Today I offer yet another laundry list of stories, this time focused on top-tier grads who face underemployment, some of whom work in minimum-wage positions.
Harvard to Homeless and Other Anecdotal Evidence Not to Go to Law School
http://butidideverythingrightorsoithought.blogspot.com/2010/09/harvard-to-homeless-and-other-anecdotal_21.html
“In April of 2009, almost one year after I had graduated from Ivy League, I began a pretty hardcore job search […] By September, I had my first job in the restaurant industry serving room service at 6 a.m. “
http://underemployedinnyc.blogspot.com/
“So here I am. Eight years of experience, a Master’s degree, and an Ivy League school. You’d think I could at least get an entry-level position.”
http://gawker.com/5992314/unemployment-stories-vol-32-you-are-slowly-erased-from-the-lives-of-your-friends
“Graduating from Columbia, an Ivy League school – one of the best American universities – proved to be handicap in her job search.”
http://www.worldcrunch.com/eyes-on-the-u.s./after-europe-the-us-now-facing-plague-of-youth-unemployment/university-college-student-loan-debt-ivy-league/c5s11292/
“I went to an Ivy League school with a full scholarship and a multitude of promises to keep. I graduated a year ago with an above average GPA and fearfully in debt to people I had only met my last year of school.”
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/09/profiles-of-unemployment-what-its-like-to-be-jobless-in-your-20s/244448/
Waiter with a master’s needs help staying proactive: “Eighteen months ago I got my master’s in public administration from an Ivy League school and since then the only job I can get involves carrying a tray.”
http://ask.metafilter.com/144403/Underemployed-and-depressed
Even Harvard couldn’t protect me – “I have two Harvard degrees, practiced law at elite Manhattan firms, and wrote and published two novels, among other things. But of all my accomplishments, by far the most impressive is absent from my résumé: It’s my more than two-year stint of job searching and unemployment.”
http://www.salon.com/2011/09/12/harvardjobless/
“You don’t expect someone who just spent four years in Ivy League schools to be on food stamps.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/01/fashion/recent-college-graduates-wait-for-their-real-careers-to-begin.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
“She lost her job and quickly discovered — despite an Ivy League pedigree from Dartmouth and Columbia — her skill set was no longer needed in the marketplace.”
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/07/06/underemployed-new-reality-american-job-market/#ixzz2cRLSvR7J
“After getting a master’s degree in fine arts from Yale University in 2008, he expected to land a job at a top design firm. But nearly four years later, after many months of joblessness, austerity and anxiety, his ambitions in life have come down quite a bit.”
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/feb/19/the-young-and-the-jobless/#ixzz2cRN8XCu5
When Ivy League schools stopped conferring an unfair advantage
http://www.buffalonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?aid=/20130714/life/130719730/1058
“[M]y friends and I all know people who graduated from Yale and haven’t been able to find jobs that pay better than minimum wage afterwards.”
http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2013/04/06/it-aint-easy-being-ivy/
An Ivy League mom with a dream on hold
http://money.cnn.com/2009/02/02/news/economy/jobless9.fortune/index.htm
The Ivy Lie 
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