I am so happy for the kids that still have jobs! What a relief for them!
Kiddie, that’s so discouraging. I hope those companies meant a winter 2021 start at least, not that they plan to wait for the spring 2021 hiring cycle.
My understanding is they meant next spring/summer. What smart kid is going to wait another year? The job market will improve way before then.
D has just been informed that her job now is unlikely to start before September. The good news is that the company is busier than ever and they have assured her many times now that she still has her job. They are delaying start because they have decided that their management training program needs to be done in person.
Now she needs to keep herself busy until after summer. She thinks she will get a job delivering.
My daughter’s co-op was just moved up by a week. They want her to do her online orientation where the plant is located so she can self quarantine for two weeks before going in. Makes sense from a safety of the plant perspective but we’re going to need to scramble to get her down there less than 36 hours after her last final. I still can’t believe this is still happening and not cancelled. Definitely mixed feelings from the parent perspective.
Best wishes and thanks for continued updates. Interesting to see how these internships are being handled.
@momofsenior1. Well, she at least has one ?.
Will she be in a single apartment or living with other interns?
Also Instead of flying back why not rent a car and take a day or so and drive back? Just a suggestion.
@Knowsstuff - She’ll be in a single apartment. She’s the only student at this site.
I’ve considered renting a car to drive back but I don’t think my back will be OK for 20+ hours in the car in less than 48 hours. Flying seems like the lesser of two evils.
@momofsenior1 Flight load factor averages around 6% nationwide currently. Some routes may have a higher load factor. Since many tickets are cancellable these days, just book multiple tickets and constantly check seat occupancy on each flight before its cancellation deadline. Take the flight with the least number of seats sold and cancel the rest.
My son just talked to his boss and he is on to start his internship at a veterinary hospital on May 19th! He will be living in his bosses home so I’m very glad it is still on! He just won’t get to make all the side trips during his visit that he wanted to but he is ok with that to earn money and have the experience!
It’s so nice of his boss to let him stay at his home.
I’m feeling somewhat better about D’s co-op. Her boss reviewed all the plant precautions and the decisions are being made company wide from OH. Sounds like they are doing everything they can to keep employees safe. She is having a masked social distanced meeting with the plant manager Sunday morning in the lobby of her complex. She’ll get her computer and they will review what she needs to do until she can come into the plant. They also have a virtual meeting today.
D is about to have an interview this morning for yet another government job. Of course, she is grateful for the opportunity and interest. However, based on the staged approach to resuming daily activity, it seems unlikely that non-essential government functions will resume before August and this job needs to take place in person. So I am unclear why they are bothering.
I posted a month ago about D’s internship being reconsidered - and now its a NO. It was in facilities management at a large hospital and medical facility; so we get it. (architecture major)
She put her name in at Lowes for the summer. I tried to get her to look at construction, but that was a big NO. Her friend who is graduating had a finance job offer postponed till January and that was a huge disappointment.
she has an interview today for a remote internship that deals with design/technology . . . but isn’t really in her wheelhouse. I think there’s value in it . . . right?
@BKSquared - I smiled when I read above about how you gave your kid a check to equal what they’d receive with stimulus money. We wrote our kid a check too because we had claimed him. Although we just split the difference with him. 
Have her look at Wahl construction. They hire her field and have a nice internship program. They are busy and having interns come from my information.
Yep.
My son is home from college. Finished finals and back to reapplying after his internship was canceled… Agh… Looking at Six Sigma courses as a fall back. (engineering).
DD is a college senior and is scheduled to start her job next month in the SF Bay Area. Many tech companies just announced the earliest return to office day not before June 1 with option of WFH through October. I heard that many workers in the area don’t renew their leases. The most important thing is that she has a job, but living with her parents after graduation definitely was not in her plan.
They are bothering because there is no one in authority to tell them definitively one way or the other what their plans are going to be. And if it is Federal government then it is even out of the hands of the agency heads. No HR person in some Federal agency wants to get too far out over their skis and announce publicly that their shut-down is going to continue past August and risk drawing the wrath of the White House. So in the absence of clear direction, they are just muddling along. Trump wants to re-open the government soon so I doubt any agency is going to plan ahead to defy that in any public way.
Had a socially distanced chat with my neighbor today. His D who is graduating an Ivy this year has had her job offer rescinded, and apparently a few of her friends have too. I didn’t think to ask where she had been going to work but she’s an econ major.
Will you make your child(ren) pay you back when they do their taxes for 2020 and get the stimulus? They will be double dipping at that point.
^ No Xmas or birthday gifts then for 2021 and 2022, lol. She lives too far away to cut the grass enough times.
wait. what??? @twoinanddone . ?? haven’t heard about that. who’s that for? kids on their own starting end of 2019? college kids at all?