A underemployed college graduate is selling her diploma and "college experience" on eBay for $50,000 after becoming frustrated with her job prospects after graduation.
Stephanie Ritter told BuzzFeed that she was purging her room of high school and college paraphernalia when she came across her Florida State University diploma. "I thought this piece of paper has so much worth to so many people, but for a theater major, it couldn't mean less," she said. "I'm doing the exact same things and probably getting paid the exact same amount as people that dropped out halfway through freshman year, except I'm still $40,000 in debt and they're, well, not."
Ritter said that she graduated college in 2011, and now works as an assistant. She said she found her job prospects with a theater degree to be lacking.
She is not the only one who has had trouble finding major-related work after graduation. According to a recent study by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, only 27% of college graduates have jobs that are closely related to their major.
Dissatisfied graduates have tried to sell their diplomas before. But Stephanie is selling more than a diploma: She's selling her experience. In her description on eBay, Stephanie describes exactly what “experience” includes:
-A TOUR of Florida State University including everywhere you would have gone/eaten/partied in your four years at FSU.
-Access to all of my college memories/Facebook albums for 6 months!
-A show (on me) at the FSU School of Theatre (on opening night if time permits!)
-A TOUR OF ALL OF MY FAVORITE PUBLIXES INCLUDING SWEET TEA AT EACH LOCATION!!
Despite her current frustrations, Ritter said she would choose to go to college again. But she said she would change a few things, like studying in a city where she could make more money to support herself, and, most important, finding a queer-friendly college:
"FSU was great, but there were, like, 1,000 straight white men for every queer person," she said. "I didn't realize how important being around other gay people would be until I recently joined an amazing group of mostly queer women and thought, Oh! This is what I could've felt like in college?"
She also has advice for high schoolers applying to college. "Be REALLY careful with loans," she said. In addition to applying for scholarships, Stephanie recommends sending "letters to rich people around your town and ask them to sponsor you." That sounds like a joke, but Stephanie has friends that actually did that and, guess what? It WORKED.
一名大門生卒業後並無找到滿足的事情，對本身就業遠景覺得絕望的她正在易趣網(eBay)以5萬美元售賣本身的文憑和“大學閱歷”。
斯蒂芬妮·瑞特(Stephanie Ritter)告知BuzzFeed，當她整頓房間裏的高中和大學用品時，忽然發明本身的弗羅裏達州立大學(Florida State University)卒業證書。“我以為一紙文憑對很多人而言都很主要，而對付戲劇專業的人來講，一樣如斯。與那些大一就半途停學的人比擬，我與他們幹著雷同的事，大概還拿著同樣的薪資，分歧的是我還欠著4萬美元的債務，而他們並無。”
瑞特說她2011年大學卒業，如今的事情是一位助理。她說她發明戲劇專業的事情機遇很少。
她並不是唯逐一位在卒業後找不到專業對口事情的大學卒業生。依據美聯儲紐約分行(the Federal Reserve Bank of New York)比來的一項查詢拜訪，只有27%的大學卒業生找到與本專業慎密相幹的事情。
此前，也有對該狀態覺得不滿的門生試下著售賣其大學文憑。但斯蒂芬妮不但賣文憑：她還賣小我閱歷。在她的易趣網商品描寫中，斯蒂芬妮對“閱歷”作了細致描寫，包含：
弗羅裏達州立大黌舍園遊，包含你將來四年大概去過的、吃過的和加入過聚首的全部處所。
獲得我全部的大學影象和Facebook上為期六個月的相冊。
旁觀黌舍劇場的表演(我買單)。(假如時光許可，可以看首映哦!)
帶你逛遍我最愛的PUBLIX超市，包含咀嚼每家超市的甜茶!
固然如今有些懊喪，但瑞特說她將選取重返校園。不外她說再回到校園的話，她會做些轉變，好比去一個能賺更多錢贍養本身的都會念書，最主要的是，找一個善待同性戀的大學：
“弗羅裏達州立大學確切不錯，但這裏每1000個白人直男中只有1個是同性戀。”她說，“我其時不懂得具有一個同性戀群體的主要性，直到比來我參加了成員多為女同性戀的很棒的構造後，我才覺得，這不該該是在大學裏看待同性戀該有的氣氛嗎?”
對付預備申請大學的高中生，她也給了一些發起：“貸款需謹嚴。”除申請獎學金，斯蒂芬妮推舉“給你地點都會的富人寫信，讓他們贊助你”。這聽起來像在開頑笑，但斯蒂芬妮確切有同夥這麽做了，猜猜成果若何?還真管用!
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