# Official 2008 election day thread

**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-2008-election-day-thread/200496
**Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [November 4, 2008, 4:59am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-2008-election-day-thread/200496 "2008-11-04T04:59:21Z")
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### Author: ![jph102900](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jph102900/32/6049_2.png) [@jph102900](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/jph102900)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2008, 1:42pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-2008-election-day-thread/200496/121 "2008-11-05T13:42:52Z")

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> [@I feel...well...wierd just for thinking about this](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-feel-well-wierd-just-for-thinking-about-this/38559/39):
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> Well congratulations… but still… if you work hard, that doesn’t guarantee that you will be sucessful, even if you go about things correctly. You also are taking into account that everyone is extremely outgoing, and confident when speaking to people about interviews, and networking with others in order to find jobs. Which means you are taking into account that everyone has the same outgoing personality.
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> If you have someone in the family that is an accountant, you are 10 steps ahead. I don’t care what you say about not being gifted in accounting, you have a major advantage, unless your dad didn’t teach you squat about accounting. You make it sound like it’s easy to get an interview.
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> Even with follow ups, calling everyone in the phone book, Internet, etc… And, even with gettting counseling on how to write up a good resume, does not guarantee you countless interviews. Now, maybe it does for accounting, b/c it’s such a boring career choice IMO, and no one wants to be an accountant. No wonder you got countless interviews.
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> Also, internships are not like Mustangs, they are not everywhere, and easy to get. So, you can’t expect everyone to be as fortunate as you were to get a good internship, which really aids in getting interviews and finding a good job right out of school.

I wasn’t extremely outgoing either and I didn’t have tons of interviews. I just used the career services office at my college (that was usually empty because nobody ever used the services because they just expected their dream employer to call them up on the phone and offer them a job). I also found a local non-profit that actually looks for internships for you and places you with local companies. Again…another asset that nobody was really using. They had more employers looking for interns than they had applicants looking for jobs. It may have something to do with the field that I am in, I have no idea what it is like to look for a job in engineering, IT, etc., but it seemed like among my friends from college, the ones who actually looked for a job and actively pursued their careers, most of them got good jobs, the rest are still floundering in minimum wage positions.

And saying that accounting is a boring field that no-one wants to work in couldn’t be farther from the truth. If you look at reports on growing job markets, accounting has been near the top for the last five years. There is a lot of demand for accountants and it is a competitive field to get a good job in.

We are getting away from the main point though. People expect to have jobs handed to them, and Obama is only going to enable people even more and make them feel more entitled.

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