This story was published last Sunday, but I still can’t stop thinking about it. The New York Times wrote about a pair of 24-year-old twins from Ohio who are both recent college graduate with journalism degrees. They both moved to New York to try and start their careers. However after applying to 150 jobs between them without any prospects, one’s turned to bartending and the other has resorted to playing the saxophone in subway stations with a sign that reads, “Don’t Give Money, Give Business Cards.”
Scary. Especially when The Times portrays their feelings so accutely:
Now, jobless, days going by one at a time, Katie found herself saying things like: “It’s driving me bonkers. Like what has my existence come to?” And: “I’m going to stab myself.”
Obviously this hits home to me because I’m a soon-to-be college grad with a journalism degree who wants to move to New York and start my career. Like these young women, I too, have internships under my belt. After reading this story, now I wonder how long it will take before I need to learn how to play a musical instrument.
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