Working at a Part time Job After College

[starbuck1]

As sme of you may know, I graduated with a double major in history and political science this December from a well regarded small, liberal arts college. The career services is of very little help and I am planning on applying and attending law school in a year and a half (which I do not mention), and am having trouble finding any job, let alone a job in my field (nonprofits, policy, research).

I have debt as most of us do, however how long have any of you found yourselves working in a bookstore, etc... after college (i.e., to pay the bills?) I did this in 10th grade, and it kind of depresses me to think I'm doing the same job almost seven years later. I may also try sales/marketing or even insurance for a more complete job position. And my parents get on my case as well after four years of education.

I just moved to Madison, WI and have applied for a number of full time jobs (admin assistant, research with nonprofits, ), however never hear back (and I have a petty solid resume.) Has anyone applied/been hired for an admin assistant job without 2-3 years of experience in an office setting? I don't want to sound as if I'm too good to work at min. wage (I'm not), however it's quite frusturating after the years of expenses, particularly when I know I want to practice health and/or poverty law.

[MuBetaPsi_Xi]

I worked at Wal-Mart for the first four months after I graduated from college. I managed to find something better after a little while, and then eventaully something better than that, and I am now satisfied with where my career is going. I'm now 28, and I was 26 before I was satisified with where my career was headed.

In regards to the administrative assistant thing, there was an earlier post regarding this. I used to work at a place where some of the administrative assistants / executive assistants had master's degrees. The job market in that place was very bad, and management liked to hire the most educated people that they could just because there were alot of unemployed people with advanced degrees in that particular labor pool.

I know this is cliched, but hang in there. The opportunities will come along.