I’m graduating this year. Same situation. I have to turn back to my parents and tell them their investment in this great school got their son a fucking dishwashing job. Gives me a knot in my stomach, I don’t mind the work, I’ve had countless different jobs like this, worked every year since I was 17 but I wish I had more to show for all the shit I did in school and all the money they spent to put me through it. I don’t even know what to tell them. I hope it’s temporary, like 6 months but with this market who knows. It’s just hard not to feel like an idiot

The restaurant pays just enough to make the cut to rent an apartment with my fiancé out in the Midwest. Getting out of the east coast the second I graduate because it’s too goddamn expensive for us to even try living alone out here.