Did you enjoy your post-college years?

My experience was very different. I want to college late in life--in my early 30s. I found college to be an exhilarating experience. I loved it and graduated Summa *** Laude. I felt I was respected by my professors and fellow students--and like I was someone. I worked hard, and got results.

After I graduated, I naively thought I would get a lot of job offers for choice positions. Boy was I wrong. I went to interview after interview, and no one gave a da-mn about my grades or education. Part of it might be my degree--it was a BA in Communication and English, and part of it might be that we moved out of the area, and the college I went to was unknown in our new home.

But part of it also is that I don't think employers really care that much about education. A lot of people who interviewed me would have been my peers, not my boss, and I think they were more interested in finding someone who could be a buddy, take on the cra-ppy work that they didn't want to do, and would not be competition for them, but still basically competent enough to do the basic job.

I loved my college experience, but was it worth it financially? It's hard to tell. My post college years were a disappointing let-down though.