Hi Alice,

This is a response to Depressed — No internship? (actually, I wanted to write the person directly, so if you can forward this to him, I'd be grateful). Anyway, I know exactly how he feels because I am/was in the same boat when I first got out of college and had no job. Our history is similar except that even though I did have an internship, I had a hard time finding a job. I feared my parents was disappointed in me and it drove me near ending it all also, but what kept me alive (so to speak) was that, if I did take my life, not only would I have wasted my parents money on college, but for the twenty-two-odd years of life that I had at that point... so until/unless I pay them back in full, I can't possibly end it all.

Compounding my problems, my girlfriend at the time started getting on my case for not having a job fresh out of college also. The pressure was immense and I could not do anything about it because I had done all I could (going to career fairs, sending out my resume, even going to employment agencies... it still took four months until I finally got an interview).

But, there's a silver lining... don't give up and don't despair because you're not alone in this. It turns out, other than the pressure from my girlfriend, my parents were in reality very supportive and that I had overly imagined their disapproval. So, things may not be as bleak as they seem right now. Good luck.