Expectation after College
By a_ce_e
@a_ce_e (1422)
Philippines
May 18, 2007 7:46am CST
I remember when i am still in college, i am excited that i will graduate soon and at last i can have a high paying job because i taken bachelor degree. Reality comes, i attend my job interviews and realized the salary they offer were small because i am just a fresh graduate. Hard to accept that the salary you earn were not even enough for my necessities. I don't have choice but to accept the offer than to be jobless. What about you, do you also expect the same as i am?
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6 responses
@nurhoney (1123)
• Philippines
19 May 07
of course! your just a fresh graduate, so being accepted to work would be great honor since you dont have experiences yet...it would be like your stepping stone for the right carreer for you. it would ba different if you graduated with honors like magna cumlaude or suma cumlaude or cumlaude coz the companies would be after you and would give you a high salary even without experience. people with honors are like known to be easy to train and knows it all with regards to his degree.
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@morgandrake (2136)
• United States
22 May 07
I wonder what the reputation of Phi Theta Kappa members are in the workforce. I became a member of that honor society this semester.
For those who dont know you need a 3.5 GPA to become a member of Phi Theta Kappa (the two year college honor society).
@shak143 (1279)
• India
18 May 07
Of course dude i will accept that offer as it common to dream when we are in college that we are becoming graduates we will get jobs easily and we get paid with awesome amount.
Which is not meet to real life scenario.It's intelligent act to get what comes in his way and make it as he needs instead of waiting for a good offer.
So what ever you have done is right and try to convert it as you like..........ALL THE BEST.......
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@a_ce_e (1422)
• Philippines
19 May 07
Well that is exactly what i am expecting before, "awesome salary" for my educational background, but what happen is really different. As you say, we can get the jobs easily because we are graduates, but maybe it depends on your country. In my country, the number of graduates is much greater than the job opportunity so the tendency, employers are taking advantage of it, since they were thinking these graduates need job and they will grab the offer even the salary is too small.
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@skbadhan (879)
• India
20 May 07
same here . generaly it happens with most of us as i feel hardly 5% people can get job they expect others are compromising my expectaions were too high i have done 5 years degree in architecture. after completion of my degree I opened my own office in my own town as my parents don't want me to go to big cites for job as i am the only son they have. but i feel today that decission was a very wrong decision in my life . i am still strugling for each and every penny
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@a_ce_e (1422)
• Philippines
23 May 07
Does Architecture has also some kind of board exam? Had you taken one? I think there's nothing wrong of opening your own office in town, but have to widen your market and have more connection, i mean joining architecture contest if there is or might join group of architectures.
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@morgandrake (2136)
• United States
22 May 07
I am guessing that it is a small town. You cant pay me enough to go back to the small town I lived in, and quite honestly there are no real jobs there.
@rolincenter (99)
• Philippines
19 May 07
Perhaps, that's the sad reality of getting "freshly" employed. In college, we expect more to get more than what is the likely average of those who are working.
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@takkea (393)
• United States
20 May 07
After college I want to spend some time with my son while preparing for the lsats. The first years of his life are the best times and I really need to spend them with him because it will make all the difference in the world. Completing college is a big milestone in a person's life.
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@morgandrake (2136)
• United States
18 May 07
As a forty-one year old college sophomore, I expect that by the time I get a degree that I will be too old to be hired. That is why I am working as a freelance writer; I figure I better start getting ready to be self-employed while I am in school.
