Ah, economists... Those famed purveyors of "the dismal science" bring more disquieting advice..
The "real world" can wait"(The Varsity, Feb 2, 2009)
"If you plan to graduate in the next two years, don’t. Go to grad school, or take a fifth year. That was the message of last Wednesday’s panel discussion on the economic crisis. This recession will get worse before it gets better, and we may not recover until 2011.
Roughly 150 students braved the snowy weather to attend the Economic Students’ Association’s panel discussion about the next two years of gloom and recession."
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What can we take from the panel? Don’t try to enter the job market when unemployment is rising. Go to grad school. In short, same old, same old.