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Originally Posted by Munchkin03
My friends are still losing their jobs, even the ones at Goldman.
I know this is hard for a lot of us, since our generation demands instant gratification, but we're stuck with this here Great Recession for a while.
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That's what I'm hearing as well; I've had a good number of friends who had their start dates pushed back at their firms from September until December or January. A couple got offers to push back until September 2010, with a stipend and help in securing public interest jobs in the interim. Plus, a bunch of firms have cut their summer programs by as much as a third.
A couple of places even have given their summer associates word within the past week or two that they couldn't hire people for the summer. So, some people are stuck without a job, and with very few options.
I won't believe there's progress until I see it, and I definitely don't see it.