Article by Rikki Fawkes
Jobs for college graduates are harder to find than ever. Unless you always dreamed of working at McDonald’s or the Gap, you’re probably not going to find that ,000 per year job your counselors promised you’d find when you enrolled in college. Disappointed? You should be if you paid several thousand dollars for a two or four-year degree that won’t get you any closer to a job in your field than you were before you graduated.
I admit, I was at a loss for what to do myself when I graduated college. I graduated from a university with my Bachelor’s degree in communications and didn’t have any prospects for a high-paying job. I was pretty much left to find my own way. Sure, I could get part-time work that paid almost nothing at my local mall, but that’s hardly a route I was willing to take as a college graduate.
Then a friend of mine (yeah – a real friend, not the “made up” kind people use as a reference) told me about a high-paying writing company online. I could work from home and claim as many job assignments as I could handle. I was a little skeptical at first, but as I had nothing to lose, I signed up right away.
My biggest worry was, what qualifications do I need to have for this job? I had some previous writing experience at a different company plus some experience writing for my school, but nothing highly professional. My friend told me the company was really just looking for writing experience in general – even if I only had experience blogging.
So I sat down at my computer and punched out a r
