<p>I am curious to know if there are any parents here have college graduates who are still living with you or is still searching for permanent employment. Discuss!</p>
<p>Yep. She is working, but not making nearly enough to live on her own. We don't ask her for rent of any kind, because I would rather that she bank it (which she does). She has her own car and insurance now. She takes initiative on the household chores, so it is rather nice having her here! I know she does want a place of her own and she does have resumes out to try to improve her situation.</p>
<p>I'm not in this boat yet, but I do work with a lot of people who have college graduates living with them. Some are continuing to help out "kids" who are in graduate programs, and some are helping out graduates who are still hunting for any employment that would let them live on their own. One has said he was supporting his graduate so that his son could enjoy a lifestyle that he otherwise could not afford on a beginning salary. Another is supporting a graduate so that she can make payments on a luxury car and save for a condo. One told me that they were thrilled when their graduate came home, since they were so lonely without a "kid" in the house. </p>
<p>It's sure a lot different from when I graduated 30+ years ago. My parents' expectation was that they were DONE, and that their kids were expected to make their own way whether it meant three jobs or three room-mates. (My sister moved into a studio apartment in NYC with 4 other girls in order to be independent.) </p>
<p>I'm not sure how I'm going to handle it, but I suspect I'll be trading lawn-cutting and help with chores for room & board. It does appear that we're moving back to multi-generational households, probably due to the economy and the increasing cost-of-living.</p>
<p>Two weeks following graduation our son traveled across the country a second time to SoCal. His jr year internship has become a summer job and grad school at USC is starting in August.</p>
<p>And yep, he is enjoying setting up his first apartment with the $1500 we gave him for college graduation.</p>
<p>i think this has to do with culture as well. In Taiwan, a high percentage of college grads live with their parents until they get married, and I know a lot of Asians who do the same.</p>
<p>My daughter graduated in 06. That summer she had to move out of her college townhouse, but she moved into a house just off campus as she was working on campus for the summer.
Then she moved into another house with other recent graduates, stayed there till just last month, when they moved into a larger nicer house.
So no, she has been self supporting since graduation and before that we just paid for most of tuition ( - aid) and board, she covered most of the rest.</p>
<p>I don't think any employment is " permanent" employment.
The days of working for one company till retirement are long, long gone.
Many adults, even older adults are self employed/mulitiple part time " jobs"/sub-contract work/80hrs a week or many combinations thereof.
When there is an imbalance between income and outgo, you just have to learn to either spend less or make more! ;)</p>
<p>yep... D1 still living with us a month and a half after graduation, but she is working doing some contract work for a major telecommunications player; however, the job is temporary - they needed some help to get a new program off the ground. However, it IS a huge company, so the possibilities are real that she could be around when something permanent opens up.</p>
<p>Her goal is to move out by Labor Day, but I don't really see that happening. She needs to find out where she will be working permanently before picking a place, otherwise she may find herself with a longer commute than she does now. But she does have at least one roommate lined up, and they're egging each other on to save money so they can both move out of their parent's home asap.</p>
<p>I'm a student, but this thread is interesting
after I get a job, my parents won't let me live anywhere but with them. My cousin out of a very prestigious school got a job with a $50,000 starting salary as an economic analyst and rented an apartment, but her relatives in India (her mother's sisters) found out that she was living alone, and told her that it was "imprudent" for an unmarried girl to live alone--she lives in her parent's house now.
So, in some cases, especially for Asians, graduates have to live with their parents.</p>
<p>you can live with roommates. That isnt living alone :)</p>
<p>in their sense of the world...
without family = alone</p>
<p>I have found that with the increase in gas prices so rapidly it is cheaper for me to live with my parents than come up with rent + utilities to live on my own. I commute to work too.</p>
<p>I am at home for the summer before starting grad school in the fall. Its actually the first time i've been home for this long, and its sort of nice to spend some time with my family before moving further away. I already have an apartment that I am sharing with friends starting september, although my parents are subsidizing my rent a bit because they can, and because we found a place in a really good location.</p>
<p>D just graduated last Saturday and is now comfortably settled into her room at home with us.</p>
<p>She turned down a BSG internship this summer because it would have meant staying in Chicago (with her friends) and she wanted to come home for the summer before heading to Oxford in September.</p>
<p>Newmassmom and I found it hard to argue with that logic. </p>
<p>She is not employed (yet?) but understands that we pay room and board, entertainment and such is up to her. And we only have one car, so she needs to use public transit or beg for rides, too.</p>
<p>We welcomed our 2 college grads (and their small rent checks ;) ) home after their respective graduations. They both have full time employment in the expensive area where we live. It is a mutually beneficial arrangement. They get the opportunity to save toward home ownership and we have 'house sitters' when we travel. We only ask the common courtesy afforded by any house sharing arrangement among adults.</p>
<p>Like mominva, my S & D are both home after graduating. We too are in a high expense area, so the meager rent they pay keeps them from sleeping in their cars and rummaging through dumpsters for food.</p>
<p>D is a small animal care major, working as a supervisor in a doggie-day care, S is a classical musician, teaching strings and chamber music in a couple of programs, has a per service orchestra job and a full-time hourwise (yet part-time classification wise) day job.</p>
<p>Both assumed title and insurance responsibilities for their vehicles upon graduating and both are covering their own health insurance.</p>