Posted on 05/19/2026 4:39:03 AM PDT by C19fan
When I graduated with a degree in journalism three years ago, I'd hoped to have a full-time, salaried job in my field by now.
Instead, most of my days are a hectic blend of part-time and unpaid roles.
I often find myself running to my retail job in the morning, catching the train in the afternoon to pick up the kids I nanny for, coming home for a quick dinner, and then wrapping up the day with a few hours at my unpaid, remote internship.
It's not exactly how I envisioned spending my 20s in New York, but here we are.
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The first sentence gives it away. No need to read the rest of the article.
I bet the mortgage mommy and daddy provided financial support while she was living it up in NYC
P.T. Barnum was right all along
Perhaps a degree in something useful sweetie? Next up, this bonehead will go back for a degree in art.
Get yerself a phone with a camera and keyboard. There ya go.
Oh boo hoo Ryan. When I was your age, i picked up a lot of trash, cleaned lots of turlets, mowed lots of lawns ( both commercial and residential). I was even a process server for a short time. And a runner for a lawyer that worked for the State, getting copies of bills to be voted on, etc.
Cry me a river. Go sip yer Starbux latte.
Certainly not investigative journalist material if she was unable to figure this out before wasting four years.
You mean they don’t hand out jobs with the diploma? Could have spent the time submitting articles, start a blog, use the new media to her advantage. Instead she’ll be a permeant student for as long as she can.
This person is apparently writing for the likes of MSN.
“...When I was your age, ...”
If you think about entertainment, jobs like journalism were portrayed as important, exciting and action packed. Think about “Superman” and his journalistic sidekicks, always in the thick of excitement. No late nights. No research. Just excitement. Or “All the President’s Men.” Clandestine meetings and taking down a president. Excitement.
Journalism today does not exist the way it is portrayed. It’s some guy with a phone and an internet connection. The real work, the Nick Shirley’s of the world, are unemployable for paychecks. Journalists working for paychecks are propagandists. Their stuff is such boring lies that it is already a field full of AI generated slop.
A huge number of problems like this man’s wasted schooltime can be stopped by preventing taxpayer backed school loans for any training where the school can’t demonstrate the graduate gets a paying job.
If you have an engineering degree they practically do. But maf is hard if you’re stupid. Harder if you’re a journalism major.
Indeed, the choice of major is an issue. But the two jobs and the internship speak well of a work ethic.
“ When I graduated with a degree in journalism”
Mistake #1.
Get a useful degree and life will be easier
Also, I hope the graduate degree is with a not-journalism major.
Ya know, as I look back, my first job between the age of 16 and 21 with Moruska Moving was probably my most useful job experience. Each job ended with an empty truck and a feeling of satisfaction at a job well done. I learned how to move anything anywhere. Not to mention that lifting weights for 8 hours a day did wonders for my body. Funny people didn’t tip back in those days.
You mean she might have also had to move out of New York to where a job actually existed. Fly over country dodged another bullet.
“The dildo of consequence rarely comes lubricated”
So she can’t find a job in US, so her plan is to go study “women’s public policy” in France? Yeah that’s the ticket. 🤣🤣🤣
Yep. Nick Shirley isn’t having any problems.
And another yep…”free” government money for “education” caused most of this.
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