<p>So I graduated college exactly a year ago with a degree in Political Science. Like the lazy bum that I am, I screwed around and didn't take the job hunting thing seriously. I worked for a temp agency doing stupid jobs for a couple of months, then I got a job at an insurance company and quit after 4 days because I hated it so much. I had an interest in going to law school and then I got a job as a paralegal which made me NOT EVER want to go to law school. </p>
<p>So here I am, working a job I hate, doing something that has absolutely nothing to do with my major. I feel like I trapped at this job because the people are so nice to me that I think I would feel really bad if I quit. It would be different if the people sucked. If I quit, I don't even know what kinds of decent jobs to look for. I look on craigslist and stuff and it just seems like so many jobs want more experience than I have. I feel like I am in trouble because I am at a job where I barely have any important things to do and I barely think at all. It's exhausting and tiring. I just don't know what kinds of jobs I am qualified for. I sure as hell don't want to work for lawyers ever again. I just feel like I went to college for 4 years for no reason at all.</p>
<p>I'd like to go back to school and get my masters, possibly an MBA, but these programs want work experience and I don't know where to start when all I have is a Political Science degree, an internship for a state legislator, and a really sucky job as a Paralegal. Any career advice out there?</p>
<p>Does your college have a career counseling office? If so, go back and use its services; they're available to you as an alumnus/alumna. If not, check out some private career counselors. They'll help you not only figure out what you want to do, but how to structure your job search and career plan to achieve it.</p>
<p>Just realize that no one gets a terrific, non-boring job one year out of college. You will have to pay your dues and work your way up wherever you go, just like everyone else.</p>
<p>I guess you're right. Here is something I forgot to mention..I want to go get my master's degree, now I know MBA programs usually want years of work experience, but there are other masters programs I am interested in that don't require such work experience. My boss at my current boring job had a sit down with me and asked me about going back to school and how it is important. I told him I didn't really want to go to law school but I definitely wanted to go back to school and get a master's. </p>
<p>He told me that I could go back to school and I could still work for him making the same salary and that my work scheduled could be flexible based on my class schedule for school. I want to enroll in the Spring or Fall of 08, so do you think I should just stick this job out for the next twoyears, guarantee myself a good salary while I am in school, and then quit once I get my degree and find a better job?? It seems like a good situation because I won't have to worry about how I'm gonna make enough money to support myself while I am in school. My boss was really nice about the whole thing. I am just dreading a few more years of this boring job. But like the previous poster said, I have to "pay my dues" I guess.</p>
<p>"Just realize that no one gets a terrific, non-boring job one year out of college. You will have to pay your dues and work your way up wherever you go, just like everyone else."</p>
<p>I guess it would depend on what you define as "terrific, non-boring". IBanking and Management Consulting may be boring for some but the money's certainly terrific, though certainly not long-term.</p>
<p>So you expect to get out of college with a degree in business or whatever, and have someone show you to your desk and hand you hundreds of thousands of dollars of other people's money? Or if you go into "management consulting", you expect a business client to take advice from a 21 year old kid who never held a full time job? </p>
<p>Good luck with that, and let me know how it works out for you. The money may be good, but you still have to pay your dues.</p>
<p>"So you expect to get out of college with a degree in business or whatever, and have someone show you to your desk and hand you hundreds of thousands of dollars of other people's money? Or if you go into "management consulting", you expect a business client to take advice from a 21 year old kid who never held a full time job?"</p>
<p>I never said anything about investment management.
Nobody said that you'd start as an MD. The life on an IB analyst isn't something to shout about either.</p>
<p>What I'd expect, though, is for an IB analyst to get paid $100,000k a year.</p>