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When I asked my own friends about their first few job experiences, virtually everyone said they'd been disappointed. Positions that seemed like dream jobs turned out to be boring, stressful, or completely different than the way they'd been described. As one friend put it, "There were many times when I was like, Holy shit, is this what having a job is like?"Another friend, who works at a small consulting firm in Philadelphia, said he could've never imagined being so miserable when he took the job a year ago. (He asked that I not use his name, since he still works there.) The company had billed itself as consulting firm focused on nonprofits and sociological research, but the clients ended up being mostly "rich people starting philanthropies." The job description had mentioned qualitative data collection, but it turned out that meant transcribing audio for hours and hours. "It's so sad," he said, "because I look back at how excited I was for this, and it's nothing like what I pictured.""It's so sad, because I look back at how excited I was for this and it's nothing like what I pictured."
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