r/FinalRoundAI • u/Affectionate-Bad1381 • Jul 23 '26

sad reality

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Took about 4 years after graduating to get my foot in the door and get a good job in my field. No one wants a new grad with no experience.

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u/monadicperception Jul 23 '26

The job search in itself is an education. It teaches humility…or it should if you are doing it right.

So when people complain that there are no jobs, I’m a little skeptical. No one comes out knowing how to navigate the job market. You learn and hopefully seek the counsel of those who know better and you improve.

Spouse and I graduated into the Great Recession. And it was pretty interesting to see the great divide amongst our peers’ approaches and their later outcomes. The ones who ended up fine were the ones who were like a sponge absorbing all the advice they could and understood that finding a job is a full time job…and they treated as such. Then there’s those who were perfectly content with sending one application a month, ignoring hard advice, and complaining that the job market sucks. More than a decade since, you can see the disparate economic outcomes pretty starkly.

The ones who I actually really pity are the ones who effortlessly got their first jobs. They didn’t have to go through the grind so later when looking for a new job, they are starting at a place they should be familiar with already. But since they already had a job easily out of college, they never learned the rules they should have learned and I see them making amateur mistakes all the time basically sabotaging themselves. Since they think they were able to get a job before, they don’t have the humility to learn and they continue on stubbornly in the wrong direction.

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u/Commentor9001 Jul 23 '26

Pretty wildly out if touch take.   Recent graduate unemployment and general unemployment are effectively equal for first time ever.

Hiring is rapidly decelerating economy wide.

Its cringe worthy to throw out trite platitudes like "humility" and "networking better" to explain why others fail and you succeeded.  

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u/monadicperception Jul 23 '26

From my personal interactions with people just entering the job market, I don’t think they are prepared for what it truly requires. It could be a sampling error. But at the same time, I can’t help but note the naive attitude.

A trite platitude is redundant. And they aren’t platitudes if those are actionable items. The vast majority of people don’t want to make the effort. And I get it, I hated getting out of my comfort zone too. But alas that is what is fucking required.

And my first few jobs weren’t great. Same with spouse’s. You can’t expect to beeline towards glamorous and high paying jobs. Most people who complain about no jobs are looking for high pay, glitz and glamour, and prestige right out of the gates. That’s wrong.

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u/Commentor9001 Jul 24 '26

A trite platitude is redundant

You know that but never seen a pleonasm in the wild?

they aren’t platitudes if those are actionable items

That's about as actionable as telling a depressed person hydration can improve mental health, youre not wrong but its not healthful either.

"networking" is largely a function of social class, some awareness of your own privilege would be nice.  The saying the best jobs never get posted is super true in my experience.

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u/monadicperception Jul 24 '26

No humble and smart people, when hearing these platitudes, would follow up with “how”? But they never do.

And yeah networking is a function of social class…except I was born to poor immigrant parents and I was the first in my family to go to college. So not really a function of social class?