Education in the United States

My college graduating class of 1999 has to rank as one of the most significant and successful in university history. Among us, several of the graduates eventually became probably the best personal injury attorney in the whole state of Illinois, a best-selling novelist, a nationally known psychiatrist who publishes papers every other month, a salesman so adept that his system of sales is being implemented across the state, and there’s me. I work at Barnes and Noble. If you’re there in the afternoon 5 out of 7 days of the week, you can find me working the cash register or stocking books. Yes, I was an honor student back in college, but I majored in English with a minor in communications. And, yes, I was working at Barnes and Noble while attending school. My problem is I have no real job searching skills and I have no practical experience in any field. Of course that’s a double-edged sword. How can you get experience in a given field if no one will hire you in the first place? Which is why I’m still working in retail while my classmates somehow reinvent the wheel and conquer the world with their business connections, social skills, or however they’re doing it.