy guy to pay for my loans and never have to work a day in my life). Okay yes I know that will never happen but I feel like I have better chances of that working out then landing a high paying job to help lower my financial burden.

I feel like back when our parents were looking for jobs it was so much easier than this. They had no internet job boards, etc, they just had themselves. And isn't that the whole point of all of this? Selling yourself and showing the potential employer what you have to offer. But there's no way they can pick up on all of that when submitting an online form (& let's be real they receive at least 100 a day).

I guess at the end of the day I'm just sick and tired of filling out hundreds of online forms and praying somebody reads it. Knowing you worked your but off, spent thousands of dollars and now you have nothing to show for it just kind of sucks. I keep telling myself that something will come along, but I don't know how much longer I can wait. So I guess what I'm just trying to say is if you're reading this, please hire me and save me from living at home.

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