"Entry Level"

Before I get into the deep, meaningful stuff I know you all read my blog for, I must introduce a new feature to the blog that I hope to add to as I continue to blog. This is going to be called the "Sipe Ridiculous Comment of the Day." For those of you who don't know me, I live with a kid named Derek Sipe who is one of the craziest kids I have ever been friends with. He is always good for at least 10-15 ridiculous comments a day that are completely offbeat, and I will just pick the best one of the day and post it up here.

So here is the "Sipe Ridiculous Comment of the Day." Sipe was sitting on the couch playing online poker as he usually does and he had food sitting next to him, taking up the whole couch. My other roommate walks in and tries to sit down and Sipe responds with, "You can't sit there, my banana bread is sitting there." The comment may seem silly, but Sipe was dead serious and my other roommate went and sat elsewhere in the living room. This is a section I really look forward to and I cannot wait to bring more ridiculous comments in the days and weeks to come.

So I've been applying for jobs lately and this crazy paradox has appeared to me during this process. While looking on the typical sites, Monster and Career Builder, as well as the one Messiah has called FalconJobs, I have noticed when limiting my search to only entry level jobs that almost all of these so called "entry level" jobs require 1-2 years of experience. To me that seems weird since there is a category for that experience level. It creates a bit of a vicious cycle with people coming out of college with no experience, save a summer internship in most cases, and are applying for entry level jobs, but the entry level jobs only want people with experience. This causes those coming out of college to have no chance because almost no one in the entry level category will give them experience. Does anyone have an explanation for how a college grad is expected to get experience in this day and age?

Much love,

GM