Update for Everyone VII: Insert Something Philosophical Sounding Here

[Donerail]

I'm very close to the end of my undergrad degree — three classes in progress, all fairly easy, plus a thesis that's in very good shape — but my god does every step closer feel like an eternity. I just wanna be done!

[Donerail]

Cast my vote (early voting!) for BERNARD today. Bizarre process — every booth has a display and a printer, you get handed a card based on your precinct, stick it in the machine, and it pulls up the ballot for you. You make your selections digitally, then it prints out a filled-in ballot based on your selections, you take it and stick it in a machine in another room, and that's how you actually cast the ballot.

Also voted for the longshot progressive Congressional candidate and a bunch of other positions that no one on this board is inclined to care about.

[Donerail]

I-IL –> O-CA

[Donerail]

Thesis is a high pass, so I graduate with honors ✓
Found a not-awful place in the worst housing market in America ✓
Passed kidney stone ✓

[Donerail]

Found a not-awful place in the worst housing market in America ✓

No longer the case! Fortunately, now looking for a lease takeover in the best housing market for finding one of those. Still I-IL –> O-CA, though I might keep my FL registration now that I don't need that sweet sweet in-state tuition...

[Donerail]

No longer the case! Fortunately, now looking for a lease takeover in the best housing market for finding one of those. Still I-IL –> O-CA, though I might keep my FL registration now that I don't need that sweet sweet in-state tuition...

What has prompted the move?

I graduated with an unemployable major in a made-up area of study, so I am prolonging my entry into the workforce for a few years while accumulating hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt for a degree in a notoriously oversupplied field. I have convinced myself that this is a reasonable decision that will benefit my career prospects.

This specific update is switching schools — got off a waitlist.

Why have you left us?  You're leaving me as then only South Sider on Atlas, and right after I lost Dan L.  Sad 

It's heartbreaking I'll miss Chicago, but it is 70° year-round in Palo Alto...

[Donerail]

Ah, damn. I very much sympathize with your plight and wish you the best. I was feeling a similar sense of hopelessness a few years ago. You were urban planning, weren't you? While I imagine employment would be pretty niche I hadn't thought of it as nigh impossible.

Not quite, that'd be far too practical (and my undergrad has a particular disdain for practical majors). I was urban studies, which is all the theory with none of the skills.

[Donerail]

Not quite, that'd be far too practical (and my undergrad has a particular disdain for practical majors). I was urban studies, which is all the theory with none of the skills.

Given the fate of the only urban studues person I know, have you looked into GIS work?

Definitely an area I explored (I had a few research assistantships that were GIS-based) but not something I was particularly talented at or wanted to do long-term. I was overexaggerating the career concerns — the debt isn't ideal, but the loan repayment program for anyone making a "low income" (less than $200k or so) is generous, and the oversupply of lawyers is primarily a problem for the lower half of the rankings.