PLATFORM : To Some Graduates, Any Job Is a Good Job

The days of worrying over midterms, research papers and scheduling classes are seeming more and more pleasant to college seniors as the day that will make those concerns seem petty approaches. Graduation marks for many of us the entrance into the dreaded real world, and the consensus seems to be that we couldn’t have picked a less opportune time.

Economic cycles, as they occasionally will, have taken a turn for the worse, and this year’s graduates find a real world that is waking up from the Reagan-era prosperity with a bad hangover, only now it is us who have to get to work. The word on the street is that any job’s a good job nowadays.

Many graduates feel the safe move is to put off the real world by applying to graduate schools. Others will brave the work force.

The overriding advice, however, can be taken from the movie “The Fly”: “Be afraid. Be very afraid.”