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Employers who saw my abroad experience thought that experience was irrelevant.

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Gain professional experience you can’t get in a typical corporate setting. Mentoring is a give and take relationship, so you’re expected to help your mentor in some of his or her projects.

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I grew up believing that the reason why my parents wanted me to do good in school was so I could get good education, get a good job, make good money, and then use that money to experience a life that was better than theirs. I believed that, the more money I had, the better my life would be.

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Job hunting is like dating; it can be entirely arbitrary at times.

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Entry Level means years of experience. When you read the title “entry level” for a position, you automatically assume that this may be an option for you.

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Chances are without that cash train coming in, you’re pretty strapped in the funds department. But if you’re really feeling the shopping itch and are dying to get out of the house, thrift shops will become your best friends. What other place can you get two books, a cool t-shirt, a vase (for DIY-ing, obvs) and a retro necklace for ten bucks? Nowhere my friends, nowhere.

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Being unemployed isn’t being. If our work defines us, then what are we without it? Nothing. And that nothingness does not invoke a sense of freedom.

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Since you don’t really have much to do with your life anymore, explore the town and go to places where successful people loaf around.