Congratulations! You are a graduating member of the high school class of 2010. You are now starting your freshman year of college. You think about your friends, brothers and sisters who graduated college and are out there trying to make a go of it in today's job market - for about one millisecond. You can't worry about that now, you got more important things to do.
If you were to ask your sister if she could go back and start college all over, would she do anything different? Okay, I know, you wouldn't ask her. You got more important things to do... But just humor me, let's pretend, okay? Hey, it's not like I'm asking you to go and ask your mom or anything :-)
Hey! You know what? I got an idea! Let's ask some of Penelope's friends. Penelope is one cool girl who has amazing insight into today's workplace. I met her a couple of years ago but I've been following her for a decade or so, since she was a columnist for Business 2.0, a magazine that is no longer. Today, Penelope is Chief Evangelist and Co-Founder of Brazen Careerist.
Anyhow, one of the things that I've discovered at Brazen Careerist is that it is packed with twenty and thirty-something year-olds who care about their family, friends, associates, themselves and the world they live in today. They want more out of their life and career, and they're trying like all get out to get it. By the way, I'm going to also ask some friends of friends, so it's likley we might get folks who do not belong to Brazen Careerist (NOTE to you guys! Check out Brazen Careerist!!). Let's ask my friends:
Knowing what you do about today's job market; if you could go back and start college all over again, what would you do different?
I started up a Facebook page titled Standing out in a Sea of Sameness to carry on a discussion there. If you'd rather answer over there that's cool. Standing out in a Sea of Sameness @ Facebook.