<p>Agree. It’s not really a “new” story and he did make the comparison for effect but starting jobs out of college do not pay big bucks. Period. Sure there are a handful of kids that win the job lottery or go into a family business with some guarantee of financial safety, but the vast majority start at the bottom and work their way up. Who knows how “hard” this person is working to even find an entry level accounting job. Is he networking, is he involved in association groups…etc. Even thirty years ago I remember how upset my parents were that they had paid for a private college education and my starting salary was half of what’s my dad’s secretary made and there was no debt for me to repay. No car for moi and lots of scrimping and saving for a few years to live in an apartment even with a roomie. This is not a “newish” story. Even traditional higher-paying jobs like mechanical engineering have salary depression happening right now because of the influx of off-shoring and importation of lower salaried engineers from overseas. Youngish parents especially need to understand the ramifications of what they are “setting their kids up for” as they did not come of age in a particularly stressing economic time and most likely did not have depression era parents who drilled fear into the brains of their young LOL. For the data driven parents there are plenty of salary calculators out on the net that will tell you about what a no-experience, college grad will make in a given job position in any city in the country when they finally land a job. It is quite enlightening. There are some hidden gem industries too, like retail, where one starts at the bottom along side the kid who never went to college but with a college degree advances fairly rapidly if one has the right stuff. You pay your dues but then what industry does a young person not pay their dues?</p>