<p>I wasn't exactly working full time either. A job seemed virtually impossible to get despite a 3.68 GPA. I have people who will vouch for me and give me work experience (I did actually work for/help so its not a complete lie).
I flip flopped on majors and skipped the first semester of college (went part time some times when I became overcome by stress a bad habit I finally broke).
I'm going to major in something practical like an Accounting concentration or an Accounting/Finance double concentration Business Admin major. Will I be doomed?
I still have 2 years left before I become that 25 year old out of college (finally transferring next fall, I will make DANG sure that I never stop studying, I'll take 15 credits a semester if I have to in order to actually get out).
I may have to work only summers as a result.</p>
<p>I’m transferring next semester. Will the bigger state college career center be better than the CC one? I never even bothered going into the CC one.</p>
<p>There are people who graduate at 40 and do fine. 25 is nothing.</p>
<p>I had a classmate as an undergrad who was 48! He went on to get his PhD and become an engineering professor. My husband dropped out of college as a senior (he decided he wasn’t cut out to be a teacher). He wandered around the country, living on two different communes, and went back to study engineering at the age of 28. He finished his master’s degree in engineering at age 31. He has done OK!</p>
<p>It should not matter at all. You list your graduation date, and not your birthdate on your resume. You don’t list your high school at all.</p>
<p>A guy who was 26 asked me out when I was 17, he was a junior and I was a freshman. I said no. Don’t think you have to worry about much more than avoiding 17 year olds depending on your state.</p>
<p>My husband asked me out when he was 30 and I was 22, and I said yes! We joke that he had to wander around a few years in order for me to grow old enough that he could date me legally.</p>
<p>Career centers never really do much, IMO. I have had a successful career and I never found a job through a CC, except as a teenager for a summer job. The key is broaden your horizon and take jobs in remote locations where few people are willing to relocate. Get a few years of professional experience under your belt and then you can apply for a better position closer to home. I remember reading about a pipeline engineer who was driving a taxi in Santa Monica, complaining about the lack of job opportunities. But I can guarantee you that a trip to North Dakota would have landed him a nice position.</p>
<p>Unlike the 40 year olds however I don’t have much in the realm of real experience. Think I should be okay as long as I say nothing about my age or make no hints about it? Also I refuse to relocate because my financial plan involves me never paying for rent.</p>
<p>Successful business majors that I have known did internships as part of their program. This gives you experience and contacts and maybe even insider knowledge of job openings before they are listed.</p>
<p>I don’t know how they managed that. I couldn’t even get an unpaid internship. I still have 2 years left but I don’t know how they got to do that. Places literally refused me to work for free as one. Normally I’m quite charming.</p>