<p>I am confused. You have a MASTERS from UT and you're complaining that UD sucks? Are you venting on their board too? Did you use the placement services at UT before you moved to where you are now? Most alumni groups have events where you can network. Is there one in where you're living? Do you professors have contacts? Have you even checked that career placement won't help you? I wonder if you've always had such a negative attitude that somehow comes through in ways you don't realize? Katy and Kris are right. You need to get some help for yourself and your job search. Is there a community group that could use your skills? DO SOMETHING!</p>
<p>"You have no one to blame for your situation besides yourself. Stop trying to play the blame game. No one made you go to college and no one made you chose the major you did."</p>
<p>"I" am the one to blame? "I" didn't cause this recession! "I" didn't create this ridiculous job-seeker market, where EVERY employer wants 5-10 years experience - and NOONE appreciates the degree! "I" didn't cause that! "I" am not in control of that! Do you understand?????</p>
<p>Oh my gosh - it really makes me sick whenever I hear people come off with that "You brought this on yourself" line as a way of blaming the victim!</p>
<p>That's the same line that defense attorneys use to defend RAPISTS!
That's the same line the government said to the Japanese-Americans who were being UNCONSTITUTIONALLY imprisoned in 1942!
That's the same line the Nazis used to justify the HOLOCAUST - while they were shoving the Jews in the gas chambers!</p>
<p>"You have noone to blame besides yourself" - OH PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>"However, YOU are the one that CHOSE to go to college."
"No one made you go to college "</p>
<p>YOU don't know anything about ME - I didn't have a choice! I was a teenage kid who was dependant on his parents - I did what my parents told me to do - which was to go to college - and they told me to do that because society told everyone that they should go to college!</p>
<p>Don't go making assumptions about me when you don't know what you're talking about!</p>
<p>popsicle: "You have a MASTERS from UT and you're complaining that UD sucks? Are you venting on their board too?"</p>
<p>No - I'm not venting on their board - because they have NONE. They have no online message board because they know that if they did, then people like me would go on and write messages exposing them as the fraudulent exploitive ripoffs that they are!</p>
<p>Katy284: "Stop spending your time *****ing and moaning, and DO something about it!"</p>
<p>I AM doing something - I'm warning the rest of society what a total ripoff college is! So nobody else gets exploited by the dishonest institution of college!</p>
<p>On top of that, I'll go out shopping for a ski-mask - so I can use it in my next BANK HEIST! (After all, it's not like I can get a job with my worthless degrees!)</p>
<p>popsicle: "I wonder if you've always had such a negative attitude"</p>
<p>No - I haven't ALWAYS had such a negative attitude. I only started having this negative attitude when I discovered that life was not the sugar-coated whitewashed version of reality that society told me it was! One example of that sugar-coating is the,</p>
<p>"College opens the door to a world of opportunities"</p>
<p>line that society brainwashed me with!</p>
<p>popsicle: "Do you professors have contacts?"</p>
<p>Yes, they have contacts, which I tried to use when I visited UD for the ME Alumni Engineering Career Celebration back in April. NONE of their contacts panned out. They all wanted the same thing: 5-10 years experience doing EXACTLY what the job entails. NONE of them cared about the degree or education either.</p>
<p>perfectsplit, did you have any internships while you were at UD?</p>
<p>Mattmoosemom: "did you have any internships while you were at UD"</p>
<p>No, I did not have any internships. I worked one summer at the Center for Composite Materials(where they didn't have enough work to go around). The internships are just as hard to get as the full-time jobs are at graduation time.</p>
<p>I got hired by ILC, Dover after I graduated and worked there for 6 months before they laid me off. I could never get another engineering job with only that degree and 6 months experience. It was worthless.</p>
<p>Eventually I ended going into IT by lying on the resume. I worked in IT for 5 years before losing my job in 2002, during the recession and end of the IT boom.</p>
<p>So you see, that BME from UD with a 3.225 GPA has never been able to get me a long-term job honestly.</p>
<p>Have you considered going into construction management? I know it is not exactly using your ME skills, but they do hire ME's. It might be better than what you have now. Good luck to you.</p>