I am so frustrated!

[DGMarie]

I wish you good luck in your job search. I am a good example of someone who is in a field completely different from her major. I was an double major in French and International Studies (mostly because I was good in languages and wanted to save the world back then). I ended up my senior year thinking gee, French majors aren't in huge demand and the pay for teachers in S.C. is abyssmal. I had excellent grades and had taken the GMAT, so I applied for and got into the International Business Masters program at my school which at the time was #1 in the country(and went on to study another language there: Portuguese). I got an internship with GM in research in Brazil through school, but GM was not a good place for women managers, so I was stuck.

So how did I end up in marketing research? My mother was the secretary in the field sales office for Motorola. She knew the secretary of the corp vp of the same business at Motorola. She sent him my resume along with some garden seeds (he was an avid gardner) and within a month I had an interview and a great paying job (mind you in another state, but hey, I was young and single). This was 13 years ago and I still enjoy what I do.

The moral of this story: it pays to know people who know people (who garden!)