These past few years I have really been noticing changes around me.
On one hand, I see parents and schools increasingly coddling students such that "school" today barely resemble the "school" of my youth 25 years ago.
On the other hand, it is getting harder and harder to find and keep a job that pays well. This article talks about the latter hand.
Working on the Double
More Grads Are Moonlighting To Make Ends Meet as They Begin Careers in Many Fields
November 1, 2005
Jorge Mondaca, who in May graduated from Stetson University in Florida with a marketing degree, works for the interactive department of Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Fla. It's a "dream job," he says.
Less dreamy is the additional, part-time job he took to supplement his income -- computer salesman at a local Best Buy store. But taking the $9-an-hour retail job was necessary, he says, if he wanted to save for a new apartment and coming college-loan payments, get gasoline for his car and add to his DVD collection.
