"I don't even know what I'm looking for," says Michael Bledsoe, who described months of fruitless job searches as he served customers at a Seattle coffeehouse. The 23-year-old graduated in 2010 with a creative writing degree.
"Initially hopeful that his college education would create opportunities, Bledsoe languished for three months before finally taking a job as a barista, a position he has held for the last two years. In the beginning he sent three or four resumes day."
My daughter landed her "dream job" about a year and a half ago, and her starting salary was at about the 85th percentile for personal income in the US. In fact, she began the job a few months before she actually received her master's degree. She definitely knew what she was looking for, and homed in on it like a heat-seeking missile. If she had told potential employers she didn't know what she was looking for, I imagine most would have concluded she was completely nuts. Don't colleges have counseling centers any more? For $50k in annual college tuition, that's not an unreasonable expectation. It's not an employer's job to figure out what someone wants to do with his life.
what is a ‘creative writing degree; — do you need a degree to be able to write? How many successful fiction (or even non-fiction) authors of today have these “degrees”?