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Post-grad grief. They finish college. They got a degree. What they don’t have is a job. From ABC News headquarters, this is World News with Charles Gibson. Casey Savage graduated from
It's the familiar refrain후렴 반복구 heard at colleges and universities coast to coast. “I am nervous about being able to find something because those student loans come in right away as soon as you, you know, graduate.” “You do get frustrated, you start kind of doubting yourself.” “My reaction right now, my feelings right now… I don’t know what to do next.”
Two years ago, more than 50% of college seniors had jobs at graduation. This year? Fewer than 20%. That’s the bad news. The worst news? “You’re suffering from the recession just as everyone else is. But the effects are going to stay with you for much longer.” Professor Lisa Kahn’s study of the 1980s recession found that seniors who graduated then were still feeling the impact 20 years later. “They’re going to be earning much less money than their counterparts who graduated in better times and they'll be in lower level occupations.”
So what can you do? "If I were 22 years old today, I would be willing to take an unpaid internship. I would be willing to do almost anything just to get experience and exposure." That's what Trinity graduate Chauncy Kerr is trying. "I think that I’d like this summer, I might be doing an unpaid internship which, you know, it’s… You get job experience. So I'm excited about that. But I mean it would be nice to be paid." If the paying work she wants doesn’t come in six months, Chauncy says, she’ll try waitressing if she can find the job. John Burman, ABC News,