Okay, so this is a letter I wish I had read back when I was a little more naive for soon-to-be or recent college grads:
Dear Little Miss/Mr. Smarty-pants,
You are not special and life is not AP American History with Mrs. Gershwin in room 247.
In real life, it does not matter that you did everything you were supposed to do. No one cares about your A in computer science or your role as secretary of the Young Whatevers Club.
So, you know how you're going to graduate with your top 10% GPA and your honor societies and your post-middle school braces smile? So is everyone else. And the people below that 10% spent their college years networking (see: partying), so they'll probably actually do better than you.
All across the country (actually, the world) there are a million happy little clams just like you. And unlike the 17 years you've spent in school, just doing what you are supposed to do will not get you ahead of anyone else. America is no longer a manufacturing country (although you wouldn't know it by the American education system, but I digress), and employers aren't amazed by your ability to sit quietly for several hours and complete worksheets/ multiple choice questions. In fact, they're probably going to go "ew."
You're not going to have your dream job right out of college. You're probably not going to go within a few hundred miles of your dream job. Right now, you're poo-pooing all those ads to become an insurance salesman. In a few months, you will be searching for them like a crack whore. Life is not going to be easy and you won't be rewarded for what a good student you were back in the day.
Suck it up and find some semi-livable office job that pays your bills (student loans will probably cost you around $400+ per month). Get some experience and start looking again in a few months or a year when you have some real life under your belt.
You had to prove yourself to your professors/parents/peers, now prove yourself to the world.
XOXO,
Your Future
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