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Dear Grads: Welcome To Work

Dear Grads: Welcome To Work

Last updated on: June 4, 2015 at 1:15 am by Acton Institute

Dear Grads: Welcome To Work 2015-06-04T01:15:28-04:00 Acton Institute

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By Elise Hilton

If you’re a college grad, what was your first job out of college? Mine was working at a day-care center. It was not my dream job. I’m not sure I even knew then what my dream job was, but I knew that wasn’t it.

There is a lot of talk in the media about the underemployed, people with a skill set that is not utilized fully in their current job. We also have a lot of young people graduating from college who are looking for that first “real” job, the one that will launch their career. It is frustrating to find yourself waiting tables when you have that shiny new degree in business. It can feel demeaning to be working on a loading dock after you’ve been downsized from a 20-year career in retail.

The young lady in the video below from the Institute of Faith, Work and Economics knows this. However, she shares her insight about how to deal with this very situation.

Originally published at the Acton PowerBlog

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