How long did it take you to find a "real world" job after college?

[WindRavenX]

It keeps creeping up on me, and it's getting scary :scared:

[LostinVA]

1. About ten years -- for real

[gkdmaths]

2. 24 hours

work hard, you'll get it!

:thumbsup:

[Redstone]

3. I never went to college.

Redstone

[HEyHEY]

4. Three months

[QMPMom]

5. I had it before I graduated.

All of the people in my RN program had jobs lined up before we graduated.

[sir_captain]

6. My summer job during college

became my full-time job right after, and that led to a better job a few years later.

I also know some people who had some trouble finding jobs--but they all did, and you will too. Hang in there.

[Downtown Hound]

7. Pretty much right away

I was a journalism major and an ABC station snatched me up right after I graduated. But I quit a little over a year later because of the right wing coverage of the Iraq War. Now I'm doing carpentry and back in school working on my IT degree.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

8. A year.

I was eventually laid off by a Bush-loving asshole of a boss, but that's another story.

[crim son]

9. About a week. I got a "temp" job at Berklee College of Music

where I fit in magnificently. In two more weeks I was hired. A great place to work... the people were wonderful and I was surrounded by young folks and musicians. Who could ask for more?

[WindRavenX]

10. my student loans kick in next november

Only 11 months to find something to pay da bills :scared:

[leftofthedial]

11. a couple of months

it wasn't the greatest job and not one I would take now. this was during the carter era.

[Skittles]

12. I was in the military at age 18

some of us did not f*** around looking for work :D

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

13. I got a job within a few months of graduation.

In fact, I had a whole series of sucktacular jobs, at which I worked for a number of years (seven, actually) until I went back to school, got a graduate degree and finally got a "real" job. Which I hated. After another 17 years I changed careers again, finally ended up at a "real" job I actually like.

[XemaSab]

14. 4 months

but I was a bit fussy about what job I would take, and 2 months after I took that first job I got a better job.

[Lethe]

15. 3 months or so

i think.

the real world sucks though, i try to stay out of it as much as possible. Nasty place, really.

[WindRavenX]

16. sure seems like it

x(

I wish someone would pay me to read books and drink peppermint mochas. That'd be sweet.

[Cheney Killed Bambi]

19. Heh

You and me both.

;)

[trackfan]

17. 12 years

but now I'm back in a non real world job. Real world jobs are hard to come by.

I guess I would define real world job as one which I actually could not have gotten without going to college. Most of the jobs I've had could have been handled by a sharp ten year old.

[Cheney Killed Bambi]

18. 10 months

I worked at a temp job over the summer, and then I volunteered for a Presidential campaign until it went bust, then I temped again, and then -- real job!

I was so bad at interviewing back then. I must have gotten rejected from 50 possible jobs before I finally landed one.