I completely agree. There are alot of new graduates looking at the world saying "I'm screwed". No you're not! I've survived the dot com bust as a DBA, and both recent oil busts while working in energy. You too, will be great if you're reading this. We need more hope, more love, more encouragement right now. Be a part of the solution instead of more doom and gloom (and criticism).
I read the article expecting there to be some inspirational story and the sour grapes were wrong, or some self-congratulatory mess not widely applicable to anyone and the sour grapes have a point...
I don’t really know what that was.
Right where you think the story described by the title would start, it just ends.
The title is pretty inspirational in a “everything will be ok.” sort of way, but then instead of “here’s why” or “here’s my hopeful story” it’s: “I got a job and 9/11 happened.”
And if it wasn’t for the dot com boom I don’t see why any part of that would be different.
I've coworkers who were fresh grads, have been great to work with, and graduated into an excellent job market, but still mirrored the short exposition at the start about struggling to get a job 3 months before graduation
Not everyone goes to an excellent school, and ends up being courted by Google...
Things got better, of course. We were doing pretty well until 2008, when we weren’t doing so well. Then we did pretty well again. That’s the nature of life, isn’t it? It oscillates, like a sine wave, like the rise and fall of your chest as you breathe in and out.
Call it intentional vagueness if you want, but I think the author's point is: this too shall pass. The particulars of the author's story are likely so specific as to be useless.
There are ups, there are downs. Keep calm, and carry on.
> There are ups, there are downs. Keep calm, and carry on.
That’s pretty much the title and subheading
The author’s story ends up not really adding any meat to that statement though.
They delve into their own story and I wouldn’t say there were any ultra specific Hail Mary moments that make it inapplicable to others (like people who’s stories are “I was sad then I won the lottery so that could be you”)
But it’s just, you go in expecting the author’s point to be expanded upon, and it just isn’t.
I actually read it like 3 times imagining I was missing something honestly
